READING CONTEMPORARY FICTION WRITERS
For the last three years or so I deliberately read more female fiction writers. I've now decided to go back into a more balanced reading, adding more male fictional writers also.
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A SOLEMN DAY OF REMEMBRANCE TO amaMFENGU
The 14th May is a solemn day of remembrance for my people, amaMfengu, when our tribe was scattered from the banks of Thukela (Tugela) River on the foothills of Ukhahlamba (Drakensberg) Mountains to
Fear and Trembling
They say falling in love makes poets out of everyone. I suspect its people who've never been locked down by a virus who say that. Lying in bed, scared of an
Cheeky Natives Interview Mphuthumi Ntabeni
Mphuthumi Ntabeni: Broken River Tent
The Cost of Living
To the sea, with our undisclosed hurt Those who’ve read the South African born Deborah Levy's memoir, Things I Don't Want to Know will remember it hailed as
Humour In The Era Of Pandemics
About a third of the way into the narrative Daniel Defoe’s book, A Journal of the Plague Year, published in 1722, its narrator H. F., a saddler in London of 1665 says: