Wide canvas traveller of dark, curious tales. I write literary suspense fiction. THE GOOD CEMETERY GUIDE, LADY LIMBO and WOLF TRAP.
Cape Town, South Africa
Joined September 2011
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"Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words. [H]ere am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can’t dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm." Ursula Le Guin, via @goodreads
Watched Conclave @LabiaTheatre last night. Incredible cinematography. Starring a masterful Ralph Fiennes. What I'm left with is interesting and thought-provoking moments. Certainty is dangerous, doubt is better. The war to be won is within ourselves. Umbrellas as visual language.
The History of Love - Available! bookcrossing.com/journal/975… via @BookCrossing
Steven Boykey Sidley reviews 'Inside your body there are flowers' by Diane Awerbuck karavanpress.com/2024/06/21/…
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I am in Hamburg for the Black Writers Book Festival in Altona. So if you live in this part of the world, please join us from the 7th to the 9th of June. Entrance is free and you get to hang out with the Literati! #litfest #litlovers
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All you South Peninsula surfers and selkies: look at this amazing line up we have for you at Salon Hecate 1st Tuesday of the month! Come celebrate with us: noordhoekartpoint.co.za/2024…
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Just finished #thenightinquestion by @sfletcherauthor what a beautiful book! Magnificent characters, lovingly written. So much love and pathos. I didn’t want it to end yet I was reading til 5am as I couldn’t put it down. Thank you ♥️
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A hardcover book is always a special treat, and when it is written by one of your favourite authors, the joy is even greater: THE NIGHT IN QUESTION by @sfletcherauthor. Loving it! ❤️
#whatiamreading Totally taken captive by Bongani Kona's 'Lila' in anthology of great stories! instagram.com/p/B40Vc1lDSZK/…
Love today's poem - the counterpoint of composed art and ceaseless grief... "Sonnet XCI [I can in groups these mimic flowers compose]" by Charlotte Smith createsend.com/t/y-76FD89293…
Rest in Peace Sudan xitter.cf/OlPejeta/status/975972…
It is with great sadness that Ol Pejeta Conservancy and the Dvůr Králové Zoo announce that Sudan, the world’s last male northern white rhino, age 45, died at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya on March 19th, 2018 (yesterday). #SudanForever #TheLoneBachelorGone #Only2Left
#SundayBestReadwithConsuelo He advances on her and she feels herself ransacked from top to bottom, flooded with relief, assaulted by happiness. How astonishing this is. How close to dismay.
- Alice Munro, Runaway, "Chance"
Fantastic achievement for everybody involved! xitter.cf/JacanaMedia/status/974…
We are bursting with pride and finally able to announce that Anant Singh & Brian Cox of @Videovision_SA have optioned @Scotty6677’s series of detective novels, the Sibanda Series, for possible adaption as a television series.
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A plea for 'new writer' awards - please don't assume these writers have to be young. Many pursue writing as 2nd or 3rd careers - new in writing but rich in experience. And many readers/viewers would like novels and dramas with that richness. No #ageism, please, in writing awards
#SundayBestReadWithConsuelo “He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.”
― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
#SundayBestReadwithConsuelo She touches his foot with the hand that holds the ladybird. It leaves her, moving onto the dark skin... a bright redness against what seems like volcanic flesh.
- Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Some amazing books here! To write great stories that tell the truth we need brave, independent publishers. xitter.cf/JacanaMedia/status/963…
In the spirit of #BlackExcellence we'd like to celebrate @thabisobonita & @_BlackBirdBooks for what she's done for brilliant new black voices & for what she's done for South African publishing. With 14 titles already, we can't wait for you to find out what she has planned next.
#SundayBestReadwithConsuelo "All three caravans of the Traveling Symphony are labeled as such, THE TRAVELING SYMPHONY lettered in white on both sides, but the lead caravan carries an additional line of text: Because survival is insufficient."
− Emily SJ Mandel, Station Eleven