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literature
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Netflix Is Adapting One Of The Greatest Novels Of All Time
24 Apr 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Adapting this novel, which earned the writer a Nobel prize, is a truly risky and ambitious project.
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Franschhoek Annual Literary Festival Programme Has Been Released
10 Mar 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
My father always told me to never trust someone whose television is bigger than their bookshelf.
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Can’t Believe They Cancelled This Year’s Bad Sex Award
10 Dec 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The judges for the Bad Sex In Fiction Award have decided not to subject us to more horror in 2020.
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Famous SA Novel Makes Telegraph’s Top 10 Greatest Novels Of All Time
29 Apr 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
The Telegraph’s critics chose the best novels ever written, ranging from Tolkien through to Proust, and including one of our very own.
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Wow, These Libraries Are Beautiful [Images]
06 Jul 2018 by Nereesha Patel / No Comments
A new book has been released containing photos of the most stunning libraries around the world. If you’re a bibliophile, you’re going to love this.
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When Twitter Q&A’s Go Bad – This Time It’s E.L. James Getting Trolled
01 Jul 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
When you open up the floor to Twitter users you’re inviting a whole host of trouble. Author E.L. James found that out with hilarious consequences.
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Steve Jobs Thinks You Should Read These Books
16 Oct 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The late co-founder of Apple has given his must-read list for aspiring thinkers and innovators, packed full of some classics and some books you may not have expected.
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SA’s Most Famous Forensic Scientist, David Klatzow, Releases Epic New Book
11 Aug 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
David Klatzow drops his new book which explores the loopholes and shortcomings of forensic investigators and how they can dramatically alter people’s lives.
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The World Is Going Nuts For Thomas Piketty’s Book, ‘Capital In The Twenty First Century’
19 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is that rare phenomenon, an economics book that is flying off the shelves and picking up steam with a new generation.
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Game Of Thrones Creator Wants To Kill You In His Next Book
06 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
George R.R. Martin is writing his next instalment in the “Song of Ice and Fire”, and you could feature in it for a small sum of R200,000. A small price to pay to go down in Game of Thrones lore.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Is Dead – This Is Why He Mattered
22 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
One of the world’s most renowned authors, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, died of pneumonia at the age of 87 this weekend. The man was a Nobel Prize winner, a friend of statesmen, and a pioneer of magical realism in literature. Get up to speed with the man, and his impact, below.
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Shakespeare Invented The Words ‘Hurry’ And ‘Undress’
15 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Shakespeare, whoever he really was, can be given credit for inventing thousands of words that we use almost everyday. He was a particularly prolific wordsmith because, when he was writing his works, the English language was in a state of flux.
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Monster Porn Is A Thing Now
15 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yes, truly. Innocent, if poorly written, Mills & Boon novels have given way to classics like ‘Cum For Bigfoot’. It seems ’50 Shades of Grey’ has woken the Kraken of human sexuality, and now the ferociously horny are looking for something a little more…exotic.
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New James Bond Novel, “Solo” Is Set In Africa
17 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Sixty years after the first publication “Casino Royale”, we finally have an African setting for a James Bond novel. The latest novel written by William Boyd is titled “Solo”, and will be set primarily on African soil
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Iran Claims This Book Will Cause The Collapse Of Christianity And Shake World Politics
25 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
An alleged ancient religious text, which was confiscated in 2000 by Turkish authorities, has since resurfaced following a request by the Vatican to view it. An Iranian report claims that the book’s contents will “trigger Christianity’s downfall by proving that Islam is the final and righteous religion.”
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30 Lines From Literature That Might Seal The Deal This Valentine’s Day
11 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Monday is the 14th; a time where school children everywhere will be giving each other crappy cards and wax-like chocolate hearts. And men everywhere will be desperately trying to buy the most expensive, yet insincere, gifts possible.
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