Category: Novels

Publishing in a changing world

As the author of three novels, several anthologies, and a guide to children’s fiction published by mainstream traditional publishers, and – recently – a novel published by an independent online publisher (The Dark Tower, Arbuthnot Books, 2010), I think I can say I’ve seen publishing from both sides. When my first novel, A Mild Suicide, Read More

Other Dark Towers

Choosing a title for a work of fiction is always tricky – especially when, as is the case with The Dark Tower, your title is one that has been used by many others for their, otherwise entirely different, works. If, as I did, you’ve chosen to call your book after the title of a famous Read More

TOP 10 SOUTH AFRICAN NOVELS

The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner First published in 1883, this depiction of life on an isolated farm in the Karoo is remarkable not only for the beauty of its descriptive writing, but for the radical and feminist ideas expressed by its free-spirited heroine, Lyndall. Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Read More

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