The video below is of Marceline Jones, wife of Jim Jones, singing a haunting song, Black Baby. https://lyricstranslate.com/en/peoples-temple-choir-black-baby-lyrics.html The song and its lyrics are a
June’s Book Club pick is I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel. It’s a sharp, unsettling, often funny and brilliant debut that’s garnered a lot of
Michelle de Kretser’s Theory & Practice (buy your copy here) is a novel with a difference. Virginia Woolf wanted to write a novel which included
Interview by Kate de Meillon A large part of the inspiration for Lost in the Garden comes from my 1980s childhood growing up in deepest
Tan Twan Eng is a Malaysian writer who splits his time between South Africa and Malaysia. The Gift of Rain is a very absorbing novel, set in
Three Gifts is both heartfelt and funny. Which authors have influenced you when writing tragic and comedic scenes, and how do you balance these different tones?
By Kate de Meillon 1) You’ve written a great novel, could you briefly explain to a potential reader what it is about? It’s about a
The central story in Richard Vaughan-Davies’s book Fireweed concerns Adam, a young British military lawyer posted to Hamburg in 1947, who falls in love with
May I indulge in a moment of shameless namedropping? I am a friend of Dominic Sandbrook, the historian and commentator, who, together with Tom Holland,
