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Independent Publishers: How do they survive?

Janet van Eeden 2011-09-20  Junkets Publisher started as a one-off. In 2005 I had written Rebel Angel, a novel based on the life of the poet John Keats. I didn’t offer it to any of the mainstream publishers because I believed that at that particular time they should be publishing South African material, not books about British poets.

Rotten Tomato: Lovely, Still - Mostly enchanting, completely tragic

Réney Warrington 2011-09-08 Lovely, Still is a gentle film utterly worth watching, but when sitting down to view it, one should preferably know nothing about the film.

Katherine Bull reflects on her exhibition performances data-capture: LOST_& FOUND

Katherine Bull, Kristine Kronjé 2011-09-02 During her most recent exhibition at Blank Projects in Woodstock, Katherine Bull presented a series of watercolour paintings created while she was watching the first five seasons of the television series Lost. The sixth and final season was ...

The duvet

Gail Dendy 2011-09-02 The duvet has the brown stain
of cat’s paw, of general outside spaces
brought inside along with a dead bird, perhaps,

Jazz song

Sarah Frost, Sarah Frost 2011-09-02 Jazz song The saxophone segues into a room simmering with strangers: its notes are bricks, constructing shelter. Leaning into a bench corner he swallows down a melancholy beer, lets his eye slide from under his worn checked cap. His gaze elides ...

Lebohang Nova Masango’s "To Do List for Africa"

LitNet 2011-09-01 The Word n Sound Bassline Series showcases a hand picked spectrum of word and sound creativity currently pushing the bar and going against the grain within the South African music and creative scene.

Offspring of Paradise – a text strongly coloured by a young girl's fierce Afro-feminism and proudly Muslim convictions

Annie Gagiano 2011-08-25 This powerful novel by a Somali woman presently living in Dubai might be described as a combination of historical novel, sociological study and thriller

First chapter: Bitter Pill

Peter Church 2011-08-23 Bitter Pill Author: Peter Church ISBN: 9781920137359 Price: R165.95 Click here to buy a copy from Kalahari.net. The Pick-up Ten to ten in the Mother City, and the bars on the Claremont strip are a blur of action, booming ...

First chapter: Bitter Pill

Peter Church 2011-08-23 Bitter Pill Author: Peter Church ISBN: 9781920137359 Price: R165.95 Click here to buy a copy from Kalahari.net. The Pick-up Ten to ten in the Mother City, and the bars on the Claremont strip are a blur of action, booming ...
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