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Mike’s Open Pages

Mike Nicol

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Of all things, we need shorter novels

Just recently I read Sally Cranswick’s new novel, Of All Things, We Need Hope. It’s 190 pages. (My estimated word count was about or just under sixty thou and Sally confirmed it’s fifty-five thousand.) I started reading in the evening and t...

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Our fascination with books

1. The upcoming Fynarts Festival in Hermanus

2. The just finished Kingsmead Book Fair

3. Masterclass writers doing their thing at Kingsmead

4. How much South Africans spend on books

1. The next book festival is a mere three weeks...

17 days ago
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Doing the FLF

There are festivals that are fun, and then there are festivals that are - to use the jargon - “super” fun. The Franschhoek Literary Festival this past weekend fell into the super fun category.

It started at the opening cocktail party on Th...

24 days ago
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The weirdness of sprouting corpses

  1. Fantasising in winter

  2. My name is Bond, James Bond

  3. The FLF

1. Some winter fantasising because what else is winter for? Okay, I know I’ve been here before but this is a slightly different take. Consider a mysterious figure...

a month ago
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Boom dizzied

Kate Turkington - intrepid traveller in Tunisia

Tunnel 1. Jolling in Tunisia

Tunnel 2. The skiet and the donder

Tunnel 3. Mea culpa

Most (maybe all) of the writers I know, hate marketing their just published books. Consider this: writer...

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    Where to begin? South Africa, Cape Town. Where I look out on wind-blown False Bay and write crime thrillers, run a nine-month online writing class, and, once, was a journalist. Most evenings the sun goes down in a glass of red wine.

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