Literature

Jeffery Deavers’ James “Carte Blanche” Bond Makes Merry in Cape Town

With its’ plot lines shrouded in secrecy befitting the Protection of Information Act, the latest James Bond 007 novel, Carte Blanche, was launched to the media at what sounds like an epic event earlier this week in Cape Town. And by the sounds...

Sun, 29 May 2011 7:20 PM / no comments

Super South Africans: Lauren Beukes wins the Arthur C. Clarke Award

Super South African Lauren Beukes last night received the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award for Literature at the Apollo Piccadilly in London for her second novel Zoo City. She is the first South African to be honoured with the award in its...

Thu, 28 April 2011 8:55 AM / no comments

Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 Trailer & Rap

The much anticipated (first half of the) seventh movie instalment of J.K. Rowlings’ Harry Potter series had it’s International Premiere in London last night. Fondly know as HP7, Part 1 of the two-part movie goes on public release there...

Fri, 12 November 2010 12:22 AM / no comments