Authors & Events
Q&A with Wahala Author Nikki May
09 February 2022
Wahala is a darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on love, race and family, through the experiences of three mixed-race friends living in London. In this Q&A, author Nikki May chats about expectations on today’s women, embracing her culture as an Anglo-Nigerian, and Ife heads.
Which scene was hardest to write, and...
Q&A with Big Panda and Tiny Dragon Author James Norbury
10 November 2021
Writer and artist James Norbury began illustrating the adventures of Big Panda and Tiny Dragon, inspired by Buddhist philosophy and spirituality, to share the ideas that have helped him through the most difficult times, in the hope they can help others too.
With this book, and your art as a whole, you’re sharing some of...
2021 Booker Prize Winner Damon Galgut's Non-advice to Aspiring Writers
04 November 2021
‘Let me start my advice to aspiring writers by saying that my advice won’t help you’. Well, at least novelist Damon Galgut is honest. Galgut is the author of nine novels, including the Booker Prize shortlisted, The Good Doctor and In a Strange Room, and 2021 Booker Prize winner, The Promise.
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Beachcombing offers so much more than just seashells and driftwood
30 September 2021
Beachcombing is more than a healthy exercise, writes Rudy van der Elst, author of Beachcombing in South Africa. It stimulates curiosity, improves scientific understanding and often presents the beginning of an exciting adventure or investigation.
“AS A MARINE BIOLOGIST I have been fortunate to have had access to some...
Q&A with Rationality Author Steven Pinker
30 September 2021
Steven Pinker, the great defender of human progress, having documented how the world is not falling apart, now shows how we can enhance rationality in our lives and in the public sphere. Rationality is the perfect toolkit to seize our own fates. In this Q&A with Pinker, he goes into more detail about the book, and rationality itself....
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