There was a time in my life when I was a programmer. Or software engineer, in more current parlance. This career in which I laboured during my young adulthood came…
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A couple of years ago my wife, writer Kate Sidley, had a humour column in a monthly health magazine. Each month she mined the great steaming petri-dish of gyms and…
Book Review – The Children Act by Ian McEwan I have a rocky relationship with McEwan’s work. I liked Atonement. I loved Amsterdam. I rhapsodised to the point of obsession…
University of Johannesburg Prizes Judge Craig MacKenzie Comments on Winning Books: Life Underwater and Entanglement by Lindsay on Jul 2nd, 2013 Steven Boykey Sidley takes the UJ Debut Prize for his riveting first…
PRESS RELEASE 15 July 2013 Subject: Stepping Out by Steven Boykey Sidley optioned for feature film production From: Pan Macmillan South Africa Stepping Out, the novel by award-winning author…
Supposedly, there are only 7 plots around from which all stories are constructed. You know – the rags-to-riches story, the redemption story, the requited (or occasionally unrequited) love story. Triumph…
PRESS RELEASE 08 August 2013 Subject: Entanglement and Stepping Out by Steven Boykey Sidley signed by French publishing house Belfond From: Pan Macmillan South Africa PAN MACMILLAN SOUTH…
A Week on the Beach We just came back from Mozambique, where we had rented a house on a deserted stretch of picture postcard beach. It has always seemed to…
I just attended the Open Book Festival 2013 in a gently bracing Cape Town spring. This is one of South Africa’s 4 major literary festivals, the others being Franschoek, and…
Short Stories I ask a friend for podcast recommendations to assuage the thudding boredom of stationary bike sessions, and the short attention spans of teenagers on long trips, who while…