Book Review – The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis I while ago I posted a little missive about having to shed books that had outbred our groaning bookshelves. I spoke about…
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Book review – Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem Some many years ago we had a New York visitor from the literary world (who later won a Pulitzer Prize – long…
Book review – The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis This is a difficult book for me to review. Firstly, I am a hopeless Amis groupie. I can think of…
Boston – The stuff of fiction This morning TV news was awash with braying Boston college students mugging for the camera ‘Boston, Boston, Boston’ to news of the capture of…
It’s a mess… A literary agent I know in New York related the following horror. In the days before PCs, the average NY agent received about 300 manuscripts per year….
On being shortlisted for the 2013 Sunday Times Fiction Prize Last night (Saturday 18th May) I had the extraordinary experience of being shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2013….
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…