Mbali Creazzo is a medicine woman, teacher, healer, creative artist and cowrie shell diviner. She gave Cami Walker, author of 29 Gifts, the challenge that the book is based on. EB: I understand you were born in South Africa, where were you born? Yes, South Africa is my homeland, I was born in Port Elizabeth EB: When […]
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Rick Riordan is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ series for children and the multi-award-winning ‘Tres Navarre’ mystery series for adults. For fifteen years, Rick taught English and history at public and private middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Texas. In 2002, Saint […]
Annica Foxcroft was born in colonial Durban, lived for a few years in the Transvaal countryside, and since then has lived and worked in the melting pot of Johannesburg. Along the way she has seen South Africa in various guises. She is the author of the best-selling books ‘There Are Ants in My Sugar‘ and […]
Eerstens, baie dankie dat jy ingestem het vir ‘n onderhoud. Dit is regtig ‘n eer dat jy tyd kon afstaan in jou besige skedule om met ons te gesels. Ek is seker ons lesers waardeer dit verskriklik baie! EB: Annelie Botes is al vir jare ‘n huishoudelike naam in Suid-Afrika. Kan jy ons dalk meer […]
@6000 over on 6000 miles from civilisation discovered a fantastic video on Youtube of a 1-year-old girl struggling to operate a print magazine in the same way she operates her dad’s iPad. He posted the following quote from her dad: Technology codes our minds, changes our OS. Apple products have done this extensively. The video shows how […]
Wondering what game would be the perfect christmas present for your small horde of gaming offspring? Look no further! Activision have brought the future of multi platform gaming to life with their latest game Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventures. Skylanders combines your typical platformer game (good for hours and hours of relaxing play) with the fun of […]
So you’ve played all the Elder Scrolls games, and you reckon you are a bit of a master by now (as most of us tend to do)…but are you good enough to beat the record time for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim set by Bethesda‘s Sam Bernstein? He managed to clock the game in an amazing […]
On this day ,18 October, in 1944 Forever Amber by Kathleen Windsor was published for the first time. In this digital age where all our fantasies can be brought to life by the click of a button, it is interesting to look back and see that humans have always been delighted by the forbidden and […]
The finalists for the four categories in the National Book Award have just been announced! In the fiction category we see the 2011 Orange Prize winner The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obrecht, a likely winner for this prestigious award. In the Poetry category we see the familiar Adrienne Rich, one of America’s foremost feminist poets, with her collection […]
Put all your doubts aside and prepare for even more zombie killing madness with the latest sequel from Capcom – Dead Rising 2: Off the Record! Get an all new view on what was happening behind the scenes while Chuck Greene was trying desperately to find some Zombrex. This time we go back to the […]
