“My lyrics are loony. I’m PE’s George Clooney. Even Miss PE wants to do me. I’m hooked on porno movies. Had 14 tabs open at last count. Is that a bad amount? Yeah yeah! Come on, Club Tonite! Can I get a yeah-yeah? Yeah yeah! You can do better than […]
This is an excerpt from my third novel, In The Maid’s Room, which launches next week, in Port Elizabeth “Hallo, ma. You going anywhere past Walmer? Walmer Town Hall, Servistar, Walmer Park? Even Walmer Township.” She nods. Surly woman, large with a couple of whiskers on her chin, and a […]
This is an excerpt from my latest novel, In The Maid’s Room – my third. The book launches next week in Port Elizabeth. There’s a rock at Schoenmakerskop where you can get tubed. On the far side of a rockpool that you can just about wade across if the tide’s […]
What have you been doing with your life?
…and how he became a town-planning clairvoyant, a literary figure and a gay icon. This is the story of Emperor Norton the First. By Hagen Engler [This piece first appeared in Sunday Times Lifestyle] South Africa has a long tradition of exporting talented individuals who go on to fame and […]
Quality!
When one reads a book about drinking alcohol, one doesn’t do so with a sense of scholarly detachment. At least I don’t. I did so with a six-pack of Castle Lite long-toms. And that was as it should be, because Chris and Luke Muller’s Drink This In: Uncorking The World Of Alcohol is […]
