Sarah Crown
Guest Author
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/ 4 December 2007

Literary dysfunction

When it comes to truly deplorable writing, not even death, it seems, lets you off the hook. This year’s Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award has gone to the late Norman Mailer for a description of oral sex in his final novel, The Castle in the Forest, in which a male member is likened to a ”coil of excrement”.

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/ 11 September 2003

Land of the free

If beauty and tranquillity are what you are looking for, look no further than the Free State, with its majestic mountains, fertile valleys, fields of cosmos and sunflowers. In the first in a series on the attractions of the nine provinces, we focus on the magic of the Free State.