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/ 23 October 2009
South African crime fiction is developing a unique sense of place, but this alone will not generate a selling spree,
writes Margie Orford.
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/ 6 November 2007
"Crime writing sells all over the world," says Jill van Zyl, a director of Exclusive Books, South Africa’s largest book retailer. "International crime writers sell very well in South Africa. From a bookseller’s point of view, you can compare crime writing with cookery books. People buy cookbooks in great numbers and yet everybody goes out for dinner!
In <i>Life and Soul</i>, Karina Turok maps the arduous journey 75 women have taken to reach who and what they are now, writes Margie Orford.