27 June 2012
A Hundred-Year-Old Giant Tortoise

Last Saturday I went to a reunion. I can just hear my friends say: ‘But you never go to reunions!’ That’s right: normally you wouldn’t find me at such an event. Death is the guest of honour at most reunions. But I went as my mother’s wheelchair-pusher. Find out more


6 June 2012
The Language of Blame

A few years ago, I was looking at Africa across the Strait of Gibraltar from a windswept Tarifa in Southern Spain. Africa looked enormous and I felt minuscule, like the grain of sand in Ingrid Jonker’s poem. Find out more

20 June 2012
The Smell of Socks

I recently visited Cape Town to attend a book launch. I’d been looking forward to it. ‘Cape Town’ my acquaintances sighed with a hint of jealousy, as if they saw a faraway vision, but I was also thinking about flying for twelve hours in economy class. Find out more


27 June 2012
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