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My love affair with folklore started with a small book from a Northumbrian castle. It was more of a pamphlet, really - a handful of pages in a cardboard cover, ...
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I’ve had to dust off my keyboard for this blog because it’s been so long since I last wrote. I have projects on the horizon but getting my head around ...
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It’s just under a month until the end of the year, and those Goodreads Reading Challenge deadlines are looming. Back in January, when you were young, bright-eyed, innocent, filled with ...
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Last month, one of our members,  Toby Bennett, was awarded the Silver Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature 2019 (in the English category). We thought you might like to get to ...
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Ask people about the Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer. Go on, I’ll wait. I’m willing to bet you got the same answer I did. With the exception of a neutral ...
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Tonight, one of our very own founding mother,  Nerine Dorman, was awarded the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature 2019. We thought you might like to get to know Nerine a ...
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It’s six in the morning and I’m wide awake. As tired as my body is, my mind is already running in circles. It’s a writer’s mind whatever else might be ...
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My husband walked into the lounge yesterday, looked around and said, with a sigh, "We have a lot of books." "Yes," I said, "Isn't it wonderful? We can pick them ...
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Music has always been a huge part of my life. Some of my earliest memories are listening to Mozart with my grandfather or wiggling away to Elvis with my parents ...
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This week, we have a very special feature - one of the stories from "Charon's Song", a collection of stories by the writers of Skolion. Here follows  "Beans", by Laurie ...
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