New Zoo (and Moxy too)

Brand new editions of Zoo City and Moxyland are out in the USA this week, from my brilliant publisher Mulholland!  It was also the perfect excuse to break out the sloth scarf I wore to the Arthur C Clarke Award ceremony five years ago! I love the playful, toothy rawness of the new Zoo City […]

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Book Riot’s renovated haunted houses

Book Riot put together this list of haunted house books “that update the classic haunted house story by investigating social issues through supernatural spaces”. I’m very honoured that they included The Shining Girls, rubbing shoulders with books by the iconic Gillian Flynn, Edgar Cantero, and Carsten Stroud. Book Riot’s Cheyenne Comer writes: In 1929, a […]

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Sparking kids imaginations

Getting kids reading and sparking their imaginations is really important to me. In fact, I gave a Tedx talk in Johannesburg recently on how stories allow us to be more than we are.  It’s why we put together The Broken Monsters Charity Art Show, with kind sponsorship by Nando’s, that raised enough money for the awesome […]

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