I wrote a little list for the Guardian’s “Top Ten Books” feature, delving into some of my favourite writing about how we interact with the animals with which we share the world. Featuring Ursula K. Le Guin, James Herriot, Karen Joy Fowler, Russell Hoban and others. Our interactions with animals are many and various, ranging from […]
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Not the Booker – voting now on!
The fun, freewheeling, democratic and fiercely contested alternative to the Booker Prize, the Guardian’s annual “Not the Booker” prize, is open for voting, with a gigantic long list of 150 books. Green Lion is one of them. If you’ve read and enjoyed my novel, please do consider giving it a vote – it would be […]
Nineveh in the Guardian: “surprisingly gripping”
In a short review for The Guardian, Emily Rhodes calls Nineveh “surprisingly griping”: Its strength lies in Rose-Innes’s preoccupation with the “shifting, restless … discontented city” of Cape Town, “convulsing in a frenzy of urban ants-in-the-pants” … as the wealthy emphatically assert boundaries the author shows to be futile. Her pests are persistent and ultimately powerful – […]
