Sunil Jain is the president elect at Delhi Printer’s Association. He talks about the concrete progress in book publishing plus the small steps the association has been taking to keep print spirits high.
AFTER hosting the Wozzon Comedy Club in York’s City Screen basement for several years, York comedian Stewart McDowall has turned his attention to murder with his debut crime novel, The Murder Option, now published by Darkstroke Books. “It’s a tense crime story so there’s no laughs in it,” says Stewart, “but a lot of people said that about my stand-up.” Stewart took inspiration from the widely acclaimed crime novelist Mark Billingham, who is also a comedian. “There are a lot of similarities between a gripping crime story and a stand-up routine,” says Stewart. “It’s all about grabbing the reader’s attention in the first thirty seconds, and then not letting them fall asleep.”
Three good reads for the African summer
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Gail Collins presents a round-up of all the new and interesting developments in the world of books relating to Africa.
Africa does not sleep. Its creative power is keeping it awake and waking up others too. Great authors continue to bring their stories to the world, literary programmes are ramping up and soon creative minds will be back together again, unleashing new ideas and encouraging fresh writers to tell their story.
This summer’s reads are already on their way and just published is
The South African novelist, playwright, scholar and activist in her 77