Marguerite explained to those present how Nguni cattle get their very poetic names such as ‘Stones in the River’, ‘Flies in the Buttermilk’ and my personal favourite ‘Beast whose thighs are like that of a lady’.

Marguerite is the acclaimed author of a number of successful novels inslucing Shades and Iron Love and has been awarded the Literary Lifetime Achievement Award for 2010 by the South African Literary Awards (SALA).

You can take a look at more photos from the event on our Facebook page.

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You can see him at the Greyton Book Club Festival from 5 – 7th August, followed by the The Writers Workshop  (also in Greyton) from the 8th – 11th August.

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The shortlist will be announced on the 6^th of September and the winner on 18 October. Below are the ones we’re rooting for:

Jamrach’s Menagerie, The Sisters Brothers, A Cupboard Full of Coats and Snowdrops

Why not read a few and tell us what you think?

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Exhibit A
Sarah Lotz

EAN: 9780143025726
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 1 May 2009

Recommended Retail Price: R120

Meet Georgie Allen: Cape Town’s self-proclaimed worst-dressed-lawyercum-used-car-dealer. Battling with nicotine and caffeine addiction,housemate worries and the revenge of the Witch, his vengeful ex-lover, the last thing he needs is to take on another pro-bono case.

But when Rachel, a woman he meets in a bar asks him to help her sister Nina, who has accused a policeman of raping her in a police cell, he can’t say no.

Armed only with his irascible Scottish sidekick, Patrick and a renegade township mongrel named Exhibit A, the threesome head into the Karoo to investigate the case. From corrupt policemen to small-town discrimination and a local gossip grapevine, the scruffy but good-hearted Georgie battles his way through the reality of dealing with a rape case in the post-apartheid Rainbow Nation.

Patrick, who eats his way through a seemingly endless stream of junk food, studiously avoids paying restaurant bills and consciously peppers his speech with Scottish burrs like “fooking hell, laddie”, loves nothing more than a fight against the establishment. Exhibit A, the cocky mongrel with his own sense of justice who adopts Georgie, charms everyone from Georgie’s fashionconscious, PA Chesray, who is more concerned with his facial piercings and Paris Hilton’s latest dramas than his work, to flight attendant Clive and the well-muscled Lou, Georgie’s gay flatmates.

But it’s not as cut-and-dried as it looks, Nina’s claim that she was raped is questioned when forensic evidence confl icts with her version of events and Georgie and Patrick have to decide if the many holes in Nina’s story and her dubious past are enough to stop them from going ahead with the case.

Exhibit A is a fast-paced, exciting read that will keep you intrigued from the very fi rst page and present you with characters who will remain with you long after you have put down the book

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Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox
Eoin Colfer

EAN: 9780141322209
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 1 May 2009

Recommended Retail Price: R95

Teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has a new mission – and this time it’s personal.

Artemis’ mother is dangerously ill, and the only way to find a cure is for Artemis – with Holly Short by his side – to go back in time to battle his younger, more evil self.

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Lesley Pearse

EAN: 9780141030494

Format: Paperback

Release Date: 1 May 2009

Recommended Retail Price: R120

Liverpool, 1893, and tragedy sends Beth Bolton on a journey far from home …

Fifteen-year-old Beth’s dreams are shattered when she, her brother Sam and baby sister Molly are orphaned. Sam believes that only in America can they make their fortunes so, reluctantly leaving Molly with adoptive parents, brother and sister embark on the greatest adventure of their lives.

Onboard the steamer to New York there are rogues aplenty. But Beth’s talent with the fiddle earns her the nickname Gypsy – and the friendship of charismatic gambler Theo and sharp-witted Londoner, Jack. And after dodging trouble across America, finally the foursome head for the dangerous mountains of Canada and the Klondike river in search of gold.

How far must Beth go to find happiness? And will her travels lead this gypsy to a place she can call home?

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EAN: 9780141023564
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 1 March 2009

Recommended Retail Price: R140

Rima Lanisell has a habit of losing things – car keys, sunglasses, lovers, family members. Following the death of Rima’s father, she goes to stay with her godmother Addison, a wildly successful, albeit eccentric, mystery writer. Addison’s beach house seems the place to make sense of Rima’s loss, yet she is soon caught up in a mystery of her own. Who stole a small and highly valuable object from Addison’s kitchen? Why is Rima corresponding with an obsessive fan, using someone else’s family name? Most importantly: what exactly was the relationship between Addison and Rima’s father, and why did Addison name a murderer after him in one of her novels? This is a funny, sad and wise literary mystery from the author of The Jane Austen Book Club.

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EAN: 9780718147365
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 1 July 2008

Recommended Retail Price: R180

Hong Kong 1997 – only a few short months of British rule remain before the the territory returns to Chinese rule. It’s a febrile place. And in that claustrophobic environment of uncertainty and fear the spooks are hard at work, jostling for position and influence.

So when an elderly man emerges from the seas off the New Territories, claiming to know secrets he will share only with the Govenor himself, a young M16 agent, Joe Lennox, sees an opportunity to make his reputation. But when the old man, a high-profile Chinese professor, is spirited away in the middle of the night by Joe’s superiors, in collusion with the CIA, it’s clear that there’s a great deal more than a young spy’s career at stake.

The professor, it seems, holds the key to a sinister and ambitious plan that could have awesome and catastrophic repercussions…

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EAN: 9781847673350
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 1 March 2009

Recommended Retail Price: R130

Alice Butler has been receiving some odd messages – all anonymous, all written in code. Are they from someone at PopCo, the profit-hungry corporation she works for? Or from Alice’s long lost father? Or has someone else been on her trail? The solution, she is sure, will involve the code-breaking skills she learned from her grandparents and the key she’s been wearing round her neck since she was ten. PopCo is a grown-up adventure of family secrets, puzzles, big business and the power of numbers

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