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Venusha Naidoo is pictured here reading Spud- Learning to Fly at the TAJ MAHAL in India!

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Penguins spoilt with double author visits- Adele Parks & John van de Ruit

              All at Penguin were treated with a visit from two of Penguin’s best loved authors. First was sunny Adele Parks author of Love, Lies who stopped in to say hello and chat to the Penguin SA staff on her way to the Cape Town Book Fair. Later on in the morning a charming as ever John [...]

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John van de Ruit launches Spud- Learning to Fly to a cold but cheerful crowd!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Pre-Publication launch of John van de Ruit’s book Spud- Learning to Fly was a resounding success. The launch began with an exclusive Golden Ticket event for 150 people where the lucky few got to chat and mingle with John van de Ruit as well as have their copies signed. Each attendee was presented [...]

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Spud Launch Events Details

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John van de Ruit- Journal Entry May 28th

THE END OF THE ROAD   Time is a trickster. One minute you stand with weeks stretched out before you, and the next the looming and predictable dead end casts a shadow across the face. Weirdly, Cambodia feels like it was the previous year and i can barely remember Kuala Lumpur at all, and may have to [...]

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John van de Ruit – Journal Entry- April 16th

MAD ABOUT KEP!   I have always suspected that the ways of our modern society, and all of us that exist within it, are clinically insane if not stark raving bonkers. The notion of a mad world that refuses to acknowledge it’s inner lunatic has permeated just about everything I have ever written. The problem is – people [...]

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John van de Ruit – Journal Entry- April 7th

64 DAYS TO LAUNCH!!!   Dear Spud fans, friends, Romans and people at the wrong website.   Greetings from Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It’s a week into the trip and I have thankfully settled down after the flurry of finishing the book and then roaring off to bustling Kuala Lumpur. I have finally, after a number of torturous nights watching [...]

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