Here’s a stack of history you’ll be envious of if you’re a Zapiro fan. Many of these are now out of print. But there’s a new one. So, phew! You can still start your collection if you’re just cottoning on
Just because I font to
Architect and writer Andries Samuel was so engaged by Simon Garfield’s book Just My Type (read the review here), that he designed his own font. Does Garfield explain how to design a font in the book? No, he doesn’t. He
And suddenly a red one
They’re 9½ cm wide and just over 14½ cm long and they’re usually yellow. So when I saw a red Reclam book in a friend’s shelf I was curious. My little yellow Reclam books – Reclam Verlag being a German
REVIEW: Home Remedies by Diane Awerbuck
Home Remedies Diane Awerbuck Umuzi REVIEW BY: Karen Jeynes There are books you fall in love with from the first word, and others which seduce you slowly. Home Remedies draws you in, slowly, almost unwillingly at times, until you are
REVIEW: Just My Type by Simon Garfield
Just My Type – A Book About Fonts Simon Garfield Profile Books REVIEW BY: Andries Samuel After finishing this book, you might rush off and design your own typeface – you have been warned. This is a book about pleasure
REVIEW: Bom Boy by Yewande Omotoso
Bom Boy Yewande Omotoso Modjaji Books REVIEW BY: Aly Verbaan It is often said that there is nothing more boring than other people’s dreams. I beg to differ. I don’t believe in Freud, but I do believe in the
COLUMN: Why I don’t read crime fiction
The pile of unread books on a small table in my bedroom fell over. That’s a first. I dream of squeezing two extra secret half days into the week: one for just reading, one for just writing. A friend suggested
REVIEW: A Possible Life
A Possible Life By Sebastian Faulks Hutchinson/Random House Struik REVIEW: Karin Schimke I am a fan of Sebastian Faulks. He had me hooked from Birdsong and wriggling happily all the way through to Engelby. Then came A Week In December
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The knitting revolutionaries
It’s a delicious image: the fingers that had once constructed and placed bombs, knitting jumpers and cardigans for their loved ones from prison. In a book called The Lighter Side of Life on Robben Island there’s a chapter on knitting.