News about Chatsworth from Sweden

Pravasan Pillay has been interviewed about Chatsworth in the Swedish magazine Klass, which focuses on working-class literature. He chatted with journalist Beata Hansson about, among other things, melancholy, existentialism, outsiders, the body, class society and chai.
Chatsworth will be published in Swedish next year.
And if you live in Joburg and still haven't read it, you can still get copies at some Exclusive Books branches, and definitely at The Commune, a new bookstore in Braamfontein.

More news on With the Safety Off

I have received an order for Graeme Feltham's With the Safety Off from Paul Wessels, who heads the Master's degree in Creative Writing programme at Rhodes University, Makhanda. It seems Paul worked with Graeme 'a bit' on an earlier version of the  novel - something I was not aware of - I was not even aware that Graeme and Paul (whom I have known since the early 1990s) knew each other. But there you go ... the novel continues to widen its reach.

Sun Ra mail art from Henry Denander

More mail art from the great, generous Henry Denander - a stamp series of his watercolour portrait of Sun Ra - thank you, Hank!

With the Safety Off on Goodreads

Graeme Feltham's novel With the Safety Off, recently published by Dye Hard Press and altoviolet, is now listed on Goodreads. If you have read it and enjoyed it, why not pop in and give it a short review?

Check it out here.

With the Safety Off availability continues ...

Just as well I have been slack in collecting the launch stock of With the Safety Off from David Krut Bookstore ... more copies have sold since launch night!

Oh, and Clarke's in Cape Town has ordered copies!

Did you know ....

Did you know…

That of the 3 million Indians living in Southeast Africa, 1 million live in South Africa?

That Durban is regarded as the largest ‘Indian’ city outside India?

And having asked those questions, have you ever been to Chatsworth?

Well, whether you have or you haven’t, or maybe you’ve lived there or still do live there, get yourself a copy of Pravasan Pillay's Chatsworth, published by Dye Hard Press! It would also make an excellent Christmas gift!

And Chatsworth is now available at Braamfontein’s new bookstore The Commune - so check out this new store too!

Photos from the launch of Graeme Feltham's With the Safety Off

Hans Pienaar, co-publisher and MC for the launch.

Artist James de Villiers, who was a friend of Graeme Feltham and who wrote an introduction for the book.

Nick Hauser, friend of Graeme Feltham.

Luke Feltham, son of Graeme Feltham.

Gary Cummiskey, main publisher of the book.

James de Villiers, Hans Pienaar and Gary Cummiskey