Pravasan Pillay on Literary Tourism

There is a nice wee entry on the Literary Tourism website about Pravasan Pillay, compiled just after the publication of his previous book, Aiyo!, and containing an extract from his short story 'Crooks' in his debut collection, Chatsworth.

Pillay's new book, Curry and Bread, is available from Exclusive Books, madeindurban.co.za, Love Books in Melville, Johannesburg, and Clarke's in Cape Town.

Chatsworth still available on Exclusive Books Online

 

You can buy a copy of Pravasan Pilay's debut book of short stories, Chatsworth, at Exclusive Books Online.

Chatsworth is still around

 

A reminder that you can still buy copies of Pravasan Pillay's much-acclaimed debut short story collection Chatsworth at Made in Durban.

Off-ramp in England

Nice to see that UK artist Paul Warren was able to obtain a copy of my short story collection Off-ramp from 2013, which was a finalist in the Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award the following year.

Copies of Off-ramp are available from Dye Hard Press at R140 a copy, including courier to your door (regret South Africa only). Email cummiskeyg@gmail.com to order. 

Chatsworth available again at select Exclusive Books branches

 

Pravasan Pillay's much-acclaimed debut short story collection Chatsworth will soon be available again at Exclusive Books Gateway and La Lucia branches in KwaZulu-Natal.

Chatsworth still available at Made in Durban

 

A reminder that you can still buy copies of Pravasan Pillay's much-acclaimed debut short story collection Chatsworth at Made in Durban. 

 

Just got the news that Pravasan Pillay's short story 'Girls', from his much-acclaimed debut collection Chatsworth, is to be used in a course called 'Reading and Writing about Language and Literatures' at the University of British Columbia!

You can buy Chatsworth at Clarke's Bookshop in Cape Town. Either pop into the store at 199 Long Street or order here.

Praise for Pravasan Pillay's Chatsworth

Artist Lucelle Bernadette Pillay says of Chatsworth:  "An insightful read, with interesting and authentic characters. Pravasan Pillay is an observant storyteller, a skilled wordsmith who paints nostalgic scenes of old Chatsworth."

Pravasan Pillay's much-acclaimed debut short story collection Chatsworth will be available for sale at the Durban International Book Book at Eduvos Umhlanga Campus from 27 November to 1 December.

Chatsworth has gone into four printings and is published by Dye Hard Press.

Pravasan Pillay's Chatsworth will be available at the 2024 Durban International Book Fair

Pravasan Pillay's much-acclaimed debut short story collection Chatsworth will be available for sale at the Durban International Book Book at Eduvos Umhlanga Campus from 27 November to 1 December.

Chatsworth has gone into four printings and is published by Dye Hard Press.

 

Off-ramp is now available at reduced price!

 

Dye Hard Press still has copies of Gary Cummiskey's Off-ramp in stock.

A finalist for the 2014 Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award, Off-ramp is the debut short fiction collection of Gary Cummiskey and consists of ten stories often characterised by a surreal eroticism. Set mainly in contemporary South Africa, the book opens with a young man’s hallucinatory encounter with a derelict in a Johannesburg street; there is a couple’s visit to a sinister Free State farm; an editor who reluctantly agrees to meet an aspiring woman writer at midnight; two young men who go out on a drinking spree as the country teeters on the edge of civil war; a restless teenager who stalks an unknown woman; and a middle-aged academic who engages in an obsessive, sadistic relationship with a prostitute.

The stories in this startling collection offer a vision of individuals who are slowly being devoured by paranoia and absurdity. Beyond the off-ramp lies a pervasive, heavy dread and an unnameable, perhaps unknowable fear. Cummiskey creates an off-kilter reality that is both disturbing and compelling.

Off-ramp is now available at a reduced price of R60 per copy, and the cost of courier to your door in South Africa is R100 -- so R160 altogether.

Regretfully I cannot ship overseas due to operational problems at the South African Post Office.

Email cummiskeyg@gmail.com to order.
 

Aiyo! in Cape Town

 

Pravasan Pillay's Aiyo! is still available at Clarke's in Cape Town - either order online or if you are in the area, pop into the shop in Long Street.

Copies are also available at The Commune bookstore in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. 

Please remember this is an edition limited to 100 numbered copies!

Oddity 28: The latest issue of The Odd Magazine is out!

Check out the latest issue of The Odd Magazine at: https://theoddmagazine.wixsite.com/oddity28

Note: Desktop viewing preferred.

Your wild ride begins here:

Odd Poetry: Claudia Wysocky, Erin Jamieson, Jay Passer, John Grey, Mathew Friday, and Sean Meggeson.

Odd Shorts:  Dominik Slusarczyk, John Fain, Kapka Nilan, Karen Schauber, Kathryn Silver-Hajo, Louella Lester, Luanne Castle, Mario Mussa, Meg Pokrass, and Mehreen Ahmed.

Odd Art: Pascal Ulrich, Howie Good, and Eric Brunet

Odd Interview: Robert Roman conversation with Gary Cummiskey (in English and French) 

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Chatsworth still getting around!

 Artist Lucelle Bernadette Pillay received her copy of Pravasan Pillay's Chatsworth today! Chatsworth is published by Dye Hard Press and is available from Clarke's in Cape Town or directly from the publisher.

Chatsworth in Swedish in hardcover

Today I received my copy of the Swedish translation of Pravasan Pillay's debut shorty story collection Chatsworth -- and it is in hardcover! 

The original, English version of Chatsworth was published Dye Hard Press and is still available from Clarke's in Cape Town.

Aiyo! still around

 

Pravasan Pillay's Aiyo! is still available at Clarke's in Cape Town - either order online or if you are in the area, pop into the shop in Long Street.

Copies are also available at The Commune bookstore in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. 

Please remember this is an edition limited to 100 numbered copies!

Gifts from the past

 

The late Subhankar Das was a generous soul, and in the good old days when the South African Post Office still worked we would send books to each other. These are two much-treasured books that he sent to me.

Dye Hard Press celebrates 30 years of publishing anti-bestsellers!

Wow, I have just realised that Dye Hard Press is 30 years old this month! That's 30 years of publishing anti-bestsellers! While it would not be an overstatement to say that Dye Hard Press is on life support, we are stilll around!

Thank you to all those who have supported us throughout the years.

Below are two of our most successful titles:

Last few copies of Aiyo! still available

Pravasan Pillay's Aiyo! is still available at Clarke's in Cape Town - either order online or if you are in the area, pop into the shop in Long Street.

Copies are also available at The Commune bookstore in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. 

 

Chatsworth still available at Clarke's in Cape Town

 

Pravasan Pillay's much-acclaimed debut collection Chatsworth is still available at Clarke's Bookstore in Cape Town. Either order online or if you are in the area, why not pop into the shop in Long Street? 

Chatsworth is published by Dye Hard Press.

Chatsworth still available at Clarke's in Cape Town

 

A reminder that Pravasan Pillay's much-acclaimed debut collection of short stories is still available either directly from Dye Hard Press or from Clarke's bookstore in Cape Town. To order direct from Dye Hard Press email cummiskeyg@gmail.com or to order from Clarke's click here.