Pravasan Pillay's Chatsworth available on Made in Chatsworth

Pravasan Pillay's short story collection Chatsworth is also available on the website Made in Chatsworth!

Oedipus wept

Soon all will be revealed

The eagle has landed on the highway!

Wanna be shocked? Offended? Froth at the mouth?

Looking for a book that will shock you? Offend you?Get you frothing at the mouth? But even so, still having the makings of an underground classic?

Then Graeme Feltham's With the Safety Off might be just for you.

The novel is set in Yeoville, Johannesburg, in the mid-1990s. Enter Fig, a copywriter with a penchant for living on the edge – staying up all night, having casual sex and snorting cocaine. Drifting from seedy clubs to grotty flats, Fig continues his aimless odyssey … until the day he falls asleep in a client presentation and is fired.

Nine months later Fig is hooked on heroin and turns to drug-dealing for survival. If his previous lifestyle skirted close to the danger zone, it’s now gloves off as he drops all pretence of respectability and descends into a world of syndicates and violence.

From now on, he’s living with the safety off.

With introductions by Luke Feltham and James de Villiers.

220 pp.

ISBN 978-0-9869982-6-3

Available directly from Dye Hard Press. If you live in South Africa, the book can be courier to your door for R260.00.

Email dyehardpress@iafrica.com to order.

Chatsworth still on a roll!

Have just received an order for another five copies of Pravasan Pillay's Chatsworth! Along with Kobus Moolman's Left Over and the short story anthology The Edge of Things (edited by Arja Salafranca), Chatsworth is Dye Hard Press's most successful title by sales!

The presences in time

Proof copy of Thunder on the highway

Received a proof copy of Thunder on the highway from the printer today - it looks damn good! Designed by Arja Salafranca, Thunder on the highway is a chapbook of short, haiku-like poems, and will be limited to an edition of 50 copies.

Pricing and order details to follow.

Coming soon: Thunder on the highway, by Gary Cummiskey

A chapbook of short, haiku-like poems by Gary Cummiskey. 24 pages. A limited edition of 50 copies. Published by Dye Hard Press.

In conversation

Don't succumb to the lockdown blues

Don't let the prolonged lockdown get you down - why not order a copy of Graeme Feltham's With the Safety Off?  

It’s Yeoville in the mid-1990s. Enter Fig, a copywriter with a penchant for living on the edge – staying up all night, having casual sex and snorting cocaine. Drifting from seedy clubs to grotty flats, Fig continues his aimless odyssey … until the day he falls asleep in a client presentation and is fired.

Nine months later Fig is hooked on heroin and turns to drug-dealing for survival. If his previous lifestyle skirted close to the danger zone, it’s now gloves off as he drops all pretence of respectability and descends into a world of syndicates and violence.

From now on, he’s living with the safety off.

With introductions by Luke Feltham and James de Villiers.

220 pp.

ISBN 978-0-9869982-6-3

Available directly from Dye Hard Press. If you live in South Africa, the book can be courier to your door for R260.00.

Email dyehardpress@iafrica.com to order.

Where does she go to?

Spice up your reading with these 16 short story collections by African writers from Indie presses

Well, I must say it is damn wonderful to see Pravasan Pillay's Chatsworth listed as one of 16 highly recommended short story collections by African writers from Indie presses - way to go!

Forthcoming from Dye Hard Press: Thunder on the highway by Gary Cummiskey

A chapbook of short, haiku-like poems by Gary Cummiskey. Limited to 50 copies. Details to follow.

Stay safe

Just hang on