Happiness is having a wine expert as a client. I am pleased to note that Penguin will be releasing client JP Rossouw’s Tasting the Cape at the beginning of March. This is the definitive guide for wine lovers that now only tells you where to find the best wines, but also the best places to eat and sleep in the Cape Winelands. It’s written by one of the country’s premier wine and food reviewers, author of Rossouw’s Restaurants.
Very excited to announce the release of Cape Peninsula Birdlife by Roy Siegfried and Ian Sinclair. This book will be available across the Cape and is needed by anyone interested in local birdlife. Another definitive reference book from publication partner Robin Stuart-Clarke at Print Matters/Scamp. (more…)
When Stephen Hawkings wrote A Short History of Time, he was already a world-renowned physicist, with almost 40 years of experience in his field. Isaac Newton, on the other hand, was an undistinguished student at Cambridge before the plague closed the university down and he went home to develop theories on calculus, optics and the laws of gravitation before he turned 27. (more…)
We are very proud to announce that a new book by client John Thompson is set to hit South African shelves in October. John Thompson is a thinker, astrologer and amateur mathematician who hails from Greyton. Nature’s Watchmaker, published by Blackhall Publishing in Ireland, is an inquiry into the nature of the universe. The book will be available in the UK, Ireland and South Africa. It leads us into an engaging discussion about the so-called Theory of Everything or Final Theory. (more…)
It has been a banner week at Griffyn House. First of all, four of our authors have made it into the Sunday Times Award Longlist. David Varty’s The Full Circle is in the non-fiction category, while novelists Lauren Beukes (Moxyland), Tracey Farren (Whiplash) and Dr. Rosie Kendal (Karma Suture) have been given the nod for the fiction catagory. Well done, guys, and hopefully we’ll see you at the awards ceremony on August 1. (more…)
It was my great pleasure to help cleint Angela Read Lloyd republish her book about an Anglo-Boer family, entitled Bridging the Divide, with EBW Mousehand. It’s a fabulous book and soon to be followed by her seminal work on Moses Tladi, which will be released into book stores later this year (watch this space). Well done, Angela and well done Arthur Attwell, publisher at EBW Mousehand.
Attention divers and nature lovers: client Georgina Jones’s fabulous new book, A Field Guide to the Marine Animals of the Cape Peninsula, will soon be in dive shops across Cape Town as well in select bookstores. Featuring over 500 color photographs of critters big and small to be found in our two oceans, A Field Guide to the Marine Animals of the Cape Peninsula is set to be the premier reference for those of us who like to get wet and look for animals ranging from sponges to seals. (more…)
My two week visit to the wintry USA was a chance for me to catch up with friends and family but also to touch base with some of the good people in the American publishing world. (more…)
I’m very pleased to report that there is a strong interest in client Hamilton Wende’s True North and Deadlines from the Edge, both of which are now available online. I’m also very interested to read my interview with client Tracey Farren in the current issue of New Contrast Magazine, which you can get from many good bookshops or via the UCT English Dept. or by placing an order online. (more…)
It has certainly been interesting for us at Griffyn House to be part of the Baby Sense phenomenon. These books, which are 80,000+ bestsellers in South Africa, are now set to take the UK by storm. (more…)
