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Monday 19 September 2011, 7:45 pm: Reading from Daddy's Girl South Bank Centre, London September 2011:Margie will be attending the International PEN Congress in Belgrade 21-25 September 2011: Open Book Cape Town Festival October 2011: Meet me at the Sisters in Crime She Kilda Festival in Melbourne, Australia. October-November 2011: GALLOWS HILL publication and book tour in South Africa. |
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WORDSETC 7 |
Read all about Margie Orford’s success – how she makes crime pay – with her Clare Hart series, in the main profile by Sam Beckbessinger. There are also illuminating essays by writers such as Hichens, Jassy Mackenzie, Sarah Lotz, Richard Kunzmann, Roger Smith, Helen Moffett, Andrew Brown, Justice Malala, Emma Chen, Thembelani Ngenelwa and Megan Voysey-Braig. It’s a feast of reading for the literati or those who simply can’t get enough of South African literature. |
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 Rave reviews for DADDY’S GIRL:‘Orford is on top form. Her sense of place - the sandy drear of the Cape Flats, the mank of strip clubs in the daylight hours - is immaculate. Her writing is more assured, pithier, with snub-nosed dialogue and a sprinting pace.’ – Michele Magwood, Sunday Times. Read the whole review here. ‘Orford writes of these things skillfully, economically, lovingly. Her ear for natural dialogue is assured, and she weaves Afrikaans and local argot in seamlessly, without either condescending to the South African reader or pandering to readers elsewhere.’ – Stephanie Alexander, The Witness ‘Margie Orford queen of South African thrillers, has cracked it. Her third book in the Clare hart series, Daddy’s Girl, has delivered the “ball-crushing fear” she aims for.’ – The Weekender ‘To her credit, Orford’s books often have the knack of being impossible to let go of. Her characters feel very true to life, and because she puts a lot of effort into capturing minute details so that her settings acquire depth and become real in reader’s minds.’ – Natalie Bosman, The Citizen 'Orford is one of a select club of South African crime writers who have built an international reading audience. One can see why: she delights in perfectly rendered local colour and lingo, her characters are convincing, the setting – a police force in messy and sometimes dysfunctional transformation – is conveyed with unflinching honesty, and she writes with verve and a crackling energy.' – William Saunderson Meyer, Business Day ‘Margie Orford is guilty of writing a very, very good thriller. Sophisticated plotting, great characters, raw emotions, a satisfying resolution, respectful of, but not slavish to, the genre.’ – John Maytham, (Cape Talk radio host and critic) ‘Margie Orford is to Cape Town what Val McDermid is to the north of England, capturing the seamier side of the Mother City: drugs, prostitution, gangs, police corruption and the clash between policing and political correctness. … Thriller fans will be delighted by this, the latest Clare Hart novel. But, as I said before, the Cape tourist industry, and sections of the South African police, I suspect, will not.’ – Anthony Egan, Mail and Guardian |
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Friday evening Riedwaan paused at the map, tracing the lines back to the evidence summaries that Clare Hart had made for each of the little girls. The abbreviated lives, the sparse detail. Name, date of birth, date and cause of death. Yasmin there too. Not yet marked as dead. ‘It’s been more than seventy-two hours. If she wasn’t mine, I’d recognise this for what it is,’ he said. ‘A murder investigation.’ |
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E-mail: margie@margieorford.com | Agent: www.blakefriedmann.co.uk |
The seventh edition of Wordsetc, South Africa’s foremost literary journal, hit the shelves in March 2010! The publication continues to showcase the best of South African literature. This time around it focuses on crime fiction as a theme. Guest edited by author and editor Joanne Hichens the edition explores the ins and out of the genre, the motivation of crime writers to write crime fiction, and takes a look too at real-life crime in our society.
