by Ready Writers | Aug 16, 2019 | Book Review |
By Tanya Hall Picture this: you’ve finally written the book you’ve spent your whole career preparing for. Your book launch is in full swing, and you hop on to Amazon and see…a negative review. You don’t have to imagine much further to...
by Ready Writers | May 17, 2019 | Book Review |
The art of writing is different for everyone; writing comes easily to some people, and as a result, they are eager to share their work with others. For other people, writing could be a burden. The combination of words to form sentences that can entertain, educate and...
by Ready Writers | May 1, 2019 | Book Review |
The shortlist for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction was released on Monday, April 29, 2019 and Oyinkan Braithwaite’s satire slashfest debut novel made the list of six! In honour of the recognition she’s been getting since My Sister, The Serial...
by Ready Writers | Apr 17, 2019 | Book Review, Reading |
Reading is not just about pleasure: books have the power to touch us profoundly, to open our eyes to injustices – and sometimes even act as a catalyst for social change. To mark World Book Day, we take a look at some of the novels that have changed society. Uncle...
by Ready Writers | Apr 15, 2019 | Book Review |
In her book The Doctor and the Saint, Arundhati Roy discusses at some length how Gandhi’s impressions of the Africans during his two-decade-long stay as an expatriate attorney in South Africa were full of superstitions. Naturally, such an attitude was the least...
by Ready Writers | Feb 27, 2019 | Book Review |
Of course, the Real Book Oscars are given out at the National Book Awards ceremony; so consider these the Fake Book Oscars—they’re extra fun because you don’t even have to dress up [Ed. note: dressing up IS fun]. In putting this list together, Literary Hub figured out...
