South African author Lauren Beukes has landed a major deal with AppleTV+ to have her hit novel Shining Girls adapted into an exciting new series starring Elisabeth Moss
Next week is the Franschhoek Literary Festival and Cape Town is getting ready for one of the highlights of its cultural and social calendar.
We continue our discussion with the FanCon organizers. In this section, we discuss their star-studded international and local guest lineup (and how they landed them), and what the packed programme offers.
Ever since bursting onto the scene with her Cape Town based dystopian cyberpunk novel Moxyland back in 2008, local author Lauren Beukes has been making quite a name for herself. He subsequent fictional novels/short stories have racked up numerous awards and nominations, her non-fictional work in books and magazines have been just as well received, and she’s been setting the comic …
When Readers Den - who have been putting on incredible, constantly larger Free Comic Book Day events for years now already - announced last year that they were going to give us a comic book convention, we were pretty excited. And damn, it really did not disappoint!
One of my favourite authors (who also happens to be South African) is science fiction writer Lauren Beukes. Her most recent book Broken Monsters scared the heck out of me so I am very happy that Endemol Studios has picked it up through its podcast Additional Dialogue. According to Deadline, the dark thriller is to be adapted into a drama …
Have you ever double-checked your doors at night because something just didn’t feel secure? …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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