Wild Authors: Gila Green
This month, we look at another young adult fiction novel – and yet another novel set in South Africa. Thanks
Mary Woodbury
Wild Authors: Sita Brahmachari
This month we look at Sita Brahmachari’s novel Where the River Runs Gold (Waterstones, July 2019), which takes place in an everyland, according to
Wild Authors: Helon Habila
This month we travel to the Niger Delta, and I am thrilled to talk with Helon Habila, the mind behind
Wild Authors: Wu Ming-Yi’
I recently re-read Wu Ming-Yi’s The Man with Compound Eyes (Goodreads), which takes place in Taiwan, and was thrilled to connect
Wild Authors: Nancy Burke
Thanks to Nancy Burke, author of Undergrowth (Gibson House Press 2017), we travel to 1960s Brazil to explore the historical problem that continues
Wild Authors: Loranne Vella
Today, we travel to Malta with Loranne Vella to discuss her award-winning novel Rokit (Merlin Publishers, 2017). It’s 2064, and the
Wild Authors: Rick Hodges
For this post, we travel back to the continent of Africa, this time with author Rick Hodges; we talk about
Wild Authors: Deon Meyer
For this post, we travel to South Africa to explore the beautiful country and environmental themes found within Deon Meyer’s crime
Tiny Coronavirus Stories: ‘Fears and tears eclipsed by good deeds’
Nova Scotia winds wildly shake the new house where I’m self-isolating. I wonder when or if my husband can get here from 4,000 kilometers away. Six days seeing no one. Alone here in the unfamiliar. The wind, the dead roses, the blue jays, the crows, the seagulls, and the old gardens in the vast yard call me out. Old stone birdbath statues watch me as I walk by. It is not the old world. The landscape is new, the fears and tears eclipsed by good deeds. We can do this if we live, I think. — Mary Woodbury (Beaver Bank, Nova Scotia)
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Wild Authors: Anna Burke
This month, I spotlight Anna Burke and her novel Compass Rose (Bywater Books, 2018), a dystopian high-seas adventure that looks at climate