Activist, teacher, writer and mother, Christa Biyela says we can prevent
the spread of HIV, protect our partners and children through honest
conversations. After living with HIV for eight years she has written a
book, Getting Dirty, Sex is Great, but lets be honest. Christa joins us
now from our Durban studio...
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Monday 22 September 2014
Zombie Apocalypse hits South Africa
Lee Herrmann’s new novel is a gripping tale of a new South Africa that you can really sink your teeth into.
Tuesday 16 September 2014
Some Exciting reviews on Getting Dirty by Christa Biyela
Some exciting reviews on Getting Dirty by Christa Biyela
Follow the following links:
http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2014/07/30/abbygail-zwane-reviews-getting-dirty-by-christa-biyela/
http://www.tametimes.co.za/articles/articledetails.aspx?id=168652
http://www.witness.co.za/index.php?showcontent&global%5B_id%5D=122875
http://www.mediaupdate.co.za/?IDStory=68352
Order your copy here: http://www.porcupinepress.co.za/shop/distributed-books/getting-dirty-detail.html
Follow the following links:
http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2014/07/30/abbygail-zwane-reviews-getting-dirty-by-christa-biyela/
http://www.tametimes.co.za/articles/articledetails.aspx?id=168652
http://www.witness.co.za/index.php?showcontent&global%5B_id%5D=122875
http://www.mediaupdate.co.za/?IDStory=68352
Order your copy here: http://www.porcupinepress.co.za/shop/distributed-books/getting-dirty-detail.html
Monday 15 September 2014
SIGNS OF A LITERATE SOCIETY
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Friday 8 August 2014
New Young Adult August Title - Journal of aa South African Zombie Apocalypse
South Africa has been infected. The army and police were overrun.
Government has fallen. And now the dead roam the streets.
A mysterious outbreak has ravaged the country turning most of the
rainbow nation into mindless, flesh-eating zombies. After two years hiding in
their Pretoria home, 16 year-old Kon, along with his brother and father make
the decision to journey across the country to Robben Island, rumoured to be a
safe haven. Along the way they befriend other survivors, and face an
unrecognizable new world filled with new dangers: Raiders, religious zealots
and lots and lots of zombies.
Journal of a South African Zombie Apocalypse is a coming of age story in
a very different kind of South Africa, and chronicles one family’s fight for
survival against the walking dead.
About the Author:
Lee Herrmann was born and
raised in South Africa. He has always had a fascination with zombies and has
numerous contingency plans for the eventual apocalypse. Therefore, while he
waited, it made sense to write a book about zombies in South Africa.
Lee lives in Pretoria with his wife Dina, and two sons, Max and
Nik. Every Saturday night he can be
found going to the movies with his best friend Steve-Dave.
Thursday 7 August 2014
Tuesday 5 August 2014
Review on Mediaupdate for Christa Biyela's Getting Dirty
Christa
Biyela’s Getting Dirty doesn't shy away from gritty issues
Christa Biyela’s latest book, titled Getting Dirty, is all about the
gritty issues around sex, HIV and AIDS. She believes that the positive way
forward is by having open and honest conversations with not only our partners,
but also our children.
By
Abbygail Zwane
There are instances, in fact whole chapters, when the book offers a bit too much information and I had to ask myself “when it comes to saving our children from HIV and AIDS how much is too much information?”
The voice inside my head would answer: “surely all of us need to be as informed as we possibly can be.”
In this respect (and in many others too numerous to list) I take my hat off to Biyela who has completely opened up to her reader, exposed wounds, scars and horrifying memories to ensure that our children will not need to endure what she has endured.
Biyela herself is living with HIV and is proof that you can still live life to the fullest. Through her book she outlines how the spread of HIV can be prevented and this starts with the education of our children.
Getting Dirty is provocative, candid and tells it like it is. She says “As adults we need to learn to be open-minded about sex. Let us have an open discussion about HIV whether we are married, dating, heterosexual or homosexual. If one is in a relationship let it be based on trust so we also act in a trustworthy manner thereafter. I believe HIV has come to our lives to better us, our relationships and motivate us to explore safer ways of making love. Nowadays having sex without a condom, being uncircumcised and not knowing one’s HIV status should be despicable.”
With Getting Dirty, Christa Biyela takes you by the hand and guides you through her life. At times it is traumatic, at times it is funny and poignant and at other times it forces you to stop reading for a moment and think. Getting Dirty is a book that should be read by everyone. In the words of director and playwright Clinton Marius, Getting Dirty offers “precious words of wisdom and advice that may save a life; hopefully more than one…”
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About the Author:
Christa Biyela is a writer and motivational speaker whose career includes being a producer and co-host of Sihlomulelana Ngolwazi previously on Ukhozi FM. She is now the head writer for Kusa Kusa, Ukhozi FM’s first soapy.
Review in the July Issue of Sarie by Lydia van der Merwe
deur Lydia van der
Merwe
As die brein-oordragstowwe GABA en dopamien albei
laag is, gaan jou kosdrange (cravings) jou oorrompel, sê dr. Hannetjie
van Zyl-Edeling. Volgens haar werk Tim Noakes se hoë-vet-lae-koolhidraateetplan
juis daarom vir baie mense. Proteïene voorsien die aminosure waarvan
brein-oordragstowwe (veral dopamien) gemaak word. En as jy koolhidrate
grootliks uitskakel, kry jy beheer oor jou wisselende bloedsuikervlakke.
Dopamien
’n Tekort kan onder meer lei tot gewigstoename,
moegheid en die onvermoë om stres te hanteer. Jy het ’n drang na nikotien,
koffie, soetgoed of ander energie-opkikkers.
Vul dit aan
- Eet proteïenryke kosse soos hoender, maaskaas, eiers, laevet-kase,
melk, jogurt, kalkoen, wildsvleis, okkerneute.
- Oefen met gewigte, speel ’n potjie skaak, doen
asemhalingsoefeninge.
- Kyk ’n snaakse fliek of vertel grappies.
GABA
Dis betrokke by die maak van endorfiene –
natuurlike pynstillers wat jou goed laat voel. ’n Tekort gooi jou van balans af
en maak jou angstig, geïrriteerd en vol skuldgevoelens. Jy kan ’n binge-eter
wees.
Vul dit aan
- Vermy witmeel, -suiker en ander verfynde stysel, want dit laat jou
bloedsuiker wipplank ry, vererger angs en is ’n sneller vir kosdrange.
- Eet amandels en ander boomneute, piesangs, broccoli, bruinrys,
lensies, sitrus, aartappels, spinasie, heelgraan (verkieslik nie koring
nie).
- Doen aërobiese oefeninge, loop in die natuur en drink kruietee vir
angs.
Oefen minstens ’n halfuur per dag om jou
brein-oordragstowwe te balanseer, bloedsuiker en depressie te beheer en jou
metabolisme flink te hou.
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Thursday 5 June 2014
Review: ZENZELE by Sandile Memela in Sunday Tribune news & views; 25 May 2014
Monday 26 May 2014
Jozi Gold in GET IT Joburg West Magazine; 26 May 2014
Jozi Gold
Rialien Furstenberg / 26 May 2014
Amidst the tension surrounding the run-up
to the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa, one woman discovers her
husband is having an affair, another meets up with a university
sweetheart and a third heads for a nervous breakdown. Who is the man at
the centre of the drama, and does he get to keep his gold?
Who the book is for:
Are you toying with the idea of reinventing yourself but haunted by the thought that your life could end up tasting like a failed casserole or looking like a bleach job gone wrong? You’ll relate well to Jeannie Parker. Where your relationships have worn tired, you seek ways to revitalise them. When you’re not scrambling to meet work deadlines, helping the kids with applications for car licences and college, or looking after the needs of elderly parents, you’re dreaming big dreams… Because you firmly believe that, if others have found happiness, so can you.
Book distribution by PSD Promotions.
For orders email orders@psdprom.co.za or phone 011 392 6075 or visit www.porcupinepress.co.za
Retail price: R189 (including VAT)
Who the book is for:
Are you toying with the idea of reinventing yourself but haunted by the thought that your life could end up tasting like a failed casserole or looking like a bleach job gone wrong? You’ll relate well to Jeannie Parker. Where your relationships have worn tired, you seek ways to revitalise them. When you’re not scrambling to meet work deadlines, helping the kids with applications for car licences and college, or looking after the needs of elderly parents, you’re dreaming big dreams… Because you firmly believe that, if others have found happiness, so can you.
Book distribution by PSD Promotions.
For orders email orders@psdprom.co.za or phone 011 392 6075 or visit www.porcupinepress.co.za
Retail price: R189 (including VAT)
Porcupine Book Makes News in the Mail & Guardian: Coolie Come out and Fight; 23 May 2014
A blessing and the fighter's lace
By: Jane RosenthalCoolie, Come Out and Fight
Mohamed F (Mac) Carim (Porcupine Press)
This engaging and interesting read is a politically modest “struggle” memoir, which may have been written primarily to please the author, and for his family and friends.
It reasserts the notion cherished by many, including this reviewer, that each individual life is significant and interesting. From humble beginnings in South Africa he and his family, including his siblings, parents and his own wife and children, have achieved remarkable success once they had emigrated.
Carim’s parents had a relentless struggle to establish themselves as traders of one sort or another, always beset by legislation restricting the business operations of South African Indians, and further complicated by the mixed-race status of Carim’s mother – a great beauty who raised six children in conditions of hardship and insecurity.
His memorable and often nostalgic account of his boyhood includes a period in Troyeville, where local white boys liked to call him out of the shop on to the pavement to fight (hence the title of this book). They also spent some time in a flat with a balcony overlooking Market Street in Jajbhai’s Building, in the Johannesburg central business district, and a stone’s throw from the Library Gardens in which they were not allowed to play even when the city centre was deserted over the weekends.
Carim enjoyed these, but points out the contrast with the extremely larney school in Pakistan to which he and his two brothers were sent for a while when the family’s fortunes were in an upswing.
The high adventure of the journey there by ship, and his experiences at the school, showed Carim that life could be better than it was for his family in South Africa.
On his return to South Africa he found the Johannesburg Indian High School in Fordsburg such a comedown that he left before matriculating and started in a variety of jobs – finally ending up with Pepsi South Africa, which led to work all over the world.
In his late teens he and a group of friends led a socially active life (with a few lapses of judgment and brushes with the law) in which good clothes, a cool hairstyle and dancing played a big part.
Luckily one of them had a car, a 1949 Chevy. When Carim was just 22 he married Hajoo – the start of a long and happy marriage.
The text shows signs of a battle to compress and streamline the narrative of complicated life events; a more ruthless edit may have produced a more elegant book, but lost its special savour.
Carim’s storytelling is a lively mix of fact and opinion, and he has an eye for beauty.
I especially enjoyed his little riff on white lace curtains as a symbol of Hajoo’s determination to keep things good and tranquil in the family home.
Similarly enriching are his meditations on people in his life from whom he learned something useful – such as the stupidity of racism from his friendship with Sally van Rensburg, a poor white girl in Troyeville, and from a Jewish teacher in Pakistan he learned that confidence and good planning lead to success.
From Johannesburg to Lahore, and later on to Nigeria and Canada, this is a rich and memorable story.
For obtain your copy, click on: http://www.porcupinepress.co.za/shop/porcupine-books/coolie-come-out-and-fight-detail.html
Thursday 15 May 2014
Tuesday 6 May 2014
Review of The Decarb Diet: "the lowcarbnews"; 17 April 2014
Some words to live (and eat) by…
By Gloria MalanThere are just as many diet books as there are diets and trying to find a truly helpful, easily absorbed read is like picking out an award-winning, drop-dead gorgeous outfit for a wedding or party – it just never seems to materialise. Like so many others, that has been my general experience to date.
That is until I discovered The Decarb Diet by Dr Howard Rybko, a diet and lifestyle read that actually makes sense and is practical in every sense of the word.
Part of the problem with many diet books is that they battle to engage the reader… they fail to establish that all-important connection and come across – either deliberately or unintentionally – as a prescription, not a genuine source of help.
But The Decarb Diet is different, easy to read and understand. There are attractive and easy to follow guidelines, with additional online support from the author to keep you motivated. So, if the words could be digested with ease, there may be hope for the actual diet. I decided to put it to the test.
The first thing I noticed is how it made me feel… it really did not feel like a diet at all. It is easy to follow, is based eating balanced, nutritious meals and is not rooted in extremities.
So… I felt happy eating and did not experience the usual levels of anxiety normally associated with diets.
And my happiness turned to elation when I could actually see results in the first week. Thus far, I have lost 1kg a week and I know my friends and family have also enjoyed some levels of success with the programme.
We all know that diets are sold on the promise of results within a time-span that sounds too good to be true…because it is. Not so with this diet. There are no over-zealous promises, no incredible statements, only basic facts and reference to science and research.
This is a fantastic read and a diet well worth following.
To obtain a copy click on the link: Porcupine Press
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Jozi Gold: MediaUpdate; 05 March 2014
Leanne Hunt's debut novel delves into the lives of the well-to-do
What is special about this debut novel is not its characters, although they are well-rounded and deliciously real. It’s not the fact that on the surface it is a gentle meander through the lives of well-to-do South Africans living in the affluent suburbs of Johannesburg, while underneath it unlocks a world of human desire, anxiety and need.
By Abbygail Zwane
Nor is it because it is set in the midst of the 2010 Soccer World Cup. It’s that the author of Jozi Gold, is in fact blind. You would never tell by reading the novel. Her descriptions, sense of space and place are astute and deliberate, taking the reader on a fast-paced journey through the lives of characters who are all connected.
The story revolves around Jeannie, a slightly overweight housewife with a good-looking husband, two sons and a bossy sister. In her mind she has the perfect life: a beautiful house and a good marriage. Until her sister arrives from Australia. Jeannie discovers that her husband is having an affair with a sassy radio journalist. Her world falls apart but her life takes an unexpected and satisfying twist. It turns out that it is not only Jeannie’s husband who has secrets.
The author Leanne Hunt describes her journey as follows: “In writing Jozi Gold, I was particularly interested in the networks which connect people, and how forces within those networks exert subtle, often unexpected pressure. The novel grew out of a picture I had in my mind of various individuals who were unknown to each other but linked by their context and their relationships to one man. What started out as a thought experiment ended up as a fast-paced, complex romantic drama. The characters came alive for me and drove the action forward in a way I could scarcely foresee. In fact, it came as a real surprise that the outcome was so deliciously satisfying.”
Jozi Gold will appeal to readers who enjoy romantic dramas and those in need of a fresh perspective as they approach mid-life.
Jozi Gold is available from Books Galore, Exclusive Books and http://www.porcupinepress.co.za/shop/porcupine-books/jozi-gold-detail.html.
Nor is it because it is set in the midst of the 2010 Soccer World Cup. It’s that the author of Jozi Gold, is in fact blind. You would never tell by reading the novel. Her descriptions, sense of space and place are astute and deliberate, taking the reader on a fast-paced journey through the lives of characters who are all connected.
The story revolves around Jeannie, a slightly overweight housewife with a good-looking husband, two sons and a bossy sister. In her mind she has the perfect life: a beautiful house and a good marriage. Until her sister arrives from Australia. Jeannie discovers that her husband is having an affair with a sassy radio journalist. Her world falls apart but her life takes an unexpected and satisfying twist. It turns out that it is not only Jeannie’s husband who has secrets.
The author Leanne Hunt describes her journey as follows: “In writing Jozi Gold, I was particularly interested in the networks which connect people, and how forces within those networks exert subtle, often unexpected pressure. The novel grew out of a picture I had in my mind of various individuals who were unknown to each other but linked by their context and their relationships to one man. What started out as a thought experiment ended up as a fast-paced, complex romantic drama. The characters came alive for me and drove the action forward in a way I could scarcely foresee. In fact, it came as a real surprise that the outcome was so deliciously satisfying.”
Jozi Gold will appeal to readers who enjoy romantic dramas and those in need of a fresh perspective as they approach mid-life.
Jozi Gold is available from Books Galore, Exclusive Books and http://www.porcupinepress.co.za/shop/porcupine-books/jozi-gold-detail.html.
AUTHOR OF THE MONTH! Morag Wade Mackay with FACES & FOOTSTEPS
You are what you think you are……
Think more of yourself and there is MORE!
As a
teenager I was quiet and really quite shy.
Deciding what I was going to wear and which pop star should go up on my
wall was the scope of life’s choices but even at that stage I wanted MORE out
of life. So I asked for MORE, not realising how much I would get. I got a life
filled with challenges and many highs and lows but I also got an understanding
that any adversity came to make me MORE.
Faces and Footsteps – A
Simple Celebration of Life is a story of personal triumph; it is a story of overcoming utmost
distress of an overwhelming nature; it is a story about being on a mission to
succeed so strong that every stumbling block became a stepping stone to ultimate
success.
I was born in Paisley, Scotland and came to South Africa as a
toddler. Being brought up by parents who believed that children should be seen
and not heard my life was uneventful. Until the early hours of June the 7th
1980.
On the way home after celebrating my 17th birthday
the motorbike that I was riding pillion on was involved in a collision. My
injuries were severe, amongst which I broke my neck and subsequently lost my
right arm. While I was hospitalised for
9 months I began my journey of self-discovery and my new lease on life. During this time, I became inspired by
overcoming the many obstacles that were presented to me, in turn loving life as
I have come to know it. I underwent
numerous operations to get me safely on the right path to make my life an
adventure of success. Literal baby-steps
were the order of the day, as I rediscovered how to walk, talk and breathe
again. I was able to move beyond the
“if” word and experienced enormous benefit from my new limitations.
Among the mayhem, I completed my matriculation and was
introduced to the open market as a working class girl with a difference. One
hopes that a single life lesson is enough, but through the years I was to find
out that opportunities would be lost should I choose to live in the past and
that tests of compromise and adversity would be my destiny.
I progressed from strength to strength and felt rewarded and
fulfilled when I got married. I was able
to put negativity aside and met each assault stronger than before. The challenges I faced and overcame allowed
me to unearth the ‘Morag’ from where my name is derived – the great one!
Many doctors, nurses, paramedics and physiotherapists invested
much valuable time and knowledge to get me to the place that many spinal cord
patients only dream of, - to walk out of hospital.
Completing a task on my own that I would normally have done
with two hands does take me a while longer, but the satisfaction of being able
to do it by myself gives me a renewed sense of purpose and is rewarding enough
to justify my efforts.
Accomplishment is the building block to having a good opinion
of yourself and for some reason I found myself giving thanks for all the little
mundane things occurring around me that I had previously taken for granted. I found
that living in this positive realm of thankfulness attracted all that was
good. Life was unfolding for me.
For whatever
the reason, I was to be given a second chance and at the age of 17, the test of
compromise and courage began. Had God appeared in my life? I did not ask Him to
be there. Was this by divine intervention or had I innocently invited him? For
whatever reason, He was there to carry me on my path to success.
Undoubtedly,
I was to learn and grow from substantial adversity and through God’s grace I
was to be guided and protected along the way.
This book is my story but it is my wish that it will make you
look into the losses and challenges of your own lives, to enable you to find
the Hero within yourselves.
Faces and Footsteps reaches out to the awesome people
that I met on my journey and the ‘footsteps’ are also those of the faces that
journeyed with me and how they too came to rise above adversity, how they also
learnt how to celebrate life and learnt to grow victory beneath their feet.
I want this book to act as a mirror, to show the reader how
to look deep within and to start a process of self-discovery that turns so
called “misfortune” into hope and renewed opportunity.
Werner Weyer's ETERNITY: Media Update; 20 February 2014
Werner Weyer's Eternity hits the shelves
A crazy desert prophet, a missing woman and a bloody dress, Ronny Searching got more than he bargained for when he took the road to Eternity.
“This
was the Oasis Truck stop, a bar and grill that came to be more than a
landmark or a place with the best ribs and shooters. It was here that a
man in faded jeans sold wisdom for whisky. This stretch of desert
highway came from somewhere and was going nowhere. Once on this road it
was easy to forget where you were from, and the future was as far as the
next turn-off. The beautiful barren landscape swallowed you whole. This
was isolation heaven, a place conveniently forgotten except for those
whose lives depended on it.” So the novel begins.
Eternity started out originally as a short story Werner Weyer wrote in his teens, and years later, when he found it between some papers he was going through he found himself inspired to turn it into a book. The novel explores identity and forgotten dreams in a made-up place with a landscape readers will find familiar, if only for a fleeting instant.
Weyer says, “For me, writing comes from the desire to share all of my emotions and experiences. Beyond creating a space of enjoyment and familiarity for readers, it is also a self-fulfilling act – the experience of ultimate freedom of expression.”
Weyer was born in the bushveld town of Groblersdal in the Limpopo Province in South Africa. He has been writing for many years, in between hitchhiking his way to the big city and finding a roof over his head wherever the road took him. He has been awarded various accolades for his writing and his passion for the craft clearly shines through in his first novel. He currently resides in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Eternity is available at Exclusive Books, on www.amazon.com, www.kalahari.com and through www.porcupinepress.co.za.
Eternity started out originally as a short story Werner Weyer wrote in his teens, and years later, when he found it between some papers he was going through he found himself inspired to turn it into a book. The novel explores identity and forgotten dreams in a made-up place with a landscape readers will find familiar, if only for a fleeting instant.
Weyer says, “For me, writing comes from the desire to share all of my emotions and experiences. Beyond creating a space of enjoyment and familiarity for readers, it is also a self-fulfilling act – the experience of ultimate freedom of expression.”
Weyer was born in the bushveld town of Groblersdal in the Limpopo Province in South Africa. He has been writing for many years, in between hitchhiking his way to the big city and finding a roof over his head wherever the road took him. He has been awarded various accolades for his writing and his passion for the craft clearly shines through in his first novel. He currently resides in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Eternity is available at Exclusive Books, on www.amazon.com, www.kalahari.com and through www.porcupinepress.co.za.
Coolie, Come Out and Fight: The Witness; 14 October 2014
A family’s journey in a callous time
14 Oct 2013
Coolie, Come Out and Fight!Mohamed F (Mac) Carim
Porcupine Press
BOOK REVIEWER: Annzra Naidoo
AS an (almost) born free, I was told countless stories about what is was like under the apartheid regime. Some of it was from my parents; most of it was from history books at school.
Although these stories and teachings made me think about what it was like in those times, this book made me think about what it would be like to experience it.
Coolie, Come Out and Fight! is a memoir written by Mohamed F (Mac) Carim that captures the callousness of apartheid without being a rant. Rather, Carim explores the memories of his life and the circumstances he faced, in a way that shows his understanding of the time, but with an emphasis on family and experience. The result is a nostalgic tale that may resonate strongly with many people in this country.
Starting from his grandparents’ arrival in South Africa from India, to his move to Nigeria, Carim tenderly tells the tale of his family, from all their hardships to all their joys. With an Indian father and coloured mother, Carim’s memories are filled with harsh points in-between carefree moments. The pace is slow, as Carim writes with incredible detail, but this does not detract from the story. We get to play in the streets of Troyeville, go off to boarding school and get arrested with Carim as he narrates the early years of his life. The way he and his family have persevered through many rough patches is truly inspiring. Older readers can reminisce on their own experiences during this time. For younger readers, reading this book is like hearing a story from a grandfather who teaches you about our important past in a way that does not feel like a lecture.
Tuesday 1 April 2014
JOZI GOLD: tame TIMES; 25 February 2014
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| FIRST NOVEL: Leanne Hunt is proud of her first novel, Jozi Gold |
HUNT MAKES HER DREAM COME TRUE:
By tame TIMES
2014-02-25
With dreams of writing a book, final inspiration struck for blind author Leanne Hunt on New Year’s Eve in 2010 and now the novel Jozi Gold is the end result.
As an avid lover of 702 talk radio, the Linksfield mother closely followed their World Cup countdown. Leanne noticed that everyone was getting on board, making proudly South African merchandise, and the contractors were working endlessly to finish stadiums and roads. It was a very vibrant time and she was inspired by the goodwill of the people. However, Hunt was conscious of the tensions that came along with hosting an event of this stature, which brought along many nasty elements.
With this as an inspiration, Hunt set out to write Jozi Gold. Set in Senderwood, Jozi Gold explores the contrasting atmosphere of pride and tension during the 2010 World Cup. The book follows Jeannie Parker, who believes that she is in a happy stable marriage with her husband Craig. It’s only when her sister arrives from Sydney and notices that Craig is hiding something that her views start changing. The book takes you on Jeannie’s personal journey that leads her to discover her true worth and the fight to hold onto it.
Jozi Gold is the perfect book for a woman who is ready to start living for herself. The book is meant for someone whose children have left home and is looking for a fresh start, among others. “It is for women who desire to be their true authentic self, maybe even find themselves again,” said Hunt.
Hunt was diagnosed with Star Gardt’s disease at the age of 14 and was deemed legally blind at the age of 17. However, this did not stop Hunt from studying. She completed her English Honours Degree with distinction at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She went on to be a freelance journalist, advertising copywriter, a PR editor and even ran a community newspaper in Piet Retief, Mpumalanga. Clearly writing is a natural talent and gift. Hunt wrote a one act play, Private Views, and it won the best original script at the Edenvale Acting and Drama society in 2011.
Jozi Gold is available at Exclusive Books or Exclusive Books online, Amazon and Kindle books and Porcupine Press.
For more information regarding Jozi Gold follow Leanne Hunt on Facebook: www.facebook.com/LeanneHuntAuthor or Leanne’s Blog. diamondpanes.blogspot.com.