fast_forward00:02:15Sarah Bullen interview - The Other Side: Journeys into Near Death
fast_forward00:37:11Zapiro - Have I got GNUs for You review
fast_forward00:45:19Booker Prize - 6 Shortlisted Books and the Winner
fast_forward00:49:47Paula Hawkins - The Blue Hour review
fast_forward00:49:47Mick O’Hare - Yawns Freeze Your Brain review
What happens when we die? Is there life after death? Questions that have rocked life since the Pharaohs and people who lived thousands of years before them of course. Sarah Bullen, author, story-teller and international writing mentor, had a near-death experience and came back to tell us what happened to her in “The Other Side: Journeys into mysticism, magic and near death. ( Jonathan Ball). She tells the stories of many others; of a man who woke up on a stretcher heading to a morgue and someone who survived two near-death experiences on an operating table. Bullen concludes: ‘there is something bigger than us out there.’ The best cartoonist in SA ( in my opinion), Zapiro aka Jonathan Shapiro, has named his cartoon annual, “ Have I Got GNUs for You.’( Jacana). On the cover is a Gnu bucking off Cyril Ramaphosa as its tail is yanked by SA’s ruthless corrupt. Zapiro is brave and brilliant. Christmas, the festive season, isn’t the same without him. I chatted briefly, about the six shortlisted books for the 2024 Booker Prize which was won by Samantha Harvey for “Orbital’. It’s set in space. The next book I’m going to read is Zimbabwean born and raised, Paula Hawkins’ “ The Blue Hour” ( Penguin). Hawkins, she of “ The Girl on the Train” fame which sold 23 million copies and was published in 50 languages, is back with a book, described by many famous authors as ‘ her best yet.’ Wow! ‘Yawns Freeze Your Brain’ (Jonathan Ball) by Mick O’Hare, is a mind-blowing book crammed with facts, yes facts, from science, history, life and the universe. Unputdownable.
