• On writing

    An Elephant in my Kitchen – why me?

    Do you want to write the sequel to The Elephant Whisperer? A friend of my brother’s knew Françoise Malby-Anthony, widow of the book’s author, was looking for a writer but I didn’t take the news seriously. Yes, I was writing…

  • Uncategorized

    Oh no, not scrabble!

    I write, therefore I love Scrabble. Wrong. I hate Scrabble. I love words for their content, not their structure. A scrabbler sees gambol as: 4 consonants, 2 vowels, total value 15. But gambol is so much more! There’s bounce in…

  • Life

    It could have been me

    I had just moved to Cape Town and loving life – just as Anita Rakidžija was. Now imagine bombs whistling overhead, grenades raining down. That’s what happened to Anita Rakidžija, a successful Croatian businesswoman in her 30’s. Anita Rakidžija's memoir…