On 28 April 2021, Mdu talks to Author Mark Winkler about his latest novel Due South Of Copenhagen. 

Mdu Ntuli:
Twitter: @Mduspeaker
mduduzintuli0@gmail.com

Published by Penguin Random House South Africa
www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za
umuzi@penguinrandomhouse.co.za

You can watch the video of this podcast on youtube:
https://youtu.be/atZZI-yALnw

Interview produced by
Mduduzi Ntuli, JHB, South Africa

Thank you:

Mark Winkler
Facebook: @themarkwinklerauthour

Frieda Le Roux

Mark Winkler is the author of the critically acclaimed novels An Exceptionally Simple Theory  (of Absolutely Everything), Wasted, as well as The Safest Place You Know  and Theo & Flora,  which both were shortlisted for the Sunday Times  Barry Ronge Fiction Prize. His work has been published worldwide in English and in French translation. 

His latest novel is Due South of Copenhagen , set in a small town in the dusty dry Lowveld of South Africa. This gutsy, pained, prying and deeply South African novel reveals the truth behind personal and national lies that disturb and awaken the consciousness of every South African.

About the book: 
A letter bearing news of boyhood friend Karl Udengaard’s death sets Maximilian Fritz on a path of disconcerting reminiscences on his last day as editor of a community newspaper.
 
Growing up as the son of a petrol-station owner in a Lowveld town, twelve-year-old Max is bashed around and bullied – until the arrival of Karl Udengaard. Karl teaches Max how to toughen up, while Max’s feelings for Gunna Udengaard, Karl’s enigmatic mother, rage in secret.
 
Tragedy severs Max’s ties with the wealthy Udengaards. As the decades-old memories unravel, he begins to comprehend his own complicity in his and their misfortunes.
 
Due South of Copenhagen  is a masterful tale of the scope of intimate connections between people, small-town living during the height of South Africa’s Border War, and what it takes to put the past to rest.

Mdu In Conversation With Mark Winkler - Due South Of Copenhagen

On the 2nd of June, Mdu talks to novelist Susan Newham-Blake about her recent novel As If Born To You

Published by  
 Penguin Random House South Africa
  www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za

Thank you:
Susan Newham-Blake
www.susan-newhamblake.com
Twitter: @bbugged
 
Frieda Le Roux

Interview produced by
Mdu Ntuli
Johannesburg, South Africa
Twitter: @Mduspeaker
mduduzintuli0@gmail.com

Watch the video of this podcast on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OE_sco1yA4

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Susan Newham-Blake is the author of the memoir  Making Finn.  She has worked as a magazine editor and journalist, writing for Marie Claire,  Femina  and  Women’s Health  among others, and her short fiction has appeared in the anthology  Just Keep Breathing  and  ID,  where she was long-listed for the Short Story Day Africa Prize. She is currently managing director of a content- marketing agency in Cape Town, where she lives with her three children.

ABOUT THE BOOK: 
When thirteen-year-old Zuri begins cutting herself, psychologist Ana is called in to help. Is the troubled girl trying to relieve the tension of being black in a predominantly white private school? And how healthy is Zuri’s relationship with Helen, the white single mom who adopted her?
 
Struggling to soften Zuri’s defences during the course of the therapy, Ana must piece together the puzzles of both Helen and her daughter, including the truth of what happened to Zuri’s biological mother.
 
But reckless, alcoholic Ana carries within her an old trauma of her own. 
 
In Susan Newham-Blake’s moving novel, two women, equally damaged by the past and its
secrets, discover that healing sometimes lies in unexpected places.

Mdu Ntuli In Conversation With Susan Newham Blake

On 16 February 2021, Mdu sits down to talk to Author Sally Andrew about her Tannie Maria mystery series.

About Tannie Maria mystery series:
Meet Tannie Maria: She's fifty-something, short and soft (perhaps a bit too soft in the wrong places) with brown curls and untidy Afrikaans. She is also the agony aunt for the local paper, the Klein Karoo Gazette. One day, her life takes a sinister turn when a woman in the area is murdered and she becomes entangled in the investigation... to the intense irritation of a handsome local policeman.
 
But what else will this amateur detective uncover in a small town marinated in secrets?
 
Warm, poignant and entertaining, Sally Andrew’s delightful heroine blends together intrigue, romance and cooking in this irresistible new mystery, complete with a few mouth-watering recipes.

Tannie Maria Mystery series:
Recipes For Love And Murder
Tannie Maria & the Satanic Mechanic
Death On The Limpopo

Watch the video of this podcast on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/LmKsWbJNiTw

Published by: 
Umuzi, an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa

 umuzi@penguinrandomhouse.co.za
www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za

Interview produced by: 
Mdu Ntuli, Johannesburg, South Africa

Thank you: 
Sally Andrew:
www.sallyandrew.com
Twitter: @TannieSall

Mdu Ntuli:
Twitter: @Mduspeaker
mduduzintuli0@gmail.com

Mdu In Conversation With Sally Andrew creator of Tannie Maria

On 16 February Mdu sits down to talk to Richard Peirce about his latest book Pangolins - Scales of Injustice. 

Richard Peirce is best known as a shark conservationist - his main focus for over 20 years. Chairman of the Shark Conservation Society and the Shark Trust which was established in 1997 and operates from Plymouth, UK. Richard has authored several books on the topic of sharks and shark conservation. Richard and his wife Jacqui are confirmed nomads who spend half the year in South Africa; their love of wildlife takes them to the bush at every opportunity. However, in recent times Richard has focused his attention on another wild animal that is in danger from human interference, The Pangolin. His latest book Scales of injustice focuses on the mystique and the dander which surrounds the pangolin.

About the book:
The most trafficked wild mammal in the world' - so scream the headlines. The burgeoning international trade in these mammals means all eight of the world's pangolin species (four African and four Asian species) are under threat of extinction. However, the global Covid-19 pandemic has now shone a new light on the trade: pangolins have been named as possible vectors for the coronavirus to travel from their bat hosts into humans. In southeast Asian 'wet markets' multiple wild animals are indiscriminately stacked in small cages, one on top of the other, their bodily fluids mingling unchecked, thus providing just the required pathways for transmission of disease.In Pangolins: Scales of Injustice, Richard Peirce introduces readers to this enigmatic and discreetly charming mammal. He pieces together the likely history of a pangolin poached in Zimbabwe and brought to Johannesburg to be traded. Readers accompany an agent of the African Pangolin Working Group on a real-life sting operation to rescue the animal and capture the traffickers, and follow the subsequent rehabilitation and release of the animal into the wild.Peirce unpacks the methods and terrifying statistics of the trade, describes visiting markets and restaurants in southeast Asia, explains the links between wildlife and Covid-19, and details China's response to the unfolding drama of the pandemic.

Published by:
 Penguin Random House South Africa
www.penguinpenguinrandomhouse.co.za

Interview produced by:
Mdu Ntuli, Johannesburg, South Africa

Watch the video of this podcast on youtube:
https://youtu.be/MLDqo7d8E3M

World Pangolin Day, celebrated on the third saturday of February (20 February 2021), is a worldwide celebration of the pangolin aimed at raising awareness of its importance and its plight.

Thank you:
Richard Peirce
www.peirceshark.com

Mdu Ntuli
Twitter: @Mduspeaker
mduduzintuli0@gmail.com

Mdu In Conversation With Richard Peirce About Pangolins Scales Of Injustice

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