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Darryl Johnson is a typical inner-city twenty-something who has
been unlucky in love,having had failed relationship after failed
relationship,who hangs out at the local bar that his friend,Dave
Clarksville owns,with a whole assortment of characters who have
nicknamed themselves after candy bars. Then,one day,Darryl meets
this pretty girl from accounting, named Tyreshia Banks.He asks
Tyreshia to lunch,and they soon fall madly in love,but will their
relationship last,or will this be another failed relationship for
poor Darryl?
Hierdie skrywer weet hoe om ʼn storie te vertel en hoe om die leser in te katrol. Haar kinderjare in Pretoria-Wes word lewendig en humoristies verhaal.
Haar pa het lewenslank boekminderwaardig gevoel omdat hy nie kon gaan studeer nie. Sy pa het sy grond verloor en hy moes vroeg die skool verlaat om te gaan werk. Hy onderskei hom in die spoorweë, maar die drankduiwel ry hom (en die gesin). Geen kind van hom hoef te gaan leer nie, glo hy.
Die verteller self spring duidelik en onweerstaanbaar uit die bladsy regop – iemand wat, in haar eie woorde al soos ʼn haas verskrik is deur haar pa maar wat haar eenvoudig nie laat onderkry nie. Sy sou gaan leer, buig of bars. En sy het nie opgehou voordat sy ʼn doktorsgraad verwerf het nie.
A comedy about football, fortune, and a fanatical fanWhen Rob
Cooper, editor of the anarchic soccer fanzine Wings of a Sparrow,
receives the latest in a long line of solicitors letters, he
suspects yet another law suit has landed in his lap. Instead, he
finds himself slap bang in the middle of a situation the likes of
which fans the world over have dreamed about since the birth of the
game. He gets the chance to be chairman of his rival football team,
giving Rob the chance to do to City what he, as a United supporter,
has always dreamt of doing. But when your dreams become a reality,
they very quickly take on a very different meaning. Sometimes they
can even turn into nightmares. Not simply a tale of revenge and
bitterness, this is a light-hearted story of one man, the great
game, a small fortune, and a season of personal discovery.
This is Britain rewritten in predictive text. One man and his
mobile phone gremlin take on the people, institutions and events
that have shaped this country, autocorrecting as they go and
uncovering some shocking home truths. So let's honour our majestic
Queer Vicar, the Right Honourable Primary Monster, the National
Death Device, and give thanks for that Bikini Inversion*; this is
an extensive love letter (or rather text message) to this land we
call home. * Queen Victoria, Prime Minister, National Health
Service, Viking Invasion
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