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#032 Reads Well with Others | Paige Nick

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So - you thought books were harmless?

South African columnist/advertising copywriter/online book club convenor - and most importantly, author - Paige Nick’s tenth and latest novel, Book People, delves into a world of book clubs, both in-life and online, social media backlash, cancel culture, and Author’s Behaving Badly.

Joining (not just ‘In Conversation With') Melanie Walker to chat about how characters and books come to life, about how world views on books change yet stay the same, and what it means to be a reader or a writer, Paige’s Capetonian view on the world takes a not-so-Sho’t-Left to London and a Facebook book club accountant, and how social media can become The Virus…
16 Apr English South Africa Books

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