Amabookabooka: The Quarantine Chronicles

EP6: It grabs you by the heart

Hedi Lampert is an award-winning writer, editor and the lead vocalist and keyboard player for Echo and the Merry Men. She has also grown up with an aunt who suffers from the genetic disorder Fragile X syndrome. Hedi spent the last 15 years researching the condition, which has resulted in…

1 Apr 2020 9AM 15 min

EP5: Memoir Queen is King

Author’s lockdown: T-17: Today’s guest on Amaboobabooka: The Quarantine Chronicles podcast is the queen of Late Night Radio and gritty memoirs. Sara-Jayne Makwala-King is the author of Killing Karoline, which documents her journey from Karoline to Sara-Jayne back to Karoline and then finally - and triumphantly - to Sara-Jayne once…

31 Mar 2020 8AM 24 min

EP4: I spy A Spy in Time

Author’s Lockdown: T minus 18: Today’s guest on the Amabookabooka: Quarantine Chronicles is one of the best novelists to come out of South Africa. And if you don’t believe us ask Gary Shteyngart - that’s what the Super Sad True Love Story author said of Imraan Coovadia, adding that his…

30 Mar 2020 6AM 18 min

EP3: Deon Meyer's novel Fever

If crime writing had a king it would probably be Lee Child. If it had a mayor, though, it would definitely be the award-winning, best-selling Deon Meyer, who is today’s guest on Amabookabooka: The Quarantine Chronicles. Meyer has written 13 novels which have been translated into 27 languages and published…

29 Mar 2020 6AM 15 min

EP2: Meet the Volker

In the second episode of Amabookabooka: The Quarantine Chronicles we interview ‘Sup surfing diva, beauty therapist and the world’s only environmental romance author, Melissa Volker, who weaves romance, suspense and eco-fiction into nail-biting plots and unputdownable novels. Spoiler alert: 10 hours into the lockdown she hadn't yet run out of…

28 Mar 2020 4AM 12 min

EP1: Don't get on the bus, Gus! #staythefhome

This episode features author, journalist, satirist, and social media superstar Gus Silber whose latest book, Electric Graffiti, is a collection of his meaningful musings, wise witticisms, dashing descriptions, poignant pondering and gentle observations about life, which at the moment, he says, can be summed up in one phrase: My Fok,…

27 Mar 2020 6AM 15 min