by The Octopus | Sep 2, 2013 | THE LOWE DOWN
Lowe Cape Town’s Alistair Morgan has been shortlisted for the prestigious M-Net Literary Awards for his second novel, The Land Within. The following is an excerpt form the press release: Innovation and risk characterise the 2013 shortlists of the M-Net Literary...
by The Octopus | Jan 31, 2013 | THE LOWE DOWN
FORGET about the protracted and meandering opening pages that are often territory of the South African farm novel. Alistair Morgan cuts to the chase with this first line from The Land Within: “He had always associated the farm with the smell of death.” The reader is...
by The Octopus | Sep 12, 2012 | THE LOWE DOWN
Many of us who work in advertising don’t have much of a claim to fame (apart from a few metal, wood and plastic awards to our name). Alistair Morgan however, does. He was the first non-American to win the Plimpton Prize for Fiction for his first novel, Sleeper’s Wake....
