James Whyle

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Suspended IDT CEO, spokesperson offer Daily Maverick journalist R60K in cash to quash investigation In possibly the most brazen act of attempted bribery ever recorded on camera in this country, the IDT’s suspended CEO and the entity’s spokesperson offered this journalist R60,000 in cash to bury an o...

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

A walk through Hillbrow, the chaotic, rekindled heart of Joburg Parts of the inner-city suburb are being revived through the efforts of residents, property owners and nonprofit organisations. Now a walking tour offers a glimpse of the renewal.

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Nongqawuse was not primary cause of the 1856 Cattle Killing Treive Nicholas, the author of In Search of Nongqawuse, responds to historian and author JJ Klaas’s alternative version of the story, which was itself a response to a review of the book published by D...

www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/...

I call South Africa heaven ...

My father writes from France on the 18th of January 1916.

What if the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning? Our research suggests it may have taken place inside a black hole New theory makes testable predictions.

theconversation.com/what-if-the-...

#Memoir #Nonfiction #NarrativeNonfiction #WeTwoFromHeaven

We Two From Heaven: A Memoir We Two From Heaven: A Memoir - Kindle edition by Whyle, James. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading We Two From Heaven: A Memoir.

www.amazon.com/We-Two-Heave...

We Two From Heaven contains clear warnings that it should be taken with a pinch of salt. It also contains documentary evidence of its veracity.
#Memoir #Nonfiction #books #NarrativeNonfiction

Hilary Mantel, The Art of Fiction No. 226 “I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.”

Hilary Mantel on fact and fiction:

Things get passed around so easily on the Internet. And fact becomes fiction and fiction becomes fact, without anyone stepping in to ­arbitrate and say, What are your sources?

www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6...

Flooding the zone – Google's response to the threat of obsolescence If you can't beat 'em...

stevenboykeysidley.substack.com/p/flooding-t...

Book Choice - Fine Music Radio Book Choice is presented by Paige Nick with her team of bookworms. They will entertain and inform you as they chat about the latest fiction and non-fiction on the shelves. From popular to literary wor...

Fine Music Radio’s Book Choice, 27 May, 2025.

An extremely kind and thoughtful response to We Two From Heaven from Melvyn Minnaar.

(He can be found on Twitter - @Melvynminnaar)

His review is at minute 24:00.

But the whole thing is worth a listen.

www.fmr.co.za/podcasts/boo...

It's a privilege to have We Two From Heaven assessed by someone as gentle and funny and intelligent as Fred de Vries.
(Behind a paywall, but I'll trying and sneak in a snippet ...)

www.news24.com/.../review-w....

Franschhoek Literary Festival.

A chat about We Two From Heaven with Cape Talk's John Maytham, who is the best and most influential radio anchor in South Africa when it come to books ..

www.primediaplus.com/the-war-with...

(PDF) Between Substance and Shadow: investigations into the cynanthropy of Gary the Dog PDF | In this essay I investigate the circumstances in which the rock musician Gary Herselman, playing on a nationwide tour, was temporarily afflicted... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

“I’m a mongrel. My mother is English and my father is Afrikaans.. they were housemother and father in an orphanage so I grew up with the wolves, you know. So I was running with the pack … well running behind the pack kind of thing…”
RIP
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Extraordinary writing by Warrick Sony on the musician Gary Herselman, AKA Piet Pers (Voelvry; Die Kerels)
“Piet Pers … didn’t pretend to to be a dog. He became a dog, so much so that other dogs thought he was a dog.”

Don’t you get it, Harry? You’re not a victim. You’re a rich man who can pay for his own sodding security | Marina Hyde One of the prince’s well-heeled friends should give our foremost podcaster a lesson on when to keep schtum, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Harry Antoinette.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Genocide undebated — how words failed the Jewish Literary Festival in Cape Town In the face of unrelenting allegations of Israeli atrocities in Gaza, what would constitute an act of Jewish self-betrayal? On Freedom Day 2025, at the Jewish Literary Festival in Cape Town, this ques...

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Meanwhile in the land of Bitcoin – the rewards of legitimacy (image: rev.art)

stevenboykeysidley.substack.com/p/meanwhile-...

Exclusive Books recommends:

As a white Afrikaner, I can claim asylum in Trump’s America. What an absurdity | Max du Preez We are not victims, there is no genocide. This rhetoric shows that the US administration doesn’t understand my thriving country, says Max du Preez, founding editor of the Vrye Weekblad newspaper

Attn: Donald Trump, Elon Musk.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant | Sheila Hancock Our street party tea was a muted celebration, full of uncertainty. Then, as now, we faced a long struggle towards a better world, says actor and writer Sheila Hancock

There's an adult in the room, and she should be listened to.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Don’t cry for Argentina | Barry Norris | The Critic Magazine “You want to know what won it for Milei?” says the manager of an upmarket polo estancia an hour outside Buenos Aires.

A fine piece on Argentina from Barry Norris:

thecritic.co.uk/dont-cry-for...

Musk, Tesla and the first whiff of ruin - Daily Friend There are two narratives bouncing around the airwaves. The first is that almost everyone who is interested in environmentally friendly cars now dislikes Musk (because

dailyfriend.co.za/2025/05/01/m...

Soaring above the Aviation Blues: How Reforms can Transform Air Travel across Africa | The Brenthurst Foundation We are at the forefront of new ideas and innovative actions for strengthening Africa's economic performance.

www.thebrenthurstfoundation.org/news/soaring...

We Two From Heaven: A Memoir We Two From Heaven: A Memoir - Kindle edition by Whyle, James. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading We Two From Heaven: A Memoir.

AFTER 38 YEARS we packed a life and our ancestors and two dogs and a cat and travelled south to a stone house on a blue bay.

www.amazon.com/We-Two-Heave...

When Will Trump Dump Pete? Even for a drama-filled administration, this is getting to be a LOT.

www.thebulwark.com/p/when-will-...

Days like this When you don’t need an answer, there’ll be days like this…Van Morrison Its Easter already and summer draws to a close. All over our beloved land, people are getting the last of th…

carlbecker.blog/2025/04/20/d...

Memory, Madness, and Memoir: James Whyle on We Two From Heaven Podcast Episode · PAGECAST · 14/04/2025 · 34m

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

How Trump channeled his inner 17th century French aristocrat to fight the Chinese The return of mercantilism and imperial economics

stevenboykeysidley.substack.com/p/how-trump-...

Spotted in the wild. Exclusive Books Hyde Park.