This review first appeared here in the Sunday Times Lifestyle on 4th November 2018: REVIEW – By Paige Nick THEO & FLORA – MARK WINKLER (Penguin SA, 2018) **** The story behind this novel is almost as nuanced as the one in it. After Mark Winkler’s first novel (An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Absolutely Everything (Penguin,…
Category: a million miles from normal
Disaster dates
This column first appeared here in The Sunday Times Lifestyle on 26th August 2018. SUNDAY TIMES FUNNY, NOT FUNNY – Paige Nick I don’t know why I find dating disasters so funny. I’m either a through and through psychopath, or there’s nothing wrong with me and it’s simple self-preservation. Like that thing where if you…
Argh, Pirate, Argh!
Just to give you some context into a flawed industry. On average, a traditionally published author makes around 12% of the sale price of a book. Oh you might think, that’s not so bad. But wait… there’s more to it. If a book, say for example, The President’s Keepers by Jacques Pauw, retails for R287,…
The last big night out
Is it just me or do the Mondays come around faster than ever these days? The only upside is that I get to post yesterday’s Sunday Times Column. Hope you have an awesome week. Here goes: THE BEST NIGHT OF NOBODY’S LIFE – By Paige Nick I’m writing this at Birmingham International Airport. It’s last…
Dating a serial killer.
Morning all, so here’s yesterday’s Sunday Times Column. Don’t like shaving your legs or watching rugby? Have I got a guy for you: DATING A SERIAL KILLER – By Paige Nick Gentlemen, if you’re struggling to find a girlfriend, try killing someone. It may sound extreme, but it seems to have worked for others. Mass…
Finding Dick
Morning morning morning. Here’s yesterday’s Sunday Times column. Hope you enjoy. It’s about the second oldest profession in the world… FINDING DICK – By Paige Nick Once, many years ago, I decided I was going to try procure a male prostitute. It was for an article I had pitched to Cosmopolitan Magazine. At the…
Celebrity watch
HOB KNOB – By Paige Nick You never know how you’ll react in an extreme situation, until you’re champagne glass deep in it. Like meeting a celebrity, for example. As an intelligent newspaper-reading sort, you’re probably thinking you’d play it cool. But according to my research there’s a 97.6% chance that within inches of a…
Big in Japan
Morning team, Here’s yesterday’s Sunday Times column. It’s about little people and Baader-Meinhof Syndrome. Hope you have a great week. BIG IN JAPAN By Paige Nick I feel like dwarves are so big right now. We’re not allowed to call them midgets though, that’s frowned upon. They prefer little people or small people. My friend…
Ever have a crush?
Morning, welcome to yesterday’s Sunday Times Column. Here it is today. Isn’t technology marvellous? xoxo EVER HAVE A CRUSH? – By Paige Nick A guy at work showed me a clip on his cell phone that’s the latest thing to go mobile viral. People are passing it around like the common cold. In it, two…
Colour me pink!
Someone brought this product to my attention today. A cream to make your labia pink (again?)! WTF??? Here’s a link to the website, in case you don’t believe me. When you click through, you’ll see that this product currently has ’11 unanswered questions’. Really? Is that all? Because I have about seven hundred more for…