FIREPOOL, experiences in an abnormal world

288pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2017

A collection of essays by Hedley Twidle, including his piece, "Getting JM Coetzee", which won the 2012 Bodley Head/ Financial Times Essay Competition.

"Exhilerating! A book I will return to again and again, both for its uncommon insight, and the quiet beauty of its prose." Rebecca Davis, author of "Best White, and other anxious delusions"

Heldey Twidle is a writer, teacher and scholar based at the University of Cape Town.