TALL TALES FROM TABLE TOWN

107pp., hardback, The Gryphon Press, Cape Town, 2025

ISBN: 9781037058936

Short stories

"In Tall Tales from Table Town Jeremy Lawrence creates stories composed of amusing and fleeting episodes, peopled by eccentric characters and full of twisted, sometimes sinister, incidents. We are led by Gervais, the author's shadow, into a fictional and satirical world which nevertheless has allusions to and echoes of the real world of Cape Town, past and present. A fast-moving and entertaining romp." Malcolm Jack

Journalist and publisher Jeremy Lawrence was born in 1935 in Cape Town. His books include Foibles, ruthless rhymes for the modern age, Further Foibles, a savoury dish of satirical verses, Talking Heads: A choice collection of classical clerihews, an autobiography, Past Imperfect, and biographies of Sir J.B. Robinson and Harry Lawrence.