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Catherine teaches English to high school students where she shares her love for writing and Shakespeare. She studied English Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her short stories have been published in the anthology Feast, Famine and Potluck and in the 2015 Jalada anthology. She lives in Johannesburg with her husband and two children. "The Swim Team" is her first novel. ...more

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	The Swim Team 3.91 avg rating — 34 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Feast, Famine & Potluck by Karen Jennings (Editor), Rachel Zadok (Goodreads Author) (curator/editor), Katherine Graham (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Maths Teacher Hates Me and other stories by Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Moses Kilolo (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sydney Mugerwa (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface

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Word Painting: The Fine Art of Writing Descriptively

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Strong Verbs for Fiction Writers (Indie Author Resources, #2)

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Catherine Jarvis and 278 other people liked CM's review of Into the Blue: "Definitely the odd one out with this opinion but I found this book to be very hard to get through. It definitely wasn't for me. It felt pretty childish to me and I feel it could have been cut in half. It was basically the same thing over and over. Sa" Read more of this review »
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