Now you've gone 'n killed me. Lin Sampson

Oshum, 2005. Soft cover, 197 pages. Very good condition. Under 1kg.

Now You've Gone 'n Killed Me is a selection of newspaper and magazine articles written by journalist Lin Sampson over a period of twenty-three years, encompassing a wide range of personal experience. In his foreword, author Rian Malan writes, "If she lived in New York or London, Lin would be famous. She would be on TV all the time, uttering scandalous gossip and butchering reputations with scorching one-liners. Her bon mots would be legendary."

The stories are collated in three sections under the headings "In Person", "Scenes from a Life" and "Into the Dark". "In Person" engages with an eclectic cast of characters: an underworld photographer, the famous artist Tretchikoff, a below-the-line lawyer, an aristocrat, the smallest lady in the world, a couple defined by their designer clothing and a man who killed himself because he was bored. Sampson has a talent for bringing her subjects vividly alive, deftly proving that more often than not, truth is stranger than fiction.

The stories in Now You've Gone 'n Killed Me have previously been published in The Sunday Times, Mail & Guardian, Style, Elle, Femina, Red Magazine, Food Illustrated, Fair Lady and Cosmopolitan. Pictures by photographers Mark Lewis, Jac de Villiers, Ruvan Boshoff and Terry Shean accompany some of the articles.