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The bestselling books in South Africa – August 2019
This list represents the bestselling books in South Africa from the previous four weeks to 31 July 2019, and combines fiction and …
Footnotes, September 2019: Book links from around the web
At The Reading List, we’re trainspotters when it comes to interesting book links, and here are a number that caught our eye …
Sefika and SA Book Awards winners announced – Manage Your Money Like a F*cking Grown Up by Sam Beckbessinger wins grand prize
The Sefika and SA Book Award winners have been announced, with Manage Your Money Like a F*cking Grown Up by Sam Beckbessinger …
Don’t miss a book discussion of Our Words, Our Worlds: Writing on Black South African Women Poets at Wits (27 Aug)
WiSER, the Governing Intimacies project and UKZN Press invite you to a book discussion of Our Words, Our Worlds: Writing on Black South African Women Poets, 2000–2018, edited by Makhosazana Xaba.
Veels geluk aan al die finaliste van die ATKV-Woordveertjies 2019! (Plus: Video)
Die Afrikaanse Taal- en Kultuurvereniging (ATKV) het vroeër vandeesmaand die finaliste van die ATKV-Woordveertjies bekendgemaak.
Breaking news: Miché Solomon/Zephany Nurse will be telling her story at the Open Book Festival
Miché Solomon and Joanne Jowell will discuss the astonishing new memoir Zephany: Two Mothers One Daughter at the Open Book Festival in September. …
New book alert! Zadie Smith’s dazzling, first-ever short story collection Grand Union
Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith will be published in October 2019 by Penguin Random House.
The bestselling books in South Africa – July 2019
Our list is compiled from print sales data and other sources. It represents the bestselling books in South Africa from the previous …
The programme for the 2019 Open Book Festival has been revealed!
The full programme has been announced for the ninth Open Book Festival!
Footnotes, August 2019: Book links from around the web
At The Reading List, we’re trainspotters when it comes to interesting book links, and here are a number that caught our eye over the last month. Browse and enjoy!
2019 Booker Prize longlist announced – including two African authors
The 2019 Booker Prize longlist has been announced—described by the judges as ‘bold’, ‘lyrical’, ‘very diverse’ and ‘quite wild’.
British-born Nigerian writer Tade Thompson has won the 2019 Arthur C Clarke Award for his novel Rosewater
Tade Thompson’s novel Rosewater has won the Arthur C Clarke Award, the UK’s most prestigious prize for science fiction.
The bestselling books in South Africa – June
This list represents the bestselling books in South Africa from the previous four weeks to 6 June 2019, and combines fiction and non-fiction bestsellers.
Donate a children’s book this Mandela Day as part of the Siyafunda Donate-a-Book campaign
Donate a book for children this Mandela Day!
First-ever book festival on the Cape Flats announced: The Read to Rise Book Festival (31 Aug-1 Sep)
A new book festival to be held in Mitchells Plain has been announced by Read to Rise.
2019 South African Book Fair – find out more about the authors and events!
The 2019 South African Book Fair will take place from 6–8 September at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg.
Footnotes, July 2019: Book links from around the web
At The Reading List, we’re trainspotters when it comes to interesting book links, and here are a number that caught our eye over the last month. Browse and enjoy!
New book alert! The Death of Jesus by JM Coetzee – the final book in the trilogy that includes The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus
The Death of Jesus, the new novel by JM Coetzee, will be published by Text Publishing in October 2019.
Dip into an excerpt from T.C. Farren’s new novel The Book of Malachi, a gripping thriller with a speculative twist
Malachi Dakwaa is mute and utterly disconnected from human beings when he gets an extraordinary job offer. In exchange for six months as warder on a top-secret organ farming project, Frasier Pharmaceuticals will graft a new tongue for him. Malachi takes the deal.
2019 Media24 Books Prizes winners announced – Niq Mhlongo awarded Herman Charles Bosman Prize
Financial Mail editor Rob Rose, novelist and short story writer Niq Mhlongo, poet Gabeba Baderoon and octagenarian debut author Andries Buys are among the recipients of the 2019 Media24 Books Literary Prizes awarded in Cape Town last night (Thursday, 13 June 2019).