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Jacana Media announces new Modern Classics series with How We Buried Puso by Morabo Morojele

Jacana Media has launched a new Modern Classics series, kicking off with How We Buried Puso by Morabo Morojele, to be published in June 2018.

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Don’t miss the Joburg launch of Born to Kwaito: Reflections on the Kwaito Generation

Save the date for the launch of Born to Kwaito, a new BlackBird Books publication by Esinako Ndabeni and Sihle Mthembu.

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Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology closing date extended to 31 August 2018

The Jacana Literary Foundation has extended the deadline for the Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology, which honours African writing and photography that ‘provokes thought on the topics of gender, social justice and sexuality’.

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Join Clive Barker for the launch of his biography Coach!

Save the date for the launch of Clive Barker’s biography, Coach: The Life and Soccer Times of Clive Barker by Michael Marnewick.

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Don’t miss the launch of The Broken River Tent by Mphuthumi Ntabeni at David Krut Bookstore

Join Mphuthumi Ntabeni for the launch of his debut novel The Broken River Tent.

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How to get published in South Africa – Jacana Media explains

How to get published in South Africa.

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Join Jacana Media and Love Books to celebrate the worldwide success of CM Elliot’s Sibanda series

Want to find out what happens when your wildest dreams come true, when the series you wrote is about to move beyond what is often called ‘modest sales’ in southern Africa?

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‘Truly brilliant and darkly funny’: Eusebius McKaiser spoke to Christy Chilimigras about her memoir Things Even González Can’t Fix

Eusebius McKaiser spoke to Christy Chilimigras recently about her painfully beautiful memoir Things Even González Can’t Fix.

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New book alert! Coach: The Life and Soccer Times of Clive Barker by Michael Marnewick

An insightful biography of Mzansi’s longest-serving national football coach and arguably the most successful!

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Don’t miss the launch of Brian Willan’s new biography of Sol Plaatje at Sol Plaatje University in Kimberley

Sol Plaatje University invites you to the launch of the Jacana Media publication Sol Plaatje: A life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje 1876–1932 by Brian Willan.

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‘The definitive portrait of a great South African’ – Sol Plaatje: A Life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje 1876–1932

Celebrating one of South Africa’s most accomplished political and literary figures.

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Extremisms in Africa examines the correlation between poor governance and the emergence of extremist movements

Extremisms in Africa challenges both the efficacy and wisdom of purely militarised responses to extremist movements, typified by the Global War on Terror, as well as the cursory replication of international counter-terrorism frameworks promulgated by the United Nations and European Union in Africa.

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Angela’s Ashes meets Shirley, Goodness and Mercy in Carol Gibbs’s debut autobiographical novel All Things Bright and Broken

Sharp, insightful, and abundant in measured humour: Carol Gibbs’s debut autobiographical novel All Things Bright and Broken.

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I am Liza Smit: Behind the scenes of a 40-year-old political cold case

On 22 November 1977, 40 years ago, Robert Smit and his wife Jean were brutally murdered in their Springs home. They were shot and stabbed several times.

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Don’t miss Mphuthumi Ntabeni and Bongani Kona at the launch of The Broken River Tent at The Book Lounge

Join Mphuthumi Ntabeni in conversation with Chimurenga editor Bongani Kona for the launch of The Broken River Tent.

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Don’t miss the Cape Town launch of An Image in a Mirror by Ijangolet S Ogwang

BlackBird Books and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of An Image in a Mirror, the debut novel by Ijangolet S Ogwang.

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This Is How It Is: The healing power of life writing, one shared story at a time

This Is How It Is a ‘refreshing, poignant and wide-ranging’ (Helen Moffett) collection of real life experiences: 52 stories, prose and poetry, that tell of a man who is anxious about an HIV test; a child with an alarming nose for gossip and a girl who is saved by the enemy in a war zone.