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Africa! Submissions are open for the Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology

Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology: An award and anthology on the topics of gender, human rights and sexuality, for writers and photographers across Africa.

Kobus Botha is in South Africa to launch Le Braai

Penguin Random House invites you to the launch of Le Braai by Kobus Botha.

Don’t miss the Durban launch of An Elephant in My Kitchen, sequel to the international bestseller The Elephant Whisperer

Join Pan Macmillan at the launch of An Elephant In My Kitchen by Françoise Malby-Anthony with Katja Willemsen.

Read an excerpt from Hold – Michael Donkor’s highly anticipated debut novel

Moving between Ghana and London, Michael Donkor’s debut novel Hold is an intimate, powerful coming-of-age novel. It’s a story of friendship and family, shame and forgiveness; of learning what we should cling to, and when we need to let go.

Young cancer victim’s memory lives on in a new time travel adventure

Conceived by terminal cancer patient, Joshua Castle, and brought to print, posthumously, by his mother, Penny, Cure is a fast-paced and tense time-travel novella:

Trifonia Melibea Obono’s La Bastarda: Modjaji Books releases first novel by an Equatorial Guinean woman to be translated into English

Cape Town-based independent feminist press Modjaji Books is set to release the southern African version of La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono.

The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Series celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2018

To celebrate 20 years since the beginning of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, a special 20th anniversary edition of the book that started it all has been released.

‘At its heart there lies a long-buried secret waiting to be uncovered’ – Kate Morton chats about her new book The Clockmaker’s Daughter

From the bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Secret Keeper, Kate Morton brings us her dazzling sixth novel, The Clockmaker’s Daughter.

Why write? Why publish? Why read? Find out at the launch of This Is How It Is: True Stories from South Africa

The Life Righting Collective and Love Books invite you to the launch of This Is How It Is: True Stories from South Africa.

Listen to an excerpt from The People in the Trees, the debut novel from Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life

The People in the Trees is a powerful work of visionary literary fiction from Hanya Yanagihara, the bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize and National Book Award-nominated modern classic, A Little Life.

An exciting new African voice – Read an excerpt from Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu’s debut novel The Theory of Flight

Read an excerpt from The Theory of Flight, the debut novel by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu!

Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Craig Higginson’s new novel The White Room

The Friday Night Book Club: Exclusive excerpts from Pan Macmillan every weekend!

The programme for the 2018 Open Book Festival has been revealed!

The full programme has been announced for the eighth Open Book Festival!

Hold – an intimate, powerful coming-of-age debut novel set in Ghana and London by Michael Donkor

Moving between Ghana and London, Michael Donkor’s debut novel Hold is an intimate, powerful coming-of-age novel. It’s a story of friendship and family, shame and forgiveness; of learning what we should cling to, and when we need to let go.

The Graceless Fall of Robert Mugabe – a fascinating account of the rise and fall of one of Africa’s longest-ruling dictators

The ousting of Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe’s president took the world by surprise. In The Graceless Fall of Robert Mugabe, veteran Zimbabwean journalist Geoffrey Nyarota explains how and why the events of November 2017 happened as they did.

Details of Panashe Chigumadzi’s South African author tour for her new book These Bones Will Rise Again

A timeous book, with Zimbabwe’s elections having taken place on 30 July, These Bones Will Rise Again responds to the November 2017 ousting of Robert Mugabe, exploring events leading up to the ‘coup not coup’ that brought his 37-year rule to an end.

Don’t miss William Kentridge and Denis Hirson in conversation at the launch of Footnotes for the Panther

Fourthwall Books invites you to the launch of Footnotes for the Panther: Conversations Between William Kentridge and Denis Hirson.

Join Zakes Mda and Wamuwi Mbao for the launch of Justify the Enemy in Stellenbosch

UKZN Press and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study invite you to the launch of Justify the Enemy: Becoming Human in South Africa by Zakes Mda.

Pop-up elephant picture show to launch Eva-Lotta Jansson’s new book On the Road to Elephants

You are invited to a pop-up elephant picture show to celebrate the pre-launch of photographer Eva-Lotta Jansson’s new book, On the Road to Elephants.