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Arthur C Clarke Award for best science fiction shortlist announced!
The six shortlisted books for the Arthur C Clarke Award for best science fiction novel of the year published in 2016 have been revealed.
Help make a book happen: An A to Z of AmaZing South African Women
Meet the rebels, artists, troublemakers, athletes, dancing queens and freedom fighters that shaped our past – and are changing our future. Please help us print 1000 copies of this AmaZing book. It will make you feel proud for a change!
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Niq Mhlongo writes about The Marabi Dance by Modikwe Dikobe for PEN SA
There is a book that when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was your old friend or a relative of yours that you could call up on a phone and congratulate them on the excellent work. That is what Modikwe Dikobe’s Marabi Dance did to me. The book left me with a sense of satisfaction and completeness.
New book by Nelson Mandela and Mandla Langa to be published in 2017
On 19 October 2017 Pan Macmillan will publish Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years by Nelson Mandela and Mandla Langa.
Out now! You Lost Me by bestselling author Marita van der Vyver
You Lost Me is bestselling author Marita van der Vyver’s thirteenth novel, a story about life’s thunder clouds and the bonds between us that offer shelter. It is a tale of disillusionment and loss, told with warmth and wicked humour.
Nelson Mandela comic goes worldwide
Nelson Mandela: The Authorised Comic was first published by Jonathan Ball Publishers back in 2008. Now Constable have cleverly bought all language rights still available, and will publish in English in the UK and Commonwealth.