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Monday – 16th March 2020
Love Books and The Book Lounge cancel book launches until further notice – but will need your support, so keep buying books! (Home delivery available)
Two of our favourite independent bookshops, Love Books and The Book Lounge, have announced that they have decided to cancel all book launches until further notice.
2020 Franschhoek Literary Festival cancelled because of COVID-19
The Franschhoek Literary Festival, which was due to take place from 15 to 17 May 2020 in Cape Town, has been cancelled, ‘in light of the growing concerns about the global spread of COVID-19’.
Durban’s Time of the Writer book festival cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic (alternative digital version being planned)
Book events are being cancelled all over the world in light of the global COVID-19 pandemic, and the latest loss is Durban’s Time of the Writer Festival.
Jacana Media Author of the Month: Chike Frankie Edozien
Chike Frankie Edozien is Jacana Media’s Author of the Month for March!
South African publishers cancel all forthcoming book launch events
In light of the coronavirus pandemic, South African publishers have decided to postpone or cancel all upcoming book launch events until further …
Saturday – 14th March 2020
Footnotes, March 2020: 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 …
Friday – 13th March 2020
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Alexis Schaitkin’s atmospheric and hypnotic debut novel Saint X
The Friday Night Book Club: Exclusive excerpts from Pan Macmillan every weekend!
New book alert! Philippa Garson’s unputdownable new book Undeniable: Memoir of a Covert War – a brilliant account of a harrowing period in South African history
Undeniable: Memoir of a Covert War by Philippa Garson is out in March from Jacana Media.
Swart swaan deur Wilken Calitz: ’n Surrealistiese sprokie vir volwassenes oor ’n man wie se verbeelding op ‘n dag vlerke kry
Wilken Calitz se Swart swaan: ’n Betowerende roman oor die lewe van ’n man wie se verbeelding op ’n dag vlerke kry.
House of Horrors, the shocking story of how the Springs Monster tortured and abused his family, is now available in English
House of horrors, the English translation of Susan Cilliers’s bestselling Afrikaans exposé Huis van gruwels: My 16 jaar in die Springs hel, is now available.
Moenie die bekendstelling van Alleen onder die maan deur Willem Krog in Johannesburg misloop nie! (24 Maart)
Jonathan Ball Uitgewers en Love Books nooi jou graag na die bekendstelling van Willem Krog se jongste roman, Alleen onder die maan.
Thursday – 12th March 2020
Wie is Cecilia Steyn en hoe kan een mens vyf ander manipuleer om moord te pleeg? Vind uit in Afspraak met moord deur Jana Marx
Nuut by LAPA: Jana Marx skryf oor een van die opspraakwekkendste moordsake in die land se geskiedenis in Afspraak met moord.
Breakfast dialogue: Africa First! author Jakkie Cilliers in conversation with Junior Ngulube at GIBS (20 Mar)
GIBS invites you to a dialogue on Africa’s future with Africa First! author Jakkie Cilliers and Junior Ngulube, vice chairman of Sanlam, Pan African Markets.
Wandile Sihlobo introduces his new book Finding Common Ground: Land, Equity and Agriculture
Pan Macmillan is thrilled to be publishing Wandile Sihlobo’s book Finding Common Ground in April 2020.
James Patterson’s masterpiece The Kennedy Curse – a revealing account of America’s most famous family
Penguin Random House SA is proud to announce the publication of The Kennedy Curse: Six Generations of Adultery, Addiction and Tragedy by James Patterson!
New book alert! From Ivory Towers to Ebony Towers: Transforming Humanities Curricula in South Africa, Africa and African-American Studies
From Ivory Towers to Ebony Towers: Transforming Humanities Curricula in South Africa, Africa and African-American Studies by Tella Oluwaseun and Shireen Motala is out from Jacana Media in March 2020.
Wednesday – 11th March 2020
Wat gebeur as jou dogter ’n moorddadige psigopaat word? Deborah Steinmair gesels oor As jy van moord droom
Deborah Steinmair se jongste boek As jy van moord droom het pas by LAPA verskyn. Naomi Meyer het met die skrywer gesels oor haar verhoudingsriller.
Calling all book clubs and lovers of South African literature! Make sure you don’t miss out on this event
An evening with authors Yewande Omotoso, Fred Khumalo, Siphiwe Ndlovu, Kurt Ellis, Natalia Molebatse and Sihle Khumalo.
Plague, Pox and Pandemics: A Jacana Pocket History of Epidemics in South Africa – a timely new book from Jacana Media
Plague, Pox and Pandemics: A Jacana Pocket History of Epidemics in South Africa by Howard Phillips will be published by Jacana Media in …
Join Jakkie Cilliers for a dialogue on Africa’s future at the launch of Africa First! at UJ (19 Mar)
Jonathan Ball Publishers invite you to the launch of Africa First! Igniting a Growth Revolution by Jakkie Cilliers at the University of Johannesburg.