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Monday – 11th November 2019
New from Marie Kondo – a graphic novel to spark joy in life, work and love – The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up
The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo is out now from Pan Macmillan.
New anthology to celebrate 20 years of the Caine Prize for African Writing
The Caine Prize for African Writing has released a special edition anthology, celebrating the literary talent of 20 excellent African short stories since its inception in 2000.
Friday – 8th November 2019
Listen to an excerpt from the audiobook of Deon Meyer’s new novel The Last Hunt
Hodder Books has shared an excerpt from The Last Hunt by Deon Meyer.
LAPA Publishers invite you to an evening of conservation in Pretoria
LAPA will host an evening of conservation on Tuesday 12 November, aiming to protect lions, indigenous stories, rhinos, and elephants.
You are invited to the launch of Susan Newham-Blake’s moving novel As if Born to You at Exclusive Books Rosebank (12 Nov)
Penguin Random House and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of As if Born to You by Susan Newham-Blake.
Winging It: On Tour With the Boks by Liam Del Carme – a detailed and humorous insider’s view
Winging It: On Tour With the Boks by Liam Del Carme is out now from Jacana Media!
Thursday – 7th November 2019
Don’t miss the launch of Explore! Awesome South African Artists at The Atelier in Joburg (9 Nov)
Join Cobi Labuscagne for the launch of her new book Explore! Awesome South African Artists.
Meet Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng and get your copy of Dr T: A Guide to Sexual Health and Pleasure SIGNED in Durban (8 Nov)
Join Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng for the Pleasure Revolution and get your copy of her book signed at Bargain Books in Umhlanga!
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism – the international bestseller by Robin DiAngelo
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo – a practical, crystallising guide for how white people can change the way they communicate and fight racism.
The Institute – Stephen King’s scariest novel yet
Thrilling, suspenseful, heartbreaking, Stephen King’s The Institute is a stunning novel of childhood betrayed and hope regained.
What happens when the spirit world clashes with corporate greed? Corporation Games – a new fictional corporate thriller by Anneleigh Jacobsen
Corporation Games by Anneleigh Jacobsen – a fictional corporate thriller based on a number of real-life financial scandals that have rocked South Africa.
Footnotes, November 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 …
Wednesday – 6th November 2019
Don’t miss the Joburg launch of I Am Ndileka: More Than My Surname, the long-awaited memoir by Ndileka Mandela (6 Nov)
Jacana Media and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of I Am Ndileka by Ndileka Mandela.
Cape Town: A Place Between by Henry Trotter – revealing the often hidden contradictory realities of the Mother City
If you could read only one book about Cape Town – to truly understand it, to glimpse its soul – which would it be?
Read an excerpt from Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know
Penguin Random House has shared an excerpt from Talking to Strangers, the new book by Malcolm Gladwell.
Join Henry Trotter for the launch of Cape Town: A Place Between at The Book Lounge (7 Nov)
LAPA Publishers, Catalyst Press and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of Cape Town: A Place Between by Henry Trotter.
Missing Person – the unputdownable new thriller from Sarah Lotz, the author of The Three
From acclaimed thriller writer Sarah Lotz, hailed by Stephen King as ‘vastly entertaining’, Missing Person – a new novel about a group of amateur detectives infiltrated by the sadistic killer whose crimes they’re investigating.
Don’t miss the launch of a new edition of Jo-Anne Richards’s bestselling book The Innocence of Roast Chicken (7 Nov)
Join Jo-Anne Richards at Exclusive Books for a celebration of the new edition of her bestselling book The Innocence of Roast Chicken.
Tuesday – 5th November 2019
Join Deon Meyer for the launch of his thrilling new Benny Griessel novel The Last Hunt in Cape Town (12 Nov)
Jonathan Ball Publishers and The Book Lounge invite you to the Cape Town launch of The Last Hunt by Deon Meyer.
Out now! Activate Beast mode with Tendai Mtawarira’s memoir
‘My name is Tendai, which in the Shona language means “Be thankful to God”, but you can call me Beast.’