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Wednesday – 2nd October 2019
Exhibition opening – Daylin Paul’s Broken Land (winner of the Ernest Cole Award) at Wits Art Museum (8 Oct)
Don’t miss the opening of Daylin Paul’s Broken Land at the Wits Art Museum, showing until Sunday 27 October.
Find out more about 80-year-old Julia Albu’s drive from Cape to Cairo at the Cape Town launch of My African Conquest
Jonathan Ball Publishers and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of My African Conquest: Cape to Cairo by Julia Albu.
Tuesday – 1st October 2019
Join Nolitha Fakude, in conversation with Onkgopotse JJ Tabane, for the launch of her memoir Boardroom Dancing (16 Oct)
Pan Macmillan and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of Boardroom Dancing, the memoir of corporate activist Nolitha Fakude.
Find out more about Broken Land, the new book of photography by Daylin Paul, winner of the Ernest Cole Award
Showing not telling – Broken Land by Daylin Paul is out now from Jacana Media.
The Burning Land – BBC news presenter George Alagiah writes novel based in Johannesburg
The Burning Land – the exhilarating debut political thriller from BBC broadcaster George Alagiah – is out now from Penguin Random House.
Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie’s book is out next week
From whistleblower Christopher Wylie, the definitive story of the Brexit coup, the making of Bannon’s America, and an ongoing crime against democracy.
[Details released] Don’t miss a conversation with Melinda Gates in South Africa!
Pan Macmillan South Africa and the Nelson Mandela Foundation are delighted to host Melinda Gates, in conversation with Redi Tlhabi, about her book The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World.
Monday – 30th September 2019
Cover reveal! Born Freeloaders, the debut novel from Phumlani Pikoli
Pan Macmillan South Africa has revealed the cover for Phumlani Pikoli’s debut novel Born Freeloaders!
Our Blood is Green – The Springboks answer questions about politics, pressure and the coaches who didn’t know what they were doing!
If, as a Springbok rugby fan, you have always wondered what goes on behind the scenes – in the dressing room, at practice, in team talks and on tour – Our Blood is Green: The Springboks in Their Own Words will provide the answer to those questions, and many, many more.
[Watch] An in-depth interview with author Mphuthumi Ntabeni on his historical novel The Broken River Tent
Mphuthumi Ntabeni chatted to social worker and writer John GI Clarke about his debut novel The Broken River Tent.
Bestselling author Tea Obreht reimagines the myths of the American West in Inland
Téa Obreht, the bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife, returns with Inland, a ‘bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the American West’.
The Cockroach – Ian McEwan’s new Brexit satire pays tribute to Franz Kafka’s most famous work
In Ian McEwan’s new novella The Cockroach the main character, Jim Sams, undergo a metamorphosis from an average nobody to the most powerful man in Britain when he wakes up to find himself the Prime Minister.
Friday – 27th September 2019
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from The First Mistake, the riveting new thriller from bestselling author Sandie Jones
The Friday Night Book Club: Exclusive excerpts from Pan Macmillan every weekend!
Join Shirley Gunn and Shanil Haricharan with Charles Nqakula for the launch of Voices from the Underground at Love Books (1 Oct)
Join Penguin Random House at Love Books in Joburg for the launch of Voices from the Underground: Eighteen Life Stories from Umkhonto we Sizwe’s Ashley Kriel Detachment.
This year’s must-read psychological thriller – Devotion by Madeline Stevens
A captivating debut novel about a woman who falls into an overwhelming mutual obsession with the Upper East Side mother who hires her as a nanny.
Thursday – 26th September 2019
Read an excerpt from Quichotte, the epic new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie’s incredible Booker Prize-shortlisted new novel, Quichotte, is now available.
Letshego Zulu chats about her tragic and inspiring memoir I Choose To Live: Life After Losing Gugu
Letshego Zulu chatted to Polity SA recently about her new book, I Choose to Live: Life After Losing Gugu.
Sweeping from Manhattan to the magnificent wide-open plains of Kenya, don’t miss The Sun Sister, the new novel from Lucinda Riley
We hope you’re excited as we are to meet the beautiful, rich and famous Electra D’Aplièse in Lucinda Riley’s The Sun Sister!
Watch the trailer for the award-winning film adaptation of Elsa Joubert’s celebrated novel The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena
Poppie Nongena, the movie based on the celebrated novel The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena by Elsa Joubert, will be in cinemas on 31 January 2020.
Wednesday – 25th September 2019
Save the date for a conversation with Melinda Gates in South Africa!
Pan Macmillan South Africa and The Nelson Mandela Foundation are pleased to announce that Melinda Gates – philanthropist, businesswoman and author of the bestselling book The Moment of Lift – is coming to South Africa!