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Thursday – 1st November 2018
‘If you dead, you wake up again in your homeland. You wake up free.’ – Read an excerpt from Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black
Read an excerpt from Washington Black by Esi Edugyan, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize.
South African cuisine with a unique twist – Dijo: My Food, My Journey by Chef Lesego Semenya (LesDaChef)
‘Wow, you don’t look like a chef!’ This statement is something Chef Lesego Semenya has heard many a time over the years. His response is always: ‘So, what does a chef look like?’
A story that celebrates diversity – Rosie Loves Jack, the debut YA novel by Mel Darbon
Rosie loves Jack. Jack loves Rosie. So when they’re separated, Rosie will do anything to find the boy who makes the sun shine in her head.
Don’t miss Khaya Dlanga at Bridge Books Maboneng for the launch of his new book These Things Really Do Happen To Me (3 Nov)
Sometimes real life is stranger than fiction. That certainly is the case when considering the things that happen to Khaya Dlanga in the course of his everyday life.
Wednesday – 31st October 2018
Find out how to eat for a thriving gut at the launch of The Mandala Kitchen in Franschhoek
Jacana Media and The Work Shed invite you to the launch of The Mandala Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Heal and Restore Your Gut by Marlien Wright.
Bank Robber: My Time with Andre Stander by Allan Heyl – the last surviving member of the Stander Gang
The last surviving member of the so-called Stander Gang tells the true story behind South Africa’s most notorious bank robbers.
Bank Robber – My Time with André Stander by Allan Heyl is now available: http://bit.ly/2y21qAY
‘If we don’t write about Fees Must Fall ourselves, someone else will’ – Rekgotsofetse Chikane chats about Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation
‘There was a professor at UCT who […] wrote the first Feel Must Fall book. It was a horrible depiction of the movement, completely misled, had no insight on what was happening inside the movement.’
Top-level police investigation underway into allegations of a paedophile ring contained in The Lost Boys of Bird Island
A police investigation is underway into the allegations of a paedophile ring involving senior members of the National Party government contained in the book The Lost Boys of Bird Island, written by Mark Minnie and Chris Steyn.
2018 City Press Tafelberg Nonfiction Award finalists announced
The five finalists for the prestigious City Press Tafelberg Nonfiction Award have been revealed! The biennial prize is awarded to a new …
An urgent and necessary book – Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition by Francis Fukuyama
Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition is an urgent and necessary book: a sharp warning that unless we forge a universal understanding of human dignity, we will doom ourselves to continual conflict.
Tuesday – 30th October 2018
Redi Tlhabi joins chorus of furious voices over quotes on the cover of new Winnie Madikizela-Mandela book, Truth, Lies and Alibis
‘I AM APPALLED! HOW DARE YOU! HOW DARE YOU TAFELBERG!!!’ – Journalist and author Redi Tlhabi has hit out at Tafelberg Publishers for ‘underhand, dishonest’ conduct, after the publisher printed a quotation from her on the cover of Fred Bridgland’s new book on Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Truth, Lies and Alibis.
Join Tumi Morake for the launch of And Then Mama Said … at The Book Lounge in Cape Town (15 Nov)
Join Penguin Random House and The Book Lounge for the launch of And Then Mama Said … by Tumi Morake.
Don’t miss the Cape Town launch of A Tree for the Birds, the highly anticipated new book by Vernon RL Head
Jacana Media and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of A Tree for the Birds by Vernon RL Head.
Long Road to Mercy – the first novel in bestselling author David Baldacci’s new Atlee Pine series
Long Road to Mercy is the heart-pounding first novel in the FBI Special Agent Atlee Pine series by bestselling author David Baldacci.
Read an excerpt from Robert Galbraith’s gripping, page-turning new novel Lethal White
Lethal White is new instalment in the highly acclaimed Strike series, written by JK Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
Monday – 29th October 2018
Don’t miss the launch of Sihle Khumalo’s new book Rainbow Nation My Zulu Arse in Sandton
Join Penguin Random House at Exclusive Books Sandton City for the launch of Rainbow Nation My Zulu Arse, the new book by Sihle Khumalo, the bestselling author of Dark Continent My Black Arse and Almost Sleeping My Way to Timbuktu.
Join John Dugard and Rehana Rossouw for a book discussion of Confronting Apartheid at The Troyeville Hotel
Jacana Media and The Troyeville Hotel invite you to the discussion of John Dugard’s Confronting Apartheid: A Personal History of South Africa, Namibia and Palestine.
Find out more about The Moon Sister – the new book in Lucinda Riley’s bestselling Seven Sisters series
The fifth book in Lucinda Riley’s bestselling Seven Sisters series, The Moon Sister, is out from Pan Macmillan in November 2018!
‘There is a stigma when you are dark skinned in this country’ – Clinton Chauke discusses his book Born in Chains: The Diary of an Angry ‘Born-Free’
‘With skin colour and complexion and skin tone, they judge your beauty, they judge your humanness, with the legacy of apartheid. I struggled with that, I got mocked. So that is also one of the “chains” from the title Born in Chains.’
Friday – 26th October 2018
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Plus One, the debut novel from Vanessa Raphaely
The Friday Night Book Club: Exclusive excerpts from Pan Macmillan every weekend!