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Wednesday – 15th August 2018
Join Life, in a Garden for a book discussion and lunch with Melusi Tshabalala, author of Melusi’s Everyday Zulu
Jonathan Ball Publishers and Life, in a Garden invite you to the launch of Melusi’s Everyday Zulu by Melusi Tshabalala.
The coolest cover reveal ever? Complete a puzzle online to see Mohale Mashigo’s new book!
Complete a puzzle online to reveal the cover for Mohale Mashigo’s new book!
New from Zapiro! WTF: Capturing Zuma – A Cartoonist’s Tale
WTF is renowned cartoonist Zapiro’s account of the Zuma years in 400 brilliant cartoons and the stories behind them.
The Lost Boys of Bird Island author Mark Minnie was following up ‘several leads’ at the time of his death
Before his death, Mark Minnie was ‘determined to reveal further evidence’ about the alleged paedophilia ring involving prominent National Party cabinet ministers revealed in his new book The Lost Boys of Bird Island, according to his publisher Tafelberg.
Tuesday – 14th August 2018
Calls increase for the release of jailed Bangladeshi writer and photographer Shahidul Alam
Organisations and individuals around the world have condemned the arrest of internationally renowned writer, photographer and activist Shahidul Alam. Writer Antjie Krog, …
Find out more about the Firefly in this excerpt from Cat Among the Pigeons, the new book from David Muirhead
Inexplicable things that shine in the night tend to ignite the human imagination and fireflies predictably attract more than their fair share of superstition.
New book alert! You Make Me Possible: The Love Letters of Karina M Szczurek and André Brink
You Make Me Possible: The Love Letters of Karina M Szczurek and André Brink is out now from Protea Books. Novelist André …
Publishing legend Koos Human, the godfather of the ‘Sestigers’, dies aged 87
From NB Publishers: Koos Human, a giant of Afrikaans book publishing, died at his Cape Town home on Friday, 10 August 2018. …
This Mournable Body – the new novel from Tsitsi Dangarembga is here!
With her 1988 novel Nervous Conditions, Dangarembga became the first black Zimbabwean woman to publish a novel in English. The Book of Not, published in 2006, continued with Tambudzai’s story. This Mournable Body completes the trilogy, thirty years later.
New book alert! Business as Usual after Marikana – society looks on as miners are exploited, oppressed and dehumanised
Leave it to the president, government and ‘big business’ and we will die. This is the lesson learned from the Marikana massacre. At least it should have been, but still society looks on as miners are exploited, oppressed and dehumanised in the land of their birth.
New edition of Guy Butler’s Tales From The Old Karoo to celebrate the author’s centenary
First published in 1989, Guy Butler’s Tales From the Old Karoo is considered to be one of the classics of South African literature. In celebration of the author’s birth in 1918, this centenary issue is newly packaged and designed to appeal to a modern audience.
Don’t miss the Johannesburg launch of Turning and Turning by Judith February
Pan Macmillan and Love Books invite you to the Johannesburg launch of Turning and Turning: Exploring the Complexities of South Africa’s Democracy by Judith February.
The Team Secret by Koos Stadler and Anton Burger – To fast-track your business, shape up your teams!
The South African Special Forces achieved exceptional results with small groups of elite soldiers instead of larger, conventional teams. The Team Secret shows that the same principle applies in the business world – a small team has a much better chance of completing projects efficiently, on budget and on time.
Friday – 10th August 2018
Read an excerpt from Hold – Michael Donkor’s highly anticipated debut novel
Moving between Ghana and London, Michael Donkor’s debut novel Hold is an intimate, powerful coming-of-age novel. It’s a story of friendship and family, shame and forgiveness; of learning what we should cling to, and when we need to let go.
Young cancer victim’s memory lives on in a new time travel adventure
Conceived by terminal cancer patient, Joshua Castle, and brought to print, posthumously, by his mother, Penny, Cure is a fast-paced and tense time-travel novella:
Trifonia Melibea Obono’s La Bastarda: Modjaji Books releases first novel by an Equatorial Guinean woman to be translated into English
Cape Town-based independent feminist press Modjaji Books is set to release the southern African version of La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono.
Don’t miss the Durban launch of An Elephant in My Kitchen, sequel to the international bestseller The Elephant Whisperer
Join Pan Macmillan at the launch of An Elephant In My Kitchen by Françoise Malby-Anthony with Katja Willemsen.
Kobus Botha is in South Africa to launch Le Braai
Penguin Random House invites you to the launch of Le Braai by Kobus Botha.
Africa! Submissions are open for the Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology
Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology: An award and anthology on the topics of gender, human rights and sexuality, for writers and photographers across Africa.
Wednesday – 8th August 2018
A shocking exposé from within the heart of the NP government – The Lost Boys of Bird Island
The Lost Boys of Bird Island, by Mark Minnie and Chris Steyn with a foreword by Marianne Thamm, is out now from NB Publishers.