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Friday – 8th June 2018
Shortlists for 2018 Media24 Books Literary Awards announced
Redi Tlhabi, Jacques Pauw, Qarnita Loxton, Marlene van Niekerk and Michiel Heyns are among the authors shortlisted for this year’s Media24 Books Literary Awards.
Don’t miss the Cape Town launch of An Image in a Mirror by Ijangolet S Ogwang
BlackBird Books and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of An Image in a Mirror, the debut novel by Ijangolet S Ogwang.
Homebru 2018: More than 50 books celebrating the best of South African fiction and non-fiction
Exclusive Books has announced this year’s Homebru selection, celebrating the best of South African books. There are more than 50 books in this …
Thursday – 7th June 2018
Read an extract from Kamila Shamsie’s novel Home Fire, winner of the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Kamila Shamsie’s brilliant novel Home Fire has won the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Read an extract from this fantastic novel.
Open Book Festival announces first group of authors confirmed for Cape Town
The first group of authors has been announced for the eighth Open Book Festival! This year’s Open Book will take place from …
The African opera singer Musa Ngqungwana launches his memoir at Love Books
You are invited to the launch of Odyssey of a South African Opera Singer by Musa Ngqungwana at Love Books.
This Is How It Is: The healing power of life writing, one shared story at a time
This Is How It Is a ‘refreshing, poignant and wide-ranging’ (Helen Moffett) collection of real life experiences: 52 stories, prose and poetry, that tell of a man who is anxious about an HIV test; a child with an alarming nose for gossip and a girl who is saved by the enemy in a war zone.
Join Sue Nyathi with Karabo Kgoleng for the Pretoria launch of The Gold Diggers
Pan Macmillan and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of The Gold Diggers by Sue Nyathi.
Monday – 4th June 2018
Read an excerpt from I am Pandarus, the new novel from award-winning author Michiel Heyns
Jonathan Ball Publishers has shared an excerpt from I am Pandarus, the new novel from acclaimed author Michiel Heyns.
Read an excerpt from Mphuthumi Ntabeni’s The Broken River Tent, a novel about the life and times of the Xhosa chief Maqoma
Jacana Media has shared an extract from The Broken River Tent, the debut novel by Mphuthumi Ntabeni. The Broken River Tent is set in …
Writers! Send Pan Macmillan SA the manuscript for your future bestseller during open submissions week
It’s time to polish up that manuscript! This week is Pan Macmillan South Africa’s open submissions week.
Win a copy of The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson PLUS a T-shirt
The Reading List is giving away two copies of The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson PLUS two T-shirts, courtesy of Penguin Random House SA!
Friday – 1st June 2018
Black Mirror meets Bridget Jones: Listen to an excerpt from Luke Tredget’s debut novel Kismet
Kismet is the whip-smart debut novel from Luke Tredget, set in a world where the ultimate matchmaking app has redefined romance.
Sue Nyathi is back with The Gold Diggers! Watch the book trailer
Following the success of her first novel, The Polygamist, released in 2012, Sue Nyathi is back with The Gold Diggers!
Like Jane Austen fan fiction, but much more ruthless: Claire Robertson on her new novel Under Glass
Award-winning author Claire Robertson chatted to Nancy Richards on SAfm about her masterful new novel Under Glass.
Christy Chilimigras will launch her memoir Things Even Gonzalez Can’t Fix at Love Books
Christy will be chatting to her publisher Melinda Ferguson about her brutal memoir of growing up in a dysfunctional family.
Thursday – 31st May 2018
‘It’s a very useful book’ – Eusebius McKaiser reviews Jan-Jan Joubert’s Who Will Rule in 2019?
There’s something in this book for a range of folks: political reporters; commentators and analysts; academics working in various areas of contemporary South African politics; and the general reader keen to beef up their understanding of some of the dynamics in our body politic especially as we head to a general election in 2019.
Read an excerpt from Rahla Xenopoulos’s shimmering new novel The Season of Glass
It is past midnight and the stars are barely visible through the filth and fog of Seville when the doorway is opened, and she appears, illuminated by the moon.
Don’t miss an intimate book discussion of Winging It with author Joanne Jowell, Jonathan Kaplan and Jacqui Davies
Pan Macmillan and Exclusive Books invite you to an intimate book discussion.
Wednesday – 30th May 2018
Melktert in Orania with Betsie Verwoerd – Read an excerpt from 100 Mandela Moments by Kate Sidley
It is a picture that borders on the surreal – Nelson Mandela and Betsie Verwoerd chatting over tea and coffee, melktert and koeksisters.