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Monday – 9th April 2018
NB Publishers sells overseas rights to a number of South African books, including The President’s Keepers, Being Kari and The Quiet Violence of Dreams
NB Publishers has sold overseas rights to a number of South African publications, including Jacques Pauw’s political exposé The President’s Keepers, Eugene de Kock: Assassin for the State by Anemari Jansen, Julian Jansen’s The De Zalze Murders, Marianne Thamm’s Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and Me, K Sello Duiker’s novel The Quiet Violence of Dreams and Qarnita Loxton’s novel Being Kari.
Win: Signed copy of Haji Mohamed Dawjee’s Sorry, Not Sorry PLUS a R1000 gift voucher for a pair of Converse tekkies!
Win a signed copy of Haji Mohamed Dawjee’s Sorry, Not Sorry PLUS a R1000 gift voucher for a pair of Converse tekkies!
Tsk-Tsk: The Story of a Child at Large, a startling memoir by Suzan Hackney
When Suzan is adopted by a well-to-do Pietermaritzburg family in the late 1960s, she is set on a collision course with her adoptive mother and with polite society. Suzan grabs her childhood life with unrestrained zeal and boundless energy – an exuberance that is barely tolerated by her mother, and which spirals into rebellion, landing her in a place of safety at the age of 13.
Friday – 6th April 2018
Join Nthikeng Mohlele for the launch of Michael K at African Flavour Books with Eusebius McKaiser
Pan Macmillan and African Flavour Books Braamfontein invite you to join us for the launch of Michael K by Nthikeng Mohlele!
Don’t miss the launch of Like Sodium in Water by Hayden Eastwood at Love Books
Love Books and Jonathan Ball Publishers are thrilled to invite you to the launch of Like Sodium in Water by Hayden Eastwood.
Robin Renwick’s account of political corruption in South Africa: How to Steal a Country
How to Steal a Country describes the vertiginous decline in political leadership in South Africa from Mandela to Zuma and its terrible consequences.
A memoir of an interracial relationship in South Africa: The Love Diary of a Zulu Boy by Bhekisisa Mncube
Bhekisisa Mncube’s The Love Diary of a Zulu Boy is by turns erotic, romantic, tragic and comic.
Thursday – 5th April 2018
South African Literary Awards: 2018 call for submissions PLUS two new awards
The wRite associates, in partnership with the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC), invites South African writers to submit their work for the South African Literary Awards (SALA).
Silent auction at the Cape Town launch of Phumlani Pikoli’s new book The Fatuous State of Severity
Cape Town-based artist Skubalisto, aka Skhumbuzo Vabaza, has created a painting which he describes as ‘the effect Phumlani Pikoli’s writing has on [his] creative process’.
Don’t miss the launch of Like Sodium in Water by Hayden Eastwood at Bridge Books Maboneng
Bridge Books and Jonathan Ball Publishers are thrilled to invite you to the launch of Like Sodium in Water by Hayden Eastwood.
Join Clive and Anton Walker for the launch of Rhino Revolution: Searching for New Solutions
Jacana Media invite you to the launch of Rhino Revolution: Searching for New Solutions by Clive and Anton Walker.
Haji Mohamed Dawjee launches Sorry, Not Sorry at Love Books
Penguin Random House SA and Love Books invite you to the launch of Sorry, Not Sorry by Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
Wednesday – 4th April 2018
‘There are eight million naked cities in this naked city’: Read an excerpt from Colson Whitehead’s The Colossus of New York
Read an excerpt from The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead, out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
John Hunt’s new novel The Boy Who Could Keep a Swan in his Head out in April
The Boy Who Could Keep a Swan in his Head, the new novel by award-winning playwright, author and creative director John Hunt, is out in April from Umuzi.
Thursday – 29th March 2018
The Colossus of New York – a dazzling new work of non-fiction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead
The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Calling all poets: Submissions are open for the 2018 Sol Plaatje EU Poetry Award and Anthology
Submissions for the 8th annual Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award and Anthology are now open!
Cover revealed for Sea Prayer – the new book by Khaled Hosseini, bestselling author of The Kite Runner
The cover for Khaled Hosseini’s new novel Sea Prayer has been revealed!
Aspiring writers: Submit your unpublished Youth Fiction to the Maskew Miller Longman Literature Awards to win R10,000
The Maskew Miller Longman Awards has announced its genre for 2018 – Youth Fiction!
Don’t miss the launch of The Boy Who Could Keep a Swan in his Head, the new novel from John Hunt, at the Circa Gallery
Umuzi invites you to the launch of The Boy Who Could Keep a Swan in his Head by John Hunt.
Wednesday – 28th March 2018
‘I’m amazed by how little people know about Africa’ – Paul Kenyon on why he wrote his new book Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa
Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.