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Tuesday – 9th January 2018
Book signing with Dudu Busani-Dube, author of the Hlomu The Wife series, at Bridge Books
Dudu Busani-Dube will be at Bridge Books Maboneng this Saturday for a FREE book signing and podcast recording with The Cheeky Natives.
Free to listen audiobook: The first four chapters of Need You Dead by Peter James
Listen to the first four chapters of Peter James’s new novel Need You Dead FREE!
Monday – 8th January 2018
Join the Struik Nature Club and win!
Join the Struik Nature Club for free, and stand the chance to win a K-Way Nerolite 3 Person Tent!
Wednesday – 3rd January 2018
Save the date for Jeremy Maggs’s book launch
Jeremy Maggs’s new book Win! Compelling Conversations with 20 Successful South Africans will be launched at the end of January.
Paballo Thekiso chats about his new book, The Black Consciousness Reader
Paballo Thekiso chatted to Polity SA about The Black Consciousness Reader, the new book out from Jacana Media, published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Steve Biko’s murder.
Tuesday – 19th December 2017
An attempt to make sense of the ailing world – Russell Brand’s new book Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions
With a rare mix of honesty, humour, and compassion, comedian and movie star Russell Brand mines his own wild story and shares the advice and wisdom he has gained through his 14 years of recovery.
Cyril Ramaphosa not afraid to ‘ice somebody out, just to put them in their place’ – Ray Hartley
Ray Hartley provides some insights into Cyril Ramaphosa’s upbringing and where his interest in politics came from.
Monday – 18th December 2017
Mandla Langa chats about completing Nelson Mandela’s presidential memoir, Dare Not Linger
Mandla Langa called the project ‘the most daunting task I have ever had as a writer’.
Friday – 15th December 2017
Africa’s Lit: 2017 highlights, featuring Zakes Mda, Dudu Busani-Dube, Ayobami Adebayo, Malebo Sephodi and Angela Makholwa!
The December edition of Africa’s Lit features the light and quirky moments with your favourite authors from video recordings throughout 2018.
Try Nigella’s recipe for a Christmas Martini from At My Table: A Celebration of Home Cooking
Rich and warming, that first a sip gives you an instant Christmassy fireside glow.
Thursday – 14th December 2017
Angela Makholwa’s new novel The Blessed Girl could be headed for the big screen
Angela Makholwa reveals that her new novel The Blessed Girl may be made into a film or series.
A charming feast for the senses: Alexander McCall Smith’s new novel, My Italian Bulldozer
The bestselling author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series returns with an irresistible new novel about one man’s adventures in the Italian countryside.
Read the first chapter of Still Me, the new novel from Jojo Moyes
It was the moustache that reminded me I was no longer in England: a solid, grey millipede firmly obscuring the man’s upper lip; a Village People moustache, a cowboy moustache, the miniature head of a broom that meant business. You just didn’t get that kind of moustache at home. I couldn’t tear my eyes from it.
Wednesday – 13th December 2017
Mandela’s time in prison affected his self-belief, and his writing – Mandla Langa discusses Dare Not Linger
Mandla Langa says Nelson Mandela’s time in prison gave him a powerful sense of self-belief.
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa – an extraordinary work of literary journalism by Alexis Okeowo
Okeowo creates a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent’s wave of fundamentalism.
Frogs of Southern Africa: Now updated to include 12 new species
Frogs of Southern Africa: A Complete Guide is the perfect gift for amateur ‘froggers’ or professional scientists.
Ronnie Kasrils: We should not succumb to intimidation by state security services
‘It is important that as citizens we demonstrate that we will not succumb to intimidation by the security services who are palpably failing our democracy, Constitution and people as was the case during the apartheid era.’
Jürgen Schadeberg’s memoir The Way I See It: A Key Figure in South African Photography
A behind-the-scenes journey with a legendary DRUM photojournalist and visual storyteller.
Stand a chance to win 1 of 10 copies of Bonang Matheba’s From A to B
Jacana Media is giving away 10 copies of Bonang Matheba’s From A to B.
Tuesday – 12th December 2017
Now back in print after twenty years: Jacques Pauw’s Into the Heart of Darkness: Confessions of Apartheid’s Assassins
Jacques Pauw takes us on a journey into the minds and lives of the men who went out to kill and kill again.