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Monday – 20th November 2017
Join Zapiro for a coffee morning at Love Books to celebrate his new book
Jacana Media and Love Books invite you to a coffee morning with Zapiro to chat about new book Hasta la Gupta, Baby!
Zinzi Clemmons: Women of colour must divest from Lena Dunham
Zinzi Clemmons, author of What We Lose, has condemned Lena Dunham’s ‘hipster racism’, saying: ‘She cannot have our words if she cannot respect us.’
Friday – 17th November 2017
Presenting the new book by Ben Okri – The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age, illustrated by Rosemary Clunie
A new collection of meditations and stories from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri, and illustrated by Rosemary Clunie.
Reading to Write: Don’t miss this Abantu Book Festival warm-up event with Athambile Masola and Sihle Khumalo
Kaya FM and the Abantu Book Festival bring you their first book club meeting of the summer!
Teko Modise’s new book The Curse of Teko Modise will reveal ‘shocking stuff’ – including how he consulted ‘a powerful medicine man’ from the Congo
The book reveals how Teko Modise consulted with ‘a powerful medicine man – a king from the Congo’ to help break the curse that prevented him from winning a trophy.
Join Zapiro at Wits Education Campus for the presentation of his new book, Hasta la Gupta, Baby!
Jacana Media are thrilled to invite you to the Johannesburg launch of Zapiro’s new book Hasta la Gupta, Baby!
An all-in-one guide to hiking trails, the right equipment and dealing with emergencies: Hiking Trails of South Africa
Whether you’re just getting into hiking, or have been on the trails for years, this is the book for you!
Thursday – 16th November 2017
Guide to submitting your manuscript to Jonathan Ball Publishers
Have you finished your book? Wondering how to get published? Have a look at Jonathan Ball Publishers manuscript submission guidelines.
Gabeba Baderoon and PEN SA call for immediate release of Equatorial Guinean cartoonist and activist Ramón Esono Ebalé
Gabeba Baderoon has written to the President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, calling for the release of …
‘The sooner the ANC deal with this matter the better’ – Bantu Holomisa on Jacques Pauw’s controversial book The President’s Keepers
‘The president is at the centre stage in influencing or leading these corrupt practices.’
Wednesday – 15th November 2017
Hasta la Gupta, Baby! Don’t miss Zapiro’s Cape Town book launch with Pravin Gordhan
Join Zapiro and special guest Pravin Gordhan in Cape Town for the launch of his latest annual Hasta la Gupta, Baby!
Presenting Mythos: The myths of Ancient Greece retold by Stephen Fry
In Stephen Fry’s hands the stories of the titans and gods become a brilliantly entertaining account of ribaldry and revelry, warfare and worship, debauchery, love affairs and life lessons, slayings and suicides, triumphs and tragedies.
Tuesday – 14th November 2017
Don’t miss the launch of Enemy of the People at The Book Lounge
Jonathan Ball Publishers and The Book Lounge are thrilled to invite you to the launch of Enemy of the People by Adriaan Basson and Pieter du Toit.
Read an excerpt from Rehana Rossouw’s second novel, New Times
Ali Adams is a political reporter in Cape Town where she is trapped in a tangle of razor-wire politics and culture
Comrades and corruption – Read an excerpt from Bantu Holomisa: The Game Changer
Holomisa and Mandela did not speak to or see each other for some time after he was shown the door by the party. “We first saw each other again when he invited me to his house at Qunu. I regarded this as an opportunity to hear from him personally what he had told a radio station about my case.
Chair of the Caine Prize for African Writing, Delia Jarrett-Macauley, included on Powerlist 2018
Delia Jarrett-Macauley, the first African Chair of the Caine Prize, has been included on the 2018 Powerlist, which honours the most influential people of African or African Caribbean heritage in the United Kingdom.
Penguin Random House SA Book Club: November selection
If you love to read and belong to a book club then this is where you can discover Penguin Random House SA’s latest suggestions.
Career opportunities at the South African Book Fair and South African Book Development Council
The South African Book Development Council (SABDC) has advertised four career opportunities. The SABDC is responsible for the South African Book Fair and …
Monday – 13th November 2017
[Video] Mandla Langa hopes Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years will ‘jog the memory’ of ANC leadership
Drawing on Nelson Mandela’s own unfinished memoir, Dare Not Linger is the remarkable story of his presidency told in his own words and those of distinguished South African writer Mandla Langa.
Crispian Olver discusses his book How to Steal a City: The Battle for Nelson Mandela Bay
The book is written as a gripping real-life thriller, taking the reader deeper and deeper into the rotten heart of the city.