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Friday – 11th August 2017
Don’t miss a discussion on economic transformation with Mmusi Maimane and Lorenzo Fioramonti
Professor and author Lorenzo Fioramonti will be in conversation with DA leader Mmusi Maimane to discuss economic transformation in South Africa at Wits University this month.
Fikile Mbalula should read this book: Marianne Thamm recommends Mark Shaw’s Hitmen for Hire
Marianne Thamm has reviewed Mark Shaw’s new book Hitmen for Hire: Exposing South Africa’s Underworld for the Daily Maverick.
Join the Struik Nature Club
Join the Struik Nature club to be the first to know about our new releases, special offers and special editions, plus you will be invited to our launches and author events and will stand in line to win great prizes monthly!
Thursday – 10th August 2017
Trevor Noah, Deon Meyer and Dikgang Moseneke up for Nielsen Booksellers Choice Award
The shortlist for the Nielsen Booksellers Choice Award – a prize for South African booksellers’ favourite book – has been announced.
Don’t miss the launch of Reflecting Rogue, the brilliant collection of essays by Pumla Dineo Gqola
MF Books Joburg, Jacana Media and Love Books invite you to the launch of Reflecting Rogue by Pumla Dineo Gqola!
Don’t miss the launch of Jassy Mackenzie’s Bad Seeds at Love Books
Umuzi and Love Books invite you to the launch of Bad Seeds, the new thriller from Jassy Mackenzie.
Win a book hot off the press from Jonathan Ball Publishers!
We have one of each of these brand new Jonathan Ball Publishers books to give away to five lucky winners!
Monday – 7th August 2017
Brave, beautiful, badass: A to Z of Amazing South African Women
Modjaji’s newest title, A to Z of Amazing South African Women, is making waves. From the Thundafund campaign to selling out before hitting the shelves and now being received with praise by the media.
Reflecting Rogue – the hotly anticipated new book from Pumla Dineo Gqola
Reflecting Rogue is the much anticipated and brilliant collection of experimental autobiographical essays on power, pleasure and South African culture by Professor Pumla Dineo Gqola.
We did not know it was the final farewell: Read an excerpt from Karina M Szczurek’s memoir, The Fifth Mrs Brink
Jonathan Ball Publishers has shared an excerpt from The Fifth Mrs Brink, Karina M Szczurek’s soul-baring memoirs of her life before, with and after her marriage to André P Brink.
Astonishing and brilliant: A State of Freedom, the new novel from Neel Mukherjee
A State of Freedom, the new novel from Neel Mukherjee, will be out from Penguin Random House South Africa this month.
3 new books commemorate the 40th anniversary of Steve Biko’s death
Pan Macmillan South Africa is publishing three books this year to honour the life and work of Steve Biko.
Friday – 4th August 2017
Pan Macmillan South Africa to publish debut book by Iman Rappetti in 2018
Pan Macmillan South Africa has announced it will publish a memoir by well-known journalist and presenter Iman Rappetti. The book will be released in South Africa in 2018.
Thursday – 3rd August 2017
‘People learn us through our language’ – Pearls of wisdom from panel on decolonising South African editing
Yesterday evening, Jacana Media and Wits University hosted a panel discussion on decolonising South African editing.
Join Karina M Szczurek at Kalk Bay Books for the launch of The Fifth Mrs Brink
Jonathan Ball Publishers and Kalk Bay Books invite you to the launch of The Fifth Mrs Brink, the new touching memoir by Karina M Szczurek.
Calling all parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, teachers and young readers!
All the latest and greatest children’s and young adult books from around the world brought to South Africa.
‘I wanted it to be controversial’: Kalim Rajab explains the title of his book on Harry Oppenheimer – A Man of Africa
In A Man of Africa: The Political Thought of Harry Oppenheimer, Kalim Rajab looks at the influential role the prominent businessman played in twentieth century South Africa.
Wednesday – 2nd August 2017
New book Apartheid Guns & Money reveals the secret international alliances of the apartheid government
In his new book Apartheid Guns and Money: A tale of profit, Hennie van Vuuren shines a light on apartheid’s corruption secrets.
‘The Good Daughter is Karin Slaughter’s best novel so far’ – James Patterson
Packed with twists and turns, brimming with emotion and heart, Karin Slaughter’s new novel The Good Daughter is fiction at its most thrilling.
South African Book Fair programme revealed
The programme for the 2017 South African Book Fair has been released!