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Monday – 5th December 2022
Kersfees is om die draai! Kom gesels met Louise Viljoen oor Gesinstyd met God in Jeffreysbaai (10 Des)
Kom kuier saam met Louise Viljoen in Jeffreysbaai! Die skrywer gesels oor Gesinstyd met God, haar praktiese gids met oordenkings en aktiwiteite vir boekevat.
Win a hamper of books from Penguin Random House SA for your Christmas stocking!
Give the magic of books this festive season with Penguin Random House’s weekly selection of tantalising reads!
Win a copy of Hosting With The Lazy Makoti along with her easy steamed bread-making kit!
Jonathan Ball Publishers is feeling festive and want to spoil some of you with a copy of Hosting With The Lazy Makoti along with her steamed bread-making kit from Woolworths!
Friday – 2nd December 2022
Dina Botha in jou sitkamer? Sowaar! Registreer nou vir ’n opwindende Romanza-webinaar (6 Des)
LAPA Uitgewers se RomanzaKlub nooi jou graag na ’n Romanza-webinaar met die geliefde skrywer, Dina Botha!
‘The book Donald Trump fears the most’: Confidence Man by Maggie Haberman – a book filled with shocking revelations about the man in question
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
‘Together we can create something powerful’ – watch Michelle Obama introducing her new book The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Michelle Obama’s new book, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times, is out now.
Thursday – 1st December 2022
Kom luister na Sunel Combrinck se voorlesing uit haar debuutverhaal, Hartklop, by Bargain Books Rustenburg! (3 Des)
LAPA Uitgewers en Bargain Books nooi jou graag na ‘n voorlesing uit Sunel Combrinck se debuutverhaal, Hartklop: Die ontwaking van winter.
Don’t miss the launch of The Presidents: From Mandela to Ramaphosa, Leadership in the Age of Crisis by Richard Calland and Mabel Sithole at Love Books (6 Dec)
Penguin Random House and Love Books invite you to the in-store launch of The Presidents: From Mandela to Ramaphosa, Leadership in the Age of Crisis by Richard Calland and Mabel Sithole.
Book signing: Birds of South Africa by Adam Riley (10 Dec)
Come and get your copy of Birds of South Africa signed by author Adam Riley at Exclusive Books Midlands Mall! Birds of …
New book alert! In My Life: Stories From Young Activists in South Africa 2002–2022 (Plus: Book launch details)
In My Life: Stories From Young Activists 2002–2022 is forthcoming in December from Jacana Media.
Tuesday – 29th November 2022
Die verdwyning van Seamus Smit deur Seamus Smit (eintlik deur Nerine Ahlers) is nou beskikbaar by LAPA!
‘Toe Seamus wakker word, is sy bene weg. Hulle het net verdwyn.’ Die verdwyning van Seamus Smit deur Seamus Smit – naaswenner in LAPA se 2021 Jeugromankompetisie – is nou op die rakke!
Don’t miss the launch of Gérard Labuschagne’s fascinating and hair-raising book The Profiler Diaries 2 (30 Nov)
Penguin Random House invites you to the launch of The Profiler Diaries 2: From Crime Scene to Courtroom by Gérard Labuschagne.
Listen to Graham Norton reading an excerpt from his tense and darkly comic new novel Forever Home
Listen to an excerpt from Forever Home, the new novel from Graham Norton, read by the author!
Monday – 28th November 2022
Read an excerpt from John Boyne’s new novel All The Broken Places – a moving story about grief, guilt and complicity
Penguin Random House has shared an excerpt from All the Broken Places by John Boyne. All The Broken Places is the sequel …
Nou beskikbaar by LAPA! Uitverkies deur Noreen Nolte … naaswenner van die LAPA Jeugromankompetisie in 2021/22
Net betyds vir Kersfees – Noreen Nolte se distopiese jeugroman, Uitverkies, is nou beskikbaar by LAPA Uitgewers!
The new episode of Pagecast is out now! The Lazy Makoti takes us through hosting over the festive season
The festive season is almost upon us, so in this week’s episode of Pagecast, The Lazy Makoti takes us through how to host the holidays!
Saturday – 26th November 2022
Footnotes, November 2022: Book links from around the web
At The Reading List, we’re trainspotters when it comes to interesting book links, and here are a number that caught our eye. …
Friday – 25th November 2022
‘Ek het gegroei in my straf in en dis hoe dit gebeur het’ Lees ’n uittreksel uit Praat jy! deur Thérèse Hulme
Uittreksel: ‘Wanneer jy vir leerders geleenthede skep om die outeurs van hul lewe te raak sal wonderwerke gebeur,’ skryf Thérèse Hulme in haar praktiese gids vir onnies, Praat jy!
Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith will be coming to South Africa in January 2023!
Prue Leith will be visiting South Africa in early 2023 to promote her latest book Bliss on Toast!
‘The globe is littered with dismal populists, nationalists or downright dictators.’
With the ANC’s national elective conference coming up, political analyst and co-author of The Presidents Richard Calland reflects on ‘the age of crisis’ in which SA sits with its political leaders.