Join The Book Lounge and Penguin Random House for the launch of Illuminating Lives: Biographies of Fascinating People from South African History.

John Maytham will be in conversation with Vivian Bickford-Smith and Bill Nasson.

In this fresh and highly readable collection of South African biographical essays, a distinguished group of authors illuminates the lives of 11 colourful, complex men and women whose personal experiences throw fascinating light on the times in which they lived.

The individuals whose stories are told here are very different in time, in place and in work and at play, but are united by an abundantly rich humanity and the myriad ways in which they navigated their existence through the uneven terrain of South Africa’s distant and more recent past.

Including colonial administrators, activists, educationists, sportsmen, a poet, a painter and a pilot, Illuminating Lives is a wide-ranging and moving book that provides readers with striking and unexpected insights into our history.

Here are some intriguing South African lives well worth knowing about.

Event details

Date: Thursday, 27 September 2018
Time: 18h00 for 18h30
Venue: Book Lounge, 71 Roeland Street, Cape Town
RSVP: booklounge@gmail.com or 021 462 2425
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