Join Penguin Random House and Kalk Bay Books for the launch of Illuminating Lives: Biographies of Fascinating People from South African History, edited by Vivian Bickford-Smith and Bill Nasson.

The authors will be in conversation with Finuala Dowling.

In this fresh and highly readable collection of South African biographical essays, a distinguished group of authors illuminates the lives of eleven 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.

Event details

Date: Tuesday, 23 October 2018
Time: 18:00–21:00
Venue: Kalk Bay Books, 124 Main Rd, Kalk Bay, Cape Town
RSVP: 021 788 2266 or events@kalkbaybooks.co.za
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Categories Non-fiction South Africa

Tags Bill Nasson Book events Book launches Cape Town Finuala Dowling Kalk Bay Books Penguin Random House SA Vivian Bickford-Smith