Fiction

Tuesday – 15th May 2018

New editions of Nthikeng Mohlele’s novels Small Things and Rusty Bell announced

New editions of Nthikeng Mohlele’s novels Small Things and Rusty Bell will be out from Jacana Media in May!

Monday – 14th May 2018

Don’t miss award-winning British author Mick Herron for the launch of London Rules in Joburg

Exclusive Books and Jonathan Ball Publishers are thrilled to invite you to the launch of London Rules by Mick Herron.

Barry Ronge Fiction Prize and the Alan Paton Award shortlists announced!

The shortlists for the Sunday Times Literary Awards have been announced!

Friday – 11th May 2018

New book alert! The Broken River Tent by Mphuthumi Ntabeni

The Broken River Tent is an entrancing novel, which marries imagination with history. It is set in the time of Maqoma, the Xhosa chief at the forefront of fighting British colonialism in the Eastern Cape in the 19th century.

Thursday – 10th May 2018

Don’t miss Zinzi Clemmons in Cape Town for the launch of What We Lose

Exclusive Books and Jonathan Ball Publishers are thrilled to invite you to the launch of What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons.

New edition of Sindiwe Magona’s classic Beauty’s Gift announced – plus a ‘powerful’ new novel out in 2019

Pan Macmillan South Africa has announced a new edition of Sindiwe Magona’s classic novel Beauty’s Gift – as well as a new novel to be published in 2019!

Wednesday – 9th May 2018

Don’t miss the Cape Town launch of London Rules by award-winning British thriller writer Mick Herron

Exclusive Books and Jonathan Ball Publishers are thrilled to invite you to the launch of London Rules by Mick Herron.

Join Ijangolet S Ogwang at Love Books for the launch of her debut novel An Image in a Mirror

BlackBird Books and Love Books invite you to the launch of An Image in a Mirror, the debut novel by Ijangolet S Ogwang.

Tuesday – 8th May 2018

Don’t miss Zinzi Clemmons at Exclusive Books Rosebank for the launch of What We Lose

Jonathan Ball Publishers and Exclusive Books are thrilled to invite you to the launch of Zinzi Clemmons’s debut novel What We Lose.

Monday – 7th May 2018

Win a copy of John Hunt’s new novel The Boy Who Could Keep a Swan in his Head

The Reading List is giving away two copies of The Boy Who Could Keep a Swan in his Head, the new novel by John Hunt, courtesy of Penguin Random House SA!

Sunday – 6th May 2018

Don’t miss the launch of new African short story collection The Gods Who Send Us Gifts at UJ with Wole Soyinka

The South African launch of the book The Gods Who Send Us Gifts: An Anthology of African Short Stories will take place at the University of Johannesburg.

Friday – 4th May 2018

‘It was during one of the Kalahari’s raging February storms that Kytie Rooi committed a murder’ – Read an extract from Homeland by Karin Brynard

Read an extract from Homeland, the long-awaited translation of the number one bestseller Tuisland, Karin Brynard’s critically acclaimed and most ambitious novel to date!

Thursday – 3rd May 2018

Join Rahla Xenopoulos for the launch of The Season of Glass at The Book Lounge, with Diane Awerbuck

Umuzi and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of The Season of Glass by Rahla Xenopoulos.

Wednesday – 2nd May 2018

2018 Short Story Africa Day Prize announced: This year’s theme is Hotel Africa

Submissions open 1 June 2018* | Submissions close 31 August 2018
First prize: $800 | Second prize: $200 | Third prize: $100

Don’t miss award-winning author Steven Boykey Sidley’s presentation on the power of stories

Join acclaimed novelist and CTO Steven Boykey Sidley for an intimate presentation about the power of stories that fuel and reveal all of literature, music and astrophysics, and the ways in which they have affected him.

Monday – 30th April 2018

New edition of African Small Publishers’ Catalogue in progress

Calling African self-publishers, small and independent publishers, printers, book designers, editors, illustrators, booksellers, PR people, literary magazines, literary festivals – find out how to list or feature or take out an ad.

‘I hope it both honours and sheds light on the events of the Soweto Uprising’: Arushi Raina on her debut novel, When Morning Comes

Arushi Raina explains the why and what of her debut novel, When Morning Comes.

Don’t miss international bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz at The Book Lounge

Penguin Random House and The Book Lounge presents international bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz launching Hellbent, the third book in the Orphan X series.