Fiction
Thursday – 2nd November 2017
Sign up for the Abantu Book Festival Creative Writing Masterclass with Nthikeng Mohlele and Zukiswa Wanner
Nthikeng Mohlele and Zukiswa Wanner will be leading a Creative Writing Masterclass at this year’s Abantu Book Festival!
Wednesday – 1st November 2017
Lauri Kubuitsile’s novel The Scattering wins international book award
Lauri Kubuitsile’s novel The Scattering won the prize for best international fiction at this year’s Sharjah International Book Fair, the world’s third largest book fair, in the United Arab Emirates.
Huge ebook sale on local books at Penguin Random House South Africa!
A selection of Penguin Random House SA’s top local fiction and non-fiction ebook titles are available for download for only R50 each.
Good news for fans of Jack Reacher! The Midnight Line by Lee Child is out now
Jack Reacher is back, and he’ll stop at nothing.
Monday – 30th October 2017
Angela Makholwa chats to The Cheeky Natives at the launch of The Blessed Girl
Angela Makholwa’s new novel The Blessed Girl was launched at Exclusive Books Rosebank recently.
Friday – 27th October 2017
South Africans are not buying local fiction: Jacana Media aims to Save Our Stories with a new crowdfunding campaign
Jacana Media has kicked off an project called Storied, which aims to help African stories thrive – long term – and reach worldwide audiences.
Read an excerpt from Little Fires Everywhere, the brilliant new novel from Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestseller Everything I Never Told You, has a new book out: Little Fires Everywhere.
A blessing in disguise? Join Angela Makholwa for the launch of The Blessed Girl at Skoobs
Find out why living a fabulous life is not without its challenges!
Thursday – 26th October 2017
Literary suspense that haunts the heart: Don’t miss the launch of Consuelo Roland’s Wolf Trap at Love Books
Jacana Media and Love Books invite you to the launch of Wolf Trap by Consuelo Roland.
The Red-Haired Woman – the 10th novel from Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk
The virtuosic and spell-binding new novel from Orhan Pamuk – the Nobel Prize-winner’s 10th – The Red-Haired Woman.
Angela Makholwa’s new book The Blessed Girl gets a Facebook frame
Try this Facebook frame to celebrate the Johannesburg launch of Angela Makholwa’s new book, The Blessed Girl!
Wednesday – 25th October 2017
First annual Ímbubé African Book Festival and Awards to kick off in Lagos
The inaugural Ímbubé African Book Festival and Awards will take place in Lagos this week.
Tuesday – 24th October 2017
Amabookabooka podcast features Asylum author Marcus Low
In the latest episode of Amabookabooka, a novel podcast about books and the people who write them, Marcus Low talks about his incredible ‘apocalyptic’ novel.
The Book Revue invites you to a lunch with Angela Makholwa
Do you know what a blesser is? A yellow bone? Wie Sien Ons? If you don’t (or even if you do), then come to listen to Angela Makholwa speaking on her fabulous novel, The Blessed Girl.
2017 Abantu Book Festival line-up revealed!
The line-up for the second annual Abantu Book Festival has been announced!
Monday – 23rd October 2017
A good city for writing – Henrietta Rose-Innes on her home town, Cape Town
Henrietta Rose-Innes has written a piece for The Literary Sofa on Cape Town, the ‘old colonial outpost at the southern tip of a continent, with its complex history and glorious views’.
Birds of a Feather – an endless search for an angel in a society of crooks
Anjawo, the illicit brew vendor, her family, the entire Nyakonja village are involved in an endless tussle, bickering over who deserves disciplinary action but ends up in frustrations.
Don’t miss a book discussion with Angela Makholwa at African Flavour Books
The Literary Alliance will be hosting a launch event for Angela Makholwa’s new book The Blessed Girl at African Flavour Books.
Friday – 20th October 2017
New novel by SJ Naudé to be published in the UK
Following on the United Kingdom edition of his critically acclaimed short stories, SJ Naudé’s novel The Third Reel by will be published in the UK in April 2018 by Salt Publishing.
The Sunset Honeymoon-Literary fiction on HIV/Aids versus culture
The story unfolds in Akondo’s homestead, inside a grass thatched kitchen used by village girls as their sleeping place.