International
Monday – 30th October 2017
Interracial relationships, wokeness and the politics of black women: The Cheeky Natives chat to Sisonke Msimang
In her much anticipated memoir, Sisonke Msimang writes about her exile childhood in Zambia and Kenya, young adulthood and college years in North America, and returning to South Africa in the euphoric 1990s.
Friday – 27th October 2017
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.
Thursday – 26th October 2017
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.
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.
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’.
Hillary Clinton calls Donald Trump a ‘creep’ who made her ‘skin crawl’ in her new memoir What Happened
For the first time, in her new book Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was feeling during one of the most controversial presidential elections in history.
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.
Friday – 20th October 2017
Nelson Mandela’s Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years launched in Johannesburg
Dare Not Linger is the sequel to Long Walk to Freedom, the story of Nelson Mandela’s presidential years, drawing on the memoir he began to write but was unable to finish.
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.
Thursday – 19th October 2017
Listen to an excerpt from George Saunders’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders’s became the second American to win the Man Booker Prize this week.
Wednesday – 18th October 2017
Madiba preferred to write longhand – Zelda la Grange chats about Nelson Mandela’s writing process
Dare Not Linger, the sequel to Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom, is out from Pan Macmillan South Africa in October.
Join Sisonke Msimang for a coffee morning at Love Books to launch Always Another Country
Literary rockstar Sisonke Msimang is in South Africa to launch her memoir, Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home.
Celebrating black female writers
Xarra Books and BlackBird Books cordially invite you to a book launch celebrating young black female writers.
Win a signed copy of Tom Hanks’s new book of short stories, Uncommon Type
Penguin Random House South Africa is giving away five SIGNED copies of Tom Hanks’s first work of fiction, Uncommon Type!
Tuesday – 17th October 2017
The Wren Hunt, the new book by Mary Watson, out from Bloomsbury in February 2018
Mary Watson’s new novel The Wren Hunt will be published by Bloomsbury in February 2018.
Thursday – 12th October 2017
A new book by EL James – Darker: Fifty Shades Darker as Told by Christian – will be published in November
E L James’s new book Darker: Fifty Shades Darker as Told by Christian will be hitting the shelves on 28 November 2017.
Wednesday – 11th October 2017
Jonathan Franzen at the Book Lounge!
Jonathan Ball Publishers and The Book Lounge are proud to announce that Jonathan Franzen will be in South Africa in November.
House of Stone, the debut novel from Novuyo Tshuma, eagerly anticipated in the UK
Novuyo Tshuma’s first novel House of Stone will be published by Atlantic Books in the UK in June 2018.
Win a John Green hamper with Penguin Random House SA!
John Green’s new novel Turtles All the Way Down is out now, and two lucky winners will each receive a prize hamper!
Monday – 9th October 2017
John Green introduces his new book, Turtles All the Way Down
The wait is over! John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars, is back!