Non-fiction
Wednesday – 22nd May 2019
Don’t miss the launch of Soft Magic, the debut collection of prose and poetry from Malawian writer Upile Chisala, at The Book Lounge (30 May)
Soft Magic is the debut collection of prose and poetry by Malawian writer, Upile Chisala. This book explores the self, joy, blackness, gender, matters of the heart, the experience of Diaspora, spirituality and most of all, how we survive. Soft Magic is a shared healing journey.
The Real Interior by Nthabi Taukobong
The Real Interior not only allows the reader a behind-the-scenes peek into the glitz and glamour of design and decor, but into a career once never considered an option for a young girl, born in Soweto.
You are invited to the launch of The Real Interior by Nthabi Taukobong
Join Tracey McDonald Publishers at Exclusive Books in Dainfern Square for the launch of Nthabi Taukobong’s book, The Real Interior.
Listen to an excerpt from Nathaniel Rich’s groundbreaking book Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change
Pan Macmillan has shared an excerpt from Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change by Nathaniel Rich.
Tuesday – 21st May 2019
Their fate is in our hands. Can we save them? Don’t miss the launch of The Last Elephants at Exclusive Books Rosebank (6 June)
Penguin Random House and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of The Last Elephants, compiled by Don Pinnock and Colin Bell.
Join Lerato Mogoatlhe for the Cape Town launch of Vagabond at The Book Lounge (28 May)
BlackBird Books and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of Vagabond by Lerato Mogoatlhe.
These Are Not Gentle People: Two murders. 40 suspects. The trial that broke a small South African town
From the author of The Mayor of Mogadishu, a mesmerising examination of a small town trying to cope with a trauma that threatens to tear it in two.
Monday – 20th May 2019
Join Pieter-Louis Myburgh and Mondli Makhanya for a book talk on Gangster State at Love Books (30 May)
Penguin Random House and Love Books invite you to a discussion of Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s new book Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule’s Web of Capture.
Harris Dousemetzis, author of The Man Who Killed Apartheid, will be in conversation with Marianne Thamm at The Book Lounge (21 May)
Jacana Media and The Book Lounge invite you to an evening with Harris Dousemetzis, author of The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas.
Rekgotsofetse Chikane, author of Breaking A Rainbow, Building A Nation, will be in conversation with Athol Williams in Cape Town
Join Rekgotsofetse Chikane, author of Breaking A Rainbow, Building A Nation: The Politics Behind #MustFallMovements, in conversation with Athol Williams, senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business.
Friday – 17th May 2019
Don’t miss the first South African launch of Sisonke Msimang’s new book The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela (24 May)
Love Books and Jonathan Ball Publishers invite you to the first South African launch of Sisonke Msimang’s latest book, The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela.
Life is Like a Kudu Horn – Margaret Jacobsohn’s conservation memoir is filled with insight and anecdotes from start to finish
Life Is Like a Kudu Horn is a book that will make you reflect and deliberate.
Thursday – 16th May 2019
‘Cowardice in the face of pressure’ – Penguin Random House SA ‘stunned’ at UFS cancellation of Gangster State book event
Penguin Random House South Africa says it is ‘stunned’ that the University of the Free State cancelled a public book event for Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s Gangster State without informing the publisher or the author.
‘It was the most incredible feeling, but it could have been a disaster’ – Find out more about the 1996 Afcon Final in an excerpt from Coach: The Life and Soccer Times of Clive Barker
Jacana Media has shared an excerpt from Coach: The Life and Soccer Times of Clive Barker!
Cover reveal! Beast – the must-read story of how a humble man from Zimbabwe has become a rugby icon
Beast, by Tendai Mtawarira and Andy Capostagno, will be published by Pan Macmillan this July.
Wednesday – 15th May 2019
From the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki’s new book FAKE: Fake Money, Fake Teachers, Fake Assets
How do we decipher fact from fiction? How do we differentiate between truth and lies? And determine what’s real … from what isn’t?
Tuesday – 14th May 2019
Living Coloured (Because Black and White were Already Taken) by Yusuf Daniels – rip-roaring humour, aching nostalgia and insightful observations
Living Coloured (Because Black and White were Already Taken), Yusuf Daniels’s first-hand account of a childhood lived on the Cape Flats in the Coloured community, is out soon from Jacana Media.
Don’t miss the Cape Town launch of Breaking A Rainbow, Building A Nation by Rekgotsofetse Chikane at The Book Lounge (23 May)
Join Pan Macmillan and Rekgotsofetse Chikane for the Cape Town launch of Breaking A Rainbow, Building A Nation: The Politics Behind #MustFallMovements.
Monday – 13th May 2019
An evening with Françoise Malby-Anthony, author of An Elephant in My Kitchen, in Onrusrivier (16 May)
Pan Macmillan invite you to a book discussion with Françoise Malby-Anthony, the author of An Elephant in My Kitchen.
People’s War: New Light on the Struggle for South Africa – a new edition of Anthea Jeffery’s seminal work
This book shows the extraordinary success of the people’s war in giving the ANC a virtual monopoly on power, as well as the great cost at which this was done.