Non-fiction
Tuesday – 10th April 2018
Win a copy of Being Chris Hani’s Daughter, courtesy of Jacana Media
Today marks 25 years since Chris Hani was assassinated. To commemorate, Jacana Media is giving away two copies of Being Chris Hani’s Daughter.
Monday – 9th April 2018
NB Publishers sells overseas rights to a number of South African books, including The President’s Keepers, Being Kari and The Quiet Violence of Dreams
NB Publishers has sold overseas rights to a number of South African publications, including Jacques Pauw’s political exposé The President’s Keepers, Eugene de Kock: Assassin for the State by Anemari Jansen, Julian Jansen’s The De Zalze Murders, Marianne Thamm’s Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and Me, K Sello Duiker’s novel The Quiet Violence of Dreams and Qarnita Loxton’s novel Being Kari.
Win: Signed copy of Haji Mohamed Dawjee’s Sorry, Not Sorry PLUS a R1000 gift voucher for a pair of Converse tekkies!
Win a signed copy of Haji Mohamed Dawjee’s Sorry, Not Sorry PLUS a R1000 gift voucher for a pair of Converse tekkies!
Tsk-Tsk: The Story of a Child at Large, a startling memoir by Suzan Hackney
When Suzan is adopted by a well-to-do Pietermaritzburg family in the late 1960s, she is set on a collision course with her adoptive mother and with polite society. Suzan grabs her childhood life with unrestrained zeal and boundless energy – an exuberance that is barely tolerated by her mother, and which spirals into rebellion, landing her in a place of safety at the age of 13.
Friday – 6th April 2018
Don’t miss the launch of Like Sodium in Water by Hayden Eastwood at Love Books
Love Books and Jonathan Ball Publishers are thrilled to invite you to the launch of Like Sodium in Water by Hayden Eastwood.
Robin Renwick’s account of political corruption in South Africa: How to Steal a Country
How to Steal a Country describes the vertiginous decline in political leadership in South Africa from Mandela to Zuma and its terrible consequences.
A memoir of an interracial relationship in South Africa: The Love Diary of a Zulu Boy by Bhekisisa Mncube
Bhekisisa Mncube’s The Love Diary of a Zulu Boy is by turns erotic, romantic, tragic and comic.
Thursday – 5th April 2018
South African Literary Awards: 2018 call for submissions PLUS two new awards
The wRite associates, in partnership with the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC), invites South African writers to submit their work for the South African Literary Awards (SALA).
Don’t miss the launch of Like Sodium in Water by Hayden Eastwood at Bridge Books Maboneng
Bridge Books and Jonathan Ball Publishers are thrilled to invite you to the launch of Like Sodium in Water by Hayden Eastwood.
Join Clive and Anton Walker for the launch of Rhino Revolution: Searching for New Solutions
Jacana Media invite you to the launch of Rhino Revolution: Searching for New Solutions by Clive and Anton Walker.
Haji Mohamed Dawjee launches Sorry, Not Sorry at Love Books
Penguin Random House SA and Love Books invite you to the launch of Sorry, Not Sorry by Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
The Colossus of New York – a dazzling new work of non-fiction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead
The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Wednesday – 28th March 2018
‘I’m amazed by how little people know about Africa’ – Paul Kenyon on why he wrote his new book Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa
Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Read an excerpt from Indentured: Behind the Scenes at Gupta TV by Rajesh Sundaram
Indentured: Behind the Scenes at Gupta TV is Rajesh Sundaram’s story of how he led a small team of Indian broadcast professionals and South African interns to launch the television news channel ANN7.
Tuesday – 27th March 2018
Special offer: Get your copy of the Stuarts’ SA Mammals App for only R150
Get a copy of Stuarts’ Southern African Mammals 5th Edition app for only R150!
South African-born director Liesl Tommy to direct film about Trevor Noah’s life, starring Lupita Nyong’o
South African-born director Liesl Tommy will direct the film adaptation of Trevor Noah’s memoir Born A Crime.
Monday – 26th March 2018
Helen Thomson tells the stories of nine of the world’s strangest brains in Unthinkable
Award-winning science writer Helen Thomson has spent years travelling the world tracking down incredibly rare brain disorders. In Unthinkable she tells the stories of nine extraordinary people.
Winging It: Jonathan Kaplan’s Journey from World-Class Ref to Rookie Solo Dad – out in April from Pan Macmillan
Winging It is the story of celebrated international rugby referee Jonathan Kaplan’s decision to have a baby by surrogate.
Friday – 23rd March 2018
Don’t miss a public lecture by Christa Kuljian on her book Darwin’s Hunch: Science, Race, and the Search for Human Origins
Christa Kuljian will be giving a public lecture on her book Darwin’s Hunch: Science, Race, and the Search for Human Origins.
The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic US First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own
The Meaning of Michelle, a book about Michelle Obama’s iconic journey and how it can inspire your own path, it out from Pan Macmillan SA this month.