Non-fiction
Thursday – 11th May 2017
Forget flowers – spoil your mum with books!
Enter the Penguin Random House South Africa Mother’s Day competition!
Don’t miss Pan Macmillan authors at the Kingsmead Book Fair!
Will we see you at the Kingsmead Book Fair this weekend?
H Melt and Victor Yates win Lambda Literary’s Judith A Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers
Lambda Literary, a nonprofit organisation promoting LGBTQ literature in the United States, has announced the recipients of the 2017 Judith A Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers.
Wednesday – 10th May 2017
Don’t miss the launch of The Republic of Gupta by Pieter-Louis Myburgh, with Ferial Haffajee
Penguin Random House and Exclusive Books invite you to join them for the launch of The Republic of Gupta by Pieter-Louis Myburgh.
Tuesday – 9th May 2017
Add your name to PEN SA’s call for the release of Dr Stella Nyanzi
Please fill in the online form if you would like us to add your name to PEN South Africa’s appeal to the Ugandan President to release Dr Stella Nyanzi:
A remarkable new sports biography – Being a Black Springbok: The Thando Manana Story
Thando Manana was the third black African player to don a Springbok jersey after unification in 1992, when he made his debut in 2000 in a tour game against Argentina A.
Monday – 8th May 2017
The Fifth Mrs Brink by Karina M Szczurek
Arriving on the doorstep of Jonathan Ball Publishers, I felt like a refugee who had sailed through treacherous waters in a derelict dinghy and found her way to the shores of a safe haven. With only my ancient fountain pen in the bag I carried, I was seeking asylum again.
Friday – 5th May 2017
William Kentridge wins the Princess of Asturias Award, Spain’s most prestigious art prize
William Kentridge has been awarded Spain’s most prestigious art prize, the Princess of Asturias award.
Thursday – 4th May 2017
George Bizos to deliver annual Nadine Gordimer Lecture at Wits
Advocate George Bizos will deliver this year’s Nadine Gordimer Lecture at Wits University.
More than 200 free art books made available to download from the Guggenheim
Books of work by Picasso, Kandinsky, Lichtenstein, Flavin, Klimt and Rothko have been digitised and are now available for free.
Wednesday – 3rd May 2017
Help make a book happen: An A to Z of AmaZing South African Women
Meet the rebels, artists, troublemakers, athletes, dancing queens and freedom fighters that shaped our past – and are changing our future. Please help us print 1000 copies of this AmaZing book. It will make you feel proud for a change!
‘One of the greatest South African writers in our history’ – Max du Preez on Karel Schoeman
Max du Preez recalls his 2014 tribute to internationally renowned South African author Karel Schoeman (77), who died on Monday.
Tuesday – 2nd May 2017
Portrait of the poet as a young genius: Bongani Madondo reviews Koleka Putuma’s Collective Amnesia
Bongani Madondo on the strange musicality of Koleka Putuma’s debut poetry collection.
Internationally renowned South African author Karel Schoeman dies
Internationally renowned South African author Karel Schoeman (77) died on Monday night in the Noorderbloem old age home in Bloemfontein, where he lived for the past ten years, reports News24.
What Foreigners Need to Know About America From A to Z
This book is for anyone who interacts with Americans in the US or abroad and anyone–immigrants or visitors–who want more effective social or business relationships with Americans. It is also for those who simply want to learn more about the USA.
For all the bookworms: 5 bookstores that seel ‘alternative’ literature
The Daily Vox team looks at five places that provide alternative literature to what’s in the mainstream.
Monday – 1st May 2017
Issue 1 of The Johannesburg Review of Books is out
We are delighted to present the first issue of The Johannesburg Review of Books—comprising almost twenty reviews, essays, articles, stories, poems, photographs and other items.
Sunday – 30th April 2017
‘The perilous state we’re in’ – John Kane-Berman at the launch of Between Two Fires
John Kane-Berman says getting rid of Zuma a necessary but not sufficient condition for reversing SA’s downward slide.
Read an excerpt from Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s new book The Republic of Gupta
In The Republic of Gupta, Pieter-Louis Myburgh delves deeper than ever before into the Guptas’ business dealings and their links to prominent South African politicians, and explains how one family managed to transform an entire country into the Repub
Friday – 28th April 2017
The Johannesburg Review of Books launched in South Africa
The Johannesburg Review of Books, a new publication giving a view of world literature through African eyes, debuts on May 1, 2017.