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Tendai ‘Beast’ Mtawarira’s highly anticipated memoir will be released in November

Tendai ‘Beast’ Mtawarira’s highly anticipated book, Beast, will be released on 4 November 2019!

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Join Dave Muller for the launch of Not Child’s Play: Kidnapped. Held Hostage. A True Story at The Book Lounge (30 Oct)

MF Books Joburg and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of Not Child’s Play: Kidnapped. Held Hostage. A True Story by Dave Muller.

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‘It’s a very important book’ – Eusebius McKaiser talks to Crispian Olver about his book A House Divided: The Feud That Took Cape Town to the Brink

Crispian Olver chatted to Eusebius McKaiser recently about his book A House Divided: The Feud That Took Cape Town to the Brink.

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Join conservationist Richard Peirce for the launch of Orca: The Day the Great White Sharks Disappeared at Kalk Bay Books (31 Oct)

You are invited to the launch of Orca: The Day the Great White Sharks Disappeared, the thrilling new book by shark conservationist Richard Peirce.

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New book alert! The World According to Roger Ballen – a unique overview of one of the most distinctive art photographers practising today

The World According to Roger Ballen, co-authored with Colin Rhodes, looks at Ballen’s career in the wider cultural context beyond photography, including his connections with and collections of Art Brut.

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Calling all young art lovers and parents! Don’t miss the Cape Town launch of the new book Explore! Awesome South African Artists (27 Oct)

Jacana Media invites all young art lovers and parents to the launch of Cobi Labuscagne’s new book Explore! Awesome South African Artists.

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Find out how you can build your business into an asset of value at the Cape Town launch of Sweat Scale $ell by Pavlo Phitidis (5 Nov)

Pan Macmillan, Aurik Business Accelerator and Exclusive Books invite you to the Cape Town launch of Sweat Scale $ell by business growth expert Pavlo Phitidis.

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Travel Light, Move Fast by Alexandra Fuller, the bestselling author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight

Travel Light, Move Fast from bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived.

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Not Child’s Play: Kidnapped. Held Hostage. A True Story, by Dave Muller

Not Child’s Play: Kidnapped. Held Hostage. A True Story by Dave Muller is out at the end of October 2019.

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The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson, a wonderful successor to A Short History of Nearly Everything

Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories, The Body is a brilliant, and often very funny, attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up.

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Elton John’s memoir Me is full of incredible celebrity anecdotes – including the time he threw oranges at Bob Dylan during a party hosted by Simon and Garfunkel

In Me, his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life.

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Calling all writers! Submit your novel to Jonathan Ball Publishers

Jonathan Ball Publishers is accepting fiction submissions from 1–15 November 2019.

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Roger Southall unpacks his book Election 2019: Change and Stability in South Africa’s Democracy

Roger Southall chatted to Polity SA about his new book Election 2019: Change and Stability in South Africa’s Democracy.

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New book alert! Blessed by Bosasa: Inside Gavin Watson’s State Capture Cult by Adriaan Basson

It’s easy to imagine that state capture began with Jacob Zuma and the Guptas. But you’d be wrong.

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Gotta Get Theroux This – Louis Theroux at his most insightful and honest best

Gotta Get Theroux This – from much-loved documentary maker Louis Theroux comes a funny, heartfelt and entertaining account of his life and weird times in TV.

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New from Ben Trovato – Durban Poison: A Collection of Vitriol and Wit

Ben Trovato’s writing has been described as ‘the literary equivalent of sex with a clown’. In his latest book, Durban Poison, he derives an almost unseemly amount of pleasure from satirising the foibles and fantasies of our political fabulists.

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12 myths about rape – read an excerpt from Rape: A South African Nightmare by Pumla Dineo Gqola

Why has South Africa been labelled the ‘world’s rape capital’? What don’t we as South Africans understand about rape?

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Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day by former monk and social media star Jay Shetty

Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day by Jay Shetty will be out from Jonathan Ball Publishers on 14 April 2020.

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What turned a white youngster from a modest background into a lifelong revolutionary? Catching Tadpoles, an extraordinary new memoir from Ronnie Kasrils

Catching Tadpoles: The Shaping of a Young Rebel, an extraordinary coming-of-age memoir from Ronnie Kasrils, is out in October from Jacana Media.

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Don’t miss the launch of A House Divided: The Feud That Took Cape Town to the Brink by Crispian Olver at The Book Lounge (17 Oct)

Jonathan Ball Publishers and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of A House Divided: The Feud That Took Cape Town to the Brink by Crispian Olver.

Monday – 28th October 2019