South Africa
Thursday – 26th September 2019
Letshego Zulu chats about her tragic and inspiring memoir I Choose To Live: Life After Losing Gugu
Letshego Zulu chatted to Polity SA recently about her new book, I Choose to Live: Life After Losing Gugu.
Watch the trailer for the award-winning film adaptation of Elsa Joubert’s celebrated novel The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena
Poppie Nongena, the movie based on the celebrated novel The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena by Elsa Joubert, will be in cinemas on 31 January 2020.
Wednesday – 25th September 2019
Save the date for a conversation with Melinda Gates in South Africa!
Pan Macmillan South Africa and The Nelson Mandela Foundation are pleased to announce that Melinda Gates – philanthropist, businesswoman and author of the bestselling book The Moment of Lift – is coming to South Africa!
Don’t miss the launch of Of Hominins, Hunter-Gatherers and Heroes: Searching for 20 Amazing Places in South Africa (2 Oct)
Jacana Media, Amanda Martin and Steve Dewsberry invite you to the launch of Of Hominins, Hunter-Gatherers and Heroes: Searching for 20 Amazing Places in South Africa.
Monday – 23rd September 2019
Don’t miss the launch of The Educated Waiter: Memoir of an African Immigrant by Tafadzwa Z Taruvinga at Exclusive Books Rosebank
MFBooks Joburg and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of the witty and poignant new book The Educated Waiter: Memoir of an African Immigrant by Tafadzwa Z Taruvinga.
Don’t miss the launch of Fred Khumalo’s new novel The Longest March at Love Books (3 Oct)
Penguin Random House and Love Books invite you to the launch of The Longest March by Fred Khumalo.
Join Mcebisi Jonas at the Joburg launch of After Dawn, with Kgalema Motlanthe, Olusegun Obasanjo and Pravin Gordhan (25 Sep)
You are invited to the launch of After Dawn: Hope After State Capture by Mcebisi Jonas.
My African Conquest: Cape to Cairo at 80 by octogenarian adventurer Julia Albu
My African Conquest is a funny, feel-good story about adventuring through life – and never acting your age.
Friday – 20th September 2019
Winners announced for BlackBird Books Writer’s Residency for young African womxn
BlackBird Books has announced the two writers who have won places on it’s new writer’s residency.
Marguerite Poland’s new novel A Sin of Omission inspires Keiskamma artists to create a series of tapestries
A group of Eastern Cape women found Marguerite Poland’s new novel A Sin of Omission so moving that they decided to make a series of embroidered works related to the book.
Thursday – 19th September 2019
Don’t miss the Jacana Media book sale – 6,000 books at discounted prices (25 Sep to 31 Oct)
Join Jacana Media for a glass of wine at their massive book sale!
Based on a true story, Marguerite Poland’s new novel A Sin of Omission represents a powerful act of historical recuperation
A Sin of Omission by Marguerite Poland – a supremely moving novel, set in the rural beauty of the Eastern Cape.
Boardroom Dancing by Nolitha Fakude – transformation stories from a corporate activist
Pan Macmillan is proud to announce the October publication of Nolitha Fakude’s memoir, Boardroom Dancing.
All the book launch details for Black Tax: Burden or Ubuntu?, edited by Niq Mhlongo (in Soweto, Rosebank, Pretoria and Melville)
Book launch: Black Tax edited by Niq Mhlongo | Soweto
International line-up announced for 2019 Poetry Africa Festival in Durban
The 23rd Poetry Africa Festival will take place in Durban from 7 – 12 October 2019.
Wednesday – 18th September 2019
The Creative Writing Coursebook: 44 Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry
The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty-four Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry – a fully updated comprehensive guide for improving and practising your creative writing, including contributions from Ali Smith and Kit de Waal.
Join Palesa Lengolo at the launch of her new book Stokvels: How They Can Make Your Money Work For You at the Mall of the South (28 Sep)
Penguin Random House and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of Stokvels: How They Can Make Your Money Work For You by Palesa Lengolo.
These stories will excite, entertain and enthral you – Of Hominins, Hunter-Gatherers and Heroes: Searching for 20 Amazing Places in South Africa
Of Hominins, Hunter-gatherers and Heroes: Searching for 20 Amazing Places in South Africa by David Bristow offers spellbinding stories of some amazing, little-known places in South Africa.
Tuesday – 17th September 2019
Is 2019’s election the most important since the advent of democracy in 1994? Find out in the new book Election 2019
Election 2019: Change and Stability in South Africa’s Democracy, edited by Collette Schulz-Herzenberg and Roger Southall, is out now from Jacana Media.
Join Albie Sachs, in conversation with Shirley Gunn and Shanil Haricharan, for the Cape Town launch of Voices from the Underground (26 Sep)
Join Penguin Random House in Cape Town for the launch of Voices from the Underground: Eighteen Life Stories from Umkhonto we Sizwe’s Ashley Kriel Detachment.
