South Africa
Monday – 20th May 2019
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
Karin Brynard’s Weeping Waters has been longlisted for prestigious CWA Dagger Award
Congratulations are in order: Karin Brynard’s Weeping Waters has been longlisted for the prestigious CWA International Dagger!
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!
You Will Be Safe Here – the debut novel from award-winning non-fiction author Damian Barr
You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers. This is the brilliant debut novel from the award-winning author of the memoir Maggie & Me.
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
‘I’ve spent a lifetime trying to forget, yet the smallest thing takes me back to the time the Dragon Lady was shot.’ Read an excerpt from Louisa Treger’s new novel
Jonathan Ball Publishers has shared an excerpt from Louisa Treger’s new novel, The Dragon Lady.
Join Lauri Kubuitsile for the launch of But Deliver Us from Evil at Exclusive Books Rosebank (23 May)
Penguin Random House and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of But Deliver Us from Evil, a moving work of historical fiction by Lauri Kubuitsile.
Steven Boykey Sidley joins MFBooks Joburg with new literary mystery novel Leaving Word
Internationally published author Steven Boykey Sidley has signed up with award-winning publisher Melinda Ferguson of MFBooks Joburg, an imprint of Jacana Media.
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.
‘You know witchcraft is powerful, more powerful than your Jesus.’ – Read an extract from Lauri Kubuitsile’s new novel But Deliver Us from Evil
Penguin Random House has shared an extract from Lauri Kubuitsile’s new book But Deliver Us from Evil, a moving work of historical fiction.
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
Don’t miss the launch of Tony Peake’s exquisite new novel North Facing at Love Books (28 May)
Love Books and Jonathan Ball Publishers are thrilled to invite you to the launch of North Facing by Tony Peake.
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.
Don’t miss a panel discussion on Gangster State by Pieter-Louis Myburgh at the University of the Free State (23 May)
Penguin Random House invites you to a panel discussion on Gangster State by Pieter-Louis Myburgh at the University of the Free State.
Marah Louw bares her soul in new YouTube series: BlackBird Books Chat Episode 01
BlackBird Books has launched a series of YouTube chats with your favourite authors!