South Africa
Friday – 14th September 2018
Join Stephan Hofstatter for the launch of Licence to Loot with Mzukisi Qobo at Love Books
Penguin Random House and Love Books invite you to the launch of Licence to Loot: How the Plunder of Eskom and Other Parastatals Almost Sank South Africa.
Join Barry Gilder and Karabo Kgoleng for dinner at The Troyeville Hotel and the launch of The List
Jacana Media and The Troyeville Hotel invite you to a book discussion and launch of Barry Gilder’s The List.
Out now! Across Boundaries by Ton Vosloo, one of South Africa’s most widely admired newspapermen
Across Boundaries: A Life in the Media at a Time of Change by Ton Vosloo is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Thursday – 13th September 2018
Join Rebecca Davis at the launch of her new book Self-Helpless at The Book Lounge
Pan Macmillan and The Book Lounge invite you to the Cape Town launch of Self-Helpless: A Cynic’s Search for Sanity by Rebecca Davis.
Don’t miss Máire Fisher at Love Books for the launch of The Enumerations, with Fiona Snyckers
Penguin Random House and Love Books invite you to the launch of The Enumerations by Máire Fisher, the author of Birdseye.
Come and taste some of the most viral recipes ever at the launch of Foodies of South Africa in Cape Town
Jonathan Ball Publishers and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of Foodies of SA by Chantal Botha, Hayley Murison and Julie Brown.
Don’t miss a poetry evening and launch of The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology at the Soweto Theatre
Jacana Media and the European Union are proud to bring you The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology Vol. VIII.
Wednesday – 12th September 2018
Join Simone Haysom and Mandy Wiener for the launch of The Last Words of Rowan du Preez in Johannesburg
Jonathan Ball Publishers and The Troyeville Hotel are thrilled to invite you to the launch of The Last Words of Rowan du Preez by Simone Haysom.
Don’t miss a book signing of I am Liza Smit at Exclusive Books Clearwater
Jacana Media invite you to a book signing with Liza Smit and Raquel Lewis, authors of I am Liza Smit.
Tuesday – 11th September 2018
Join Annabel Frere and Hilary Biller for the launch of Help! There’s a Guest at My Table
Don’t miss the launch of Annabel Frere’s new cookbook Help! There’s a Guest at My Table.
Don’t miss the launch of Rebecca Davis’s new book Self-Helpless at Love Books
Pan Macmillan and Love Books invite you to the Johannesburg launch of Self-Helpless: A Cynic’s Search for Sanity by Rebecca Davis.
Shortlists announced for the University of Johannesburg Prizes for South African Writing
The shortlists for the 2017 University of Johannesburg Prizes for South African Writing in English have been announced.
Fiona Snyckers’s new novel, Lacuna – a response to JM Coetzee’s Disgrace from the point of view of Lucy Lurie – to be published by Pan Macmillan
Fiona Snyckers’s new novel, Lacuna, will be published by Pan Macmillan.
Monday – 3rd September 2018
Cover reveal! Zakes Mda’s new novel The Zulus of New York
Umuzi has revealed the cover for Zakes Mda’s new novel The Zulus of New York!
Friday – 31st August 2018
Swapo Captive by Oiva Angula – The gripping account of an incarcerated Swapo cadre
Swapo Captive: A Comrade’s Experience of Betrayal and Torture by Oiva Angula is out now from Penguin Random House.
Watch an interview with Africa’s Lit September #litrockstar Mphuthumi Ntabeni, author of The Broken River Tent
Mphuthumi Ntabeni explains how his debut novel The Broken River Tent was inspired by his need to understand Xhosa history from the perspective of the dispossessed.
‘I think anyone could enjoy this book’ – Kate Sidley chats about 100 Mandela Moments
‘It’s meant to be something that anyone can read. Not everyone’s up for a 500-page biography, and the style of it is supposed to be light.’
Thursday – 30th August 2018
New book alert! The Last Words of Rowan du Preez: Murder and Conspiracy on the Cape Flats by Simone Haysom
‘A South African version of In Cold Blood, done with great integrity. It reads like a thriller.’ – John Maytham
Out early September – Stephan Hofstatter’s Licence to Loot: How the Plunder of Eskom and Other Parastatals Almost Sank South Africa
Licence to Loot traces the genesis of the Eskom looting spree and explores how the Gupta family extracted billions in suspected kickbacks from state contracts and scored hugely inflated coal contracts from backroom deals.
A weekend of wild partying goes horribly wrong – Don’t miss Vanessa Raphaely’s debut novel, Plus One
It would be a weekend of fun, sunshine, champagne and partying. And it was all of those things. Until it wasn’t …