South Africa
Thursday – 7th June 2018
This Is How It Is: The healing power of life writing, one shared story at a time
This Is How It Is a ‘refreshing, poignant and wide-ranging’ (Helen Moffett) collection of real life experiences: 52 stories, prose and poetry, that tell of a man who is anxious about an HIV test; a child with an alarming nose for gossip and a girl who is saved by the enemy in a war zone.
Join Sue Nyathi with Karabo Kgoleng for the Pretoria launch of The Gold Diggers
Pan Macmillan and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of The Gold Diggers by Sue Nyathi.
Monday – 4th June 2018
Read an excerpt from I am Pandarus, the new novel from award-winning author Michiel Heyns
Jonathan Ball Publishers has shared an excerpt from I am Pandarus, the new novel from acclaimed author Michiel Heyns.
Read an excerpt from Mphuthumi Ntabeni’s The Broken River Tent, a novel about the life and times of the Xhosa chief Maqoma
Jacana Media has shared an extract from The Broken River Tent, the debut novel by Mphuthumi Ntabeni. The Broken River Tent is set in …
Writers! Send Pan Macmillan SA the manuscript for your future bestseller during open submissions week
It’s time to polish up that manuscript! This week is Pan Macmillan South Africa’s open submissions week.
Friday – 1st June 2018
Sue Nyathi is back with The Gold Diggers! Watch the book trailer
Following the success of her first novel, The Polygamist, released in 2012, Sue Nyathi is back with The Gold Diggers!
Like Jane Austen fan fiction, but much more ruthless: Claire Robertson on her new novel Under Glass
Award-winning author Claire Robertson chatted to Nancy Richards on SAfm about her masterful new novel Under Glass.
Christy Chilimigras will launch her memoir Things Even Gonzalez Can’t Fix at Love Books
Christy will be chatting to her publisher Melinda Ferguson about her brutal memoir of growing up in a dysfunctional family.
Thursday – 31st May 2018
‘It’s a very useful book’ – Eusebius McKaiser reviews Jan-Jan Joubert’s Who Will Rule in 2019?
There’s something in this book for a range of folks: political reporters; commentators and analysts; academics working in various areas of contemporary South African politics; and the general reader keen to beef up their understanding of some of the dynamics in our body politic especially as we head to a general election in 2019.
Read an excerpt from Rahla Xenopoulos’s shimmering new novel The Season of Glass
It is past midnight and the stars are barely visible through the filth and fog of Seville when the doorway is opened, and she appears, illuminated by the moon.
Don’t miss an intimate book discussion of Winging It with author Joanne Jowell, Jonathan Kaplan and Jacqui Davies
Pan Macmillan and Exclusive Books invite you to an intimate book discussion.
Wednesday – 30th May 2018
Melktert in Orania with Betsie Verwoerd – Read an excerpt from 100 Mandela Moments by Kate Sidley
It is a picture that borders on the surreal – Nelson Mandela and Betsie Verwoerd chatting over tea and coffee, melktert and koeksisters.
‘It was like giving birth to a child’: Award-winning journalist Iman Rappetti launches her memoir Becoming Iman
Award-winning journalist Iman Rappetti launched her debut book Becoming Iman at Exclusive Books Hyde Park recently.
A book that will grow your business and make you famous – Spin: The Art of Managing The Media by Nick Clelland and Ryan Coetzee
This short, punchy and irreverent book written by two experienced political communicators provides spin-doctor secrets for managing the media.
Things Even Gonzalez Can’t Fix by Christy Chilimigras – the shockingly brilliant debut memoir of a 24-year-old Greek South African
Things Even González Can’t Fix is the shockingly brilliant debut memoir of a 24-year-old Greek South African girl, Christy Chilimigras.
Tuesday – 29th May 2018
The Gods Who Send Us Gifts: An Anthology of African Short Stories captures the range, diversity, richness and wisdom of current writing
The Gods Who Send Us Gifts: An Anthology of African Short Stories is a historic and important anthology featuring some of the most eloquent and gifted voices (both young and old) from Africa, capturing moments of critical cultural shift in celebration of this historic event in 1962.
New book alert! Vagabond: Wandering Through Africa on Faith by Lerato Mogoatlhe
Vagabond: Wandering Through Africa on Faith by Lerato Mogoatlhe will be out from BlackBird Books in September 2018!
Zakes Mda’s new novel The Zulus of New York to be published by Umuzi in March 2019
Zakes Mda’s new novel, a work of historical fiction titled The Zulus of New York, will be published by Umuzi in March 2019. …
Monday – 28th May 2018
Simultaneously heartbreaking and heart-warming: Sue Nyathi’s new novel The Gold Diggers
The Gold Diggers, the much-anticipated second novel from Sue Nyathi, is out in June from Pan Macmillan!
Announcing the longlisted poems for the 2018 Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award and Anthology
The Jacana Literary Foundation (JLF) is delighted to announce that the work of 63 poets has been selected for publication in the 8th annual Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology.