Book launches

Join Koleka Putuma to celebrate Collective Amnesia’s one-year anniversary at The Book Lounge

we are going to have wine, read from the book, sign the book, celebrate the book. It has changed my life & I couldn’t have done it without you.

If you are in CPT come through.

Collective Amnesia Merchandise & Copies of the Books will be on sale!

Join Johan Raath, author of Blood Money, for a Recce Story Night in Roodepoort

Blood Money: Stories of an ex-Recce’s Missions as a Private Military Contractor in Iraq is out soon from Jonathan Ball Publishers. Shortly …

Save SA fiction: Don’t miss the launch of the Storied initiative

Storied is a campaign to save South African fiction and get people investing in its future. Come along to the Share Block Party to see how you can be a part of this exciting crowd-funding campaign.

Join Tembeka Ngcukaitobi for the launch of The Land Is Ours with Eusebius McKaiser at Constitution Hill

Penguin Random House and Constitution Hill invite you to the launch of The Land Is Ours by Tembeka Ngcukaitobi.

Share a book and a glass of wine at the launch of Brutal Legacy by Tracy Going

When South Africa’s golden girl of broadcasting Tracy Going’s battered face was splashed across the media back in the late 1990s, the nation was shocked. What had started off as a fairy tale romance with a man who appeared to be everything that Going was looking for – charming, handsome and successful – had quickly descended into a violent, abusive relationship.

Join Tembeka Ngcukaitobi and Thandeka Gqubule for the launch of The Land is Ours in Joburg

Exclusive Books and Penguin Random House invite you to the launch of The Land Is Ours by Tembeka Ngcukaitobi.

Don’t miss the launch of Tracy Going’s searing, heartbreaking memoir Brutal Legacy at Love Books

When South Africa’s golden girl of broadcasting Tracy Going’s battered face was splashed across the media back in the late 1990s, the nation was shocked. What had started off as a fairy tale romance with a man who appeared to be everything that Going was looking for – charming, handsome and successful – had quickly descended into a violent, abusive relationship.

Join NR Brodie and Lauren Beukes for the launch of Knucklebone in Cape Town

Pan Macmillan and Exclusive Books invite you to the Cape Town launch of Nechama Brodie’s debut novel Knucklebone.

Join Chwayita Ngamlana for the launch of her debut novel If I Stay Right Here in Joburg

You are invited to the launch of Chwayita Ngamlana’s debut novel If I Stay Right Here.

Don’t miss the launch of Tracy Going’s searing, heartbreaking memoir Brutal Legacy at The Book Lounge

What had started off as a fairy-tale romance with a man who appeared to be everything – charming, handsome and successful – had quickly descended into a violent, abusive relationship.

Don’t miss the Kalk Bay launch of Messages from the Bees by Robin Winckel-Mellish

Kalk Bay Books and Modjaji Books are delighted to invite you to the launch of Robin Winckel-Mellish’s second collection of poems Messages from the Bees. Christine Coates will introduce Robin, who will also read from her collection.

Breaking News – UK journalist Jeremy Thompson launches his autobiography in Cape Town

Jacana Media invites you to the Cape Town launch of Jeremy Thompson’s autobiography, Breaking News.  

Don’t miss the Cape Town launch of Phumlani Pikoli’s short story collection The Fatuous State of Severity

Pan Macmillan and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of Phumlani Pikoli’s short story collection The Fatuous State of Severity.

Join Jeremy Maggs in conversation with Gideon Galloway for the Pretoria launch of Win!

Jacana Media and Graffiti Books invite you to the launch of Win! Compelling Conversations with 20 Successful South Africans – a new book by Jeremy Maggs.

Zukiswa Wanner to launch travel memoir Hardly Working at African Flavour Books with The Cheeky Natives

In Hardly Working: A Travel Memoir of Sorts, Zukiswa Wanner faces the challenges of travelling by road and crossing several borders while being a Zambian-born South African who lives in Kenya but her irreverent humour and uncanny ability to connect and make friends wherever she goes, serves her well.

Manage your Money like a F*cking Grown Up: Free workshop with Sam Beckbessinger in Cape Town

In Manage your Money like a F*cking Grown Up, money dork Sam Beckbessinger tells it to you straight: how to take control of your money to take control of your life.

Learn more about a living fossil – the coelacanth – with author Mike Bruton at the Origins Centre

Join author Mike Bruton as he discusses the fascinating story of the coelacanth.

Breaking News – UK journalist Jeremy Thompson launches his autobiography at Exclusive Books

Jeremy Thompson will launch his autobiography Breaking News in South Africa in February.

Don’t miss the Joburg launch of Phumlani Pikoli’s short story collection The Fatuous State of Severity

Pan Macmillan and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of Phumlani Pikoli’s short story collection The Fatuous State of Severity.

Don’t miss the launch of Toy Boy by Leon van Nierop at Love Books

Penguin Random House and Love Books invite you to the launch of Toy Boy by Leon van Nierop: A steamy coming-of-age tale set in thrilling Joburg.