Cape Town

Make your time in the kitchen a little sweeter! Don’t miss the launch of The South African Guide to Gluten-Free Baking

Penguin Random House invite you to the launch of The South African Guide to Gluten-Free Baking by Zorah Booley Samaai!

Be part of the live CapeTalk studio audience for the launch of We Were Perfect Parents Until We Had Children by Vanessa Raphaely and Karin Schimke! (30 Jul)

Join authors Vanessa Raphaely and Karin Schimke in conversation with Pippa Hudson about their new book, We Were Perfect Parents Until We Had Children.

[SOLD OUT] Don’t miss the launch of Nicky Greenwall’s debut domestic thriller A Short Life in Cape Town (25 Jul)

[NOTE: This event has sold out.] Penguin Random House and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of A Short Life, the debut novel by Nicky Greenwall.

Celebrate Fynbos Fauna at Kirstenbosch with Struik Nature (25 Jul)

Join Struik Nature for an event celebrating the Field Guide to Fynbos Fauna at the Kirstenbosch Botanical Society Bookshop in Cape Town.

Internationally bestselling author Louisa Treger to tour Johannesburg and Cape Town!

Louisa Treger, author of The Lodger, The Dragon Lady and Madwoman, will be visiting South Africa to promote her latest book, The Paris Muse!

Don’t miss Robin Sharma live in Cape Town! (2 Jul)

Bestselling author and top leadership expert Robin Sharma will be in Cape Town for an exclusive event to launch his new book, The Wealth Money Can’t Buy: The 8 Hidden Habits to Live Your Richest Life.

Join Beverley Roos-Muller for the launch of her new book Hunting the Seven: How the Gugulethu Seven Assassins Were Exposed at The Book Lounge (13 June)

Jonathan Ball Publishers and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of Hunting the Seven: How the Gugulethu Seven Assassins Were Exposed by Beverley Roos-Muller.

Don’t miss the Cape Town launch of The Wolf Hunt, the new novel by Justin Fox (6 Jun)

Jonathan Ball Publishers and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of The Wolf Hunt by Justin Fox.

Join Richard Charkin for the launch of his memoir My Back Pages: An Undeniably Personal History of Publishing at The Book Lounge (6 Jun)

Jonathan Ball Publishers and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of My Back Pages: An Undeniably Personal History of Publishing 1972-2022 by Richard Charkin.

Join Roy Havemann in Cape Town for the launch of How To Fix (Unf*ck) A Country: 6 Things To Reboot South Africa (21 May)

Jonathan Ball Publishers and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of How To Fix (Unf*ck) A Country: 6 Things To Reboot South Africa by Roy Havemann.

Don’t miss an evening with bestselling authors Candice Carty-Williams and Bolu Babalola in Cape Town (20 May)

Jonathan Ball Publishers and The Book Lounge invite you to an evening in conversation with Candice Carty-Williams and Bolu Babalola!

Join Sally Andrew for the launch of her new Tannie Maria-themed cookbook Recipes to Live For (16 May)

Penguin Random House SA is thrilled to invite you to the highly anticipated book launch of Recipes to Live For by Sally Andrew!

Don’t miss the launch of Hedley Twidle’s new essay collection Show Me the Place at Kalk Bay Books (9 May)

Jonathan Ball Publishers and Kalk Bay Books invite you to the launch of Show Me the Place by award-winning non-fiction writer Hedley Twidle.

Join Hedley Twidle for the launch of his new essay collection Show Me the Place at The Book Lounge (30 Apr)

Jonathan Ball Publishers and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of Show Me the Place by award-winning non-fiction writer Hedley Twidle.

Join Karen Horn in Cape Town for the launch of Prisoners of Jan Smuts: Italian Prisoners of War in South Africa in WWII (25 Apr)

Jonathan Ball Publishers and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of Prisoners of Jan Smuts: Italian Prisoners of War in South Africa in WWII by Karen Horn.

Don’t miss the launch of Bullsh!t: 50 Lies That Made South Africa by Jonathan Ancer – an outrageous miscellany of myths and fibs (25 Apr)

Jonathan Ball Publishers invites you to the launch of Bullsh!t: 50 Lies That Made South Africa by Jonathan Ancer!

Don’t miss the launch of Margie Orford’s memoir Love and Fury at The Book Lounge (2 Apr)

Jonathan Ball Publishers and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of Love and Fury: A Memoir by Margie Orford.

Cities are at a crossroads – and hold our destinies in the balance: Don’t miss the launch of Age of the City in Stellenbosch (6 Mar)

Join Jonathan Ball Publishers for the launch of Age of the City: Why Our Future will be Won or Lost Together by Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS).

Generating hope even in the face of the irreparable – don’t miss the launch of Spectres of Reparation in South Africa in Cape Town (22 Feb)

Jonathan Ball Publishers and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of Spectres of Reparation in South Africa by Prof. Jaco Barnard-Naude.

Don’t miss a coffee morning with international bestselling author Noa Belling to discuss her book Stress Less (18 Feb)

Join Noa Belling for coffee morning where she will be talking about her latest book Stress Less: Managing Anxiety in a Modern World.