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Celebrate African literature across social media during #ReadingAfrica Week 2020 (6-12 Dec)

LAPA Publishers and Catalyst Press invite you to join in and share the best in African literature this 2020 Reading Africa Week!

[Video] ‘Fresh, new, quirky and acerbic’ – Izak de Vries discusses Max Annas’s novel The Farm

In this video, Catalyst Press South Africa office manager, SarahBelle Selig, chats with Izak de Vries of LAPA Publishers about distributing Catalyst books in South Africa, and the release of The Farm by Max Annas.

[Video] Caroline Kurtz wins Presbyterian Writers Guild’s Best First Book Award for A Road Called Down on Both Sides

Huge congratulations to Caroline Kurtz! Her memoir A Road Called Down on Both Sides: Growing up in Ethiopia and America was recently awarded the Best First Book Award by the Presbyterian Writers Guild.

‘In the end, you’re a victim of your own comfort zone’ – Chanette Paul chats about her US debut, Sacrificed

Catalyst Press chats to South African author Chanette Paul about her US debut, Sacrificed.

Join in and share the best in African literature across social media during #ReadingAfrica Week 2019 (1–7 Dec)

What are you reading at the moment? An old favourite? A new find? An undiscovered classic? Fiction, poetry, comics or essays?

Whatever you’re reading, it’s time to shout it from the rooftops.

Don’t miss the launch of Cape Town: A Place Between by Henry Trotter at Kalk Bay Books (21 Nov)

LAPA Publishers, Catalyst Press and Kalk Bay Books invite you to the launch of Cape Town: A Place Between by Henry Trotter.

Join Henry Trotter for the launch of Cape Town: A Place Between at The Book Lounge (7 Nov)

LAPA Publishers, Catalyst Press and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of Cape Town: A Place Between by Henry Trotter.

Crime writer Peter Church signs three-book deal with Catalyst Press

Crime writer Peter Church, known for his racy thrillers Dark Video and Bitter Pill, has signed a three-book deal with North American and South African-based publisher Catalyst Press.

Bom Boy, Yewande Omotoso’s first novel, to be published in the US in January 2019

Yewande Omotoso’s debut novel Bom Boy will be published in the United States by Catalyst Press in January 2019. Catalyst Press is an …

Do Not Go Gentle into North America

Futhi Ntshingila’s Do Not Go Gentle is coming out later this year as one of four South African titles for new Catalyst Press in the US. New title: We Kiss Them With Rain.