Finuala Dowling

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Programme announced for Open Book Festival! (26-27 Mar)

After an absence of two years as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Open Book Festival returns with an exciting two-day, in-person event!

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2021 Sunday Times/CNA Literary Awards longlists announced

South Africa’s most prestigious literary awards are back with two thrilling fiction and non-fiction longlists, and a dedicated new sponsor.

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‘That’s worse than war.’ Find out what it was like to live in and to live through a time of plague, with Howard Phillips

Watch Howard Phillips discussing the moving and fascinating memories of survivors of the last great plague in South Africa, the ‘Spanish’ flu of 1918.

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Don’t miss the virtual book launch of A Poor Season for Whales by award-winning author Michiel Heyns

Jonathan Ball Publishers and The Reading List invite you to the virtual launch of Michiel Heyns’s new novel A Poor Season for Whales.

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A Poor Season for Whales by Michiel Heyns, ‘a clever, bitingly funny novel’

A Poor Season for Whales, the new novel from award-winning author Michiel Heyns, is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

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Don’t miss the launch of a new edition of Jo-Anne Richards’s bestselling book The Innocence of Roast Chicken (7 Nov)

Join Jo-Anne Richards at Exclusive Books for a celebration of the new edition of her bestselling book The Innocence of Roast Chicken.

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Join Vivian Bickford-Smith and Bill Nasson at Kalk Bay Books for the launch of Illuminating Lives

Please join us for the launch of Illuminating Lives: Biographies of Fascinating People from South African History edited by Vivian Bickford-Smith and Bill Nasson. They will be in conversation with Finula Dowling.

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Poetry publishers and self-published poets invited to enter the 2018 Ingrid Jonker Prize

THE 2018 INGRID JONKER PRIZE FOR ENGLISH POETRY This is a call for submissions for the Ingrid Jonker Prize 2018. Publishers or …