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Why write? Why publish? Why read? Find out at the launch of This Is How It Is: True Stories from South Africa
The Life Righting Collective and Love Books invite you to the launch of This Is How It Is: True Stories from South Africa.
Much-loved linguist Melusi Tshabalala launches Melusi’s Everyday Zulu at Love Books
Jonathan Ball Publishers and Love Books invite you to the launch of Melusi’s Everyday Zulu by Melusi Tshabalala.
Local author Amy Heydenrych launches her international debut Shame on You at Love Books
Amy Heydenrych is a local author on the rise. Not only has she had her first novel published internationally, but she has been chosen as a Mail & Guardian Young South African of 2018.
Don’t miss the launch of Craig Higginson’s new novel The White Room at Love Books
‘In its conception and execution, The White Room is remarkable … Evocative and dreamlike, yet all too nightmarishly real, this is a story so moving that it leaves a powerful afterimage on the reader’s imagination.’
Join Mandy Wiener at Love Books for a coffee morning to chat about her new book Ministry of Crime
Join Pan Macmillan and Love Books for coffee with Mandy Wiener.
Join Jacana Media and Love Books to celebrate the worldwide success of CM Elliot’s Sibanda series
Want to find out what happens when your wildest dreams come true, when the series you wrote is about to move beyond what is often called ‘modest sales’ in southern Africa?
Don’t miss Rahla Xenopoulos in conversation with Fred Strydom for the launch of The Season Of Glass
Umuzi and Love Books invite you to the launch of The Season of Glass by Rahla Xenopoulos.
The African opera singer Musa Ngqungwana launches his memoir at Love Books
You are invited to the launch of Odyssey of a South African Opera Singer by Musa Ngqungwana at Love Books.
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.
Don’t miss the launch of Patagonia by Maya Fowler at Love Books
Maya is an award-winning South African writer, and this fascinating novel, she transports us to the wide Patagonian plains, where the Afrikaans language survives to this day.
Don’t miss the launch of Christopher Hope’s new book The Café de Move-on Blues, the long-awaited companion to White Boy Running
Join Penguin Random House and Love Books for the launch of The Café de Move-on Blues, the new novel by Christopher Hope.
Join Ijangolet S Ogwang at Love Books for the launch of her debut novel An Image in a Mirror
BlackBird Books and Love Books invite you to the launch of An Image in a Mirror, the debut novel by Ijangolet S Ogwang.
Join Bhekisisa Mncube at Love Books for the launch of his new book, The Love Diary of a Zulu Boy
Penguin Random House and Love Books invite you to the launch of a unique book, The Love Diary of a Zulu Boy by Bhekisisa Mncube.
Don’t miss the launch of Like Sodium in Water by Hayden Eastwood at Love Books
Love Books and Jonathan Ball Publishers are thrilled to invite you to the launch of Like Sodium in Water by Hayden Eastwood.
Haji Mohamed Dawjee launches Sorry, Not Sorry at Love Books
Penguin Random House SA and Love Books invite you to the launch of Sorry, Not Sorry by Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
Join Irna van Zyl and Pamela Power for the launch of Death Cup at Love Books
Murder is on the menu!
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.
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.
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.
One of the reasons I wrote this book was the Fees Must Fall activists: Rehana Rossouw at the launch of her new novel New Times
Fees Must Fall, journalism in the 1980s, same-sex relationships, the Bo Kaap community and the idea that Nelson Mandela was a ‘sell-out’ …