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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.

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’ …

Join Zapiro for a coffee morning at Love Books to celebrate his new book

Jacana Media and Love Books invite you to a coffee morning with Zapiro to chat about new book Hasta la Gupta, Baby!

Join Anya Schiffrin, George Lugalambi and Anton Harber for a discussion of investigative journalism written by Africans in Africa

Africa Muckraking is the first collection of investigative and campaigning journalism written by Africans and about Africa.

Love Books to host the launch of Ronnie Kasrils’s new book A Simple Man, with Nomboniso Gasa

Jacana Media and Love Books invite you to the launch of A Simple Man: Kasrils and the Zuma Enigma by Ronnie Kasrils, the gripping page-turner that courageously exposes the threats to our young democracy.

Tim Noakes’s new book Lore of Nutrition, co-authored with Marika Sboros, to be launched at Love Books

The King of Comrades Bruce Fordyce will be talking to that quiet maverick Prof Tim Noakes and co-author and veteran journalist Marika Sboros about their critical new book, Lore of Nutrition.

Literary suspense that haunts the heart: Don’t miss the launch of Consuelo Roland’s Wolf Trap at Love Books

Jacana Media and Love Books invite you to the launch of Wolf Trap by Consuelo Roland.