[Sponsored] 9 new South African books (available as ebooks!) to get you through the shutdown
Pan Macmillan has shared a list of newly published South African ebooks to see you through the shutdown period. In…
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[Sponsored] Missing the ocean? Dive into She Down There, an underwater love story by debut author and master diver Lynton Francois Burger
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[Sponsored] Read an excerpt from Peter Church’s thriller Crackerjack, part of LAPA’s Quarantine Reading List of ebooks
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[Sponsored] Out today! Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light—the brilliant conclusion to the award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy
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[Sponsored] ‘That was the last day I ever saw Africa while alive.’ Read an excerpt from Rosanna Amaka’s searing debut, The Book of Echoes
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[Sponsored] Penguin Random House South Africa acquires LAPA Publishers
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[Sponsored] Cover reveal! Mark Winkler’s forthcoming novel, Due South of Copenhagen
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[Sponsored] ‘Your birth mother didn’t want you.’ Read an excerpt from Sacrificed, Chanette Paul’s US debut
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[Sponsored] Don’t miss the launch of UCT Under Apartheid by Howard Phillips, part of UCT’s Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series (12 Feb)
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[Sponsored] Find out more about Deepa Anappara’s Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line—hailed as 2020’s most powerful debut
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[Sponsored] ‘Afrikaans-speaking doctor operates on Mandela’—Read an excerpt from Operation Mandela by Willem Laubscher
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[Sponsored] Reggie and Me – the new novel from James Hendry – the author of the bestselling A Year in the Wild and Back to the Bush
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[Sponsored] Announcing the 2020 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award shortlist—three fresh new voices demanding attention
Header image: Previous winners of the EU Literary Award/Dinaane Debut Fiction Award The Jacana Literary Foundation has announced the shortlist…
[Sponsored] ‘The summer of 1975/76, somewhere on the border’—Read an extract from Borderline, the new novel by Marita van der Vyver
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[Sponsored] Find out more about The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney, the debut novel by Okechukwu Nzelu
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[Sponsored] Join in and share the best in African literature across social media during #ReadingAfrica Week 2019 (1—7 Dec)
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[Sponsored] Read an excerpt from Father Michael’s Lottery by Johan Steyn—recently republished as a Picador Africa Heritage Classic
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[Sponsored] Win a SIGNED copy of Margaret Atwood’s Booker Prize-winning new novel The Testaments!
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[Sponsored] Calling all fiction writers! Submit your novel to Jonathan Ball Publishers
Jonathan Ball Publishers is accepting fiction submissions from 1–15 November 2019. Find out more about how to submit your novel here!…
[Sponsored] Out now! The Bosasa Billions: How the ANC Sold its Soul for Braaipacks, Booze and Bags of Cash
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[Sponsored] Read an excerpt from Jo-Ann Richards’s South African classic The Innocence of Roast Chicken—painful, evocative, beautifully drawn and utterly absorbing
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[Sponsored] Announcing the 2020 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award longlist—unearthing new southern African writers
Header image: Previous winners of the EU Literary Award/Dinaane Debut Fiction Award The Jacana Literary Foundation has announced the longlisted…
[Sponsored] Find out more about Phumlani Pikoli’s debut novel Born Freeloaders – PLUS read an excerpt, hot off the press!
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[Sponsored] Don’t miss the Jacana Media book sale – 6000 books at discounted prices (on till 31 Oct)
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[Sponsored] Win a signed copy of Bassie: My Journey of Hope by Basetsana Kumalo, plus a Lux hamper worth R1000!
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[Sponsored] New book alert! Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe: New Reflections – thought-provoking and moving essays collected by Benjamin Pogrund
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[Sponsored] Voices from the Underground—18 members of Umkhonto we Sizwe’s Ashley Kriel Detachment tell their stories for the first time
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[Sponsored] Introduce children to the local art scene with Explore! Awesome South African Artists by Cobi Labuscagne
Explore! Awesome South African Artists by Cobi Labuscagne is out in September from Jacana Media. South Africa’s finest living contemporary artists,…
[Sponsored] Jonathan Ball Publishers joins the audiobook revolution: Now you can listen to your favourite South African books!
A leader in the field of local publishing in history, politics and current affairs, Jonathan Ball Publishers has now joined…
[Sponsored] New book alert! Parcel of Death, the little-told life story of Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, hailed as the ‘godfather’ of the June 1976 uprisings
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