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Do not miss out. Pre-order your copy at Bargain Books. Pieter du Toit investigates whether secret deals were struck between capital and the liberation movement to ensure the status quo remains in terms of economic policy.

"Of course, on a greater soul-journey level, he is teaching me about abandonment, forcing me to deal with my deep childhood terror of facing the idea of 'the end' – of mortality. Of sharing my life with another. He is also training me to be alone. I am teaching him about communication, trust and forgiveness."

Festival director Darryl David shares his pictures of the Etienne van Heerden Veldsoirée which took place from 23 to 25 September 2022 in Cradock.

Eleven talented poets – one for each official language of South Africa – were announced as the overall winners of the 2022 AVBOB Poetry Competition at a gala prize-giving at the Pretoria Country Club on Wednesday 21 September 2022. Here are the winners.

SJ Naudé was awarded the UJ Prize for Literary Translation for his translation of Dol heuning into Mad honey. Read the commendatio by Michiel Heyns here.

SJ Naudé received the UJ Prize for Literary Translation for his translation of his book Dol heuning into Mad honey. Read his acceptance speech during the prize-giving ceremony in Johannesburg.

Jan Smuts grabbed the opportunity to realise his ambition of a Greater South Africa when the First World War ushered in a final scramble for Africa. He set his sights firmly northward upon the German colonies of South West Africa and East Africa.

"What makes Bronwyn Davids’s story so interesting and engaging a read is the vigour and vividness with which she recreates the ups and downs of life within the circle of her nearest and dearest in and around her Lansdowne family home."

Bargain Books will be giving an extra 20% discount on any South African author’s book for Heritage Day.

Take storytellers, authors, academics, historians and activists; mix in the smell of a Karoo fire, the tinkling of silver on dining tables dressed in white, and a few dogs, and you have summarised the Etienne van Heerden Veldsoirée taking place in Cradock from 23 to 25 September 2022. Book now!

Young blood, the gripping coming-of-age novel by Sifiso Mzobe, has been nominated for a 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award! The award honours books by black authors in the categories of debut fiction, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Yet, there is more!

The first 300 entries will receive a free copy of Thérèse Hulme’s book and free refreshments will be provided. The workshops take place in Gqeberha and Somerset East respectively.

You are invited to the book launch on the 7th of September at Exclusive Books in Claremont.

Bargain Books is giving away a copy of The favour by Nora Murphy. You could be the lucky winner, enter now!

The Midlands Literary Festival has become one of the major book events in KwaZulu-Natal. Simply look at the programme to see why! A weekend in the Natal Midlands is a wonderful way to recharge. Do it for yourself.

"Chat to one of our helpful booksellers. We can order titles in and source books from many sources. Sometimes it feels like we conjure up books from magical places and we feel like wizards, although Book Wizard is not yet an official job title."

Get your copy of The Elephants of Thula Thula by Françoise Malby-Anthony from any Bargain Books for only R329! Save R30 and you could win a trip for 2 to the Thula Thula Reserve.

"Men don’t cry is her fourth novel and the hilarious moments do not disguise the poignance of what is at heart a family tragedy, exploring the inevitable generational cultural split in that sector of society in which parental values and cultural preferences are all too often abandoned and disrespected by their offspring, who wish to 'make it' in the setting of an economically and educationally extremely different setting from the one in which their parents were raised and attained maturity."

Don’t upset ooMalume! captures the essence of Xhosa heritage and culture, and explores different aspects of village life.

"This book can be categorised as a dictionary of Xhosa Weltanschauung, a comprehensive conception and apprehension of a mode of life that has been transferred by experience through the centuries from the ancient of times."