Books and writers

Dystopia in Science Fiction: Q&A with Cat Hellisen

Elzette Steenkamp, Cat Hellisen 2013-05-15 Elzette Steenkamp chats to Cat Hellisen about science and speculative fiction.

Dystopia in Science Fiction: Q&A with Lauren Beukes

Elzette Steenkamp, Lauren Beukes 2013-05-15 Elzette Steenkamp chats to Lauren Beukes about science and speculative fiction.

Dystopia in Science Fiction: Q&A with Karen Jayes

Elzette Steenkamp, Karen Jayes 2013-05-15 Elzette Steenkamp chats to Karen Jayes about science and specultive fiction

Bridging gaps with words

Isobel Dixon 2013-05-14 Acclaimed South African poet and literary agent Isobel Dixon works in London, but is currently visiting South Africa for the Franschhoek Literary Festival. Rentia Bartlett-Möhl spoke to her about travelling, displacement, bridging continents and collaboration.

Book launch: Napoleon Bones by Jenny Hobbs

2013-05-06 Umuzi and Novel Books invite you to the launch of Napoleon Bones in Sandton, Johannesburg.

Book Talk: The Disorder of Things at Wits University

2013-05-06 You are invited to a Wits University Press & WiSER Book Talk on The Disorder of Things : A Foucauldian Approach to the Work of Nuruddin Farah. Wednesday 8th May at 6pm-7:30pm.

African Library: Oil on water

Annie Gagiano 2013-05-02 Habila, a poet as well as a prize-winning novelist, has been a journalist in Lagos like the main character (Rufus) of his novel ...

Random House Struik and GetSmarter presents Non-Fiction Story Course

2013-05-02 Random House Struik and GetSmarter, a high?touch online educationompany, are proud to present the Random House Struik Write a Non?Fiction Story course. This course is compiled and facilitated by leading South African author Mike Nicol.

Franschhoek Literêre Fees belowe gróót en nuwe stemme

Chrizane Geldenhuys 2013-04-17 Daar is heelwat gróót Afrikaanse name wat hierdie jaar die Franschhoek Literêre Fees gaan bywoon.

Sam Woulidge's Confessions of a Hungry Woman

Chrizane Geldenhuys, Sam Woulidge 2013-04-17 Sam Woulidge’s Confessions of a Hungry Woman reads like a food diary full of beautiful and also riveting stories.

Book launch: The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

2013-04-16 Random house and The Book Lounge invite you to the Cape Town launch of Lauren Beuke's The Shining Girls. Five book launches will take place in April.

Dancing in Other Words Programme Announcement (Dansende Digtersfees)

2013-04-12 Poetry and the reflections of award-winning international literary figures, political dissidents, activists and a Nobel Prize frontrunner, will fill the Spier Manor House and Old Wine Cellar on 10 and 11 May.

Kayang Gagiano reviews Shaida Kazie Ali's Lessons in Husbandry

Kayang Gagiano 2013-04-09 The novel is an enticing synthesis of mystery, eulogy, playful feminist tract and romance - and it is the central love story and sense of promise and liberation it offers which provide succour from grief for both protagonist and reader.

Video: Leon de Kock and Michiel Heyns in conversation

Jonathan Amid 2013-03-22 Michiel Heyns and Leon De Kock in conversation with Jonathan Amid
18 March 2013
JS Gericke Library Auditorium

Dangerous Love by Ben Okri: Seeking Solace in a Brutalised Society

Kayang Gagiano 2013-03-13 "The novel is ambitious in its scope and complex in its rendering."

The REBIRTH graphic novel launch at The Book Lounge

2013-03-05 REBIRTH, a truely South African graphic novel set in an alternative history in which Jan van Riebeeck was actually a vampire, launches at The Book Club in Cape Town this Thursday.

REBIRTH Graphic Novel: Jan van Riebeeck was a vampire

Gerdus Senekal, Daniel Browde, Josh Ryba 2013-03-05 "But what interests me more than this – and I hope that in some way we have explored this a bit in the book – is how the colonial trauma creates a kind of force field, a blight maybe you could call it, that affects both colonised and coloniser for centuries afterwards."

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