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"The author here focuses particularly on (mostly lesbian) women and counters the tide of disgust by depicting such characters as joyous and beautiful and free in enjoying 'illicit' sexuality, but this is contrasted with many vignettes depicting states of terror, shame, denial of selfhood and forms of love that have been sullied and branded by the reigning disapproval and condemnation ...."

"In the end, ordinary people from the township brought the once mighty apartheid juggernaut to its knees; the Nats had no choice but to start negotiating. Many of these 'ordinary people' attended the launch."

On Sunday, 4 December 2022, an international team of authors discussed the topic, "Who is an African?" They also asked: Who is allowed to write from an African experience? Why do African authors get boxed into certain kinds of story?

Tell us what you love most about South Africa. You will stand a chance to win three fabulous books by South African authors.

The theme is "My town". It can be a poem about your hometown, the town you live in or any town in the world that you love or have an interest in.

Why were the townships of Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage apartheid’s Stalingrad? What happened in the eighties that left the NP with no choice but to start negotiating?

Apartheid’s Stalingrad, how the townships of the Eastern Cape defied the apartheid war machine by Rory Riordan will be launched at the Nelson Mandela University.

Share with us what is your favourite children’s book and tell us why? You will stand a chance to win a book by David Walliams and one by Jeff Kinney!

Tell us your favourite quote from Charlie Mackesy’s book and stand a chance to win The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse.

Please be sure to use the correct hashtag to participate, #ReadingAfrica. Please, do add something about and in your own language to the event! You can also help us celebrate by joining us at the three great events we’ve planned!

We are about to publish this book which, as the flyer states, could not have come at a better time.

Listen to a podcast of the discussion, see photos of the launch and read the text of David Attwell’s introduction at the Exclusive Books launch of A library to flee at the Cape Town Waterfront on 9 November 2022. 

Tell us who your favourite fiction author is and stand a chance to win a hamper full of books!

A publishing phenomenon and South Africaʼs fastest-selling book ever, The Presidentʼs keepers fearlessly exposed former president Jacob Zumaʼs darkest secrets. Our poisoned land is as riveting and explosive as its predecessor.

A pirated, hacked copy of Our poisoned land by Jacques Pauw is being shared on social media. The author and NB Publishers have taken great risks to bring this important investigative work out into the open. So please read it, but also do the right thing, and please pay for it.

"And so, the memoir’s two narrative and thematic strands – both of which evoke the irresistible pull of the past, of ancestral voices – are woven tightly into a fascinating and compelling account of a life richly and intensely lived. This is a story of family: of losses and of surprising, abundant gains. It is a tale of growing up as an outsider of sorts in a country committed to employing taxonomy to divide."

"Of course I admire, study and read books from other continents, but African writing is to my mind still hugely underrated and far too little known, when there are brilliant novels of great depth and complexity produced all over our continent."

"My first challenge is to write a really good story that readers will invest in. I try to weave in satisfying resolutions that readers won’t see coming. It takes me ages to get the plot sorted out and tie up all the loose ends."

Welcome to the 10th Poetry in McGregor festival. At this festival we will consider, through poetry, our roles as custodians of wilderness and creation, not to mention the need to nurture a certain inner wildness.

"For present purposes, what stands out is Schreiner’s modernity. Schreiner, residing in dusty De Aar, was an equal, a comrade in arms, a thinker in her own right on matters that even in the metropolitan centre still elicited considerable opposition."