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"On a day-to-day basis, poems rush by me and through me all the time, and only now and again do I have the time to snatch them by their slippery tails and nail them to the page."

"Many news reports, blogs and scholarly articles have been written about 'the hashtag movements', but As by fire is the first comprehensive, systematic attempt at analysing the reflections on the movements from the perspectives of the leaders of those universities most closely involved."

"He lived as if he was a reed for the tunes and the rhythms and the winds of his time, and in that he was the reed of our turbulent passage on earth, perhaps transmitting a very ancient song to us."

"This important and moving text is the last completed work by an Algerian Berber novelist and public intellectual who wrote in French, the language in which the original Éditions du Seuil edition appeared in 1962."

"This book is about a celebration of moods, travels, family, classes – therefore, a feast."

"Christie skilfully weaves historical and social context into the retelling of day-to-day events, from his early encounters with the Beachboys through to his introduction to the slums of Dar es Salaam."

"Beautifully illustrated with her own delicate artwork, the quaint characters in Trevor in the land of fantasy come to life, transporting the reader with them into a world of fantasy and imagination." Izak de Vries shares his photos of the Cape Town book launch with LitNet.

You are invited to the launch of A literary guide to KwaZulu-Natal on 30 November in Durban.

"Migrations is the fourth SSDA anthology after Feast, famine and potluck: African short stories, Terra incognita: New short speculative stories from Africa and the abovementioned Water. The idea behind the SSDA project is to offer a platform for writers across the African continent and the African diaspora to write about our experience on our own terms, and to support African writers in our endeavours through the SSDA Prize, anthologies and writing workshops."

You are invited to the launch of Brunch across 11 countries on 18 November in Claremont. Alix Verrips will be in conversation with Susie Chatz-Anderson.

"Instead of investigating what Pauw’s explosive new book reveals about the agency – including that millions of rands of taxpayers’ money was blown on a bogus parallel intelligence network – the SSA has chosen to 'shoot the messenger'."

On 6 November, the launch of Sitting Pretty: White Afrikaans Women in Postapartheid South Africa took place in Cape Town. Christi van der Westhuizen, author of Sitting Pretty, was in conversation with Adam Haupt. Read a broad overview of the main discussion points and also listen to the entire discussion.

"This year's winners of the South African Literary Awards (SALAs) were announced on Tuesday, 7 November 2017. Authors, poets, writers and literary practitioners whose works are continuously contributing to the enrichment of South Africa’s literary landscape were celebrated in an auspicious ceremony."

“A remarkable, well-researched book, a must read for anyone interested in evidence of state capture and getting South Africa back on track.”

You are invited to the launch of The old woman and the moon on 18 November at Protea Bookshop in Stellenbosch. Wilna van der Walt will be in conversation with Marita de Wet.

LAPA Publishers (South Africa) and Catalyst Press (USA) are thrilled to announce that Martin Steyn’s English fiction debut, Dark Traces, has been awarded a Kirkus Star Review. The Kirkus Star is one of the most prestigious recognitions in the book industry.

You are invited to the launch of The President's Keepers on Wednesday, 15 November in Cape Town. Author Jacques Pauw will be in conversation with Glynnis Breytenbach.

You are invited to the launch of Faith & Courage by Thabo Makgoba on Thursday, 16 November in Cape Town.

"This is big. In a sense it means that Durban becomes the literary capital of Africa, the literary gateway to Africa. Everything that the city plans from now, literature must be at its heart."

You are invited to the launch of The camp whore on 15 November in Johannesburg. Author Francois Smith will be in conversation with Michele Magwood and translator Dominique Botha.