Authors & Events
South African Book Fair: 13-15 June 2014
03 June 2014
South African Book Fair Programme
Friday 13 June
Time
Author
Title
Description
Publisher
Venue
10:00 - 12:00
Gavin Fish
Taming the Teenager
School Principals and...
Fiona Leonard's Advice to Aspiring Writers
11 April 2014
I will always be grateful to the New York agent whose rejection letter contained the sage advice “books about Africa don’t sell”. Those five words lit a fire in my soul that inspired me in a way no other rejection letter ever could have. I’d spent five years writing The Chicken Thief and I simply wasn’t prepared to...
Meet Lauren Liebenberg, author of CRY BABY
11 March 2014
Join us for a coffee morning with Lauren Liebenberg at Novel Books (Hobart Grove Shopping Centre, corner of Grosvenor & Hobart Roads) in Bryanston on Monday 17 March at 10am.
Lauren will be chatting about her latest book, Cry Baby - a story about boyhood and motherhood, about what binds families, the past to the...
Lauren Liebenberg chats to us about her writing process
11 March 2014
I am often asked about my writing process; from what inspires my novels, to what extent I map out my plots in advance, to my daily routine and average word count, the editing process and so forth. I pretend to consider these questions, and give answers that I hope sound coherent, by retrospectively imposing order on what is, in truth, chaotic,...
Win tickets to the exclusive Joburg screening of 12 Years a Slave
10 January 2014
12 Years a Slave, the movie adaptation of Solomon Northup’s harrowing memoir of slave life, opens in SA cinemas next Friday.
Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, 12 Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup,...
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