Authors & Events
Penguin Books Celebrates the Launch of Good Morning, Mr Mandela by Zelda la Grange
25 June 2014
On the 19th of June 2014, Penguin Books played host to more than 300 guests at the much-anticipated launch of Zelda la Grange’s Good Morning, Mr Mandela and Goeiemôre, mnr. Mandela at The Venue in Melrose Arch.
The event was attended by select members of the media, well-known TV and radio personalities, members of the Mandela family,...
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,...
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