Wanda goes to Gothenburg.
Lynn Joffe, author of The Gospel According to Wanda B. Lazarus, is going to Sweden in September, to the Gothenburg Book Fair. This year’s focus is Jewish culture in literature, as well as “the city” and “audio”. Lynn is going as a guest of the Department of Sports, Art and Culture.
Lynn published The Gospel According to Wanda B. Lazarus with us. A bold and wild ride through two thousand years of myth and mayhem in an outrageous seriocomic work of literary fiction. Readers are invited to accompany Wanda, Lynn Joffe’s outrageous, boundaries-pushing heroine, on a soul-boggling journey that crisscrosses ancient and modern worlds and slips in and out of many centuries.
New Hands-On title will be launching at the Book Lounge in September!
We are thrilled to announce that Alone in the House by Michael Wessels will be launching on the 26th of September at the Book Lounge. The event starts at 5:30 pm for 6:00 pm. Kobus Moolman will talk about Michael’s work and read from the book.
In this posthumously published collection of poems, Michael Wessels’ passionate love for and knowledge of the natural world shines through. The poems are about life’s joyful and also painful journeys, whether physical or spiritual or emotional. The poems are about encounter. And discovery. They are testaments to a life lived to the full. A life filled with deep compassion and wisdom.
Aryan Kaganof wrote a review for Herri Journal. He writes, “In Thicker Than Sorrow the poet Khadija Heeger fetches her people, scattered in the country of their dispossession, back from their untidy histories, and the unmarked grave of her tongue is both witnessed and a witnessing. A burial and a resurrection. The ceremony is revealed in blood. Her blood and their blood. One blood. Her poems come from this.”
Check out the full review here!
The Johannesburg Review of Books published two of Khadija’s poems in this month’s edition. Check it out here!
Khadija Heeger will be participating in the Open Book Festival.
Khadija Heeger, the author of Thicker than Sorrow and Beyond the Delivery Room, will be part of the Open Book Festival. The festival will also feature other authors we have published before, such as Sindiwe Magona, Isobel Dixon, Barbara Boswell, and Helen Moffett.
Cut to the Chase: Scriptwriting for Beginners by Janet van Eeden launched at Exclusive Books, Cavendish.
In spite of the taxi strike and traffic jams, the launch at Excluisve Books, Cavendish was well attended and had a warm and engaged vibe, as though those who were there already knew each other. Most had only met Janet online.
Cut to the Chase breaks down the essentials of writing for film. Janet van Eeden uses her experience of writing feature films and short films for more than two decades as well as her many years of lecturing in a series of eight modules with practical tasks to implement the knowledge given in each section. This user-friendly manual unlocks the world of film writing for students.
Janet discussed Cut to the Chase on the radio show Bookbytes hosted by Shafinaaz Hassim
Janet van Eeden at the Hilton Arts Festival.
Janet gave a workshop on AFDA Durban’s Bachelor of Creative Writing, along with its other degrees in motion picture and live performance. The workshop will touch on the basics of writing for film using content from her book Cut to the Chase.
Tears of the Weaver launched at Exclusive Books, Rosebank.
The launch of Tears of the Weaver was well attended and featured a fascinating conversation between Zaheera and award-winning author, Shafinaaz Hassim.
More about Tears of the Weaver:
In ten superbly crafted stories, set in the South African suburb of Lenasia, but universally recognisable, Zaheera Jina Asvat takes us into the private worlds of a rich variety of characters, revealing the complex weave of emotions often hidden behind the veneer of everyday lives. The stories take a fresh look at conventions and roles governed by religion and culture, providing earthy portraits of people struggling with ongoing oppressions, especially concerning gender, in post-apartheid South Africa.
Peaches and Smeets launched at Exclusive Books, Melrose Arch.
The launch was lovely and celebrated Peaches and Smeets’ longlist nomination to the Sunday Times Literary Awards.
More about Peaches and Smeets:
Caught between the beloved traditions of India and life in a quickly modernising South Africa, between family roots in Natal and a prosperous present in the Transvaal; between the madness of apartheid and the pull of her own desires, Smita struggles to find her feet in a world beset by contradictions.
Colleen and Anne spoke at by Blown Away by Books at the Fish Hoek Library.
Blown Away by Books hosted a discussion between Anne Schlebusch, author of Bloomer and Colleen, author of my mother, my madness. Penny Haw took some lovely pics.
