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South African crime writer to team up with thriller superstar James Patterson
18 August 2016
South African crime writer Jassy Mackenzie will contribute a book to James Patterson’s imprint BookShots. Patterson, who is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time, with sales in excess of 325 million copies worldwide, will be writing, collaborating on, or personally curating every title published by the new imprint....
Fred Khumalo’s new novel on the sinking of the SS Mendi to be published in South Africa and the UK
15 August 2016
Fred Khumalo’s new novel will be published in South Africa and in the United Kingdom in February 2017.
The book, titled Dancing the Death Drill, recounts the sinking of the SS Mendi, a passenger steamship that sank in the English Channel in 1917, killing 646 people, most of whom were black South African troops heading for France...
Nkosinathi Sithole’s Hunger Eats a Man Wins the 2016 Sunday Times Literary Fiction Award
27 June 2016
Debut novelist and Penguin Random House SA author, Nkosinathi Sithole, was announced as a winner at this year’s Sunday Times Literary Awards, recently held at a black tie event in Sandton, Johannesburg.
Sithole was awarded the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize for his bookHunger Eats a Man, a beautifully poetic, funny and highly relevant novel that...
Penguin Random House to publish film tie-in edition of I HAVE LIFE: ALISON’S JOURNEY
23 May 2016
The South African classic I Have Life: Alison’s Journey as told to Marianne Thamm is the inspiration behind a new film Alison: A Tale of Monsters, Miracles and Hope and Penguin Random House South Africa (PRHSA) will publish a film tie-in to coincide with the first screenings of the film in early June 2016.
I Have...
Imran Garda’s novel The Thunder That Roars wins the 2015 Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose
20 May 2016
Imran Garda’s debut novel, The Thunder That Roars, has been announced as the joint winner of the prestigious Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose. The prize is awarded annually by the English Academy of South Africa for a work of prose, poetry or drama.
Garda’s taut and thrilling novel draws on the author’s experience as a...
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