Pan macmillan sa catalogue 2012

PAN MACMILLAN SOUTH AFRICA
Catalogue 2012

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Contents
Contact Us About Our Imprints 4

Adults’ Books
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Fiction Lead Titles
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eBooks wesley@panmacmillan.co.za Fiction Frontlist
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Best-selling Fiction Backlist
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About Our Imprints

Leonie Joubert and photographer Eric Miller’s exploration Nelson Mandela By Himself and Conversations with Myself); Jan Braai’s first cookbook (Fire Works) – the ultimate guide to
of the complex issues around urban food security in business-focus titles (Dion Chang’s Flux Trend Review); cooking the perfect steak (and much more) over the coals
southern Africa (The Hungry Season); a fresh, entertaining photographic books (Peter Magubane’s Man of the right in time for National Braai Day on 24 September. We
series of pocket books, The Youngsters, which feature People); and selected academic books (Chris Landsberg’s have more advice for entrepreneurs from Allon Raiz (What
prominent young South Africans including Khaya Dlanga The Diplomacy of Transformation). To Do When You Want To Give Up); and we reveal the depth
Picador Africa was launched in 2004 in celebration of (In My Arrogant Opinion), Anele Mdoda (It Feels Wrong In 2012, Pan Macmillan’s highlights include a revised of Africa’s mobile revolution with Alan Knott-Craig and Gus
Africa’s literary excellence. We aim to raise awareness to Laugh, But …), Nik Rabinowitz & Gillian Breslin (South and updated paperback edition of Mandy Wiener’s Silber’s telling of the Mxit story in Mobinomics.
of the creativity and innovation of Africa’s people, and Africa: A Long Walk to a Free Ride), Danny K (Take it From 50 000-copy bestseller, with a new Postscript and Author
to showcase Africa’s literary prowess. The main areas of Me) and Shaka Sisulu (Becoming); and three classics Interview added (Killing Kebble); a second nail-biting All of Picador Africa, Pan Macmillan and Bookstorm’s new adult
focus are non-fiction memoirs and commentaries, and reissued in a beautiful new style to celebrate Picador’s thriller by Amanda Coetzee featuring dark, enigmatic books are available as eBooks. Visit www.bookstorm.co.za or
award-winning, well-crafted fiction. Some of our best- 40th birthday (Shirley, Goodness & Mercy by Chris van Wyk; hero Badger, this time set in Albania (Redemption www.panmacmillan.co.za for details.
selling backlist authors include Steve Biko (I Write What Mukiwa by Peter Godwin and I Write What I Like by Steve Song); Elana Bregin’s part-wry romance, part-social
I Like); Njabulo Ndebele (Fools and Other Stories and The Biko). commentary about one woman’s search for love and
Steve Biko Memorial Lectures); Es’kia Mphahlele (Down 2nd New fiction to look out for in 2012 includes a journey to happiness (Survival Training For Lonely Hearts);
Avenue); and Chris van Wyk (Eggs to Lay, Chickens to Hatch compelling novel about a young woman’s life in a and Kate Sidley’s vastly entertaining, unique title that
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and Shirley, Goodness & Mercy). harrowing Nigerian world of human trafficking by Ifeanyi puts hilarious, fictitious agony aunt columns alongside
More recently, Picador Africa has published authors Ajaegbo (Sarah House) and a darkly humorous and delicious, real recipes (The Agony Chef).
such as acclaimed Chilean-American author Ariel intellectually adventurous novel by Steven Boykey Sidley GIRAFFE BOOKS
Dorfman (Writing the Deep South and Heading South, (Entanglement).
Looking North), Alan Paton Award shortlisted authors
Jay Naidoo (Fighting for Justice) and Kevin Bloom (Ways
of Staying); Caine Prize for African Writing shortlisted-
author David Medalie (The Mistress’s Dog), Mandla Langa Launched in 2004, Giraffe Books is an imprint that
PAN MACMILLAN
(The Lost Colours of the Chameleon, winner of the 2009 features fun, relevant stories inspired by life in Africa, but
Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Best Book in the Africa Bookstorm is a boutique book publishing company celebrating universal themes, such as Niki Daly’s Next Stop
region) and bestselling author Moeletsi Mbeki (Architects offering focused experience and innovation in the Zanzibar Road; and Adrian Varkel’s Little Lucky Lolo and the
of Poverty and Advocates for Change). Under the Macmillan imprint, Pan Macmillan publishes creation of books for the general reading public in South Very Big Boy. Giraffe Books titles are published in many of
The year ahead promises more exceptional books mass-market fiction, such as Amanda Coetzee’s chilling Africa, with a current focus on non-fiction titles for adult South Africa’s official languages.
from Picador Africa, including: a new novel by Nobel Bad Blood, James Hendry’s riotously funny A Year in readers. Our backlist incorporates books previously Our children’s imprints include Priddy Books,
Prize winner Nadine Gordimer (No Time Like the Present); the Wild and Angela Makholwa’s Red Ink and The 30th published under the Rollerbird and Frontrunner imprints. innovative titles specially designed for babies, toddlers
three hard-hitting titles by Frank Chikane consisting Candle; mass-market non-fiction, such as Mandy Wiener’s In 2012 Bookstorm brings new titles from established and young children; as well as Macmillan Children’s
of a behind-the-scenes account of the removal of South African bestseller Killing Kebble and Joanne favourites while introducing some new writers we Books, which features the award-winning fictional
Thabo Mbeki as president of South Africa (Eight Days in Jowell’s Finding Sarah and On the Other Side of Shame; are sure will become favourites! We have a major new account of freedom fighter Solomon Mahlangu’s life
September), Chikane’s compelling autobiography (No Life as well as cookery books, such as Marlene van der cookbook from Marlene van der Westhuizen – her (Solomon’s Story by Judy Froman); and a beautiful picture-
of My Own) and a provocative collection on controversial Westhuizen’s Delectable and Sumptuous (co-published trademark recipes shot against the backdrop of her book edition (abridged by Chris van Wyk and illustrated
issues (The Things I Could Not Say); the powerful and with Bookstorm). hometown of Cape Town (Abundance); Jonathan Jansen’s by Paddy Bouma) of Nelson Mandela’s acclaimed
moving autobiography of one of South Africa’s leading Pan Macmillan publishes mass-market memoirs collection of Letters to My Children promises to bring his autobiography (Long Walk to Freedom).
trade union organisers Emma Mashinini (Strikes Have (Allister Sparks and Mpho Tutu’s spectacular Tutu: The social media wisdom to those who prefer the comfort of
Followed Me All My Life); award-winning science writer Authorised Portrait and Nelson Mandela’s compelling a real (paper or electronic) book. And we are introducing

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No Time Like the Present

‘Gordimer has undoubtedly Nadine Gordimer
become one of the world’s
Great Writers … her Nadine Gordimer is one of our most telling contemporary writers. With each
rootedness in a political time, new work, she attacks – with a clear-eyed lack of sentimentality, and an
place and faith has never understanding of the darkest depths of the human soul – the inextricable
dimmed her complex gifts as link between personal life and political, communal history. The exploration
an artist.’ of this theme in each new work, not only in South Africa, but the twenty-
Independent first century world, is evidence of her literary genius: in the sharpness of her
psychological insights, the stark beauty of her language, the complexity of
her characters and the difficult choices with which they are faced.
‘I have never been to South
In No Time Like the Present, Gordimer brings the reader into the lives of Steven
Africa but I feel as though I
Reed and Jabulile Gumede, a ‘mixed’ couple, both of whom have been
have … Hers is a remarkable combatants in the struggle for freedom against apartheid. Once clandestine
body of work.’ lovers under racist law forbidding sexual relations between white and black,
Penelope Lively, Financial Times they are now in the new South Africa. The place and time where freedom
– the ‘better life for all’ that was fought for and promised – is being created
but also challenged by political and racial tensions, while the hangover of
‘The towering figure of South moral ambiguities and the vast and growing gap between affluence and
African literature.’ mass poverty, continue to haunt the present. No freedom from personal
Justin Cartwright, Spectator involvement in these or in the personal intimacy of love.
The subject is contemporary, but Gordimer’s treatment is timeless. In No
‘Nadine Gordimer has earned Time Like the Present, she shows herself once again a master novelist, at the
a place among the few height of her prodigious powers.
novelists who really matter.’
Observer

Nadine Gordimer’s many novels include The Conservationist, joint winner
of the Booker Prize, Get A Life, Burger’s Daughter, July’s People, My Son’s Story
and The Pickup. Her collections of short stories include The Soft Voice of the
Serpent, Something Out There, Jump, Loot and, most recently, Beethoven Was
One-Sixteenth Black. She has also collected and edited Telling Tales, a story
anthology published in fourteen languages, the royalties of which go to
HIV/AIDS organisations. In 2010 her non-fiction writings were collected in
Telling Times and a substantial selection of her stories was published in Life
Times. Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
She lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.

March 2012 Fiction (Novel)
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Sarah House

‘This is a story, told with Ifeanyi Ajaegbo
passion, that the world –
beaten out of shape by men A compelling novel about a young woman’s life in a harrowing Nigerian
who prey on the powerless world of human trafficking and prostitution. Sarah House will stay with you
– should hear.’ long after you finish reading this testament to the resilience of the human
Mandla Langa spirit.
Nita wakes up in a dark world very different from the life of opportunities
promised to her by Slim, the man she loved and trusted to take her away
from the small town in Opobo in Nigeria. Soon she realises she is a slave,
bought and sold without her consent and forced into a life of prostitution
and sleazy strip clubs.
Every day Nita walks a tightrope of survival surrounded by vicious pimps
and thugs. She meets Tega, a fellow slave lured into prostitution by Slim;
she is sold to Madam, who runs Sarah House and makes money from young
women and children; she finds favour with Chief, an influential politician
who provides protection for Madam’s illicit business; and she must survive
Lothar, a renegade porn film maker.
Life in this nightmare world gets more complicated when Nita meets young
Damka and is approached by a police detective working undercover. When
Damka disappears and Nita discovers the child’s bloodied clothes in a room
in Sarah House, she knows she has to work with the police in spite of the
dangers to her own life.

Ifeanyi Ajaegbo is a development consultant and communications
practitioner who lives and works in Port Harcourt in Nigeria. His writing has
won awards and fellowships, including the 2005 African regional prize for
the Commonwealth Short Story Competition. Sarah House is his first novel.

February 2012 Fiction (Novel)
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Entanglement

‘Rare and highly welcome – a Steven Boykey Sidley
home-grown book of global
class and calibre.’ Jared Borowitz, charismatic physicist, is fast losing his sense of humour. The
Denis Beckett world is full of ignorant and superstitious fools. His mentor, a giant of science
and logic, is dying. His ex-wife has switched gender preference. He has even
punched someone for the first time in his life. And enjoyed it.
‘The humour, compassion
and insight that run through His girlfriend, morally certain and strong willed, is worried.
these pages speak of a first- On a restorative weekend in the country with opinionated and urbane
time novelist who should friends, Jared’s arrogance sets in motion a chain of events that brings menace
have come to the game a and violence into their lives over a long night. Confronted by both the best
lot sooner. The maturity of and worst in men, he finds his preconceptions about humanity shattered.
Boykey Sidley’s metaphor Entanglement ranges broadly across the tensions between science and
is evidence not only of the belief, free will and fate, art and artefact, violence and justice, sex and love,
wisdom he has won, but of arrogance and timidity.
the great twentieth-century
Darkly humorous, intellectually adventurous and continually surprising, the
writers who have touched
novel follows the transformation of a man of certainty and science when
him … This book reminds us confronted with a world he does not know.
why we read.’
Kevin Bloom

Steven Boykey Sidley has divided his adult life between the USA and
South Africa. He has meandered through careers as an animator, chief
technology officer for a Fortune 500 company, jazz musician, software
developer, video game designer, private equity investor and high
technology entrepreneur. He currently lives in Johannesburg with his wife
and two children. Entanglement is his first novel, sparked by a whiskey-
fuelled dinner party debate.

March 2012 Fiction (Novel)
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Redemption Song
praise for bad blood by
amanda coetzee

‘I simply couldn’t put it down, Amanda Coetzee
and finished it in one sitting.’
K.J. Mulder, Worldsinink.blogspot. She thought she would stop breathing. Looking back, she wished she had …
com
Dark, enigmatic hero Harry O’Connor, aka Badger, is on long leave from the
London Metropolitan Police Force, living once more among the Traveller
‘This is the sort of book that community he grew up with as he heals physically and mentally from the
can be devoured in a single strains of his last case.
sitting – the writing is simple,
When social worker Emily Meadows calls with news of a mother and
the plot engaging and the daughter trapped in the clutches of a brutal Albanian warlord named Jak
pace quick enough to get the Kraja, Badger sets off on a mission to free them.
adrenalin flowing.’
When Badger tries to escape with his charges, things start to go horribly
Claire Reddie, You magazine
wrong. As Kraja’s net tightens, Badger turns to former police colleagues and
the mysterious Albanian Traveller community for help. Badger must pit every
‘This assured debut grabs you ounce of his skills, wit and strength against a wily enemy and his henchmen
by the throat in the prologue as a thrilling race for survival unfolds.
and doesn’t let up for 200
pages … Coetzee plots and
paces immaculately. The
story tears along, switching
effortlessly between
locations and decades as
Harry uncovers a trail of dead When she isn’t writing crime thrillers, Amanda Coetzee works as
youngsters. He’s one of the a deputy headmistress. She grew up in Bedford, England, and now
most refreshing heroes to lives in Rustenburg with her husband and son. Redemption Song is
come along in a while, and I Amanda’s second novel after her acclaimed debut crime thriller Bad
Blood.
can’t wait to meet him again.’
Michele Magwood, Magwood on
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Survival Training for
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Lonely Hearts
previous praise for elana bregin

‘Shiva’s Dance [is] far from Elana Bregin
a saccharine formula of
redemption. Instead it Kate is a burnt-out South African editor at the busy Centaur Press publishing
develops from a story of house; over forty and lonely, she is driven to searching for love on the
frightening self-destruction Internet like so many other overworked professionals. There she encounters
into one with a universal the full spectrum of mid-life manhood, from the perilous to the pathetic to
application.’ the promising.
Tonight.co.za The challenges of finding a belated soulmate among the men of the
apartheid generation pose not a few conundrums for Kate – chief among
them, the realisation of how impassable are the gulfs in outlook between
the men who cross her inbox and her own personal non-negotiables. She
goes on some dates, accumulates some bruises, and has her eyes opened to
a few things about herself along the way. But it is the collision with her own
baggage that proves to be the most daunting encounter of all.
The coming into her life of a young African dog is the catalyst that forces
her to some painful realisations: in order to find the intimacy she longs for,
she first has to deal with her own destructive patterns. She loses her heart,
finds her mojo and, as in all good quest journeys, discovers that the map is
not the territory.
Part wry romance, part social commentary, Survival Training for Lonely Hearts
tracks the complexities of modern living in South Africa, caught between
the collateral damage of the old and the emerging configurations of the
new, across divides both personal and political. Through the experiences of
Kate, the online dating milieu and kaleidoscopic interchanges of the book
publishing world become an exploration of the broader issues we all face.

For the past eight years Elana Bregin has worked as a full-time
editor for publishers. Prior to that she was a freelance editor,
copywriter, dancer, dance teacher and ‘general factotum’. She’s
worked at everything from office admin to theatre promotion
to academic lecturing and tutoring, with a range of activities in
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August 2012 Fiction (Novel)
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The Agony Chef
Recipes and Advice for Life’s Pickles and
Predicaments
Kate Sidley
It has tried-and-tested recipes in it, but it isn’t a cookbook. It’s made up, but
it isn’t a novel. Agony Chef, the mysterious Delilah, is a witty advice-giver,
food-lover and a bit of a know-it-all who seems rather like the alter ego of
author Kate Sidley, but isn’t her, actually.
There’s no problem, big or small, that sardonic advice, a good pun and a
well-chosen recipe won’t solve. Whether you’ve run over the neighbour’s cat
or want to feel like Mother of the Year, whether your son’s exited the closet
or you’ve just smoked your last cigarette, Agony Chef Delilah is the go-to girl
for the vexing situations of modern life.
Part-agony aunt, part-foodie, Delilah has been there, cooked that. Neither
psychologist nor chef, she’s lived an eventful life on a few continents, making
and fixing mistakes both in the kitchen and in everyday life.
Join Delilah as she shares her wit and wisdom, her opinions and recipes and
her touching belief that food and good humour can mend fences and hearts
in The Agony Chef, a unique concept in cookery books that puts hilarious,
fictitious agony aunt columns alongside delicious, real recipes.
• Learn how to control an errant husband with passive-aggressive
cooking
• Discover the mysterious etiquette that applies to the newly facelifted
• Indulge in the marvellous magic of make-up ceps
• Make a pasta dish so delicious that your guests weep and beg for your
hand in marriage
• Find answers to the trickiest modern day questions: What should I
cook for my obese aunt? How do I welcome my fiancé’s gorgeous ex?
When did a food aversion become an acceptable replacement for a
personality? And many more …

Kate Sidley writes a weekly column on books for Sunday Times and a
monthly humour column for Shape magazine. Previously a magazine editor,
she now writes features and columns for many magazines and newspapers.
The Agony Chef is her first book. Kate loves to cook, but lays no claim to
‘chefiness’.

August 2012 Fiction (Cookery)
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Eight Days in September
The Removal of Thabo Mbeki
‘I admire the courage Frank Chikane
with which Frank Chikane
engages and reflects on Eight Days in September is a riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the
the crucial period in our turbulent eight-day period in September 2008 that led to the removal of
country’s history he is writing Thabo Mbeki as president of South Africa.
about.’
As secretary of the cabinet and head (director-general) of the presidency at
Nomboniso Gasa the time, Frank Chikane was directly responsible for managing the transition
from Mbeki to Kgalema Motlanthe, and then on to Jacob Zuma, and was one
of only a few who had a front-row seat to the unfolding drama.
Eight Days in September builds substantially on the so-called Chikane Files,
a series of controversial articles Chikane published with Independent
Newspapers in July 2010, to provide an insider’s perspective on this key
period in South Africa’s recent history, and to explore Thabo Mbeki’s legacy.

Frank Chikane’s former appointments include Deputy President of the
United Democratic Front, member of the National Executive Committee of
the African National Congress, commissioner of the Independent Electoral
Commission, director-general in the presidency and general secretary
of the South African Council of Churches. He was also involved in the
development and promotion of the African Renaissance vision which gave
birth to the New Partnership for Africa’s Development and the African
Peer Review Mechanism. Chikane is currently a pastor of the Apostolic
Faith Mission of South Africa (AFM) in Naledi, Soweto, the President of
AFM International, and he consults with companies that do business on
the African continent. He is the Visiting Adjunct Professor at the Graduate
School of Public & Development Management (P&DM) at the University
of the Witwatersrand and serves on a number of NGO and company
boards, including Kagiso Trust, Sci-Bono Discovery Centre, Amarick Mining
Resources (Pty) Ltd and Suntrace Africa (Pty) Ltd.

March 2012 Non-fiction (Current Affairs)
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No Life of My Own
An Autobiography
‘Frank Chikane is a living Frank Chikane
example of what we mean by
contextual theology … He No Life of My Own recounts the life of one of the leading figures in the
has given his life, and is still Christian resistance to apartheid.
giving it, for the people of
South Africa.’ Beginning with his childhood growing up black under an oppressive system,
and continuing through to his call to the Christian ministry, Frank Chikane
Albert H. Cone tells of his family’s increasing involvement in the struggle against apartheid,
the disapproval and suspension he faced from his own church, and the
‘In No Life of My Own, Frank harrowing detention, harassment, torture and exile he endured.
Chikane, in a very real Chikane relates his return to South Africa, despite the threat of further
and very personal way, detention and death, to continue the fight for freedom. Through it all one
rewrites that biblical story thing remains clear: this is a man whose faith compels and sustains him in a
[of the Exodus], through courageous and selfless journey towards freedom.
his own and his peoples’ First published by Skotaville in South Africa in 1988, this compelling
experiences … it is finally a autobiography is revised and updated to include the key events and political
story of Christian faith, the and social landscapes that have shaped Chikane’s life since 1988.
vindication of Christian hope:
it proclaims that the poor,
the victims of the scramble
for power and influence Frank Chikane’s former appointments include Deputy President of the
in the world, will save the United Democratic Front, member of the National Executive Committee of
world.’
Kenneth Thesing of the South African Council of Churches. He was also involved in the

March 2012 Non-fiction (Autobiography)
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The Things I Could Not Say
From A(ids) to Z(imbabwe)

Frank Chikane
Under President Thabo Mbeki, the presidency came in for a great deal of
criticism for its handling of various matters. In The Things I Could Not Say,
Frank Chikane, director-general in the presidency of South Africa from 1996
to 2008, responds with a collection of essays that tackle a range of issues,
including:
• Threats to state security;
• Drugs, pharmaceuticals and the poor;
• Corruption;
• Thabo Mbeki and HIV and AIDS;
• HIV and AIDS intervention;
• Zimbabwe;
• The legacy and blind spots of Thabo Mbeki;
• The Growth, Employment and Redistribution programme (GEAR) and
the ‘Class of 1996’;
• The media as a target of intelligence projects;
• Freedom of expression and state secrets; and
• The Jackie Selebi and Vusi Pikoli matter.

Frank Chikane’s former appointments include Deputy President of the
United Democratic Front, member of the National Executive Committee of
of the South African Council of Churches. He was also involved in the

September 2012 Non-fiction (Current Affairs)
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Strikes Have Followed Me
All My Life
A South African Autobiography
‘This book is more relevant Emma Mashinini
today than ever. It is yet
another indication of the ‘This book will serve as a living memory of the evil of the apartheid regime. It
heavy price paid for freedom is an opportunity for me to speak to my children.’ – Emma Mashinini
so that we and those who
come after us live in a society Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life describes in compelling detail the life of
Emma Mashinini, one of South Africa’s leading trade union organisers and
free from oppression and
gender-rights activists. From her childhood in Sophiatown to the dark days
hate, a society that respects she spent in detention under apartheid and her lasting contributions to
the right to life and dignity labour organisation in South Africa, Emma’s selfless and courageous story
and a society where the only – published for the first time in South Africa – recalls and preserves a vital
limitations placed on us is chapter in our country’s history.
our own imagination.’
Includes a new Foreword by Jay Naidoo
Jay Naidoo

Emma Mashinini’s activism began when she was elected as a shop
steward and later appointed as a floor supervisor at Henochsberg’s clothing
factory. In 1975, Emma took up a position as the first General Secretary
of the Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union of South Africa
(CCAWUSA), growing the union substantially in the following years. She was
arrested in 1981 under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act and held in solitary
confinement at Pretoria Central Prison for six months. After her release
she spent some time regaining her strength at a clinic in Denmark before
resuming her post at CCAWUSA for another four years. In 1985, through
her role in CCAWUSA, Emma was involved in the formation of the Congress
of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). In 1986 she was appointed head
of the Department of Justice and Reconciliation, later working as Deputy
Chairperson of the National Manpower Commission and then as the
Commissioner for Land Restitution. She lives in Pretoria.

May 2012 Non-fiction (Autobiography)
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The Hungry Season
Feeding Southern Africa’s Cities
previous praise for leonie joubert
Leonie Joubert
‘Scorched is a stimulating
read, mostly because of WITH PHOTOS BY Eric Miller
the author’s metaphoric The food we eat is as diverse as the cultures and lifestyles of the people
and often poetic style of consuming it. But the issues underlying food run much deeper than the
writing … More importantly, whims of our cultures or palates. Until now, the subject of food security has
it makes you want to do mostly been viewed as a rural issue, with research and development work
something about global honing in on subsistence farming. But with the massive influx into cities, the
warming.’ focus needs to shift to the metropolis.
Don Pinnock, Getaway magazine The Hungry Season takes science writer Leonie Joubert and photographer
Eric Miller to eight different cities and towns around southern Africa as they
explore the complex issues around food security, including:
‘Meticulous in its research,
the information [in Scorched] • Childhood stunting and malnutrition;
is presented in a refreshing • The transition from traditional ‘African’ to ‘Western’ diets;
and surprisingly humorous • Chronic lifestyle-related illnesses associated with a modern diet;
style – better, even, than • Nutritional literacy, behaviour and choices;
Tim Flannery [author of The • Large-scale food production and urban food gardens;
• Poverty, joblessness and the geography of the city;
Weather Makers] or Al Gore.’
• Urban planning, supermarkets and the full food value chain; and
Duncan Butchart, WILDwatch.com
• Food wastage.
Ultimately, The Hungry Season looks at the crisis of hunger and malnutrition
surrounding us in the city, hidden behind layers of affluence and comfort.
It tackles the fundamental question: Why is it that in southern Africa we
produce enough calories and nutrients to keep the region full, satisfied
Photographer Eric Miller covered the and well nourished, and yet we still have such high levels of hunger and
anti-apartheid struggle in the 1980s, and malnutrition?
since the 1990s has documented South
Africa’s transformation. His coverage of
Africa for various European publications Leonie Joubert’s previous books include Scorched: South Africa’s Changing
has taken him from the horrors of the Climate, Boiling Point: People in a Changing Climate and Invaded: The
Rwandan genocide to famine in Sudan. Biological Invasion of South Africa. She was a Ruth First Fellow in 2007, was
His pictures have captured the stories of listed in the Mail & Guardian’s ‘200 Young South Africans You Must Take
women’s boxing, the training of sangomas To Lunch in 2008’, named SAB Environmental Journalist of the Year (in the
and evocative essays capturing highlights print/Internet category) in 2009, and has received two Honorary Sunday
of several dance and opera productions. Times Alan Paton Non-fiction Awards (in 2007 and 2010). She recently
He has worked in over 26 African contributed to Max du Preez’s Opinion Pieces by South African Thought
countries, plus many others further Leaders.
afield, producing an extensive archive
of documentary stock and some travel
images. His work has been published in
most major magazines in South Africa
September 2012 Non-fiction (Food Security)
and is regularly used in a range of major
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The Youngsters
A fresh, entertaining series of pocket books that feature prominent young South African
voices worth listening to. In My Arrogant Opinion
The Youngsters series explores topics of interest to the youth, ranging from hair weaves Khaya Dlanga
to discovering who you are and what you should do with your life, as well as issues
‘This book isn’t about anything in particular. I know that sounds a little disturbing, but hear
of race and gender, love and sex in the time of social networks, the music and radio
me out. I think that those people who read my work read it precisely because there is no
industries, comedy, empowering yourself and more … The series shares the naked particular pattern; they read it to find out what I have to say. Essentially I am like them. I am
reality of being a youngster in South Africa and helps you to make sense of it all. a conversationalist. I write like people talk. No fancy language; nor do I show how smart I
The Youngsters is edited by bestselling author and award-winning journalist am.’ – Khaya Dlanga
Mandy Wiener. Award-winning blogger and advertising guy who never eats black jelly babies Khaya Dlanga
discusses issues of racism, love and sex, money, gender and a range of things in between.
Khaya’s humour mixed with opinion is a recipe guaranteed to make you think and laugh out
Take It From Me loud.
June 2012 Non-fiction (Youth)
Danny K Khaya Dlanga is a Senior Communications Manager: Content Excellence at Coca-Cola
Paperback (148 x 128 mm) 128 pp South Africa. He writes in his personal capacity. He is a winner of the prestigious Cannes
‘They say there’s no business like show business. And that’s not because of the fame, or the 978-1-77010-246-0 Rights: World Gold and Black Eagle advertising awards. He is also a terror of the social networks.
money. It’s because of just how hard it can be.’ – Danny K
Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-251-4
Take It From Me records the ups and downs of the career path of South African singer,
songwriter, actor and producer, Danny K. A performer from a young age, Danny K talks about
the good, the bad and the ugly of the music business, his influences and how rejection can It Feels Wrong to Laugh, But …
sometimes pay off.
Anele Mdoda
Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-253-8
‘I am not my gap, but I own it. I am not my size, but I own it and you can’t use what you see
June 2012 Non-fiction (Youth) as a negative against me. I own me and proudly so.’ – Anele Mdoda
Paperback (148 x 128 mm) 128 pp
978-1-77010-248-4 Rights: World Carving her own path in radio, Anele Mdoda is known as one irreplaceable half of The
Grant & Anele Show on 5FM and, from April 2012, on the Drive Time show on Highveld
South Africa: A Long Walk to a Free Ride Stereo. A talker, a comic, honest and raw, Anele discusses everything from radio to hair
weaves and owning your size in It Feels Wrong to Laugh, But …
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According to these two ageing youngsters, ‘The hardest thing about history in South Africa is June 2012 Non-fiction (Youth)
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with a difference, what makes a comedian tick, some alternative political insights and
thoughtful crystal-ball gazing.
Join Nik Rabinowitz and Gillian Breslin on a side-splitting journey to discover the ‘real’ South
Becoming
Africa. Shaka Sisulu
June 2012 Non-fiction (Youth) ‘There is a poetic justice to life because we are the sum of our experiences.’ – Shaka Sisulu
Nik Rabinowitz was raised on the mean, green streets of Constantia, Cape Town, a world
Paperback (148 x 128 mm) 128 pp of ride-bys, piano lessons, and unrelenting love and financial support from family members.
978-1-77010-249-1 Rights: World Despite all this hardship he still managed to be moderately successful, achieving fame as Grandson of anti-apartheid stalwart Walter Sisulu, CEO of non-profit organisation
the world’s foremost Xhosa-speaking Jewish comedian. Cheesekids, creator, dreamer, father and devoted Afrikan, Shaka Sisulu discusses heritage,
BEE, inspiration, leadership, legacy and how you can carve your own destiny in the Afrikan
Gillian Breslin obtained a Journalism Degree from Rhodes University, but quickly realised soil in Becoming.
that writing is much easier when you get to make stuff up. After a brief stint as ‘The World’s Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-255-2
Worst Producer’ she started writing for television, and hasn’t looked back since (mostly
because that’s where the creditors are). Gillian and Nik have been working together since June 2012 Non-fiction (Youth)
2008. Paperback (148 x 128 mm) 128 pp
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