I’m a sucker for second hand bookshops, actually I’m a sucker for bookshops, period. But if you want a real experience visit the Collectors’ Treasury in Commissioner St in Joburg’s eastern inner city.  It is located in an 8 story building – a very unprepossessing post-war structure, which is slightly further west of Arts on [...]

Boekehuis has been an institution in Jozi in terms of providing a public space allowing for informed, engaged and intelligent public debate. It is a sad inditement that the holding company, the large profitable corporate Media 24, seemed to look only at the bottom of  line of profit,  rather than seeing Boekehuis and what it offered in [...]

Sean Fraser who has written several travel and guide books, has just published one which covers Johannesburg, Soweto, Pretoria and surrounds. I have not seen it yet so am looking forward to browsing through it.  I still think that Nechama Brodie’s book on Johannesburg : The Joburg Book published in 2008, is excellent. For more [...]

The Taung skull – 2/5 million years old and very rarely displayed to the public, was on view at the Life of Bone exhibition which I just caught on the closing day last Tuesday 31st May.  I had seen the tiny skull of the 3 year old displayed in its 3 parts  at one if [...]

Jenny Hobbs co-founder of the Franschhoek Literary Festival and author of at least 8 books will be talling about here new book Kitchen Boy at the Morningside branch of the Exlcusive Books at 11 am on Tuesday 12th. You can have a day of book launches as in the evening Mandy Wiener will talk to David O’Sullivan [...]

WHAT:  Launch of Craig Higginson’s new novel The Landscape Painter                                                                                                                       WHO: Craig Higginson is a writer, theatre director and university lecturer. His plays as a writer include Dream of the Dog, The Girl in the Yellow Dress and Little Foot L. His other novels include The Hill and Last Summer .  Craig is currently the Literary [...]

Sophia Town-born novelist and poet, Mongane Wally Serote will be in discussion with Maureen Isaacson, book editor of the The Sunday Independent,  19 feb 12 for 12.30 Boekehuis cr Lothbury and Fawley Ave Auckland Park RSVP 011 482-3609; boekehuis@boekehuis.co.za 

I posted a blog on Peter Harris  In a Different Time’  :  http://lizatlancaster.co.za/blog/a-south-african-page-turner-and-its-all-true and now his new book about the conspiracy to destabilize the 1994 elections,  is to be released shortly.    The book will be launched at Exclusive Books Hyde Park at 6 for 6.30 on Tuesday 9th Nov.   RSVP to hydepark@exclisvebooks.co.za or 011 325-4298 

Boekehuis holds its Saturday morning Voices: A discussion with M&G investigative journalist, Adriaan Basson  & political journalist and writer, William Gumede  on  Basson’s book Finish & klaar  Selebi’s fall from Interpol to the underworld.   Boekehuis’ outline of the issues:  ‘From top cop to corrupt crook in six years – Jackie Selebi’s fall from grace came fast.  [...]

Novelist and author of  The Madams Zukis wa Wanner, artist Mary Sibande whose excellent exhibition Long Live the Dead Queen showed in July at Gallery Momo in Parktown North, and academic Shireen Ally who wrote Servants to Workers,  comment on each others work tonight at the Women’s Jail at Constitution Hill.  Hosted by Wits University, it [...]