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September 2010

04 September 2010 Storytime: Spring

August 2010

03 August 2010 Aniel Botha: 'n Dans met die Dood

04 August 2010 Jane Katyavivi: Undisciplined Heart

05 August 2010 Sarah Lotz: Tooth and Nailed

07 August 2010 Storytime: Little Monkeys

11 August 2010 Ronnie Kasrils: An Unlikely Secret Agent

12 August 2010 Max du Preez: Launch of the new edition of Pale Native

13 August 2010 John Peffer: Art & the End of Apartheid

14 August 2010 Storytime: Robots

17 August 2010 Poets Against Xenophobia

18 August 2010 Anne Kelk Mager: Beer, Sociability and Masculinity in South Africa

19 August 2010 Beverly Ryvroft: Missing

21 August 2010 Storytime: Sindiwe Magona

24 August 2010 Creamy EWOK Baggends: Pimp My Poetry

26 August 2010 The Bed Book of Short Stories edited by Joanne Hichens and Laurie Kubuitsile

27 August 2010 Happy Birthday to Sindiwe Magona!

28 August 2010 Storytime: Mr Men

July 2010

01 July 2010 Sasha Polokow-Suransky: The Unspoken Alliance

03 July 2010 Storytime: Polar Bears

05 July 2010 On the Sofa with David Baddiel and Frank Skinner

07 July 2010 Melissa Butler: removing

08 July 2010 Denis Goldberg: The Mission

10 July 2010 Storytime: Dorothy Kowen

10 July 2010 Storytime: Dorothy Cowen Gift of Gold

13 July 2010 Justin Fox: Marginal Safari

15 July 2010 Henrietta Rose-Innes: Homing

17 July 2010 Storytime: Things We Don't Eat

20 July 2010 Lynn Carneson: Red in the Rainbow

21 July 2010 Bill Nasson: The War for South Africa - The Anglo-Boer War of 1899

22 July 2010 Charles van Onselen: Masked Raiders - Irish Banditry in South Africa

22 July 2010 Caine Prize Winner Femi Terry at Lobby Books

23 July 2010 James Brabazon: My Friend the Mercenary - A Memoir

24 July 2010 Storytime: Friendship Day

27 July 2010 Open Shuhada Street Lecture: Shamil Jeppie

28 July 2010 Andie Miller: Slow Motion

29 July 2010 Wole Soyinka: You Must Set Forth at Dawn - A Memoir

30 July 2010 Fanie du Toit and Erik Doxtader at Lobby Books - In the Balance: South Africans debate Reconciliation

30 July 2010 Jay Naidoo: Fighting for Justice

31 July 2010 Storytime: Cool Nguni

June 2010

01 June 2010 Jenny Cargill: Trick or Treat - Rethinking the Future of BEE

02 June 2010 Antony Altbeker: Fruit of a Poisoned Tree

03 June 2010 Open Shuhada Street Lecture: The Goldstone Report

05 June 2010 Storytime: World Cup Fever!

08 June 2010 Johann Maree: Collective Bargaining in South Africa

09 June 2010 Marilyn Honikman: The Mystery of the SS Waratah and the Avocado Tree

09 June 2010 Robert Edward Bolton: Late Quatrains - Exercises and Complaints

10 June 2010 Nina Mensing: A Manic Marriage

12 June 2010 Storytime: Stories from Around the World

14 June 2010 Deborah Steinmair: Marike se laaste dans

16 June 2010 Youth Day: Tintin at the Movies

17 June 2010 Allister Sparks

18 June 2010 Poetry Evening: Liesl Jobson, Alan Finlay and Ken Barris

19 June 2010 Storytime: Sindiwe Magona

21 June 2010 Dr Mongane Wally Serote: Quite Footsteps

23 June 2010 Nicole the Great White Shark

24 June 2010 Lewis Gordon Pugh: Achieving the Impossible

25 June 2010 Athi-Patra Ruga

26 June 2010 Storytime: Moonlight

29 June 2010 Gaby Magomola: Robben Island to Wall Street

30 June 2010 National Geographic for Kids

May 2010

01 May 2010 Storytime: Happy Birthday Maisy

04 May 2010 Elleke Boehmer: Sharmilla and Other Portraits

05 May 2010 Meg Vandermerwe: This Place I Call Home

08 May 2010 Storytime: Autumn

11 May 2010 Chris van Wyk: Eggs to Lay, Chickens to Hatch

12 May 2010 Alex Smith: Four Drunk Beauties

13 May 2010 Deon Meyer: Thirteen Hours

13 May 2010 Marita van der Vyver: Just Dessert, Dear

15 May 2010 Storytime: All about the sky

17 May 2010 Ivan Vladislavić: Flashback Hotel

18 May 2010 Tina Bester at La Cuccina

18 May 2010 Muriel Barbery at the Book Lounge

20 May 2010 How 2 Help - A guide to worthy causes in Cape Town

21 May 2010 Ingrid Winterbach: Benederyk

22 May 2010 Storytime: Horses

24 May 2010 Open Shehuda Street Lectures: Should Israel be Boycotted?

25 May 2010 Lauren Beukes: Zoo City

26 May 2010 Braam Malherbe: The Great Run - Conquering the Sleeping Dragon Within: Life's Lessons on the Run

27 May 2010 Patricia Schonstein: Banquet at Brabazan

28 May 2010 Encounters with André Brink

29 May 2010 Storytime: Oliver Jeffers Day

April 2010

03 April 2010 Storytime: Easter

06 April 2010 Ros Kendal: The Angina Monologues

06 April 2010 Book Launch and Exhibition opening of Counter Currents: Experiments in Sustainability in the Cape Town Region

07 April 2010 Kate Kilalea: One Eye'd Leigh

08 April 2010 Open Shuhada Street Lecture Series

09 April 2010 Storytime: Amina Blackwood Meeks

10 April 2010 Storytime: Toys

12 April 2010 Mercia Streiman: On the Ball

13 April 2010 Marlene van der Westhuizen: Sumptuous @ La Cuccina

15 April 2010 Home Away: 24 Hours 24 Cities 24 Writers

17 April 2010 Storytime: Winnie the Pooh

19 April 2010 Not the London Book Fair @ The Book Lounge!

22 April 2010 Zwelethu Mthethwa: Photographs

23 April 2010 Fiona Snyckers: Trinity on Air

24 April 2010 Storytime: The High Seas

28 April 2010 Kopano Matlwa: Spilt Milk

29 April 2010 Robin Malan: Yes I Am

March 2010

01 March 2010 Samantha Reinders and Toast Coetzer: Key to Cape Town

03 March 2010 An Evening of Mystery: Peter James in conversation with Margie Orford

04 March 2010 Anton Krueger: Sunnyside Sal

05 March 2010 Chris Beukes CD Launch: Geraamtes van 'n droom

06 March 2010 Storytime: Squirrels

09 March 2010 Nathan Geffen: Debunking Delusions:The TAC campaign against AIDS denialists

10 March 2010 Breyten Breytenbach

11 March 2010 Lucien van der Walt and Michael Schmidt: Black Flame - The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism

12 March 2010 Ashraf Jamal: The Shades

13 March 2010 Storytime: Fairytale Day

17 March 2010 Janet Smith & Beauregard Tromp: Chris Hani - A Life too Short

19 March 2010 An Evening with Mike Nicol

20 March 2010 Storytime: Being Brave

24 March 2010 Bury Me at the Marketplace: Es’kia Mphahlele and Company - Letters 1943–2006

25 March 2010 Rainmaker by Don Pinnock

27 March 2010 Storytime: Spot

29 March 2010 On the Couch with Don Pinnock and Justin Fox

30 March 2010 Panel Discussion on The Energy Crisis with Amandla Magazine

31 March 2010 Damon Galgut: In a Strange Room

February 2010

03 February 2010 The Book Lounge at CIFA

06 February 2010 Storytime: Chinese New Year

09 February 2010 Hester Se Brood deur Hester van der Walt

10 February 2010 John Linnegar: Engleish our Engleish

13 February 2010 Storytime: Love

14 February 2010 Sam Umukoro: Heartstrings

17 February 2010 Looking Inside: Five South African Stories of People living with Albinism

20 February 2010 Storytime: Aliens

25 February 2010 Independent Designers' Network at the Book Lounge

27 February 2010 Storytime: Maurice Sendak

January 2010

09 January 2010 Storytime: Little Golden Books

16 January 2010 Storytime: Back to School

23 January 2010 Storytime: Art

28 January 2010 The Road to Absalom by Michael Gastrow

30 January 2010 Storytime: Dragons

December 2009

01 December 2009 It's our Birthday!

03 December 2009 Angela Read-Lloyd: The Artist in the Garden - The Quest for Moses Tladi

08 December 2009 Andy Mason: Don't Joke - The Year in Cartoons

15 December 2009 Seni Seneviratne - Back by Popular Demand!

November 2009

04 November 2009 David Everatt: Origins of Non-racialism - White Opposition to Apartheid in the 1950s

05 November 2009 Erica Emdon: Jelly Dog Days

06 November 2009 Zinaid Meeran: Saracen at the Gates

07 November 2009 Storytime: Teddy Bear's Picnic

10 November 2009 Antjie Krog: Begging to be Black

11 November 2009 Graeme Bloch: Toxic Mix - What's Wrong with South Africa's Schools and How to Fix It

12 November 2009 Abraham H de Vries: Verbeel Jou Dis Somer

13 November 2009 Neil Roake: Shiny Happy People

14 November 2009 Storytime: I Can Fly

16 November 2009 William Gumede: The Poverty of Ideas

17 November 2009 Justin Fox: Africa Lens - 20 Years of Getaway

18 November 2009 Casper Greeff: The Ayahuasca Diaries

19 November 2009 Jacob Dlamini: Native Nostalgia

20 November 2009 John Hunt: The Art of the Idea - And How It Can Change Your Life

20 November 2009 Trans: Transgender Life Stories from South Africa

21 November 2009 Storytime: Dr Seuss Day

23 November 2009 Günther Komnick: Impressions

24 November 2009 Dominique Herman: Perfect Weekend

24 November 2009 Zapiro: Don't Mess with the President's Head

25 November 2009 Douglas Rogers: The Last Resort - A Memoir of Zimbabwe

25 November 2009 Criminal (In)Justice in South Africa

25 November 2009 Phillipa Cheifitz: South Africa Eats

26 November 2009 Xolela Mangcu: The Democratic Moment

27 November 2009 Jo Noero: The Everyday and the Extraordinary: Three Decades of Architecture

28 November 2009 Storytime: Eric the Baboon

October 2009

03 October 2009 Storytime: Food

05 October 2009 Growing up Jewish in the Shadow of the Occupation

07 October 2009 Margie Orford: Daddy's Girl (3 picture/s)

08 October 2009 Francis Wilson: Dinosaurs, Diamonds and Democracy - with guest speaker Mamphela Ramphele (2 picture/s)

10 October 2009 Storytime: Underpants

13 October 2009 Creamy Ewok Baggends

14 October 2009 Judge Dennis Davis will be discussing the current bizarre goings-on in the South African legal system (1 picture/s)

15 October 2009 Fiona Ross: Raw Life, New Hope: Decency, Hope and Everyday Life in a Post-Apartheid Community

17 October 2009 Storytime: Music

21 October 2009 Danie Marais: As Almal Ver Is: Suid Afrikaners Skryf Huis Toe

22 October 2009 Andrew Brown: Refuge (12 picture/s)

23 October 2009 South African Horrorfest at the Book Lounge!

24 October 2009 Storytime: Things that Go

24 October 2009 Wor(L)ds (10 picture/s)

27 October 2009 Eben Venter: Santa Gamka (11 picture/s)

28 October 2009 Ten Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing

29 October 2009 Sonia and Alexandre Poussin: Africa Trek - In the Footsteps of Mankind from the Cape of Good Hope to Mount Kilimanjaro

31 October 2009 Storytime: Halloween

September 2009

02 September 2009 Sindiwe Magona and Helen Moffett Poetry Evening

05 September 2009 Storytime: Happy Birthday Elmer!

08 September 2009 Dawn Garisch: Trespass

12 September 2009 Storytime: The Little Prince with Tania van Schalkwyk

16 September 2009 Dave Chislett: A Body Remembered

17 September 2009 Carol Drinkwater: The Olive Tree

18 September 2009 Patrick Bond in conversation with Muna Lakhani on Climate Change and Social Change

19 September 2009 Storytime: Bugs in a Blanket

24 September 2009 The Blackheart Gang: The Tale of How

26 September 2009 Storytime: Unicorns

29 September 2009 Sue Williamson: South African Art Now

30 September 2009 Launch of Kontax, an M-Book, in association with the Shuttleworth Foundation

August 2009

01 August 2009 Storytime: Nicole Levin and Out of the Box

04 August 2009 Neil Parsons: Clicko the Wild Dancing Bushman (7 picture/s)

06 August 2009 Welma Odendaal: Landskap Met Diere (6 picture/s)

08 August 2009 Storytime: The Great Pie Robbery

11 August 2009 Aernout Zevenbergen: Spots on a Leopard

18 August 2009 Jane Taylor: The Transplant Men (9 picture/s)

20 August 2009 Maya Fowler: Elephant in the Room (5 picture/s)

22 August 2009 Storytime: Crocodiles!

25 August 2009 Toast Coetzer: Naweek

28 August 2009 Celebrating 80 Years of brilliant publishing at Faber (26 picture/s)

29 August 2009 Storytime: Spring Day with Charlie and Lola

July 2009

02 July 2009 Rahla Xenopoulos: A Memoir of Love and Madness Living with Bipolar Disorder (5 picture/s)

04 July 2009 Storytime: Farm day

07 July 2009 Sally-Ann Partridge: Fuse (12 picture/s)

11 July 2009 Storytime: Colour day

14 July 2009 An evening of poetry with Seni Seneviratne (2 picture/s)

15 July 2009 Albie Sachs: The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law (3 picture/s)

16 July 2009 Yvette Christiansë: Imprendehora (3 picture/s)

18 July 2009 Storytime: Circus Day!

21 July 2009 Bun Booyens: Sonbrand en Braaiboud - Die Beste van Weg Vol 2

23 July 2009 Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg: The Murmuring Deep

25 July 2009 Storytime: Harry with his Bucketful of Dinosuars

30 July 2009 Drucilla Cornell: Clint Eastwood and Issues of American Masculinity

31 July 2009 Don Garrard: Anecdotage

June 2009

10 June 2009 The Book of Jacob by Greg Fried and Lisa Lazarus

11 June 2009 Fly Fishing for Sharks by Andrew Alexander

18 June 2009 Touch by Karina Magdalena Szczurek (16 picture/s)

23 June 2009 Exhibit A by Sarah Lotz (6 picture/s)

24 June 2009 Ruth Hall: Another Countryside Policy Options for Land and Agrarian Reform in South Africa

25 June 2009 Imraan Coovadia: High Low In-Between (10 picture/s)

30 June 2009 Mail & Guardian’s A-Z of South African Politics (11 picture/s)

May 2009

02 May 2009 Storytime: Mother's Day

06 May 2009 Ann Gadd: The Ambitious Sheep and the New Ewe

07 May 2009 Robin Malan: The A to Z of African Writers

12 May 2009 Justin Cartwright: To Heaven by Water (3 picture/s)

13 May 2009 Petina Gappah: Elegies for Easterly

14 May 2009 John Saul: Decolonisation and Empire

15 May 2009 Andrew Feinstein: After the Party

16 May 2009 Storytime: Very Hungry Caterpillar Day

19 May 2009 Alexandra Fuller: The Legend of Colton H Bryant (5 picture/s)

21 May 2009 Don Pinnock: The Woman who Lived in a Tree

27 May 2009 Melissa Steyn: The Priza and the Price

April 2009

02 April 2009 Danie Marais: Al is die Maan 'n Misverstand

04 April 2009 Storytime: Space Day

07 April 2009 Toast Coetzer and Samantha Reinders: Key to Cape Town

08 April 2009 Brian Rostron: Black Petals

09 April 2009 Book Marketing 101 with Arthur Atwell, Danie Marais and Mervyn Sloman

11 April 2009 Storytime: Easter Day

14 April 2009 Andre Brink: A Fork in the Road

15 April 2009 Malika Ndlovu: Invisible Earthquakes

16 April 2009 Kerry Cullinan: Virus, Vitamins and Vegetables

18 April 2009 Storytime: Miffy Day

20 April 2009 Liz McGregor and Sarah Nuttall: Load Shedding

23 April 2009 Ben Turok: From the Freedom Charter to Polokwane

28 April 2009 Lorna Levy: Radical Engagements

March 2009

05 March 2009 Rob Nairn on Buddhism

07 March 2009 Storytime: Spot Day

11 March 2009 Antjie Krog: There Was This Goat

14 March 2009 Storytime: Irma Chait

18 March 2009 Richard Oxtoby: Achieving Your Full Potential

20 March 2009 Joanne Hichens: Bad Company

21 March 2009 Storytime: We Are All Born Free

24 March 2009 UWC: Kronos A History Journal

25 March 2009 Roger Smith: Mixed Blood

26 March 2009 Ted Botha: The Girl With the Crooked Nose

31 March 2009 Stan Greenberg: Dispatches from the War Room

February 2009

03 February 2009 Vladimir Shubin: The ANC - A View from Moscow (2 picture/s)

04 February 2009 Muriel Rubin discusses John Dronsfield and The Tempest

05 February 2009 Ida Susser: AIDS, Sex and Culture

07 February 2009 Storytime: Poetry Day

10 February 2009 IDASA

11 February 2009 Storytime: Duckie Day

14 February 2009 Storytime: Love Day

18 February 2009 Duncan Green: From Poverty to Power

22 February 2009 Gay Pride with Stephen Simm, Melanie Judge, Derek Fine Jane Bennett and Christina Engela

26 February 2009 Phaidon Architecture and Design Evening

28 February 2009 Storytime: Nicholas Day

December 2008

01 December 2008 Our First Birthday Party! (2 picture/s)

04 December 2008 Loftus Marais: Staan In Die Algemeen Nader aan Venster

06 December 2008 Storytime: Olivia Day

08 December 2008 Jeremy Gordin: Zuma

13 December 2008 Storytime: Book Lounge Birthday Party for Children

29 December 2008 Storytime: Tony Grogan's Cape Town Sketchbook

November 2008

01 November 2008 Storytime: Kipper's Birthday

03 November 2008 Brian Pottinger: The Mbeki Legacy

04 November 2008 Botsotso Sections of Six: Poetry Evening

05 November 2008 Neil Pendock: Sour Grapes (1 picture/s)

06 November 2008 Pippa Skotnes: Unconquerable Spirit

07 November 2008 Open: Erotic Short Stories

08 November 2008 Storytime with Gary Hirson

11 November 2008 Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architecture

12 November 2008 Paul Holden: The Arms Deal in Your Pocket

13 November 2008 Selebelo Selamolela: You Don't Fool Around With Mountains

15 November 2008 Storytime: Environment Day

17 November 2008 Dennis Davis: Precedent and Possibility

18 November 2008 Peter Harris: In a Different Time (1 picture/s)

19 November 2008 Max du Preez: Of Tricksters, Tyrants and Turncoats

22 November 2008 Storytime: I Love You Oliver Jeffers Day

24 November 2008 Dana Snyman: On the Back Roads

26 November 2008 Philip Tobias: Into the Past

29 November 2008 Reviva Schrembrucker: Mama Taxi

October 2008

04 October 2008 Storytime: Mad Hatter's Tea Party

07 October 2008 Michelle Matthews: The Whole Food Almanac (1 picture/s)

09 October 2008 Petra Müller, Ronelda Kamfer and Danie Marais: Poetry Evening

11 October 2008 Storytime: Wild Wild West Day

13 October 2008 Ingrid Winterbach: The Book of Happenstance

18 October 2008 Storytime: Dreamwalking with Bettina Schouw and Adam Carnegie

21 October 2008 David McDonald: World City Syndrome

23 October 2008 Sindiwe Magona: Beauty's Gift (8 picture/s)

25 October 2008 Storytime: Piet Grobler

27 October 2008 Zubeida Jaffer: Love in the Time of Treason

28 October 2008 Leonie Joubert: Boiling Point

30 October 2008 Wendy Woodward: Love, Hades and Other Animals

September 2008

02 September 2008 David Hewson: Dante's Numbers

04 September 2008 Jonny Steinberg: Thin Blue

06 September 2008 Storytime: Spring Day for Little Ones

08 September 2008 Raymond Suttner: The ANC Underground in South Africa

11 September 2008 Tracy Gilpin: Double Cross

13 September 2008 Storytime: Fiona Moodie's Noko Stories

16 September 2008 Rajend Mesthrie: World Englishes The Study of New Linguistic Varieties

17 September 2008 Willem Anker: Siegfried

20 September 2008 Storytime: Wendy Hartmann and Theo the Cat

23 September 2008 Erin Levitas: Through a Dyslexic Looking Glass

27 September 2008 Storytime: Where's Wally

August 2008

01 August 2008 Stormkaap 1

09 August 2008 Storytime: Little Lucky Lolo

14 August 2008 Just Keep Breathing: South African Birth Stories

15 August 2008 Jeffrey Deaver: Broken Window

16 August 2008 Storytime: Paddington's Birthday

21 August 2008 Finula Dowling, Megan Hall and Joan Metelerkamp: Poetry Evening

July 2008

03 July 2008 Tracey Farren: Whiplash

10 July 2008 Henry Trotter: Sugar Girls and Seamen

16 July 2008 Karin Cronje: Alles Mooi Weer

23 July 2008 Willemien Brümmer: Die Dag Toe Ek My Hare Losgemaak Het

26 July 2008 Storytime: Elsa and the Thingamajig

30 July 2008 Robert Berold and Bernat Kruger: Poetry Evening

June 2008

03 June 2008 Mamphela Ramphele: Laying Ghosts to Rest

11 June 2008 Isobel Dixon, Rustum Kozain, Kelwyn Sole: Poetry Evening

12 June 2008 Firewater: SA Brandy Foundation Tasting

24 June 2008 Sarah Lotz: Pompidou Posse

26 June 2008 Damon Galgut: The Imposter

May 2008

06 May 2008 Jane Bennett: Porcupine

08 May 2008 Alex Boraine: Life in Transition

10 May 2008 Storytime: Charlie and Lola

13 May 2008 To Have and to Hold: Same Sex Marriage in South Africa

14 May 2008 Anne Landsman:Rowing Lesson

16 May 2008 Richard Ford

22 May 2008 Patrick Cullinan Poetry Evening

April 2008

03 April 2008 Jo-Anne Richards: My Brother's Book (5 picture/s)

10 April 2008 Mike Nicol: Payback

12 April 2008 Storytime: Dr Seuss party

15 April 2008 Barbara Erasmus: Chameleon

17 April 2008 Electric Book Works poetry evening

19 April 2008 Storytime: Jude Daly - Lila and the Secret of Rain

24 April 2008 Adam Haupt: Stealing Empire

25 April 2008 Lauren Beukes: Moxyland

March 2008

01 March 2008 Storytime: Happy Birthday Winnie the Witch

02 March 2008 Gay Pride: Brent Meersman, Derrick Fine, Tamo van Arnim & Ryan Hellman

13 March 2008 Jonny Steinberg: Three Letter Plague

13 March 2008 Andrew Feinstein: After the Party

15 March 2008 Storytime: Ladybird Day

18 March 2008 DAAB Cape Town Architecture and Design Launch

19 March 2008 Jonathan Basckin: Abstract by Nature

26 March 2008 Phillipa Cheifitz: Book Lounge Cookery Club

February 2008

07 February 2008 Martin Meredith: Diamonds, Gold & War

13 February 2008 Steve Otter: Khayelitsha

16 February 2008 Storytime: Teddy Bear's Picnic

19 February 2008 Treatment Action Campaign: In Our Lives Series

27 February 2008 Richard Kunzmann: Dead End Road

January 2008

29 January 2008 Dawn Garisch: Once Two Islands

December 2007

01 December 2007 The Book Lounge opens its doors for the first time

06 December 2007 Our launch party (4 picture/s)

12 December 2007 Mark Keohane: Champions of the World