Ice Shock and Southern Imagining at the University of Pretoria
An event will be held at the University of Pretoria on 30 October 2025 at 11:30 to celebrate the launch of Ice Shock and Southern Imagining. The books will be […]
Joburg launch of Ice Shock at Love Books
Breaking the ice of Elleke Boehmer’s Ice Shock: a love story. All are welcome to this conversation with the Sunday Times’s amazing Michele Magwood at Love Books, Johannesburg on Wednesday
Ice Shock now in the Agulhas II library!
We are delighted to report that two copies of Ice Shock are now onboard the S. A. Agulhas II. The Agulhas II is South Africa’s famous icebreaker and features in
‘The last thing she needed’: Excerpt from Ice Shock in the JRB
The August Johannesburg Review of Books featured an enticing excerpt from the opening of Elleke Boehmer’s Ice Shock.
‘Gaining insight’: Review of Ice Shock in Business Day
In her Business Day review of Ice Shock, Arja Salafranca describes ‘One of the pleasures of reading this novel [as] reading … descriptions of [Antarctica] and gaining some insight into
Pre-order Ice Shock in the UK
Details of the UK publication of Ice Shock have just been made public on the Valley Press website! Pre-orders of the novel are now available for delivery in December 2025.
‘The Boy in the Cave’ shortlisted in The Emma Press Open Call Competition
We are delighted to share that Elleke’s novella The Boy in the Cave has been shortlisted in 2025 The Emma Press Open Call Competition. The judges describe it as: An
Southern Imagining: A Literary and Cultural History of the Far Southern Hemisphere
Published by Princeton University Press, 2025 A northern viewpoint is most often the default, while the south—the far southern latitudes occupied by Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and southern Africa, among