In a review for the Johannesburg Review of Books entitled ‘A reluctant, complicated love story spanning the globe and a myriad natural disasters’, Barbara Boswell discusses Ice Shock as: [A] […]
Elizabeth Leane has written a review of Ice Shock for The Polar Journal: “Entangled stories of a warming continent: a review of two recent Antarctic novels”. In it, she calls
Elleke will be in conversation with Kate Kennedy at Hatchards in Piccadilly, London on 18 February 2026.
Elleke will be in conversation with Richard Beard about Ice Shock at Daunt Books in Oxford on 3 February 2026.
Elleke Boehmer’s Ice Shock: a love story will be launched in Cape Town on Monday 3 November 2025 at Exclusive Books, Cavendish. Elleke well be in conversation with Karin Schimke.
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
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
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 August Johannesburg Review of Books featured an enticing excerpt from the opening of Elleke Boehmer’s Ice Shock.
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