Ice Shock and Southern Imagining at Gondwana in Lisbon
If you’re in Lisbon on the 20th of February, please join Elleke and the great Alberto Manguel at Gondwana bookshop to talk about all things southern and Elleke’s two new […]
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Books on the Bay 2026
Elleke will be in conversation with Karina Szczurek about Ice Shock at the Books on the Bay festival in Simon’s Town on 14 March 2026.
Barbara Boswell reviews Ice Shock by Elleke Boehmer for the JRB
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]
Review of Ice Shock in The Polar Journal
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
London launch of Ice Shock with Kate Kennedy
Elleke will be in conversation with Kate Kennedy at Hatchards in Piccadilly, London on 18 February 2026.
Oxford launch of Ice Shock: Conversation with Richard Beard
Elleke will be in conversation with Richard Beard about Ice Shock at Daunt Books in Oxford on 3 February 2026.
Cape Town launch of Ice Shock at Exclusive Books, Cavendish
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.
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