Rodwell Makombe has published a review of Ice Shock for The Conversation. In it, he describes the novel as ‘a breathtaking story’ and ‘an attempt to rethink and rewrite how […]
Join Professor Elleke Boehmer, who will discuss her two new books, Ice Shock (2026) and Southern Imagining (2026), in conversation with Professor Dame Hermione Lee on 26 May 2026 at
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
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.
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