Collectable Pocket Hardback — Xander Beattie (2025)
First edition
ZAR 490.00
Only 100 copies of the pocket-sized hardback edition were produced, each crafted by hand in Johannesburg.

When a salacious fictional story about the nation’s president is published online, the ruling party and its supporters are enraged. As pressure grows for the story to be erased, its young author flees into hiding, carrying with him an explosive secret — and plans for revenge.

The President is a partly inspired by the vicious real-life backlash to Brett Murray’s painting, The Spear (which controversially depicted South Africa’s then-president, Jacob Zuma). However, in “this engrossing debut” Publishers Weekly says “the action doesn’t read like thinly disguised reporting. Instead, like the best political thrillers, it’s suspenseful, propulsive, and infuriating at once. Readers will be rapt.”

The President's original design was by Catarina Pereira of Voodoo Voodoo studio in Berlin. The hardback's layout, printing and binding was done by Pulp Paperworks.

The Fine Print
Genre

Fiction

ISBN

978-1-967449-01-9

Dimensions

105 x 148 mm (A6)

Format

Red Wibalin cover with pink gloss deboss stamps ~ pink Vanguard endpapers ~ 228 Munken Pure 90gsm pages

Binding

Perfect-bound hardback handcrafted by Pulp Paperworks, Johannesburg

Printing

Digitally printed in black and red by Pulp Paperworks

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