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Life’s messiest moments make the best stories – find out more about Jojo Moyes new novel We All Live Here

Penguin Random House has shared an extract from We All Live Here, the new novel from Jojo Moyes!

Friday – 14th February 2025

Don’t miss a geeky quiz night to celebrate the launch of Playing Flirty by Shameez Patel (18 Feb)

You’re invited to a geeky quiz night to celebrate the launch of Playing Flirty by Shameez Patel!

Thursday – 13th February 2025

Join acclaimed author Penny Haw in Elgin for the launch of her new historical novel Follow Me to Africa (4 Mar)

Penguin Random House and Liberty Books invite you to the launch of Penny Haw’s new novel Follow Me to Africa!

Monday – 10th February 2025

NEW from Elizabeth Gilbert! All the Way to the River: Love, Loss and Liberation

All the Way to the River: Love, Loss and Liberation by Elizabeth Gilbert will be out in September 2025 from Jonathan Ball Publishers!

Thursday – 6th February 2025

New book alert! I Am Tshiamo: My Transition to Self-acceptance and Womanhood by Tshiamo Modisane

I Am Tshiamo: My Transition to Self-acceptance and Womanhood by Tshiamo Modisane is out now from Penguin Random House!

Wednesday – 5th February 2025

Don’t miss a poetry reading featuring Sanah Ahsan, winner of the Outspoken Performance Poetry Prize (6 Feb)

Jonathan Ball Publishers invites you to a poetry reading featuring I cannot be good until you say it by Sanah Ahsan.

Tuesday – 4th February 2025

The Secret of Secrets – the thrilling and long-awaited new novel from globally bestselling author Dan Brown

The Secret of Secrets – Dan Brown’s first novel in over eight years – will be out from Penguin Random House SA in September!

Monday – 3rd February 2025

Don’t miss Don Ross in Joburg for the launch of The Gambling Animal (5 Feb)

Don Ross, co-author of The Gambling Animal: Humanity’s Evolutionary Winning Streak – and How We Risk It All, will be in South Africa this February!

Friday – 31st January 2025

Don’t miss the launch of Follow Me to Africa by acclaimed author Penny Haw in Hout Bay (25 Feb)

Penguin Random House and Wordsworth Books invite you to the launch of Penny Haw’s new novel Follow Me to Africa!

Thursday – 30th January 2025

New Oyinkan Braithwaite coming this September!

Cursed Daughters – the highly anticipated new novel from Oyinkan Braithwaite – will be out in September from Jonathan Ball Publishers!

Wednesday – 29th January 2025

‘Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.’ Read an extract from Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

Penguin Random House SA has shared an excerpt from Elizabeth Strout’s new novel Tell Me Everything! Tell Me Everything is hopeful, healing novel …

Tuesday – 28th January 2025

Don’t miss Don Ross in Cape Town for the launch of The Gambling Animal (4 Feb)

Don Ross, co-author of The Gambling Animal: Humanity’s Evolutionary Winning Streak – and How We Risk It All, will be in South Africa this February!

Monday – 27th January 2025

Career opportunity at Penguin Random House SA: Helpdesk Specialist | Cape Town

Penguin Random House SA is looking for a dynamic specialist to both manage the technology and computer infrastructure that drives Penguin Random House’s business systems, as well as assist customers locally and remotely with technical support of workstations (PC & Mac), software applications and related technology.

Thursday – 23rd January 2025

Wednesday – 22nd January 2025

Don’t miss the launch of Spectres of Reparation in South Africa by Jaco Barnard-Naude at Exclusive Books Sandton City (30 Jan)

Jonathan Ball Publishers and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of Spectres of Reparation in South Africa: Re-encountering the Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Prof. Jaco Barnard-Naude.

Tuesday – 21st January 2025

Find out more about Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book The Message – an intimate exploration of extreme injustice

The Message by acclaimed journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates is out now from Penguin Random House SA!

Wednesday – 15th January 2025

Discover where Michelin stars meet Kalahari sand in Klein Jan (PLUS: Try a recipe from the book!)

In Klein Jan, Michelin-starred chef Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen takes us on an intimate journey from his grandmother’s farm kitchen to the heart of South Africa’s most mysterious landscape.

Thursday – 19th December 2024

Cover reveal! Find out more about Lindani Mbunyuza-Memani’s award-winning debut novel Buried in the Chest

Jacana Media has shared the cover for Buried in the Chest, the Dinaane Award-winning novel by Lindani Mbunyuza-Memani, which will be out in January! 

Wednesday – 11th December 2024

Don’t miss Mpoomy Ledwaba at Exclusive Books Centurion and get your copy of How Did We Get Here? signed! (16 Dec)

Jonathan Ball Publishers and Exclusive Books invite you to a meet-and-greet and book signing with Mpoomy Ledwaba, author of How Did We Get Here?

Fool your tastebuds with this recipe for Carne Pizza from All Sorts of Junk Food Made Healthy!

Penguin Random House SA has shared the recipe for a delicious Carne Pizza, from Chantal Lascaris’s new cookbook All Sorts of Junk Food Made Healthy.