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Karina M Szczurek chats about her life with Andre Brink and her new memoir The Fifth Mrs Brink

Ingrid Winterbach spoke to Karina M Szczurek at the Woordfees literary festival recently about her life with one of South Africa’s most …

Philip Lymbery, author of Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat, announces South Africa tour

Philip Lymbery, author of Farmageddon and Dead Zone, will be in South Africa in July. Lymbery will visit Johannesburg and Cape Town …

Read an excerpt from Rotten Row by Petina Gappah

Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her debut story collection, …

Writers pay tribute to Kojo Laing: ‘Africa’s best novelist, by far’ – Binyavanga Wainaina

Ghanaian novelist and poet Kojo Laing passed away on Thursday, 20 April 2017 in Ghana, according to reports. Laing was born in …

Read an excerpt from City of Friends – the 20th novel from Joanna Trollope

City of Friends is the twentieth novel from the highly acclaimed number one bestselling author, Joanna Trollope. She glanced at her phone …

Domina, the follow-up to the worldwide #1 bestseller Maestra – out now!

Everything you thought you knew about Maestra … you don’t. Judith Rashleigh returns in Domina, the stunning new thriller from the author …

Check out Penguin Random House SA’s book club selection for April

Penguin Random House Book Club If you love to read and belong to a book club then this is where you can …

Imbolo Mbue wins 2017 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for debut novel Behold the Dreamers

Imbolo Mbue has won the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her debut novel Behold the Dreamers. The $15,000  award honours the best …

Rachel Dolezal is coming to South Africa

Rachel Dolezal, who is currently on a book tour, is coming to South Africa for a dialogue on race. Dolezal, who was …

The many lives of the Nelson Mandela comic

Jeremy Boraine, Publishing Director at Jonathan Ball, on the many lives of the Nelson Mandela Comic: We first published Nelson Mandela: The …