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This year’s must-read psychological thriller – Devotion by Madeline Stevens
A captivating debut novel about a woman who falls into an overwhelming mutual obsession with the Upper East Side mother who hires her as a nanny.
Watch the trailer for the award-winning film adaptation of Elsa Joubert’s celebrated novel The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena
Poppie Nongena, the movie based on the celebrated novel The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena by Elsa Joubert, will be in cinemas on 31 January 2020.
How the Dead Speak by Val McDermid – The Queen of Crime returns with the eagerly anticipated new Tony Hill and Carol Jordan thriller
Electrifying and filled with masterful suspense, this is the most eagerly anticipated thriller yet from number one bestseller and queen of crime Val McDermid.
My African Conquest: Cape to Cairo at 80 by octogenarian adventurer Julia Albu
My African Conquest is a funny, feel-good story about adventuring through life – and never acting your age.
She Said – reliving in real time what it took to break the Weinstein story
From the prize-winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment and abuse, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement.
All the book launch details for Black Tax: Burden or Ubuntu?, edited by Niq Mhlongo (in Soweto, Rosebank, Pretoria and Melville)
Book launch: Black Tax edited by Niq Mhlongo | Soweto
The Guardian of Lies, the new novel from Kate Furnivall – a powerful story of a young woman sucked into the horrors of the start of the Cold War
The Guardian of Lies – a thrilling new novel from Kate Furnivall, the bestselling author of The Russian Concubine, The Italian Wife and The Betrayal!
‘Fierce and lyrical, furious and humane, this is the work of a master historian’ – The Night Trains by Charles van Onselen
The Night Trains: Moving Mozambican Miners to and from the Witwatersrand Mines, 1902–1955, by Charles van Onselen, is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Announcement: Buried – the first in an exciting new series from Lynda La Plante – coming April 2020
Buried, the first novel in a brand-new series from bestselling author Lynda La Plante, will be out in March 2020!
Don’t miss the Joburg launch of Coconut Kelz’s Guide to Surviving This Sh*thole! (19 Sep)
Howzit guys! You’re invited to join us for a night of caucasity with Coconut Kelz to celebrate her new book, Coconut Kelz’s Guide to Surviving this Shithole.
Cover reveal! The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel – the stunning conclusion to the Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy
With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.
Don’t miss the Cape Town launch of Coconut Kelz’s Guide to Surviving This Sh*thole! (17 Sep)
Howzit guys! You’re invited to join us for a night of caucasity with Coconut Kelz to celebrate her new book, Coconut Kelz’s Guide to Surviving this Shithole.
New book alert! One Day In Bethlehem by award-winning author Jonny Steinberg
One Day In Bethlehem, the new book by Jonny Steinberg, is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Don’t miss the launch of One Day in Bethlehem by Jonny Steinberg at Love Books
Jonathan Ball Publishers and Love Books invite you to the launch of One Day in Bethlehem by Jonny Steinberg.
Cover reveal! Coconut Kelz’s Guide to Surviving this Shithole – the new book by Lesego Tlhabi
Coconut Kelz’s Guide to Surviving this Shithole is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers!
Every ending marks the start of something new – The First Time Lauren Pailing Died, the debut novel by Alyson Rudd
Lauren Pailing is born in the sixties, and a child of the seventies. She is thirteen years old the first time she dies.
Read an extract from The Nickel Boys – the new novel by Colson Whitehead, based on a real reform school that destroyed thousands of children’s lives
Read an extract from The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead – the gorgeous, dazzling and heartbreaking new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad.
Black Tax: Burden or Ubuntu? – a thought-provoking and moving anthology edited by Niq Mhlongo
Black Tax: Burden or Ubuntu?, edited by Niq Mhlongo, is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers!
The only way to get your child back, is to kidnap another child … you are now part of The Chain – new by Adrian McKinty
The only way to get your child back, is to kidnap another child. Adrian McKinty’s new psychological thriller The Chain is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
‘A cool new generation of spy novel’ – The Most Difficult Thing by Charlotte Philby
Stylish and assured, The Most Difficult Thing is an irresistible combination of contemporary espionage and domestic suspense, and a compulsive, highly charged examination of betrayal.