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Monday – 18th May 2020
Buy the ebook and get the print edition free!
Jacana Media is running a special offer: buy the ebook and get the print edition free as soon as it is off the press.
Join Francis Herd and Nicola Kleyn for a free Business Book Club event to discuss When Crisis Strikes (2 June)
Join the Business Book Club for an exciting online event with Francis Herd and Nicola Kleyn.
Friday – 15th May 2020
Friday Night Book Club: Read an exclusive excerpt from Joanna Trollope’s new novel Mum and Dad
‘What a mess, she thought now … what a bloody, unholy mess the whole family has got itself into.’
Help your local independent bookshop survive and thrive – buy a book, receive a gift from Jacana
Jacana Media has teamed up with South Africa’s independent bookshops – spend R100 and get a free book! (Selected titles only.)
Bederf jouself met Didi Potgieter se stomende, sissende e-rotika, Perke – slegs beskikbaar as e-boek
’n Onwaarskynlike paartjie beland onder een dak tydens inperking in Didi Potgieter se jongste e-rotiese roman, Perke.
Fight Like a Girl – the Young Adult fiction debut from award-winning author Sheena Kamal
Fight Like a Girl – award-winning thriller writer Sheena Kamal delivers a kick-ass debut YA novel that will have fans crying out for more.
Pieter-Louis Myburgh wins Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Reporting for his book Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule’s Web of Capture
Congratulations to Pieter-Louis Myburgh, who has won the Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Reporting!
Thursday – 14th May 2020
Read an extract from The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha – the most ingenious and unusual novel you will read all year!
Penguin Random House SA has shared an extract from a new choose-your-own-adventure story (for adults) – The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha.
Poppie is uit die kerk, maar die kerk is nie uit haar nie: Die opstand van Poppie Nel deur Hans du Plessis, nuut by LAPA
Só ontvou Poppie se verhaal in Die opstand van Poppie Nel. Sy vertel vir Dominee Lukas van ‘n pastoor wat openbarings kry, hoe die pastoor haar misbruik en hoe haar gesin, veral haar ma, medepligtig is.
Take Jacana Media’s quiz and stand a chance to win a hamper of books worth over R1000!
How well do you know Jacana Media’s books? Take a quiz and win!
How to act with power – don’t miss a free masterclass with Stanford Business Professor Deborah Gruenfeld (27 May)
Join Stanford Business Professor Deborah Gruenfeld for an eye-opening look at how to cultivate and harness power in any role and on any stage.
Don’t miss the virtual launch of Born Freeloaders by Phumlani Pikoli, in conversation with Sithembile Mbete (19 May)
Join Pan Macmillan for the virtual launch of Born Freeloaders by Phumlani Pikoli.
Wednesday – 13th May 2020
The #ReadToDream campaign presents LAPA Uitgewers and its extraordinary collection of titles for young readers
Local publisher LAPA Uitgewers has an extraordinary collection of titles for young readers. They have a wide range of Afrikaans books but are also publishing popular titles in English and other local languages.
Penguin Random House publiseer rolprent-vrystelling uitgawe van Die Griekwastad Moorde deur Jacques Steenkamp
Die boek Die Griekwastad Moorde deur Jacques Steenkamp is nou ’n rolprent met Arnold Vosloo, en Penguin Random House SA het ook pas die rolprent-vrystelling uitgawe van die boek gepubliseer.
A great tool for teaching your children about art and creativity – Cobi Labuscagne chats about her book Explore! Awesome South African Artists
Nal’ibali chatted to Cobi Labuscagne recently about her book Explore! Awesome South African Artists.
Cover reveal! Find out more about Jodi Picoult’s forthcoming novel The Book of Two Ways
Do we make choices … or do our choices make us? And who would you be if you hadn’t turned out to be the person you are right now?
Find out more about writing and publishing internationally with Angela Makholwa on The Cheeky Natives’s Instagram Live
Angela Makholwa, author of The Blessed Girl, will be taking over The Cheeky Natives’ Instagram account!
Tuesday – 12th May 2020
Vier nuwe Romanzas deur Marilé Cloete, Alma Carstens, Renda de Waal-Fourie en Louise van der Merwe – nou as e-boek beskikbaar!
Nuut by LAPA Uitgewers – vier nuwe Romanzas om die koue weg te lees. Al hierdie romanses sal later ook as papierboek in die winkels beskikbaar wees.
Seeding the Great Divide – don’t miss a free land reform and food security webinar with Wandile Sihlobo and Richard Poplak
The Daily Maverick’s Richard Poplak and Wandile Sihlobo, chief economist of the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa, dig into inflammatory issues of land reform and food security in South Africa.
Firewatching – the first book in a new police procedural series by Russ Thomas – a ‘red hot debut for 2020’
Firewatching, the debut novel from Russ Thomas, is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.