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Wednesday – 3rd July 2019
New book alert! A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, an addictive, twisty crime thriller by Holly Jackson
Secrets, conspiracies and ALL the red string have led us to this point: the murder mystery that everyone is talking about is finally here …
Authors, your once-a-year opportunity to wow Jacana Media is back! Pitch to Publication 2019 is now open
Jacana Media is once again offering authors an opportunity to pitch their books in person.
Tuesday – 2nd July 2019
‘I have a need to tell stories and the stories need to come out’ – Listen to Gail Schimmel discussing her fourth novel, The Accident
Listen to Gail Schimmel in conversation with Radio Today Johannesburg’s Sue Grant-Marshall about her fourth novel, The Accident.
Win a copy of Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s debut novel The Mourning Bird – winner of the 2019 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award
You can stand a chance to win a copy of Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s debut novel The Mourning Bird. Here’s how:
Don’t miss the launch of A Headmaster’s Story by Bill Schroder at Rondebosch Boys’ High School (17 July)
Jonathan Ball Publishers invite you to the launch of A Headmaster’s Story: My Life in Education by Bill Schroder.
Harry Kalmer questions what it means to be human in his latest novel, In ‘n land sonder voëls (Afrikaans)
Earlier this year, Penguin Random House published Harry Kalmer’s latest novel in Afrikaans – In ’n land sonder voëls.
Monday – 1st July 2019
Read an excerpt from The Enforcers, revealing a brazen plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela at his inauguration
Jonathan Ball Publishers has shared an excerpt from The Enforcers: Inside Cape Town’s Deadly Nightclub Battles by Caryn Dolley.
Read an excerpt from David Barclay Moore’s magnificent debut novel The Stars Beneath Our Feet
Penguin Random House has shared an excerpt from The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore.
Now available as audiobooks – Sue Nyathi’s The Gold Diggers and Craig Higginson’s The Dream House!
Pan Macmillan SA has released two new audiobooks: Sue Nyathi’s The Gold Diggers and Craig Higginson’s The Dream House.
Friday – 28th June 2019
Mozambique Hell Run: Trucking Tales of the War by Miguel Mitras
An unforgettable memoir about driving through Africa’s most treacherous roads during the Mozambican civil war. They called it the ‘Hell Run’.
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Achmat Dangor’s powerful and thought-provoking novel Dikeledi
Staying in this evening? Get comfortable with a glass of wine and Achmat Dangor’s Dikeledi – the story of an ordinary family in the extraordinary days of apartheid.
Cover reveal! An Image in a Mirror by Ijangolet S Ogwang is the latest novel to receive a BlackBird Books redesign
BlackBird Books has revealed its latest cover redesign – featuring the publisher’s bold new look!
Struik Nature Publisher Pippa Parker receives Special Honorary Award from the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy for Science and Arts)
Pippa Parker, the Publications Manager/Publisher of Struik Nature at Penguin Random House SA, has been awarded a Special Honorary Award by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy for Science and Arts).
Free mini workshop with Anthea Gardner, investment specialist and author of Make Your Money Work For You, in Cape Town (11 July)
Jonathan Ball Publishers and Exclusive Books invite you to a free mini workshop by Anthea Gardner, investment guru and author of Make Your Money Work For You.
Easy to understand, practical and informative, Invest Your Way to Wealth by Thobelani Maphumulo is essential reading
Thobelani Maphumulo’s new book Invest Your Way to Wealth – the guide to financial literacy – is now available from Penguin Random House.
Thursday – 27th June 2019
‘I wrestled with life and lost.’ – Read an excerpt from Nthikeng Mohlele’s novel Rusty Bell
Jacana Media has shared an excerpt from Nthikeng Mohlele’s novel Rusty Bell.
Don’t miss the launch of The Enforcers: Inside Cape Town’s Deadly Nightclub Battles by Caryn Dolley at The Book Lounge (11 July)
Jonathan Ball Publishers and The Book Lounge invite you to launch of The Enforcers: Inside Cape Town’s Deadly Nightclub Battles by Caryn Dolley.
Join Masande Ntshanga for the launch of his new novel Triangulum at Exclusive Books Mall of Africa (17 July)
Penguin Random House and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of Triangulum by Masande Ntshanga, winner of the Betty Trask Award and the PEN International New Voices Award.
The dark side of the internet – Listen to an excerpt from Peter James’s latest gripping crime thriller Dead At First Sight
You don’t know me, but I thought I knew you …
New book alert! The Death of Jesus by JM Coetzee – the final book in the trilogy that includes The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus
The Death of Jesus, the new novel by JM Coetzee, will be published by Text Publishing in October 2019.