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Thursday – 5th October 2023
Are you feeling stuck and limited in your profession? Join Shea Karssing for the launch of Freelance Like a Boss in Cape Town (16 Oct)
Are you waiting for the next bonus, the next promotion, the next public holiday, the next best thing?
Listen to the new episode of Pagecast! Sam Beckbessinger chats to Jenna Berkowitz about her new book Moving to the UK: A Concise Guide for South Africans
In this week’s episode of Pagecast, the podcast from Jonathan Ball Publishers, Jenna Berkowitz chats to Sam Beckbessinger about her new book Moving to the UK: A Concise Guide for South Africans.
Monday – 2nd October 2023
New book alert! Pigcasso: The Painting Pig That Saved a Sanctuary
Pigcasso: The Painting Pig that Saved a Sanctuary by Joanne Lefson is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers!
Don’t miss the launch of Zanele van Zyl’s new book Senidlile Kodwa? Have You Eaten Yet? (14 Oct)
Penguin Random House and the Mall of Africa invite you to the launch of Senidlile Kodwa? Have You Eaten Yet? by Zanele van Zyl.
Saturday – 30th September 2023
Footnotes, September 2023: Book links from around the web
At The Reading List, we’re trainspotters when it comes to interesting book links, and here are a number that caught our eye. …
Thursday – 28th September 2023
Join Matthew Blackman and Nick Dall for the Cape Town launch of Legends: People Who Changed South Africa for the Better (28 Sep)
Penguin Random House and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of Legends: People Who Changed South Africa for the Better by Matthew Blackman and Nick Dall.
Thicker Than Water by Kerry Washington – a deeply moving, bravely intimate memoir
Thicker Than Water by Kerry Washington is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Wednesday – 27th September 2023
Why do some countries thrive while others struggle? Dive into Rich State, Poor State by Greg Mills for answers
Rich State, Poor State: Why Some Countries Succeed and Others Fail by Greg Mills is out now from Penguin Random House SA!
Tuesday – 26th September 2023
What is the X factor that ensures a CEO’s success? Find out with KC Rottok Chesaina (27 Sep)
Join Jonathan Ball Publishers and GIBS Business School for a conversation between KC Rottok Chesaina, author of The CEO X Factor and three of the top CEOs featured in the book.
Monday – 25th September 2023
Joanne Joseph’s tender and lyrical novel Children of Sugarcane is out now as an audiobook!
Children of Sugarcane by Joanne Joseph – a novel of love, heartache and the indestructible bonds between family and friends – out now as an audiobook from Jonathan Ball Publishers!
Wednesday – 20th September 2023
‘In an eternal sea of code, I had learned to exist …’ – I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks by code-davinci-002
I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks by code-davinci-002, edited By Brent Katz, Simon Rich and Josh Morgenthau.
Monday – 18th September 2023
Join Matthew Blackman and Nick Dall for the launch of Legends: People Who Changed South Africa for the Better at The Book Lounge (21 Sep)
Penguin Random House and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of Legends: People Who Changed South Africa for the Better by Matthew Blackman and Nick Dall.
Come and meet Joanne Joseph in Sandton and Midrand and get your copy of Children of Sugarcane signed (19 and 21 Sep)
Joanne Joseph will be at the Sandton and Midrand Gautrain stations this week to meet her readers and sign copies of her novel Children of Sugarcane.
Friday – 15th September 2023
Win one of three copies of Lauren Beukes’s new dazzlingly inventive speculative thriller Bridge
Ready to cross over into a captivating tale? Penguin Random House SA is giving away three copies of Bridge by acclaimed author Lauren Beukes!
Thursday – 14th September 2023
[Watch] Stephen King reads from his chilling new thriller Holly
Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a Mid-western town.
Naomi Klein on the true threat of AI and her new book Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
The brilliant Naomi Klein joined Penguin to answer some big questions on the reality-distorting algorithms, social media regulation and the true threat of AI.
Wednesday – 13th September 2023
Joanne Joseph and Roshina Ratnam discuss the making of Jonathan Ball Publishers’s first audiobook
This week on Pagecast, author Joanne Joseph and narrator Roshina Ratnam take us behind the scenes for the making of Jonathan Ball Publishers’s first ever audiobook, Children of Sugarcane.
[Watch] Find out more about the new Thursday Murder Club novel by Richard Osman – The Last Devil To Die!
British national treasure Richard Osman introduces the fourth book in the record-breaking Thursday Murder Club series, The Last Devil To Die!
Tuesday – 12th September 2023
Elon Musk – the explosive new biography by Walter Isaacson is out now
Elon Musk, the new biography by Walter Isaacson, is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers!