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Friday – 16th November 2018
Career opportunities: Jacana Media is hiring! (Marketing Manager, Marketing Administrator, Digital Coordinator)
Jacana Media’s frenetic marketing department has a few vacancies for energetic, proactive, fast-thinking people.
A love for books, great ideas, excellent communication and loads of energy are essential.
Thursday – 15th November 2018
‘Wife and Independence’ – Read an excerpt and view photos from Michelle Obama’s intimate, powerful and inspiring memoir, Becoming
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States.
Join The Cheeky Natives for a discussion of Sisonke Msimang’s new book The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela at Bridge Books
Jonathan Ball Publishers and Bridge Books invite you to the launch of The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela by Sisonke Msimang.
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou wins 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey and Company Business Book of the Year Award
John Carreyrou is the winner of the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey and Company Business Book of the Year Award for Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup.
Every dish has a story and every chef has a journey – Lesego Semenya offers township cuisine with a twist in his debut cookbook Dijo
Soweto-born chef Lesego Semenya, well known as LesDaChef, shares his journey from the corporate world to being a chef, and offers township cuisine with a twist in his debut cookbook Dijo: My Food, My Journey.
Friday – 9th November 2018
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Rebecca Davis’s new book Self-Helpless: A Cynic’s Search for Sanity
The Friday Night Book Club: Exclusive excerpts from Pan Macmillan every weekend!
Thursday – 8th November 2018
Family secrets come back to haunt Jack Reacher in Lee Child’s new electrifying thriller Past Tense
Lee Child’s Past Tense – the most hotly anticipated thriller of 2018 follows our hero Jack Reacher on a quest into his father’s past, and climaxes in the most stomach-clenching, hair-raising, blood-curdling ticking time bomb of an adventure yet!
Read ‘The Mistake Maker’, an extract from Markus Zusak’s new novel Bridge of Clay
At the end of the lesson, with snow falling outside, he stopped her playing and held her hands, and they were whipped and small and warm. He clenched them, but softly, in his own obelisk fingers.
‘Juz wystavczy,’ he said, ‘dziewczyno bledow …’ which she translated, for us, as this:
‘That’s enough, mistake maker.’
A new edition of The New Century of South African Poetry, edited by Michael Chapman
This new edition of The New Century of South African Poetry now includes 125 new poems, with the addition of a fifth section covering works produced by poets who have made their mark since the early 2000s.
Read an excerpt from Unsheltered, the compulsively readable new novel from Barbara Kingsolver
Unsheltered – Barbara Kingsolver returns with a timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resilience and compassion in times of great upheaval.
‘Bitcoin has the potential to change the world’ – Mpho Dagada chats about his book Mr Bitcoin: How I Became a Millionaire at 21
‘The world needs to look up and notice that something that has the potential to change the world has risen among us. And that being Bitcoin.’
Try Zola Nene’s recipe for Roasted Tomato, Crouton and Beef Salad from her new book Simply Zola
Zola Nene has become quite a force on the South African culinary scene, yet her personal quest is to show people that cooking great food needn’t be pretentious or difficult.
How long can a dream survive? Every Breath, the new book by Nicholas Sparks, bestselling author of The Notebook
There are times when destiny and love collide. This story is one of them.
Don’t miss the launch of Deon Meyer’s new book The Woman in the Blue Cloak in Cape Town, with Mike Nicol (8 Nov)
Jonathan Ball Publishers and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of The Woman in the Blue Cloak, the new novel by Deon Meyer!
Watch an interview with Khaya Dlanga chatting about his new book These Things Really Do Happen To Me
In These Things Really Do Happen To Me, Khaya Dlanga shares some of the most embarrassing, joyful and hilarious events of his life, from his childhood until today.
Don’t miss the Joburg launch of Vanessa Raphaely’s debut novel Plus One at Love Books
Pan Macmillan and Love Books invite you to the Johannesburg launch of Vanessa Raphaely’s debut novel Plus One.
Vanessa Raphaely talks about the shocking big twist at the end of her debut novel, Plus One
It would be a weekend of fun, sunshine, champagne and partying. And it was all of those things. Until it wasn’t …
Join Fourthwall Books for the launch of Terry Kurgan’s Everyone is Present at Love Books
Fourthwall Books and Love Books invite you to the launch of Everyone is Present: Essays on Photography, Memory and Family by Terry Kurgan.
Celebrating the rich and untold history of investigative journalism – Southern African Muckraking, edited by Anton Harber
Southern African Muckraking: 150 Years of Investigative Journalism which has Shaped the Region celebrates the rich and untold history of investigative journalism in southern Africa and the crucial role it has played in holding power to account over the last 150 years.
Wednesday – 7th November 2018
The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela by Sisonke Msimang – a razor-sharp examination of the legacy of one of our most controversial figures
Sisonke Msimang’s new book The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela is out in November from Jonathan Ball Publishers.