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Thursday – 23rd February 2023
Join Nicci Robertson for the launch of Thrive: Healthy Recipes that Break the Diet Rules in Sandton (2 Mar)
You’re invited to the launch of Thrive: Healthy Recipes that Break the Diet Rules by Nicci Robertson!
In the latest episode of Pagecast, Eric Orton chats to Sean Robson about Born to Run 2: The Ultimate Training Guide!
This week’s episode of Pagecast, the podcast from Jonathan Ball Publishers, features the amazing and inspiring new book Born to Run 2.
Friday – 17th February 2023
The Manifesto Mixtape – listen to the Sound of Jacana, hosted by Charles Leonard
The Sound of Jacana Podcast and Mixtape, hosted by Charles Leonard, is out now!
Wednesday – 15th February 2023
Join Jacana Media in Centurion or Johannesburg for the launch of The Lost Prince of the ANC (15 and 16 Feb)
Jacana Media invites you to celebrate the launch of The Lost Prince of the ANC: The Life and Times of Jabulani Nobleman ‘Mzala’ Nxumalo by Mandla J Radebe.
Tuesday – 14th February 2023
Don’t miss the launch of In My Life: Stories From Young Activists in South Africa 2002–2022 at Love Books (23 Feb)
Jacana Media invites you to the launch of In My Life: Stories From Young Activists in South Africa 2002–2022, edited by Shannon Walsh, Claudia Mitchell and Mandla Oliphant.
‘It’s about how large-scale international events penetrate the lives of ordinary individuals’ – Ian McEwan chats about his new novel Lessons
Epic, mesmerising and deeply humane, Lessons, the new novel from Ian McEwan, is a chronicle for our times – a powerful meditation on history and humanity through the prism of one ordinary man.
Three women. Five centuries. One secret. Listen to an excerpt from Emilia Hart’s Weyward, one of the biggest debuts of 2023
Listen to an excerpt from Weyward, Emilia Hart’s enthralling novel of female resilience and the transformative power of the natural world.
Monday – 13th February 2023
Listen to the new episode of Pagecast! Cariad Lloyd chats about her new book You Are Not Alone
In the latest episode of Pagecast, the podcast from Jonathan Ball Publishers, Pippa Hudson chats to Cariad Lloyd about her new book You Are Not Alone.
New book alert! A Spell of Good Things by Ayobami Adebayo – a dazzling story of romantic obsession and political corruption
A Spell of Good Things, the highly anticipated second novel from Ayobami Adebayo, will be out in March from Penguin Random House!
Friday – 10th February 2023
Gaan Libbi de Lange die keer haar tribe vind? Lees ’n uittreksel uit Kristel Loots se jongste roman, Die lang papawer
‘Natuurlik het Libbi de Lange – die langste meisie in die kontrei – nie self haar naam gekies nie …’ Lees ’n uittreksel uit Die lang papawer deur Kristel Loots!
‘What are you searching for, Michael? What have you lost?’ Read an extract from David Viviers’s debut novel Mirage
Penguin Random House SA has shared an excerpt from Mirage, the debut novel by David Viviers.
Win one of 20 date nights at a Doppio Zero near you with 8 Rules of Love by Jay Shetty and Jonathan Ball Publishers
Jonathan Ball Publishers is giving away 20 date nights at Doppio Zero to celebrate the publication of 8 Rules of Love: How to Find it, Keep it, and Let it Go by Jay Shetty!
You can now listen to Undercover with Mandela’s Spies: The Story of The Boy Who Crossed the Square as an audiobook!
Undercover with Mandela’s Spies: The Story of The Boy Who Crossed the Square, the bestselling memoir by Bradley D Steyn and Mark Fine, is out as an audiobook!
Thursday – 9th February 2023
‘They circled the body in the snow’ – Read an extract from The Drift, the chilling new mystery by CJ Tudor
Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption in this audacious, utterly gripping novel of catastrophe and survival at the end of the world, from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man.
Don’t miss the Joburg launch of The Inheritors by Eve Fairbanks at Love Books (28 Feb)
Join Jonathan Ball Publishers and Love Books for the launch of The Inheritors by Eve Fairbanks.
Wednesday – 8th February 2023
Don’t miss the Cape Town launch of The Inheritors by Eve Fairbanks at The Book Lounge (23 Feb)
Join Jonathan Ball Publishers and The Book Lounge for the launch of The Inheritors by Eve Fairbanks.
New book alert! Girls Don’t Do That by Banyana Banyana star Thembi Kgatlana and Nikolaos Kirkinis
Jacana Media is thrilled, no, excited, no, over the moon, to announce the forthcoming publication of Girls Don’t Do That, by Thembi Kgatlana and Nikolaos Kirkinis.
Don’t miss debut author David Ralph Viviers and Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut in conversation at The Book Lounge (2 Mar)
Penguin Random House and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of Mirage by David Ralph Viviers.
Tuesday – 7th February 2023
The new episode of Pagecast is out now! Prue Leith chats about her latest cookbook Bliss on Toast
In this week’s episode of Pagecast, the podcast from Jonathan Ball Publishers, co-producer Nicola Bruns chats to Dame Prue Leith about her latest cookbook, Bliss on Toast.
An epic tale with a message for us all: our power is fleeting, but our stories last forever. This is Salman Rushdie at his best.
Salman Rushdie’s triumphant return to literature, Victory City, is out now from Penguin Random House!