Fiction
Sat – 30th Sep 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. …
Mon – 25th Sep 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!
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.
Fri – 15th Sep 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!
Thu – 14th Sep 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.
Wed – 13th Sep 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!
Tue – 12th Sep 2023
Find out more about The Fraud by Zadie Smith – a writer at the peak of her powers
From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, The Fraud is a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story – and about who deserves to be believed.
Fri – 8th Sep 2023
Find out more about Bridge, the new book by Lauren Beukes
Bridge by Lauren Beukes is out now from Penguin Random House SA!
Wed – 6th Sep 2023
Finding inspiration in the ancient world – Conn Iggulden on writing his bestselling historical fiction
Stories and myths from the ancient world have transcended millennia, and it’s from these that author Conn Iggulden draws inspiration for his bestselling historical fiction.
Calling all writers! Submissions are now open at Jacana Media
Jacana Media is calling for submissions! If you’re a writer who is looking for a publisher, this is a rare chance to have your work read and considered by one of the country’s best.
Fri – 1st Sep 2023
‘Most families are bound not just by blood but by secrets’ – Abraham Verghese on his masterful new novel The Covenant of Water
From Abraham Verghese, author of the bestselling novel Cutting for Stone, comes a stunning and magisterial new epic of love, faith and …
New book alert! At Fire Hour by Barry Gilder – an unforgettable and deeply moving tale
Join Jacana Media in celebrating the release of Barry Gilder’s latest novel, At Fire Hour.
Thu – 31st Aug 2023
Shari Lapena chats about her unputdownable new thriller Everyone Here is Lying
Author Shari Lapena chats to The Penguin Post about her thrilling new novel, Everyone Here is Lying, and what draws her to writing about domestic bliss gone wrong.
Wed – 30th Aug 2023
‘I’ve been betrayed by people a few times, and it hurts’ – In conversation with Lesley Pearse on her new novel, Betrayal
Lesley Pearse worked her way through a number of jobs, including nanny, bunny girl, dressmaker and full-time mother before, at the age of 49, she became a published writer.
Tue – 29th Aug 2023
Five Minutes with Douglas Kruger on his new psychological thriller Character Scan
Read an interview with Douglas Kruger on his new novel Character Scan!
Fri – 25th Aug 2023
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett – a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents led before their children were born
Ann Patchett’s new novel Tom Lake is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Footnotes, August 2023: Book links from around the web
It has just been revealed that George Bernard Shaw set lawyers on DC Comics after their publication of the comic book Superman in 1939, concerning his 1903 play Man And Superman.