Fiction
Thu – 5th Sep 2024
Join Jackie Phamotse for the Cape Town launch of her new romantic thriller The Tea Merchant! (7 Sep)
Penguin Random House and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of The Tea Merchant, a new romantic thriller by bestselling author Jackie Phamotse!
Mon – 2nd Sep 2024
By Any Other Name – literary powerhouse Jodi Picoult takes on her most heartrending and headline grabbing story yet
From bestselling author Jodi Picoult comes By Any Other Name – a sweeping and insightful novel of female identity and inequality set in Elizabethan England and present-day Manhattan.
Join acclaimed bestselling author Louisa Treger in Stellenbosch for the launch of The Paris Muse (18 Sep)
Jonathan Ball Publishers and Stellenbosch Books invite you to the launch of The Paris Muse by Louisa Treger.
Fri – 30th Aug 2024
Footnotes, August 2024: 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. …
Don’t miss the Midrand launch of Jackie Phamotse’s new romantic thriller The Tea Merchant! (31 Aug)
Penguin Random House and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of The Tea Merchant, a new romantic thriller by bestselling author Jackie Phamotse!
Tue – 27th Aug 2024
New book alert! The Housemaid Is Watching – the twisting, pulse-pounding new thriller from Freida McFadden
From bestselling author Freida McFadden comes The Housemaid Is Watching – another addictive psychological thriller!
Mon – 26th Aug 2024
Read an excerpt from Shari Lapena’s fast-paced, twisty, unputdownable domestic thriller What Have You Done?
Penguin Random House SA has shared an excerpt from What Have You Done? by Shari Lapena!
Thu – 22nd Aug 2024
Join Jackie Phamotse for the launch of her new book The Tea Merchant at Bargain Books Mall of the North (24 Aug)
Penguin Random House and Bargain Books invite you to the launch of The Tea Merchant, a new romantic thriller by bestselling author Jackie Phamotse!
Tue – 20th Aug 2024
Don’t miss the launch of Fien Veldman’s weird, incisive and unforgettable novel Hard Copy (29 Aug)
Exclusive Books and Jonathan Ball Publishers invite you to the launch of Hard Copy by Fien Veldman!
A psychopathic hitman, a ruthless drug lord … the stakes are life or death – read an extract from Deadly Benefits by Kurt Ellis
Penguin Random House SA has shared an excerpt from Deadly Benefits by Kurt Ellis!
Mon – 19th Aug 2024
There Are Rivers in the Sky – a meditation on love, loss and memory from Booker-shortlisted, bestselling author Elif Shafak
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak is a rich, sweeping novel about love and loss, memory and erasure, hurt and healing.
Fri – 16th Aug 2024
Wordplay, wit and murder! Kate Atkinson introduces her new Jackson Brodie novel, Death at the Sign of the Rook
Penguin Random House SA has shared a video of bestselling author Kate Atkinson introducing her highly anticipated new novel, Death at the Sign of the Rook!
Thu – 15th Aug 2024
Read an excerpt from The Murder Inn – a gripping must-read thriller from no. 1 bestselling author James Patterson
Penguin Random House SA has shared an excerpt from The Murder Inn by James Patterson and Candice Fox!
Tue – 13th Aug 2024
Join Shameez Patel Papathanasiou in Cape Town for the launch of her new novel The First King (16 Aug)
Jonathan Ball Publishers and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of The First King by Shameez Patel Papathanasiou!
Mon – 12th Aug 2024
Read an excerpt from Lies and Weddings – the new novel from international sensation Kevin Kwan
Penguin Random House SA has shared an extract from Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan, the iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians.
Calling all debut writers! Are you ready to launch your literary career?
The Jacana Literary Foundation invites aspiring authors to submit their entries for the 2025 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award.
Thu – 1st Aug 2024
[Watch] Josie Ferguson chats about The Silence In Between, her gripping historical debut about a family separated by the Berlin wall
In a special video recorded for South African readers, author Josie Ferguson chats about the inspiration for her novel The Silence In Between, which was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize.
Wed – 31st Jul 2024
New book alert! Sally Rooney’s new novel Intermezzo will be out in September
Intermezzo is an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.
Tue – 30th Jul 2024
‘I think I might have killed someone’ – read an excerpt from Nicky Greenwall’s debut thriller A Short Life
Penguin Random House SA has shared an excerpt from A Short Life, the debut novel by Nicky Greenwall!
Mon – 29th Jul 2024
If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate? Find out more about Here One Moment, the new novel from bestselling author Liane Moriarty
Pre-order the new novel from the worldwide Number One bestselling author behind the Emmy and Golden Globe winning HBO series Big Little Lies and recent smash hit bestseller Apples Never Fall.