Fiction
Thursday – 23rd May 2019
WIN 1 of 3 pairs of impeccably written novels by the award-winning authors Masande Ntshanga and Lauri Kubuitsile
Shake up your shelf life! Three lucky winners will each receive a copy of Triangulum AND But Deliver Us From Evil, courtesy of Penguin Random House!
Wednesday – 22nd May 2019
Read an extract from Ian McEwan’s provocative and thrilling new novel Machines Like Me
‘While his batteries began to charge, I made us coffee then scrolled through the 470-page online handbook. Its language was mostly clear and precise. But Adam was created across different agencies and in places the instructions had the charm of a nonsense poem. “Unreveal upside of B347k vest to gain carefree emoticon with motherboard output to attenuate mood-swing penumbra.”‘
Kenyan author and activist Binyavanga Wainaina dies, aged 48
Kenyan author and activist Binyavanga Wainaina has passed away, at the age of 48.
Presenting The Mourning Bird, the unflinching and assured debut novel by Zambian writer Mubanga Kalimamukwento
Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s debut novel The Mourning Bird – winner of the 2019 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award – will be published in June by Jacana Media.
Publication date at last for The Mirror and the Light, the final novel of Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy
The Mirror and the Light, the final novel of Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy, will be released in March 2020.
Tuesday – 21st May 2019
Don’t miss Heather Morris, author of the international bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz, in Joburg (22 May)
Bookdealers and Jonathan Ball Publishers invite you to the launch of The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris.
Monday – 20th May 2019
Return to the world of the multi-million-copy bestselling Chocolat with Joanne Harris’s new novel The Strawberry Thief
The Strawberry Thief by Joanne Harris is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers!
Friday – 17th May 2019
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Lucinda Riley’s The Butterfly Room – a novel full of unforgettable characters and heartbreaking secrets
The Friday Night Book Club: Exclusive excerpts from Pan Macmillan every weekend!
Karin Brynard’s Weeping Waters has been longlisted for prestigious CWA Dagger Award
Congratulations are in order: Karin Brynard’s Weeping Waters has been longlisted for the prestigious CWA International Dagger!
Thursday – 16th May 2019
You Will Be Safe Here – the debut novel from award-winning non-fiction author Damian Barr
You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers. This is the brilliant debut novel from the award-winning author of the memoir Maggie & Me.
Wednesday – 15th May 2019
‘I’ve spent a lifetime trying to forget, yet the smallest thing takes me back to the time the Dragon Lady was shot.’ Read an excerpt from Louisa Treger’s new novel
Jonathan Ball Publishers has shared an excerpt from Louisa Treger’s new novel, The Dragon Lady.
Join Lauri Kubuitsile for the launch of But Deliver Us from Evil at Exclusive Books Rosebank (23 May)
Penguin Random House and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of But Deliver Us from Evil, a moving work of historical fiction by Lauri Kubuitsile.
Steven Boykey Sidley joins MFBooks Joburg with new literary mystery novel Leaving Word
Internationally published author Steven Boykey Sidley has signed up with award-winning publisher Melinda Ferguson of MFBooks Joburg, an imprint of Jacana Media.
Listen to an excerpt from Tombland, the new novel in CJ Sansom’s number one bestselling Shardlake series
Pan Macmillan has shared an excerpt from Tombland, the seventh novel in CJ Sansom’s number one bestselling Shardlake series.
Tuesday – 14th May 2019
‘You know witchcraft is powerful, more powerful than your Jesus.’ – Read an extract from Lauri Kubuitsile’s new novel But Deliver Us from Evil
Penguin Random House has shared an extract from Lauri Kubuitsile’s new book But Deliver Us from Evil, a moving work of historical fiction.
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides – the gripping must-read debut thriller of 2019
With film rights snapped up by an Oscar-winning Hollywood production company, rights sold in a world record 43 territories, and rave blurbs from David Baldacci, Lee Child and AJ Finn, The Silent Patient promises to be the debut thriller of 2019.
Monday – 13th May 2019
Don’t miss the launch of Tony Peake’s exquisite new novel North Facing at Love Books (28 May)
Love Books and Jonathan Ball Publishers are thrilled to invite you to the launch of North Facing by Tony Peake.
Asymptote Journal announces a new essay writing contest judged by JM Coetzee
Asymptote, a journal dedicated to world literature in translation, has announced a new contest, to be judged by JM Coetzee.
2019 Media24 Books Prizes shortlists announced – Nozizwe Cynthia Jele, Niq Mhlongo and Kirsten Miller up for Herman Charles Bosman Prize!
Media24 Books has announced the shortlists for the 2019 Media24 Books Prizes. This year, prizes to the value of R210,000 in total …
Friday – 10th May 2019
‘I want to go back to Rwanda but I don’t want to go back to be Rwandan’ – Read an excerpt from The Eternal Audience of One by Rémy Ngamije
BlackBird Books has shared an excerpt from The Eternal Audience of One, the debut novel by Rwandan-born Namibian writer Rémy Ngamije!