Fiction
Wednesday – 21st November 2018
Abantu Book Festival organisers announce new additions to this year’s programme – including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie!
Abantu Book Festival organisers have announced some additional international guests of this year’s event, namely Odafe Atogun, Lola Shoneyin and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. …
‘Writing at least one book a year, I have to be disciplined’ – An interview with Tony Park, author of Scent of Fear
Tony Park chatted to Pan Macmillan about his writing process, influences and research for his African themed books, including the upcoming Scent of Fear!
Her enemies will learn the true meaning of fear … Dean Koontz’s new novel The Forbidden Door is out now
The No.1 New York Times bestseller and master of suspense Dean Koontz returns with the new Jane Hawk blockbuster – The Forbidden Door!
Tuesday – 20th November 2018
Win a Krugerrand with Jeffrey Archer and Pan Macmillan!
Pick up a copy of Jeffrey Archer’s new book, Heads You Win, and you could win a Krugerrand!
Monday – 19th November 2018
Read an excerpt from Lee Child’s new Jack Reacher adventure Past Tense – the most hotly anticipated thriller of 2018
Don’t believe us? Read an extract here: https://bit.ly/2Eeqdse then rush out to get your own copy of Jack Reacher’s most stomach-clenching, hair-raising, blood-curdling ticking time bomb of an adventure yet.
Scent of Fear by Tony Park – a novel from the front lines of the war on poaching
Tony Park’s new novel Scent of Fear releases in South Africa in December and draws on the real life war on poaching for inspiration.
Friday – 16th November 2018
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, the international bestseller by Holly Ringland
Staying in this evening? Settle in with a glass of wine and this extended excerpt from The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, the enchanting and captivating debut novel from Holly Ringland.
John Grisham’s The Reckoning – his most powerful, surprising and suspenseful thriller yet
In a major novel unlike anything he has written before, John Grisham takes us on an incredible journey, from the Jim Crow South to the jungles of the Philippines during World War II.
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
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.
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.’
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.
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!
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 …
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
Win a copy Theo and Flora, the new novel from critically acclaimed author Mark Winkler
Three winners will each receive a copy of Mark Winkler’s new novel Theo & Flora, courtesy of Umuzi!
South African Literary Awards winners announced—Mongane Wally Serote is South Africa’s new Poet Laureate
Mongane Wally Serote has been announced as South Africa’s new Poet Laureate at the 2018 South African Literary Awards ceremony.