Fiction
Monday – 9th July 2018
Michael Ondaatje wins the Golden Man Booker Prize for his novel The English Patient
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje has won the Golden Man Booker Prize, a one-off award for the best work of fiction from the last five decades.
Friday – 6th July 2018
Friday Night Book Club: Read the prologue and first chapter of The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse
The Friday Night Book Club: Exclusive excerpts from Pan Macmillan every weekend!
World rights sold for CM Elliott’s Sibanda series of Zimbabwean crime novels
Jacana Media is thrilled to announce that world rights have been sold for CM Elliott’s Zimbabwean crime novels, the Sibanda series.
Join Imraan Coovadia at The Book Lounge for the Cape Town launch of A Spy in Time with Ashraf Jamal
You are invited to the launch of Imraan Coovadia’s new novel, A Spy in Time, a dazzlingly original tale for extraordinary times.
Thursday – 5th July 2018
Book giveaway! Jacana Media is giving away copies of Nthikeng Mohlele’s Rusty Bell and Small Things
Jacana Media is giving away copies of the new editions of Nthikeng Mohlele’s books Rusty Bell and Small Things!
Don’t miss the launch of Shame on You by Amy Heydenrych, in conversation with Mohale Mashigo
Jonathan Ball Publishers and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of Shame on You by Amy Heydenrych.
Wednesday – 4th July 2018
She smiled a half-smile and asked, ‘Do you have a gun?’ – Read an excerpt from Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
What do divisions matter in a world full of doors? Read an excerpt from Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, a tale of love and hope, travelling from the Middle East to London and beyond.
The Outsider: The new book from Stephen King is edge-of-your-seat supernatural crime
At a time when the Stephen King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories.
Floored: When Seven Lives Collide – a unique collaborative novel by seven bestselling and award-winning YA authors
The Breakfast Club meets One Day in Floored, a unique collaborative novel by seven bestselling and award-winning YA authors: Sara Barnard, Holly Bourne, Tanya Byrne, Non Pratt, Melinda Salisbury, Lisa Williamson and Eleanor Wood.
Sunday – 1st July 2018
Hauntingly beautiful: Read an excerpt from The Possible World by Liese O’Halloran Schwarz
A captivating novel that will make you laugh, cry and see the world anew: read an extract from the hauntingly beautiful The Possible World.
Friday – 29th June 2018
Pitch your book and convince Jacana Media it needs to be published!
Jacana Media is once again offering aspiring writers a once-a-year opportunity to pitch their books in person at a From Pitch to Publication session.
Join Imraan Coovadia and Richard Poplak at Love Books for the launch of A Spy in Time
You are invited to the launch of Imraan Coovadia’s new novel, A Spy in Time, a dazzlingly original tale for extraordinary times.
Thursday – 28th June 2018
Jacana Media announces new Modern Classics series with How We Buried Puso by Morabo Morojele
Jacana Media has launched a new Modern Classics series, kicking off with How We Buried Puso by Morabo Morojele, to be published in June 2018.
Wednesday – 27th June 2018
Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology closing date extended to 31 August 2018
The Jacana Literary Foundation has extended the deadline for the Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology, which honours African writing and photography that ‘provokes thought on the topics of gender, social justice and sexuality’.
You Were Made for This – the gripping debut novel from South African author Michelle Sacks
Michelle introduces us to this gripping page-turner that provocatively explores the darker sides of marriage, motherhood. and friendship, and the inspiration behind it.
Tuesday – 26th June 2018
Bom Boy, Yewande Omotoso’s first novel, to be published in the US in January 2019
Yewande Omotoso’s debut novel Bom Boy will be published in the United States by Catalyst Press in January 2019. Catalyst Press is an …
Monday – 25th June 2018
Harry Kalmer and Bongani Ngqulunga win 2018 Sunday Times Literary Awards
The winners of the 2018 Sunday Times Literary Awards were announced on Saturday.
AJ Pearce says her real-life friends inspired the friendship in her debut novel Dear Mrs Bird
AJ Pearce says her own friendships inspired the characters in her debut novel, Dear Mrs Bird.
Don’t miss the launch of The Broken River Tent by Mphuthumi Ntabeni at David Krut Bookstore
Join Mphuthumi Ntabeni for the launch of his debut novel The Broken River Tent.
Friday – 22nd June 2018
Friday Night Book Club: Read the first chapter of Nthikeng Mohlele’s Michael K
The Friday Night Book Club: Exclusive excerpts from Pan Macmillan every weekend!