Fiction

Tuesday – 2nd August 2022

Read an extract from NoViolet Bulawayo’s highly anticipated new novel Glory

Penguin Random House has shared an excerpt from Glory, an effervescent, punchy, piercingly funny novel exploring the fall of Robert Mugabe from Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bulawayo.

Monday – 1st August 2022

‘Skitterende ster. Dis sy, ja’: Lees die eerste hoofstuk van Die manjifieke ontwaking van Mel deur Jacolet van den Berg

Uittreksel uit Die manjifieke ontwaking van Mel: ‘Mel Welsh staan vir niks en niemand terug nie. Sy is doelgerig. Vreesloos.’

Friday – 29th July 2022

‘Sê nou sy uurglas het leeggeloop en Emma gee hom nie weer ’n kans nie?’ Lees ’n uittreksel uit Liefdesles deur Vita du Preez

Nie alle liefdesverhale het gelukkige eindes nie. Maar hulle storie het skaars begin …

Footnotes, July 2022: 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.

Wednesday – 27th July 2022

‘Skrik gryp haar vas. Haar kind het verdrink.’ Lees die eerste hoofstuk van Rooigety deur Bets Smith!

Uittreksel: Daleen Boshoff kry nog steeds nagmerries oor die kinderpornografieskandaal wat Makulu Manzi getref het – en dan kom haar dogter op die lyk van ’n tienerseun af …

New book alert! The Last Feather by South African-born debut author Shameez Patel Papathanasiou

The Last Feather, the first book in the Selene Trilogy by Shameez Patel Papathanasiou, is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers!

Tuesday – 26th July 2022

Read an extract from Listen to Me – the eagerly anticipated new Rizzoli and Isles thriller from bestselling author Tess Gerritsen

Penguin Random House has shared an excerpt from Listen to Me, the new novel from Tess Gerritsen!

Monday – 25th July 2022

Dol Heuning wen ’n derde prys – en SJ Naudé maak sy stem dik oor kwessies rondom inklusiwitieit en Afrikaans

‘Daar is baie verskillende maniere van wees in die wêreld, en al daardie maniere verdien ’n plek in die taal waarin ek skryf,’ sê SJ Naudé.

Friday – 22nd July 2022

Gaan 14-jarige Alex se jong geloof die grootste toets ooit kan oorleef? Vind uit in Hoeveel tande het ’n engel deur Jan Vermeulen

‘Hulle wil my been afsit, Simphi. Net hierso …’ Jan Vermeulen se jongste jeugroman, Hoeveel tande het ’n engel, is nou beskikbaar by LUCA!

Wednesday – 20th July 2022

’n Geheim begrawe deur tyd, geld en mag: ’n Kwessie van tyd deur Doc Marten van der Merwe is nou beskikbaar!

Jan Brand mag dalk die stof van sy hande af gewas het, maar binnekort gaan hulle vol bloed wees in ’n Kwessie van tyd deur Doc Marten van der Merwe.

Tuesday – 19th July 2022

Liefde is die antwoord in vier splinternuwe Romanzas – nou beskikbaar by LAPA Uitgewers!

Nuut by LAPA! Vier nuwe liefdesverhale deur Didi Potgieter, Lizelle von Wielligh, Ida Bester en Judy Troskie …

A young woman, bloodthirsty and out for revenge – Ashok Banker on his new book A Kiss After Dying

A Kiss After Dying is an utterly compulsive, totally original thriller with a truly jaw-on-the-floor twist; in author Ashok Banker’s own words, a ‘millennial revenge thriller’.

Thursday – 14th July 2022

5 easy steps to write your story! (Plus: WIN a creative writing intensive course)

If you have a story to tell, then tell it! Begin writing your memoir today with five easy steps from award-winning author and SA Writers College tutor Alex Smith.

New book alert! Margie Orford’s brutally compelling thriller The Eye of the Beholder – out in August

The Eye of the Beholder, the highly anticipated new thriller by Margie Orford, is out in August from Jonathan Ball Publishers!

Monday – 11th July 2022

Giving Voice to the Silenced – an interview with number one bestselling author Tess Gerritsen

Tess Gerritsen is the number one bestselling author of her hugely successful Rizzoli and Isles series, of which the latest is the highly anticipated Listen to Me.