Fiction
Tuesday – 5th October 2021
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time, comes the highly anticipated Cloud Cuckoo Land
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers!
Monday – 4th October 2021
Donate to help a brilliant writer Terry-Ann Adams buy a telescope to assist her near-sightedness
Terry-Ann Adams, author of the truly brilliant Those Who Live in Cages, is crowdfunding to buy a telescope that will assist her in her near-sightedness.
Friday – 1st October 2021
Footnotes, October 2021: 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.
Innocent or guilty, everyone is damaged. Some are damaged enough to kill. Read an extract from A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
Penguin Random House has shared an excerpt from A Slow Fire Burning, the propulsive new thriller by Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train and Into the Water.
Lees ‘n uittreksel: Die onderwêreld is in rep en roer in Peet Venter se jongste misdaadroman, Een vir een
Is iemand besig om die grootkoppe in georganiseerde misdaad een vir een uit te haal? Lees ‘n uittreksel uit Een vir een deur Peet Venter.
The Country of Others by Leila Slimani – the first volume of a new trilogy telling the saga of one French family between 1946 and 2016
The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of Lullaby, about a woman in an interracial marriage whose fierce desire for autonomy parallels her adopted country’s fight for independence.
Read the first chapter of Over My Dead Body, the new book by international number one bestseller Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Archer has shared an excerpt from his new book Over My Dead Body – an unputdownable story of murder, revenge and betrayal. …
First look! Find out more about Zakes Mda’s new novel Wayfarers’ Hymns
Wayfarers’ Hymns, the highly anticipated new novel from Zakes Mda, will be out from Penguin Random House in October 2021.
Everything you need to know about The Heron’s Cry – the new novel from Ann Cleeves, the creator of Vera and Shetland
The Heron’s Cry is the second novel in the number one Sunday Times bestselling series featuring detective Matthew Venn, from the creator of Vera and Shetland, Ann Cleeves.
Thursday – 23rd September 2021
Read an extract from Snow Country, the spectacular, sweeping new novel from internationally acclaimed author Sebastian Faulks
Penguin Random House has shared an excerpt from Snow Country, the epic new love story from master storyteller Sebastian Faulks, and his most powerful novel since Birdsong.
‘Maar ’n geruime tyd al hoor hy niks nie. Die musiek, die note dis weg’ – Lees ’n uittreksel uit ’n Liedjie vir Anine deur Elsa Winckler
[Uittreksel] Bekende musiekster, Zander Breedt, se muses het hom verlaat in ’n Liedjie vir Anine deur Elsa Winckler.
Wednesday – 22nd September 2021
New book alert! Jeffrey Archer’s Over My Dead Body (Pre-order now!)
Over My Dead Body is an unputdownable story of murder, revenge and betrayal from international number one bestseller Jeffrey Archer – a rollercoaster thriller which takes detective William Warwick to the cold case unit, where he chases someone who thinks they’ve got away with murder.
Tuesday – 21st September 2021
Graffiti-aanlynkuier: Moenie die bekendstelling van Op ’n mooi dag deur Irna van Zyl mis nie! (30 Sep)
Kom kuier saam met Irna van Zyl by die aanlynbekendstelling van haar jongste roman, Op ’n mooi dag.
Video: Sophia Kapp en Elize Davies wen AKTV-Woordveertjies 2021
Veels geluk aan Sophia Kapp en Elize Davies, wenners van die ATKV-Woordveertjies 2021 vir romanses en liefdesverhale.
Buy the new Deon Meyer novel and stand a chance to win a luxury weekend for two in the Cape Winelands!
Jonathan Ball Publishers is hosting a competition to celebrate the launch of Deon Meyer’s new novel The Dark Flood!
Monday – 20th September 2021
Kom vier die bekendstelling van Moord op Lake Panic deur Leon van Nierop op Kaapsehoop, Mpumalanga (25 Sep)
Kom kuier saam met Leon van Nierop en Alita Steenkamp by die bekendstelling van sy jongste roman, Moord op Lake Panic.
Nathan Trantraal wen die 2021 UJ Literêre Prys vir die Vertaling van Jeugtekste vir Lang pad onnetoe
Baie geluk aan Nathan Trantraal wat die 2021 UJ Literêre Prys vir die Vertaling van Jeugtekste gewen het vir sy vertaling van Long way down deur Jason Reynolds as Lang pad onnetoe.
Friday – 17th September 2021
Friday Night Book Club: Read an exclusive excerpt from Shelley Parker-Chan’s historical fantasy She Who Became the Sun
Treat yourself to a glass of wine this evening and this excerpt from She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan – a glorious tale of love, loss, betrayal and triumph by a powerful new voice.
Lees ’n uittreksel uit Moord op Lake Panic deur Leon van Nierop – ’n who-dunnit wat naelbytspanning belowe (Plus: Video)
Uittreksel: Ontmoet Beer Henning, die speurder wat agter die kap van die mes moet kom in Moord op Lake Panic deur Leon van Nierop.
Thursday – 16th September 2021
Miskien moet ’n mens liewer nie te diep delf nie. Een vir een deur Peet Venter is nou beskikbaar!
Die moord op taxibaas Baloyi en die Rus Slović het die onderwêreld in rep en roer in Peet Venter se jongste misdaadroman, Een vir een.