Fiction
Monday – 25th May 2020
Win a copy of Mohale Mashigo’s short story collection Intruders in Pan Macmillan’s Africa Day competition
To celebrate Africa Day, Pan Macmillan is giving away three copies of Mohale Mashigo’s short story collection, Intruders!
Friday – 22nd May 2020
‘’n Puik roman en meer as belowend’: Zola deur Johan Jack Smith wen gesogte Eugène Marais-prys
Johan Jack Smith se debuutroman, Zola, het pas die Eugène Marais-prys van die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns ontvang. Die prys word aan ’n eerste or vroeëre werk toegeken.
Thursday – 21st May 2020
Video: Anneleigh Jacobsen’s thriller Corporation Games explores the greed, sex and power imbalance of the corporate world
Watch the video: The Boekemakranka team Trisa and Analize recently chatted to Anneleigh Jacobsen about her fictional corporate thriller, Corporation Games.
Wednesday – 20th May 2020
Don’t miss South Africa’s bestselling crime writer Deon Meyer LIVE online and on CapeTalk (21 May)
Join Jonathan Ball Publishers, Exclusive Books and CapeTalk for a deep dive into the mind of South Africa’s bestselling crime writer.
Monday – 18th May 2020
‘It starts with the striking of a match’ – Read an excerpt from Firewatching, the ‘clever and compulsive’ debut thriller by Russ Thomas
Jonathan Ball Publishers has shared an excerpt from Firewatching, the debut novel from Russ Thomas!
The Silent Treatment by Abbie Greaves – an original and moving debut novel from a talented new voice
Frank hasn’t spoken to his wife Maggie for six months. Is this where their story ends? Or where it begins?
Sielskos vir moeë, ingeperkte mense: ’n Huis vir altyd deur Cecilia Nortjé
Milan se lewe is ’n gemors: Haar man is oorlede; sy is vir die eerste keer in haar lewe arm, en haar enigste besitting is ’n vervalle huis op Vaalkrans. Lees haar storie in ’n Huis vir altyd deur Cecilia Nortjé – nou by LAPA beskikbaar as e-boek.
Buy the ebook and get the print edition free!
Jacana Media is running a special offer: buy the ebook and get the print edition free as soon as it is off the press.
Friday – 15th May 2020
Friday Night Book Club: Read an exclusive excerpt from Joanna Trollope’s new novel Mum and Dad
‘What a mess, she thought now … what a bloody, unholy mess the whole family has got itself into.’
Help your local independent bookshop survive and thrive – buy a book, receive a gift from Jacana
Jacana Media has teamed up with South Africa’s independent bookshops – spend R100 and get a free book! (Selected titles only.)
Bederf jouself met Didi Potgieter se stomende, sissende e-rotika, Perke – slegs beskikbaar as e-boek
’n Onwaarskynlike paartjie beland onder een dak tydens inperking in Didi Potgieter se jongste e-rotiese roman, Perke.
Fight Like a Girl – the Young Adult fiction debut from award-winning author Sheena Kamal
Fight Like a Girl – award-winning thriller writer Sheena Kamal delivers a kick-ass debut YA novel that will have fans crying out for more.
Thursday – 14th May 2020
Read an extract from The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha – the most ingenious and unusual novel you will read all year!
Penguin Random House SA has shared an extract from a new choose-your-own-adventure story (for adults) – The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha.
Poppie is uit die kerk, maar die kerk is nie uit haar nie: Die opstand van Poppie Nel deur Hans du Plessis, nuut by LAPA
Só ontvou Poppie se verhaal in Die opstand van Poppie Nel. Sy vertel vir Dominee Lukas van ‘n pastoor wat openbarings kry, hoe die pastoor haar misbruik en hoe haar gesin, veral haar ma, medepligtig is.
Take Jacana Media’s quiz and stand a chance to win a hamper of books worth over R1000!
How well do you know Jacana Media’s books? Take a quiz and win!
Don’t miss the virtual launch of Born Freeloaders by Phumlani Pikoli, in conversation with Sithembile Mbete (19 May)
Join Pan Macmillan for the virtual launch of Born Freeloaders by Phumlani Pikoli.
Wednesday – 13th May 2020
Cover reveal! Find out more about Jodi Picoult’s forthcoming novel The Book of Two Ways
Do we make choices … or do our choices make us? And who would you be if you hadn’t turned out to be the person you are right now?
Find out more about writing and publishing internationally with Angela Makholwa on The Cheeky Natives’s Instagram Live
Angela Makholwa, author of The Blessed Girl, will be taking over The Cheeky Natives’ Instagram account!
Tuesday – 12th May 2020
Vier nuwe Romanzas deur Marilé Cloete, Alma Carstens, Renda de Waal-Fourie en Louise van der Merwe – nou as e-boek beskikbaar!
Nuut by LAPA Uitgewers – vier nuwe Romanzas om die koue weg te lees. Al hierdie romanses sal later ook as papierboek in die winkels beskikbaar wees.
Firewatching – the first book in a new police procedural series by Russ Thomas – a ‘red hot debut for 2020’
Firewatching, the debut novel from Russ Thomas, is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.