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Monday – 20th June 2022
The uplifting and feel-good novel everyone’s falling in love with – The People on Platform 5 by Clare Pooley
The People on Platform 5 – the brand new feel-good novel from Clare Pooley, the bestselling author of The Authenticity Project.
Friday – 17th June 2022
Things They Lost – the debut by Caine Prize winner Okwiri Oduor – an astonishing new novel, riven through with mystery and magic
Things They Lost by Okwiri Oduor, winner of the 2014 Caine Prize, is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Wednesday – 15th June 2022
People Person by Candice Carty-Williams – a propulsive story of heart, humour and homecoming
People Person by Candice Carty-Williams is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Friday – 10th June 2022
Another Week In The Life of A Hypocrite
Bosun and Titi’s union struggles through another stormy week when Titi vengefully tells her husband about an unfortunate encounter at a night party they attended together.
Titi’s disclosure shatters Bosun’s impression of their marriage and works on the union like a hangman’s noose.
Thursday – 9th June 2022
Books for the coolest dad around!
The best Father’s Day gifts for Dad include an explosive James Bond thriller, an unorthodox guide to making things worth making and a gripping series about a former major in the US Army-turned-wanderer and private investigator.
Wednesday – 8th June 2022
Get cooking with Dad this Father’s Day! (PLUS! Win a cookbook hamper)
Penguin Random House SA has rounded up four fabulous cookbooks to give Dad this Father’s Day!
‘I was a spunky, sassy mess’ – Listen to Viola Davis read an excerpt from her new memoir Finding Me
Finding Me is the deeply personal, brutally honest account of Viola Davis’s inspiring life, from her coming of age in Rhode Island to her present-day career.
Elon Musk: Risking It All by Michael Vlismas – exclusive new first-hand interviews and insights and into the childhood that shaped the man
Elon Musk: Risking It All by Michael Vlismas is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Monday – 30th May 2022
Moonshot – the exclusive, first-hand story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine, told by Pfizer’s CEO Dr Albert Bourla
Moonshot: Inside Pfizer’s Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible by Albert Bourla is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Friday – 27th May 2022
Cover reveal! Find out more about Stephen King’s spellbinding new book Fairy Tale – out in September 2022
Jonathan Ball Publishers is delighted to reveal the bewitching cover for Fairy Tale, the spellbinding new novel from Stephen King, coming out in September this year.
Thursday – 26th May 2022
Deeply personal, brutally honest and riveting: Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
The eagerly anticipated memoir from the multi-award winning actress and producer traces an inspirational path from Viola Davis’ upbringing in Rhode Island to her critically acclaimed performances in Hollywood and on Broadway.
Wednesday – 25th May 2022
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris – an extraordinary novel of life after slavery
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris – an Obama Summer Reading Choice and New York Times Best Seller!
The Unburnable Book: Margaret Atwood aims a flamethrower at an ‘unburnable’ edition of The Handmaid’s Tale to protest book banning
Margaret Atwood has produced a special fireproof edition of her classic, and often banned, novel The Handmaid’s Tale, to protest the banning of books in America and around the world.
Tuesday – 24th May 2022
Listen to an excerpt from Sarah Lotz’s new novel Impossible – a story with more twists than most
Listen to an excerpt from Impossible by Sarah Lotz – with a twist you won’t see coming, this is the bestseller that everyone’s talking about in 2022!
Friday – 20th May 2022
The book with the IMPOSSIBLE twist – read it to believe it …
Impossible by Sarah Lotz – with a twist you won’t see coming, discover the bestseller and acclaimed love story that everyone’s talking about in 2022!
Footnotes, May 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.
Tuesday – 17th May 2022
Make the food that makes your day! Find out more about Joe Wicks’s new book Feel Good Food
Feel Good Food: Over 100 Healthy Family Recipes – the new book by Joe Wicks – is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Monday – 16th May 2022
Storm Tide: A powerful new historical thriller by the master of adventure fiction, Wilbur Smith, of families divided and a country on the brink of revolution
Storm Tide by the late Wilbur Smith and Tom Harper is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Friday – 13th May 2022
Find out more about JG Jesman’s debut novel Chisoni, or Conversations on a Plane about Life and Death
Chisoni, or Conversations on a Plane about Life and Death by JG Jesman is out now from Penguin Random House.
Thursday – 12th May 2022
Don’t miss the launch of CA Davids’s new novel How to Be a Revolutionary at Love Books (20 May)
Penguin Random House and Love Books invite you to the launch of How to Be a Revolutionary by CA Davids.
