International

Tuesday – 10th May 2022

New book alert! Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath

Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath by Bill Browder is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

Sunday – 1st May 2022

New book alert! Tomorrow I Become a Woman – a powerful debut by Aiwanose Odafen

Tomorrow I Become a Woman by Aiwanose Odafen is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

Tuesday – 26th April 2022

Véronique Tadjo wins the LA Times Fiction Award for In the Company of Men

The winners of the 42nd annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes have been announced.

Friday – 22nd April 2022

Footnotes, April 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 – 20th April 2022

Win a hamper of brilliant books – Run Rose Run, The Milk Tart Murders and Again, Rachel!

Penguin Random House is giving away a hamper of three brilliant books!

Tuesday – 19th April 2022

Read an excerpt from The Paris Apartment – the new page-turning thriller from Lucy Foley

From the bestselling author of The Guest List comes a new locked room mystery, set in a Paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide …

Thursday – 14th April 2022

‘Some men speak of angels and devils.’ – Read an excerpt from the new Orphan X thriller Dark Horse!

Penguin Random House SA has shared an excerpt from Dark Horse, the new Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz.

A moving novel about lovers, fathers and sons – listen to an excerpt from Here Again Now by Okechukwu Nzelu!

Listen to an excerpt from the audiobook of Here Again Now by Okechukwu Nzelu, read by Clifford Samuel.

Wednesday – 13th April 2022

Monday – 11th April 2022

Spanning more than 35 years, the first comprehensive collection of work by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston

You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston, edited and with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr and Genevieve West, is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers. 

Friday – 8th April 2022

Age Proof – a revealing and enjoyable account of what ageing is and how we can tackle it

Age Proof by Rose Anne Kenny is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

Thursday – 7th April 2022

Find out more about Our Missing Hearts – the new novel by Celeste Ng – out later this year!

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng will be released in October 2022, out from Jonathan Ball Publishers!  

A Pocketful of Happiness – an intimate and uplifting memoir by Richard E Grant – to be published in September 2022

Jonathan Ball Publishers is delighted to be bringing Richard E Grant’s memoir, A Pocketful of Happiness, to South Africa this September!

Saturday – 26th March 2022

Footnotes, March 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.

Friday – 25th March 2022

New book alert! Rebel: My Escape from Saudi Arabia to Freedom by Rahaf Mohammed

Rebel: My Escape from Saudi Arabia to Freedom by Rahaf Mohammed is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

Thursday – 24th March 2022

27 Authors. 27 Stories. No Names Attached.

Anonymous Sex, edited by Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers. 

Wednesday – 23rd March 2022

Listen to the new episode of Pagecast! Bestselling author Monica Ali chats to Joanne Joseph about her new novel Love Marriage

South African media personality and bestselling author Joanne Joseph chats with Monica Ali about Love Marriage, her exquisite gorgeous, layered and immersive tale of a Bengali Muslim family.

Tuesday – 22nd March 2022

‘In the Ghorami household sex was never mentioned’ – Listen to Monica Ali reading from her new novel Love Marriage

Monica Ali, the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Brick Lane, reads an excerpt from Love Marriage – her first new novel in a decade.

New novel by Barbara Kingsolver – Demon Copperhead – to be published in October

Faber has announced Demon Copperhead, a new novel by Barbara Kingsolver – ‘a masterpiece in storytelling from one of the world’s best-loved writers’.

Friday – 18th March 2022

Don’t miss the launch of Yewande Omotoso’s new novel An Unusual Grief at Love Books (31 Mar)

Join Jonathan Ball Publishers and Love Books for the launch of An Unusual Grief by Yewande Omotoso!