International

Wednesday – 5th February 2025

Don’t miss a poetry reading featuring Sanah Ahsan, winner of the Outspoken Performance Poetry Prize (6 Feb)

Jonathan Ball Publishers invites you to a poetry reading featuring I cannot be good until you say it by Sanah Ahsan.

Tuesday – 4th February 2025

The Secret of Secrets – the thrilling and long-awaited new novel from globally bestselling author Dan Brown

The Secret of Secrets – Dan Brown’s first novel in over eight years – will be out from Penguin Random House SA in September!

Monday – 3rd February 2025

Don’t miss Don Ross in Joburg for the launch of The Gambling Animal (5 Feb)

Don Ross, co-author of The Gambling Animal: Humanity’s Evolutionary Winning Streak – and How We Risk It All, will be in South Africa this February!

Friday – 31st January 2025

Don’t miss the launch of Follow Me to Africa by acclaimed author Penny Haw in Hout Bay (25 Feb)

Penguin Random House and Wordsworth Books invite you to the launch of Penny Haw’s new novel Follow Me to Africa!

Thursday – 30th January 2025

New Oyinkan Braithwaite coming this September!

Cursed Daughters – the highly anticipated new novel from Oyinkan Braithwaite – will be out in September from Jonathan Ball Publishers!

Wednesday – 29th January 2025

‘Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.’ Read an extract from Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

Penguin Random House SA has shared an excerpt from Elizabeth Strout’s new novel Tell Me Everything! Tell Me Everything is hopeful, healing novel …

Tuesday – 28th January 2025

Don’t miss Don Ross in Cape Town for the launch of The Gambling Animal (4 Feb)

Don Ross, co-author of The Gambling Animal: Humanity’s Evolutionary Winning Streak – and How We Risk It All, will be in South Africa this February!

Thursday – 23rd January 2025

[Watch] Jamie Oliver’s Easy Air Fryer – delicious, quick and a little bit fancy

‘If you own an air fryer, stop scrolling now!’

Tuesday – 21st January 2025

Find out more about Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book The Message – an intimate exploration of extreme injustice

The Message by acclaimed journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates is out now from Penguin Random House SA!

Monday – 9th December 2024

Read an excerpt from William Boyd’s gripping, must-read new spy thriller Gabriel’s Moon

Penguin Random House SA has shared an excerpt from Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd! From the internationally bestselling author beloved by readers …

New book alert! Find out more about Neal Stephenson’s new espionage epic Polostan

Polostan by Neal Stephenson is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers!

Friday – 6th December 2024

Comfort food, Ottolenghi-style – try this recipe for spicy Egg Sambal ‘Shakshuka’

Penguin Random House SA has shared Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipe for Egg Sambal ‘Shakshuka’, from his new book Comfort.

The Housefly Effect – how to recognise the ‘nudge psychology’ that drives your behaviour

The Housefly Effect: How Nudge Psychology Steers Your Everyday Behaviour is a fun and practical book on how our behaviour might be being influenced by governments, advertisers and corporations using simple ‘nudge psychology’.

Thursday – 5th December 2024

Karla’s Choice – a gripping new novel set in the universe of John le Carré’s most iconic spy, George Smiley

In Karla’s Choice, acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway – John le Carré’s son – returns readers to the shadowy world of George Smiley in an enthralling slice of espionage fiction.