International
Friday – 18th October 2019
Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day by former monk and social media star Jay Shetty
Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day by Jay Shetty will be out from Jonathan Ball Publishers on 14 April 2020.
Win a SIGNED copy of Haruki Murakami’s new novel Killing Commendatore!
Penguin Random House is giving away a series of books signed by their authors – exclusive to The Reading List readers!
Wednesday – 16th October 2019
Elton John’s Me – the first and only official autobiography of a much-loved global icon – is out now!
In his first and only official autobiography, published globally on 15 October 2019, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life.
Tiger Woods announces a memoir that tells his ‘definitive story’
Tiger Woods has announced that he is writing his ‘definitive story’ in a memoir titled Back.
New Shopaholic novel from bestselling author Sophie Kinsella PLUS film tie-in
Sophie Kinsella fans have loads to look forward to with a new Becky Bloomwood novel AND an upcoming film tie-in!
Tuesday – 15th October 2019
‘When people ask me if I’m a hero or a traitor, I say I’m just an ordinary person’ – Edward Snowden talks to Trevor Noah about his new book Permanent Record
Edward Snowden chatted to Trevor Noah on The Daily Show about his new book Permanent Record.
Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo jointly win the 2019 Booker Prize
Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo have jointly won the 2019 Booker Prize, for their novels The Testaments and Girl, Woman, Other, respectively. This is the …
Friday – 11th October 2019
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Fiona Cummins’s ‘creepy as hell’ new thriller, The Neighbour
The Neighbour is a twisting tale about a quiet neighbourhood that’s hiding a deadly secret.
Cilka’s Journey – the sequel to the international bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz – based on a true story of love and resilience
Based on the heartbreaking true story of Cilka Klein, Cilka’s Journey is the sequel to the internationally bestselling phenomenon The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
Thursday – 3rd October 2019
Footnotes, October 2019: 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 – 1st October 2019
Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie’s book is out next week
From whistleblower Christopher Wylie, the definitive story of the Brexit coup, the making of Bannon’s America, and an ongoing crime against democracy.
The Burning Land – BBC news presenter George Alagiah writes novel based in Johannesburg
The Burning Land – the exhilarating debut political thriller from BBC broadcaster George Alagiah – is out now from Penguin Random House.
[Details released] Don’t miss a conversation with Melinda Gates in South Africa!
Pan Macmillan South Africa and the Nelson Mandela Foundation are delighted to host Melinda Gates, in conversation with Redi Tlhabi, about her book The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World.
Monday – 30th September 2019
Bestselling author Tea Obreht reimagines the myths of the American West in Inland
Téa Obreht, the bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife, returns with Inland, a ‘bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the American West’.
The Cockroach – Ian McEwan’s new Brexit satire pays tribute to Franz Kafka’s most famous work
In Ian McEwan’s new novella The Cockroach the main character, Jim Sams, undergo a metamorphosis from an average nobody to the most powerful man in Britain when he wakes up to find himself the Prime Minister.
Friday – 27th September 2019
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from The First Mistake, the riveting new thriller from bestselling author Sandie Jones
The Friday Night Book Club: Exclusive excerpts from Pan Macmillan every weekend!
This year’s must-read psychological thriller – Devotion by Madeline Stevens
A captivating debut novel about a woman who falls into an overwhelming mutual obsession with the Upper East Side mother who hires her as a nanny.
Thursday – 26th September 2019
Read an excerpt from Quichotte, the epic new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie’s incredible Booker Prize-shortlisted new novel, Quichotte, is now available.
Sweeping from Manhattan to the magnificent wide-open plains of Kenya, don’t miss The Sun Sister, the new novel from Lucinda Riley
We hope you’re excited as we are to meet the beautiful, rich and famous Electra D’Aplièse in Lucinda Riley’s The Sun Sister!
Wednesday – 25th September 2019
Save the date for a conversation with Melinda Gates in South Africa!
Pan Macmillan South Africa and The Nelson Mandela Foundation are pleased to announce that Melinda Gates – philanthropist, businesswoman and author of the bestselling book The Moment of Lift – is coming to South Africa!