International
Monday – 16th July 2018
Don’t miss Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, in Cape Town
Penguin Random House and the University of Cape Town invite you to an evening with Arundhati Roy.
A novel that will haunt you long after you turn the final page: Bearskin by James A McLaughlin
‘Bearskin is visceral, raw, and compelling – filled with sights, smells, and sounds truly observed. It’s a powerful debut and an absolute showcase of exceptional prose. There are very few first novels when I feel compelled to circle brilliant passages, but James McLaughlin’s writing had me doing just that.’
Thursday – 12th July 2018
Jacana Media acquires Southern African rights for Panashe Chigumadzi’s new book, These Bones Will Rise Again
Jacana Media has announced a southern African rights agreement with Panashe Chigumadzi for her new book, These Bones Will Rise Again.
Reunited with her family on the Oprah show – Read an excerpt from The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya
‘I’d fantasised about this moment so many times. In Malawi, I used to write my name in dust on trucks, hoping my mother would see my loopy cursive Clemantine and realise that I was alive.’
Wednesday – 11th July 2018
‘The world has a view of Nelson Mandela as a cuddly teddy bear’ – Sahm Venter discusses The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
‘The world generally has a view of Nelson Mandela as being this cuddly teddy bear, or this grandfatherly person, because he was a grandfather when he came out of prison.’
Monday – 9th July 2018
Michael Ondaatje wins the Golden Man Booker Prize for his novel The English Patient
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje has won the Golden Man Booker Prize, a one-off award for the best work of fiction from the last five decades.
Friday – 6th July 2018
Friday Night Book Club: Read the prologue and first chapter of The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse
The Friday Night Book Club: Exclusive excerpts from Pan Macmillan every weekend!
World rights sold for CM Elliott’s Sibanda series of Zimbabwean crime novels
Jacana Media is thrilled to announce that world rights have been sold for CM Elliott’s Zimbabwean crime novels, the Sibanda series.
Thursday – 5th July 2018
Win a copy of the inspirational new book The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
Poignant, impassioned, gripping, and always inspirational.
Don’t miss the launch of Shame on You by Amy Heydenrych, in conversation with Mohale Mashigo
Jonathan Ball Publishers and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of Shame on You by Amy Heydenrych.
Wednesday – 4th July 2018
She smiled a half-smile and asked, ‘Do you have a gun?’ – Read an excerpt from Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
What do divisions matter in a world full of doors? Read an excerpt from Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, a tale of love and hope, travelling from the Middle East to London and beyond.
The Outsider: The new book from Stephen King is edge-of-your-seat supernatural crime
At a time when the Stephen King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories.
Floored: When Seven Lives Collide – a unique collaborative novel by seven bestselling and award-winning YA authors
The Breakfast Club meets One Day in Floored, a unique collaborative novel by seven bestselling and award-winning YA authors: Sara Barnard, Holly Bourne, Tanya Byrne, Non Pratt, Melinda Salisbury, Lisa Williamson and Eleanor Wood.
Sunday – 1st July 2018
Hauntingly beautiful: Read an excerpt from The Possible World by Liese O’Halloran Schwarz
A captivating novel that will make you laugh, cry and see the world anew: read an extract from the hauntingly beautiful The Possible World.
Friday – 29th June 2018
Friday Night Book Club: Read the first chapter of David Whitehouse’s The Long Forgotten
The Friday Night Book Club: Exclusive excerpts from Pan Macmillan every weekend!
Read an excerpt from Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian, Yusra Mardini’s story of rescue, hope and triumph
‘I could just as easily be killed in the pool as outside on the street or at home in my bed.’
Thursday – 28th June 2018
She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak – a timely and much-needed collection
She Called Me Woman is a collection of first-hand accounts by a community telling their stories on their own terms.
Get an in-depth look into The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela ahead of the book’s publication
Click here for an in-depth look into The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela including photographs and video footage.
Wednesday – 27th June 2018
You Were Made for This – the gripping debut novel from South African author Michelle Sacks
Michelle introduces us to this gripping page-turner that provocatively explores the darker sides of marriage, motherhood. and friendship, and the inspiration behind it.
From refugee to Olympian, Butterfly is Yusra Mardini’s awe-inspiring story
‘Being a refugee is not a choice. Our choice is to die at home or risk death trying to escape.’ – Yusra Mardini