International
Tuesday – 10th April 2018
Details of Petina Gappah’s next novel Out of Darkness, Shining Light revealed!
Scribner beat out seven other publishing houses to win the North American rights to Petina Gappah’s next novel Out of Darkness, Shining Light, as well as her short story collection Rotten Row.
Monday – 9th April 2018
Don’t miss Kate Mosse at the 2018 Kingsmead Book Fair
Kingsmead College is hosting the seventh annual Kingsmead Book Fair on Saturday 12 May 2018, from 8:30 to 18:00.
NB Publishers sells overseas rights to a number of South African books, including The President’s Keepers, Being Kari and The Quiet Violence of Dreams
NB Publishers has sold overseas rights to a number of South African publications, including Jacques Pauw’s political exposé The President’s Keepers, Eugene de Kock: Assassin for the State by Anemari Jansen, Julian Jansen’s The De Zalze Murders, Marianne Thamm’s Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and Me, K Sello Duiker’s novel The Quiet Violence of Dreams and Qarnita Loxton’s novel Being Kari.
Wednesday – 4th April 2018
‘There are eight million naked cities in this naked city’: Read an excerpt from Colson Whitehead’s The Colossus of New York
Read an excerpt from The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead, out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Thursday – 29th March 2018
The Colossus of New York – a dazzling new work of non-fiction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead
The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Cover revealed for Sea Prayer – the new book by Khaled Hosseini, bestselling author of The Kite Runner
The cover for Khaled Hosseini’s new novel Sea Prayer has been revealed!
Wednesday – 28th March 2018
‘I’m amazed by how little people know about Africa’ – Paul Kenyon on why he wrote his new book Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa
Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Bridge of Clay – the new novel from Markus Zusak, the bestselling author of The Book Thief – announced
Penguin Random House SA is excited to announce a new novel from Markus Zusak, author of the bestselling The Book Thief.
Tuesday – 27th March 2018
The next big groundbreaking event in Young Adult fiction: The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
‘Looking for the next big groundbreaking event in YA? This is it.’ – Rick Riordan
Listen to an excerpt from An Unsuitable Match, the new novel from bestselling author Joanna Trollope
‘Why on earth, after all you’ve been through, all you’ve survived, all you’ve achieved, why do you want to get married?’
Jacana Media wins Best Publisher of the Year: Africa at 2018 Bologna Children’s Book Fair
Jacana Media wins Best Publisher of the Year Africa, at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2018.
South African-born director Liesl Tommy to direct film about Trevor Noah’s life, starring Lupita Nyong’o
South African-born director Liesl Tommy will direct the film adaptation of Trevor Noah’s memoir Born A Crime.
Monday – 26th March 2018
Helen Thomson tells the stories of nine of the world’s strangest brains in Unthinkable
Award-winning science writer Helen Thomson has spent years travelling the world tracking down incredibly rare brain disorders. In Unthinkable she tells the stories of nine extraordinary people.
Friday – 23rd March 2018
The Shout – bestselling author Stephen Leather’s latest edge-of-your-seat thriller
The Shout is a standalone thriller from bestselling author Stephen Leather that takes us into the world of the London Fire Brigade’s elite Investigations Unit.
The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic US First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own
The Meaning of Michelle, a book about Michelle Obama’s iconic journey and how it can inspire your own path, it out from Pan Macmillan SA this month.
Thursday – 22nd March 2018
Poetry Potion 13 cover revealed
Poetry Potion is an online poetry journal that goes into print once ever quarter.
Tuesday – 20th March 2018
Support independent bookshops and publishers on Indiebookday! (24 March 2018)
On Saturday 24 March, independent publishers and booksellers propose readers to celebrate Indie Book Day.
Monday – 19th March 2018
‘An ecological fable for modern times’: Listen to an excerpt from The Melody by Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author Jim Crace
Pan Macmillan has shared an excerpt from The Melody by Jim Crace, the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Harvest.
Three siblings separated in infancy find each other as teens in Far From the Tree, the new novel from Robin Benway
When 16-year-old Grace gives up her baby for adoption, she decides that the time has come to find out more about her own biological mother.
New Jamie Oliver cookbook to be released in July 2018
From his early days working with Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo to his famous stint at the River Café, Italian food has influenced Jamie from the very start of his career. It’s a country that’s always been close to his heart.