International
Tuesday – 9th January 2018
Free to listen audiobook: The first four chapters of Need You Dead by Peter James
Listen to the first four chapters of Peter James’s new novel Need You Dead FREE!
An attempt to make sense of the ailing world – Russell Brand’s new book Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions
With a rare mix of honesty, humour, and compassion, comedian and movie star Russell Brand mines his own wild story and shares the advice and wisdom he has gained through his 14 years of recovery.
Friday – 15th December 2017
Try Nigella’s recipe for a Christmas Martini from At My Table: A Celebration of Home Cooking
Rich and warming, that first a sip gives you an instant Christmassy fireside glow.
Thursday – 14th December 2017
A charming feast for the senses: Alexander McCall Smith’s new novel, My Italian Bulldozer
The bestselling author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series returns with an irresistible new novel about one man’s adventures in the Italian countryside.
Read the first chapter of Still Me, the new novel from Jojo Moyes
It was the moustache that reminded me I was no longer in England: a solid, grey millipede firmly obscuring the man’s upper lip; a Village People moustache, a cowboy moustache, the miniature head of a broom that meant business. You just didn’t get that kind of moustache at home. I couldn’t tear my eyes from it.
Wednesday – 13th December 2017
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa – an extraordinary work of literary journalism by Alexis Okeowo
Okeowo creates a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent’s wave of fundamentalism.
Tuesday – 12th December 2017
Be enchanted this Christmas with Penguin Random House SA’s beautiful selection of children’s books!
Two winners will each receive a Christmas hamper!
Monday – 11th December 2017
Kopano Matlwa, Zinzi Clemmons and Fiona Melrose reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement
Johannesburg was the focus in the Times Literary Supplement this month, with a review of Kopano Matlwa’s Period Pain, Zinzi Clemmons’s What We Lose and Fiona Melrose’s Johannesburg.
Jeffrey Archer discusses his seventh book of short stories, Tell Tale
‘One of the very pleasant discoveries with Tell Tale is that everybody has a different favourite.’
Win a Jeffrey Archer Clifton Chronicles box-set
Pan Macmillan SA is giving away a collectible Clifton Chronicles box-set containing all seven books!
Friday – 8th December 2017
Three books by Eben Venter acquired by Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House will be publishing Eben Venter’s forthcoming three books.
Wednesday – 6th December 2017
Listen to an excerpt from The Sparsholt Affair, the masterly new novel from Alan Hollinghurst
Pan Macmillan has shared an excerpt from audiobook of The Sparsholt Affair, the highly anticipated new novel from Alan Hollinghurst.
Monday – 4th December 2017
Now in paperback: Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
Born a Crime, the bestselling, award-winning memoir by Trevor Noah, is now in paperback!
Darker: Fifty Shades Darker as Told by Christian – win 1 of 3 hampers
Three winners will each receive a hamper to celebrate the release of EL James’s new novel Darker: Fifty Shades Darker as Told by Christian!
Friday – 1st December 2017
Don’t miss Tsitsi Dangarembga and Achmat Dangor for a Literary Crossroads event at the Goethe-Institut
Join the Goethe-Institut for a Literary Crossroads event with Tsitsi Dangarembga and Achmat Dangor!
Still Me by Jojo Moyes: The third book in the Me Before You trilogy
Still Me, the new Jojo Moyes novel, will be out in January!
Wednesday – 29th November 2017
Read an excerpt from Darker: Fifty Shades Darker as Told by Christian, the new EL James novel
‘My patience has been tested by the clock as it ticks closer to my reunion with Miss Anastasia Steele.’
Monday – 27th November 2017
Read ‘Three Exhausting Weeks’, a short story from Tom Hanks’s new book Uncommon Type
“I am going to kiss you now.” Anna did just as she said.
Friday – 24th November 2017
3 billion lives at stake. 2 people who can save them. Read an extract from This Mortal Coil
Penguin Random House SA has shared an excerpt from This Mortal Coil, the new book by Emily Suvada.
Thursday – 23rd November 2017
Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ considers key questions around the misreading of African literature in The Rise of the African Novel
The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership, a new book by Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ, will be out in March 2018 from University of Michigan Press’s African Perspectives series.