Non-fiction

Thursday – 6th February 2025

New book alert! I Am Tshiamo: My Transition to Self-acceptance and Womanhood by Tshiamo Modisane

I Am Tshiamo: My Transition to Self-acceptance and Womanhood by Tshiamo Modisane is out now from Penguin Random House!

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.

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!

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!’

Wednesday – 22nd January 2025

Don’t miss the launch of Spectres of Reparation in South Africa by Jaco Barnard-Naude at Exclusive Books Sandton City (30 Jan)

Jonathan Ball Publishers and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of Spectres of Reparation in South Africa: Re-encountering the Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Prof. Jaco Barnard-Naude.

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!

Wednesday – 15th January 2025

Discover where Michelin stars meet Kalahari sand in Klein Jan (PLUS: Try a recipe from the book!)

In Klein Jan, Michelin-starred chef Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen takes us on an intimate journey from his grandmother’s farm kitchen to the heart of South Africa’s most mysterious landscape.

Don’t miss Mpoomy Ledwaba at Exclusive Books Centurion and get your copy of How Did We Get Here? signed! (16 Dec)

Jonathan Ball Publishers and Exclusive Books invite you to a meet-and-greet and book signing with Mpoomy Ledwaba, author of How Did We Get Here?

Fool your tastebuds with this recipe for Carne Pizza from All Sorts of Junk Food Made Healthy!

Penguin Random House SA has shared the recipe for a delicious Carne Pizza, from Chantal Lascaris’s new cookbook All Sorts of Junk Food Made Healthy.

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’.

Wednesday – 4th December 2024

Try Fatima Saib’s ‘incredible’ Hot Honey Fried Chicken from her new cookbook The Hungry Table

Penguin Random House SA has shared the recipe for Hot Honey Fried Chicken, from Fatima Saib’s The Hungry Table!

We need to think differently about African economics – find out more about Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance

Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance by Bronwen Everill is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers!

Tuesday – 3rd December 2024

Don’t miss Mpoomy Ledwaba at Exclusive Books Mall of the South and get your copy of How Did We Get Here? signed!

Jonathan Ball Publishers and Exclusive Books invite you to a meet-and-greet and book signing with Mpoomy Ledwaba, author of How Did We Get Here?

Monday – 2nd December 2024

[Listen] The new episode of Pagecast is out now! Sarah Bullen chats about her new book The Other Side: Journeys into Mysticism, Magic and Near Death

What happens when we die? How are some people able to see or communicate with spiritual worlds beyond our own? Can they offer answers to some of our most burning questions about life and death?