Audiobooks

Listen to an excerpt from The Pole – an indelible tale of life, love, death and Chopin, from Nobel Prize-winning author JM Coetzee

A pianist falls grandly, helplessly in love in this elegant new novella from the twice-Booker Prize winner JM Coetzee.

Listen to an excerpt from Held by Anne Michaels – a soaring and luminous story of chance and change

Held – the triumphant new novel by Anne Michaels, the author of the Orange Prize-winning Fugitive Pieces – is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

Joanne Joseph’s tender and lyrical novel Children of Sugarcane is out now as an audiobook!

Children of Sugarcane by Joanne Joseph – a novel of love, heartache and the indestructible bonds between family and friends – out now as an audiobook from Jonathan Ball Publishers!

‘Dear White People, I love white girls. Especially blondes.’ – Listen to an excerpt from The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa by Stephen Buoro

Listen to an excerpt from Stephen Buoro’s tragicomic debut novel The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

Andre de Ruyter’s book Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom now available as an audiobook!

This year’s fastest-selling book, Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom by Andre de Ruyter, is now available in audiobook format!

Listen to an excerpt from Karin Slaughter’s gripping new thriller After That Night

After That Night, the new novel from Karin Slaughter, is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers!

Listen to an excerpt from Yellowface, the wild, brutal, darkly satirical new novel by Rebecca F Kuang

Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang – the book that everyone’s talking about – is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers!

‘I’ve got a taste for revenge and quite frankly, I’m killing it.’ Listen to an excerpt from How to Kill Men and Get Away With It by Katy Brent

Katy Brent’s How to Kill Men and Get Away With It is a deliciously dark, hilariously twisted story about friendship, love, and murder.

Listen to an excerpt from 8 Rules of Love, read by bestselling author Jay Shetty

8 Rules of Love: How to Find it, Keep it, and Let it Go by Jay Shetty is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers!

Three women. Five centuries. One secret. Listen to an excerpt from Emilia Hart’s Weyward, one of the biggest debuts of 2023

Listen to an excerpt from Weyward, Emilia Hart’s enthralling novel of female resilience and the transformative power of the natural world.

You can now listen to Undercover with Mandela’s Spies: The Story of The Boy Who Crossed the Square as an audiobook!

Undercover with Mandela’s Spies: The Story of The Boy Who Crossed the Square, the bestselling memoir by Bradley D Steyn and Mark Fine, is out as an audiobook!

Listen to an excerpt from How to Kill Your Family – a wickedly dark romp about class, family, love … and murder

They say you can’t choose your family. But you can kill them. How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

‘Do people remember the exact moment they fall in love?’ – Listen to an excerpt from Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan

Award-winning and bestselling ‘powerhouse’ author Kennedy Ryan is at her absolute best in Before I Let Go, a compelling, scorching novel about hope and healing, and what it truly means to love for a lifetime (USA Today).

Listen to an excerpt from the audiobook of The Bullet That Missed – the new Thursday Murder Club novel by record-breaking author Richard Osman

A new mystery is afoot in the third book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard Osman.

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver – an epic tale of love, loss and everything in between (PLUS: Listen to an excerpt)

Barbara Kingsolver’s highly anticipated new novel Demon Copperhead is out in October from Jonathan Ball Publishers!

So lyk ’n vrou… deur Ilse Verster is nou beskikbaar as oudioboek! Plus, luister na die Proloog op Audible

Ilse Verster se aangrypende boek, So lyk ’n vrou…, is nou beskikbaar as oudioboek op Audible!

‘I was a spunky, sassy mess’ – Listen to Viola Davis read an excerpt from her new memoir Finding Me

Finding Me is the deeply personal, brutally honest account of Viola Davis’s inspiring life, from her coming of age in Rhode Island to her present-day career.

Listen to an excerpt from Sarah Lotz’s new novel Impossible – a story with more twists than most

Listen to an excerpt from Impossible by Sarah Lotz – with a twist you won’t see coming, this is the bestseller that everyone’s talking about in 2022!

A moving novel about lovers, fathers and sons – listen to an excerpt from Here Again Now by Okechukwu Nzelu!

Listen to an excerpt from the audiobook of Here Again Now by Okechukwu Nzelu, read by Clifford Samuel.