Biography
Living Coloured (Because Black and White were Already Taken) by Yusuf Daniels – rip-roaring humour, aching nostalgia and insightful observations
Living Coloured (Because Black and White were Already Taken), Yusuf Daniels’s first-hand account of a childhood lived on the Cape Flats in the Coloured community, is out soon from Jacana Media.
The Beautiful Ones, the memoir Prince was writing when he died, will be published in October 2019
The Beautiful Ones by Prince, the artistic visionary, singer, songwriter, musician, producer, actor and filmmaker, will be published by Penguin Random House in October 2019.
Miracle Girl: Life Stories from a Xhosa Girl – the inspiring story of Sivosethu Ndubela, an orphan who survived two life-threatening open-heart surgeries
Miracle Girl: Life Stories from a Xhosa Girl is the inspirational and miraculous story of Sivosethu Ndubela.
Join Samantha Smirin, author of the mesmerising Life Interrupted, for an intimate discussion on Bipolar (30 April)
Author Samantha Smirin will be at Exclusive Books Sandton for an intimate discussion around mental illness and her new memoir Life Interrupted.
Life Interrupted – Samantha Smirin’s deeply compelling memoir of living with bipolar
Life Interrupted is a deeply compelling memoir that brilliantly humanises the sufferer beyond the label.
Don’t miss the launch of Samantha Smirin’s mesmerising memoir Life Interrupted at Love Books (2 May)
MFBooks Joburg and Love Books invite you to the launch of Life Interrupted, Samantha Smirin’s lucid and devastating memoir about living with bipolar.
New edition! The Seed is Mine The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper by Charles van Onselen
A new edition of The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper by Charles van Onselen is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
What happens when the last breath stops? Read an excerpt from The Blackridge House by Julia Martin
Jonathan Ball Publishers has shared an extract from The Blackridge House by Julia Martin. The Blackridge House is a meditation on belonging, of …
Cover reveal! Elton John’s first and only official autobiography, Me – an unforgettable story by a living legend
Pan Macmillan is excited to reveal the name and cover of Elton John’s first and only official autobiography, Me!
Don’t miss the launch of Whatever, the frank and hilariously dark memoir of 19-year-old Saskia Bailey, at The Book Lounge (10 April)
MFBooks Joburg invites you to the Cape Town launch of Saskia Bailey’s debut book, Whatever: A 21st-century Memoir.
Don’t miss the launch of Whatever, the frank and hilariously dark memoir of 19-year-old Saskia Bailey, at Love Books (4 April)
MFBooks Joburg invites you to the launch of Saskia Bailey’s debut book, Whatever: A 21st-century Memoir.
Don’t miss the launch of Carsten Rasch’s memoir Between Rock and a Hard Place at Love Books (28 Mar)
MFBooks Joburg and Love Books invite you to the launch of Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Carsten Rasch, ‘a survivor from the South African punk and new wave scene of the eighties’.
Join Julia Martin for the launch of her memoir The Blackridge House at The Book Lounge
Jonathan Ball Publishers and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of The Blackridge House by Julia Martin.
Elton John set to release ‘no-holds-barred’ autobiography in October 2019
‘My life has been one helluva rollercoaster ride … I hope readers will enjoy the ride too.’ – Elton John
The Blackridge House by Julia Martin – a powerful memoir of dementia
The Blackridge House is a meditation on belonging, of the stories we tell of home and family and of the precarious footprint of life.
We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union – astonishingly personal stories and thought provoking essays
We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union – a powerful collection of essays about gender, sexuality, race, beauty, Hollywood, and what it means to be a modern woman.
Don’t miss the launch of Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Carsten Rasch (5 March)
MFBooks Joburg and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Carsten Rasch.
‘I may have left my abusive partner, but the trauma and shame never left me’ – Vanessa Govender discusses her memoir Beaten But Not Broken
‘I may have walked away, I may have left my abusive partner, but the trauma and the pain and the anguish and the shame have never left me.’
Eric Idle introduces his new book Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
Eric Idle’s new memoir, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography, is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Get inside the mind of a Formula One legend and enigmatic iceman – The Unknown Kimi Räikkönen by Kari Hotakainen
Kimi Räikkönen is the Finnish superstar Formula One driver with a reputation for being fast on the track and silent off it – until now!