Book excerpts
Read an excerpt from Corporation Games by Anneleigh Jacobsen – a thriller based on real-life financial scandals
Read an excerpt from Anneleigh Jacobsen’s debut thriller, Corporation Games, in which tokoloshes have been sent to root out evil in Sandton.
‘There was so much she never heard. That she probably hadn’t wanted to hear’ – Read an extract from Borderline, the new novel by Marita van der Vyver
Penguin Random House has shared an excerpt from Borderline, the new novel by Marita van der Vyver.
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Father Michael’s Lottery by Johan Steyn
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Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Akin, the funny and heart-wrenching new novel from bestselling author Emma Donoghue
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Listen to an excerpt from the audiobook of Deon Meyer’s new novel The Last Hunt
Hodder Books has shared an excerpt from The Last Hunt by Deon Meyer.
Read an excerpt from Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know
Penguin Random House has shared an excerpt from Talking to Strangers, the new book by Malcolm Gladwell.
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Jo-Ann Richards’s South African classic The Innocence of Roast Chicken – painful, evocative, beautifully drawn and utterly absorbing
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Read an excerpt from If You Want to Make God Laugh by Bianca Marais, author of the beloved novel Hum If You Don’t Know the Words
Penguin Random House has shared an excerpt from If You Want to Make God Laugh, the new novel from Bianca Marais.
‘Her car was on fire, and she was trapped inside’ – Read an excerpt from Kuli Roberts’s debut novel Siren
BlackBird Books has shared an extract from Siren, the debut novel by Kuli Roberts.
Friday Night Book Club: Read an EXCLUSIVE excerpt from Lucinda Riley’s new novel The Sun Sister – heart-wrenching, uplifting and utterly enthralling
‘I don’t remember where I was or what I was doing when I heard my father had died.’
‘He caught a serial killer when he was 12 years old.’ Read an extract from In the Midst of Wolves, the new thriller by Kurt Ellis
Nick Creed, expert criminal profiler, hunts down human monsters for a living.
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from The Long Call – the first novel in a new series by Ann Cleeves (Vera and Shetland)
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12 myths about rape – read an excerpt from Rape: A South African Nightmare by Pumla Dineo Gqola
Why has South Africa been labelled the ‘world’s rape capital’? What don’t we as South Africans understand about rape?
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Fiona Cummins’s ‘creepy as hell’ new thriller, The Neighbour
The Neighbour is a twisting tale about a quiet neighbourhood that’s hiding a deadly secret.
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Phumlani Pikoli’s debut novel Born Freeloaders – hot off the press!
Staying in this evening? Get comfortable with a glass of wine and Born Freeloaders, the highly anticipated first novel from Phumlani Pikoli.
Read Coconut Kelz’s hilarious guide to the top 3 South African political parties and their leaders
Jonathan Ball Publishers has shared an excerpt from Coconut Kelz’s Guide to Surviving This Shithole!
Bestselling author Tea Obreht reimagines the myths of the American West in Inland
Téa Obreht, the bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife, returns with Inland, a ‘bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the American West’.
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from The First Mistake, the riveting new thriller from bestselling author Sandie Jones
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Read an excerpt from Quichotte, the epic new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie’s incredible Booker Prize-shortlisted new novel, Quichotte, is now available.
Friday Night Book Club: Privilege and power, family and obligation – Read an excerpt from Girl in the Rearview Mirror, the debut thriller from Kelsey Rae Dimberg
Staying in this evening? Get comfortable with a glass of wine and Girl in the Rearview Mirror, the twisty, page-turning debut thriller from Kelsey Rae Dimberg.