Book excerpts
‘The struggle for free education matters’ – Read Malaika wa Azania’s Foreword to We Are No Longer at Ease: The Struggle for #FeesMustFall
We Are No Longer at Ease is a collection of personal articles, essays, speeches and poetry mainly from voices of young people …
One of the first literary figures in France with a double identity, a cultural hybridity – An excerpt from The First Safari
Read an excerpt from The First Safari: Searching for François Levaillant by Ian Glenn, out now from Jacana Media!
Read an excerpt from Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s extraordinary, bestselling debut, Friday Black
Friday Black is a piercingly raw debut story collection from Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, a young writer with an explosive voice; a treacherously surreal, and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it’s like to be young and black in America.
The Friday Night Book Club: Read a short story from Phumlani Pikoli’s ‘intense and provocative’ The Fatuous State of Severity
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‘Among themselves, doves fight as often as hawks’ – Read an excerpt from Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Read an excerpt from the novel everyone is talking about – Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
The Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Ekow Duker’s powerful, poignant novel The God Who Made Mistakes
Staying in this evening? Settle in with some popcorn and this extended excerpt from The God Who Made Mistakes by Ekow Duker.
‘Get married. Have babies. Then continue with secret boyfriends.’ Read an excerpt from Lives of Great Men by Chike Frankie Edozien
Jacana Media has shared an excerpt from Lives of Great Men, the award-winning memoir from Chike Frankie Edozien.
The Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Long Road to Mercy, the heart-pounding new thriller from David Baldacci
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The Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Gail Schimmel’s The Park
The Friday Night Book Club: Exclusive excerpts from Pan Macmillan every weekend!
Add a twist of humour to South African nostalgia with an excerpt from Hagen Engler’s new book Black Twitter, Blitz and a Boerie as Long as Your Leg
Jacana Media has shared an excerpt from Hagen Engler’s new book Black Twitter, Blitz and a Boerie as Long as Your Leg!
The Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Tony Park’s action-packed new thriller Scent of Fear
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Read ‘Christmas 1965’, an excerpt from Imprisoned: The Experience of a Prisoner Under Apartheid
Jacana Media has shared an excerpt from Imprisoned: The Experience of a Prisoner Under Apartheid by Sylvia Neame.
The JRB shares an excerpt from Tsitsi Dangarembga’s new book This Mournable Body
[The JRB Exclusive] An excerpt from Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body, the third in the Tambudzai Trilogy that began with Nervous Conditions
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Jeffrey Archer’s new book, Heads You Win
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Read an excerpt from Every Breath, the new novel from Nicholas Sparks, bestselling author of The Notebook
Read an excerpt from bestselling author Nicholas Sparks’s powerful new love story, Every Breath.
‘The woman’s voice may have been pulling him, but his own curiosity was propelling him forward …’ Read an extract from The Last Sentence by Tumelo Buthelezi!
BlackBird Books has shared an extract from The Last Sentence by Tumelo Buthelezi!
Sometimes the darkest things happen under the sun – Read an excerpt from Fatal Inheritance by Rachel Rhys
Penguin Random House has shared an excerpt from Fatal Inheritance by Rachel Rhys.
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Sindiwe Magona’s moving novel Beauty’s Gift
Staying in this evening? Settle in with a glass of wine and this extended excerpt from Beauty’s Gift, Sindiwe Magona at her very best.
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Khaya Dlanga’s new book, These Things Really Do Happen to Me
Staying in this evening? Settle in with a glass of wine and this extended excerpt from These Things Really Do Happen to Me, the new book by Khaya Dlanga.
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Lucinda Riley’s new novel, The Moon Sister
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