Book extracts
Friday Night Book Club: Read the first chapter of Paula Brackston’s magical and romantic new novel The Little Shop of Found Things
The Friday Night Book Club: Exclusive excerpts from Pan Macmillan every weekend!
The Kruger National Park – a game reserve that very nearly wasn’t – read an excerpt from David Bristow’s new book Of Hominins, Hunter-Gatherers and Heroes
Of Hominins, Hunter-Gatherers and Heroes: Searching for 20 Amazing Places in South Africa by David Bristow offers spellbinding stories of some amazing, little-known places in South Africa.
‘I’m carrying, buried deep inside me, the pain of knowing first-hand the trauma of Mozambique’s past’
Jacana Media and MFBooks Joburg have shared an extract from Not Child’s Play: Kidnapped. Held Hostage. A True Story by Dave Muller.
How Christiaan Barnard’s success went to his head – Read an excerpt from Bill Bryson’s new book The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Penguin Random House has shared an excerpt from Bill Bryson’s new book The Body: A Guide for Occupants.
‘Good luck with your murder …’ Read an excerpt from Amy Heydenrych’s twisty new thriller The Pact
Jonathan Ball Publishers has shared an excerpt from The Pact, the new thriller by Amy Heydenrych.
‘Afrikaans-speaking doctor operates on Mandela’ – Read an excerpt from Operation Mandela by Willem Laubscher
Read an excerpt from Operation Mandela by Willem Laubscher – the Afrikaans-speaking doctor who performed surgery on Nelson Mandela.
‘A cross between Game of Thrones and Black Panther’ – Listen to an excerpt from Tomi Adeyemi’s new book Children of Virtue and Vengeance
Tomi Adeyemi’s much-anticipated Children of Virtue and Vengeance is out now in stores!
Friday Night Book Club exclusive: Read the first chapter of The Confession by Jessie Burton, the bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse
The Confession is a luminous, powerful and deeply moving novel about secrets and storytelling, motherhood and friendship, and how we lose and find ourselves.
‘I should have taken the money from mlungu.’ Read an excerpt from Arushi Raina’s debut novel, When Morning Comes
‘It was the same mlungu from the shebeen, because he almost choked when he saw me.’
‘Mark Fish tested my patience – and my sanity’ – read an excerpt from Coach: The Life and Soccer Times of Clive Barker
Jacana Media has shared an extract from Coach: The Life and Soccer Times of Clive Barker.
Friday Night Book Club: Read an exclusive excerpt from Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Friday Night Book Club: Exclusive excerpts from Pan Macmillan every weekend!
‘Duke Russell is not guilty of the unspeakable crimes for which he was convicted’ – Read an excerpt from John Grisham’s new legal thriller The Guardians
John Grisham has shared an excerpt from his new novel The Guardians – a classic legal thriller with a twist.
Friday Night Book Club: Read an exclusive excerpt from The Girl Who Reads on the Métro, the French phenomenon by Christine Féret-Fleury
Staying in this evening? Get comfortable with a glass of wine and this exclusive extract from The Girl Who Reads on the Métro by Christine Féret-Fleury, translated by Ros Schwartz.
‘Ek is nie okay nie. En dit is meer as okay.’ Lees ‘n uittreksel uit Seks, leuens en die internet deur Erla-Mari Diedericks
Lees ‘n uittreksel uit Erla-Mari Diedericks se eerlike en soms skreeusnaakse memoir, Seks, leuens en die internet.
Read an excerpt from Blue Moon – the new Jack Reacher thriller from Lee Child
Jack Reacher is back in Blue Moon – the brand new white-knuckle read from Lee Child!
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
The Friday Night Book Club: Exclusive excerpts from Pan Macmillan every weekend! Staying in this evening? Get comfortable with a glass of wine …
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.