Book extracts
Read ‘Three Exhausting Weeks’, a short story from Tom Hanks’s new book Uncommon Type
“I am going to kiss you now.” Anna did just as she said.
How Ramaphosa got into business: An excerpt from Ramaphosa: The Man Who Would Be King by Ray Hartley
Ramaphosa: The Man Who Would Be King, by Ray Hartley‚ answers the question that everyone is asking: can the man in the middle lead from the front?
3 billion lives at stake. 2 people who can save them. Read an extract from This Mortal Coil
Penguin Random House SA has shared an excerpt from This Mortal Coil, the new book by Emily Suvada.
Two sisters with two very different destinies: Dip into Yaa Gyasi’s debut novel, Homegoing
The night Effia is born, a fire devastates her father’s land – and so begins a sequence of events that reverberate through the lives of her family for generations.
Comrades and corruption – Read an excerpt from Bantu Holomisa: The Game Changer
Holomisa and Mandela did not speak to or see each other for some time after he was shown the door by the party. “We first saw each other again when he invited me to his house at Qunu. I regarded this as an opportunity to hear from him personally what he had told a radio station about my case.
Read an excerpt from Rehana Rossouw’s second novel, New Times
Ali Adams is a political reporter in Cape Town where she is trapped in a tangle of razor-wire politics and culture
Read an excerpt from Nelson Mandela and Mandla Langa’s Dare Not Linger: The Presidency and the Constitution
As president, Nelson Mandela’s relationship with the judiciary would be severely tested.
‘No wallet, no ID, no credit cards.’ Read an excerpt from Johan Vlok Louw’s new novel A Gap in the Hedge
Read an excerpt from A Gap in the Hedge – the new South African novel that everyone is talking about.
Read an excerpt from Jennifer Egan’s new book Manhattan Beach
Manhattan Beach is the long-awaited novel from Jennifer Egan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad.
Read an excerpt from Little Fires Everywhere, the brilliant new novel from Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestseller Everything I Never Told You, has a new book out: Little Fires Everywhere.
An anniversary dinner to remember: Read an excerpt from A Hat, A Kayak and Dreams of Dar
Journalist and labour commentator Terry Bell has a new book out: A Hat, A Kayak & Dreams of Dar. It’s a memoir …
Listen to an excerpt from George Saunders’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders’s became the second American to win the Man Booker Prize this week.
Read an excerpt from Pumla Dineo Gqola’s new book Reflecting Rogue: Inside the Mind of a Feminist
During a panel with four feminist writers, moderator Mohale Mashigo, Yewande Omotoso and Nnedi Okorafor, at the 2016 Open Book Festival in Cape Town, Kabura Nganga asked “how do you/we cultivate feminist joy?”
Read the first chapter of A Column of Fire, the new book by Ken Follett
Read an exclusive extract of Ken Follett’s new novel, A Column of Fire, the sequel to The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End.
Read an excerpt from Wolf Trap, the new novel from bestselling South African author Consuelo Roland
Consuelo Roland is the bestselling author of The Good Cemetery Guide and The Limbo Trilogy, a mystery-suspense series set in Camps Bay.
Read an excerpt from Bare Ground – the debut novel from award-winning writer Peter Harris
Pan Macmillan SA is proud to present Bare Ground, the debut novel by acclaimed non-fiction writer Peter Harris.
A sneak peek of Angela Makholwa’s new novel The Blessed Girl
Pan Macmillan South Africa has shared an exclusive look inside Angela Makholwa’s new novel The Blessed Girl!
How to manipulate a blesser – Read an excerpt from Angela Makholwa’s new novel The Blessed Girl
I barely scraped through matric and I have never spent a single day in a university lecture hall. What I lack in academic qualifications, I more than make up for in my street smarts. My role model is Donald Trump.
Read a first excerpt from Origin, the new novel by Dan Brown
Penguin Random House SA has shared an excerpt from Origin – the spellbinding new Robert Langdon novel from the author of The Da Vinci Code.
‘Black is Beautiful challenges the belief which makes someone negate himself’ – Read an excerpt from The Testimony of Steve Biko
When Steve Biko entered the courtroom in Pretoria in 1974 as a star witness in the trial of nine student leaders, those …