Book extracts
We did not know it was the final farewell: Read an excerpt from Karina M Szczurek’s memoir, The Fifth Mrs Brink
Jonathan Ball Publishers has shared an excerpt from The Fifth Mrs Brink, Karina M Szczurek’s soul-baring memoirs of her life before, with and after her marriage to André P Brink.
Number 1 works on his memoirs – Read an excerpt from Paige Nick’s hilarious new novel Unpresidented
In the irreverent tradition of her bestselling Death by Carbs, Paige Nick rounds up a fresh herd of sacred cows in another …
Read an excerpt from No Middle Name, The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Stories
The complete Jack Reacher short stories, from number one bestseller Lee Child, have been published together for the first time in No Middle Name!
The price of a life? Anything from R5,000 upwards: Read an excerpt from Hitmen for Hire by Mark Shaw
In Hitmen for Hire, author Mark Shaw takes the reader on a journey like no other, navigating a world of South Africa’s hitmen, informers, rogue policemen, taxi bosses, gang leaders and crooked businessmen.
Read an excerpt from Lesley Pearse’s new novel The Woman in the Wood
Read an extract from the enthralling new novel from Lesley Pearse, the 10-million-copy, no. 1 bestselling author – now available online and at bookstores countrywide!
Read an excerpt from Selection Day, the new novel from Man Booker Prize-winning author Aravind Adiga
‘And I’ve got news for you, Pramod. You see, when I was twenty-one years old, which is to say before you were even born, I began working on a history of the Maratha campaign at the third battle of Panipat. It had a title: “1761: the soul breaks out o
A sneak peek of Mike Tyson’s new book, Iron Ambition: life lessons from his surrogate father
Mike Tyson’s new book Iron Ambition is a powerful look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus D’Amato, legendary boxing trainer and the former heavyweight champion’s surrogate father.
Read an excerpt from A Horse Walks Into a Bar – winner of the Man Booker International Prize
Good evening! Good evening! Good evening to the majestic city of Caesariyaaaaaah!’
The stage is empty. The thundering shout echoes from the wings. The audience slowly quietens down and grins expectantly.
Read the opening chapter of The Woman in the Wood, the latest novel from Lesley Pearse
Penguin Random House has shared an excerpt from Lesley Pearse’s new novel: The Woman in the Wood.
Read an excerpt from Sarah Perry’s award-winning novel The Essex Serpent
Sarah Perry’s new novel The Essex Serpent is a celebration of love, and the many different shapes it can take.
The indignity of pit toilets and the importance of Thuli Madonsela’s lesser-known reports
Jonathan Ball Publishers has shared an excerpt from No Longer Whispering to Power: The Story of Thuli Madonsela by Thandeka Gqubule.
Listen to Arundhati Roy read from her long-awaited second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
“How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything .”
Read an extract from No Longer Whispering to Power: The Story of Thuli Madonsela
News24 has published an extract from No Longer Whispering to Power: The Story of Thuli Madonsela, an unauthorised biography written by Thandeka Gqubule, published by Jonathan Ball Publishers.