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Spanning more than 35 years, the first comprehensive collection of work by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston

You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston, edited and with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr and Genevieve West, is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers. 

Age Proof – a revealing and enjoyable account of what ageing is and how we can tackle it

Age Proof by Rose Anne Kenny is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

Find out more about Our Missing Hearts – the new novel by Celeste Ng – out later this year!

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng will be released in October 2022, out from Jonathan Ball Publishers!  

Milner: Last of the Empire Builders – the new book by bestselling biographer Richard Steyn

Milner: Last of the Empire Builders by Richard Steyn is out in April from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

Don’t miss a Daily Maverick webinar on Beyond Bitcoin: Decentralised Finance and the End of Banks (7 Apr)

Join Steven Boykey Sidley and Simon Dingle for a Daily Maverick webinar to discuss their book Beyond Bitcoin: Decentralised Finance and the End of Banks.

Don’t miss the launch of Liz McGregor’s new memoir Unforgiven: Face to Face with my Father’s Killer (7 Apr)

Jonathan Ball Publishers and Wordsworth Books invite you to the launch of Unforgiven: Face to Face with my Father’s Killer by Liz McGregor.

A Pocketful of Happiness – an intimate and uplifting memoir by Richard E Grant – to be published in September 2022

Jonathan Ball Publishers is delighted to be bringing Richard E Grant’s memoir, A Pocketful of Happiness, to South Africa this September!

Unforgiven: Face to Face with my Father’s Killer – Liz McGregor’s searing, intimate memoir

Unforgiven: Face to Face with my Father’s Killer by Liz McGregor is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers. 

New book alert! Rebel: My Escape from Saudi Arabia to Freedom by Rahaf Mohammed

Rebel: My Escape from Saudi Arabia to Freedom by Rahaf Mohammed is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

27 Authors. 27 Stories. No Names Attached.

Anonymous Sex, edited by Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers. 

Listen to the new episode of Pagecast! Bestselling author Monica Ali chats to Joanne Joseph about her new novel Love Marriage

South African media personality and bestselling author Joanne Joseph chats with Monica Ali about Love Marriage, her exquisite gorgeous, layered and immersive tale of a Bengali Muslim family.

New novel by Barbara Kingsolver – Demon Copperhead – to be published in October

Faber has announced Demon Copperhead, a new novel by Barbara Kingsolver – ‘a masterpiece in storytelling from one of the world’s best-loved writers’.

‘In the Ghorami household sex was never mentioned’ – Listen to Monica Ali reading from her new novel Love Marriage

Monica Ali, the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Brick Lane, reads an excerpt from Love Marriage – her first new novel in a decade.

Don’t miss the launch of Yewande Omotoso’s new novel An Unusual Grief at Love Books (31 Mar)

Join Jonathan Ball Publishers and Love Books for the launch of An Unusual Grief by Yewande Omotoso!

Pre-order Storm Tide – book 21 in Wilbur Smith’s Courtney Series

It’s only three more weeks until the release of Storm Tide, a brand-new historical epic by the late Wilbur Smith, set against the backdrop of the American revolution.

How to Be Perfect – a foolproof guide to making the correct moral decision in every situation you ever encounter, anywhere on earth, forever

From the creator of The Good Place and the co-creator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,400 years of deep thinking from around the world.

Don’t miss the launch of Masters of Money by KC Rottok Chesaina at Exclusive Books Sandton City (7 Apr)

Jonathan Ball Publishers and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of Masters of Money by KC Rottok Chesaina.

The new episode of Pagecast is out now! Listen to an interview with Siya Turabi on her bestselling debut novel The Last Beekeeper

The new episode of Pagecast, the podcast from Jonathan Ball Publishers, is out today!

Don’t miss the Cape Town launch of Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World by Ian Goldin (23 Mar)

Jonathan Ball Publishers and Exclusive Books invite you to the launch of Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World by Ian Goldin.

The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the Covid-19 Pandemic – drawing back the curtain on one of the most important medical breakthroughs of our age

The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the Covid-19 Pandemic by Joe Miller, with Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci, is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.