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Don’t miss Zinzi Clemmons at Exclusive Books Rosebank for the launch of What We Lose

Jonathan Ball Publishers and Exclusive Books are thrilled to invite you to the launch of Zinzi Clemmons’s debut novel What We Lose.

‘No one teaches us how personal finance works’ – Sam Beckbessinger chats about her book, Manage your Money like a F*cking Grown Up

We never get an instruction manual about how money works. We never have to pass a test to get our Money License before we can take a new credit card for a drive. Most of what we learn about money comes from advertising or from other people who know as little as we do.

On Leopard Rock – a memoir by no. 1 bestseller author Wilbur Smith

130 million books sold worldwide in 26 languages – now the global bestseller and ‘master storyteller’ tells his own story for the first time.

Simon Dingle explains Bitcoin, cryptocurrency and the journey to being your own bank in In Math We Trust: The Future of Money

In Math We Trust: The Future of Money – Simon Dingle’s new book about Bitcoin, cryptocurrency and the journey to being your own bank – is out soon from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

Don’t miss the launch of The Madiba Appreciation Club in Johannesburg

Jonathan Ball Publishers and Skoobs are thrilled to invite you to the launch of The Madiba Appreciation Club by Brett Ladds.

Join Hayden Eastwood and Sean Christie for the launch of Like Sodium in Water at Kalk Bay Books

Kalk Bay Books and Jonathan Ball Publishers are thrilled to invite you to the launch of Like Sodium in Water by Hayden Eastwood.

Road to Glory series for younger readers puts the spotlight on South Africa’s sporting legends

The new Road to Glory series from Jonathan Ball Publishers: inspirational stories for younger readers!

Don’t miss Zinzi Clemmons, author of What We Lose, on tour in South Africa

Author Zinzi Clemmons will be on tour in Johannesburg and Cape Town in May!

How can you write true passion if you’ve never experienced it? The Love Factory, the new novel by Elaine Proctor

A smart, sexy, witty novel about love and desire, and how losing everything can sometimes be the best thing that ever happened to you.

Tsk-Tsk: The Story of a Child at Large, a startling memoir by Suzan Hackney

When Suzan is adopted by a well-to-do Pietermaritzburg family in the late 1960s, she is set on a collision course with her adoptive mother and with polite society. Suzan grabs her childhood life with unrestrained zeal and boundless energy – an exuberance that is barely tolerated by her mother, and which spirals into rebellion, landing her in a place of safety at the age of 13.

Don’t miss the launch of Like Sodium in Water by Hayden Eastwood at Love Books

Love Books and Jonathan Ball Publishers are thrilled to invite you to the launch of Like Sodium in Water by Hayden Eastwood.

Don’t miss the launch of Like Sodium in Water by Hayden Eastwood at Bridge Books Maboneng

Bridge Books and Jonathan Ball Publishers are thrilled to invite you to the launch of Like Sodium in Water by Hayden Eastwood.

‘There are eight million naked cities in this naked city’: Read an excerpt from Colson Whitehead’s The Colossus of New York

Read an excerpt from The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead, out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

The Colossus of New York – a dazzling new work of non-fiction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead

The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

‘I’m amazed by how little people know about Africa’ – Paul Kenyon on why he wrote his new book Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa

Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers. 

The next big groundbreaking event in Young Adult fiction: The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton

‘Looking for the next big groundbreaking event in YA? This is it.’ – Rick Riordan

Helen Thomson tells the stories of nine of the world’s strangest brains in Unthinkable

Award-winning science writer Helen Thomson has spent years travelling the world tracking down incredibly rare brain disorders. In Unthinkable she tells the stories of nine extraordinary people.

The Shout – bestselling author Stephen Leather’s latest edge-of-your-seat thriller

The Shout is a standalone thriller from bestselling author Stephen Leather that takes us into the world of the London Fire Brigade’s elite Investigations Unit.

Manage your Money like a F*cking Grown Up: Free mini workshop with Sam Beckbessinger in Johannesburg

In Manage your Money like a F*cking Grown Up, money dork Sam Beckbessinger tells it to you straight: how to take control of your money to take control of your life.