New books

New book alert! Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter – the full and shocking inside story

Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter – the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk’s unprecedented takeover of Twitter and the forty-four-billion-dollar deal’s seismic political, social and financial fallout.

Mathews Phosa’s explosive memoir out now!

Witness to Power: A Political Memoir by Dr Mathews Phosa is out now from Penguin Random House SA!

The political memoir of the year! Find out more about Witness to Power by Dr Mathews Phosa

Witness to Power: A Political Memoir by Dr Mathews Phosa is out now from Penguin Random House SA! 

His memory might be gone. But his sense of justice is not. In Too Deep – the gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child – is out now!

In Too Deep – the gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child – is out now from Penguin Random House SA!

Revenge of the Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell revisits his groundbreaking first book

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

Amphibious Soul – the compelling memoir by Craig Foster, the creator of My Octopus Teacher

Amphibious Soul by Craig Foster is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers!

New book alert! Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World by Anupreeta Das

Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World by Anupreeta Das is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers!

New book alert! Find out more about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new novel Dream Count

A publishing event 10 years in the making – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new novel Dream Count has been introduced!

Find out more about Passiontide, the electrifying, spellbinding new novel from Monique Roffey

Passiontide, the new novel from Monique Roffey, is out now from Penguin Random House SA!

Nexus – Yuval Noah Harari’s warning about our AI future

In Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world.

New book alert! The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution by David Runciman

The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution by David Runciman is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers!

By Any Other Name – literary powerhouse Jodi Picoult takes on her most heartrending and headline grabbing story yet

From bestselling author Jodi Picoult comes By Any Other Name – a sweeping and insightful novel of female identity and inequality set in Elizabethan England and present-day Manhattan.

New book alert! The Housemaid Is Watching – the twisting, pulse-pounding new thriller from Freida McFadden

From bestselling author Freida McFadden comes The Housemaid Is Watching – another addictive psychological thriller!

There Are Rivers in the Sky – a meditation on love, loss and memory from Booker-shortlisted, bestselling author Elif Shafak

There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak is a rich, sweeping novel about love and loss, memory and erasure, hurt and healing.

Professor. Pundit. Public nuisance. Jonathan Jansen’s memoir Breaking Bread is out in September

Breaking Bread: A Memoir by Jonathan Jansen will be out in September from Jonathan Ball Publishers!

New book alert! The Super Cadres: ANC Misrule in the Age of Deployment by Pieter du Toit, bestselling author of The Stellenbosch Mafia

The Super Cadres: ANC Misrule in the Age of Deployment by Pieter du Toit will be published in September by Jonathan Ball Publishers!

‘Exquisite, courageous, energising, boundary-scaling, mesmerising, moving’ – Siphokazi Jonas’s debut poetry collection, Weeping Becomes a River, out in September

Siphokazi Jonas’s debut poetry collection, Weeping Becomes a River, will be published by Penguin Random House in September!

Celebrity influencer Mpoomy Ledwaba announces memoir How Did We Get Here? to be published in October

How Did We Get Here? by Mpoomy Ledwaba is out in October by Jonathan Ball Publishers!

The Art of War and Peace – a crucial read for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of contemporary global conflicts

The Art of War and Peace: Understanding Our Choices in a World at War by David Kilcullen and Greg Mills is out this month from Penguin Random House SA!

[Watch] Josie Ferguson chats about The Silence In Between, her gripping historical debut about a family separated by the Berlin wall

In a special video recorded for South African readers, author Josie Ferguson chats about the inspiration for her novel The Silence In Between, which was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize.