New books

Cheslin Kolbe – the new book in the Road to Glory series for young readers by Jeremy Daniel

Cheslin Kolbe is the eighth book in the Road to Glory series, which covers South African sporting legends as they set out on their journeys to becoming national and international stars.

The City of Tears – a breathtaking novel of revenge, persecution and loss by bestselling author Kate Mosse

The City of Tears by Kate Mosse is out from Pan Macmillan SA in January 2020!

Girl A by Abigail Dean – ‘the biggest fiction debut of 2021’

Girl A by Abigail Dean is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

Die ooreenkoms deur Sophia Kapp: ’n wantrouige skoonfamilie, onmoontlike tieners en ’n giftige eks spel moeilikheid

Kan Adam en Petronel hul verskille en die verlede oorbrug om in mekaar die maat te vind wat hulle volledig mens sal maak? Vind uit in Die ooreenkoms deur Sophia Kapp – nuut by LAPA.

Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods by Otegha Uwagba – an intimate and compelling portrayal of an unavoidable facet of the Black experience

Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods by Otegha Uwagba is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

The world faces a ‘giant storm’ of stress and burnout. Stressproof by Richard Sutton provides a game-changing action plan

Stressproof, the new book by Richard Sutton, out in January 2021 from Pan Macmillan SA!

Meghan Misunderstood by Sean Smith – a pioneering book that sets the record straight

Meghan Misunderstood by Sean Smith is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

Make the most of every corner of your garden with Gardening in the Shade in South Africa by Allan Haschick

Gardening in the Shade in South Africa by Allan Haschick is out now from Penguin Random House SA.

Read an interview with Anne Biccard, author of Saving a Stranger’s Life – the true story of an emergency room doctor facing off against Covid-19 in Joburg

Doctor, writer, stray dog collector – get to know Anne Biccard, the doctor we know you’d want on call.

The Return by Nicholas Sparks – often, to move forward we must return to the place where it all began

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with The Return – a moving new novel about an injured army doctor and the two women whose secrets will change the course of his life.

A missing bride. A bloodied dress. NYPD Red’s deadliest case yet – NYPD Red 6, by the world’s bestselling thriller writer James Patterson

In the sixth book in James Patterson’s NYPD Red series, the wedding of the century invites the most brazen kidnapper in New York City to make the bride disappear.

New by David Bristow! Big Pharma, Dirty Lies, Busy Bees and Eco Activists: 20 Environmental Stories from South Africa

Big Pharma, Dirty Lies, Busy Bees and Eco Activists – the exciting third book in David Bristow’s Stories from the Veld series – covers everything environmental in South Africa that you always wanted to know about.

How I Learned to Understand the World – Hans Rosling’s own story of how a young scientist became a revolutionary thinker

The moving, playful memoir of the late Hans Rosling – Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness.

A compelling diary of a very bad year: 1986 by William Dicey – coming in January 2021

1986 was a pivotal year in South African history. It was the year of the vigilante, the year of the necklace – but also the year the talking began. Coming soon in 2021, 1986 by William Dicey.

Saving a Stranger’s Life by Anne Biccard – the true story of an emergency room doctor in Johannesburg facing off against Covid-19

Dr Anne Biccard writes of the camaraderie and dogged determination of health workers holding fast in the face of the Covid-19 nightmare as they battle, every day, to save a stranger’s life.

20 black women writers ask ‘what’s next?’ in Loud Black Girls by Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené

Loud Black Girls – an important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, groundbreaking Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible.

Sea Change: Return To The Wild – a mind-change of a book, from the makers of My Octopus Teacher

From the makers of the hit documentary My Octopus Teacher comes a new book, Sea Change: Return To The Wild.

Human Nature – an illuminating book that tackles our modern environmental future through the lens of preeminent photographers

In Human Nature, 12 of today’s most influential nature and conservation photographers address the biggest environmental concerns of our time.

home body by rupi kaur: a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself

From rupi kaur, the bestselling author of milk and honey and the sun and her flowers, comes a greatly anticipated third collection of poetry. 

Kate Mosse’s Burning Chambers series continues with The City of Tears – a breathtaking novel of revenge, persecution and loss

Following on from the number one bestseller The Burning Chambers, Kate Mosse returns with her second thrilling historical epic, The City of Tears.