New books
New book alert! One Day In Bethlehem by award-winning author Jonny Steinberg
One Day In Bethlehem, the new book by Jonny Steinberg, is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Cover reveal! Coconut Kelz’s Guide to Surviving this Shithole – the new book by Lesego Tlhabi
Coconut Kelz’s Guide to Surviving this Shithole is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers!
Do parents know who and what their children need to be in the future world of work? Future-proof Your Child for the 2020s and Beyond
How do you parent in disruptive times? Future-proof Your Child for the 2020s and Beyond is out now from Penguin Random House.
Every ending marks the start of something new – The First Time Lauren Pailing Died, the debut novel by Alyson Rudd
Lauren Pailing is born in the sixties, and a child of the seventies. She is thirteen years old the first time she dies.
Black Tax: Burden or Ubuntu? – a thought-provoking and moving anthology edited by Niq Mhlongo
Black Tax: Burden or Ubuntu?, edited by Niq Mhlongo, is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers!
Voices from the Underground – 18 members of Umkhonto we Sizwe’s Ashley Kriel Detachment tell their stories for the first time
Voices from the Underground: Eighteen Life Stories from Umkhonto we Sizwe’s Ashley Kriel Detachment, edited by Shirley Gunn and Shanil Haricharan is out now from Penguin Random House SA.
The only way to get your child back, is to kidnap another child … you are now part of The Chain – new by Adrian McKinty
The only way to get your child back, is to kidnap another child. Adrian McKinty’s new psychological thriller The Chain is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
‘A cool new generation of spy novel’ – The Most Difficult Thing by Charlotte Philby
Stylish and assured, The Most Difficult Thing is an irresistible combination of contemporary espionage and domestic suspense, and a compulsive, highly charged examination of betrayal.
‘A Nearly Normal Family will make you question everything you know about those closest to you.’ – Karin Slaughter
Available now from Pan Macmillan, MT Edvardsson’s A Nearly Normal Family will have you on the edge of your seat.
Impossible to put down – Phoebe Locke’s ‘twisty and haunting’ new thriller The July Girls
The July Girls by Phoebe Locke is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Introduce children to the local art scene with Explore! Awesome South African Artists by Cobi Labuscagne
Explore! Awesome South African Artists by Cobi Labuscagne is out in September from Jacana Media.
A slowly unfurling nightmare – Someone We Know, the gripping new thriller by Shari Lapena
Someone We Know – the new domestic suspense novel from Shari Lapena, the bestselling author of The Couple Next Door, A Stranger in the House and An Unwanted Guest.
New cookbook alert: My Vegetarian Braai – even meat-eaters will be seduced!
My Vegetarian Braai by Adele Maartens is out now from Penguin Random House!
The South African’s Guide to Global Investing – addressing the specific challenges we face when investing to secure our financial future
Too many South Africans are excluded from the benefits of the international marketplace.
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo – one of the most highly anticipated non-fiction debuts of 2019
Desire as we’ve never seen it before: Three Women is a riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women.
Find out more about The Nickel Boys – the chilling, masterful new novel from Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys – the gorgeous, dazzling and heartbreaking new novel from Colson Whitehead.
There’s nothing gung-ho in the pages of Angolsh – only stubborn dirt, stifling heat, tough guys and tortured souls
From the pen of award-winning writer and film director Greg Latter comes a war memoir like no other – Angolsh: Scenes from an Army Camp.
New book alert! Alex van Tonder’s ‘dark, deadly and beautiful’ psychological thriller A Walk at Midnight
Alex van Tonder’s new book, A Walk at Midnight, is out from Pan Macmillan SA on 2 September 2019. It’s a must read!
Siya Kolisi: Against All Odds – the remarkable story of the first black South African to captain a Springbok rugby team
Siya Kolisi: Against All Odds by Jeremy Daniel is out in September 2019 from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Breaking news: Miché Solomon/Zephany Nurse will be telling her story at the Open Book Festival
Miché Solomon and Joanne Jowell will discuss the astonishing new memoir Zephany: Two Mothers One Daughter at the Open Book Festival in September. …