New releases
We Don’t Talk About It. Ever. – a brilliant new local addiction memoir by Desiree-Anne Martin
Celebrate an inspiring woman during Women’s Month with We Don’t Talk About It. Ever., the brilliant debut memoir by ex-heroin addict and ex-hooker, now mom and 14-years-clean addictions counsellor, Desiree-Anne Martin.
Blood Cruise – the terrifying new thriller from Mats Strandberg, ‘Sweden’s Stephen King’
Blood Cruise is perfect for fans of Stephen King and John Ajvide Linqvist.
New book alert! Rebecca Davis’s funny and incisive Self-Helpless: A Cynic’s Search for Sanity
Rebecca Davis’s new book Self-Helpless: A Cynic’s Search for Sanity, a humorous take on the self-improvement industry, will be out from Pan Macmillan in September!
One of the year’s best thrillers from the new Queen of Crime – Force of Nature by Jane Harper
Five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, but one of the women doesn’t come out of the woods, and each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened.
Only two weeks until Wilbur Smith’s new Courtney novel releases!
Courtney’s War by Wilbur Smith and David Churchill is the brand new Courtney Series novel, and the much-anticipated sequel to the global bestseller War Cry.
The Good Fight by Danielle Steel – an inspiring, uplifting novel with resonance for our own time
The Good Fight by Danielle Steel is an inspiring, uplifting story of a woman changing the world as she herself is changed by it.
The coolest cover reveal ever? Complete a puzzle online to see Mohale Mashigo’s new book!
Complete a puzzle online to reveal the cover for Mohale Mashigo’s new book!
This Mournable Body – the new novel from Tsitsi Dangarembga is here!
With her 1988 novel Nervous Conditions, Dangarembga became the first black Zimbabwean woman to publish a novel in English. The Book of Not, published in 2006, continued with Tambudzai’s story. This Mournable Body completes the trilogy, thirty years later.
The Team Secret by Koos Stadler and Anton Burger – To fast-track your business, shape up your teams!
The South African Special Forces achieved exceptional results with small groups of elite soldiers instead of larger, conventional teams. The Team Secret shows that the same principle applies in the business world – a small team has a much better chance of completing projects efficiently, on budget and on time.
New edition of Guy Butler’s Tales From The Old Karoo to celebrate the author’s centenary
First published in 1989, Guy Butler’s Tales From the Old Karoo is considered to be one of the classics of South African literature. In celebration of the author’s birth in 1918, this centenary issue is newly packaged and designed to appeal to a modern audience.
New book alert! Business as Usual after Marikana – society looks on as miners are exploited, oppressed and dehumanised
Leave it to the president, government and ‘big business’ and we will die. This is the lesson learned from the Marikana massacre. At least it should have been, but still society looks on as miners are exploited, oppressed and dehumanised in the land of their birth.
A shocking exposé from within the heart of the NP government – The Lost Boys of Bird Island
The Lost Boys of Bird Island, by Mark Minnie and Chris Steyn with a foreword by Marianne Thamm, is out now from NB Publishers.
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Series celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2018
To celebrate 20 years since the beginning of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, a special 20th anniversary edition of the book that started it all has been released.
‘At its heart there lies a long-buried secret waiting to be uncovered’ – Kate Morton chats about her new book The Clockmaker’s Daughter
From the bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Secret Keeper, Kate Morton brings us her dazzling sixth novel, The Clockmaker’s Daughter.
An exciting new African voice – Read an excerpt from Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu’s debut novel The Theory of Flight
Read an excerpt from The Theory of Flight, the debut novel by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu!
Hold – an intimate, powerful coming-of-age debut novel set in Ghana and London by Michael Donkor
Moving between Ghana and London, Michael Donkor’s debut novel Hold is an intimate, powerful coming-of-age novel. It’s a story of friendship and family, shame and forgiveness; of learning what we should cling to, and when we need to let go.
The Graceless Fall of Robert Mugabe – a fascinating account of the rise and fall of one of Africa’s longest-ruling dictators
The ousting of Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe’s president took the world by surprise. In The Graceless Fall of Robert Mugabe, veteran Zimbabwean journalist Geoffrey Nyarota explains how and why the events of November 2017 happened as they did.
New book alert! Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu’s debut novel The Theory of Flight
The Theory of Flight by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu is out now from Penguin Random House!
The Eight Zulu Kings: From Shaka to Goodwill Zwelithini, the new book by well-respected historian John Laband
The Eight Zulu Kings: From Shaka to Goodwill Zwelithini by John Laband will be out in August 2018 from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai – an ‘expansive, huge-hearted novel that conveys the scale of the trauma of the early Aids crisis’
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai: two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world.