New releases
Ndaba Mandela’s coming-of-age story – Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from my Grandfather, Nelson Mandela
‘When I was eleven years old, I went to live with my grandfather, who helped me reclaim a different vision of the world and my place in it.’
Becoming Iman: A moving and entertaining memoir from award-winning journalist Iman Rappetti
Told with searing honesty and engaging humour, Iman Rappetti’s memoir Becoming Iman is as inspirational and charismatic as the author herself.
Born To Kwaito: Reflections on the Kwaito Generation – considering the meaning of kwaito music
‘Born To Kwaito is not only an examination of the history of the music genre; it is also a revisit of the relationship we have with the music, its stars and their own relationship with their art and themselves.’ – Thabiso Mahlape, BlackBird Books publisher.
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.
Profiles of over 600 apartheid activists collected in From Protest to Challenge Vol. 4 Political Profiles, 1882–1990
From Protest to Challenge Vol. 4: Political Profiles, 1882–1990, by Thomas G Karis and Gwendolen Carter, revised and updated by Gail M Gerhart, is out now from Jacana Media.
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.
Evelyn Groenink discusses her new book Incorruptible: The story of the murders of Dulcie September, Anton Lubowski and Chris Hani
One of the most explosive revelations in this book concerns the murder of Chris Hani, 25 years ago. Groenink reveals how the police buried evidence from no less than three witnesses who saw another murderer besides Janusz Waluś; and how the state’s ‘brave’ star eyewitness in all likelihood hadn’t even been there when Hani was shot.
‘I hope it both honours and sheds light on the events of the Soweto Uprising’: Arushi Raina on her debut novel, When Morning Comes
Arushi Raina explains the why and what of her debut novel, When Morning Comes.
Pre-order Mandy Wiener’s new book Ministry of Crime: An Underworld Explored
Mandy Wiener’s explosive new book Ministry of Crime: An Underworld Explored is out soon from Pan Macmillan!
BlackBird Books to publish The Eternal Audience of One, the debut novel by Rwandan-born Namibian writer Rémy Ngamije
BlackBird Books is expanding its borders with the publication of The Eternal Audience of One, the debut novel by Rwandan-born Namibian writer …
‘Ours is not to stand out but to survive.’ Read a short excerpt from An Image in a Mirror, the debut novel from Ijangolet S Ogwang
Nyakale. This has always been my name. It lost vowels and consonants and got rearranged into ‘Kay’ by my Grade Three teacher. ‘Easier to pronounce,’ she said.
Heralding a new female voice in fiction: Ijangolet S Ogwang’s debut novel An Image in a Mirror
Achen and Nyakale: twin sisters, separated in childhood to inherit different destinies.
Arushi Raina’s debut novel When Morning Comes: A vivid snapshot of South Africa on the eve of the Soweto Uprising
When Morning Comes by Arushi Raina is out in April from Jacana Media! Written from the points of view of four young people living in Johannesburg and Soweto.
A Higher Loyalty – Ex FBI director tells all on Trump’s White House
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by former FBI director James Comey is out now from Pan Macmillan SA!
Cover revealed for The Season of Glass, the new novel from Rahla Xenopoulos
The cover for Rahla Xenopoulos’s new novel, The Season of Glass, has been revealed!
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.
Umuzi reveals teaser for John Hunt’s new novel The Boy Who Could Keep a Swan in his Head
“Although he was reading a story, what he was really offering was transport. Even his stumbling words made wheels good enough to be driven somewhere else.”
Details of Petina Gappah’s next novel Out of Darkness, Shining Light revealed!
Scribner beat out seven other publishing houses to win the North American rights to Petina Gappah’s next novel Out of Darkness, Shining Light, as well as her short story collection Rotten Row.
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.
A memoir of an interracial relationship in South Africa: The Love Diary of a Zulu Boy by Bhekisisa Mncube
Bhekisisa Mncube’s The Love Diary of a Zulu Boy is by turns erotic, romantic, tragic and comic.