Zola: A Novel, the debut novel by Johan Jack Smith, is out now in English and Afrikaans from Penguin Random…
In celebration of Women’s Month, The JRB presents a series of excerpts from New Daughters of Africa. Edited by Margaret…
In celebration of Women’s Month, The JRB presents a series of excerpts from New Daughters of Africa. Edited by Margaret…
In celebration of Women’s Month, The JRB presents a series of excerpts from New Daughters of Africa. Edited by Margaret…
The JRB presents the winning stories from this year’s Short Story Day Africa Prize. Egyptian writer Adam El Shalakany won the…
The JRB presents the winning stories from this year’s Short Story Day Africa Prize. Egyptian writer Adam El Shalakany won the…
Jonathan Ball Publishers has shared an excerpt from The Enforcers: Inside Cape Town’s Deadly Nightclub Battles by Caryn Dolley. Find out more…
According to a recent report by the Association of American Publishers, audiobooks are growing faster than any other format—including print and…
BlackBird Books has revealed its latest cover redesign—featuring the publisher’s bold new look! The book getting the treatment this time…
The JRB presents an excerpt from Ungirls, a new short story from Editorial Advisory Panel member Lauren Beukes. Ungirls is…
Penguin Random House has shared an excerpt from The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore. ‘The right story at the…
Nigerian novelist Elnathan John and his French translator Céline Schwaller have been awarded the Prix Les Afriques for Né un…
‘Look what the fucking dogs did to them, someone muttered. No one mentioned the rope, or the monkey-wrench, or the…
The JRB presents an excerpt from New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent,…
Good news for aspiring writers: The Dinaane Debut Fiction Award has extended its submissions period until 30 June 2019. For…
Penguin Random House has shared an excerpt from Land of My Ancestors by Botlhale Tema. About the book When working on the…
Jonathan Ball Publishers has shared an excerpt from North Facing by Tony Peake. About the book Peake’s first novel for 20 years…
The JRB presents an excerpt from Triangulum, the new novel from Masande Ntshanga. Read an interview with Masande Ntshanga on Triangulum…
The JRB presents an extract from Like Family: Domestic Workers in South African History and Literature, by Ena Jansen. Like…
OluTimehin Adegbeye has won the R25 000 Gerald Kraak Prize, which honours African writing and photography that ‘provokes thought on…
BlackBird Books has revealed the covers for two new books—featuring the publisher’s bold new look! The books are The Eternal Audience…
That’s how the metropolis had ordered us. Its scaffolding and thoroughfares were testaments to the might of its vertical ambition;…
The Love Song of André P Brink, Leon de Kock’s eagerly awaited account of André Brink’s life, is out in May…
Fiona Snyckers’s new novel Lacuna, a response to JM Coetzee’s Disgrace written from the point of view of Lucy Lurie, is out now…
Every French-speaking traveller knows it better than anyone else: the French language is the same, but each time different, on…
Rekgotsofetse Chikane, youth activist and author of Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation, spoke to The Reading List about the nature of…
Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule’s Web of Capture by Pieter-Louis Myburgh is available now from Penguin Random House. In spite of Cyril Ramaphosa’s…
The JRB presents an excerpt from Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s forthcoming novel, The Mourning Bird. The Mourning Bird, which was the winner of this…
Jonathan Ball Publishers has shared an extract from The Blackridge House by Julia Martin. The Blackridge House is a meditation on…
The JRB presents the digital debut of eMagqumeni: Place of the Hills, a new graphic novel by Nathi Ngubane and Azad…
Vagabond: Wandering Through Africa on Faith by Lerato Mogoatlhe is out from BlackBird Books in April 2019! ‘Sometime in November 2007…
The JRB presents an excerpt from Of Passion and Ink: New Voices from Cameroon, a collection of short stories forthcoming…
The JRB presents excerpts from White Blight by Swedish poet Athena Farrokhzad, translated by Jennifer Hayashida. White Blight is published…
The cover image for the April 2019 issue of The JRB is by Gideon Mendel, from his new exhibition ‘Damage’. Born…
The Jacana Literary Foundation (JLF) is pleased to announce that submissions for the ninth annual Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry…
Penguin Random House has shared a video interview with award-winning author Carol Campbell, talking about The Tortoise Cried Its Only Tear,…
In Rebels and Rage: Reflecting on #FeesMustFall, Adam Habib, prominent and outspoken university official during the recent student protests, takes a…
Gail Schimmel’s new novel The Accident is out in March 2019 from Pan Macmillan! The Accident is the fourth novel from Gail Schimmel,…
The JRB presents an exclusive excerpt from Yellowbone, the forthcoming novel by Ekow Duker. Yellowbone will be published by Kwela…
The JRB presents an excerpt, in photographs, from Museum of the Revolution, a new book by renowned photographer Guy Tillim. The…
