The JRB presents ‘On Patrol in the Dark City’, an excerpt from I Want to Go Home Forever: Stories of Becoming and…
Umuzi has revealed the cover for Zakes Mda’s new novel The Zulus of New York! The Zulus of New York is a work…
Lives of Great Men, the award-winning memoir from Chike Frankie Edozien, is out now from Jacana Media. The book won…
Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone is a West African Fantasy about a girl who must fight against the monarchy to…
The JRB is proud to present an excerpt from House of Stone, the debut novel by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma. House of…
‘History is created in the mouth …’ Novuyo Rosa Tshuma and The JRB Contributing Editor Panashe Chigumadzi both have new…
Read an excerpt from The Theory of Flight, the debut novel by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, courtesy of Penguin Random House SA….
Moving between Ghana and London, Michael Donkor’s debut novel Hold is an intimate, powerful coming-of-age novel. It’s a story of…
The People in the Trees is a powerful work of visionary literary fiction from Hanya Yanagihara, the bestselling author of the…
BlackBird Books is celebrating its third Birthday with an event and a special offer! Special offer As part of the…
The JRB is proud to present an excerpt from Africa’s Cause Must Triumph: The Collected Writings of AP Mda. Africa’s Cause…
Pan Macmillan and The Reading List have launched a Friday Night Book Club, with exclusive excerpts from the latest South…
The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela, the new book from acclaimed author and public commentator Sisonke Msimang, will be out from…
Jacana Media has launched a new Modern Classics series, kicking off with How We Buried Puso by Morabo Morojele, to be published…
A captivating novel that will make you laugh, cry and see the world anew: read an extract from the hauntingly…
The JRB is presents the three winning stories from this year’s Short Story Day Africa Prize. Nigerian writer Tochukwu Emmanuel…
The JRB presents the three winning stories from this year’s Short Story Day Africa Prize. Nigerian writer Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor…
The JRB presents the three winning stories from this year’s Short Story Day Africa Prize. Nigerian writer Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor…
‘Johannesburg is a fragmented city. It is not a place of smoothly integrated parts. And it has a name that…
Jacana Media has shared an extract from The Broken River Tent, the debut novel by Mphuthumi Ntabeni.
It’s time to polish up that manuscript! Pan Macmillan South Africa’s open submissions week is starting this week! The open…
Jonathan Ball Publishers has shared an excerpt from I am Pandarus, the new novel from acclaimed author Michiel Heyns. I am…
The Reading List is giving away two copies of The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson PLUS…
Many case officers liked to take a tablet to turn white, believing that it made the job easier. I think…
Exclusive to The JRB, listen to a recording of Zinzi Clemmons reading from her debut novel, What We Lose. What…
The JRB is proud to present an excerpt from Roland Rugero’s novel Baho!—the first Burundian novel to be translated from French…
Mandy Wiener chatted to The Reading List about her explosive new book, Ministry of Crime: An Underworld Explored. As a…
The Reading List is giving away two copies of The Boy Who Could Keep a Swan in his Head, the…
Read an excerpt from Zinzi Clemmons’s debut novel What We Lose, ahead of her tour of Johannesburg and Cape Town in May….
From Protest to Challenge Vol. 4: Political Profiles, 1882–1990, by Thomas G Karis and Gwendolen Carter, revised and updated by Gail…
The JRB City Editor Niq Mhlongo and Zukiswa Wanner have both just published new books—Soweto, Under the Apricot Tree and…
Exclusive to The JRB, read Wame Molefhe’s short story ‘A Woman is her Hands’, excerpted from The Gods Who Send…
Authors are sometimes only properly appreciated after they are gone, but Gcina Mhlophe and Sindiwe Magona are two writers who…
Read an excerpt from The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead, out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers. Whitehead won the Pulitzer…
Artist William Kentridge and author Denis Hirson appeared in a public conversation at the Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, in February, to…
“When life turns as black as the Earl of Hell’s waistcoat, you don’t want a man who’s all bum and…
Mandy Wiener’s new book Ministry of Crime: An Underworld Explored will be published by Pan Macmillan in May. The book explores the…
BlackBird Books has announced two new publications. The Last Sentence, the debut novel by Tumelo Buthelezi, and An Image in…
Zukiswa Wanner launched her latest book, Hardly Working: A Travel Memoir of Sorts, in Johannesburg at African Flavour Books recently, in…
This is an edited version of a letter The JRB received, from Christine Chiosi, in response to the essay by…
