[Sponsored] ‘Hauntingly beautiful’—read an excerpt from The Possible World by Liese O’Halloran Schwarz
A captivating novel that will make you laugh, cry and see the world anew: read an extract from the hauntingly…
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…
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has died in Johannesburg at the age of eighty-one. Read an excerpt from her prison journal, published in 2013,…
Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela-Mandela, the iconic, controversial South African activist known as ‘the Mother of the Nation’ and, more simply, as…
Stephen Clingman chats to The Reading List about his memoir, Birthmark, published by Jacana Media. The Reading List: Thank you very…
The JRB is proud to present an exclusive excerpt from Nthikeng Mohlele’s new novel, Michael K. Michael K Nthikeng Mohlele Picador…
‘Hauntingly engaging’ – Thandiwe Ntshinga, The South African ‘Crisp, experimental and beautifully weird’ – Phumlani S Langa, City Press Pan…
Like Sodium in Water: A Memoir of Home and Heartache by Hayden Eastwood is out in March from Jonathan Ball Publishers. ‘Dad…
Penguin Random House has shared an excerpt from The Chalk Man, the new novel by CJ Tudor. Expertly alternating between flashbacks…
Homesoil in My Blood: A Trilogy Keorapetse Kgositsile Xarra Books, 2018 Exclusive to The JRB, we present author Mandla Langa’s…
The JRB presents an excerpt from Ramaphosa: The Man Who Would Be King by Ray Hartley. Ramaphosa: The Man Who…
Pan Macmillan South Africa has shared an excerpt from The Knock on the Door: The Story of the Detainees’ Parents Support…
A Long Way From Home, the new book from award-winning author Peter Carey, is out soon from Jonathan Ball Publishers….
Brazil and Mozambique: Forging New Partnerships or Developing Dependency?, by Chris Alden, Sergio Chichava and Ana Cristina Alves, is out now from Jacana…
Read an excerpt from Marcus Low’s debut novel Asylum—an existential thriller set in a quarantine facility in the arid Karoo—which…
White Chrysanthemum, the powerful and moving debut novel by Mary Lynn Bracht, is out now from Penguin Random House South Africa. In…