Extract Alert: Adulting 101: How to survive the real world by...
Adulting 101 will help you navigate the tricky terrain of adulthood. Jen Thorpe guides you through everything you need to know (including what you...
Read: An extract from Ghetto Ninja: The Junior Khanye Story
Ghetto Ninja: The Junior Khanye Story is a book which tells of the making of a soccer sensation. Junior shares his experience of poverty,...
Extract: RUN for the Love of Life
RUN for the Love of Life is a thought-provoking memoir that gently guides the reader through the author’s rawest and most central moments of...
Extract: The Tyranny of Growth
Set in the past, The Tyranny of Growth is a book about the present. It provocatively recounts how and why the 2008 global financial...
EXTRACT: Deep Collusion by Athol Williams
On November 7, writer and poet Athol Williams announced that he was leaving South Africa, fearing for his safety. In his newly released book,...
EXTRACT: An Anansi Mystery: The Haunted Library
An Anansi Mystery: The Haunted Library is a fun new read for middle-graders. The book features twin sisters, Karabo and Siphe, their friend Bandile...
EXTRACT: Zwelethu Our Land by Jaki Seroke
In his memoir, Zwelethu Our Land, Jaki Seroke shares the joys and the sorrows of his life. He recalls the political battles among the...
The ANC’s Last Decade: Book Extract
For nearly three decades, the ANC has held South Africa’s politics in an iron grip. Even as its reputation was dented by scandal and...
Out of Quatro: An Extract
Out of Quatro: From exile to exoneration is Luthando Dyasop’s story. The book is a story not only about Dyasop’s extraordinary life, but also...
Extract: Get out of your Mind
In “Get out of your Mind: Lessons on embracing difference from South Africa and beyond” Luyanda Mpahlwa and Klaus Doppler use their shared experiences....
A Home on Vorster Street: An Extract
In A Home on Vorster Street, Razina Theba witnesses the ebb and flow of a tight-knit neighbourhood trying to survive the forces of apartheid....
Extract from Pumla Dineo Gqola’s Female Fear Factory
Female Fear Factory is the much-anticipated follow up to the 2016 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award winner Rape: A South African Nightmare. Like the...
EXTRACT: That’s Not What I Meant!
That’s Not What I Meant! is a punchy how-to guide that will help you to be clear about your message, break through communication barriers,...
Extract: Flow: The Book About Menstruation
Flow is a new book from Kwela Books. The book, Flow, will inform, educate, empower, and inspire all those who menstruate. Written by a...
EXTRACT: Andile Gaelesiwe: Remembering
Andile Gaelesiwe is celebrated across South Africa as the adored host of Khumbul’ ekhaya on SABC 1. Yet few know that behind the glamour...
EXTRACT: But He Speaks So Well by Ivan Johnson
Journey with Ivan Johnson in this memoir of an identity crisis as the highspirited boy from a close-knit family on the Cape Flats comes...
Book Extract: “You Have Struck a Rock”
"You Have Struck a Rock" by writer and commentator, Gugulethu Mhlungu looks at how history has shaped the conditions women face today. The book...
EXTRACT: Black Girl’s Guide to Corporate South Africa by Lindelwa Skenjana
In this timely memoir-/guide, young corporate professional Lindelwa Skenjana shares insights from her own experience and those of other black women at various stages...
Extract: Nation on the Couch
Professor Wahbie Long’s Nation on the Couch explores life in our beloved country through the lens of psychoanalysis. By focusing on the idea of...
Jwara! Induna’s Daughter: An extract
Born into privilege, Joyce PilisoSeroke questioned her environment. She grew up in a gated compound for the mining elite at Crown Mines but soon...
