PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE HIGHLIGHTS CATALOGUE July – December 2020 CONTENTS 4 RISING STARS 6 FICTION 8 CRIME & THRILLERS 14 LITERARY FICTION 18 LOCAL FICTION 20 AFRIKAANSE FIKSIE 22 NON-FICTION 30 BIOGRAPHIES 32 NATURE & TRAVEL

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Eight Detectives Alex Pavesi

All murder mysteries follow a simple set of rules. Grant McAllister, an eccentric but brilliant professor of mathematics, once sat The Shadow Friend The Thursday Ghosts Atomic Love down and worked them all out – and wrote Alex North Murder Club Dolly Alderton Jennie Fields a set of seven stories to demonstrate. Soon Richard Osman after, Grant disappeared to live on an isolated Twenty-five years ago, troubled 32-year-old Nina Dean is Chicago, 1950. Mediterranean island. teenager Charlie Crabtree In a peaceful retirement a successful food writer with Rosalind Porter has always Thirty years later, Julia Hart, an ambitious committed a shocking and village off the A21 in Kent, a loyal online following, but defied expectations – in young editor, knocks on his door. Grant’s work unprovoked murder. four unlikely friends meet up a life that is falling apart. her work as a physicist on is being republished, and together the two of On the darkest corners of once a week to investigate When she uses dating the Manhattan Project to them must revisit those old stories. the internet, plenty of people unsolved killings. apps for the first time, design the atomic bomb, Julia realises that there are deliberate still remember what happened: But when a local property she becomes a victim of and in her passionate inconsistencies which Grant is unable – or Charlie’s crime has attracted a developer shows up dead, ghosting, and by the most love affair with coworker unwilling – to explain. Might they be a trail of dark infamy, inspiring more than ‘The Thursday Murder Club’ beguiling of men. Her Thomas Wheeler. Five years clues? And if so, do they lead towards the topic one copycat. find themselves in the middle beloved dad is vanishing in after the end of both, she on which Grant is most evasive: the truth about Paul Adams can remember of their first live case. slow motion into dementia, has almost succeeded in what happened thirty years before? the case too, he left town as Can our unorthodox gang and she’s starting to think resigning herself to a more soon as he could, and he’s never catch the killer, before it’s about ageing and the conventional life. Trade paperback • R310 • 9780241433577 • September gone back. But he is back now, too late? gendered double-standard of Then Wheeler gets back in and another copycat has struck A page-turning murder the biological clock. On top touch – but so does the FBI. which reminds Paul of the most mystery in the tradition of of this she has to deal with They want Rosalind to spy unsettling thing about that Christie, and a joyful, laugh- her mother’s desire for a mid- on Wheeler, whom the FBI awful day twenty-five years ago. out-loud celebration of life makeover and the fact suspects of selling nuclear A dazzlingly clever battle of wits It wasn’t just the murder. It was modern Britishness and the that all her friends seem to secrets to Russia. the fact that afterwards, Charlie power of friendship. be slipping away from her… between an ageing detective Crabtree was never seen again… Trade paperback • R310 Trade paperback • R310 Trade paperback • R310 9780241417782 • October novelist and the young woman Trade paperback • R310 9780241425459 • October 9780241465332 • November who might just be clever enough 9780718189976 • July to solve the biggest mystery of them all… One White Lie Leah Konen

Lucy King arrives in the small town of Woodstock, battered and bruised, hoping ALEX PAVESI desperately that this time she has finally escaped her abusive partner Davis for good. Alex Pavesi lives in London, where he She soon befriends her next-door neighbours, Vera and John. They’re a model writes full time. He previously worked couple, but gradually Lucy realises that all is not as it seems. as a software engineer and before When Davis gets wind of where she’s hiding, and Vera and John come to her with that studied mathematics to PhD level, a truly audacious plan to escape their problems by staging John’s death in a cliff-top during which time he worked as a part- hiking accident, Lucy finds herself agreeing to say she too saw him go over the edge. time bookseller. It’s only the next day, when his body is found, that she realises how much trouble she might be in…

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Just Like You The Family Holiday Love Your Life Nick Hornby Elizabeth Noble Sophie Kinsella

The person you are with is just like you: Charlie is determined to celebrate his When Ava signs up to a semi-silent, Liar same background, same age, same eightieth birthday surrounded by family. anonymous writing retreat in glorious Lesley Pearse interests. The perfect match. And it is The trouble is that ever since he lost his Italy, love is the last thing on her mind. an unmitigated disaster. wife his children’s differences have pulled Until she meets a handsome stranger… Amelia White dreams of being a reporter. Then, when, and where, you least them apart. All she knows is that he’s funny, he’s kind The closest she’s come is selling advertising expect it, you meet someone new. His daughter Laura is divorced and and – she soon learns – he’s great in bed. in the local paper – until the fateful day she You seem to have nothing in common struggling with her new reality. And with After a whirlwind, intoxicating affair, they stumbles on a shocking scoop. and yet, somehow, it feels totally right. her teenage son accused of a crime by pledge their love without even knowing Round the corner from her home, she Nick Hornby’s brilliantly observed, tender his girlfriend’s parents, she doesn’t know each other’s real names. discovers the body of a murder victim, but also brutally funny new novel gets which crisis to deal with first. Charlie’s sons But when they return home, reality dumped among the rubbish. When the to the heart of what it means to fall couldn’t be in more different positions: hits. They’re both driven mad by each police and reporters descend, Amelia is surprisingly and headlong in love with Scott is recently married, acquiring two other’s weird quirks and annoying horrified at the lies soon to be spread about the best possible person – someone stepdaughters and Nick is still reeling from habits, from his eccentric, naked-sauna- the young woman. who is not just like you at all. losing his wife in a tragic accident, and loving family to her terribly behaved, Determined to protect the victim from coping alone with three young children. shirt-shredding dog. As disaster follows these smears, she convinces her paper’s Trade paperback • R310 • 9780241338575 • October Now, brought together for Charlie’s disaster, it seems that while they love editor to let her tell the true story. birthday, the family must untangle what each other, they just can’t love each And when another body is found, Amelia divides them and discover, at last, what other’s lives. Can they overcome their discovers that she may be the only one binds them all together… differences to find one life, together?. with any chance of learning the truth and stopping more killings. Paperback • R185 • 9781405934541 • July Trade paperback • R310 • 9781787630284 • November If only she can work out who the liar is…

Trade paperback • R310 • 9780241426616 • July Sex and Vanity The thrilling new novel Kevin Kwan from the 10-million-copy, On her very first morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao and No. 1 bestselling author. she instantly can’t stand him. The daughter of an American-born Chinese mother and a blue-blooded New York father, Lucie has always sublimated the Asian side of herself, and she adamantly denies having feelings for George. But several years later, when George unexpectedly appears in East Hampton, where Lucie FACTS ABOUT is weekending with her new fiancé, she finds herself Ready Player Two drawn to him again. Soon, Lucie is spinning a web Ernest Cline 5 LESLEY PEARSE of deceit that involves her family, her fiancé and ultimately herself, as she tries to deny George entry The highly anticipated sequel to the into her world – and her heart. beloved worldwide bestseller Ready She was brought She learned about Her novels have Her debut novel, Lesley achieved Moving between summer playgrounds of privilege, Player One, the “ridiculously fun and up in South the Soho club sold over ten Georgia, was her first No.1 peppered with decadent food and extravagant large-hearted” (NPR) near-future 1London in various 2scene and the 3million copies 4published in 1993. 5Sunday Times Hard fashion, Sex and Vanity is a truly modern love story, adventure that inspired the blockbuster orphanages from music business worldwide. It’s based loosely Back best seller a daring homage to A Room with a View, and a Steven Spielberg film. the age of three. during the Sixties on experiences with Belle which brilliantly funny comedy of manners set between with the late John she’d had with her also went to No.1 two cultures. Trade paperback • R310 • 9781780897448 • November Pritchard. second husband. in Ireland, South Africa and New Trade paperback • R310 • 9781786332288 • July Zealand. JULY – DECEMBER 2020 CRIME & THRILLERS 9

Lost Souls Jonathan Kellerman & Jesse Kellerman

Deputy Coroner Clay Edison is juggling a new baby who won’t sleep with working the graveyard shift. For once he’s trying to keep things simple. When infant remains are found by developers demolishing a local park, a devastating cold case is brought back to light. Clay has barely begun to investigate when he receives a call from a man who thinks the remains could belong to his sister – who went missing fifty years ago. Now Clay is locked in a relentless search that will unearth a web of violence, secrets and betrayal. Because in this town, the past isn’t dead. It’s very much alive. And it can kill.

Trade paperback • R310 • 9781780899084 • August The Kingdom Jo Nesbo Bestselling writing duo, Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman, return with a new unputdownable thriller. In the mountains of Norway a man lives a peaceful existence. However one day his younger brother, always the more successful and charming of the two, turns up to visit, accompanied by his new wife. It soon turns out that the little brother is not quite as angelic as he seems. Set in a small town filled with secrets, this is a compellingly atmospheric new thriller from the Sunday Times number one bestseller.

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The gripping new standalone thriller from multi-million copy bestseller, Jo Nesbo. Final Cut The End of Her We are All the Same S J Watson Shari Lapena in the Dark Julia Heaberlin Blackwood Bay. An ordinary place, It starts with a shocking accusation… home to ordinary people. Stephanie and Patrick are recently Outside a small Texas town, a girl with It used to be a buzzing seaside married, with new-born twins. While one eye is found on the side of the destination. But now, ravaged by Stephanie struggles with the disorienting highway in a sea of dandelions, making JO the effects of dwindling tourism and effects of sleep deprivation, there’s one wishes. Years earlier, a teenager named economic downturn, it’s a ghost town – thing she knows for certain – she has Tru disappeared from a nearby farm. NESBO and the perfect place for film-maker Alex everything she ever wanted. She was known for her kindness and for to shoot her new documentary. But the Then a woman from Patrick’s past always wearing her hair up, sometimes Jo Nesbo is an international number one community is deeply suspicious of her arrives and makes a horrifying allegation with a wildflower tucked in it. A decade bestseller and his books are published intentions. After all, nothing exciting ever about his first wife. He always claimed after she disappeared, she is legend, and in 50 languages, selling over 40 million happens in Blackwood Bay – or does it? her death was an accident – but she says more alive than ever. copies around the world. Before it was murder. Now, the town’s youngest cop is becoming a crime writer, Nesbo worked Trade paperback • R310 • 9780857523068 • September He insists he’s innocent, that this desperate to solve both cases. She shares as a financial analyst, crunching numbers is nothing but a blackmail attempt. a wound with the mystery girl with one during the day and gigging with his But is Patrick telling the truth? Or has eye. She knew and loved Tru. And she has band at night. When commissioned by Stephanie made a terrible mistake? reasons to protect the leading suspect, a publisher to write a memoir about life a man the town is seething to tear apart. on the road with his band, he instead Trade paperback • R310 • 9781787633001 • August came up with the plot for his first Harry Trade paperback • R310 • 9780241385500 • September Hole crime novel, The Bat. 10 CRIME & THRILLERS JULY – DECEMBER 2020 JULY – DECEMBER 2020 CRIME & THRILLERS 11

The Sentinel Lee Child and Andrew Child

Jack Reacher gets off a bus in Nashville, Tennessee, in a quest for food, lodging and some good country music. But when he encounters a band of musicians who have been cheated by an unscrupulous bar owner, he steps in to help…

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LEE CHILD Lee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world and have sold V2 The Gates of Athens The Searcher Anxious People over one hundred million copies. Robert Harris Conn Iggulden Tana French Fredrik Backman

ANDREW CHILD Dr Rudi Graf finds himself in 490 B.C. Retired detective Cal Hooper A bank robber on the run Andrew Child is the author of nine thrillers written under the name November 1944 in Occupied The momentous struggle moves to a remote village locks himself in with an over- Andrew Grant. He is the younger brother of Lee Child. Born in Holland, launching V2s against between Athens and in rural Ireland. His plans enthusiastic estate agent, two Birmingham, he lives in Wyoming with his wife, the novelist Tasha London. No one understands Sparta as rival powers and are to fix up the dilapidated bitter IKEA-addicts, a pregnant Alexander. the deadly machine better than political systems will last for cottage he’s bought, to woman, a suicidal multi- Graf, but his disillusionment twenty-seven years (431 to walk the mountains, to put millionaire and a rabbit. In the with the war leads to him being 404 BC). It will end in the his old police instincts to end the robber gives up and investigated for sabotage. fall of Athens. bed forever. lets everyone go, but when the Kay Caton-Walsh, an officer Filled with cunning Then a local boy appeals police storm the apartment it in the WAAF, has experienced political scheming, to him for help. His brother is… empty. the horror of a V2 strike. When astonishing military prowess, is missing, and no one in In a series of dysfunctional 160 Londoners are killed by a invasions, treacheries, the village, least of all the testimonies after the event, the single missile, the government plagues, ambitions, virtues, police, seems to care. And witnesses all tell their version of sends a team to Belgium in and emotions and a lot of once again, Cal feels that what really happened and it’s the hope of discovering the intrigue, Conn Iggulden restless itch. clear we have a classic locked- location of the launch sites. brings to life one of the Something is wrong in this room mystery on our hands: As the war reaches its most thrilling chapters of community, and he must find How did the robber manage desperate end, their twin the ancient world. out what, even if it brings to escape? Why is everyone so stories play out, interlocked and trouble to his door. angry? And: What is WRONG separate, until their destinies Trade paperback • R310 with people these days? are finally forced together. 9780241351246 • September Trade paperback • R320 9780241459416 • November Trade paperback • R310 Trade paperback • R310 9780718186623 • October 9781786331410 • October Invisible Girl The Saboteurs Marauder Lisa Jewell Clive Cussler & Jack du Brul Clive Cussler Tom Clancy’s Firing Point When Saffyre Maddox was ten something Detective Isaac Bell’s wife has said that The rip-roaring new Oregon Files thriller Tom Clancy & Mike Maden terrible happened and she’s carried the pain he is always in the wrong place at the from the Grand Master of Adventure, of it around with her ever since. The man who right time. This is certainly the case when Clive Cussler. Finally taking a well-earned break, Jack Ryan Jr is taken by surprise when he runs into old flame she thought was going to heal her didn’t, Bell thwarts the attempted assassination Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Renee Moore in a scenic Barcelona café. and now she hides from him, invisible in the of a United States Senator shortly after Oregon are on the case again, with Curiously, Renee is not so pleased to see him. Distracted, she promises to call him later, and shadows, learning his secrets. meeting the man. This heroic rescue another high-stakes high seas mission sends him out onto the street. Owen Pick is invisible too. He’s thirty- is just the start of the mystery for Bell, packed with page-turning intrigue and Which is when the bomb goes off. three years old and he’s never had a who suspects that the would-be exhilarating suspense. There’s nothing he can do to save Renee. But as he cradles her, she utters one last word with girlfriend, he’s never even had a friend. assassins have a much larger and her final breath: Sammler. But when Saffyre Maddox disappears more dangerous agenda. Trade paperback • R310 • 9780241424643 • November Jack realises he’s stumbled into an international conspiracy that might be more than even he from opposite his house on Valentine’s With millions of dollars and the can handle. Because Renee isn’t the first to die. And she won’t be the last… night, suddenly the whole world is looking at fates of two nations at stake, Bell him. Accusing him. Holding him responsible. heads to Panama to find answers. Trade paperback • R320 • 9780241478196 • September Because he’s just the type, isn’t he? A bit creepy? Trade paperback • R340 • 9780241464533 • October Jack Ryan Jr returns in Tom Clancy’s thrilling Trade paperback • R310 • 9781780899237 • August multi-million copy bestselling series. JAMES PATTERSON THE WORLD’S BESTSELLING THRILLER WRITER

“James Patterson writes his thrillers as if he were building roller coasters.” – Associated Press

1st Case The Midwife Murders Private Moscow The Coast-to-Coast Murders Three Women Disappear Deadly Cross James Patterson James Patterson James Patterson James Patterson James Patterson James Patterson

When Angela Hoot is kicked off her A missing patient is a hospital ward’s Karl Parker, a former Marine and noted Michael and Megan Fitzgerald are When mob accountant Anthony Until Kay Willingham’s murder inside graduate programme at MIT for hacking worst nightmare – until even more telecoms magnate, is killed during an siblings who share a terrifying past. Costello, nephew of the don of central a luxury limousine, the Georgetown into the computer of a fellow student, people disappear… attempted kidnapping that goes badly Both adopted, and now grown, they Florida, is fatally stabbed in his own socialite, philanthropist, and ex-wife of she fears she’s blown her chances of Senior Midwife Lucy Ryuan is used wrong. His wife, Victoria, hires Jack trust each other before anyone else. kitchen, the numbers are off. Way off. the sitting vice-president led a public a glittering career. to guiding expectant mothers through Morgan, an old comrade and friend, They’ve had to. There were three women in the house life. But few had any inkling of Kay’s Instead, she’s offered a dream pregnancy. But when two kidnappings to get to the truth. When a young woman is found with him that morning – his wife, Anna; troubled past in the Deep South. internship with the FBI. She jumps at the and a vicious stabbing happen on her In Moscow, Yana Petrov, an murdered in Michael’s LA apartment, his maid, Serena; and his personal chef, Murdered alongside her is Randall chance, and is thrown straight into her watch, her focus abruptly changes. unassuming office worker, is brutally he becomes the chief suspect. But then Sarah. All three have reason to want him Christopher, a respected educator with first case, the murder of a family of five. Something has to be done, and Lucy murdered in what looks like a gangland there’s another killing that is strikingly dead. And all three are missing. political ambitions. As Angela struggles to come to terms is fearless enough to try. execution. Dinara Orlov, the head of similar. And another. As the spree What’s more, chef Sarah happens to Alex is left without a viable suspect, with the harsh reality of her new job, As rumours and accusations fly Private Moscow, is made an offer she spreads across the country, the FBI be married to homicide detective Sean and facing a desperate choice between a phone is found that could hold the around Manhattan, Lucy teams up with can’t refuse and agrees to investigate become involved in a manhunt for Walsh. Walsh may be a bad husband, breaking a trust and losing his way – secrets of this mass murder – if Angela a sceptical NYPD detective to solve the Petrov’s death. a cold-blooded serial killer. but he’s a good cop. as a detective, and the protector of is able to uncover them. case. But the truth is far more twisted Battling against the odds and The murders are clearly linked, but But even if Walsh can find the women his family. than either of them could ever have compelled to face difficult truths, Jack the killer is more ingenious than anyone and bring them in, it’ll be their word Trade paperback • R310 • 9781780899398 • July imagined. and Dinara uncover old secrets and could expect, and false leads will leave against that of a dead man – and none Trade paperback • R310 a geopolitical conspiracy that could the LAPD and FBI completely baffled at of them can be trusted. 9781780899497 • December Paperback • R185 • 9781787461994 • August permanently change the balance of how to prevent a string of murders that global power. seem unstoppable. Trade paperback • R310 9781780899510 • November Trade paperback • R310 • 9781529124453 • September Trade paperback • R310 • 9781529125184 • October “All Patterson’s success stems from one simple root: his love of telling stories.” – Washington Post JULY – DECEMBER 2020 LITERARY FICTION 15

Miss Benson’s Beetle Rachel Joyce

Margery Benson’s life ended the day her father walked out of his study and never came back. Forty years later, abandoning a dull job, she advertises for an assistant. The successful candidate is to accompany Margery on an A Traveller at the Gates Transcendent Kingdom Summer expedition to the other side of the world to of Wisdom Yaa Gyasi Ali Smith search for a beetle that may or may not exist. John Boyne Enid Pretty is not who she had in mind. As a child Gifty would ask her parents to The unmissable conclusion to Ali Smith’s But together they will find themselves drawn This story starts with a family. For now, tell the story of their journey from Ghana dazzling, Man Booker-shortlisted cycle: into an adventure that exceeds all Margery’s it is a father and a mother with two to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of Seasonal is crowned in 2020 with expectations, eventually finding new life at the sons. One with his father’s violence heroism and romance. When her father Summer. top of a red mountain. in his blood. One with his mother’s and brother succumb to the hard reality ‘These novels, in straddling immediacy This is a story that is less about what can artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will of immigrant life in the American South, and permanence, the personal as well be found than the belief it might be found; be joined by others whose deeds will their family of four becomes two – and as the scope of a world tilting toward it is an intoxicating adventure story and it is also determine their fate. It is a beginning. the life Gifty dreamed of slips away. disaster, are the ones we might well be a tender exploration of a friendship between two Their stories will intertwine and Years later, desperate to understand looking back on years from now as the unforgettable women that defies all boundaries. evolve over the course of two thousand the opioid addiction that destroyed her defining literature of an indefinable era. years. They will meet again and again brother’s life, she turns to science for And the shape the telling takes is, if not Trade paperback • R310 • 9780857521996 • August at different times and in different places. answers. But when her mother comes to salvation, brilliance itself’ – The New York The world will change around them, but stay, Gifty soon learns that the roots of Times on the Seasonal quartet so far. their destinies remain the same. It must their tangled traumas reach farther than play out as foretold. she ever thought. Trade paperback • R320 • 9780241207079 • September A story about the smallest insect and the deepest friendship Trade paperback • R310 • 9780857526205 • August Trade paperback • R310 • 9780241433386 • September from the author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Trio RACHEL JOYCE William Boyd Rachel Joyce is the author of the Sunday Times and international A producer. A novelist. An actress. bestsellers The Unlikely Pilgrimage It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King of Harold Fry, Perfect, The Love and Robert Kennedy. While the world is reeling our trio is involved in making Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, a rackety Swingin’ Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading The Music Shop and a collection of secret lives. interlinked short stories, A Snow Garden & Other As the film is shot, with its usual drastic ups and downs, so does our trio’s Stories. Her books have been translated into thirty- private, secret world begin to take over their public one. Pressures build six languages and two are in development for film. inexorably – someone’s going to crack. Or maybe they all will. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was shortlisted From one of Britain’s bestselling writers comes an exhilarating, tender novel for the Commonwealth Book prize and longlisted that asks the vital questions: what makes life worth living? And what do you for the Man Booker Prize. do if you find it isn’t? Rachel has also written over twenty original afternoon plays and adaptations of the classics Trade paperback • R310 • 9780241295960 • November for BBC Radio 4, including all the Bronte novels. She moved to writing after a long career as an actor, performing leading roles for the RSC, the National Theatre and Cheek by Jowl. 16 LITERARY FICTION JULY – DECEMBER 2020 JULY – DECEMBER 2020 LITERARY FICTION 17

Moonflower Murders Anthony Horowitz

Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is running a small hotel on a Greek island. But life isn’t as idyllic as it should be, and Susan is beginning to miss her literary life in London – even though her publishing career once entangled her in a lethal literary murder plot. So when an English couple come to visit with tales of a murder that took place in a hotel the same day their daughter Cecily was married there, Susan can’t help but find herself fascinated. And when they tell her that Cecily has gone missing a few short hours after reading a crime novel Susan edited some years previously, Susan knows she must find out what has happened. The clues to the murder and to Cecily’s disappearance must lie within the pages of this novel. But to save Cecily, Susan must place her own life in mortal danger…

Sisters Rodham The Butterfly Lampshade Trade paperback • R310 • 9781529124354 • September Daisy Johnson Curtis Sittenfeld Aimee Bender

After a serious case of school bullying ‘Awfully opinionated for a girl’ is what On the night her mother is taken to becomes too much to bear, sisters July they call Hillary as she grows up in her a mental hospital after a psychotic and September move across the country Chicago suburb. Smart, diligent, and episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with their mother to a long-abandoned a bit plain, that’s the general consensus. with her babysitter. Next to the couch family home. Then Hillary goes to college, and her star on which she’s sleeping, there is a lamp In their new and unsettling rises. At Yale Law School, she continues that catches her eye, its shade adorned surroundings, July finds that the to be a leader – and catches the eye with butterflies. When she wakes, Francie deep bond she has always had with of driven, handsome and charismatic sees a dead butterfly floating in a glass of September is starting to change. Bill. But when he asks her to marry him, water. She drinks it before the babysitter Inside the house the tension among Hillary gives him a firm No. can see. the three women builds, while outside The rest, as they say, isn’t history. Twenty years later, Francie is the sisters meet a boy who tests the How might things have turned out for compelled to make sense of that limits of their shared experiences. them, for America, for the world itself, moment and she wrestles with the if Hillary Rodham had really turned down hold the memories have over her. Trade paperback • R310 • 9781787331778 • October Bill Clinton? Trade paperback • R310 • 9781786332561 • August Trade paperback • R310 • 9780857526137 • July

The Liar’s Dictionary Eley Williams The Autumn of the Ace The Perfect Nine Dearly Louis de Bernières Ngug wa Thiong’o Margaret Atwood In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth has reached the letter ‘S’, toiling away for the much-anticipated Swansby’s New Encyclopaedic Daniel Pitt has seen a lot of action. He was In his first attempt at the epic form, By turns moving, playful and wise, the Dictionary. Overwhelmed at his desk and increasingly uneasy that his colleagues an RAF fighter in the First World War and Ngug tells the story of the founding poems gathered in Dearly are about are attempting to corral language and regiment facts, Winceworth begins an espionage agent for the SOE in the of the Gikuyu people of Kenya, from absences and endings, ageing and inserting fictitious entries into the dictionary. Second. Now the conflicts he faces are a strongly feminist perspective. A verse retrospection, but also about gifts and In the present day, young intern Mallory is tasked with uncovering these closer to home. narrative, blending folklore, mythology, renewals. They explore bodies and minds mountweazels as the text of the dictionary is digitised for modern readers. Daniel and Rosie’s marriage has fractured adventure and allegory, The Perfect in transition, as well as the everyday As their two narratives combine, Winceworth and Mallory must discover how beyond repair and Daniel’s relationship Nine chronicles the efforts the Gikuyu objects and rituals that embed us in to negotiate the complexities of an often nonsensical, untrustworthy, hoax- with their son, Bertie, is a failure. After his founders made to find partners for their the present. strewn and undefinable life. brother Archie’s death, Daniel first travels ten beautiful daughters – called ‘The Before she became one of the world’s to Peshawar to bury Archie in the place Perfect Nine’ – and the challenges they most important and loved novelists, Hardcover • R320 • 9781785152047 • August he loved best, and then finds himself in set for the 99 suitors who seek their Atwood was a poet. Dearly is her first Canada, avoiding his family and friends hands in marriage. The epic has all the collection in over a decade. It is a pure back in England. But some bonds are hard elements of adventure, with suspense, Atwood delight, and long-term readers The eagerly anticipated, playful, and profound debut to break. When Daniel and Bertie gets the danger, humor and sacrifice. and new fans alike will treasure its insight, opportunity to reconnect, they need to empathy and humour. novel from an utterly original, award-winning writer. find a way to move on from the past. Trade paperback • R235 • 9781911215998 • November Hardcover • R340 • 9781784743895 • December Trade paperback • R310 • 9781787301344 • November JULY – DECEMBER 2020 LOCAL FICTION 19 LOCAL FICTION

The History of Man Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

Emil Coetzee, a civil servant in his fifties, is washing blood off his hands when the ceasefire is announced. Like everyone else, he feels unmoored by the end of the conflict. War had given him his sense of purpose, his identity. But why has Emil’s life turned out so different from his parents’, who spent cheery Friday evenings flapping and flailing the Charleston or dancing the Loves & Miracles of Pistola Still Life Nine Letters foxtrot? What happened to the Emil who Hilary Prendini Toffoli Zoë Wicomb John Webb used to wade through the singing elephant grass of the savannah, losing himself in it? In a tiny Italian village, life in the 1950s is Few in his native Scotland know about Durban lawyer Teddy Dickerson has run Prize-winner Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu’s a daily pageant of small human dramas. Thomas Pringle – the abolitionist, out of ideas. Cynical, single and middle- novel traces Emil’s life from boyhood to Pistola is a teenage boy in love with his publisher, and – some would say – Father aged, he’s the very last of his family to manhood – from his days at a privileged second cousin Teresa, a girl who is sadly of South African Poetry. A biography of still call South Africa home. boarding school with the motto ‘It is here destined to marry the village thug. Pringle is in order, and a reluctant writer When his formidable Aunt Val dies, that boys become the men of history’, to To escape his heartache, young takes up this task. she leaves him an unusual bequest: her his falling in love with the ever-elusive Pistola accepts the offer to travel to To help tell the story of Pringle is task for Teddy is to post letters to eight Marion, whose free-spirited nature has dire South Africa to work on the trains. In the spectre of Mary Prince, a West of her friends around the world, a job consequences for his heart – all the while lively Johannesburg, he and a group of Indian slave whose history he had once that will take him on a journey into new showing how Emil becomes a man apart. compatriots set up home in Hillbrow published. Also offering advice is the and unexpected territory. Set in a southern African country that is and go partying in Sophiatown with ghost of Hinza Marossi, Pringle’s adopted When the replies start flowing in – never named, this tale of human fallibility the likes of Miriam Makeba. Pistola Khoesan son, and the time-traveller Sir quirky, unexpected and often hilarious – told with empathy, generosity and a light falls for the spunky Malikah, a political Nicholas Greene, a character exhumed missives from India, Egypt, England, touch – is an excursion into the interiority activist, but after a few years, he must from the pages of a book. Canada and beyond – Teddy realises of the coloniser. return home to make a decision that But what is to be made of the life of there was more to his tough aunt than will define his future. Pringle so many years after his death by he’d thought. Softcover • R280 • 9781485904212 • October Witty and affectionate, this coming- this motley crew from the 1800s? Will he take on Aunt Val’s role as of-age novel pays homage to the As the apparitions flit through time confidant and comforter of the lost? 110 young Italian men who were and space to put together the pieces of Confidant and comforter? Teddy?! recruited to work on the South African Pringle’s story and find their own place in One thing’s for certain: Aunt Val is Turning the tables on Railways and introduced Italian cuisine his biography, Zoë Wicomb’s novel offers laughing in her grave. who’s writing whom to the nation. an acerbic exploration of colonial history in superb prose pierced with wit. Softcover • R280 • 9781485904137 • October Softcover • R280 • 9781485904335 • July Softcover • R280 • 9781415210536 • September

SIPHIWE GLORIA NDLOVU Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu is the author of The Theory of Flight, winner of the 2019 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize. She is a writer, filmmaker and academic who holds a PhD from Stanford JOIN THE PENGUIN CLUB! University, as well as master’s degrees in African Studies and Film from Ohio University. She has published research on Saartjie Find us on Facebook and join our book club for fabulous prizes Baartman and she wrote, directed and edited the award-winning and regular updates on authors and events. short film Graffiti. She was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Penguin Random House SA JULY – DECEMBER 2020 AFRIKAANSE FIKSIE 21 AFRIKAANSE Waar onthou begin Connie Luyt

Toe Elfrieda ná ’n lang koma uiteindelik haar oë oopmaak, is haar kop FIKSIE leeg. Angs pak haar toe sy in ’n Durbanse hospitaal besef sy kan níks van haar verlede onthou ná sy voor ’n motor ingehardloop het nie. Die heelal op my tong ’n Terloopse opmerking deur Michael, die neuropsigiater wat na Anoeschka von Meck haar omsien, bring ’n flits herinnering: Voor haar sien sy ’n vaalgroen boekie oor die lewe van die ontdekkingsreisiger David Livingstone Daar is ’n kluis in ’n winkeltrollie op die dak se vrou, Mary. Met behulp van Michael begin Elfrieda stadig die van Wille Willemien se 4×4. Want sy en haar legkaartstukkies van haar geheue aanmekaar sit. sus is op pad. Richtersveld toe. Om tussen Maar die onthou bring seer: Soos die herlewing van die tragedie Eksteenfontein en Khuboes hul pa se kluis van haar pa se ongeluk tydens ’n vakansie by die see en haar ma se – en sy sneeujas – nou ná sy dood oor kille verwyt en woede daarna. ’n afgrond te boender. Elfie se pad na vergifnis en vrede verby die skok en ontsetting Terwyl die twee vroue reis, ontvou die van onthou is lank. verhaal van Willemien en haar pa: ’n Storie Onderliggend aan haar verhaal loop nog ’n verbeeldingstog: oor ’n Afrikaanse Al Capone, ’n man wie Die grootliks­ onbekende storie van Mary Livingstone, wie se lewe se duister sakeondernemings nie net tot skaars ’n fluistering­ in die geskiedenis was. die grense van Suid-Afrika beperk was nie. In Palm Springs dra sy lyfwagte koeldrank Sagteband • R280 • 9781485904465 • Augustus vir die FBI-agente aan vanwaar hulle sy huis dophou. Vroeër jare moet Willemien in haar pa se kattebak wegkruip terwyl hy sake in verlate parkeerareas doen. DIE SKRYWER Ná sulke uitstappies was haar beloning altyd Connie Luyt is die skrywer van verskeie kortverhale en romans, ’n lekkerny, en só word haar lewenslange onder meer Meer as een grens, Lang skaduwees oor Afrika en stryd met kos aangevuur. Reën oor die Serengeti, laasgenoemde twee vir ’n ATKV-veertjie benoem en ook in Nederlands vertaal. Sy is in Malmesbury gebore Sagteband • R290 • 9781485904106 • September en het tale en geskiedenis aan die Universiteit van Pretoria studeer. Sy woon in Pretoria.

Van Kaapstad na San Francisco en selfs Sri Lanka, met ’n wavrag vol seks, drugs & rock ’n’ roll, tref Anoeschka von Meck se nuutste roman jou soos ’n reusegolf en spoel sy die verhoudings oop wat van ons KYK OOK UIT VIR… denkende, spirituele wesens maak.

ANOESCHKA VON MECK Anoeschka von Meck is die skrywer van die wegholsukses Vaselinetjie, ’n topverkoper en wenner van die Jan Rabie- Rapportprys, die MER-prys vir jeugliteratuur en ’n M-Net-prys. Die roman het ook in Engels verskyn en is in 2017 verfilm. Sy het met Annerkant die longdrop gedebuteer. Bloedsteen Swart Swaan Die afloerder Geen engel nie Die kwesbares Irna van Zyl Wilken Calitz Anel Heydenrych André Krüger Steve Hofmeyr JULY – DECEMBER 2020 NON-FICTION 23 NON-FICTION BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

The Practice Calling Bullshit The Promise that No Rules Rules Seth Godin Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West Changes Everything Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer Nancy Kline In this revolutionary little book, Seth The world is awash in bullshit, and Be radically honest. Remember it’s a team, Godin will turn your assumptions about we’re drowning in it. Politicians are What if all it took to counter political not a family. And never, ever try to please the creative process upside down and unconstrained by facts. Science is polarisation, relationship problems and your boss. These are some of the ground help you to look at the world from conducted by press release. Startup workplace rivalries was a single promise? rules if you work at Netflix. They are part of a different angle. You will recognise your culture elevates bullshit to high art. For the past few decades, Nancy a unique cultural experiment that explains work for what it is: an act of generosity These days, calling bullshit is a noble act. Kline has been investigating the optimal how the company has transformed itself and a way to make change, as well as Calling Bullshit offers readers the tools conditions that lead to independent at lightning speed from a DVD mail order what it can never be, something that to see through the obfuscations, deliberate thinking. service into a streaming superpower – with will make everyone happy. and careless, that dominate every realm Guided by the science of attention, 125 million fervent subscribers and a market This breakthrough book will of our lives. In this lively guide Bergstrom, she shares exercises and case studies capitalisation bigger than Disney. encourage intent in every facet of your a computational biologist, and West, of students and employees who have Finally Reed Hastings, Netflix Chairman work and help you seek out constraints. a statistician, teach us that calling bullshit improved their performance through and CEO, is sharing the secrets that have You’ll walk away with practical is crucial to a properly functioning social guided thinking sessions as well as revolutionised the entertainment and tech strategies for overpowering the group, whether it be a circle of friends, families and couples who bonded after industries. naysayers, radically trusting your own a community of academics, or the making – and enforcing – the promise. From unlimited holidays to abolishing voice and finally doing the work you citizenry of a nation. This is a practical and systematic financial approvals, Netflix offers a were put on this earth to do. guide to how promising to reduce fundamentally different way to run any Trade paperback • R395 • 9780241438107 • September interruptions will lead to better organisation, one far more in tune with an Trade paperback • R340 • 9780241470046 • December relationships and calmer lives. ever-changing fastpaced world. Trade paperback • R340 • 9780241423516 • November Trade paperback • R340 • 9780753553664 • September

Leading Without Authority How do you build the most Keith Ferrazzi

dynamic, disruptive business The bestselling author of Never Eat Alone reveals a new management approach for the 21st on earth? This is the Netflix century – that every one of us can be a leader in our jobs, on our teams, in our companies and in our lives, whatever our titles. founder’s radical blueprint. Drawing on a decade of research and over thirty years helping CEOs and senior leaders drive innovation and build high-performing teams Ferrazzi reveals how we can all transform our business and our relationships with the people around us. The result is a new roadmap for thriving amid the disruptive pressures afflicting every industry.

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“Ferrazzi is breaking new ground in defining what leadership can mean in the emerging world of work. He shows that humility, curiosity, and candor can serve as the connective tissue binding us to our mission, to one another, and to a sense of purpose larger than ourselves” – Arianna Huffington 24 NON-FICTION JULY – DECEMBER 2020 JULY – DECEMBER 2020 NON-FICTION 25

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS continued… HISTORY & POLITICS

Secure Your Pension After COVID-19 Bruce Cameron and Wouter Fourie

The people who face the biggest dangers from the COVID-19 pandemic are pensioners. They need to take action now to ensure they keep themselves financially afloat. This book clearly explains the challenges facing pensioners, and outlines what they can do to improve their situation. Written by award-winning author Bruce Cameron and leading financial planner Wouter Fourie, and based on research by the country’s largest pension fund administrator, Alexander Forbes, as well as life companies Just SA and Sanlam, this book is essential for anyone concerned about their financial future.

Softcover • R190 • 9781776095841 • September Troy The Land Wars The Rise and Soil Stephen Fry John Laband Fall of the ANC Karl Gustav Kemp Youth League The story of Troy speaks to all Perhaps the most explosive Rebone Tau Land reform and the possibility of us – the kidnapping of Helen, issue in South Africa today is of expropriation without Essential reading for anyone concerned a queen celebrated for her the question of land ownership. For most of its existence, compensation are the most hotly about their financial future. beauty, sees the Greeks launch The central theme in this the ANC Youth League has debated topics in South Africa a thousand ships against the country’s colonial history is the played a powerful role in today, met with trepidation city of Troy, to which they will dispossession of indigenous the politics of the ANC, and and fervour in equal measure. lay siege for ten whole years. It African societies by white therefore of South Africa. But these broader issues tend is a terrible war with casualties settlers, and current calls for This book tells the history to obscure a more immediate on all sides as well as strained land restitution are based of the ANC Youth League, reality: a severe housing relations between allies, on this loss. Yet popular from its formation in 1944 shortage and a sharp increase whose consequences become knowledge of the actual to the present day. This is in urban land occupations. tragedies. process by which Africans a fascinating glimpse into In this book, Karl Kemp travels In Troy you will find heroism were deprived of their land is a vital and volatile institution the country documenting the and hatred, love and loss, remarkably sketchy. in South African politics. fallout of failing land reform. revenge and regret, desire This book recounts an Touching on the history of land and despair. It is these human important part of this history, Softcover • R190 • 9781776093700 conflict and conquest in each passions, written bloodily in the and is an epic story, featuring August area, as well as detailing the sands of a distant shore, that well-known figures and events current situation on the ground, still speak to us today. such as the arrival of the Kemp reveals the true story of Poverty Proof for 1820 Settlers and the Xhosa land conflict in South Africa. Entrepreneurs Trade paperback • R340 cattlekilling. Douglas Kruger 9780241424599 • November Softcover • R300 • 9781776094752 Softcover • R290 • 9781776094998 • July October Entrepreneurship is a high-stakes game. DOUGLAS KRUGER Get it right, and you become a self-made Author and speaker Douglas millionaire. Get it wrong, and you could Kruger’s YouTube video on wealth lose everything. has racked up 1.5 million views, VBS: A Dream Defrauded Douglas Kruger, author of eight business and he has been inducted into the Dewald van Rensburg and personal finance books, returns with Speakers Hall of Fame. This is his a follow-up to the bestselling Poverty Proof. ninth book with Penguin, and his VBS Mutual Bank was a small, little-known lender in Limpopo before it rocketed from obscurity This time round, the focus is squarely on third on the topic of prosperity, in 2016 by giving President Jacob Zuma a controversial home loan to repay the state for what makes or breaks a new business, and following on from Is Your Thinking improvements to his Nkandla homestead. The bank sold itself as a fearless champion of black how you, as an entrepreneur, can get ahead Keeping You Poor? and Poverty advancement and its owner, Vele Investments, was on a meteoritic trajectory towards becoming of the curve. Proof. His most recent publication, a financial conglomerate worthy of national attention. This book is your road map to avoiding Virus-proof Your Small Business: When the bank abruptly went into curatorship in March 2018, the astonishing truth emerged: the pitfalls, finding the ‘smart-cuts’, and 50 ways to survive the Covid-19 the collapse of VBS was due to an epic R2-billion fraud that had created Vele’s empire out of ensuring that all your efforts amount to crisis, was released in April 2020. thin air and left the bank a hollow shell. an empire rather than financial ruin. Written by one of the journalists who first broke the story, this is a compelling account of www.douglaskruger.com a bank heist whose shockwaves continue to haunt the politicians, businessmen and traditional Softcover • R170 • 9781776095520 • July https://www.youtube.com/user/ leaders who enabled it. DouglasKruger1. Softcover • R280 • 9781776095445 • October 26 NON-FICTION JULY – DECEMBER 2020 JULY – DECEMBER 2020 NON-FICTION 27

SOCIETY & CULTURE 10th HEALTH & LIFESTYLE Anniversary Black & White The Rodchenkov Edition The Gifts of Imperfection Thinking Affair Brené Brown Kevin Dutton Grigory Rodchenkov The Gifts of Imperfection has sold over two million copies in thirty-five different With polarising events In 2015, Russia’s Anti-Doping languages across the globe, and is now available in hardback for the first time. like Trump and Brexit in Centre was suspended by What transforms this book from words on a page to effective daily practices mind, Black and White the World Anti-Doping are the ten guideposts to wholehearted living. The guideposts not only help us Thinking argues that Agency (WADA) following understand the practices that will allow us to change our lives and families, they by understanding the revelations of an elaborate also walk us through the unattainable and sabotaging expectations that get in evolutionary programming state-sponsored doping the way. of our binary brains we can programme at the 2014 adapt our thinking to make Sochi Winter Olympics. Hardcover • R340 • 9781785043543 • September subtler, better decisions. Involving a nearly According to Professor undetectable steroid delivery This 10th anniversary edition of the gamechanging Kevin Dutton, a psychologist system known as ‘Duchesse at the University of Oxford, cocktail’, tampering and #1 New York Times bestseller features a new we are hardwired to switching of urine samples, creative journal and a new foreword. discriminate and frame everything in binary black and white. and a complex state-sanctioned cover-up, the programme was It’s how our brains work. masterminded by Grigory Rodchenkov. Black and White Thinking is an alarm call. Amidst a rising tide The Rodchenkov Affair tells the full, unadulterated story and of religious intolerance and political extremism, it argues that reveals a rigged system of flawed individuals, brazen deceit by understanding the evolutionary programming of our binary and impossible moral choices. brains we can overcome it, make sense of the world and in future make much subtler – and far better – decisions. Trade paperback • R340 • 9780753553336 • September

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SELF HELP & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

The Gift: 12 Lessons to Tot a l Save Your Life Meditation Edith Eger Deepak Chopra

In the end, it’s not what happens For the last Making Sense Surrounded by Psychopaths Hoop, heling & harmonie to us that matters most – it’s 30 years, Deepak Sam Harris Thomas Erikson Malcolm de Roubaix what we choose to do with it. Chopra has been We all face suffering – sadness, at the forefront Neuroscientist, philosopher, podcaster Some people are exceptionally Hierdie boek fokus op die aard en wese loss, despair, fear, anxiety, failure. of the meditation and bestselling author Sam Harris, has manipulative. They can convince anyone van ernstige siekte: wat siekte is, hoe dit But we also have a choice; to revolution in been exploring some of the greatest about anything and lure them with their ons menswees aantas. Ook die impak give in and give up in the face the West. Total questions concerning the human mind, charm. They enjoy controlling others and van godsdiens, emosies en ideologie of trauma or difficulties, or to Meditation is society, and the events that shape will do anything to get what they want. op siektebeskouings word bekyk, live every moment as a gift. the culmination our world. Sound familiar? sowel as die oorverwetenskapliking Celebrated therapist and of his teachings, a complete exploration of Harris’ search for deeper The bad news is that you can’t really en gepaardgaande depersonifikasie Holocaust survivor, Dr Edith Eger, the physical, mental, relational and spiritual understanding of how we think has led escape them. But here comes the van siekte. provides a hands-on guide that benefits that these profound practices can him to engage and exchange with some good news: you can beat them at Die belang van hoop in die gently encourages us to change bring. With his signature clarity, Chopra guides of our most brilliant and controversial their own game. behandeling en verwerking van ernstige the imprisoning thoughts and readers on how to cultivate a clear vision, heal contemporary minds. For Harris, honest By learning more about your siekte word bespreek; die noodsaak om destructive behaviours that may suffering from the mind and body and help conversation, no matter how difficult or personality type and how you work, heling te bewerkstellig wat nie sinoniem be holding us back. recover who you really are. contentious, represents the only path to you’ll be able to see through any is met genesing nie, maar met die A practical and inspirational Bringing together groundbreaking new moral and intellectual progress. psychopath’s manipulative behaviours uiteindelike doel om vrede – harmonie – guide to healing from the research on meditation and its benefits and fend off their attempts to wreak in die gemoed te bewerkstellig. bestselling author of The Choice. Total Meditation offers a daily program of Trade paperback • R340 • 9781787630420 • September havoc into your life. meditations to help revolutionize every aspect Sagteband • R290 • 9781776095582 • Augustus Hardcover • R340 • 9781846046278 of our lives. Paperback • R230 • 9781785043321 • October September Trade paperback • R340 • 9781846046162 • October 28 NON-FICTION JULY – DECEMBER 2020 JULY – DECEMBER 2020 NON-FICTION 29

GENERAL My Only Story Deon Wiggett

A Life on Our Planet Deon Wiggett’s series of sensational podcasts shook South David Attenborough Africa in November 2019, when he revealed the identity of the man who raped him as a schoolboy. Now, in My Only Story, I am David Attenborough. At time of writing, I am 93 years old. I’ve had an Deon tells the full story of the sexual abuse he suffered at the extraordinary life. It’s only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. hands of ‘Jimmy’, the once brilliant teacher and later media As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched luminary who led a sinister and predatory double life. natural world – but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening My Only Story is a riveting account of one man’s struggle to all around us, barely noticeable from day to day – the loss of our planet’s wild overcome childhood trauma, to help others who might face the places, its biodiversity. same ordeal, and to bring his abuser to justice. I have been witness to this decline. A Life on Our Planet contains my witness statement, and my vision for the future – the story of how we came to make this, Softcover • R280 • 9781776095605 • October our greatest mistake, and how, if we act now, we can yet put it right. We have the opportunity to create the perfect home for ourselves and restore OOK BESKIKBAAR IN AFRIKAANS: the wonderful world we inherited. ’n Enkele verhaal All we need is the will do so. 9781776095629

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Voetstoots Annelie Botes

Voetstoots is ’n bontgejasde keur uit ANNELIE BOTES Ripley’s Believe It or Not! 2021 #ImStaying NATASHA M. FREEMAN sestien jaar van Annelie se koerantrubrieke. Annelie Botes is gebore in Natasha M. Freeman Natasha M. Freeman is an author Die temas is so wyd soos die Heer se die winter van 1957 in die Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Mind Blown! is and communications specialist genade. Rakende aan die torings van Babel Kammanassie naby Uniondale. sure to amaze and astound children and Adhering to the maxim ‘Good Thoughts. whose writing centres on wat ons bou. ’n Kind wat doodgeskok Sy en haar man, die ou gryse, bly adults alike with thousands of strange Good Words. Good Deeds.’, #ImStaying thought-provoking research-based word terwyl hulle jagentjies speel. die afgelope sewentien jaar in stories, unusual feats and hair-raising is about South Africans creating social narratives, with the aim of uniting ’n Begrafnisbrief uit Holland. ’n Boer wat Port Elizabeth. “Ek sal skryf tot oddities from around the world. cohesion through storytelling – reaching people beyond the borders of sy plaashek vir oulaas sluit. Toentertyd ek die dag seniel is, of dood Discover how one woman can crush out to each other to inspire real change their divisions. Her fiction has se poskoets en handsentrale. ’n Glips neerslaan. Want ek wíl skryf.” apples with her biceps. Read about the in the country they love and want to see been nominated for New Zealand’s met bensien in die tamatieslaai. Mense Lugkasteel en Kainsmerk het by spider that lives underwater. Meet the succeed, and shaping a new future out of Ashton Wylie Book Award, which sonder ’n woord van eer. ’n Lys van moets Penguin Random House verskyn. pizza delivery person who travelled a painful past. honours works that contribute to en moenies vir dames uit 1944. ’n Boks 225 miles to deliver two pizzas. Visit the This book provides another platform the growth and enlightenment of papsakwyn wat suur geword het. island made entirely out of conch shells. for the diverse voices and stories of the humanity. Her first non-fiction Dis lag, huil, kwaadword, nostalgie, Marvel at the Australian railway track #ImStaying movement, as well as giving book, Our Changing Rivers (2005), deernis, onbegrip en lewenswette that’s steeper than a ski jump! an overview of how this uniquely South about the science and practice of saamgeryg in ’n kleurvolle lappieskombers. Prepare to be entertained, amazed African group came about and why it’s fluvial geomorphology, is on the En Annelie is bedrewe met die rygnaald. and informed. It’s a must-have for every so important. curriculum at Rhodes University. curious mind. Sagteband • R280 • 9781776095247 • Oktober Softcover • R190 • 9781776095506 • July Hardcover • R465 • 9781529125740 • November JULY – DECEMBER 2020 BIOGRAPHIES 31 BIOGRAPHIES

The Book of ProVerb Tebogo Thekisho and Paballo Rampa

Tebogo Thekisho, better known as ProVerb, first caught South Africa’s attention in 2005 with the release of his now classic debut hip-hop album, The Book of ProVerb. For over a decade he has been a regular on TV screens across the country as the Hitler and Stalin Agent Sonya Stephen Hawking host of Idols South Africa. While juggling Laurence Rees Ben Macintyre Leonard Mlodinow a successful, multifaceted media career, he has also become a thriving entrepreneur This compelling book on Hitler and In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen with interests in property and TV Stalin – the culmination of thirty years’ Rollright in 1944, a housewife emerged Hawking seems to encapsulate genius: production. work – examines the two tyrants during from her cottage to go on her usual not since Albert Einstein has a scientific In this memoir, Tebogo pays tribute to the Second World War, when Germany bike ride. A devoted mother-of-three, figure held such a position in popular the people who’ve contributed to him and the Soviet Union fought the biggest attentive wife and friendly neighbour, consciousness. In this enthralling memoir, becoming the person he is, especially his and bloodiest war in history. Yet despite Sonya Burton seemed to epitomise rural writer and physicist Leonard Mlodinow parents, his grandmother and his siblings, the fact they were bitter opponents, British domesticity. tells the story of his friend and their while sharing the lessons he’s learnt Laurence Rees shows that Hitler and But Sonya was heading for the friendship, offering an intimate account through the different seasons of his life. Stalin were, to a large extent, different Oxfordshire countryside to gather of this giant of science. He talks frankly about his public divorce sides of the same coin. scientific secrets from a nuclear By weaving together their shared and attempted suicide, as well as his physicist. Secrets that would enable the story with a clear-sighted portrayal award-winning music and television career. Trade paperback • R395 • 9780241422670 • December Soviet Union to build the atomic bomb. of Hawking’s scientific achievements, Far from an obedient homemaker, Mlodinow creates a beautiful portrait of Softcover • R240 • 9781776094875 • October Sonya Burton was a dedicated Stephen Hawking as a brilliant, impish communist, a decorated colonel and and generous man whose life was not a veteran spy who risked her life to keep only exceptional but also genuinely A vulnerable, inspiring account the Soviet Union in the nuclear arms race. inspiring. of how Tebogo has risen above Trade paperback • R340 • 9780241408513 • November Trade paperback • R340 • 9780241438091 • October his personal challenges to take charge of his life. The Last Days of John Lennon James Patterson

As early as the Beatles’ controversial 1966 American tour, during which the band had feared for their safety, Lennon had complained, “You might as well put a target on me”. The Nixon administration did just that, putting Lennon under FBI surveillance. If only the agents hadn’t been so intently focussed on the star himself, they might have detected Mark David Chapman’s powerful, ever-growing obsession with the man he’d grown up idolising. THE AUTHORS Chapman, himself a tragic nowhere man, ultimately achieved the notoriety Tebogo Thekisho is the host and co-producer Paballo Rampa has worked as a journalist, editor, he craved by making the target on Lennon very real – and single-handedly of Idols SA and the presenter of two radio columnist and social media manager. Her first wounding the spirit of a generation. shows on Kaya FM. As a rapper, he released five book, Tumi Goes to the Park, was released in acclaimed hip-hop albums. He is a formidable 2017 as part of a drive to improve childhood Trade paperback • R340 • 9781529125207 • December public speaker, emcee and businessman. He is literacy in South Africa. She currently works a doting father of two and lives in Gauteng. as a digital-content marketing manager and is a judge for the Bookmark Awards. From the break-up of the Beatles to his shocking murder – this is the true story of John Lennon’s dramatic last decade. JULY – DECEMBER 2020 NATURE & TRAVEL 33

Field Guide to Renosterveld of the Overberg NATURE & Odette Curtis-Scott Part of the Fynbos biome, Renosterveld is one of the world’s most threatened vegetation types, with just 5% of its original extent remaining. Focusing specifically on the Renosterveld of the Overberg region in the Western Cape, this field guide is the first of its kind to cover this highly endangered ecosystem, TRAVEL characterised by nutrient-rich soil which has been exploited for agriculture. Field Guide to Renosterveld of the Overberg promises to be an enduring record of this unique and severely threatened ecosystem. It will be a vital addition to any nature lover’s bookshelf. Sasol Birds of Southern Africa 5th Edition Softcover • R420 • 9781775845805 • August Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey, Warwick Tarboton, Niall Perrins, Dominic Rollinson, Peter Ryan

Now in its fifth edition, Sasol Birds of Southern Africa has been brought fully up to date by its expert author panel, with additional input from two new contributing authors. The colour plates have been greatly enhanced, and feature more than 800 new or replacement images, including all-new illustrated plates for raptors and seabirds. An exciting innovation is the inclusion of barcodes for all available calls alongside species entries; these can be played by using a downloadable barcode scanner app on a smartphone.

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Africa’s Wild Dogs Sky Guide A Survival Story Africa South Jocelin Kagan 2021

Africa’s Wild Dogs – A Survival Story A practical is a large-format photographic resource celebration of one of the continent’s for all most charismatic and endangered astronomers, predators. With only about 6,600 from beginner wild dogs left in Africa today, wildlife to professional, photographer Jocelin Kagan has made this guide it her mission to bring the extraordinary covers the upcoming year’s With ALSO AVAILABLE: lives of these often misunderstood and planetary movements, predicted monthly Sasol Voëls van The Sasol Larger Sasol Birds of Southern maligned animals into the spotlight. eclipses, meteor showers – any calendar of Suider-Afrika – Illustrated Guide to Birds Africa – 5th Edition Her remarkable images and personal events and facets of the night night-sky 5de uitgawe of Southern Africa (PVC cover) observations are supported by insights from a number of scientific experts. sky that change annually. events (PVC Omslag) 5th Edition 9781775846703 • R390 Now restricted to small populations and threatened by human persecution, diseases, 9781775846734 • R390 9781775847304 • R450 habitat fragmentation, climate change and natural predation, these dogs will be Softcover • R150 • 9781775847243 • November supported by the royalties earned from the sale of this book.

Hardcover • R520 • 9781913159191 • September NEW! Sasol Checklist of Birds Sasol Oorsiglys van Voëls in Southern Africa in Suider-Afrika SCAN 9781775847571 • R50 9781775847588 • R50 BARCODES FOR BIRD CALLS JULY – DECEMBER 2020 COOKERY 35 COOKERY

7 Ways Jamie Oliver

Jamie’s done his homework and looked at the top ingredients we buy week in, week out. We’re talking about those meal staples we all pick up on autopilot – chicken breasts, salmon fillets, mince, Flavour Cook, Eat, Repeat Weber’s Ultimate Braai Book eggs, potatoes, broccoli, to Yotam Ottolenghi Nigella Lawson Jamie Purviance name but a few. Rather than trying to change what we buy, Flavour-forward, vegetable-based Cook, Eat, Repeat is a delicious and Weber has done it again! This latest Jamie wants to give everyone recipes are at the heart of Yotam delightful combination of recipes offering is exactly what you’d expect brand new inspiration for their Ottolenghi’s food. intertwined with narrative essays about from the world’s foremost barbecue favourite ingredients. In this stunning new cookbook Yotam food, all written in Nigella’s engaging company. Innovative recipes, imaginative Jamie will share 7 and co-writer Ixta Belfrage break down and insightful prose. Nigella’s wisdom ingredients, fabulous photography, and achievable, exciting and the three factors that create flavour about food and life comes to the fore, a wealth of sound advice for both novice tasty ways to cook 19 hero and offer innovative vegetable dishes with tasty new recipes that readers will cooks and experienced braai-masters. ingredients, and each recipe that deliver brand-new ingredient want to return to again and again. Tantalize your tastebuds with will have no more than 8 combinations to excite and inspire. ‘The recipes I write come from my life, everything from chicken and steak ingredients within it. With Ottolenghi Flavour combines simple my home’, says Nigella, and in this to seafood, vegetables and desserts, everything from fake-aways recipes for weeknights, low-effort high- book she shares the rhythms and all prepared on a Weber charcoal or and tray-bakes to family and impact dishes, and standout meals for rituals of her kitchen through over gas braai. freezer favourites, you’ll find the relaxed cook. 100 new recipes that make the most bags of inspiration to help you of her favourite ingredients. Hardcover • R390 • 9781432310295 • September mix things up in the kitchen. Hardcover • R580 • 9781785038938 • September Hardcover • R600 • 9781784743666 • November OOK BESKIKBAAR IN AFRIKAANS: Hardcover • R445 • 9780241431153 Weber se Beste Braaiboek September 9781432310301

Welcome to My Table by Siba Mtongana Siba Mtongana

For busy profressionals, married or single parents, or young people who want to glam up their meals, but don’t have the time to spend hours in the kitchen, this is the book for them. Although Welcome to My Table by Siba Mtongana was previously self-published in 2015, it had a relatively limited distribution presence. Now updated and published by Penguin, it is sure to find a wider, appreciative readership, looking for new inspiration in the kitchen as they settle in to a new mindset of making great food themselves, rather than relying only on eating out for that pleasure. Siba Mtongana is the Queen of Convenience. She shows you how to make Jamie Oliver is back with new achievable, dinner in no time; and provides the kind of tips that’ll make something you whipped up in under an hour look like you’ve been slaving over the stove all day. exciting and tasty recipes. Siba’s recipes reflect her local roots, international food trends and some of the exotic flavours and ideas she’s picked up on her travels around the world. You’ll find ways to jazz up salads and veggies; discover deeply satisfying roasts and mouth-watering fish dishes. Her ‘Local is Lekker’ section provides a personal take on an array of traditional South African favourites. Sibalicious!

Softcover • R490 • 9781485900603 • September Introducing Penguin’s new monthly magazines Bursting with light-hearted and informative features centred around our latest and greatest titles, there’s something for everyone.

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