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Bookey Peek on Talk Radio 702
Richard and Bookey Peek chat to Jenny Crwys-Williams on Talk Radio 702, about their new book Beyond the Wild Wood. Listen to the podcast where they reveal more about their lives as professional safari guides in the Matobo Hills of Zimbabwe.
Continue reading...Michael Robotham speaks about his recent SA tour
5. August 2011
Watch a video of author Michael Robotham speaking about his recent trip to South Africa and why he thinks we’re all so fascinated with crime novels…plus he mentions his new book The Wreckage.
Continue reading...Christopher Hope in Greyton
5. August 2011
We’re lucky enough to have renowned author Christopher Hope in South Africa this week, to launch his brand new novel Shooting Angels. You can see him at the Greyton Book Club Festival from 5 – 7th August, followed by the The Writers Workshop (also in Greyton) from the 8th – 11th August.
Continue reading...Four of our books on Booker 2011 longlist
27. July 2011
We’re thrilled that four of our books have made it on to the Man Booker 2011 fiction longlist! The shortlist will be announced on the 6th of September and the winner on 18 October. Below are the ones we’re rooting for: Jamrach’s Menagerie, The Sisters Brothers, A Cupboard Full of Coats and Snowdrops Why not read a few and [...]
Continue reading...TimeRiders: The Doomsday Code
31. March 2011
Not sure what to get your 11 year old? Well the latest in Alex Scarrow’s time travel adventure series, TimeRiders: The Doomsday Code is perfect reading for them. This time our hero Liam O’Connor and his fellow TimeRiders are transported back to the year 1193, Sherwood Forest to decipher the code of an ancient manuscript. For a [...]
Continue reading...Barbara Nussbaum co – author of Personal Growth, African Style blogs for Penguin
2. August 2010
PERSONAL GROWTH, AFRICAN STYLE takes an approach to leadership which offers a path to personal development, dealing with leadership as a process of self-discovery and a journey to the centre of oneself and one’s origins. It inspires leadership through the individual’s reclaiming his or her wholeness as a human being, as an African, as a [...]
Continue reading...Assassin’s Creed Chapter One
23. November 2009
To be amongst the first to read the 1st Chapter of Oliver Bowden’s Assassin’s Creed Click here to be amongst the first to read the first chapter of Oliver Bowden’s Assassin’s Creed   Â
Continue reading...Exclusive Books The Boeke Judges’ comments on The Help
8. October 2009
Kate Turkington from 702, voiced an overriding sentiment with her comment: “The Help is not only a wonderful, unputdownable read, but its story of the relationships between the black maids who raise the white children, and who love them so much; and the closed, bigoted society of the white madams, most of whom don’t appreciate [...]
Continue reading...The Help by Kathryn Stockett has won the Exclusive Books 2009 Boeke Prize!
8. October 2009
Penguin Books is proud to announce that The Help by Kathryn Stockett has won the Exclusive Books 2009 Boeke Prize! Â Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Black maids raise white children, but aren’t trusted not to steal the silver. Some lines will never be crossed. The Help is a deeply moving, timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and [...]
Continue reading...Charlie Higson’s The Enemy
6. October 2009
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