

Jonathan Ball Publisher News

Bare Bones: Cold Cases From True Crime South Africa
1st October 2025
Nicole Engelbrecht is back with a new book that delves into the cold cases of her phenomenally popular True Crime SA podcast. In Bare Bones, she re-examines missing-person and murder cases she has covered in her podcast series, and revisits the leads she tracked and the interviews she conducted.... →
Nicole Engelbrecht is back with a new book that delves into the cold cases of her phenomenally popular True Crime SA podcast. In Bare Bones, she re-examines missing-person and murder cases she has covered in her podcast series, and revisits the leads she tracked and the interviews she conducted.... →

Truly
30th September 2025
As a storyteller second to none, Lionel Richie is ready to tell it all. In this intimate, deeply candid memoir, Lionel revisits hilarious and harrowing events to inspire all who doubt themselves or feel their dreams don’t matter. Lionel chronicles lessons learned during his unlikely story of... →
As a storyteller second to none, Lionel Richie is ready to tell it all. In this intimate, deeply candid memoir, Lionel revisits hilarious and harrowing events to inspire all who doubt themselves or feel their dreams don’t matter. Lionel chronicles lessons learned during his unlikely story of... →

The Dark Prince
29th September 2025
Having survived scandal, controversy and the Zuma years, Paul Mashatile has risen through the ranks to the doorstep of the presidency. Over a political career spanning 30 years, he has successfully navigated the corruption and factionalism that the ANC has become known for. Now he wants to take... →
Having survived scandal, controversy and the Zuma years, Paul Mashatile has risen through the ranks to the doorstep of the presidency. Over a political career spanning 30 years, he has successfully navigated the corruption and factionalism that the ANC has become known for. Now he wants to take... →

Circle of Days
29th September 2025
From the master of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world's greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge. A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He... →
From the master of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world's greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge. A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He... →

VIGIL
29th September 2025
The triumphant new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, No.1 New York Timesbestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo. In the twilight hours of his life, an oil company CEO is ferried from this world into the next ... Not for the first time, Jill “Doll” Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth,... →
The triumphant new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, No.1 New York Timesbestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo. In the twilight hours of his life, an oil company CEO is ferried from this world into the next ... Not for the first time, Jill “Doll” Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth,... →