June 2018
“He’s known as AJ. Has been called AJ forever. The nickname his mother gave him. The A stands for André. The J for Jacobs, his surname. No one ever calls him André. Nor would he answer to it. Anyone calls him André over the phone, he disconnects. To his subordinates in the cops he’s Colonel AJ. ‘No-shit Jacobs’ behind his back. Because AJ’s not a man to mess with. He’s in the anti-gang unit.
The book club kicks off this month with #BookTok sensation, Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray.
Tune into her YouTube Live Q&A on Tuesday 29th March on the Penguin Platform channel, here.
Watch this video to find out more:
Magic doesn't exist in the broken city of Lkossa anymore, especially for girls like sixteen-year-old Koffi. Indentured to the notorious Night Zoo, she cares for its fearsome and mythical creatures to pay off her family's debts and secure their freedom. But when her loved ones' safety is threatened by the Zoo's cruel master, Koffi unleashes a power she doesn't fully understand ...
From Station Street Kitchen in Paarl in the Western Cape, Chef Mynhardt Joubert hosted dinners for paying guests and media launches, and used his home as a creative space and photographic studio. My Station Street Kitchen is a reflection of his kitchen and the dinners that he hosted there.
A selection of our best business books to help you improve how you work.
Influence is your Superpower
Zoe Chance
When We Were Birds is a gorgeously immersive, mesmerising and life-affirming literary debut – a love story and a ghost story set in modern-day Trinidad. In this Q&A, author Ayanna Lloyd Banwo chats about creating fictionalised places, the book that had the most profound influence on her and being invisible.
From battles near and far to leaders that changed the world
forever, these nine books offer a better grasp on why war
happens, how it affects all of us and what we can do in its
wake.
Man's Search for Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
Living the Ultimate Keto Lifestyle incorporates a comprehensive introduction that sets out Hendrik Marais's principles and practices for following a keto diet and explains how to achieve your weight-loss goals. This is followed by a selection of delicious, healthy recipes, as well as sample meal plans and ideas for effortless entertaining. Here are some recipes from the book to try out yourself!
An exhilarating collection of non-fiction from the bestselling, double Booker Prize-winning phenomenon. In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds.
Frozen in Time
Vienna, at the beginning of the 20th century, is an exhilarating social whirl, a city of ideas, of music, of groundbreaking art. Into this world come four women, each with a story to tell. In a city like Vienna, everything seems possible – until an act of betrayal changes everything.
Prologue