Penguin Random House South Africa
Beneath South Africa’s surface lies a brutal world of mafias and cartelsvying for the nation’s wealth – the tobacco, taxi, water, hospital, construction,and police mafias all exploit a system of corruption reaching from streets togovernment. Patronage networks entangle municipalities, state enterprises,political…
In 2014, a remarkable poem is read aloud—and then lost, leaving generationsto wonder at its meaning. By 2119, rising seas have submerged the UK’slowlands, and survivors mourn the richness of the vanished world. TomMetcalfe, a scholar on Britain’s scattered archipelagos, studies early twenty-first-…
Maggie McCabe is on the edge. A renowned army combat surgeon, she’salways lived on the frontline, but a string of personal tragedies leaves heradrift. Then a former colleague offers a lifeline: a high-stakes, anonymousassignment for one of the world’s most mysterious men, whose wealthdemands the finest care and absolute…
Wolves are the new dragons! This sizzling, addictive romantasy will gripfans of Fourth Wing, When the Moon Hatched and Quicksilver. In a worldwhere humans and direwolves forge mental bonds through brutal trials,only the worthy survive. Meryn Cooper despises the Bonded, but whenher sister is kidnapped …
New results demand new ways of seeing and acting – this is reframing, one of humanity’s most powerful tools. Recent decades have unlocked behavioural economics breakthroughs, now gathered in one place as “smart-cuts.” Steve Jobs once said technology is a “bicycle for the mind” – and the world is full of…
Who’s got time to think about murder when there’s a wedding to plan?It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy withtable plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing withfamily troubles, and Ibrahim is still providing therapy to his favouritecriminal. But when Elizabeth meets a…
Beneath the Coal family’s flawless facade lies a dynasty on the verge ofcollapse. Luna Parks’ fragile marriage, riddled with secrets, ignites furtherturmoil when an unwelcome guest arrives on the farm. Meanwhile, theFletchers tighten their sinister hold over Clanwilliam, forcing the advocateto become the last line of…
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon returns in The Secret of Secrets, Dan Brown’s first novel in over eight years. When celebrated academic Katherine Solomon vanishes without a trace in Prague, Langdon is thrust into a perilous search through one of Europe’s oldest, most mysterious cities. Beneath vast castles, labyrinthine passages,…
Claire Cousteau, a respected French biologist, appears to have it all– but behind closed doors, her marriage is strained by infidelity. As thefamily heads to Brittany for the summer, her son Nico invites his newgirlfriend, Julie, to join them. Ambitious and uncertain about Nico, Julieharbours doubts of her own. What no one…
South Africa often seems gripped by occult crime – satanism, witchcraft,muti murders, and demonic possession. But why do supernatural beliefshold such sway in a country facing real threats like gender-based violence,poverty, and child abuse? The Devil Made Me Do It explores how thesebeliefs intersect with race…