PAGECAST: In case you missed it.
Repackaged audio from virtual events hosted by Jonathan Ball Publishers.
9 Episodes
Our Ghosts Were Once People: Stories on death and dying by Bongani Kona
“I would get out of the car at every shopping centre and want to ask the stranger walking by with their trolley: ‘Why are you still shopping? Someone I love has died.’” Death is a fact of life but the experience of grief is as unique to each of us…
Songbirds by Christy Lefteri
'Will break your heart and open your eyes' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz 'I've never read anything quite like Songbirds - a beautifully crafted novel that sits at the intersection of race and class.' Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of Small Great Things She walks unseen through our…
A Poor Season for Whales Book by Michiel Heyns
Margaret Crowley, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly fifty-six years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. It was therefore hardly to be foreseen that in her…
Girl A by Abigail Dean
THE BOOK THAT WILL DEFINE A DECADE RIGHTS SOLD IN 27 TERRITORIES SOON TO BE A TV SHOW DIRECTED BY JOHAN RENCK (Chernobyl) ‘An astonishing achievement.’ JESSIE BURTON ‘Gripping, beautifully written perfection.’ SOPHIE HANNAH ‘A masterpiece.’ LOUISE O’NEILL ‘Fantastic.’ PAULA HAWKINS ‘Girl A,’ she said. ‘The girl who escaped. If…
Why We Kneel How We Rise by Michael Holding
Through the prism of sport and conversations with its legends, including Usain Bolt, Adam Goodes, Thierry Henry, Michael Johnson, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Makhaya Ntini, Naomi Osaka and Hope Powell, Michael Holding explains how racism dehumanises people; how it works to achieve that end; how it has been ignored by history and…
Give Us More Guns: How South Africa’s Gangs were Armed by Mark Shaw
Investigative journalist Mandy Weiner is in conversation with the author of Give Us More Guns, Mark Shaw. It was one of the most brutal criminal acts of the post-apartheid era, and its consequences devastating. Thousands of people, including women and children, died between 2011 and 2019 as a result of…
When Secrets Become Stories edited by Sue Nyathi
She was asking for it. She should have known better. Bekezela (persevere), she was told. It’s because I love you, he said. It’s not that bad, she told herself. In sharing their experiences from girlhood to the boardroom, from Cape Town’s suburbs to the hills of KwaZulu-Natal, women from different…
Tough Love: How A Limpopo Homeboy Became A World Champ Turned Lawyer by Lovemore Ndou
Well-known Sowetan boxing writer Bongani Magasela is in conversation with Lovemore Ndou regarding his book Tough Love. Growing up in extreme poverty in Messina (today Musina) in the early 1980s, Lovemore Ndou was forced to start fighting to protect himself, his parent and his siblings. At an early age he…
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett.
The Cheeky Natives are in conversation with author Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half. ‘The Vanishing Half is an utterly mesmerising novel. It seduces with its literary flair, surprises with its breath-taking plot twists, delights with its psychological insights, and challenges us to consider the corrupting consequences of racism…