Jonathan Ball Publishers News
The French Illusion
29th September 2026
Bestselling author John Grisham delivers a new gripping, suspenseful page-turner about a Paris honeymoon gone horribly wrong - and the nightmare that follows. After Paul and Chelsea Tanner's fairytale wedding, their future is full of promise. But their honeymoon to Paris takes a dark, shocking... →
Bestselling author John Grisham delivers a new gripping, suspenseful page-turner about a Paris honeymoon gone horribly wrong - and the nightmare that follows. After Paul and Chelsea Tanner's fairytale wedding, their future is full of promise. But their honeymoon to Paris takes a dark, shocking... →
The Steps
29th September 2026
A gritty, inspiring, heart-wrenching memoir by the Academy Award-winning legend and icon Sylvester Stallone, about his unlikely path to stardom and the creation of the greatest underdog story ever told. In the fifty years since Sylvester Stallone ran up the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum,... →
A gritty, inspiring, heart-wrenching memoir by the Academy Award-winning legend and icon Sylvester Stallone, about his unlikely path to stardom and the creation of the greatest underdog story ever told. In the fifty years since Sylvester Stallone ran up the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum,... →
Checkmate: How Shoprite Checkers rewrote the rules and won
28th September 2026
Checkmate is the extraordinary untold story about how the company confronted crisis after crisis, leaning aggressively into sometimes risky cutting-edge technology, and built what is now a near impenetrable digital and physical retail fortress. Drawing from his own investigation as well as... →
Checkmate is the extraordinary untold story about how the company confronted crisis after crisis, leaning aggressively into sometimes risky cutting-edge technology, and built what is now a near impenetrable digital and physical retail fortress. Drawing from his own investigation as well as... →
Puppet Master: The secrets of Markus Jooste and the Steinhoff crash
25th September 2026
When Markus Jooste died in 2024, he took many of Steinhoff’s secrets with him. But not all of them. The collapse of Steinhoff wiped more than R200-billion from global stock markets and exposed the largest corporate fraud in South African history. For years the full account of what happened... →
When Markus Jooste died in 2024, he took many of Steinhoff’s secrets with him. But not all of them. The collapse of Steinhoff wiped more than R200-billion from global stock markets and exposed the largest corporate fraud in South African history. For years the full account of what happened... →
Command: A Soldier's Journey in the African Battlespace
23rd September 2026
From the battlefields of Angola during the Border War to the jungles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Command tells the story of a soldier who fought and excelled in the African battlespace. Resolute and mission focused, Brigadier General Peter Sereko has held command from platoon to... →
From the battlefields of Angola during the Border War to the jungles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Command tells the story of a soldier who fought and excelled in the African battlespace. Resolute and mission focused, Brigadier General Peter Sereko has held command from platoon to... →
The Zuma Effect
21st September 2026
Jacob Zuma never had an ideological project – a vision of the nation or a mission of genuine upliftment. Rather, his ambition was rooted in personal interests: to evade the law and assuage his dire financial circumstances. Anomalous as his presidency was, his rise to the highest office, and his... →
Jacob Zuma never had an ideological project – a vision of the nation or a mission of genuine upliftment. Rather, his ambition was rooted in personal interests: to evade the law and assuage his dire financial circumstances. Anomalous as his presidency was, his rise to the highest office, and his... →
