News & Reviews
Our latest giveaway: His and Hers
29 March 2012
Feeling lucky?
We've got three sets of books to give away, each containing one copy of Jane Green's latest book The Patchwork Marriage and one copy of The Extraordinary Book of South African Rugby by Wim can der Berg.
Email us at readmore@za.penguingroup.com with "His and Hers" in the subject line, sending us your...
Our Publicist writes about meeting Lesley Pearse
22 March 2012
Lesley Pearse has always been a storyteller. From a young age she often found herself in trouble for embellishing the truth. But she came to writing quite accidentally, when she wrote a letter to a women’s magazine in the UK about the contents of her fridge. It was picked as the letter of the week, she was sent twenty five pounds, and Lesley...
A reader tells us why Dr Luc's Promise worked for her
19 March 2012
"Thank you again for the privilege of reading this book. I have learnt so much."
"I now know that losing (and keeping) the weight off is not going to be a three month thing and that if it was, then I'd probably regain all the weight I would have lost. To date I have lost around 3.5 kgs. Dr Luc has shown me that...
Louise Stevenson reviews Year of the Gherkin
13 March 2012
Set in Cape Town, the main character is Jason Brydon - "Jase" to his friends. The downsides for Jason: he hates his job as a paint salesman almost as much as he hates his boss, his credit card is maxed out, his dad is an alcoholic and he doesn’t wish to talk about his sister. And to top it all off he is looking for the perfect...
Review of Ally Condie's Crossed
07 March 2012
I was fortunate enough to be able to read Matched and Crossed straight after each other and I'm so glad that I did. Having been left with a major cliff-hanger in the first book, I was very anxious to continue Cassia's story in Crossed. With good pacing and a lot of action, it's the perfect sequel, complete with yet another annoyingly...
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