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Nora Roberts has made a career out of writing great love stories, and her latest offering is another delightful page-turner.

The Last Boyfriend is the sequel to The Next Always. The Montgomery clan have been hard at work putting the finishing touches to Inn Boonsboro.

If you live in Johannesburg and are looking for something special to do this Mother's Day, join us at 2pm on Sunday 13 May for a tea with bestselling author Elizabeth Noble.

Elizabeth is the author of the incredibly popular Things I Want my Daughters to Know and her latest book Between a Mother and her Child explores similar themes of family relationships and what

Laura Franz-Kamissoko reviews the latest book in the series...

While Alexander McCall-Smith (AMS) never fails to disappoint, there just seems to be more going on in some of his Mma Ramotswe novels than others.

On 10 April we launched The Wall – a Penguin Facebook page aimed at Young Adult readers in South Africa. This is a place where people who enjoy YA fiction can unleash their creativity, talk about the books they are reading, become book reviewers and generally debate any topic under the sun (plus win some great prizes!).

To launch it we're running a competition centred around the Mall Rats, the heroes in Lily Herne’s two South African books (

• competition
• teenagers
• Young Adult
• Young Readers

The birth of Christianity, nearly 2000 years ago, has shaped the whole course of human history. Yet historians still cannot explain how it all really began. What made Jesus’s followers claim to have seen him alive again, three days after his crucifixion? Why did Christianity take off so quickly?

It is one of the biggest and most profound of all historical mysteries. This extraordinary book, based on seven years of secret research by a brilliant historian, finally provides the answer.