Tag: Pan Macmillan South Africa

Zama Mkhize’s debut book, What Now?: Navigating Personal Growth and Transformation, arrives as a reflective companion for young adults confronting uncertainty, loss and personal change. Through poetry, affirmations and personal reflections, Mkhize creates an intimate account of the emotional turbulence that often accompanies adulthood.

Cheslin Kolbe: Sidestepping the Odds offers readers an intimate account of one of South Africa’s most recognisable rugby figures. Kolbe wrote the book with award-winning writer and broadcaster David O’Sullivan. The memoir traces Kolbe’s journey from Kraaifontein to international rugby. As a young boy, he was consistently the smallest player on the rugby field.

From One Mother to Another is an honest, deeply personal reflection on motherhood, healing, and self-discovery. Ntando Rambani draws from her own experiences to examine the challenges of raising children while confronting the wounds of her past. The book offers reassurance to parents who struggle with expectations, uncertainty and the desire to create a better family environment.

Spud: Two for the Road brings readers back to the much-loved world of John van de Ruit’s Spud Milton. The novel combines comedy, friendship and youthful ambition with the awkward realities of adulthood. It also captures the chaos that follows when old friends make plans that quickly become impossible to control.

Qualified Disappointment is a candid and humorous memoir about identity, family and the expectations that shape our lives. The author transforms personal experiences into sharp comedy while exploring the complexities of growing up queer and brown in a conservative South African Indian household.

Damilare Kuku’s Women Rent Men and Secrets Here offers a lively and suspenseful glimpse into the complicated social world of Lagos. The novel combines mystery, scandal and sharp social observation. It also explores how gossip can expose uncomfortable truths while creating new dangers for those involved.

Why do some people create an extraordinary impact while others with the same ability stall? This book lays out four fundamental principles grounded in science. They have a multiplier effect on life and leadership and explain this paradox. It turns out it's not what talent you have, it's how you use it. The Four Principles are counterintuitive but accessible and learnable. Their significant multiplier effect is also explained and mathematically demonstrated.

Two top trade experts with popular economics podcasts argue for a new way of operating between the biggest economic powers in the world. We used to take trade for granted. However, that is no longer the case. Everything we know about trade has changed. Trump's tariffs have disrupted long-established assumptions and thrown the global trading system into uncertainty.

An action-packed hunt across South Africa full of international espionage, twin swaps and prison escapes. King of Beasts delivers a fast-paced thriller that spans continents. It combines international espionage, dangerous missions, and deeply personal conflicts. Readers can expect relentless action, unexpected twists, and high-stakes decisions from beginning to end.

On 16 June 1976, thousands of Black South African school children took to the streets of Soweto. They protested the introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction under apartheid education. Police met the protests with brutal force. Many children never returned home. This day is now remembered as the start of the Soweto Uprising. It also echoed through 6001, the Orlando East home of Lebo Diseko’s family.