About Jonathan Ball

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• Johannesburg
  Tel: +27 (0)11 601 8000
  Fax: +27 (0)11 622 3553
• Cape Town
  Tel: +27 (0)21 469 8900
  Fax: +27 (0)21 469 8901
• Customer Services:
  Tel: +27 (0)11 601 8088
  Fax: +27 (0)11 601 8183
  Queries email: services@jonathanball.co.za
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• Address:

  Office C4, The District,
  41 Sir Lowry Road,
  Woodstock, 7925
  Cape Town

  P O Box 6836,
  Roggebaai, 8012
  South Africa

10 – 14 Watkins Street
Denver, Ext 4, 2094
Johannesburg

P.O. Box 33977
Jeppestown 2043
South Africa

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The Jonathan Ball story

Jonathan Ball Publishers are the leading publishers and distributors of English general books in South Africa. We specialise in South African history, politics and current affairs. Jonathan Ball Publishers also act as agents for British and American publishers, marketing and distributing books on their behalf in southern Africa.

Jonathan Ball Publishers has won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award on seven occasions, with The Dead will Arise by Jeff Peires, Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham, Mandela by Anthony Sampson, The Seed is Mine by Charles van Onselen, Mouthful of Glass by Henk van Woerden, and Jonny Steinberg’s Midlands (2003) and The Number (2005). Steinberg is the only author to have won the prize twice.

In 2007, Jonathan Ball authors Marlene van Niekerk and Michiel Heyns won the Sunday Times Fiction Prize for Agaat – the first time the prize was awarded to a work in translation.

Imprints

Jonathan Ball Publishers

Sunbird

Ad Donker Publishers

Delta Books

Our Mission

• Our own Publishing: To publish books about South Africa which enlighten and entertain. Books of a liberal sanity which pander to neither left nor right nor to clever contemporary fashions in thinking.
• Our Agency and Distribution Business: To be South Africa’s leading agent for British and American publishers and in this way maintain and foster links with the English speaking world. To offer the most efficient, fastest and most cheerful service to our Bookseller customers.