Jennifer Lindridge Author

13/09/2026

Congratulations to Sophie Lauren from Cape Town! You’re the lucky winner of the book and matching merchandise! Please inbox me with your address, email, cell phone and your prize will be winging its way to you! To everyone else that entered, thank you so much! Keep your eyes peeled for more fun and prizes soon! ❤️🥳📖📚✨🐘

12/09/2026

Hello, book friends.

Because I want to be authentic here, and because I’ve let you into my life to know me beyond the pages of my books, I feel I must share this newness in my life. It will explain to you why I haven’t posted anything for a few days and why I may be quieter than normal for a little bit.

On Thursday at lunchtime I lost my mom.

She wasn’t ill, she was (mostly) fit and happy, and passed quite suddenly and without warning.

My family and I are reeling from the sadness and the loss.

She followed my page, was always enthusiastic with the other members here, and while she’d blush, I think she’d get a kick out of this post.

My mom was the most extraordinarily colourful human. There was no one quite like her. I know we all say things like that, but in my mom’s case, it was true.

She was eccentric and offbeat. Incredibly creative with an eye for beauty and detail. Much of who I am is because she was.

She encouraged my art and creativity. And wonderfully, she made me a reader.

My mother had beautiful taste in literature, and was constantly buying me and my brother books. She chose them for the art and the story equally. Right until the end of her good, long life, she loved children’s books. She bought them for herself. Pop ups, and fairy tails and everything in between.

She loved Good Night, South Africa. In the early stages of its becoming, I would show her the artwork, ask for her thoughts and she’d give feedback.

She loved the ocean pages with their onomatopoeia and wild waves. And the page with all the birds. Probably because there’s so much purple! She really loved colour.

She was colour herself.

Reader, you would have loved her! She was funny and a good listener and intelligent, and she’d have you telling her your whole history within minutes of you meeting her! Truly! She loved meeting people, and people gravitated to her!

She was FABULOUS! BOLD! LOUD!! ALIVE!!!!

I know it’s early days. I know I’ll get used to this new normal. But right now, my life feels a bit drabber because she’s no longer a part of it.

I will keep creating and posting, but I’ll need your likes in lieu of hers!

Anyway, because you’re getting all of me, the person who created some of the stories you love, and because I set out to be entirely me here with you, I felt I needed to be honest about this too.

With love in my grief,
Jen xx

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Rest well, mom. Keep cheering for me. I love you always. ❤️♾️✨

10/09/2026

Get your copy of the bestselling book from your favourite bookstore, or online from www.goodnightsouthafrica.co.za

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09/09/2026

This beautiful review of Good Night, South Africa by Katalin Mercer. I’m deeply touched by these kind words. ❤️

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09/09/2026

Exciting news for Saffas in the UK: Good Night, South Africa is available for pre-order from Amazon.uk! Hooray for physical copies on foreign shores!

The book sold out in record time in South Africa - in under two months! That just doesn’t happen. Ever!

If you’d like to pre-order and secure your copy from the second print run, here you go!

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Goodnight, South Africa is a lyrical bedtime love letter to South Africa. Using rhythm and enchanting imagery, the book weaves together the country’s magnificent landscapes, wildlife, and cities into a magical nighttime symphony that will captivate readers. A perfect bedtime story that celebrates....

09/09/2026

One of my Penguin People popped into PE / GQ to meet with her authors here. It was fabulous to catch up and strategise in person!

The Penguin Random House team are phenomenal. As an author, it certainly is good having them in my corner. Supporting me, encouraging me, and helping me bring my best for you, dear reader.

This is Jaconette. She’s a mover, shaker, get-things-done kinda person! She ferried me to and from readings in Cape Town. I love how she and the team cheer for my books! 🥳

Thanks, Penguin Random House SA. I feel very lucky to be a part of your stable.

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08/09/2026

Enter the competition! It’s super easy:

😴 1. Comment below and tell us where you're from and how you say good night in your home language;

🇿🇦 2. Tag someone from a different part of South Africa to do the same.

That's it.

One winner takes home a signed copy of Good Night, South Africa, plus the matching memory snap game, a sticker pack, and postcard set.

Entries close Saturday, 12 September at 23:59. Winner drawn at random and announced on Sunday. Full T&Cs in the comments.

Let's see how many ways this country says good night. 🌙

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08/09/2026

This is Hudson. I met him at my reading at My Magic Words.

I cannot tell you how it encourages me to see children being exposed to books and read to.

A child who reads, apart from having a bigger, better vocabulary is more likely to be creative, kind, empathetic, a lateral thinker and a problem solver.

Why? Because stories let your child experience situations they would have otherwise never known. They can dive to the bottom of the ocean, fly above the clouds, inhabit spaceships and castles and a myriad other things that otherwise would be impossible.

A story engages them at the very centre of their being, allowing them for a short time to be someone else. To live their lives and their choices - and their consequences. It lets them feel what others would feel in that situation.

In this very strange world, these soft skills are among the most important.

These children are tomorrow’s leaders. They are our future scientists and doctors and engineers. I want them to succeed!

Read aloud to your child - long after they are able to read for themselves. You are setting them up for life.

Thank you for letting me sign your books, Hudson. It was lovely to meet you!

Keep dreaming. Keep imagining… keep reading!

Love,
Jen xx



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07/09/2026

As Abi said of her son, “Even Superman has a copy of Good Night, South Africa!” 🇿🇦🥳❤️



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