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Launch of Water the latest Short Story Day Africa collection
Water is the third collection of short stories to be published by Short story day Africa. This carefully curated anthology of twenty-one stories is harvested from entries to the project’s annual short...
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Launch of Mongrel essays by William Dicey
From a carcass competition in the Karoo to a shambolic murder trial in Cape Town, William Dicey’s essays freewheel across an open terrain of interests. Dicey is curious and inventive, weaving strands...
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Storytime: Friends
Friends are helpful, kind and fun to be around. Today we’ll read about all kinds of friends, and talk about what being a friend means to you.
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Launch of The Sword & the Pen by Allister Sparks
Allister Sparks joined his first newspaper at age 17 and was pitched headlong into the vortex of South Africa’s stormy politics. The Sword and the Pen is the story of how as a journalist he observed,...
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Launch of Story of a House
It took 15 years to fully restore the impressive Château de la Creuzette to her former glory. She continues to rest in her shaded park, surrounded by centuries-old trees, and welcomes her expectant...
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Launch of Flame in the Snow the Love Letters of Andre Brink & Ingrid Jonker
In a telegram dated 29 April 1963, twenty-nine-year-old Afrikaans poet Ingrid Jonker thanks André Brink, a young novelist of twenty-seven, for flowers and a letter he...
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Launch of The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner
Described by Nelson Mandela as a source of inspiration, Richard Turner was a central figure in the white South African student movement and key in its radicalization. Turner acquired his doctorate at...
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March: DOWN IN THE BASEMENT!
If you would like to join us for this event, please purchase tickets in-store for R50, cash only!
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Launch of Power Politics in Zimbabwe by Michael Bratton
Zimbabwe’s July 2013 election brought the country’s “inclusive” power-sharing interlude to an end and installed Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF for yet another – its seventh – term. Why? What explains the...
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Launch of Gang Town by Don Pinnock
Gangsters, lured by wealth and drugs, are holding Cape Town to ransom. In gang-ridden areas, poverty destroys families and the police force cannot curb the violence. Government is paralyzed in the face...
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Launch of Bumper Cars by Athol Williams
In Bumper Cars, Athol Williams continues his project, started in his book Talking to a Tree, of reflecting upon the circumstance that leads to human conflict. He appeals to...
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We love to share some of our favourite stories with you. Today Stuart will be reading 3 stories that he loves, maybe you’ll love them too!
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Launch of Exit! by Grizelda Grootboom
Exit! is the story of Grizelda Grootboom life of prostitution and her ultimate escape from it all. Grizelda’s life was dramatically changed when she was gang raped at the age of nine by teenagers in...
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Launch of Permanent Removal by Alan Cowell
Permanent Removal is a beautifully written political thriller focusing on the nature of justice, truth, betrayal, socio-political and ethical quandaries, complicity and moral agency. The novel...
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Launch of Tjieng Tjang Tjerries by Jolyn Phillips
A strikingly written debut collection of vivid short stories set in and around Gansbaai western Cape coast of South Africa. The stories give voice to fishing folk and rural Cape people and situations...
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Launch of Like it Matters by David Cornwell
When Ed meets Charlotte one golden afternoon, the fourteen sleeping pills he’s painstakingly collected don’t matter anymore: this will be the moment he pulls things right, even though he can see...
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