Karavan Press

We are delighted to announce that the SA Book Awards 2025 Adult Fiction Shortlist includes 'The Bitterness of Olives' by Andrew Brown! Congratulations, Andrew, and all other shortlisted authors!
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Join Woman Zone Cape Town for their first-ever BOOK SWAP, celebrating the power of stories FOR, BY, and ABOUT Women as part of the Artscape Women’s Humanity Arts Festival! 📚✨

🗓 Date: Saturday, 16 August 2025
⏰ Time: 13:00 – 15:00
📍 Location: Theatre Foyer Well at Artscape

A C O L L E C T I O N O F G A P S
by Frankie Murrey will be launched @thebooklounge.bsky.social on Tuesday, 12 August 2025.

Frankie will be in conversation with Toni Giselle Stuart.

N O T T O B E M I S S E D!

REVIEW | Klein Karoo to Cape Town: 3 local murder mysteries to thrill you | News24 These three murder mysteries all have local settings – Cape Town, the Klein Karoo, and a village called Riviervalleij

Barbara Ludman reviews 'The Fourth Boy' by Andrew Robert Wilson and two other local novels
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Karavan Press title: A Collection of Gaps by Frankie Murrey There’s this moon in the sky. And I want to say – not now,moon, I’ve got work to do. But you know the moon. She neverlistens. So I sit and watch her for a while. Admire those curves.Whisper secrets…

Karavan Press title: A COLLECTION OF GAPS by Frankie Murrey
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Salon Hecate at Noordhoek Art Point Salon Hecate | 5 August, Noorhoek Art Point Gallery We still have cold and wet months ahead, but it feels like winter might be on the wane. That means it’s time for the annual Nurture and Nou…

Salon Hecate at Noordhoek Art Point
5 August 2025, 17:30 for 18:00
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The 2025 Sunday Times Literary Awards longlists announced
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Ice Shock and the Agulhas II.
Momentous.
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Scenes from last night's poetry evening ... thank you to everyone who attended! Hearing poets read restores one's soul and I am deeply grateful to Sarah Frost, Chantal Stewart and Lucienne Argent for sharing their beautiful work with us.

PEN SA: WRITING IN TROUBLED TIMES – A Conversation with Athol Williams RSVP for Zoom link: PEN SA

PEN SA: WRITING IN TROUBLED TIMES – A Conversation with Athol Williams
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CANEX PRIZE FOR PUBLISHING IN AFRICA LONGLIST features IN SILENCE MY HEART SPEAKS by THOBEKA YOSE (Karavan Press, 2024)! ❤️

Earlier today at UCT's Department of Environmental and Geographical Science: launch of LAND | LINES by Shari Daya. Shari was in conversation with Kolosa Ntombini. An afternoon of poetry and sharing of knowledge. Deeply moving & engaging!
Thank you to all who attended and made it happen!

Shift From Storyteller To Story Seller | Life Righting Collective If you are an author about to send your book out into the world, and the thought of marketing makes you cringe, then this two-hour interactive workshop: Shift from Storyteller to Story Seller is for y...

Shift from Storyteller to Story Seller - with Cathy Kelly and the Life Righting Collective
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Anschen Conradie's review of Salt Water Pool Boy #SaltWaterPoolBoy – Peter-Adrian Altini #KaravanPress Memories. Love. Grief. These are the things that shape and mould us. These are also the things that break us open, turn us inside out. At the ...

Anschen Conradie reviews SALT WATER POOL BOY by Peter-Adrian Altini
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REVIEW | Elleke Boehmer’s Ice Shock is a serious but accessible novel about keeping in touch | News24 Boehmer wants to show us the contrasts between the old and the new, the local and the global.

REVIEW | Elleke Boehmer’s Ice Shock is a serious but accessible novel about keeping in touch www.news24.com/life/books/r...

I will be running a flash writing workshop in collaboration with Life Righting Collective in August.

Dates: Saturday 9 & 16 August
Time: 10am - 1pm

It is one workshop split over two Saturdays.

It is suitable for memoir and fiction writing.

Link to book is in my bio and in the comments.

Poetry Evening next to the fireplace with Sarah Frost, Chantal Stewart and Lucienne Argent
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We're excited for the UK release of 'Ice Shock' by Wolfson GBF @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social later this year.

Open Book belongs to everyone who makes it what it is. Now we need collective ownership to include financial support. We're facing a funding crisis with no clarity on government applications months before September. If you value Open Book, please contribute.
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Love stretched to breaking point Distance and communication difficulties put a couple’s relationship to the test in ‘Ice Shock’

Arja Salafranca reviews ICE SHOCK by @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social for Business Day

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What a steal❗️
What a gift 📚
And a fabulous reading🩷

#Books👇 WINTER SALE

KARAVAN PRESS WINTER SALE Dear Readers, At Karavan Press, we have many stories to warm up your heart this winter. Curl up under a blanket with a great book and a cup of coffee and enjoy! Our WINTER SALE is on until 15 July …

KARAVAN PRESS WINTER SALE

BUY ANY FOUR KARAVAN PRESS TITLES FOR R800 (delivery included).

Place your order by letting us know which four titles you would like to have delivered to your nearest PostNet store and send us your cell number for the courier.

Details:
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Last night Wordsworth Books Oceans Mall: the launch of RIVER FUGUE by Sarah Frost. Sarah was in conversation with Kirsten Miller.

Thank you to everyone who made this event possible and to everyone who attended! ❤️

Spotted @thebooklounge.bsky.social – our latest poetry collection:

END & BEGINNING by Athol Williams
RIVER FUGUE by Sarah Frost

Durban launch of GRIEFSEED by Malika Lueen Ndlovu at St. Clements! ❤️

Malika and collaborating artist Coral Bijoux were in conversation with Chantal Snyman.

Thank you to all who made this event possible and who attended!

Wise words for our times.

Coffee with Karavan Press – July You are invited to the third of six planned gatherings this year where you can chat to me, Karina, founder and publisher of Karavan Press, and likeminded writers and readers over a cup of coffee – …

COFFEE WITH KARAVAN PRESS - July
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Beryl Eichenberger's review of The Fourth Boy 5/5: Reviewer: Beryl Eichenberger The Fourth Boy by Robert Andrew Wilson is one of those books that digs deep into your soul. This exquisitely crafted debut novel once again highlights the talent of l...

Goodreads: Beryl Eichenberger reviews THE FOURTH BOY by Andrew Robert Wilson
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Consuelo Roland's review of Elton Baatjies 5/5: Beautiful, perceptive, and honest writing that opens windows and doors onto terrible things that happen in secret in the midst of stunning natural surroundings. The telling is brilliantly structu...

Goodreads: Consuelo Roland reviews ELTON BAATJIES by Lester Walbrugh
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Please join us for the Durban launch of our latest poetry collection, River Fugue by Sarah Frost. Sarah will be in conversation with Kirsty Miller.

Wordsworth Books Oceans Mall, 2 July 2025, 5.30 for 6PM