Authors & Events
Open Book Festival 2025: Cape Town’s Most Beloved Literary Gathering Returns
14 July 2025
From 5-7 September 2025, Cape Town’s vibrant literary scene comes alive
once more as the Open Book Festival returns to the city’s heart. A celebration
of books, ideas, conversation and community, this much-loved event invites
readers, writers and thinkers to come together in a shared love of storytelling.
First launched in 2011...
IN THEIR OWN WORDS | Ocean Vuong, Claire Robertson & Karin Mitchell
09 June 2025
What does it mean to belong — to a place, a people, a history? Three powerful new books explore this question from strikingly different angles. Claire Robertson’s The Immortalites is a lyrical frontier epic set in 19th-century South Africa. Karin Mitchell’s The High Treason Club unpacks the chilling true story of the Boeremag...
Morgan Dick on Family, Flaws and Finding the Funny
05 June 2025
In Favourite Daughter, debut author Morgan Dick delivers a funny, tender,
and emotionally rich novel about two estranged sisters thrown together by
their late father’s will. Tackling themes like grief, addiction, mental health,
and the complexities of family, Dick balances heartbreak with humour in a
way that feels both relatable and...
In conversation with Taylor Jenkins Reid
05 June 2025
Literary phenomenon Taylor Jenkins Reid first entered our consciousness with the hedonistic novel, Daisy Jones & The Six. Following a fictional rock band inspired by Fleetwood Mac, it was later turned into a successful TV series starring Elvis’s granddaughter, Riley Keough. So far, so cool. But it was The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo...
Fiza Saeed McLynn on Crafting the Dark Allure of ‘The Midnight Carousel’
13 May 2025
Step into the hauntingly beautiful world of The Midnight Carousel,
a spellbinding debut by Fiza Saeed McLynn. From a grief-stricken
carousel-maker in 1900s Paris to the glamour of 1920s Chicago,
this novel weaves together mystery, obsession, and love across
time. When a magical carousel resurfaces – bringing both wonder
and danger...
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