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Independent publisher based in Cape Town. Ancient paths. New literary journeys.
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Elleke Boehmer
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The U of Pretoria book launch of Ice Shock. Photos just arrived. 30 Oct. What a great event. We sold loads of books!
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With brilliant Isaac Ndlovu.
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Indeed Books
4 days ago
@kerryhammerton.bsky.social
and
@karinamszczurek.bsky.social
will be chatting to Jen Thorpe later today about Collaborative Publishing. We would love to hear your questions about self-publishing! Link to register is in the comments.
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Indeed Books
6 days ago
Join us at the Cape Flats Book Festival on Saturday 31 January. Sheryl James paralympian runner and her mother, Sandy James, will be in conversation with Nancy Richards about UNBRIDLED. Pam Newham, MY THREE NAMES, will be in conversation with Andile Cele and Nancy Richards about identity.
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The Book Lounge’s Festive Reading Guide is out and includes a few Karavan Press titles:
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The Book Lounge’s Festive Reading Guide is out and includes a few Karavan Press titles
Looking for fabulous reads during the festive season for yourself and your loved-reading-ones? Here is a great guide: The Book Lounge’s FESTIVE READING GUIDE The following Karavan Press &…
https://karavanpress.com/2025/12/05/the-book-lounges-festive-reading-guide-is-out-and-includes-a-few-karavan-press-titles/
7 days ago
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Elleke Boehmer
8 days ago
First UK outing for Ice Shock in its exquisite Valley Press livery: an ice-sparkling and wide-ranging discussion with Lara Feigel at Blackwells, Oxford, tonight. Shout out to the fantastic audience for your questions!
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@engfac.bsky.social
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Today,
@thebooklounge.bsky.social
is turning 18 and celebrating the coming of age with an 18% discount on everything, in store and online. Free coffee all day for caffeine lovers, coupled with good cake. The Book Lounge's Book of the Year will also be announced! Many Happy Returns!
10 days ago
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Debbie Florence
12 days ago
CapeTown Book lovers! meet Karina, Africa's award winning publisher, Karavan Press ☕️📚📖
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Elleke Boehmer
12 days ago
Get your ticket soon! Cannot wait wait for this conversation.
@karavanpress.bsky.social
@engfac.bsky.social
@bodhumslib.bsky.social
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Elleke Boehmer ICE SHOCK with Lara Feigel
Join us for a discussion chaired by Lara Feigel with Elleke Boehmer, author of the new book 'Ice Shock'
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/elleke-boehmer-ice-shock-with-lara-feigel-tickets-1810363990429
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Coffee with Karavan Press Saturday, 13 December 2025, 10Am-12PM
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COFFEE WITH KARAVAN PRESS
You are invited to the fifth and last Coffee with Karavan Press this year where you can chat to me, Karina, founder and publisher of Karavan Press, and likeminded writers and readers over a cup of …
https://karavanpress.com/2025/11/29/coffee-with-karavan-press-3/
13 days ago
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SECRETS: KARAVAN STORIES 2025
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SECRETS: Karavan Stories 2025
SECRETS is the result of the Karavan Stories Workshop & Anthology project, now in its third year. All the contributors gathered for a writing workshop at the end of April. Together, we discusse…
https://karavanpress.com/2025/11/29/secrets-karavan-stories-2025/
13 days ago
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Karavan Press title: LET'S BE LEGENDS by CHANTAL STEWART
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Karavan Press title: Let’s Be Legends by Chantal Stewart
Cover artwork, ‘Echoes’ © Liffey Joy Shouldn’t everyone have such a night without thoughts without words only taste and touch and smell and the light behind closed eyes slightly red slightly yellow…
https://karavanpress.com/2025/11/29/karavan-press-title-lets-be-legends-by-chantal-stewart/
13 days ago
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Celebrating IN OTHER STORIES 2025 with editor
@kerryhammerton.bsky.social
& the growing super-talented FLASH FAMILY!
13 days ago
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Jacana is open for submissions:
jacana.co.za/submissions/
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Submissions - Jacana
We're Looking Forward To Reading Your Manuscripts. We Do NOT Accept Unsolicited Manuscripts of Poetry, Short Stories, Novellas, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Teen Fiction / YA Fiction, Scripts, Religion/Sp...
https://jacana.co.za/submissions/
14 days ago
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Elleke Boehmer
15 days ago
Thought you all would enjoy this pic of the shadow of Cape Town’s Table Mountain at sunset. Talk about Southern Imagining!
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@princetonupress.bsky.social
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Conversations Between Word and Image at Glen Carlou Guest speaker: Lucienne Bestall, author of 'Except for Breath' Opening: Sunday, 30 November 2025, at 11AM
16 days ago
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Two Karavan Press titles are now available as eBooks on Kindle: 'Bad Luck Penny' by Amy Heydenrych and 'End & Beginning' by Athol Williams. You can find them here: Bad Luck Penny by Amy Heydenrych:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXVJHC8W
End & Beginning by Athol Williams:
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FXTTJVVD
16 days ago
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Blackwell’s Oxford Events:
@ellekeboehmer.bsky.social
ICE SHOCK with Lara Feigel Blackwell’s, Broad Street Oxford Dec 3 from 5:30pm to 6:30pm GMT
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/elleke-boe...
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Elleke Boehmer ICE SHOCK with Lara Feigel
Join us for a discussion chaired by Lara Feigel with Elleke Boehmer, author of the new book 'Ice Shock'
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/elleke-boehmer-ice-shock-with-lara-feigel-tickets-1810363990429?aff=oddtdtcreator
18 days ago
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Anschen Conradie reviews 'Lone Wolf Living' by Werner Pretorius
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20 days ago
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BOTD in 1923 — Nadine Gordimer 📚
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Nobel Prize in Literature 1991
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1991 was awarded to Nadine Gordimer "who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity"
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1991/gordimer/facts/
21 days ago
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Elleke Boehmer
22 days ago
Feeling very thrilled and honoured about this amazing news.
humanities.org.au/power-of-the...
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30 new Fellows elected to Humanities Academy – Australian Academy of the Humanities
The Australian Academy of the Humanities has today announced the election of 30 new Fellows. Fellows are among the nation’s most influential thinkers, providing insight essential to Australia’s social...
https://humanities.org.au/power-of-the-humanities/30-new-fellows-elected-to-humanities-academy/?utm_source=Australian+Academy+of+the+Humanities&utm_campaign=9fa50d6a4f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_11_20_03_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-cc017fd0a9-620368794
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Indeed Books
29 days ago
Cover reveal: UNBRIDLING by Sheryl and Sandy James. Sheryl James is a South African Paralympic track athlete born with cerebral palsy. UNBRIDLING is the story of her journey and the story of her mother’s support. It is a story of faith, love and family
#unbridling
#indeedbooks
#paraolympics
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Indeed Books
about 1 month ago
We will be talking about Indeed Books and collaborative publishing online with Jen Thorpe on 8 December. Follow the link for more information.
karinamagdalena.com/2025/11/05/c...
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Collaborative Publishing: Indeed Books
Please join us (Kerry Hammerton and me) for this special online event with Jen Thorpe. For more details, click here: Collaborative Publishing
https://karinamagdalena.com/2025/11/05/collaborative-publishing-indeed-books/
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Indeed Books
about 1 month ago
Pamela Newham with her latest teen novel MY THREE NAMES. We are the proud publisher of this award-winning writer, and excited to announce that a school in Cape Town has already added this book to their reading list for 2026.
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BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE at the Oude Leeskamer ❤️ Thank you to all for a wonderfully enriching conversation and thank you to the Oude Leeskamer for hosting.
24 days ago
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Earlier tonight
@thebooklounge.bsky.social
: Roger Lucey in conversations with John Maytham at the launch of his HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE IN THE MOUNTAINS. An evening of storytelling and music. Thank you to everyone who made the event possible and to all who attended!
28 days ago
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BOOK REVIEW | 'Burning down the house': A Feminist call to rethink home, power and gender violence
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BOOK REVIEW | 'Burning down the house': A Feminist call to rethink home, power and gender violence
'As a metaphor for dismantling gender hierarchies, Burning Down the House is a powerful attempt to ask the questions that help us rethink our homes as sites of gender reproduction.'
https://www.ewn.co.za/2025/11/12/book-review-burning-down-the-house-a-feminist-call-to-rethink-home-power-and-gender-violence
29 days ago
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Last night
@thebooklounge.bsky.social
: the launch of THE CONSULTING ROOM by Dawn Garisch. She was in conversation with Kate Sidley. What a wonderful evening of poetry and fascinating discussion. Thank you to everyone who made it possible!
30 days ago
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knife | fork | book
about 1 month ago
"That's what I was hoping for, for adoration to become tenderness, for lovingkindness to sound less sinister." Klara du Plessis "Ek't Act" New
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from
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Photo:
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Karavan Press title: Swartbooij & Titus by Karen Jennings
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Karavan Press title: Swartbooij & Titus by Karen Jennings
IT WAS IN 1739 when the wars in the northern frontier of the Cape began. Ten settler farmers with ox wagons and trading goods, and several Khoisan servants, spent a month with the Groot Namaqua at …
https://karavanpress.com/2025/11/09/karavan-press-title-swartbooij-titus-by-karen-jennings/
about 1 month ago
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Nancy Richards reviews Tunnel by Nick Mulgrew
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Nancy Richards reviews Tunnel by Nick Mulgrew
I have been in some unexpected, uncomfortable and unsettling situations in my book journeys. But never quite like the one that stretches out in Tunnel. The title itself conjures a certain inescapab…
https://karavanpress.com/2025/11/08/nancy-richards-reviews-tunnel-by-nick-mulgrew/
about 1 month ago
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Burning Down the House at the Oude Leeskamer
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Free entry, but book your seat here:
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about 1 month ago
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Life Righting Collective workshop with Chantal Stewart Book here:
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Writing Fiction Through Family Trees - The Writers Way Series II | Life Righting Collective
The workshop will focus on thinking of distant family members and imagining what their lives may have been like. We will use freewriting to explore this as a means of developing a story. Participants ...
https://liferighting.com/courses/writing-fiction-through-family-trees/
about 1 month ago
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Book of the Year 2025
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shortlist announced:
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The Book Lounge Book of the Year 2025 shortlist
What a wonderful list! Particularly happy to see two Karavan Press titles and one Holland House Books title on it. Congratulations to all!
https://karavanpress.com/2025/11/07/the-book-lounge-book-of-the-year-2025-shortlist/
about 1 month ago
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Karina M. Szczurek
about 1 month ago
Golden delight! Don't miss THE VULGARIANS, the latest wicked comedy by
@uncleloo.bsky.social
– at Baxter's Masambe Theatre until 22 Nov. Can't wait to see it again next week.
@kerryhammerton.bsky.social
@debbs-flo.bsky.social
– would you like to join me?
www.webtickets.co.za/v2/event.asp...
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Video recording of ICE SHOCK launch at Love Books
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Video recording of ICE SHOCK launch at Love Books
Last week, Elleke Boehmer launched her latest novel, Ice Shock, at Love Books. She was in conversation with Michele Magwood. You can watch this wonderful event on YouTube here: LOVE BOOKS LAUNCH OF…
https://karavanpress.com/2025/11/07/video-recording-of-ice-shock-launch-at-love-books/
about 1 month ago
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Karina M. Szczurek
about 1 month ago
Collaborative Publishing: Indeed Books, with
@kerryhammerton.bsky.social
& me.
karinamagdalena.com/2025/11/05/c...
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Collaborative Publishing: Indeed Books
Please join us (Kerry Hammerton and me) for this special online event with Jen Thorpe. For more details, click here: Collaborative Publishing
https://karinamagdalena.com/2025/11/05/collaborative-publishing-indeed-books/
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Louis Viljoen
3 months ago
NEW PLAY!!! "THE VULGARIANS" Baxter Theatre Masambe 4 - 22 November Starring: Emily Child & Nicholas Pauling Writer/Director: Louis Viljoen Designer: Kieran McGregor Poster: Barbara Loots
www.thevulgarians.co.za
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Join us for
@thebooklounge.bsky.social
launch of HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE IN THE MOUNTAINS by ROGER LUCEY. Roger will be in conversation with John Maytham. Thursday, 13 November 2025, 6 for 6.30PM
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RSVP:
booklounge.co.za/event/how-to...
about 1 month ago
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Karavan Press title: How to Build a House in the Mountains by Roger Lucey
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Karavan Press title: How to Build a House in the Mountains by Roger Lucey
‘… a songline of self, of transcending grief, shame and regret and of coming to a deep sense of peace’—HAMILTON WENDE Roger Lucey survived a covert security police campaign which destro…
https://karavanpress.com/2025/11/05/karavan-press-title-how-to-build-a-house-in-the-mountains-by-roger-lucey/
about 1 month ago
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The Consulting Room by Dawn Garisch to be launched
@thebooklounge.bsky.social
Tuesday, 11 November 2025 5.30 for 6PM RSVP:
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The Book Lounge launch of The Consulting Room by Dawn Garisch
Dawn Garisch’s third poetry collection – The Consulting Room – is a wonderful reason to celebrate, and we hope that you will all join us next week Tuesday, 11 November 2025, at Th…
https://karavanpress.com/2025/11/04/the-book-lounge-launch-of-the-consulting-room-by-dawn-garisch/
about 1 month ago
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Karavan Press title: THE CONSULTING ROOM by Dawn Garisch
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Karavan Press title: The Consulting Room by Dawn Garisch
With poignant wit and insight, The Consulting Room awakens our senses.HANI DU TOIT Poet When I was youngI spoke from the woundwith one determined voice. There’s still breath enoughto loosen the ver…
https://karavanpress.com/2025/11/04/karavan-press-title-the-consulting-room-by-dawn-garisch/
about 1 month ago
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Elleke Boehmer
about 1 month ago
What more can I say? Perfect convo with Karen Schimke today
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Last night
@exclusivebooks.bsky.social
Cavendish: Karin Schimke in conversation with
@ellekeboehmer.bsky.social
at the launch of ICE SHOCK. A huge thank you to Linda and the
#ExclusiveBooks
Cavendish Team for hosting and to all who attended!
about 1 month ago
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Karavan Press title: IN OTHER STORIES 2025 edited by
@kerryhammerton.bsky.social
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Karavan Press title: IN OTHER STORIES 2025 edited by Kerry Hammerton
‘I am excited by the diversity of writing that is in the anthology, and the variety of stories. There are themes around birth, relationships, our society and death. There are African fables, …
https://karavanpress.com/2025/11/03/karavan-press-title-in-other-stories-2025-edited-by-kerry-hammerton/
about 1 month ago
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Karina M. Szczurek
about 1 month ago
Flash workshop with
@kerryhammerton.bsky.social
at BookBedonnerd, Richmond.
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Karina M. Szczurek
about 1 month ago
Words find us ... Note POETS right above Chantal Stewart's head. We are about to publish her debut collection of poetry – LET'S BE LEGENDS –
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. Here with poet
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Karavan Press
Karina M. Szczurek
about 1 month ago
Wine o'clock at the end of the first day of BookBedonnerd with Chantal Stewart and
@kerryhammerton.bsky.social
❤️
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Karavan Press
Karina M. Szczurek
about 1 month ago
IN OTHER STORIES 2025, edited by
@kerryhammerton.bsky.social
, launching at BookBedonnerd in Richmond! ❤️
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Karina M. Szczurek
about 1 month ago
Road trip with authors ...
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Earlier tonight Love Books: the launch of ICE SHOCK by
@ellekeboehmer.bsky.social
. Thank you to Michele Magwood for leading the conversation, to Love Books for hosting and to all who attended. Special thanks to Michael Boyd for the photos! Wish I could have been there ...
about 1 month ago
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