Karavan Press
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Independent publisher based in Cape Town.
Ancient paths. New literary journeys.
Ancient paths. New literary journeys.
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SOUTHERN IMAGINING is launched!
In the presence of the rocks of Gondwanaland and the memories of the great whales.
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In the presence of the rocks of Gondwanaland and the memories of the great whales.
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January 17, 2026 at 9:09 PM
SOUTHERN IMAGINING is launched!
In the presence of the rocks of Gondwanaland and the memories of the great whales.
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In the presence of the rocks of Gondwanaland and the memories of the great whales.
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WZBC Book Review: Swartbooij & Titus by Karen Jennings
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January 18, 2026 at 9:25 AM
WZBC Book Review: Swartbooij & Titus by Karen Jennings
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In Oxford on 3 February 2026? Don’t miss this wonderful literary event:
Daunt Books, Oxford: @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social in conversation with Richard Beard
Tuesday, 3 February 2026, 7:00PM
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Daunt Books, Oxford: @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social in conversation with Richard Beard
Tuesday, 3 February 2026, 7:00PM
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Elleke Boehmer in conversation with Richard Beard
Buy tickets for the event with Elleke Boehmer in conversation with Richard Beard at Daunt Books Summertown from Daunt Books today.
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January 15, 2026 at 12:44 PM
In Oxford on 3 February 2026? Don’t miss this wonderful literary event:
Daunt Books, Oxford: @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social in conversation with Richard Beard
Tuesday, 3 February 2026, 7:00PM
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Daunt Books, Oxford: @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social in conversation with Richard Beard
Tuesday, 3 February 2026, 7:00PM
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"The Day NY Publishing Lost Its Soul" by Ted Gioia
"I make a point of supporting these independent voices. I encourage you to do the same."
(Gioia talks about thousands and thousands of books, Karavan Press survives & thrives (!) on a few hundred ...)
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"I make a point of supporting these independent voices. I encourage you to do the same."
(Gioia talks about thousands and thousands of books, Karavan Press survives & thrives (!) on a few hundred ...)
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The Day NY Publishing Lost Its Soul
How did we get here? And how do we get back?
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January 15, 2026 at 8:34 AM
"The Day NY Publishing Lost Its Soul" by Ted Gioia
"I make a point of supporting these independent voices. I encourage you to do the same."
(Gioia talks about thousands and thousands of books, Karavan Press survives & thrives (!) on a few hundred ...)
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"I make a point of supporting these independent voices. I encourage you to do the same."
(Gioia talks about thousands and thousands of books, Karavan Press survives & thrives (!) on a few hundred ...)
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EVER AFTER, THE END: Consuelo Roland and Lucienne Bestall in conversation
WEDNESDAY, 28 January 2026, 10:30AM – MEADOWRIDGE LIBRARY HALL
WEDNESDAY, 18 March 2026, 10:00AM – PINELANDS LIBRARY COMMITEE ROOM
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WEDNESDAY, 28 January 2026, 10:30AM – MEADOWRIDGE LIBRARY HALL
WEDNESDAY, 18 March 2026, 10:00AM – PINELANDS LIBRARY COMMITEE ROOM
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EVER AFTER, THE END: Consuelo Roland and Lucienne Bestall in conversation
Mortality forms a thematic throughline in both Consuelo’s first novel, The Good Cemetery Guide (2005), and Lucienne’s debut collection of non-fiction essays, Except for Breath: Reflections on Image…
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January 15, 2026 at 8:14 AM
EVER AFTER, THE END: Consuelo Roland and Lucienne Bestall in conversation
WEDNESDAY, 28 January 2026, 10:30AM – MEADOWRIDGE LIBRARY HALL
WEDNESDAY, 18 March 2026, 10:00AM – PINELANDS LIBRARY COMMITEE ROOM
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WEDNESDAY, 28 January 2026, 10:30AM – MEADOWRIDGE LIBRARY HALL
WEDNESDAY, 18 March 2026, 10:00AM – PINELANDS LIBRARY COMMITEE ROOM
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FULLY BOOKED FOR 2026!
Karavan Stories 2026: Workshop and Anthology
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January 15, 2026 at 7:39 AM
FULLY BOOKED FOR 2026!
Karavan Stories 2026: Workshop and Anthology
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[Image: Etienne Swanepoel]
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January 14, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Karavan Stories 2026: Workshop and Anthology
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[Image: Etienne Swanepoel]
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Woman Zone Book Club: Burning Down the House
Saturday, 24 January 2026, 10:30-12:30
Woman Zone Library, Artscape
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Saturday, 24 January 2026, 10:30-12:30
Woman Zone Library, Artscape
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Woman Zone Book Club: Burning Down the House
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January 13, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Woman Zone Book Club: Burning Down the House
Saturday, 24 January 2026, 10:30-12:30
Woman Zone Library, Artscape
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Saturday, 24 January 2026, 10:30-12:30
Woman Zone Library, Artscape
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Please join us for the launch of LET'S BE LEGENDS, the debut poetry collection by Chantal Stewart.
Thursday, 22 January 2026
5.30 for 6PM
@exclusivebooks.bsky.social Cavendish
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Thursday, 22 January 2026
5.30 for 6PM
@exclusivebooks.bsky.social Cavendish
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January 13, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Please join us for the launch of LET'S BE LEGENDS, the debut poetry collection by Chantal Stewart.
Thursday, 22 January 2026
5.30 for 6PM
@exclusivebooks.bsky.social Cavendish
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Thursday, 22 January 2026
5.30 for 6PM
@exclusivebooks.bsky.social Cavendish
RSVP: exclusivebooks.co.za/pages/events...
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Formal Exclusive Books invitation to launch of MY THREE NAMES at Cavendish on Wednesday 21 January. 5.30pm for 6.00pm
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January 12, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Formal Exclusive Books invitation to launch of MY THREE NAMES at Cavendish on Wednesday 21 January. 5.30pm for 6.00pm
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Lesers kan uitsien na ’n goeie boeke-oes in 2026
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January 10, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Lesers kan uitsien na ’n goeie boeke-oes in 2026
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LitNet - TEARS BEFORE BEDTIME by Diane Awerbuck: excerpt
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Tears before bedtime by Diane Awerbuck: excerpt - LitNet
"This a joke book – except that all the dialogue is real, and from my family, over a period of fifteen years. I have been taking notes."
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January 9, 2026 at 12:05 PM
LitNet - TEARS BEFORE BEDTIME by Diane Awerbuck: excerpt
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Breyten schrijven #19: Breytenbachs lyrische erfenis door de blik van dichters, conversatie met Klara du Plessis
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Breyten schrijven #19: Breytenbachs lyrische erfenis door de blik van dichters, conversatie met Klara du Plessis - Voertaal
"Breytenbach is ’n buitengewoon sterk digter in die Afrikaanse literatuur, maar daar moet altyd ruimte wees vir ’n taal se letterkunde om te groei, om te verander, om dalk anders te klink, om op daard...
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January 9, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Breyten schrijven #19: Breytenbachs lyrische erfenis door de blik van dichters, conversatie met Klara du Plessis
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MY THREE NAMES is officially launching on Wednesday 21 January at Cavendish Exclusive Books. 5.30pm for 6pm. Join us for the conversation.
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January 8, 2026 at 8:17 AM
MY THREE NAMES is officially launching on Wednesday 21 January at Cavendish Exclusive Books. 5.30pm for 6pm. Join us for the conversation.
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CFBF 2026: @karavanpress.bsky.social and @indeedbooks.bsky.social authors at the Cape Flats Book Festival 2026
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Karavan Press and Indeed Books authors at the Cape Flats Book Festival 2026
The Cape Flats Book Festival 2026 is just around the corner and it is the perfect start to the literary festival calendar of the new year. A few Karavan Press and Indeed Books authors feature on th…
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January 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM
CFBF 2026: @karavanpress.bsky.social and @indeedbooks.bsky.social authors at the Cape Flats Book Festival 2026
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Karen Jennings: Using AI to write could mean the extinction of poetry
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Karen Jennings: Using AI to write could mean the extinction of poetry | News24
Feeling comes first, feeling drives us, feeling makes us individually alive, and that’s what poetry communicates. AI has no feelings.
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January 6, 2026 at 9:10 AM
Karen Jennings: Using AI to write could mean the extinction of poetry
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I love Karen's prose and poetry and creative collages.
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The human conflicts and cycles of revenge are horrible, barbaric.
Some things never change no matter what century.
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The human conflicts and cycles of revenge are horrible, barbaric.
Some things never change no matter what century.
January 1, 2026 at 7:42 AM
I love Karen's prose and poetry and creative collages.
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The human conflicts and cycles of revenge are horrible, barbaric.
Some things never change no matter what century.
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The human conflicts and cycles of revenge are horrible, barbaric.
Some things never change no matter what century.
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A new year, a new book of fiction, the characters and events are based in fact
SWARTBOOIJ & TITUS
by Karen Jennings ✍🏼️
Published by @KaravanPress
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"It was in 1739 when the wars in the northern frontier of the Cape began..."
SWARTBOOIJ & TITUS
by Karen Jennings ✍🏼️
Published by @KaravanPress
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"It was in 1739 when the wars in the northern frontier of the Cape began..."
January 1, 2026 at 6:02 AM
A new year, a new book of fiction, the characters and events are based in fact
SWARTBOOIJ & TITUS
by Karen Jennings ✍🏼️
Published by @KaravanPress
📙📖
"It was in 1739 when the wars in the northern frontier of the Cape began..."
SWARTBOOIJ & TITUS
by Karen Jennings ✍🏼️
Published by @KaravanPress
📙📖
"It was in 1739 when the wars in the northern frontier of the Cape began..."
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Earlier in December we chatted online to @jenthorpewriter.bsky.social about Collaborative Publishing and Indeed Books. Follow the link to learn about Collaborative Publishing and how we landed on the name Indeed Books.
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Collaborative Publishing with Indeed Books
Everything you need to know in less than an hour
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December 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Earlier in December we chatted online to @jenthorpewriter.bsky.social about Collaborative Publishing and Indeed Books. Follow the link to learn about Collaborative Publishing and how we landed on the name Indeed Books.
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A new compass for global reading: looking at the world from the far southern latitudes.
Southern Imagining by @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social is now available in the UK/Europe! Order yours today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Available in North America on February 10.
#Literature #ReadUP
Southern Imagining by @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social is now available in the UK/Europe! Order yours today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Available in North America on February 10.
#Literature #ReadUP
December 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
A new compass for global reading: looking at the world from the far southern latitudes.
Southern Imagining by @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social is now available in the UK/Europe! Order yours today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Available in North America on February 10.
#Literature #ReadUP
Southern Imagining by @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social is now available in the UK/Europe! Order yours today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Available in North America on February 10.
#Literature #ReadUP
What a wonderful way to end the literary year: @exclusivebooks.bsky.social Hyde Park have been posting lists of the books their readers loved most this year 👏✨️
Their proudly SA fiction bestsellers of the year have THE FOURTH BOY on the top of the list! 💛
Thank you for all your amazing support!
Their proudly SA fiction bestsellers of the year have THE FOURTH BOY on the top of the list! 💛
Thank you for all your amazing support!
December 31, 2025 at 6:19 AM
What a wonderful way to end the literary year: @exclusivebooks.bsky.social Hyde Park have been posting lists of the books their readers loved most this year 👏✨️
Their proudly SA fiction bestsellers of the year have THE FOURTH BOY on the top of the list! 💛
Thank you for all your amazing support!
Their proudly SA fiction bestsellers of the year have THE FOURTH BOY on the top of the list! 💛
Thank you for all your amazing support!
Riley Herbert-Henry reviews 'Swartbooij & Titus' by Karen Jennings
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Reimagine Lit. | Riley on Instagram: "Swartbooij and Titus solidifies Karen Jennings as one of the greatest South African voices of our generation.
This book, part prose, part poetry, speaks directl...
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December 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Riley Herbert-Henry reviews 'Swartbooij & Titus' by Karen Jennings
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Three Karavan Press titles among the @thebooklounge.bsky.social's bestsellers of 2025!
EXCEPT FOR BREATH by Lucienne Bestall
THE FRIGHTENED by Lethokuhle Msimang
THE FOURTH BOY by Andrew Robert Wilson
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Congratulations!
EXCEPT FOR BREATH by Lucienne Bestall
THE FRIGHTENED by Lethokuhle Msimang
THE FOURTH BOY by Andrew Robert Wilson
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Congratulations!
December 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Three Karavan Press titles among the @thebooklounge.bsky.social's bestsellers of 2025!
EXCEPT FOR BREATH by Lucienne Bestall
THE FRIGHTENED by Lethokuhle Msimang
THE FOURTH BOY by Andrew Robert Wilson
💙 💙 💙
Congratulations!
EXCEPT FOR BREATH by Lucienne Bestall
THE FRIGHTENED by Lethokuhle Msimang
THE FOURTH BOY by Andrew Robert Wilson
💙 💙 💙
Congratulations!
Hein Viljoen reviews EK'T ACT by Klara du Plessis for LitNet
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Bundel wat huiwer tussen drama en poësie, ’n resensie van Klara du Plessis se Ek’t act - LitNet
"Die bundel kan beskou word as ’n kruising tussen ’n digbundel en ’n drama, en dui Du Plessis se voorliefde vir interdissiplinêre werk aan."
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December 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Hein Viljoen reviews EK'T ACT by Klara du Plessis for LitNet
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Sheryl is a university graduate with a BA. She is cerebral palsied, passionate about sport, animals & the bush. Her mother, Sandy, spent thirty years as a school principal & educator. UNBRIDLING arose from the journals that Sheryl and her mom penned as each of them experienced her own ‘unbridling’.
December 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Sheryl is a university graduate with a BA. She is cerebral palsied, passionate about sport, animals & the bush. Her mother, Sandy, spent thirty years as a school principal & educator. UNBRIDLING arose from the journals that Sheryl and her mom penned as each of them experienced her own ‘unbridling’.