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Open Book Festival 2022

The Open Book Festival will run from the 2nd to the 4th of September. The programme is live and filled with an exciting selection of local authors.

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A Man, A Fire, A Corpse

Welcome Mandla Lishivha

R240.00 Add to Cart

Die Teenoorgestelde Is Net So Waar

Herman Lategan

R280.00 Add to Cart

How to be a Revolutionary

Karyn Maughan and Kirsten Pearson

R320.00 Add to Cart

Our Ghosts Were Once People

Bongani Kona

R275.00 Add to Cart

Prison Notebook V2957/88

Gertrude Fester

R288.00 Add to Cart

Rape: A South African Nightmare

Onke Mazibuko

R320.00 Add to Cart

The Tyranny of Growth

Mohale Mashigo

R230.00 Add to Cart

Things My Mother Left Me

Pulane Mlilo Mpondo

R270.00 Add to Cart

Those Who Live in Cages

New Local Books

The Errors of Dr Browne

Chase Rhys

R230.00 Add to Cart

Mother to Mother: A One Person Play

Onke Mazibuko

R320.00 Add to Cart

Chisoni, or Conversations with a Stranger on a Plane About Life and Death

J.G. Jesman

R270.00 Add to Cart

Gerald Kraak Anthology IV: The Beautyful Ones Have Just Been Born

R240.00 Add to Cart

Why Men Hurt Women

Kopano Ratele

R350.00 Add to Cart

Things My Mother Left Me

The Booker Prize Longlist

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New Fiction

Either/Or

Elif Batuman

R320.00 Add to Cart

You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty

Ken Liu

R370.00

Out of Stock

The Seaplane on Final Approach

Rebecca Rukeyser

R335.00 Add to Cart

Patience Is a Subtle Thief

Leila Mottley

R340.00 Add to Cart

Our Wives Under the Sea

Pola Oloixarac

R355.00

Out of Stock

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

Miriam Toews

R335.00 Add to Cart

The Queens Of Sarmiento Park

New Non-Fiction

Rogues

Ann Patchett

R340.00 Add to Cart

The Sex Lives of African Women

Amia Srinivasan

R240.00

Out of Stock

The Last Days of Roger Federer

Geoff Dyer

R570.00 Add to Cart

The Dawn of Everything

David Graeber and David Wengrow

R320.00

Out of Stock

Stolen Focus

Johann Hari

R365.00

Out of Stock

Liberalism and Its Discontents

James Poskett

R350.00 Add to Cart

His Name Is George Floyd

Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

R350.00 Add to Cart

Freezing Order

Events

Join us on Tuesday 16th of August at 17:30 for 18:00 for the launch of In Our Own Words. Jonathan Jansen will lead the discussion with fellow authors Siedine Coetzee and Hester Klopper, and the nurses that contributed to the book.

July Bestsellers

The Netanyahus

The Second Verse

Staff Recommendations

White Chalk

Lapvona

Female Fear Factory

Pumla Dineo Gqola

R295.00 Add to Cart

Before We Were Trans

Kit Heyam

R405.00

Out of Stock

An Unusual Grief

Yewande Omotoso

R340.00 Add to Cart

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Open Book Festival 2022

Shop Open Book Festival Books

New Local Books

The Booker Prize Longlist

New Fiction

New Non-Fiction

Events

In Our Own Words

August 16, 2022

5:30 pm

July Bestsellers

Kids & Teens

Staff Recommendations