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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

Rofhiwa Maneta

R280.00 Add to Cart
An Unusual Grief

Yewande Omotoso

R340.00 Add to Cart
Being Dianne

Qarnita Loxton

R295.00 Add to Cart
bottelnek breek bek

Dianne du Toit Albertze

R220.00 Add to Cart
Boy on the Run

Welcome Mandla Lishivha

R240.00 Add to Cart
Die Teenoorgestelde Is Net So Waar

Azille Coetzee

R295.00 Add to Cart
Female Fear Factory

Pumla Dineo Gqola

R295.00 Add to Cart
Here’s The Thing

Haji Mohamed Dawjee

R320.00 Add to Cart
Hoerkind

Herman Lategan

R280.00 Add to Cart
How to be a Revolutionary

Carol-Ann Davids

R290.00 Add to Cart
Into Dark Water

Jeremy Vearey

R299.00 Add to Cart
Intruders

Mohale Mashigo

R230.00 Add to Cart
Mad Bad Love

Sara-Jayne Makwala King

R320.00 Add to Cart
Manifesto

Songezo Zibi

R330.00 Add to Cart
Misfit

Chase Rhys

R230.00 Add to Cart
My Land Obsession

Bulelwa Mabasa

R330.00 Add to Cart
Notes on Falling

Bronwyn Law-Viljoen

R290.00 Add to Cart
On the Devil’s Trail

Ben Booysen

R280.00 Add to Cart
Nuclear

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

Pumla Dineo Gqola

R265.00 Add to Cart
Reflecting Rogue

Pumla Dineo Gqola

R265.00 Add to Cart
The Blinded City

Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon

R330.00 Add to Cart
The Heist Men

Andrew Brown

R280.00 Add to Cart
The Other Me

Joy Watson

R340.00 Add to Cart
The Price of Mercy

Sean Davison

R320.00 Add to Cart
The Second Verse

Onke Mazibuko

R320.00 Add to Cart
The Tyranny of Growth

Malcolm Ray

R360.00 Add to Cart
The Yearning

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

Terry-Ann Adams

R220.00 Add to Cart
Two Tons O’ Fun

Fred Khumalo

R290.00 Add to Cart
Why Men Hurt Women

Kopano Ratele

R350.00 Add to Cart
Worrier State

Nicky Falkof

R300.00 Add to Cart
White Chalk

Terry-Ann Adams

R220.00 Add to Cart

New Local Fiction

The Errors of Dr Browne

Mark Winkler

R290.00 Add to Cart
Red Tide

Irma Venter

R320.00

Out of Stock

Notes on Falling

Bronwyn Law-Viljoen

R290.00 Add to Cart
Misfit

Chase Rhys

R230.00 Add to Cart
Mother to Mother: A One Person Play

Sindiwe Magona

R105.00 Add to Cart
bottelnek breek bek

Dianne du Toit Albertze

R220.00 Add to Cart
The Second Verse

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
The Lightness of Air

Angela Miller-Rothbart

R275.00 Add to Cart
Gerald Kraak Anthology IV: The Beautyful Ones Have Just Been Born

R240.00 Add to Cart
More Local Fiction

The Booker Prize Longlist

Browse our online store to see which titles we have in stock, or send us an email to find out if we can order any for you.

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New Fiction

Either/Or

Elif Batuman

R320.00 Add to Cart
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty

Akwaeke Emezi

R335.00

Out of Stock

Sea of Tranquility

Emily St John Mandel

R340.00 Add to Cart
The Candy House

Jennifer Egan

R335.00 Add to Cart
Chorus

Rebecca Kauffman

R335.00 Add to Cart
The Final Nail

Stefan Ahnhem

R350.00 Add to Cart
Speaking Bones

Ken Liu

R370.00 Add to Cart
Vladimir

Julia May Jonas

R340.00 Add to Cart
The Seaplane on Final Approach

Rebecca Rukeyser

R335.00 Add to Cart
Pure Colour

Sheila Heti

R320.00

Out of Stock

Patience Is a Subtle Thief

Abi Ishola-Ayodeji

R320.00

Out of Stock

Ocean State

Stewart O’Nan

R370.00 Add to Cart
Nightcrawling

Leila Mottley

R340.00 Add to Cart
Our Wives Under the Sea

Julia Armfield

R340.00

Out of Stock

Mona

Pola Oloixarac

R355.00

Out of Stock

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

Maddie Mortimer

R340.00 Add to Cart
Lapvona

Ottessa Moshfegh

R330.00 Add to Cart
Glory

NoViolet Bulawayo

R320.00 Add to Cart
Fight Night

Miriam Toews

R335.00 Add to Cart
More New Fiction

New Non-Fiction

Rogues

Patrick Radden Keefe

R350.00 Add to Cart
These Precious Days

Ann Patchett

R340.00 Add to Cart
The Sex Lives of African Women

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

R240.00 Add to Cart
The Right to Sex

Amia Srinivasan

R240.00 Add to Cart
The Last Days of Roger Federer

Geoff Dyer

R570.00

Out of Stock

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

Francis Fukuyama

R340.00

Out of Stock

Horizons

James Poskett

R350.00 Add to Cart
His Name Is George Floyd

Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

R350.00 Add to Cart
Freezing Order

Bill Browder

R330.00 Add to Cart
Before We Were Trans

Kit Heyam

R405.00

Out of Stock

Happy-Go-Lucky

David Sedaris

R355.00 Add to Cart
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Events

In Our Own Words

August 16, 2022

5:30 pm
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

Joshua Cohen

R225.00 Add to Cart
The Price of Mercy

Sean Davison

R320.00 Add to Cart
Hoerkind

Herman Lategan

R280.00 Add to Cart
The Blinded City

Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon

R330.00 Add to Cart
Sorrow and Bliss

Meg Mason

R215.00

Out of Stock

The Second Verse

Onke Mazibuko

R320.00 Add to Cart
Silverview

John le Carré

R215.00 Add to Cart
The Promise

Damon Galgut

R300.00 Add to Cart
Elizabeth Finch

Julian Barnes

R340.00 Add to Cart
Lapvona

Ottessa Moshfegh

R330.00 Add to Cart
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Kids & Teens

From beautifully illustrated picture books to thrilling reads for Young Adults, we have something for all ages.

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Staff Recommendations

White Chalk

Terry-Ann Adams

R220.00 Add to Cart
The Sentence

Louise Erdrich

R355.00 Add to Cart
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

Deesha Philyaw

R335.00 Add to Cart
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

Mariana Enriquez

R230.00 Add to Cart
The Book of Form & Emptiness

Ruth Ozeki

R285.00 Add to Cart
Recitatif

Toni Morrison

R240.00 Add to Cart
Our Ghosts Were Once People

Bongani Kona

R275.00 Add to Cart
Nightcrawling

Leila Mottley

R340.00 Add to Cart
Junx

Tshidiso Moletsane

R270.00

Out of Stock

Lapvona

Ottessa Moshfegh

R330.00 Add to Cart
How to be a Revolutionary

Carol-Ann Davids

R290.00 Add to Cart
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk

R340.00

Out of Stock

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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