Updates from Bridge Books
Upcoming Events
Silent Reading Club
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Join us this Saturday for our monthly Silent Reading Club.
This isn’t a book club. You can read whatever you like, at your own pace. We’ll provide the space for you to do so surrounded by other readers in the middle of the city that reads!
Date: Saturday 27 June
Time: 14:00
Where: Bridge Books, 89 Helen Joseph St, Marshalltown
Tickets: R60pp (includes a drink)
A morning with Tanya Zack: The Chaos Precinct and Ethiopian coffee
The Rand Club and Tanya Zack invite you to a book and coffee morning with Little Addis Café and us, Bridge Books.
This event on Saturday 18 July will kick-off at 11:00 with an Ethiopian coffee experience presented by Little Addis Café. Bunu (coffee), ambasha (Ethiopian celebration bread), popcorn and kolo (crunchy roasted grain snack) will be served.
The incredible author and great friend of Bridge Books, Tanya Zack will then present a talk on and sign copies of her recent book, The Chaos Precinct: Johannesburg as a Port City.
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Date: Saturday 18 July
Time: 11:00
Where: The Rand Club
Tickets: The book presentation is free. Coffee experience R120pp
(Lunch and drinks will be available in the Main Bar. Please book at restaurant@randclub.co.za)
Books we’re excited about
Of All things, We Need Hope by Sally Cranswick
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An Archaeology of Holes by Stacy Hardy
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The President by Xander Beattie
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Just in: The Paris Review No. 256, Summer 2026
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Check out our full Paris Review collection for previous issues.
Postcard from the LitDistrict
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LitDistrict offers free, open classes, to anyone who wants to join.
We recently hosted a Crafts at the Park workshop at the City Library, led by Thato Maseko. A gathering at one of the last truly free public places, one that says you belong here, regardless of what you can afford. The perfect setting to engage with the arts and with the community because literacy is not only about reading words on a page. It is about reading the world, naming it, and daring to imagine it otherwise.
Activities included a Potato Print & Starch Batik class that taught one of the oldest forms of dyeing. It’s a technique that belongs to many traditions across Africa and Asia. Starch paste is applied to fabric or paper to block colour, and the potato becomes a carving tool, a stamp, a mark-maker in the most elemental sense. Like all great arts, this technique is rooted in community. It’s not about perfection, it’s about participation.
Thank you to everyone who participated and thank you to our donors who help make events like this possible.
Read more about all our ongoing programs on the LitDistrict website.
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