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Share a spring day with authors on a farm

Share a spring day with authors on a farm

What is more lovely than a spring day, filled with the exploration of African fiction in the setting of a farm?  Join us, in collaboration with Museum Her, for a...

Share a spring day with authors on a farm

What is more lovely than a spring day, filled with the exploration of African fiction in the setting of a farm?  Join us, in collaboration with Museum Her, for a...

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2. [ ] Unnamed Bookshop

Harald Herzog, who documented decades worth of central Joburg bookshops, gives us his second description: a Bookshop with No Name [         ] I don’t think this...

2. [ ] Unnamed Bookshop

Harald Herzog, who documented decades worth of central Joburg bookshops, gives us his second description: a Bookshop with No Name [         ] I don’t think this...

LitDistrict map now in print!

LitDistrict map now in print!

Our map showing the 71 booksellers in the LitDistrict is now in print! We'll be posting wall versions like this one around the city. But you can also get your...

LitDistrict map now in print!

Our map showing the 71 booksellers in the LitDistrict is now in print! We'll be posting wall versions like this one around the city. But you can also get your...

A Discussion of Bessie Head's Maru

A Discussion of Bessie Head's Maru

Bessie Head wrote novels, short fiction and autobiographical works that are infused with spiritual questioning and reflection. Her seminal work, Maru, (1971) centres around an orphaned Masarwa girl who goes to...

A Discussion of Bessie Head's Maru

Bessie Head wrote novels, short fiction and autobiographical works that are infused with spiritual questioning and reflection. Her seminal work, Maru, (1971) centres around an orphaned Masarwa girl who goes to...

1. International bookshop

1. International bookshop

Harald Herzog chronicles his life through bookshops - all the way from the 1930s, when he and his family immigrated to South Africa from Germany to flee the war, up...

1. International bookshop

Harald Herzog chronicles his life through bookshops - all the way from the 1930s, when he and his family immigrated to South Africa from Germany to flee the war, up...

We're at the Barbican!

We're at the Barbican!

It's been a long while coming, but we're finally, fully back open in town. And our new home could not be cooler. We're in The Barbican, which has a new...

We're at the Barbican!

It's been a long while coming, but we're finally, fully back open in town. And our new home could not be cooler. We're in The Barbican, which has a new...