We are delighted to announce that End & Beginning by Athol Williams (Karavan Press, 2025) is among the longlisted titles for the CANEX Prize for Publishing this year. “13 titles have been…

The 2026 Sunday Times Literary Awards shortlists have been announced earlier today and we are thrilled to share the news that Roger Lucey’s How to Build a House in the Mountains has been shor…

Please join us for the launch of Gail Gilbride’s An Unsuitable Woman – a bold exploration of love in all its confusing guises – the much-awaited second novel from the author of Under the Afri…

Please join Louisa Treger and me for the launch of her latest novel, A Fatal Love. I can’t wait to talk to Louisa about Ruth Ellis!

CapeTalk’s next edition of READ THE ROOM book club will tell the story of publishing. Author and independent publisher Karina Szczurek of the multi-award-winning Karavan Press will join John Maytha…

Paddling to what pleasure? sporting hope in dying waters from ‘Paddle action!’ They slip out of reach while forming on my lips, utterances mouthed become not sound; an essence of sound a blank spee…

Life has dealt journalist Deborah Morsey a challenging hand. The traumatic dealings with South Africa’s apartheid police, devastating betrayals and failed love affairs make her feel like a stranger…

GAIL GILBRIDE lives with her family in the Hemel en Aarde Valley, where she swims in the sea, writes, gardens and paints. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (Rhodes) and a post-graduate diploma (U…

In 1977, the world surf tour comes to South Africa and the final event of the SA ProContest Circuit runs at Umhlanga Rocks, north of Durban. Zigzag Surfing LifestyleMagazine reports that ‘thousands…