Catch Karen Jennings at Time of the Writer this year:
A Crime for our Times – shaping violence through story: This sizzling panel focuses on crime fiction from the pen of some of the best South African crime writers. We delve deep into the dark underbelly of society, cults and psychopathy, murder and mystery.
Date: Sunday, 23 March 2025
Time: 14:00
Duration: 70min
Participants: Fiona Snyckers, Marina Auer, Karen Jennings, Zukiswa Wanner
Facilitator: Angelo Fick
Venue: Alliance Francaise, Durban
A special reading and a first look at Stephen’s debut short story collection, Of Dust, Salt and Love, which includes “The Seduction of Ozzie Stone”. Please join us for this celebration.
Please join us between 14 and 16 March 2025 for Books on the Bay, a wonderful celebration of local literature and inspiration, now in its third year.
Karavan Press authors participating:
10:15-11:00 METHODIST CHURCH
In the famous words of Lorrie Moore, “A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage.” Award-winning short story exponents Dawn Garisch and Diane Awerbuck discuss with Bongani Kona the joys and challenges of their relationship with the alluring genre.
13:15-14:15 METHODIST CHURCH
The art of memoir: Anthony Akerman, Lucky Bastard; Thobeka Yose, In Silence My Heart Speaks; Julia Martin, The Blackridge House. Led by Jo-Anne Richards, three leading exponents reflect on life-writing and the life-changing process of memoir writing.
9:00-10:00 TOWN HALL
Karen Jennings – Crooked Seeds, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction
11:30-12:30 TOWN HALL
Andrew Brown – The Bitterness of Olives: In this remarkable novel set in Gaza City, Andrew Brown – current Sunday Times Fiction Award holder – explores a complex friendship battered by political forces. In conversation with Michele Magwood.
The 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist has been announced and we are thrilled to share the news that Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings is among the sixteen nominated titles.
The full list in alphabetical order by author surname is:
Congratulations, Karen and all other longlisted authors!
Thrilled to be participating in the JFWW this year!
Looking forward to engaging with other writers, readers and publishers!
Join us! 9 March 2025, UJ Bunting Road campus.
Please join us for the relaunch of Chantal Stewart‘s award-winning novel, The Veil of Maya, now available from Karavan Press.
The Good Cemetery Guide by Consuelo Roland is back in print! Join us for a talk about the new Karavan Press edition of this remarkable novel, and about writing and publishing in general. It will be fun!
Journalist Grant Asher (1980s Cape Town) gets told by his mother on her deathbed that his father (who was unknown to Grant) was both gay and Jewish. Grant decides to try to find his father, which leads him to Oudtsthoorn and the news that his father has just been murdered. Grant becomes a somewhat reluctant investigator which leads him to suspect that there may be a serial killer murdering people who were part of a group of the five hundred Polish Jewish orphans who were freed from Siberia in the 1940s and were taken in by South Africa. ~ Mervyn Sloman
Set mostly in the Klein Karoo, The Fourth Boy explores notions of belonging and a myriad of other longings which I found profoundly moving. It tells the story of a young man’s search for his father against the backdrop of the 80s in apartheid South Africa and the fate of five hundred Polish WWII refugee children who arrived in Oudtshoorn in 1943. It is also a story of love, loss and betrayal. The tenderness with which Andrew Robert Wilson portrays the relationships – love and friendship – at the centre of the novel – is remarkable, and the way he resolves its greatest mystery is simply masterful. ~ Karina Szczurek, Karavan Press
You can purchase the book here (20% off):
Last Friday of every month, the Zeekoevlei Yacht Club is hosting STORY WAVES and Nancy Richards is the next guest. Please join us on Friday, 28 February, at 7PM:
We can’t wait to share Andrew Robert Wilson‘s stunning The Fourth Boy with Readers and are delighted that the first launch will take place in the Klein Karoo where the debut novel is mostly set. Please join us for the wonderful occasion on Friday, 21 February 2025, in Calitzdorp, Andrew’s hometown!
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