The Book Revue with Frankie Murrey
Our first book event with the wonderful Pippa Smith of The Book Revue will be taking place next Wednesday at 11.30AM in the Christchurch Constantia Hall and will feature Frankie Murrey with her second collection of stories, A Collection of Gaps, published in a limited box edition. All proceeds from the event will be donated to the Open Book Festival. You don’t want to miss this special celebration!
Karavan Press title: A Collection of Gaps by Frankie Murrey
There’s this moon in the sky. And I want to say – not now,
moon, I’ve got work to do. But you know the moon. She never
listens. So I sit and watch her for a while. Admire those curves.
Whisper secrets and cigarette smoke love.
— from ‘Letter to the Night’
A COLLECTION OF GAPS
by FRANKIE MURREY
ISBN (Box Edition): 978-1-0370-9173-5
Publication date: 12 August 2025
FRANKIE MURREY worked in the book retail sector for many years before becoming the coordinator of Open Book Festival, which takes place every year in early September in Cape Town. In 2015, her work was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She resigned from Open Book Festival at the end of 2019 and started her own company, FM Project Management. Through this company, she has since been curating or managing creative events and projects that align with her interests. She also returned to Open Book in 2022, a space she’d missed intensely. She won the HSS Award for Best Emerging Author in the Fiction Category for her authorial debut, Everyone Dies, in 2024. A Collection of Gaps is her second volume of stories and will be first published in a special, limited edition as a box containing stories and other treasures.
The 2025 Sunday Times Literary Awards longlists announced
The Sunday Times Literary Awards longlists have been announced and we are delighted that they feature five Karavan Press titles. Congratulations to all longlisted authors!
Thank you to all who make these awards possible!
Mountains of gratitude to Karavan Press authors on the lists:
FICTION
Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings (co-published with Holland House Books)
Who Looks Inside by Anna Stroud
Good Hope by Nick Clelland
NON-FICTION
In Silence My Heart Speaks by Thobeka Yose
Dayspring by C. J. Driver (co-published with uHlanga Press)
For all details, see: Sunday Times Literary Awards
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CANEX PRIZE FOR PUBLISHING IN AFRICA LONGLIST features IN SILENCE MY HEART SPEAKS by THOBEKA YOSE
To say that we are thrilled would be the understatement of the year … In Silence My Heart Speaks by Thobeka Yose (Karavan Press, 2024) is among the longlisted titles for the CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa.
Congratulations to all other publishers and books! We are honoured and proud to feature on this wonderful list.
Congratulations, Thobeka! Literary love and gratitude to you! Thank you for publishing your brave and inspiring story with Karavan Press.
Shift from Storyteller to Story Seller with Cathy Kelly and the Life Righting Collective
Are you an author about to send your book out into the world? Does the thought of marketing make you cringe?
Then this two-hour online interactive workshop – Shift from Storyteller to Story Seller – is for you. Reframe ‘marketing’ from a blush-worthy grind to an enthusiastic and energised adventure.
Cathy Kelly, author of Boiling a Frog Slowly, is thrilled to offer it as part of the Life Righting Collective Writer’s Way Series 2.
This workshop will help you reignite your passion for your story by showing you three practical steps to reimagine your story’s narrative power and find your readers.
More info: Life Righting Collective
Poetry Evening next to the fireplace with Sarah Frost, Chantal Stewart and Lucienne Argent
Background photo fragment: Joël de Vriend | Unsplash
Dear Poetry Lovers,
Please join us for an evening of poetry next to the fireplace with Sarah Frost, Chantal Stewart and Lucienne Argent.
Sarah, who recently published her second collection of poetry with Karavan Press – River Fugue – is based in Durban, but she is visiting Cape Town towards the end of the month, and we are using this wonderful opportunity to spend an evening in her company. Together with Chantal Stewart, author of the award-winning novel The Veil of Maya who will be publishing her debut poetry collection with Karavan Press later this year, Let’s Be Legends, and Lucienne Argent, whose debut, Self-Portrait of a Guava, has been warming reader’s hearts since its publication in December last year, Sarah will be in conversation with Karina M. Szczurek, and all three poets will read from their collections. We will have a lovely fire, snacks and wine will be served, and books will be on sale. Not to be missed!
Limited space. Please RSVP as soon as possible to avoid disappointment: RSVP
We look forward to seeing you on the 31st!
KARAVAN PRESS WINTER SALE
Dear Readers,
At Karavan Press, we have many stories to warm up your heart this winter. Curl up under a blanket with a great book and a cup of coffee and enjoy! Our WINTER SALE is on until 15 July 2025: BUY ANY FOUR KARAVAN PRESS TITLES FOR R800 (delivery to your nearest PostNet store included).
Place your order by letting us know which four titles you would like to have delivered to your nearest PostNet store and send us your cell number for the courier.
All our titles can be found here: KARAVAN PRESS BOOKS
Click here to order:
KARAVAN PRESS WINTER SALE
Happy reading!
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