Missed Joy Watson’s magical launch of The Other Me at The Electric last week?
Here is another opportunity to meet Joy and hear her speak about her debut novel: please join us for the launch of the book at Exclusive Books Cavendish on 24 May! Joy will be in conversation with Rebecca Davis.
Hope to see you there!
Family, friends, writers and readers gathered at The Electric last night to celebrate the launch of The Other Me by Joy Watson. Our wonderful Book Lounge co-hosted. An occasion that proved once again that oceans of love can be contained in relatively small spaces. Thank you to Joy and everyone else who made the event possible!
Joy was in conversation with the wonderful Qarnita Loxton, author of the Being Series.
Mervyn Sloman of The Book Lounge said that The Other Me is the kind of debut novel that makes you want to know immediately when the next one is coming. Joy’s fans are hoping for SOON!
A magical evening. Thank you to everyone, especially Joy, Qarnita and Mervyn! And all who attended and brought so much warmth to the occasion.
A special thank you to Karavan Press authors, Cathy Park Kelly and Melissa A. Volker, one of our fabulous designers, Monique Cleghorn, and Nazreen Essack, who took Joy’s author photograph, for attending. Monique designed The Other Me and Cathy’s memoir, Boiling a Frog Slowly.
Author Joy Watson’s debut novel, ‘The Other Me’, is a gripping read about love, life and the harrowing lengths one woman will go to to survive.
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And join us for the launch of the novel on 10 May at The Electric:
To say that I was moved would be the understatement of the last two years. Our first post-lockdown book launch at THE BOOK LOUNGE again – after more than seven hundred loss-filled days! Fittingly, it was of Nick Mulgrew’s debut novel A Hibiscus Coast, and he was interviewed by Bongani Kona. Nick is as much of a literary institutions in his own right as is The Book Lounge. So is Bongani. Between the three of them – Mervyn (and his Book Lounge team!), Bongani and Nick – they connect most of the local literary community around us in ways that are difficult to capture in a few words. I would just like to say that I do not want to imagine a world without them. They make what I do at Karavan Press possible. They give me hope when little else does. Thank you!
And thank you to all the writers and readers who showed up at The Book Lounge tonight – I cannot tell you what it meant to me to sit among you during this evening of celebration.
Nick, thank you! You are an inspiration.
Cathy Park Kelly, Penny Haw and Karen Jennings will be participating in this year’s Kingsmead Book Fair. Hope to see you there on 21 May 2022:
Click here to see the full programme and to buy tickets: #KBF22
Karen Jennings will be at this year’s Franschhoek Literary Festival. She is participating in two events: the first [12] LIGHT & SHADE is already sold out, but you can still get tickets for [34] LIT GRIT (click on the image below):
Congratulations to Lester – we are so proud! – all the other shortlisted authors, and the winner of the subcategory: Nthikeng Mohlele!
Congratulations also to the winner of the Best Fiction Edited Volume subcategory: Hauntings edited by Niq Mhlongo. The anthology includes short stories by Lester Walbrugh and Joanne Hichens!
Listen to Joy Watson talk to John Maytham about her debut novel The Other Me:
Dear Cape Town, Nick Mulgrew will be in town and we would love to celebrate his debut novel with you. Please join us on the 26th of April for the Cape Town launch of A Hibiscus Coast. Nick will be in conversation with Bongani Kona. Limited seats, so please book early to avoid disappointment! Hope to see you there. Literary greetings, Karina
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