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Guests browse at last year's Open Book Festival. The festival will not go ahead if it cannot raise the necessary funds by September
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Urgent appeal: Cape Town's literary festival seeks funding to survive

Join the fight to save Cape Town's Open Book Festival as organisers launch an urgent appeal for financial support to cover this year's costs. Discover how you can help preserve a…

  • Staff Reporter
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Debut author Andrea Shaw of Vredehoek, right, launched her novel Unsolicited at the Book Lounge in Roeland Street on Wednesday May 21. In conversation with Noordhoek-based poet, editor and feminist activist, Hellen Moffett, left, Shaw, who works in the film industry and has credits including Netflix’s Unseen, introduced readers to Detective Fatima Matthews: sharp-eyed, quick-witted, and currently being sucker-punched by menopause. Set in the heart of the local publishing world and in Cape Town, Unsolicited is a darkly witty literary thriller packed with plagiarism scandals, buried secrets and more than a few red herrings.
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Vredehoek author launches novel

Andrea Shaw in conversation with Hellen Moffett.

  • OWN Correspondent