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| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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Your 2025 Reading Year in Review
If your 2025 was anything like ours then it was probably a whirlwind, jam-packed and anything but uneventful year. As we slow down and prepare to go into the New Year, we’re invited to pause and reflect a very busy and rewarding year of rea...
2025 at the MCBC: The Year of the Marmite City Book Club
As we round off the third year of the Mother City Book Club, we’re reflecting on another incredible year of reading and growing together.
Our much loved Bookmas party tradition was a glorious celebration of 2025, friendships made along the...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
“His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.”
On a sunny, windswept morning in late Spring the Mother City Bo...
Endling by Maria Reva
On the 1st of November the Mother City Book Club met in sumptuous style to discuss the Booker longlisted novel, Endling by Maria Reva. It seemed aptly named to mark the almost-end of a year of reading widely and voraciously together. This w...
Decolonising the Mind by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
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This was written in the 70s but could have been written today
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Made me think of Cape Town being described as “a little bit of Europe stitched on to the tip of Africa”
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Reading Conversations with African Women Publishers (published...
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