Best Bookshop in Cape Town

This is a lovely interview with Mervyn Sloman, owner of the Book Lounge in Cape Town. The Book Lounge is rated by many as the best bookshop in Cape Town and has won the Sefika award for best independent bookshop in South Africa for many years in a row. “We’re a retail space and we sell books, but it’s also a lot more than that. The action of reading and writing is solitary, but I think there’s something quite special and quite important about messing around with that solitariness and creating that space for interactions – providing access for readers to writers and vice versa.”

Read the full article by Dominique Herman here.