Tucked away in a grow-your-own retail arcade on Cape Town's trendy Long Street, Baobab Books is the city's best-kept between-the-covers secret. Discover...

Don't be intimidated by the über-chic style of the place. Nor should the staggering price tags of some of the volumes deter you. Biblioteq's niche is 'the...

A slow turn around this carefully created, two-storey bookshop in Cape Town's ascendant East City leaves you with the unmistakable impression that the Book...

One of the most extensive shopping experiences in the city, this mock Italianate complex delivers on two levels - big and bigger. Some 400 shops cater for...

A visit or two a week to this glam mall is a fixture for many a style-savvy resident of the southern suburbs. Glossy stores filled with right on trend...

This well-established market is a strong part of the heart and soul of charismatic Church Street and for years has been the source of many a...

The gold standard among the city's book vendors, Clarke's is to local literati what the Shakespeare & Company bookstore is to Paris. Clarke's is wonderfully...

The big daddy of bookstores with a catalogue to match. You will not only find the newest and biggest selection of current books and magazines, but also...

This quaint reader's haven, owned by former magazine editor Ann Donald, comes straight out of central casting (Think Notting Hill, 84 Charing Cross Road and...

The coolest and most authentic of Cape Town's antiquarian bookshops, Quagga Art & Books is the provenance to which many literary treasures can be traced....

On entering this haven for lovers of graphic novels and comic books, you're immediately struck by how established this genre of literature has become. Super...

The smaller of the national book chains, this worthy alternative nevertheless carries a serious selection of current, classic and coffee table volumes....