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Minimal Press is looking for book reviewers and bookstagrammers to help us spread the word about our books! 💛If you love...
21/10/2025

Minimal Press is looking for book reviewers and bookstagrammers to help us spread the word about our books! 💛

If you love reading, sharing your thoughts, and supporting indie authors — this is for you!
✨ Perks:
– Free review copies (digital or print when possible)
– Early access to upcoming titles
– Shout-outs and features on our socials
– A growing community of readers who get it

No money involved — just genuine love for books and stories.

Interested? 💌
DM us or email [email protected] to collaborate!

✨📚 AVAILABLE NOW 📚✨What if one click could turn your life upside down? 💻😱👩 Felicity Wainwright is invisible—until she me...
21/10/2025

✨📚 AVAILABLE NOW 📚✨

What if one click could turn your life upside down? 💻😱

👩 Felicity Wainwright is invisible—until she meets Trendy Girl online.
👢 Alora Rossi has just landed in Honeydale, carrying secrets she won’t share.

When these two girls swap lives in a sudden twist 🔄, everything changes.
⚡ Fears rise.
⚡ Truths unravel.
⚡ And each is trapped in a life that isn’t hers.

👟 Can you really run from yourself when someone else is wearing your shoes?

🔥 The Steps She Takes by Pascalle Jacquelin is a gripping, fierce story about identity, friendship, and fighting to find your place in a world that won’t see you.

✨ Bold. Twisty. Heart-first.
📖 Out now & available at good bookstores everywhere as well as via our WhatsApp line: 061 519 0937

🌊GIVEAWAY TIME!🌊We’re giving away a signed copy of Sound Before Water by award-winning poet Jim Pascual Agustin— a book ...
18/10/2025

🌊GIVEAWAY TIME!🌊

We’re giving away a signed copy of Sound Before Water by award-winning poet Jim Pascual Agustin— a book that ripples with beauty, memory, and the pulse of our world. ✨

To enter:
💙 Like this post
🔁 Share it to your story or timeline
📱 Follow Minimal Press on Instagram and Facebook

That’s it! One lucky reader will receive a personally signed copy of this stunning poetry collection. 📖💫

📅 Competition closes next Saturday (25 October) — don’t miss your chance to win!
Winner will be announced right here. 🌿

SOUND BEFORE WATER | NOW AVAILABLE(South African edition)Agustin, originally from the Philippines, has lived in South Af...
17/10/2025

SOUND BEFORE WATER | NOW AVAILABLE
(South African edition)

Agustin, originally from the Philippines, has lived in South Africa for 20+ years and has published several books, yet his work here is little known.
Sound Before Water is a rich collection of quietly astonishing poems organised into five sections.
In the simplest language, he inks a duo of vulnerability and steely strength into each poem.
Exile, belonging, homelessness and randomness are some of the topics he touches in these political and personal poems. Survival, the invisibility of threat, the ache of connections to loved ones, to animals and to the elements, are just some of his thematic threads.
Agustin's poetry is direct and lucid, lyrical and sharp, poised and polished. I cannot remember when last I read a collection in which every poem was so affecting.

-Karin Schimke, The Cape Times

📚 Order your copy of Sound Before Water at your nearest bookstore or WhatsApp Tina at 061 519 0937

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:Correction Notice: In Ons kom van hier, a poem was incorrectly attributed to the wrong author. Th...
17/10/2025

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:

Correction Notice: In Ons kom van hier, a poem was incorrectly attributed to the wrong author. The correct author’s name will appear under the current poem, and the left-out poem will be added under the correct author’s name in future editions. A correction note will be included in the current copies to reflect this change. We sincerely apologise for the oversight.

ATHINA DENNIS - ONS KOM VAN HIER Finally, the book is in my hands!What an absolute honour to be featured in this incredi...
11/10/2025

ATHINA DENNIS - ONS KOM VAN HIER

Finally, the book is in my hands!
What an absolute honour to be featured in this incredible anthology of poems.
Thank you Diana Ferrus-prys for this inspiring opportunity.
Some of my favourites in the collection are “Liewe Moeder deur yours truly, Dis ’n Dag in die Lewe van ’n Onnie” deur Clive Ontong en “Dood. Gewone. Liefde” deur Yuwinn Kraukamp — brilliant pieces of Afri-Kaaps artistry coming together beautifully.
My siel is dankbaar. 💜 If you dont have a copy yet you better get one!

✨ VIETNAM – PRE-ORDER TIME! ✨We’re so excited to announce that you can now pre-order invisible worlds, the striking debu...
01/10/2025

✨ VIETNAM – PRE-ORDER TIME! ✨

We’re so excited to announce that you can now pre-order invisible worlds, the striking debut poetry collection by Teele Buschman. 🌙

📖 Available at a bargain price of just 180,000 VND during pre-orders!

👉 Secure your copy today:
📩 Email [email protected]
💌 Or inbox the poet herself: Teele Buschman

⚡ Only open to readers in Vietnam right now! (South Africa friends – your release is coming mid-November 😉)

🎉 And yes … a book launch party in Hanoi is in the works — details soon.

Step into invisible worlds before anyone else does.

📚 Looking for your next Minimal Press read?Now it’s easier than ever!✨ You can order directly through our dedicated What...
30/09/2025

📚 Looking for your next Minimal Press read?
Now it’s easier than ever!

✨ You can order directly through our dedicated WhatsApp line 📲
Available Monday to Friday, 9 AM – 5 PM.

Just send Tina a message and get your next book on the way!
📞 061 519 0937

Because great stories are only a text away. 😉

We at Minimal Press would like to wish Harry Owen a very happy birthday. May the year ahead be filled with inspiration, ...
26/09/2025

We at Minimal Press would like to wish Harry Owen a very happy birthday. May the year ahead be filled with inspiration, joy, and continued creativity. 🎈🎂

*****

Thicket: shades from the Eastern Cape, Harry Owen’s ninth collection, is his most luminous and creative exploration so far of a theme that has always underpinned his poetry – the restorative power of nature, and of Africa in particular.

Comprising more than sixty poems inspired by the superb Eastern Cape of South Africa, Owen’s home for more than thirteen years, Thicket: shades from the Eastern Cape is both a celebration of that spectacular province, an appeal for its wealth of natural wonders to be preserved, and a passionate call for us all to recognize ourselves as a vibrant part of the earth’s future.

Outspoken in his commitment to the natural world, Harry Owen is author of eight collections and editor of three anthologies of poetry. Originally from Liverpool, he moved to South Africa’s Eastern Cape from UK in 2008, where he had been appointed the inaugural Poet Laureate for Cheshire in 2003. He has collaborated extensively with photographer Roddy Fox, combining poetry with photographic artistry, sound and video. Their work was the recipient of an Ovation Award at the 2020 National Arts Festival.

Harry now lives in Kylemore, near Stellenbosch, in the Western Cape winelands.

Order from your nearest store (ISBN: 9781776403431).

The Poetry Slam at Exclusive Books Garden Route was set alight by none other than Harry Owen, who treated us to moving r...
26/09/2025

The Poetry Slam at Exclusive Books Garden Route was set alight by none other than Harry Owen, who treated us to moving readings from his volume of poetry, Thicket 📚.

📸: Exclusive Books Garden Route

✨ Something magical is on its way… ✨invisible worlds by Teele Buschman is a poetry collection that peels back the layers...
18/09/2025

✨ Something magical is on its way… ✨

invisible worlds by Teele Buschman is a poetry collection that peels back the layers of everyday life to reveal the wonder (and sometimes the shadows) hiding beneath. 🌙💭 From love and loss to the demons we learn to befriend, these poems shimmer with honesty, whimsy, and quiet strength.

📍 Published this October in Vietnam 🇻🇳
🌍 Published mid-November in South Africa 🇿🇦

Step into a world you didn’t know was waiting. 💫

16/09/2025

✨📚 AVAILABLE NOW 📚✨

What if one click could turn your life upside down? 💻😱

👩 Felicity Wainwright is invisible—until she meets Trendy Girl online.
👢 Alora Rossi has just landed in Honeydale, carrying secrets she won’t share.

When these two girls swap lives in a sudden twist 🔄, everything changes.
⚡ Fears rise.
⚡ Truths unravel.
⚡ And each is trapped in a life that isn’t hers.

👟 Can you really run from yourself when someone else is wearing your shoes?

🔥 The Steps She Takes by Pascalle Jacquelin is a gripping, fierce story about identity, friendship, and fighting to find your place in a world that won’t see you.

✨ Bold. Twisty. Heart-first.
📖 Out now & available at good bookstores everywhere!

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Minimal Press - changing the publishing industry

Minimal Press is a newly established independent publishing company that publishes books based on the quality of the story telling, the literary value, and the prospect of sufficient sales to make each project financially viable. Minimal press covers all expenses involved in the publishing of both print and eBooks. We work closely with our authors throughout the publishing process and in promotion.

Minimal Press offers a new approach with higher percentage returns for authors. We have good distribution throughout South Africa to all leading bookstores, print on demand (POD) distribution in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Furthermore, we have partnered with a translation company to translate our titles, depending whether or not there is a market or that it is profitable, into 15 languages.