Kensington Library

26/08/2026

📖✨Book Recommendation Wednesday✨📖
Kensington Library Book Recommendation Wednesday has another six book recommendations and this time it’s for the tweens!😁
Visit the library to get your hands on one of these fiction titles:

🔖 “Wild” by Ele Fountain is a riveting rainforest adventure about a family and how they deal with grief. Jack lost his dad and since then he keeps doing crazy things and getting in trouble. His mother grows more concerend and eventually suggests a surprise trip together. However, what’s to come is not a relaxing holiday.
🔖 “Saving Neverland” by Abi Elphinstone follows Martha and her younger brother Scruff as they travel to Neverland to help Peter Pan break a freezing curse cast by Captain Hook.
🔖 “Mr. Lemoncello’s Very First Game” by Chris Grabenstein follows Luigi Lemoncello who works for Professor Marvelmous at a carnival. But when the carnival leaves and Luigi doesn’t follow them he finds a mysterious puzzle box left behind by Professor Marvelmous.
🔖 “Peril on the Atlantic” by A.M. Howell is about the perfect mystery adventure. Follow Alice as she uncovers a dark mystery whilst on the RMS Queen Mary. How will she and her new friend, Sonny stop more bad things from happening.
🔖 “The World’s Worst Pets” by David Walliams is perfect if you want to laugh from start to end. The book features ten short stories about the most crazy and gigantic animals out there.
🔖 “Herriot the Caretaker Mouse” by Stella Tarakson is book one of the fun Magical Animal Cafe series, Ellie and her mum are opening a cat café. But there’s a catch, they’re sharing their home with the Andersons, that’s when Ellie and Blake discover a magical old phone and a mouse determined to get rid of them, and more.

26/08/2026

📢✨Return. Renew. Rejoin - Fine Free Week is back!✨📢
Do you have overdue library items that you're too scared to return?

📌From Saturday, 05 September 2026 to Friday, 11 September 2026, it's fine-free week for all.

✅Return you overdue books, renew your reading journey, and rejoin the reading sphere and get some new books, spread the word with all your friends and family members! 🗣

❗Kindly note that only fines on items returned during Fine-Free Week will be waived. All old outstanding fines will still apply.

26/08/2026

📚✨ STUDY SPACE & PAST PAPERS AVAILABLE NOW! ✨📚

Dear Matriculants, Kensington Library has got you covered this exam season! 💪
Do you need a quiet space to hit the books? 📖
Our study space is available with the added bonus of free access to inhouse usage of our study guides and textbooks.

💾 Free Past Papers - Get free past papers, addendums, and Geography maps whilst stocks last!
✅ As well as print out marking guides and other subject past papers for R1.20 per page! 🌟

22/08/2026

📚💖Women's Day Book Event💖📚

This morning at Kensington Library we celebrated Women's Day by hosting 3 out of the 11 co-authors of the anthology Echoes of Love: Where Love Once Lived Courage Now Speaks.💐

The morning was filled with words of encouragement, lots of laughter, and a dose of reality well-intended! The authors namely Lezelle Scholtz, Rhonda Savage-Julie, and Ruth Carol Wyngaart shared their journeys with writing, healing, empowerment and how they became more than just widows.✨️

We would like to thank the authors and all the ladies who joined us this morning. We are grateful and appreciate all the support of our patrons and community members!😊

12/08/2026

📖✨Book Recommendation Wednesday📖✨
It’s another Wednesday and we’re back with another six book recommendations for adults. 😁
Visit Kensington Library to get your hands on one of these fiction titles:
✅“Keur 10: Plek van die bittermaan | Kamer van die stormwind” by Helene De K**k consists of two heartwarming stories sure to get you in the feel of love.
✅“Three Echoes” by Marina Auer is a fast paced, tension filled South African novel set in Durban follows Dr Sara Buhle, an obstetrician, who alongside SAPS star Vuyi Vilakazi are on the search for a missing newborn baby.
✅“Binding 13” by Chloe Walsh is book one of the Boys of Tommen series set in the Ireland and follows Shannon Lynch and Johnny Kavanaugh. They navigate first love while facing their own battles in the form of family trauma, school bullying and a career ending sports injury.
✅“Across The Kala Pani” by Shevlyn Mottai is set in the 1909, this historical novel showcases the lives of four women who board a ship to Madras end up on plantations in Natal, South Africa.
✅“And So I Roar” by Abi Daré follows Adunni and Tia. Aduni is a 14-year-old runaway from her rural Nigerian village, and Tia, is her benefactor in Lagos. Day by day the two of them find their voices, confront family secrets, deal with past trauma and fight to protect other young girls.
✅“Normal Rules Don’t Apply” by Kate Atkinson is a collection of 11 stories that are interconnected. The stories cover a variety of themes like alternate realities, magical realisms and more.

06/08/2026

✨ Public Holiday Library Closure ✨
Dear patrons and community members, please note that Kensington Library will be closed on the following day:

- Monday, 10 August 2026: Women's Day

05/08/2026

📑City of Cape Town External Bursary Opportunities📑
Calling all matric students, undergraduate students and students interested in postgraduate students, City of Cape Town external bursary applications are open.
📆Due date: 17 August 2026
The bursary is available for studies in fields identified as scarce skills, including:
- Accounting, Auditing, and Internal Auditing
- Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, and Chemical Science
- Contract Management
- Data Science and Statistics
- Economics
- Engineering (Civil, Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical, and Industrial)
- Environmental Management, Water Sciences, and Ecology
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Geohydrology
- Information Technology, Information Systems, and Information Management
- Law
- Library and Information Science
- Logistics Management
- Marine Biology
- Microbiology and Atmospheric Science
- Regional, Urban, and Town Planning
- Project Management
- Psychology (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)
- Water and Waste Management
- Water Quality
- Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Planning, Surveying, and Architecture
✅Submit application form and supporting documents to via email to [email protected]
Applicants who do not receive feedback by 15 January 2027 should consider their application unsuccessful.

01/08/2026

😎Virtual Reading List - Novels for Teen Boys😎
Are you looking for the perfect read? 🧐
Look no further, watch this virtual reading list video and perhaps you'll find the your next read! 🌍
Books are available at Kensington Library. 📖
💬 Which book are you looking forward to reading? 😁

30/07/2026

22/07/2026

📖Book Recommendation Wednesday📖

We back with six book recommendations for adults. These fiction titles have a little something for everyone. 😁
Visit Kensington Library to get your hands on one of these:

- “The Tea Merchant” by Jackie Phamotse is a historical romantic crime novel set in the Cederburg mountains in the year 2005. Cameron is fighting to save his family’s rooibos farm but there are secrets and enemies lurking.

- “Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil” by V.E. Schwab is modern gothic novel following three women; Maria, Charlotte and Alice, who are centuries apart and vampires.

- “Dream Count” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie set during 2020s COVID-19 lockdown across America and Nigeria. We follow the lives of four women, three of them wealthy and one of them a housekeeper as they navigate heartbreak, life choices, and more.

- “Convenience Store Woman” by Sayaka Murata is a Japanese contemporary fiction novel. We follow Keiko, who works in a convenience store and finds peace and comfort in the daily routine and reading the store manuals. She finds herself pressured by her family and friends to conform to societies expectations.

- “Thirty Days in Paris” by Veronica Henry is the perfect romantic escapist novel as Juliet goes on a journey of self-discovery in Paris. Follow her as she reconnects with old friends, finds herself at the precipice of a second chance at love, and finding herself.

- “Young Mungo” by Douglas Stuart is set in the early 1990s in Glasgow. The novel follows Mungo and James from opposite denominations as they fall in love despite facing homophobia, toxic masculinity, gang culture and family loyalties.