South Africans, get ready for National Book Week! National Book Week is a joint initiative between the South African Book Development Council and the Department of Arts and Culture and takes place in the first week of September every year. During this time all involved in reading, schools, libraries, reading promotion projects and corporate social […]
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Join us for the most phizz-whizzing birthday party ever to celebrate 100 Years of the World’s No. 1 Storyteller! Many tremendous things are in store and wonders await … It’s going to be more giant than James’ peach, more enormous than a crocodile and more marvellous than George’s medicine! Dress up as your favourite Roald […]
The winner of the Nielsen Booksellers’ Choice Award was announced at the Sefika gala event in Cape Town on Tuesday, 30 August. The R20 000 prize and the bragging rights for the book South Africa’s booksellers most enjoyed reading, promoting and selling this year went to Sally Andrew for Recipes for Love and Murder: A […]
The South African Booksellers Association has announced the Nielsen Booksellers’ Choice Award 2016 shortlist. The R20 000 prize is given to the author whose book South Africa’s booksellers most enjoyed reading, promoting and selling. The winner will be announced at the Sefika gala event in Cape Town on Tuesday, 30 August. The shortlisted titles are: […]
At no time since Exclusive Books opened its stores in 1951, 65 years ago, have any of our stores stayed open through the night for the launch of a new book. This weekend things will be different. The extraordinary public demand for the 8th in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child […]
Star Rating: ★★★★☆ 4/5 Homegoing Yaa Gyasi Penguin Random House, June 2016 Online Price: R313 You can learn anything when you have to learn it. You could learn to fly if it meant you would live another day. Homegoing is a fresh new voice in African literature – one that it is imperative you […]
The first annual Lowveld Book Festival will take place from 5 to 7 August in White River, Mpumalanga. A balanced programme is promised, with the inclusion of poetry, folklore, workshops, storytelling and story-time for youngsters, panel discussions, historical Lowveld literature, interviews with authors, YA literature, performing art, a book fair and book valuations. We’ve picked […]
THURSDAY 28 JULY 2016 The Bloody Crime Quiz with Quiz Master Larry Benjamin We test your knowledge of all things criminal. Crime cases, crime books, crime writers and of course, Jack Reacher! And Sally Andrews, author of Recipes for Love and Murder. Come have some fun. WHERE: Stanley Beer Yard, 44 Stanley, Milpark TIME: 18.30 […]
Lidudumalingani Mqombothi has won the Caine Prize for African writing, worth £10 000 (approximately R200 000), for his short story, ‘Memories We Lost’. The announcement was made last night in the traditional home of the Prize, the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, UK. ‘Memories We Lost’ is about a girl who acts as protector of […]
Exclusive Books CEO Benjamin Trisk has provided this in memoriam for noted humanist Elie Wiesel, who died on Saturday 02 July 2016, aged 87: Elie Wiesel died on July 2nd. More than any other single person he drew the attention of the American public to the Holocaust. He acted out its lessons all his life: […]