Star Rating: ★★★★☆ 4/5 Queen Sugar Natalie Baszile Penguin Putnam Inc, January 2015 Online Price: R257.00 Sometimes, you go looking for adventure, all you find is disaster – Queen Sugar I was introduced to Queen Sugar through the hit series on the OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) channel but reading the book I got more […]
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Star Rating: ★★★★☆ 4/5 The Twelve Tribes of Hattie Ayana Mathis Cornerstone, August 2013 Online Price: R185.00 I can’t remember when I read anything that moved me quite this way, besides the work of Toni Morrison. – Oprah Winfrey This book was a gift from a friend, who told me how he adores […]
Star Rating: ★★★☆☆ 3/5 The Reactive Masande Ntshanga Umuzi, September 2014 Online Price: R185 Ten years ago, I helped a handful of men take my little brother’s life. I wasn’t there when it happened, but I told Luthando where to find them. Masande Ntshanga’s debut novel grabs you from the get go. Our […]
Star Rating: ★★★★★ 5/5 Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto In Fifteen Suggestions Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 4th Estate, March 2017 Online Price: R226.00 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was recently in the news for comments she made on transgender women and I myself joined the critics. I thought, How dare she? The episode made me realise that […]
Pan Macmillan publishers recently introduced the children’s classic, The Gruffalo, in four new South African languages – isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sesotho and Setswana – and Exclusive Books is proud to stock all editions of this perennial favourite. Click to view the various editions of the book: isiXhosa isiZulu Sesotho Setswana English Afrikaans A mouse took a […]
She walks in to the room full of Black women from all walks of life, young and old, all gathered at the UNISA Conference Centre in Ormonde to listen to the soft-spoken author of Nervous Conditions – filmmaker, playwright, poet and activist Tsitsi Dangarembga, who was hosted in the country by the Thabo Mbeki African […]
Star Rating: ★★★★☆ 4/5 What Sunny Saw in the Flames Nnedi Okorafor Cassava Republic Press/Pan Macmillan, September 2016 Online Price: R190.00 What Sunny Saw in the Flames will take the reader on an imagination roller coaster ride, into a world where nothing seems to be quite the same – and has not yet been […]
Star Rating: ★★★★☆ 4/5 We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo Vintage Publishing, February 2014 Online Price: R165 Leaving your country is like dying, and when you come back you are like a ghost returning to earth, roaming around with a missing gaze in your eyes In We Need New Names we meet ten year old […]
We are pleased to announce that Exclusive Books Hyde Park has been shortlisted for the London Book Fair International Excellence Award in the category of The Bookstore of the Year. We are honoured to be nominated alongside the likes of France’s Shakespeare and Company and New Zealand’s Time Out Bookstore. For more information see the […]
BookWormers GP is a rising book club based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Follow them on Twitter. Want to start your own book club? Click here to find out how. Q: How did BookWormers GP come about? What need were you seeking to fulfill? The book club was formed in April 2011 by myself and two […]