"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
~ Dr. Suess
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
~ Anton Chekhov
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
~ Douglas Adams
SAfm LITERATURE – closing chapter Q1. You present a literary delight on SAfm every Sunday. How do you continuously up your game in terms of exposing South Africans to the textured literary landscape? A – Yup, you’re right, it has been a delight to present a line-up of literati on SAfm each Sunday. When I […]
Happy New Year from Exclusive Books! We’ve rung in 2018 on a particularly joyful note by fulfilling the life-long dream of Mrs Carina Greyling of Kempton Park, Johannesburg, who had, according to her four children, listed being “locked inside an Exclusive Books for the night” as her top birthday wish. Greying turned 60 on Sunday […]
Q: Tell us about #AbidjanLit – what’s it all about? Abidjan Lit is a movement of passionate readers based in Côte d’Ivoire but from diverse horizons. As we love to say, identities are complex and diverse. By saying Abidjan Lit, we are playing on words. Our Anglophone counterparts will say the T part and imagining […]
Our EB App Advent Calendar competition has started, which means you have 24 chances to win one of our spectacular prizes! To enter the competition simply email your response to each of the daily questions posted in the Exclusive Books App to socialmedia@exclusivebooks.co.za and watch out for the winner posts every Monday. You can download […]
The Exclusive Books Christmas Catalogue 2017 is out and it’s edited by the hilarious Nik Rabinowitz. [Extended laugh track] If you don’t know what to get your loved ones for Christmas this year, or you already know that books make the best gifts and want to get books for everyone, but don’t know WHICH ONES […]
The launch last night of Jacques Pauw’s book, The President’s Keepers, was disrupted by a power failure in the Hyde Park Corner shopping centre. At this stage, we have no way of knowing whether the disruption was the result of a technical failure or whether there was some unseen hand intent on silencing Mr Pauw. […]
Exclusive Books is delighted to introduce our new app, which we’ve purpose-built for book lovers: it brings you the latest book news, information about our upcoming events – and, best of all, regular special offers for your next visit to Exclusive Books. Like our launch offer: download the app now and get R50 off your […]
If you missed Saturday’s with Jenny this past weekend then you may not have heard her interview with our CEO Benjamin Trisk about our new Pan African Writing Catalogue. But don’t worry! You can listen to it here:
Dear Exclusive Books Customers Regarding the book Mandela’s Last Years by Vejay Ramlakan, kindly note that the book has been withdrawn by the publisher, Penguin Random House, and we are therefore unable to supply it. All stock of the book in our stores is being returned to the publisher, and is no longer for sale. […]
Stand a chance to win 2 tickets to see Trevor Noah live in Johannesburg on 09 August by answering 3 questions on our Twitter account this week. Questions will be posted on Monday 24 July, Wednesday 26 July and Friday 28 July. In order to qualify you will need to answer all three questions correctly. […]
