The graphic novel has long been a favourite form of mine for its ability to transcend the seperate capabilities of print and images by combining them. And contrary to popular belief, graphic novels often deftly handle material as serious as fasicm, the Holocaust and the Cold War. It has been twenty-five years since the ground-breaking […]
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If, like me, you are one of those people who played your previous SSX games until the disk literally disintegrated (for me it was SSX Tricky) then you are probably just as anxious to get your hands on a copy of SSX Deadly Descents. Unfortunately EA has decided to delay the release till February 2012. […]
As a regular Exclusive Books customer we wanted you to be amongst the first to know that we have recently revamped our Hyde Park store and it is open for trading (Monday, 24 October 2011). This means more space for you to relax and browse through our fantastic selection of the latest books and of […]
After a heated and unusual five-way auction, Harpercollins has snagged Lauren Beukes‘ partial manuscript for The Shining Girls. With the current recession publishers are having fewer and fewer auctions for titles, so this is definitely a special manuscript! Pegged for release in May 2013, The Shining Girls might be one of the biggest hits of that […]
When Steve Jobs passed away on the 5th of October this year, the world saw hundreds of thousands grieving for the great innovator, while detractors took the opportunity to revile him as a sweatshop-using megalomaniac. (I think the timing could have been better managed, regardless of the validity or not of such statements.) I admit that […]
Seen by many as one of South Africa’s foremost satirists and commentators, Jonathan Shapiro, AKA Zapiro, has commented on the tightly prescriptive nature of the new Press Code, effective since the 15th of October. Shapiro said: “I would like to see an amendment [to the press code] soon. I’m certainly not the only one who […]
The movie adaptation of Kathryn Stockett‘s The Help is currently on circuit in South Africa, and the book has enjoyed months on the New York Times bestseller list. While the movie deals with racism in 1960s America (which isn’t all that long ago), it might have an interesting angle for South Africans. After all, Eve of […]
Double Dexter Pre-order R175.00 Jeff Lindsay, author of the ever popular Dexter novels, is worried that people are romanticising his serial killer because they are under the impression the character is “nice”. “Some believe that Dexter cares about justice. Dexter doesn’t care about justice, he cares about killing. He’s attractive because he’s […]
The future of handheld consoles is set to land on South African shores on 22 February 2012. But is everyone as excited about the new console as Sony wants them to be? Admittedly the Playstation Vita has some amazing features that have most of the gaming world drooling and desperate to get their hands on […]
Can the Israeli-Palistine prisoner swap be the answer to the “failing peace” in the Middle East? Times LIVE is covering the story: “I missed my family,” a gaunt Shalit, his breathing laboured at times, said in an interview with Egyptian TV conducted before he was transferred to Israel and broadcast after he went free. “I […]