"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
~ Douglas Adams
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
~ Anton Chekhov
"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
~ Dr. Suess
Statement from Benjamin Trisk: Occasionally, very occasionally, a book comes along that refocuses us as booksellers and gives us the feeling that we can serve our community by being brave enough to support something desperately worthwhile. A book of this ilk was The Super Afrikaners published 40 years ago by a courageous young publisher whose […]
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 […]
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: […]
Stand a chance to win one of only ten Golden Tickets to the 2016 Warehouse Sale! This ticket will entitle the winners to enter the sale at 12pm on 24 August for one full hour as well as get their first 5 books for free! That means all ten winners will have the entire sale […]
Exclusive Books is opgewonde om deel te wees van die Koop-‘n-Afrikaanse-boek-dag! ‘Dis byna onmoontlik om te glo dat dit al weer tyd is vir Koop-‘n-Afrikaanse-boek-dag op 14 Augustus. Ons vra dat almal wat Afrikaans praat en lees, om op dié dag vir hulself ‘n boek te koop en as dit enigsins moontlik is ‘n boek […]
To Our Valued Customers We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to all the Harry Potter fans who attended our Midnight Parties this weekend, and put in so much effort to ensure a wonderful atmosphere on the night. The witches, wizards and magical creatures who turned up by the thousands truly showed their commitment and […]
The longlist, or ‘Man Booker Dozen’, for the £50,000 Man Booker Prize was announced yesterday. This year’s longlist of 13 books was selected by a panel of five judges: Amanda Foreman (Chair); Jon Day; Abdulrazak Gurnah; David Harsent and Olivia Williams. It was chosen from 155 submissions published in the UK between 1 October 2015 […]
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 […]
Book Clubs are a critical part of our market. In fact many years ago, the late and great Sir William Collins told me that South Africa was the last great fiction market. That it has remained a great fiction market is in no small measure attributable to the unique South African phenomenon of Book Clubs. […]
