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. […]
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Jenny Crwys-Williams is Back on the Air Talking Books with the Exclusive Books Festive Popup Podcast
Jenny Crwys-Williams and Exclusive Books have partnered to bring South Africa’s reading public a new books show just in time for the gifting season, in the form of a series of festive popup podcasts. The seven-podcast series kicks off this week, and features authors and special guests from around the world chatting about the […]
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 […]
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: […]
Helen Maisels-Trisk, Sindiwe Magona and Benjamin Trisk at the Exclusive Books dinner at Le Quartier Francais ~ ~ ~ Last Thursday, 12 May, Exclusive Books CEO Benjamin Trisk gave the following address at the annual EB dinner at Le Quartier Francais, ahead of the kickoff of the 2016 Franschhoek Literary Festival. ~ ~ ~ A […]
Dear readers, We would like to introduce you to our new CEO, Benjamin Trisk. He has recently taken the helm of our company, and has already begun an exciting series of initiatives that we think you will absolutely love in the year to come. We can’t discuss any of it just yet, but as soon […]