"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
~ Dr. Suess
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~ Douglas Adams
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~ Anton Chekhov
Star Rating: ★★★★☆ 4/5 The Book of Memory Petina Gappah Faber & Faber, September 2015 Online Price: R302.00 The Book of Memory is the second work of fiction by Petina Gappah, a work that underscores why she won the Guardian First Book Award for her first, the short story collection An Elegy for Easterly. This […]
For immediate release The Bicycle Talks: Conversations that move you Exclusive Books and the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town are delighted to announce the launch of a new series of intimate dialogues on today’s most important topics, The Bicycle Talks. Buy Tickets Here The inaugural Bicycle Talk will take place Thursday 06 […]
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 […]
Join us for the most phizz-whizzing birthday party ever to celebrate 100 Years of the World’s No. 1 Storyteller! Many tremendous things are in store and wonders await … It’s going to be more giant than James’ peach, more enormous than a crocodile and more marvellous than George’s medicine! Dress up as your favourite Roald […]
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: […]
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 […]
Star Rating: ★★★★☆ 4/5 Homegoing Yaa Gyasi Penguin Random House, June 2016 Online Price: R313.00 You can learn anything when you have to learn it. You could learn to fly if it meant you would live another day. Homegoing is a fresh new voice in African literature – one that it is imperative you […]
The first annual Lowveld Book Festival will take place from 5 to 7 August in White River, Mpumalanga. A balanced programme is promised, with the inclusion of poetry, folklore, workshops, storytelling and story-time for youngsters, panel discussions, historical Lowveld literature, interviews with authors, YA literature, performing art, a book fair and book valuations. We’ve picked […]
