One of the best parts about working in the book industry is that one gets to meet great authors, and sometimes have dinner with them. Last night Exclus1ves went to dinner with Random House and Lauren Beukes, and we celebrated the launch of this year’s most interesting book (in this bookseller’s opinion). We were also […]
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History . Mark Gevisser is one of South Africa’s leading authors and journalists. His next book “Dispatcher”, about his personal relationship with his home-town Johannesburg, will be published by Farrar Straus Giroux and Atlantic Press in 2013. Gevisser has been awarded an Open Society Followship for 2012/13 working on The Sexuality Frontier. During his fellowship […]
Booksellers love books like Eight Days in September. We love multiple print runs, huge dollops of media attention and controversial authors. Eight Days in September is now being reprinted two days after it was launched. The next print run is said to be 15,000 copies. To put that in perspective, a bestseller in South Africa is […]