As part of our Homebru celebration this year we decided to take showcasing our local authors to the next level by allowing their fans to interact with them in a live Twitter Town Hall Q&A Session. Our first session was with Bontle Senne, author of Powers of the Knife. #EBHomebru [View the story “Homebru Town […]
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We are excited to announce that we have captured the obscenely talented Lauren Beukes for a whole two hours of Twitter Town Hall! We’ll be talking about her brand-new, much-lauded new book Broken Monsters, now available in South Africa. Wait! What’s this thing? A town hall is an online gathering, in which we shelter under […]
Dear readers, I don’t think I’ve ever had to scramble so hard to keep up with a veritable snowstorm of tweets. We were very lucky to have nine amazing authors join in us for two whole hours, alongside a few guest authors who dropped in to share their thoughts and views on the past, present […]
Hello, readers, writers and fans of teen and young adult fiction! We return in 2014, a year that includes the launch of The Book Thief, Vampire Academy, The Fault in our Stars, Divergent and The Maze, hot on the heels of Ender’s Game last year. With so many teen books being turned into movies and the splendid […]
Dear readers, We are seeing the rise and rise of teen literature, with a variety of genres and a plethora of brilliant authors. But how do we find more to read? What should we be avoiding? And which book handles issues the best? Bookclubs have always been the heart of the book industry, the word […]
So Winter isn’t the best time of the year. Besides the cold (which is so lazy it just goes right through you), there are the dark, foreboding mornings, the frost that takes forever to melt, the irritation of the freezing outdoors contrasted with stuffy, overheated offices. Not a great time, really. Except, more than anything […]
Cover to Cover is Fanatics’ brand new communication channel, a reinvention of the Fanatics mailers we have all come to know and love. With this monthly eZine we aim to create a content rich channel that our customers can interact with, adding value to their interactions with Exclusive Books. In it you will find amazing […]
Dear fans and heroes of the Red Trolley Dash: We would like to apologise for the problems we encountered with the Red Trolley Dash that was supposed to run on our blog. Sadly, the sheer amount of people trying to comment on the blog at the same time overwhelmed our servers and crashed the blog. […]
Wow. Three hours and hundreds and hundreds of Tweets later, we have the winners of the store dashes! (Whew, give me a moment to catch my breath.) Winners were decided as they used the Exclus1ves Twitter Sticker to tweet a correctly-marked product with the name of their store. First choice counts, so if you happened […]
The Summer Sale and Winter Sale trolley dashes are probably amongst the most coveted prizes in South Africa. We’re giving away a 1 minute trolley dash through the Summer Sale tables, one dash per store. The competitions runs from 11am 23 January until 1pm. Should the prize winner not be able to attend their dash, […]
