It's the first day of the blog tour for Say Goodbye, which is being published by Headline on 5 August. So ... I started reading this and was a few chapters in and floundering a bit. I loved the premise - I don't know what it is about cults, but there's just something about them... Continue Reading →
Hot sizzling winter reads with 26 fiction, non-fiction, young adult and children’s titles on the Exclusive Books recommended reading list
Available instore, online, phone and Uber Eats! Back to lockdown level 4 and not wanting to go into a shopping centre? A reminder that there are 4 ways to shop for your bookish delights from Exclusive Books during the latest Covid-19 restrictions. Firstly, order your book on the Uber-Eats platform – you will find Exclusive Books... Continue Reading →
BLOG TOUR – Secrets of the Mummy Concierge by Tiffany Norris
Yay! It's Day 1 on the blog tour for Secrets of the Mummy Concierge by Tiffany Norris! It sounds like a dream job doesn't it? Swanning around with the rich and famous, who get whatever they want because money's no object. Well, oh my goodness, as much as the idea might be be very nice... Continue Reading →
BLOG TOUR – Waiting for the Miracle by Anna McPartlin
For me, Anna McPartlin is an APA - an Automatic Purchase Author! Anyone who knows me well will tell you that The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes (2014) is one of my all-time favourite books. Ever since reading that, I've been completely hooked on Anna's books! So, as soon as I heard about a blog... Continue Reading →
BLOG TOUR – Waiting to Begin by Amanda Prowse
I've always said that Amanda Prowse has the uncanny ability to create characters that are so real that you feel like they're the kind of women you know. They're the women you're familiar with from seeing them pushing a trolley around your local grocery store, or at school pick-up or drop-off times. They're the ones... Continue Reading →
Poetry decolonisation and surviving America’s culture wars are the topics for the next Cover to Cover online book show
The show will be presented by Eusebius Mckaiser on Thursday 3 June at 18:00 powered by Exclusive Books Eusebius interviews Dr Wamuwi Mbao, editor of Years of Fire and Ash which is a poetry anthology exploring decolonisation. Jacques Rousseau, expert in critical thinking from UCT, then reviews Helen Zille's latest book, #Stay Woke Go Broke. "Years of Fire... Continue Reading →
Warming winter reads with 25 fiction, non-fiction, young adult and children’s titles on the Exclusive Books recommended reading list
Available instore, online, phone and Uber Eats! This year, Exclusive Books celebrates 70 years of getting more books to more people. Exclusive Books opened their first store on King George Street in Johannesburg in 1951 and have since expanded to 41 bricks-and-mortar stores, and of course the virtual www.exclusivebooks.co.za. Exclusive Books will mark this happy milestone... Continue Reading →
BLOG TOUR – Mrs Narwhal’s Diary by S.J. Norbury
When I started this book, I was a tad confused. It seemed to instantly run away with me. I couldn't seem to fathom what on earth was going on, who all the characters were and why there seemed to be so many of them (there weren't as many as I imagined), and why I just... Continue Reading →
Blog Tour – Jaipur Journals by Namita Gokhale
Book festivals are their own little universes - and we all know that battles are won and lost over who rules the universe! Does that sound a bit extreme? When you attend a book festival, it's as if you've entered a type of bubble where only the events and people within it are of any... Continue Reading →
BLOG TOUR – Geiger by Gustaf Skördeman
Wow! This book starts explosively from the very first chapter. Sisters Lotta and Malin, together with their husbands, return from some time away to collect their children who have been staying with their grandparents Agneta and Stellan Broman. They don't stay long, and are soon bundling their children into their respective cars with all the... Continue Reading →