Win tickets to the exclusive Joburg screening of 12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave, the movie adaptation of Solomon Northup’s harrowing memoir of slave life, opens in SA cinemas next Friday.
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January 10th
January 8th
5 Things You Never Knew About Apple's Jony Ive
1. Jony is Dyslexic
Even so, he got three straight As at A-Level, good enough to get him into Oxford or Cambridge. Instead he went to Newcastle Polytechnic, one of the best places to study industrial design in the world. Later, he’d team up with another famous dyslexic: Steve Jobs.
2. His first car was an orange fiat 500
December 12th, 2013
A bookseller's review of James Oswald's Natural Causes
Secreted in the basement of a crumbling Edinburgh mansion, sealed in a bricked-up chamber, a girl’s body is discovered nailed to the floor in what appears to be a sadistic, ritualistic killing.
November 20th
Sweetie, darling...it's arrived!
Jennifer Saunders’ memoir has finally arrived in South Africa, how absolutely fabulous!
'As the steady march of time takes its toll on my memory and the vultures circle, I thought I should have a stab at recollecting how it all happened ...'
November 12th
Are you a moody foodie?
Are you a moody foodie?
Create a food mood board on Pinterest using the hashtag #AlidaRyder, showing us what food you cook from the heart, for a chance to win a R2000 Le Creuset voucher!
November 8th
Coming home, the Ultimate Braai Master blog tour
The final stop on the blog tour for the new Ultimate Braai Master cookbook, Roads Less Travelled in which Justin, Bertus and Marthinus share their top braai tips.
Justin Bonello on the braai:
October 31st
Scare yourself silly with these new Horror Classics
Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre.
October 30th
Launch of Portfolio Penguin in South Africa
Today we're proud to announce the launch of the South African operation of the international imprint for business books, Portfolio Penguin.
October 29th
Coffee Morning with Gareth Crocker at Exclusive Books
Join us for a coffee morning with Gareth Crocker, author of Finding Jack, Journey from Darkness, Never Let Go and King.
October 14th
'Like no other crime mystery you have ever read...'
Roma-Kentucky is a small American town where nothing really happens. That is, until October 1993. When the peace of this quiet town is shattered.
Emily Houchens is a thirteen year old 8th grader at Roma Middle School; intelligent, yet withdrawn due to her weight. She also has a crush on Christopher Shelton, one of the popular boys, who fondly refers to her as “Freak”; a habit which her classmates emulate. To escape her unhappy existence she goes for long walks in the woods, where she is free to daydream.
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