Sunday, September 6, 2009

Boeke Prize

Fanatics and Exclusive Books invite you to celebrate the art of superb fiction in September by voting for your choice of the six titles short-listed for this year’s Exclusive Books Boeke Prize awards. You’ll earn 250 bonus points on each short-listed title you purchase this month, saving you a very handy R75 if you feel tempted to buy all six!

The Boeke Prize started out in 1995 as our light-hearted response to the Man Booker Prize, but has since become firmly established as a highlight of the South African literary calendar. Here’s this year’s short-list, selected by our store managers as titles which ‘truly live up to the promise of being compelling reads’:
  • Testimony by Anita Shreve
  • The Help by Kathryn Stockett
  • The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
  • The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt
  • The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
Let Exclusive Books know which of these six titles you think deserves the coveted Boeke Prize for 2009. Vote for your choice now and you, too, could be a winner! There are over 20 prizes to be won (worth a total of over R40 000) in our free Boeke Awards competition:

  • 1st prize – a trip for two to the luxurious Madikwe ‘Big five’ game reserve worth R20 000-00
  • 2nd prize – 10 x R2 000 Exclusive Books gift vouchers
  • 3rd prize – 10 sets of the six titles on our Boeke prize short list.

You’ll find entry forms on display at all branches of Exclusive Books. Complete your entry form and drop it in the special box provided before the competition closing date of 30th September.

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