Our 6 month Clearance Sale in Rondebosch, Cape Town is now officially over.

Thank you to all the regulars, locals and new customers who visited the sale.

We hope you all enjoyed and are enjoying your R25.00 books.

Join our newsletter to find out where the next R25.00 clearance sale will happen!

Our first Gauteng store will be opening this February in Broad Acres Lifestyle Shopping Centre.

Home of one of the best Super Spars in the country and the extremely popular Barnyard Theatre.

We are currently working hard to bring Gauteng an amazing book experience from this February onwards.

Click here for more details

Thank you to everyone for your support in 2009.

Just to let you know our branches will be closed on certain dates in December and January.

Tokai and Rondebosch branches

25, 26, 27th December 2009 and the 1st January 2010.

Montana Park branch

25, 26th December 2009 and the 1st January 2010.

Click here for more details of December operating times.

Reader's Warehouse introduced Big Skeleton, Small Skeleton and Dog to the young reader's on the 17th December 2009.

Visitors got to find out what happens when the skeletons visit the Zoo one dark night.

Each visitor also got their own Funny Bones bookmark and treats.

Click here to view some photographs

What a great turn out we had on the 15th December 2009.

Thank you to everyone who came and enjoyed the Gruffalo reading at our store in Tokai.

We hope you enjoyed the reading and your own Gruffalo goodies.

Click here to view some photographs

Thank you to all the moms, dads and children that came to our store for our Dr Seuss reading.

We had a great time and we hope you did too.

Hope you all enjoyed your Dr Seuss goodies and photograph with the Cat in the Hat.

Click here to view some photographs

Reader's Warehouse Tokai store has changed its trading hours.

For the festive period we are now trading the following times

Monday to Friday from 9am to 6pm

Saturdays from 9am to 3.30pm

Sundays from 9am to 3pm

Public Holidays from 10am to 2pm

Reader's Warehouse had a great Roald Dahl Day event with story telling, lucky draw and Willy Wonka Treats at our Tokai store on the 13th September 2009.

For every Roald Dahl picture book purchased, customers received their very own Enormous Crocodile finger puppet.

Thank you to Penguin Books for sponsoring our lucky draw prizes and Hmm bakery in Clare Street for sponsoring the treats for visitors.

A special thank you to all staff and visitors at the event.

Click here to see photographs of the event

We are also listed on the Roald Dahl Day official website. To view our photographs on their website on the following link: http://www.roalddahlday.info/YourPictures.aspx

Now open in Rondebosch, Cape Town is a Reader's Warehouse Clearance store.

We are clearing stock we have been storing in our warehouse and have been unpacking thousands of books in a clearance outlet store in Rondebosch.

ALL BOOKS ARE PRICED R25.00 EACH

Books will include both English and Afrikaans and will range in general books, paperback and hardcover novels, children books, cookery, academic and business titles, young adult titles, local fiction and non fiction, autobiographies and more.

Click here to find out more details

The Reader's Warehouse team had a fantastic time at this years Cape Town Book Fair.

Thank you to our regular customers for visiting and saying hello and to all the new customers for their support.

We hope you all enjoyed our colour coded book fair specials and complementary gift bags and bookmarks.

Click here for some photographs at our stand

Reader's Warehouse has opened a new store in Kolonnade Retail Park in Montana Park, Pretoria..

Contact the store on 012 548 7218

Email: kolonnade@readerswarehouse.co.za

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Reader's Warehouse Tokai store has changed its trading hours.

For the Winter period we are now trading the following times

Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm

Saturdays from 9am to 3.30pm

Sundays from 9am to 3pm

Public Holidays from 10am to 2pm

Reader's Warehouse will be opening up a new satellite store in Kolonnade Retail Park in Pretoria.

Our store will be opening from 1st June 2009.

To be notified of opening day, super specials and great bargains. Email us on info@readerswarehouse.co.za

Tell everyone in Pretoria!

More details shortly

Reader's Warehouse has been unpacking and unpacking some of the best titles at excellent prices.

During the last week of March and every week in April, hundreds of new titles will be unpacked in our store.

From great general titles, novels, cookery, children books, self help, music and everything in between.

Be sure to visit our store regularly not to miss out or join our mailing list by emailing info@readerswarehouse.co.za to be notified on large new arrives and super specials.

Reader's Warehouse has unpacked thousands of new children titles in our upstairs children area.

We have stacked up on hundreds of different children paperback series like Molly Moon, The Princess Diaries series, Nina Fairy Ballerina, Horrid Henry, Young James Bond, Cornelia Fluke, Anthony Horowitz and many more selling from R35.00 each.

We have also got in a large selection of Mr Men and Little Miss titles selling for only R15.00 each.

Be sure to visit our new upstairs children area and take a look.

We would like to let everyone know that Reader's Warehouse is officially opening for business on the 1st October.

Over the last 10weeks we have re-allocated Reader's Paradise from Kloof street and Die Kaapse Boekwinkel in Brakenfell to a huge warehouse store.

View photographs how it all came together.

Reader's Warehouse had a stand at this years Hobby X in Goodwood, Cape Town.

The team had a great time meeting and greeting our regular customers and new ones at the 2008 art and craft event.

Thank you to everyone for their support at the exhibition.

Click here to view photograph

The Reader's Paradise team had a fantastic time meeting and greeting our regular customers and new ones at the 2008 Cape Town Book Fair.

Thank you to everyone for their support at the fair.

Click here to view a few photographs.

New framed up inscribed author photographs at Reader's Paradise include the Wickedly Splendid Spud author John van de Ruit and Cape Town author Tom Eaton.

John van de Ruit in the past two years has become one of the bestselling authors in South African history. His two Spud novels have had strong sales around South Africa and with two more novels in the Spud series still to come and the first Spud movie. John van de Ruit is set to bring even more mayhem and madness to the South African public and the world.

Tom Eaton brought out the very popular The De Villiers Code novel last year and followed it up with Texas. Firm favourites in local book clubs and reading groups. Tom Eaton's novels have both climbed up the South African bestsellers list.

Both authors' novels are available at Reader's Paradise. (These author books and incribed photographs are now at Reader's Warehouse)

Reader's Paradise April 2008 Children Promotion was listed on the international Beatrix Potter childrens website www.peterrabbit.co.uk

During the month of April to co inside with International Children reading day on the 2nd April and World Book Day on the 23 April, Reader's Paradise Bookstore has planned great children promotions, book specials and more.

Visit our store from April to see our new Children corner at our store!

Click here to see web link

Reader's Paradise was featured in a new documentary on a year in the life of author J.K Rowling.

The documentary was shown on ITV in the UK on the 31 December 2007.

Reader's Paradise was one of the stores featured in teh documentary showing the count down to the final Harry Potter book release.

A Wicca and Pagan talk will be taking place at Reader's Paradise on Saturday the 27th October 2007 at 10am.

The talk and discussion will be run by author Donna Vos.

Donna will be talking about her book 'Dancing under an African Moon - Paganism and Wicca in South Africa' and her experiences meeting people who practise Paganism and more.

Event Details:

Reader's Paradise Bookstore - 10am Saturday, 27 October 2007

Anyone interested in meeting the author and attending the talk can email thomas@readersparadise.co.za or call us at the store.

Signed books are available and you can email the store to enquiry about purchasing one.

Reader's Paradise and Pensieve.net (The largest Harry Potter website in South Africa) have teamed up for a Harry Potter Post-Mortem.

On the 1st September Harry Potter reader's and fans can attend a discussion and quiz in connection with the Harry Potter book series.

If you have any burning unanswered questions? Find out perspectives from people in English Literature and Media.

Find out what other fans enjoyed about the series and how they feel about the ending of the last book.

Also, Reader's Paradise and Pensieve.net are going to be launch a special 'Thank You Gift' to J.K. Rowling. Which will be discussed at the event.

If you know your Harry Potter information, you might win some fantastic prizes up for graps in the Quiz. A great range of Harry Potter hardcover and paperback books can be won, plus Harry Potter magnetic bookmarks, magnets and more.

Event Details:

Date: 1st September 2007

Time: 10am to 12 noon ( 2 hour event )

Place: Labia Theatre - Orange Street - Cape Town

Tickets: R20 at the door. Can be purchased before the 1st September at the Labia.

The 1st September is the day in the Harry Potter series that the Hogwart Express leaves to take the students to Hogwarts.

See you at the post-mortem

To view flyer / poster, click here.

Reader's Paradise was chosen as one of four bookstores in Cape Town to visit by South African magazine Books and Leisure.

Book and Leisure was a magazine publication that featured author interviews, book reviews and book news.

In the Book section of the Cape Times newspaper on the 17 August 2007, they ran in their events section a short notice to Cape Town readers about our fantasy and science fiction event.

Look out for our next Fantasy and Science Fiction book promotion in our Events section.

All three of the local South African Fantasy authors on promotion during the Reader's Paradise Fantasy Feast were interviewed by the local Horror and Science Fiction magazine - Something Wicked.

The magazine also mentioned details of our event in the article.

To read the article click here.

Book.co.za the blog website for all things South African Literature posted a news bite on our Fantasy Feast event.

Click here to read the article.

Tara Weinberg from the South African Harry Potter website www.pensieve.net was interviewed about our Harry Potter Book Launch and Competition for the E TV - Television station program - The Showbiz Report.

The Interview was broadcast on South African television on the 28 July 2007.

Reader's Paradise was at the Psychologies Magazine workshop at Simon's , Groot Constantia wine farm on Saturday, the 28th July.

During the workshop Dr. Eve / Dr Marlene Wasserman did a presentation and book signing for her latest book Pillowbook.

Reader's Paradise was there to serve attendies with the lastest book by Dr. Eve and give fans the chance to have their book inscribed and signed by the author.

Reader's Paradise currently has a limited about of signed copies of Dr Eve Pillowbook for R150.00 each, in stock.

If you would like a copy, visit our store or email us about booking yourself a signed copy.

Thomas Bulpin from Reader's Paradise spoke to John Nathan on 567 Cape Talk radio on the 20 July 2007.

Thomas discussed with John the Harry Potter Book Launch at the store and the documentary being filmed regard the Harry Potter author JK Rowling.

Reader's Paradise and Lisa Bulpin from Reader's Paradise were featured in an article by 'The Cape Argus' newspaper about our Harry Potter Book Launch and Competition on the 19 July 2007.

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Fairpoint Media's website Slice of Sci Fi did a news article about the first Fantasy Feast promotion at Reader's Paradise.

To read article click here.

Located on Kloof Street in Cape Town, South Africa, this general interest bookstore nonetheless does crime fiction right, proudly displaying inscribed photographs from authors such as Michael Palmer, Lee Child, Ken Follett, Sidney Sheldon, Jonathan and Faye Kellerman, James Rollins, Ann Rule, Stephen Leather, Clive Cusseler,  David Baldacci, Wilbur Smith and Patricia Cornwell.

Their stated aim is "to bring readers and authors closer together.... We try our best to give our customers and store visitors a reading experience, being able to read messages from their favourite authors while browsing our bookshelf for their next read."

Reader's Paradise was listed as one of the bookstores in South Africa fans of Harry Potter could come and celebrate the release of the last book in the series.

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Reader's Paradise was listed as one of the South African bookstores fans could visit and attend for the launch of the final Harry Potter book.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was launched worldwide in July 2007.

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An article about the framed author photographs in our store, was featured in the Books section of The Cape Argus published on the 22 May 2006.

The Cape Argus is the leading printed and sold newspaper in Cape Town, South Africa.

To read article click here

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