Book Choice

Read-it! focuses on the magic power of books. It’s hosted by leading educator Marc Falconer, with learners from Gardens Commercial High School and Rustenburg High School. Thanks to our Publishers’ Choice sponsors: Exclusive Books, Jonathan Ball Publishers , Pan Macmillan South Africa and Penguin Random House SA. Read-it! is produced by Vanessa Levenstein and the sound engineer is Mzukisi Maketa.

Welcome to Book Choice on Fine music Radio, with me your host Paige Nick, sponsored by Exclusive Books. But here’s the thing, we have so many amazing book reviews and author interviews to share with you today, that I barely even have time to tell you how many amazing book reviews and author interviews we have to share with you today.

A huge hello from the Fine Music Radio studios in Cape Town. This is Book Choice, Publishers’ Choice, and I’m your host, Paige Nick. In this week’s show, we have three exceptional South African Publishers and the country’s biggest book seller, joining us to tell us what they’re publishing, reading and selling right now.

It’s April, and we’re between seasons, with winter heading our way soon. And if you’re in between books too, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to Book Choice on Fine Music Radio, with me, your host, Paige Nick, sponsored by Exclusive Books. With an hour of great book reviews and interviews to help you decide what to read next.

Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses his latest book, The World: A Family History of Humanity with educator Marc Falconer.

You’re tuned in to Book Choice, Publishers’ Choice, on Fine Music Radio, with me, your host, Paige Nick. Today the show includes four of South Africa’s biggest publishing houses. Each here to highlight all the beautiful books they’re publishing this year. This is what we’ve got lined up for you. First up on the show we’ll hear from Jonathan Ball Publishers, to share the best of their current non-fiction and fiction titles on the shelves right now. After that, it’s a big hello to global publishing powerhouse, Pan Macmillan. Talking about their favourite new titles, both local and international. Straight after that, Viz from Penguin Random House, is on the mic. Penguin Random House are the world’s largest English trade publisher. Here to tell us what they’ve got going on.

It’s 12 sharp on Tuesday the 21st of March on Fine Music Radio, which means, you’re tuned into Book Choice - an hour of book reviews and author interviews, with me, your host, Paige Nick, sponsored by Exclusive Books.

Welcome to Book Choice, Publishers’ Choice, here on Fine Music Radio, with me, your host, Paige Nick. In today’s show, I’m joined by South Africa’s four biggest, brightest publishing houses, and each of them are going to join us for their own segment to tell us all about the books they’re bringing out right now. So I hope you’ve got a pen and paper handy so you write down any of these titles that grab your fancy, there are some incredible reads just waiting to leap onto your shelves.

Just because February is a shorter month than most, doesn’t mean we have any fewer books for you to read. Welcome to Book Choice on Fine Music Radio, with me, your host, Paige Nick, sponsored by Exclusive Books. This month we have 7 great reviewers joining us to tell us about what they’ve been reading. And we’ve got two big interviews. One with the author of a smash hit best seller Thrive, and the other about an exciting literary event taking place in Cape Town in March. All punctuated by wonderful music, curated and compiled by Rick Everett and Dave Wood.

A big hello from the Fine Music Radio studios, my name is Paige Nick, and you’re tuned into Book Choice our Publishers’ Choice Edition. The only book show in the country where the biggest names from behind the scenes in publishing join us to give us an insider’s eye into the books they’re bringing out right now. First on the show, we welcome the team from global publishing powerhouse, Pan Macmillan. To share some of their favourite new titles, both local and international. After that, we’re joined by Jonathan Ball Publishers. The team at Jonathan Ball, consistently publish a host of South Africa’s top non-fiction titles, as well as international fiction and non fiction. And they’re here to bring us up to speed with what they’ve got coming up.

During load-shedding whether you read with a head-torch or cell phone light, one thing is for sure, even though you're reading in the dark, books continue to illuminate our world! Book Choice is hosted by Paige Nick and brought to you by Exclusive Books.

A big hello from the Fine Music Radio studios, my name is Paige Nick, and you’re tuned into Book Choice our Publishers’ Choice Edition. The only book show in the country where the biggest names from behind the scenes in publishing join us for a full hour, to give us an insider’s eye into the books they’re bringing out right now. First on the show, we welcome the team from global publishing powerhouse, Pan Macmillan. To share some of their favourite current titles, both local and international. After that, we’ll be joined by Jonathan Ball Publishers. The team at Jonathan Ball, consistently publish a host of South Africa’s top non-fiction titles, as well as loads of great international fiction and non-fiction. And they’re here today to bring us up to speed with what they’ve got coming up. And after that, and a bit of music, last, but never least, we will be joined by our great, great friends at Exclusive Books, who come on the mic to add their important voice to the show, and share their top picks and v

Welcome to our final Book Choice show for the year on Fine Music Radio, sponsored by Exclusive Books. My name is Paige Nick and for the next hour, we’ll be joined by our reviewers sharing the new books they’ve been reading, as well as reminiscing about some of their favourite reads from this last year. I hope this show finds you enjoying a great summer read, wherever you are. Whether that’s on a beach with a book in one hand and a cocktail in the other, on your couch with a kindle, or hiding from your family with your book, in the bathroom, or if you’re still working, burning the midnight oil, but also managing to get a few pages in here or there, even if you’re just dreaming of reading, here’s a shout out to all readers everywhere.

A big hello from the Fine Music Radio studios, my name is Paige Nick, and you’re tuned into Book Choice our Publisher’s Choice Edition. The only book show in the country where our biggest names from behind the scenes in publishing join us to give us an insider’s eye into the books they’re bringing out right now. And December is a HUGE month in the book trade. That’s when they lay out the very best ideas for you to stuff your stockings with. Because if a book isn’t the very best gift you could ever give anyone, then I don’t know what is. Books take us places, they help us escape, they teach us stuff, and every now and then, when they’re really, really good, they have that magic ability to get us off our screens for half a second, and transport us somewhere really really special. So, whether you’re listening with an ear today thinking about what you can buy for your tribe for the giving season, or whether you’re wondering what incredible read you’re going to line up for yourself next, you’ve come to the

A big hello from the Fine Music Radio studios in Cape Town, from me, Paige Nick. You’re tuned into Book Choice, sponsored by Exclusive books. The show that has a million and one books to share, with some great music in between. To welcome in the silly season, we have a silly amount of books to tell you about today. So much so, that I’m not even going to have enough time to tell you what we’ll be reviewing in the next hour, we’re going to have to leap right in and get started. So you’ll have to trust me when I tell you that we have a ton of great reviews and interviews coming up over the next hour. With suggestions of a little perfect something to read for everyone. If you’ve got someone you need to buy a gift for and you have no idea what to get them, we’ve got something for you! If you’re a fiction fundi, we’ve got something for you. If you like a little non-fiction in your life, we’ve got something for you. And of course, if you like great fine music, we’ve got something for you. So stay tuned, we absol

Well hello on this beautiful bookie Tuesday morning. I’m excited to join you for this, our second ever Book Choice Publisher’s Choice Edition, here on Fine Music Radio. My name is Paige Nick, and I think we have a magnificent show lined up for you. Whether you’ve always got your nose in a book, or perhaps you like to give books as gifts, or maybe you’re a sometimes reader, or you have ‘read more, scroll less’ on your to-do list, if you fit any of those profiles, or even if you just like a bit of fine music punctuated by fine chat, you’re tuned into the right station at exactly the right time. On today’s show, we welcome a few big-name publishers, who will be joining us to give us a bit of insight into their behind the scenes lives, and the books they’re publishing right now. They’ll be bringing us reviews, interviews with authors, bloggers, vloggers and TikTokers, as well as info on upcoming launches and must reads.

How can this be, that it’s the first of November already? I feel like the end of the year has snuck up on us like a sneaky plot twist out of a Stephen King novel. But here’s hoping your November is more Romantic Comedy, than ghoulish horror novel. Welcome to Book Choice on Fine Music Radio, sponsored by Exclusive Books, with me, your host, Paige Nick, and a whole team of reviewers keen to whet your literary appetite with a host of new book reviews and interviews. Today, we’re opening the show with Beverley Roos Muller and the new John Boyne novel, the follow up to his Boy in the Striped Pajamas that has been a multi-million copy bestseller around the world. This new follow up is called All the Broken Places. Beverley also brings us news of the new Nobel prize winner. Shirley Gueller, reviews Mercury Pictures Presents, by Anthony Marra, this one looks like a blockbuster to me. After that, our best Anthony Fridjhon reviews Kruger Self-Drive. Routes, Roads and Ratings perfectly timed for anyone consideri

Hello and welcome to a brand new edition of Book Choice, on Fine Music Radio. My name is Paige Nick and I'm the host of both our regular Book Choice that you've hopefully come to know an love over the years, and now, an exciting new addition and edition of the show, which were calling Book Choice, Publishers' Choice. Every third Tuesday, at lunch time, well be welcoming a few big name publishers to join us on the show and tell us what great new books they've been working on. They'll bring us reviews, interviews with authors, behind the scenes looks at what goes into publishing some of your favorite books, as well as information on upcoming launches in your area, that you can hopefully add to your calendar. Lets just say, if you didn't have a massive-to-read pile before, you're sure to grow a fantastic book wishlist now. Over the weeks, well bring you something for everyone, from fiction, to non-fiction, young Adult books, something for the kids, cook books, and even hopefully some poetry and short storie

In this edition of Book Choice sponsored by Exclusive Books and hosted by Paige Nick there are great reviews and interviews: The Rose Code by Kate Quinn; an interview with Françoise Malby-Anthony on her latest book, The Elephants of Thula Thula; Isabel Allende’s novel Violeta; My Land, My Obsession, a memoir by Bulelwa Mabasa; an interview with Margie Orford, about her latest thriller The Eye of the Beholder and a review and interview on Notes on Falling, by Bronwen Law-Viljoen.

: Today is the first Monday in September, and you’re tuned into Book Choice on Fine Music Radio, sponsored by Exclusive Books, with me, your host Paige Nick. For our spring show, we have a great line up of book reviews and author interviews to help you add a new book or two, or three, to your pile. Here’s what you have to look forward to over the next hour, Beverley Roos Muller, will be reviewing Tunnel 29, by Helena Merriman. The extraordinary true story of escapees who tunnelled back under the Berlin Wall to help their contacts escape during the cold war. Then we chat to Vanessa Levenstein about Trust, by Hernan Diaz, which was just announced as a Booker Prize longlist nominee. And here’s a fun fact we’ll delve into further a little later in the show, all the music in today’s show, comes straight out of this incredible book. After that, John Hanks interviews Ashling McCarthy, about her first book, ‘Down at Jika Jika Tavern’. Then Shirley Gueller gives us the inside track on Attic Child, by Lola Jay