Cape Town Book Sale

Get your hands on some bargain reads to get you through winter!

We are sure you’ve heard the hype around the very first Cape Town Book Sale, and we are here to tell you that you have a right to be excited. From Friday, 16 to Sunday, 18 June 2017 the V&A Waterfront will become the centre of the literary scene in Cape Town, when the biggest bookstores in the city meet under one roof in the name of bargain reads.

Now this is a big promise, but the organisers have made it anyway; these books will be sold at the lowest prices than anywhere else in the Mother City. Reading is one of the most rewarding endeavors (in my opinion), so why not head down to the temporary readers paradise and grab yourself some quality reading material to get you through the cold winter evenings. Picture this - you sitting in a comfy chair with a fire burning in the fire place, a cup of tea/coffee/hot chocolate/whiskey (we don’t judge) in one hand and a life-changing story in the other, a story so captivating that you simply cannot put it down. There’s really only one place to create that fantasy for a fair price, and that’s at the Cape Town Book Sale.

The sale will span all genres; autobiographies and kiddies books, cook books to gardening manuals, novels, sudoku, travel guides and timeless classics. As the sale is in Cape Town, there will also be a brilliant selection of local authors and books in various languages too. Just in case you were wondering, the names of the participating book shops are as follows: Bargain Books, Wordsworth Books, Caxton Books, Wilstan Books, Hargraves Books, Books 24/7, The Aquarium, BookButterfly, Missing Link Educational Books and New Africa Books.

If you think you know it all when it comes to books, take that one confidence one step further and tackle our literature quiz (full disclosure, it’s pretty damn hard so good luck!). Only ten questions, and almost instantly my confidence disappears…

1. What does Oliver Twist say to Mr Bumble after meal time?

A. Please, Sir, is there any more?
B. Please, Sir, I want some more
C. Please, Sir, can I have some more?

2. In which work of literature does the following meal appear: a gorgonzola sandwich and a glass of red wine?

A. Ulysses
B. Danny and the Champion of the World
C. Madame Bovary

3. What is unique about Madeline de Scudery’s novel Artamene?

A. It is the shortest known novel
B. It has the most chapters of any novel
C. It is the longest known novel

4. How does Victor Frankenstein bring his creature to life in Mary Shelley’s novel?

A. A shot of adrenaline
B. Smelling salts
C. It is not described

5. The poet John Keats is associated with which bird?

A. Crow
B. Cuckoo
C. Nightingale

6. In which work of literature does the following meal appear: a pie filled with the flesh of two humans?

A. Oedipus Rex
B. Titus Andronicus
C. The Secret History

7. How many poems did William Wordsworth write as a poet laureate?

A. Two
B. None
C. One

8. What connects the following works of literature: Don Quixote, Morte d’Arthur, Pilgrim’s Progress, Our Lady of the Flowers?

A. They were all written in prison
B. Each has been considered the first novel ever written
C. None of them were published in their author’s lifetime

9. Which American playwright died choking on the bottle cap of eye drops?

A. Robert Woodruff Anderson
B. Arthur Laurents
C. Tennessee Williams

10. Who wrote the 2095 word story, Skin, notable because each word is tattooed on a different person?

A. Shelley Jackson
B. James Herbert
C. Stephen King

We put the answers at the very bottom of the page - no peaking!

TICKETS FOR THE 2017 CAPE TOWN BOOK SALE AT THE V&A WATERFRONT

Tickets to browse the perfect literary paradise are only R25p/p and for kids under 12 it is absolutely free. If you don’t like crowds, why not get your hands on a Beat the Crowd ticket for R125p/p? It will get you into the venue a full hour and a half before everyone else - bonus! More books for you! All of the ticket types can be bought online via Webtickets.co.za.

If you have any questions or queries, please feel free to contact the organisers by filling out the form on their website - Capetownbooksale.co.za.

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Answer to the quiz: 1 (B), 2 (A and B), 3 (C), 4 (C), 5 (C), 6 (B), 7 (B), 8 (A), 9 (C), 10 (A)

Questions courtesy of The Telegraph UK (Telegraph.co.za).