Win a Hamper of Books on Books LIVE’s Seventh Birthday!

Alert! It’s World Book Day – and Books LIVE’s birthday! Happy birthday to us! And to William Shakespeare, who would have turned 450 today, if only playwrights lived that long!

(Incidentally, Shakespeare’s exact birth date is unknown, but is surmised to be today. He also died on April 23rd – and today is also nominally the day that Cervantes died, a fact that helped sparked the World Book Day tradition. But because of the difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars, the synchronicity between the two death dates is more seeming than actual. And now you know.)

To celebrate Books LIVE’s seventh – seventh! we’re right behind you Willy! – birthday we’re giving away a fantastic hamper of books, including a copy of Ghana Must Go signed by Taiye Selasi.

The Books LIVE birthday hamper includes Ghana Must Go, A Girl Walks into a Wedding, by Helena S Paige, Whoever Fears the Sea, by Justin Fox, A Passion for Freedom, by Mamphela Ramphele, The Quiet Violence of Dreams, by K Sello Duiker, October, by Zoë Wicomb, Thoughts in a Makeshift Mortuary, by Jenny Hobbs, A Rumour of Spring by Max du Preez, Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulkes and Barracuda, by Christos Tsiolkas.
 

 
To stand a chance of winning the hamper, wish us a happy birthday on:

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Take a walk down our digitised memory lane with the links below, back to when Ben Williams launched the site as BOOK SA seven years ago (it’s worth it just to see Ben’s amazing 2006 fringe).

• BOOK SA launched (2006)

• BOOK SA observes World Book Day for the first time (2007)

• BOOK SA “alpha” version launched (2007)

• BOOK SA’s 1st birthday (2008)

• BOOK SA’s 2rd birthday (2009)

• BOOK SA’s 3rd – erroneously noted as its 4th (2010)

• BOOK SA’s proper 4th birthday (2011)

• Books LIVE celebrates its 1st and 5th birthday (2012)

• Books LIVE celebrates six years of existence

Book details

• Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
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  EAN: 9780670919888
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• A Girl Walks Into a Wedding by Helena S Paige
  EAN: 9780908387939
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• Whoever Fears the Sea by Justin Fox
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  EAN: 9781415203996
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• A Passion for Freedom by Mamphela Ramphele
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  EAN: 9780624065074
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• The Quiet Violence of Dreams by K Sello Duiker
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  EAN: 9780795705946
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• October by Zoe Wicomb
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  EAN: 9781415207062
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• Thoughts in a Makeshift Mortuary by Jenny Hobbs
  Book homepage
  EAN: 9781415203897
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• A Rumour of Spring: South Africa after 20 years of Democracy by Max du Preez
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  EAN: 9781770225435
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• Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks
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  EAN: 9780091954048
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• Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas
  EAN: 9781782392422
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