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Bookophilia Hosts Theatre Night Featuring Re-enactments From The Book ’3 Jamaican Plays’
On Friday, August 19, at 6:30 p.m., book and theatre lovers are invited to enjoy Theatre Night at Bookophilia, where they will be entertained by a theatrical re-enactment of scenes from Fallen Angel and the Devil Concubine, from the book 3 Jamaican Plays, produced by Paul Issa Publications. August is Caribbean Books Month at Bookophilia, [...]
Continue reading...Bookophilia Store Feature
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Today’s Sunday Observer newspaper carries a feature on the popular Bookophilia store, located on Hope Road in St. Andrew: It’s a business born of love — a love of books. Now, three years later, the Kingston-based Bookophilia is the place where readers, young and old, get the chance to indulge themselves, unravelling the plot of [...]
Continue reading...Bookophilia’s Top 5 Bestselling Books For June 2011
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Here are the top 5 bestselling books for June 2011 at the popular Bookophilia book store, located at 92 Hope Road (Kingston 6). 1. The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin Born in Jamaica on Christmas day, 1972, Chin’s arrival into the world was unexpected, as no one even knew her mother was pregnant. [...]
Continue reading...Jacqueline Bishop Reading & Book Signing At Bookophilia – June 21
Thursday, June 16, 2011
On Tuesday June 21 at 6 p.m., Bookophilia will host celebrated poet and author, Jacqueline Bishop, as she reads from her collection of poems Snapshots from Istanbul, and her novel The River’s Song. At the heart of the collection Snapshots from Istanbul, is a sequence of powerfully sensuous poems about a doomed relationship in Istanbul, [...]
Continue reading...Bookophilia Hosts Staceyann Chin – June 9
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
On Thursday June 9 at 6 p.m., Bookophilia is hosting celebrated poet and performance artist, Staceyann Chin. Staceyann Chin is a fulltime artist. A resident of New York City and a Jamaican National, she has been an “out poet and political activist” since 1998. From the rousing cheers of the Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe to one [...]
Continue reading...Prelude 2 – Pre-Lyme, Post-Script – An Open Mike Event – May 15 @ Bookophilia
Monday, May 9, 2011
On Sunday May 15, Bookophilia, the Official Bookstore of the Asante Adonai Literary Lyme, hosts the Lyme’s second precursor event. The afternoon, dubbed: “Prelude 2 – Pre-Lyme, Post-Script – an Open Mike event”, is open to the public, and will be held at Bookophilia, 92 Hope Road, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00p.m. With poets Sabriya, [...]
Continue reading...“Children In The Line Of Fire” Author Reading & Signing @ Bookophilia – May 24
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Appropriately, during Childs Month, Bookophilia is hosting author Claudette Crawford-Brown, PhD, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., on Tuesday, May 24, as she reads and does book signings of her novel: “Children in the Line of Fire”. The title, “CHILDREN IN THE LINE OF FIRE”, underlines the fact that children in Jamaica, and the Caribbean, [...]
Continue reading...Bookophilia Hosts Grace Virtue, Author Of ‘How Will I Know My Children When I Get To Heaven? A Mother’s Tales of Hope’
Monday, May 2, 2011
Appropriately preceding Mother’s Day, Bookophilia will host author Grace Virtue MA, PhD, at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 7, as she reads and does book signings of her novel: “HOW WILL I KNOW MY CHILDREN WHEN I GET TO HEAVEN?: A MOTHER’S TALES OF HOPE”. “…TALES OF HOPE” has been described as ‘a fresh and [...]
Continue reading...Bookophilia Hosts World Book & Copyright Day Workshops – April 21, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
UNESCO declared in 1995, that April 23 would be universally celebrated each year, as World Book and Copyright Day. The aim of this international annual commemoration is to highlight in every society and culture, the role of Books and Copyright, not only in the generation and transmission of ideas, but also in the protection of [...]
Continue reading...Andrea Dempster / Bookophilia Feature
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Today’s Sunday Gleaner, has a feature on Bookophilia, the popular Hope Road book store, café and lounge that was founded by Andrea Dempster. For businesswoman Andrea Dempster, the determination to make Bookophilia … a success, is driven by her personal passion for books and a desire to eventually prove that Jamaicans do read and can [...]
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
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