Bookophilia is hosting a 50% Off hardcover books sale this weekend (September 27-30, 2012). You can get 50% off all hardcover non-fiction and fiction titles, 50% off all Coffee Table books under $3500, and up to 20% off of selected Coffee Table titles.
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 15, 2012
In celebration of National Child’s Month, Bookophilia book store is hosting a Children’s Weekend this Saturday and Sunday (May 19-20, 2012). It kicks off on May 19 (11 a.m. to 12 noon) with Crayons Count Story-Time with Deika Morrison. Deika Morrison, from Crayons Count, will be the special guest storyteller, at a Story-Time event which [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 16, 2011
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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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 [...]
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
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