Get Your Creativity Flowing with Exclusive Books

Exclusive Books offers a variety of craft and learning options, from creative activities to mindful relaxation. From the artistic relatives to the science-obsessed friend, make sure to read on to check out our favourites from Exclusive Books.

Arts and Crafts

Book Nook and Wonderland DIY Kits by Rolife

Rolife’s most popular and intricately designed DIY miniature dioramas, these book nook kits are made to transform your bookshelf, complete with atmospheric LED lighting. Beautifully crafted and rich in detail, they also make eye-catching decorative pieces for any space.

The collection includes enchanting scenes such as Tokyo Sakura Densya, Magic House, Time Travel Station, and Sunshine Town, each filled with charming details to discover. Perfect as a Christmas gift or a festive decoration, these magical book nooks add a sense of wonder to any home this season.

Hobbies and Puzzles

Get your brain working and creativity flowing with a variety of beautifully designed puzzles and other creative activities from Exclusive Books this festive season. Perfect as gifts for all ages, enjoy options such as paint by numbers kits (by Lucy & Sandy Blooms), granny square card & flower decks, puzzles of differing sizes, and Emotional Monsters Snap.

Journals

This new year, make it a habit to start getting your feelings onto paper, and what better way to do it than with one of the artisanal journals available at Exclusive Books? With a variety of options, including a bespoke art-themed curation by Flame Tree Journals, there’s never been a better time to start recording your life.

LEGO

Exclusive Books stocks a wide range of LEGO products, from the popular Botanicals flower sets to art piece recreations. LEGO isn’t just a gift for the little ones – people of all ages can enjoy the process of building and creating their own pieces.

Games & More

Get creative this festive season with various game-themed gifts from Exclusive Books. For the gamers, enjoy a set of Minecraft books and activities, or learn something new with the new edition of the Guinness Book of World Records.

Coffee Table Books

Always Remember by Charlie Mackesy

‘One day you’ll look back and realise how hard it was, and just how well you did.’

Charlie Mackesy’s four unlikely friends are wandering through the wilds again. They’re not sure what they are looking for. They do know that life can be difficult, but that they love each other, and cake is often the answer. When the dark clouds come, can the boy remember what he needs to get through the storm?

The hugely anticipated new book from Charlie Mackesy, revisiting the much-loved world of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – the bestselling adult non-fiction book of all time, with over ten million readers around the world.

Nature & Science

Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking

The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe’s biggest questions in this brilliant posthumous work.

Is there a God? How did it all begin? Can we predict the future? What is inside a black hole? Is there other intelligent life in the universe? Will artificial intelligence outsmart us? How do we shape the future? Will we survive on Earth? Should we colonise space? Is time travel possible?

Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe and unravelled some of its greatest mysteries. But even as his theoretical work on black holes, imaginary time and multiple histories took his mind to the furthest reaches of space, Hawking always believed that science could also be used to fix the problems on our planet. And now, as we face potentially catastrophic changes here on Earth – from climate change to dwindling natural resources to the threat of artificial super-intelligence – Stephen Hawking turns his attention to the most urgent issues for humankind.

Humour

Zapiro Annual 2025: What Else Could Go Wrong? by Zapiro

No mere thorn in the flesh or fly in the ointment, Zapiro is the fullgrown bull in the china shop. Thirty years running and he’s showing no signs of slowing down. In this 30th annual edition, South Africa’s most iconic political cartoonist once again delivers a masterclass in fearless satire.

With his trademark precision and punch, Zapiro dissects another year of scandal, spin and spectacle. He unmasks emperors, spotlights elephants in the room, and pokes the powerful where it hurts. More than a cartoonist, he’s a cultural force – equal parts truth-teller, troublemaker and national conscience. Thirty years on, he’s still making us think, rage, recoil and roar with laughter.

Fiction

Remain by Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan

A one-of-a-kind novel that grapples with the supernatural mysteries of life, death, and human connection – an unprecedented collaboration between the globally bestselling author of love stories like The Notebook and the renowned writer and director of blockbuster thrillers like The Sixth Sense.

When New York architect Tate Donovan arrives in Cape Cod to design his best friend’s summer home, he is hoping to make a fresh start. Recently discharged from an upscale psychiatric facility where he was treated for acute depression, he is still wrestling with the pain of losing his beloved sister. Sylvia’s deathbed revelation – that she can see spirits who are still tethered to the living world, a gift that runs in their family – sits uneasily with Tate, who struggles to believe in more than what reason can explain. But when he takes up residence at a historic bed-and-breakfast on the Cape, he encounters a beautiful young woman named Wren who will challenge every assumption he has about his logical and controlled world.

A story about the power of transcendent emotion, Remain asks us all: Can love set us free not only from our greatest sorrows, but even from the boundaries of life and death?

What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

In a world submerged by rising seas, What We Can Know spans the past, present and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going.

2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found.
2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost.

Tom Metcalfe, a scholar at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining archipelagos, pores over the archives of the early twenty-first century, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the great lost poem, revelations of entangled love and a brutal crime emerge, destroying his assumptions about a story he thought he knew intimately.

Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world.

That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.

Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams….

Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion.

With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like.

Skorpio by Deon Meyer

Skorpio is Deon Meyer’s newest Afrikaans thriller, with an English translation being prepared next year. The novel follows Meyer’s iconic detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido.

Griessel is on an apparent suicide docket. Cupido is fuming about the minor arson investigation he’s stuck with. But then, both cases escalate into murder and mayhem.