New Stock Just Arrived !
Finally after 3 months of lockdown in UK and no shipments coming in, we have just received a lovely big pile of books from London. 50 boxes full of fabulous titles for children and adults. We are still sorting through them but many are on the shelves already. Don’t forget…
Every Living Thing
We are proud to join hands in assisting with donations to Every Living Thing, Dar es Salaam’s only animal shelter. A Novel Idea is taking in preloved books and donating sales of these books to the shelter. In difficult times there is sometimes little to no empathy left to spare…
Check out our June Sale !
All books in our art and photography section 30% off for the month of June. Watch out for great new promotions at the bookshop every month.
Don’t forget our PRE-LOVED book section!
Hundreds of pre-loved/used titles in stock ! New titles will be added to the website and PIKI every week. Bring in your pre-loved books for us to find new homes. We buy from you and re-sell to our customers. Why not make some cash back to go towards a new…
Today! World Book Night , 23rd April 2020
Join us and readers around the world for a special hour of reading between 7pm and 8pm. Email us a short blog about the current book you are reading this evening, we will post as many as possible on the blog page of our website. The best blog will win…
Still open for books!
For the time being we will continue to stay open at our Slipway and Arusha branches. We are respecting social distancing, using hand sanitisers and keeping everything spotlessly clean. Please drop in for a browse, between 10am and 6pm Monday to Saturday. We are also open on public holidays, of…
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
The instant Sunday Times Top Ten and New York Times bestseller SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES/MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 A powerful argument for how to succeed in any field: develop broad interests and skills while everyone around you is rushing to specialize. From the ‘10,000 hours rule’ to the power of…
New titles arriving this week.
Look out for our new titles coming into stock this week from your favorite authors … War Cry – Wilbur Smith, Homegoing – Gyasi, Yaa, The Underground Railroad: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017 – Whitehead, Colson, Dork Diaries: Frenemies Forever –Russell, Rachel Renee, Americanah Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda, The Thirst: Harry Hole 11 – Nesbo, Jo, What I Know for…
New arrivals of award-winning bestsellers!
Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly an amazement....
May Book Club
A new social reading club open to all! Come and join us every month for a discussion on our chosen title. Light snacks provided, please bring your drink of choice. Entrance Cost is 10,000 TSH, unless you have purchased your copy of the book with us and then entrance is…