Book Choice

Book Choice is broadcast every alternating Tuesday of each month presented by Paige Nick.

While you’re munching your lunch or driving the myriad motorways, you’ll hear all that’s best in books. Cape Town’s top book reviewers will entertain and inform you as they cheerfully chat about the newest and nicest fiction and non-fiction on current book shelves.

You love author interviews? Well, we line up those for your pleasure and leisure too.
You want an easy-peasy competition each month with good prizes? All there, prettily planned for your lovely listening.

Do join us for your delectation… for your entertainment… for your information.
Weekly English South Africa TV & Film
117 Episodes
12 – 32

Book Choice - Publishers Choice - 17 Oct 23

Good morning and good afternoon, and a big book welcome to Book Choice, Publishers’ Choice, on Fine Music Radio. I’m your host Paige Nick and I’m delighted to bring you this show every month. Publisher’s Choice holds a special place in my heart, because we’ve partnered with some really special…
17 Oct 2023 54 min

Book Choice - 03 Oct 23

Welcome to Book Choice on Fine Music Radio, the only show on South African radio that offers you an hour long extravaganza of books, we’ve got five great book reviews and another four massive interviews to keep you informed and entertained for the next hour. I’m your host, Paige Nick,…
3 Oct 2023 57 min

Book Choice - 19 Sept 23

Well hello there and huge welcome to Book Choice, Publishers’ Choice, on Fine Music Radio. I’m your host of Book Choice, Paige Nick, every month we have this very special book show because we welcome three of South Africa’s top publishers and South Africa’s number one Book Seller, Exclusive books,…
19 Sep 2023 58 min

Book Choice - 05 Sept 23

It’s Tuesday, it’s September, and it’s time for hopefully your favourite book show on the radio. You’re tuned in to Book Choice on Fine Music Radio, with me your host, Paige Nick, sponsored as always by exclusive books. We’ve got a huge jam packed show lined up for you today…
5 Sep 2023 57 min

Book Choice - Plublishers Choice - 22 Aug 23

Each of the people we’ll be hearing from today today and their publishing teams, spend their days and often their nights, deciding what books to bring out working on publishing them, the production process, picking covers, picking paper weight picking fonts, there’s so much that goes on behind the scenes…
22 Aug 2023 57 min

Book Choice - 08 Aug 23

On this edition of Book Choice you can enjoy seven reviews of current local and international fiction, and two massive interviews. Join Paige Nick and her team of reviewers for books, books and more books!
8 Aug 2023 59 min

Book Choice - Publishers Choice - 25 July 23

On Book Choice: Publishers’ Choice, with editor Paige Nick, we welcome South Africa’s three top publishers and South Africa’s number one book seller into the studio to fill us in on what they’re publishing, selling and even more importantly, reading right now.
25 Jul 2023 56 min

Book Choice - Publishers Choice - 11 July 23

It's winter which means it's the perfect time to curl up, get cosy and read. And to help you choose just the right book is Paige Nick and her team of reviewers with fascinating reviews and interviews.
11 Jul 2023 58 min

Book Choice - Publishers' Choice - 27 June 23

On FMR's Book Choice: Publishers' Choice, we welcome South Africa’s top three publishers and number one bookseller into the studio to fill us in on what they’re publishing, reading and selling right now.
27 Jun 2023 55 min

Book Choice - 13 June 23

Coming up on today’s show, Beverley Roos Muller reviews a new release, Daisy de Melker: Hiding Among Killers in the City of Gold by Ted Botha, published by Jonathan Ball. Interestingly this book was recently launched at the women’s jail on constitution hill, which is where Daisy de Melker served…
13 Jun 2023 56 min

Book Choice - Read-it! - 30 May 23

Read-it! focuses on the magic power of books. It’s hosted by leading educator Marc Falconer, with learners from Gardens Commercial High School and Rustenburg High School. Thanks to our Publishers’ Choice sponsors: Exclusive Books, Jonathan Ball Publishers , Pan Macmillan South Africa and Penguin Random House SA. Read-it! is produced…
30 May 2023 57 min

Book Choice - 16 May 23

Welcome to Book Choice on Fine music Radio, with me your host Paige Nick, sponsored by Exclusive Books. But here’s the thing, we have so many amazing book reviews and author interviews to share with you today, that I barely even have time to tell you how many amazing book…
16 May 2023 54 min

Book Choice - Publishers Choice - 02 May 23

A huge hello from the Fine Music Radio studios in Cape Town. This is Book Choice, Publishers’ Choice, and I’m your host, Paige Nick. In this week’s show, we have three exceptional South African Publishers and the country’s biggest book seller, joining us to tell us what they’re publishing, reading…
2 May 2023 57 min

Simon Sebag Montefiore Interview

Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses his latest book, The World: A Family History of Humanity with educator Marc Falconer.
18 Apr 2023 19 min

Book Choice - 18 Apr 23

It’s April, and we’re between seasons, with winter heading our way soon. And if you’re in between books too, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to Book Choice on Fine Music Radio, with me, your host, Paige Nick, sponsored by Exclusive Books. With an hour of great book reviews…
18 Apr 2023 57 min

BOOK CHOICE - PUBLISHERS CHOICE - 04 APR 23

You’re tuned in to Book Choice, Publishers’ Choice, on Fine Music Radio, with me, your host, Paige Nick. Today the show includes four of South Africa’s biggest publishing houses. Each here to highlight all the beautiful books they’re publishing this year. This is what we’ve got lined up for you…
4 Apr 2023 55 min

Book Choice - 21 Mar 23

It’s 12 sharp on Tuesday the 21st of March on Fine Music Radio, which means, you’re tuned into Book Choice - an hour of book reviews and author interviews, with me, your host, Paige Nick, sponsored by Exclusive Books.
21 Mar 2023 55 min

BOOK CHOICE - PUBLISHERS CHOICE - 07 Mar 23

Welcome to Book Choice, Publishers’ Choice, here on Fine Music Radio, with me, your host, Paige Nick. In today’s show, I’m joined by South Africa’s four biggest, brightest publishing houses, and each of them are going to join us for their own segment to tell us all about the books…
7 Mar 2023 57 min

Book Choice - 21 Feb 23

Just because February is a shorter month than most, doesn’t mean we have any fewer books for you to read. Welcome to Book Choice on Fine Music Radio, with me, your host, Paige Nick, sponsored by Exclusive Books. This month we have 7 great reviewers joining us to tell us…
21 Feb 2023 58 min

Book Choice - Publishers Choice - 07 Feb 23

A big hello from the Fine Music Radio studios, my name is Paige Nick, and you’re tuned into Book Choice our Publishers’ Choice Edition. The only book show in the country where the biggest names from behind the scenes in publishing join us to give us an insider’s eye into…
7 Feb 2023 59 min
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