Rainbow Book of the Month: July

The Rainbow Book Club "Book of the Month" for July is The Spider King's Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo. Details here.

Port Harcourt Announces Bid for World Book Capital

From the bid website:

The title ‘World Book Capital’ is conferred by UNESCO to a city in recognition of its quality of programmes to foster the promotion of books and encourage reading. The scheme was launched in 2001 with Madrid as the first city to be given the title, followed by Alexandria in 2002 and New Delhi in 2003. Bangkok was most recently selected as the 2013 World Book Capital. Port Harcourt has submitted a bid to become World Book Capital in 2014.

The bid was submitted a team headed by Rainbow Book Club founder Koko Kalango, who's also the Director of the Garden City Literary Festival. For more information you can download the bid summary here.

The Return of Oprah’s Book Club

Via NYT Media Coder:

Oprah Winfrey, the publishing industry’s unrivaled tastemaker, will revive her popular book club next week after a two-year hiatus, promising the book business some of the sales and publicity it thought had vanished along with her weekday talk show.

Read on. And you can become a member of Oprah's Book Club 2.0.

Rainbow Book of the Month: May

This month the Rainbow Book Club, one of the organisers of the GCLF, will be reviewing Why Women Won't Make it to Heaven by Dul Johnson.

Date: Friday 25 May, 2012 / Time: 11.00 am to 12.00 pm / Venue: The Poolside, Le Meridien Hotel, G.R.A Phase II, Port Harcourt