Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)

Bigger and better experience at ‘Big Bad Wolf Sale 2018’

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Known as the world’s biggest book sale, ‘ Big Bad Wolf Book Sale’ has return to Colombo for the second consecutiv­e year. The Big Bad Wolf Book Sale is set to open to the public from 28 June until 8 July 2018 at the Sri Lanka Exhibition and Convention Centre ( SLECC) with 1.5 million books at 60%80% discounts. Book lovers can enjoy 255 hours of non- stop book shopping at the Sale, which will be open 24 hours a day throughout the 11 days of the event.

The book sale features a wide range of books across all genres, including fiction and non- fiction bestseller­s, young adult fiction, as well as an extensive collection of children’s books.

The media launch last week, saw the attendance of Andrew Yap, Founder and Managing Director of Big Bad Wolf Books, Dipak Madhavan, Partner of Big Bad Wo l f Books and Nishan Wasalathan­thri, Director of ProRead Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. The event is supported by The Ministry of Education of Sri Lanka. Event partner for the event includes, Bank of Ceylon – the official banking partner, Mobitel – the official telco partner, and The Capital Maharaja Organisati­on Limited.

‘ We are truly excited to be back in Sri Lanka with an even bigger and better book sale this year. Last year’s event was a huge success and an eye-opener on how enthusiast­ic Sri Lankans are for good quality, affordable English books. We’ll be bringing over a wider range of titles for book lovers in Sri Lanka this time around,” shared Andrew Yap. ‘ We are grateful to our partners and other organisati­ons who have pledged their support to empower Sri Lankans with more English learning opportunit­ies’.

Speaking at the event was also Big Bad Wolf Books’ local partner, Director of ProRead Lanka ( Pvt.) Ltd, Nishan Wasalathan­thri said ‘ We are pleased to bring the Sale back to Sri Lanka for the second time.Last year was the first time a book sale of this scale had ever been held at Sri Lanka and we pulled off an unforgetta­ble event. We invite people of all ages to visit the Big Bad Wolf Book Sale this time around for an even bigger and better experience’.

Held in October last year, the Sale is returning earlier this year in June, much to the joy of eager readers. Readers can expect to find over 1.5 million new English books, ranging from fiction, best

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