STAFF CHOICE
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It – Stephen King
R235.00To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part.
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Done – Jacques Peretti
R315.00What if the way we understand our world is wrong? What if it isn’t politicians and events that shape our lives, but secret deals made by people you’ve never heard of?
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The Choice – Edith Eger
R320.00In 1944, sixteen-year-old Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. There she endured unimaginable experiences, including being made to dance for the infamous Josef Mengele. Over the coming months, Edith’s bravery helped her sister to survive, and led to her bunkmates rescuing her during a death march. When their camp was finally liberated, Edith was pulled from a pile of bodies, barely alive.
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How Do You Explain That? – Danny Fourie
R230.00How Do You Explain That? will pique your interest in the world around you. It is a book that can be enjoyed on its own, or can lie on the coffee table, or can go camping with the family to elicit wonderful conversations around the campfire.
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Artists – DK
R570.00Artists: Their Lives and Works tells the inspiring stories behind the world’s most famous masterpieces and their creators, including their influences, development, friendships, loves, and rivalries. Discover the often tumultuous lives of iconic artists including Raphael, Hogarth, van Gogh, O’Keeffe, Magritte, Kahlo, Warhol, and Kiefer.
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Books That Changed History – DK
R300.00Every book is presented with breathtaking photography and fascinating biographies of those who created them. Books That Changed History gathers dictionaries, diaries, plays, poems, treaties, and religious texts into one stunning celebration of the undisputed power of books.
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The Book of Barb : A Celebration of Stranger Things’ Iconic Wing Woman – Nadia Bailey
R285.00While few people were surprised that the Netflix series Stranger Things was a smash hit, no one expected that one of the show’s minor characters, the nerdy, faithful underdog Barb, would break the internet. But Barb resonated with us – the chill, bespectacled BFF and her unjust abandonment hit a collective nerve.
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The Golden House – Salman Rushdie
R295.00When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities and reinvent themselves as Roman emperors living in a lavish house in downtown Manhattan. Arriving shortly after the inauguration of Barack Obama, he and his sons, each extraordinary in his own right, quickly establish themselves at the apex of New York society.
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The Adventures of Captain Underpants – Dav Pilkey
R90.00The first book in Dav Pilkey’s mega-bestselling Captain Underpants series. Now with super-cool foil covers! Shiny! Fun!
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Chefs Eat Toasties Too – Darren Purchese
R275.00Chefs Eat Toasties Too is a celebration of that most enduring of comfort foods, the toasted sandwich – but taken to new heights by internationally renowned chef Darren Purchese. While crafting elaborate dessert and pastry confections by day, by night Darren secretly perfects the art of the toasted sandwich.
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Princess Mirror-Belle and the Magic Shoes – Julia Donaldson
R125.00From Julia Donaldson, the bestselling author of The Gruffalo, comes Princess Mirror-Belle and the Magic Shoes, the exciting adventures of a princess with a difference.
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What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday – Julia Donaldson
R245.00Those two bad men, Lanky Len and Hefty Hugh, are back! They may be in the city instead of the farm, but they haven’t changed their thieving ways.
NEW RELEASES
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Origin – Dan Brown
R350.00R295.00Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever”. The evening’s host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he will reveal an astonishing scientific breakthrough to challenge the fundamentals of human existence.
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Die Laksman se Dogter – Gerda Taljaard
R230.00Hoe verwerk ‘n ma haar dogter se dood? Taljaard neem die leser op ‘n onthutsende reis saam met ‘n ma wat haar dogter twee keer verloor het; eers aan dwelms en daarna aan die dood. Die dogter was ‘n openbare figuur, ‘n rock-ster.
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The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye – David Lagercrantz
R295.00Two years ago Lagercrantz carried on the wildly successful Millenium Series started by Stieg Larsson, with The Girl in the Spider’s Web, which features the fabulous dragon-tattooed Lisbeth Salander.
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Johannesburg – Fiona Melose
R295.00Melrose’s previous title, Midwinter, was longlisted for both the Baileys Women’s Prize and Barry Ronge Fiction Prize 2017. So there was some anticipation to the arrival of her new novel, Johannesburg.
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Killing Karoline – Sara-Jayne King
R240.00A beautifully written memoir by South African journalist and Cape Talk Radio presenter, Sara-Jayne King. Illegally conceived in the 80s, she was smuggled out of the country and adopted by a British couple and christened Sarah Jane (which she later changed to Sara-Jayne)
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A Legacy of Spies – John le Carré
R295.00Master of the spy thriller, Le Carré’s new book compounds his own legacy of publishing at a pitch for six decades. Peter Guillam is an old, long-retired spy who receives an unwelcome summons to answer questions surrounding a treachery in Berlin during the Cold War.
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Dwarsklap – Piet Matipa
R240.00Wie is Piet Matipa? wonder ek toe ek die vrolike jong man op die buiteblad sien. Hy’s swart. En sy boek se naam is ‘n pragtige Afrikaanse woord: Dwarsklap. Nou, voor ek van rassisme of stereotipering aangekla word, wil ek net ter verdediging sê: ek is verreweg nie die enigste mens wat so reageer nie. Piet sê self so.
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Tiger’s Prey – Wilbur Smith
R269.00R199.00The Malabar coast is full of dangers: greedy tradesmen, fearless pirates, and men full of vengeance. But for a Courtney, the greatest danger might just be his own family…
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