STAFF CHOICE
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Die Derde Spoel – S.J. Naudé
R250.00Hertzogprys Wenner
Etienne is twee-en-twintig en studeer filmkuns in London nadat hy uit Suid-Afrika gevlug het om diensplig te vermy. Dit is 1986, die tyd van Thatcher, optogte teen apartheid, en Vigs, maar ook van eksperimentele kuns, postpunk en die Royal Vauxhall Tavern.
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Ons Raaiselpad Met Alzheimersiekte – Elise Nel
R200.00Elise se eens briljante man raak aggressief en vergeetagtig, en tree heeltemal anders op as wat sy hom ken.
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Sale
Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule’s Web of Capture – Pieter-Louis Myburgh
R299.00R269.00In spite of Cyril Ramaphosa’s ‘new dawn’, there are powerful forces in the ruling party that risk losing everything if corruption and state capture finally do come to an end. At the centre of the old guard’s fightback efforts is Ace Magashule, a man viewed by some as South Africa’s most dangerous politician.
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A Brief History of Thought – Luc Ferry
R255.00From the ordered universe of the ancient Greeks to the shadows of Nietzsche’s nineteenth century.
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Late Essays – 2006 – 2017 – J. M. Coetzee
R215.00A fascinating collection of essays on literary subjects ranging from Daniel Defoe to Samuel Beckett by a Nobel and Booker Prize-winning writer Late Essays gathers together J.M. Coetzee’s literary essays from 2006 to 2017.
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Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom
R200.00Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.
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Why Nations Fail – Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
R260.00Based on fifteen years of research, and answering the competing arguments of authors ranging from Max Weber to Jeffrey Sachs and Jared Diamond, Acemoglu and Robinson step boldly into the territory of Francis Fukuyama and Ian Morris. They blend economics, politics, history and current affairs to provide a new, powerful and persuasive way of understanding wealth and poverty.
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Eragon – Christopher Paolini
R180.00One boy . . . One dragon . . . A world of adventure. When Eragon finds a polished stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter.
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms – George R. R. Martin
R205.00Almost a century before A Game of Thrones, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros…
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The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
R195.001939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier.
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Mortal Engines – Philip Reeve
R195.00Mortal Engines launched Philip Reeve’s brilliantly-imagined creation, the world of the Traction Era, where mobile cities fight forsurvival in a post-apocalyptic future.
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Small Gods – Terry Pratchett
R305.00In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: ‘Hey, you!’ This is the Discworld, after all, and religion is a controversial business.
NEW RELEASES
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Koshuis – Erns Grundling
R260.00Wie van ons hou nou nie daarvan om ’n lekker staaltjie uit iemand anders se verlede te hoor nie? Hierdie bundel gee daardie geleentheid nie net aan oud-koshuisbrakke nie, maar ook aan diegene wat nooit in ’n koshuis was nie.
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Boodskapper Van Die Gode – Murray La Vita
R230.00Hierdie bundel is ’n keur uit die essays, rubrieke en sketse van die bekende en bekroonde Netwerk24-skrywer. Dit strek oor ’n groot deel van sy lewe, ervarings in oorsese lande asook tuis in Kaapstad en die wyer Wes-Kaap.
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Ek wens, Ek Wens – Zirk Van Den Berg
R220.00Selde kry ’n skrywer dit reg om sy lesers te laat aanklank vind by ’n anti-held. In hierdie kort roman, egter, is dit die geval. Seb is ’n middeljarige lyksbesorger wat soos ’n skaduwee deur sy eie lewe beweeg.
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Karaktermoord – Carina Diedericks-Hugo
R230.00Carina Diedericks-Hugo is bekend vir die Thomas@ jeugspeurverhale, maar die leser moet nie om dié rede in Karaktermoord ’n eenvoudige of kinderlike vertelling verwag nie.
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The Wedding Guest – Jonathan Kellerman
R270.00Another thriller starring the wonderful Alex Delaware, child psychologist and moonlighting consultant to Milo Sturgis from LAPD on his trickier cases.
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House of Stone – Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
R295.00An epic story set against the backdrop of the birth of the Zimbabwean nation. Our narrator is Zamani, who is a lodger with Abegnego and Agnes, whose own teenage son has gone missing. Zamani seeks to supplant their son in their affections, and sets about this by adopting and weaving himself into their family history.
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When All is Said – Anne Griffin
R280.00A wonderful debut novel and a must-read for fans of John Boyne’s The Heart’s Invisible Furies. Maurice Hannigan is 84 years-old, and sits in an Irish hotel bar.
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The Mastermind – Evan Ratliff
R320.00This is the fascinating, true story of crime king Paul Leroux. Born in Bulawayo, his adoptive family moved to Krugersdorp when he was twelve-years-old.
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