STAFF CHOICE
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Girl, Wash Your Face – Rachel Hollis
R270.00As the founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media company, Rachel Hollis developed an immense online community by sharing tips for better living while fearlessly revealing the messiness of her own life.
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Astronomy: A Visual Guide – DK
R270.00Take a tour of the Universe, from the 150km impact craters on the Moon to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot – a 400mph swirling storm that started in the 1600s. This stunningly illustrated handbook is lavishly designed to cover every aspect of astronomy. Learn about the history of discoveries in the field, from the earliest human civilizations to the present day.
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Help! There’s a Guest at my Table – Annabel Frere
R220.00A generation of young adults have come to know, love and depend on Help! There’s a Stove in My Kitchen, Annabel Frere’s first cookbook. That same generation has graduated to the young professionals who now need to entertain on a somewhat more sophisticated level.
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100 Books that Changed the World – Scott Christianson & Colin Salter
R310.00Many books have become classics, must-reads or overnight publishing sensations, but how many can genuinely claim to have changed the way we see and think?
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Colorama: From Fuchsia to Midnight Blue – Cruschiform
R370.00What is the color white? The serenity of a snowfall? The peace of a dove? The purity of alabaster? This original and captivating exploration of color delves into the nuances of the universal palette while also explaining the history behind some of the terms used to describe certain hues.
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The Vorrh – Brian Catling
R220.00Next to the colonial town of Essenwald sits the Vorrh, a vast—perhaps endless—forest. It is a place of demons and angels, of warriors and priests. Sentient and magical, the Vorrh bends time and wipes memory.
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Seuss-isms – Dr Seuss
R175.00The one and only Dr. Seuss dispenses invaluable advice about life in this splendiferous collection of his most memorable quotes.
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Growing Greatness – Pepe Marais
R280.00Pepe Marais began his entrepreneurial journey as a newspaper delivery boy at the age of twelve. After finishing high school at the end of 1986 he spent two years in the army completing what was then compulsory national service. On his way home at the end of his service he had a chance encounter with a graphic artist which completely changed the course of his life.
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The Accidental Botanist: A Deconstructed Flower Book – Robbie Honey
R500.00Global adventurer Robbie Honey has spent the last ten years dissecting some of the world’s most exotic flowers.
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Illuminating Lives – Vivian Bickford-Smith & Bill Nasson
R280.00In this fresh and highly readable collection of South African biographical essays, a distinguished group of authors illuminates the lives of eleven colourful, complex men and women whose personal experiences throw fascinating light on the times in which they lived.
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The Darkest Minds – Alexandra Bracken
R175.00When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police.
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Gert & Joey – Pieter van Zyl
R250.00Pedofilie. Ontvoering. Moord? In Suid-Afrikaners se koppe het hierdie begrippe sinoniem geword met die name van Gert van Rooyen en Joey Haarhoff.
NEW RELEASES
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Aankoms En Vertrek – Pat Stamatélos
R230.00Stamatélos se nuutste boek sal haar lesers nie teleurstel nie. Sy het ‘n kenmerkende styl waarmee sy ‘n ligte aanslag gebruik om ernstige lewenskwessies in die kollig te plaas. Hierdie verhaal handel grootliks oor ‘n broer en suster wat nie net hul eie spoke konfronteer nie, maar ook met mekaar moet vrede maak.
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Die Tragiese Saak Van Pamina Vermaak – Annie Klopper
R245.00Een blik op die pienk-en-blou buiteblad van dié roman is genoeg om jou te laat besef dis nie ’n storie wat ernstig opgeneem moet word nie. Dis ’n vrolike, hip liefdestorie, gemik op die jonger leser wat die vermaaklikheidswêreld ken en gemaklik is met kru taal.
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Die Daggaboer – Jean-Pierre de Kock
R265.00Jean-Pierre de Kock slaag met sy debuutroman daarin om geheimsinnigheid te skep rondom ’n gegewe wat normaalweg bloot vervelig is. Die karakter Lennert Loots word voor die leser oopgevlek – elke gedagte, handeling en emosie word blootgelê – en tog bly hy jou ontwyk.
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Days of Wonder – Keith Stuart
R295.00Tom is the single father of Hannah, who was diagnosed with a heart condition when she was five-years-old. She is about to turn sixteen and the affects of her disease are such that her heart could stop at any moment.
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Transcription – Kate Atkinson
R290.00Highly anticipated, Atkinson’s new novel follows themes started in Life After Life and A God in Ruins: World War 2 and parallel time shifts. In one story strand it is 1940, Juliet Armstrong is recruited by the secret service, and she learns to live a fractured life of different personae.
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Washington Black – Esi Edugyan
R295.00Washington Black is long-listed for the Man Booker prize this year. It’s a genre-bending adventure story, which uses shades of fantasy to pose an entertaining exploration of the nature of freedom: racially, psychologically and emotionally.
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari
R320.00Bestselling author of the highly accessible and entertaining science genre books, Sapiens and Homo Deus, has released his third title: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.
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Self-Helpless: A Cynic’s Search for Sanity – Rebecca Davis
R285.00Having quit the security blanket of alcohol and the sugar-rush, warped reality of social media, Davis took one look at the tawdry world around her, and was forced to revaluate her scorn for the self-help industry.
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