STAFF CHOICE
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Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly – Anthony Bourdain
R330.00A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain.
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Seven Days In Cape Town – Sean Fraser
R250.00The body of the book contains seven day-tours in and around Cape Town. Each tour is accompanied by a full-colour map covering the recommended itinerary.
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The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid : Travels Through my Childhood – Bill Bryson
R205.00Bill Bryson’s first travel book opened with the immortal line, ‘I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.’ In this deeply funny and personal memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, in the curious world of 1950s Middle America.
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Wonder – R. J. Palacio
R180.00‘My name is August. I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.’ Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things – eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox.
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The Book Club Cookbook: Eat Your Words – Louise Gelderblom
R320.00There are few things that compare to an afternoon curled up with a good book. It is even better if it is followed by a great meal shared with good friends. And the cherry on the top is when, at the end of the gathering, you have a fresh stack of books next to your bed to thrill you for the coming month.
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Fate of the Nation – Jakkie Cilliers
R240.00What does our future hold? Will the ANC split within the next five years? Could the DA rule the country in 2024? Will the EFF form an alliance with the ANC? What should we do to make our economy grow at levels that will impact on poverty and inequality? Will we become a more tolerant or a more violent society?
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
R285.00Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive – but not how to live Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend.
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Softness of the Lime – Maxine Case
R250.00Softness of the Lime is a captivating love story about a Dutch slave owner, Geert, and his slave, Lena, set in the 1700s in the Cape Colony. Born free in the Highlands of Madagascar, Lena is sold into slavery and transported to the Cape, where she is bought by Geert’s wealthy father.
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The Alchemy of Herbs – Rosalee De La Foret
R300.00Just as alchemists transform the ordinary into the extraordinary, with this book you can transform everyday herbs and spices into effective healing herbal remedies. Rosalee de la Foret, a clinical herbalist, examines the history and modern-day use of 29 herbs, offering clinical studies to support their healing properties.
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Milk and Honey – Rupi Kaur
R240.00About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.
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Beautiful Disaster – Jamie Mcguire
R190.00Good Girl. Abby Abernathy doesn’t drink or swear and she works hard. Abby believes she has created enough distance between her and the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college, her dreams of a new beginning are quickly challenged by the university’s walking one-night stand. Bad Boy.
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Skool Is n Riller – Marianna Brandt
R155.00Geluide in geheimsinnige donker gange, monsters, mummies, moordenaar-onderwysers en vreemde wesens . . . skoolgaan is beslis nie vir bangbroeke nie.
NEW RELEASES
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The Book Club Cookbook: Eat Your Words – Louise Gelderblom
R320.00There are few things that compare to an afternoon curled up with a good book. It is even better if it is followed by a great meal shared with good friends. And the cherry on the top is when, at the end of the gathering, you have a fresh stack of books next to your bed to thrill you for the coming month.
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Oor Berge en Dale – Op Reis Met ‘n Monumentjagter – Jackie Grobler
R234.00Dit was nog altyd een van my drome om deur ons land te reis en op afdraaipaadjies te gaan kyk na ons land se monumente. Dankie tog vir Doktor Jackie Grobler; nou kan ek ál die monumente besoek – vanuit die gerief van my leunstoel!
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Die Diepblou See – Francois Loots
R235.00Francois Loots se nuutste boek handel oor Jan Hendrik (“Jannie”) Hofmeyr (1894-1948), ‘n briljante, hardwerkende, produktiewe en liberale akademikus/politikus wat onder andere in Jan Smuts se kabinet gedien het. Loots se kenmerkende manier om feit en mitologie te vermeng is reeds van die eerste hoofstuk af te sien, waar die tweejarige Jannie se ernstige siekbed en herstel direk gekoppel word aan godsdiens en die koningin van die see.
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Isabella – Mariël le Roux
R280.00Soos Klara, vertel Isabella die lewensverhaal van die tragiese uitdagings in die lewe van ‘n gewone vrou. Isabella ontmoet haar man in haar eerste jaar op Stellenbosch en gee haar verpleegstudies prys om hul getroude lewe saam met hom op ‘n Noord-Kaapse myndorp te slyt.
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Exile by James Swallow
R270.00Good news for fans of I am Pilgrim. James Swallow is a worthy contender with his first book Nomad, and now the second: Exile,which can be read as a standalone..Marc Dane, MI6, has been posted in a frustratingly desk-bound position as analyst in the UN’s Division of Nuclear Security in Croatia.
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The Children of Jocasta – Natalie Haynes
R285.00This is a retelling of Sophocles’ three Theban plays and the story of Oedipus from the point of view of two minor characters: Jocasta ( mother and wife of Oedipus ) and Ismene ( sister of Antigone ). Jocasta was forced into her first marriage to Laius, King of Thebes, at 15 years old.
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The White Road – Sarah Lotz
R295.00Fans of Lauren Beukes will enjoy Sarah Lotz’ books. In a similar vein to Day Three and Day Four, two previous titles, The White Road toys with the reader in slow-building suspense and escalating creepiness. The supernatural hint is masterfully handled.
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See What I Have Done – Sarah Schmidt
R305.00An extremely evocative portrayal of the 1892 murders linked to Lizzie Borden. More than a mere fictionalised account – Schmidt has created a brilliant story in itself, whose link to fact seems incidental.
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