STAFF CHOICE
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So You Think You’re a Bookworm? – Jo Hoare
R185.00From The Book Thief and The Binger to The Scholar and The Sci-Fi Lover—read all about over 20 different types of bookworm.
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Children of Blood and Bone – Tomi Adeyemi
R160.00They killed my mother.
They took our magic.
They tried to bury us.
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Tell Me Your Story – Ruda Landman
R290.00Well-known television anchor and journalist Ruda Landman talks to prominent South Africans about their life choices and about how change has affected them.
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Heist!: South Africa’s Cash-in-Transit Epidemic Uncovered – Anneliese Burgess
R230.00Heist! is an in-depth look at 10 of South Africa’s most audacious heists.
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Blue Planet II – James Honeyborne & Mark Brownlow
R480.00Take a deep breath and dive into the mysteries of the ocean.
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Quantum Physics for Babies – Chris Ferrie
R200.00Simple explanations of complex ideas for your future genius!
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Poison City – Paul Crilley
R195.00The name’s Gideon Tau, but everyone just calls me London. I work for the Delphic Division, the occult investigative unit of the South African Police Service.
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The Darkness – Ragnar Jonasson
R290.00The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After a cursory investigation, the death is declared a suicide and the case is quietly closed.
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Blood Money – Johan Raath
R260.00A riveting, action-filled account that sheds light on the realities of working in a war-torn country, this is the first book on the war in Iraq by a South African.
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Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 – Steve Coll
R365.00Prior to 9/11, the United States had been carrying out small-scale covert operations in Afghanistan, ostensibly in cooperation, although often in direct opposition, with I.S.I., the Pakistani intelligence agency. While the US was trying to quell extremists, a highly secretive and compartmentalized wing of I.S.I., known as “Directorate S.,” was covertly training, arming, and seeking to legitimize the Taliban, in order to enlarge Pakistan’s sphere of influence.
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress – Steven Pinker
R320.00Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?
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Everless – Sara Holland
R195.00In the land of Sempera, the rich control everything – even time. Ever since the age of alchemy and sorcery, hours, days and years have been extracted from blood and bound to iron coins. The rich live for centuries; the poor bleed themselves dry.
NEW RELEASES
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Ys – Rudie van Rensburg
R260.00Net wanneer ’n verveelde kaptein Kassie Kasselman begin wonder of dit ’n goeie idee was om by die nuwe elite-speureenheid van die polisie aan te sluit, word hy en Rooi wel by ’n ondersoek betrek.
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Die Dao van Daan van der Walt – Lodewyk G du Plessis
R300.00Daan, Latyn-kwoterende Kalahari-boer, langslewende eggenoot van Magrieta en pa van Jan-Willem, sit op ’n wankelrige stoel in ’n heidense tempel in China en skryf sy Historia (oftewel confessiones).
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Dawie de Villiers – My Lewensreis – Dawie de Villiers & Chris Schoeman
R300.00Dawie de Villiers is ’n rugbylegende, kaptein van die span wat die All Blacks in 1970 geklop het. Hy het egter ook as een van die meer liberale Nasionale Party kabinetslede grootliks bygedra tot die politieke oorgang in ons land.
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Macbeth – Jo Nesbo
R290.00Nesbo joins the Hogarth Shakespeare series with a fabulously re-imagined take on Macbeth. It is set in the 1970s in a fictional place, a grimly industrial town where half the inhabitants are addicted to a drug called Brew.
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Letters to Iris – Elizabeth Noble
R290.00This book is an emotional roller-coaster! Heartbreakingly sad at times, but wonderfully uplifting and wryly humorous at others. Briefly, Tess is unmarried and recently discovered she is pregnant.
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An American Marriage – Tayari Jones
R260.00A touted favourite on Oprah’s Book Club and getting rave reviews. Celestial and Roy are a young, newly-weds, when Roy is arrested for a crime he didn’t commit. Roy is a hard-working, entrepreneurial black man who was showing every indication of realising his life’s goals: education, career and a happy marriage- the American Dream.
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Educated – Tara Westover
R320.00An incredible memoir in the same vein as The Glass Castle released earlier this month. Tara is from an isolated Mormon fundamentalist family in Idaho. She grows up with six siblings, reared by a father whose religious fanaticism includes not allowing the family to see doctors, go to school or even to get a birth certificate.
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Circe – Madeline Miller
R285.00Circe is the much-anticipated second book by Miller, author of acclaimed Song of Achilles. Miller is a classical scholar and uses myth in her narrative not just to embellish, but rather as a starting point, or inspiration, which she then ‘humanizes’ while remaining true to authentic classical detail.
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