STAFF CHOICE
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The Ultimate Interplanetary Travel Guide: A Futuristic Journey Through the Cosmos – Jim Bell
R395.00Do you dream of traveling to other worlds? This visually spectacular book brings you closer to an interplanetary voyage than ever before!
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Drive: The Definitive History of Motoring – DK
R390.00A car book which takes you through motoring history, from classic cars to how we enjoy driving today, and beyond. As Jodie Kidd says in her introduction “Sit back, buckle up, and enjoy the ride”. From the public’s amazement at the idea of a horseless carriage to today’s excitement for driverless vehicles, find out everything you need to know about motoring from 1895 to the present day.
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The Deals that Made the World – Jacques Peretti
R205.00While the laws that guide our lives are written by the politicians we elect, much of the world around us – from the food we eat to the products we buy to the medications we take – is shaped by private negotiations and business deals few of us know about.
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The Museum of Lost Art – Noah Charney
R475.00True tales of lost art, built around case studies of famous works, their creators, and stories of disappearance and recovery
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The Bob’s Burgers Burger Book: Real Recipes for Joke Burgers – Loren Bouchard & Cole Bowden
R336.00With its warm, edgy humor, outstanding vocal cast, and signature musical numbers, Bob’s Burgers has become one of the most acclaimed and popular animated series on television, winning the 2014 Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program and inspiring a hit ongoing comic book and original sound track album.
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The Cruel Prince – Holly Black
R215.00Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans.
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The Crooked Staircase – Dean Koontz
R275.00Jane Hawk knows she may be living on borrowed time. But as long as she’s breathing, she’ll never cease her one-woman war against the terrifying conspiracy that threatens the freedom—and free will—of millions.
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That Glimpse of Truth: The 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written – David Miller
R335.00Profound, lyrical, shocking, wise: the short story is capable of almost anything. This collection of 100 of the finest stories ever written ranges from the essential to the unexpected, the traditional to the surreal.
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Helde van Suid-Afrika – Wendy Maartens
R110.00Die stories word op ’n toeganklike manier met eenvoudige taalgebruik vertel sodat beginnerlesers dit maklik self kan baasraak!
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Daddy Long Legs – Nadine Brun-Cosme
R145.00Daddy Long Legs is a joyous book with bright, fresh and funny artwork from uniquely talented French illustrator Aurélie Guillerey, full of retro charm. With its warm, reassuring feel and the adorably drawn relationship between a father and his child.
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Stroomop – Adeline Radloff
R240.00Vyf Gautengse vroue swem stroomop deur die lewe. Hulle kom uit baie verskillende wêrelde: Daar’s ‘n uitgebrande chirurg, ‘n bedroefde tipe A-prokureur, haar opstandige studentedogter, ‘n oorgewig, oorstelpte huisvrou en ma van drie, en ‘n vreesbevange jong data-analis in haar liefde verlaat.
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The Outsider – Stephen King
R295.00An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories.
NEW RELEASES
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Ingrid Jonker – ’n Biografie – Petrovna Metelerkamp
R300.00Hierdie volledige biografie volg vyftien jaar na Metelerkamp se eerste boek oor Ingrid Jonker, Beeld van ’n digterslewe. Ingrid se lewe en werk het die kollektiewe verbeelding aangegryp, veral nadat oudpresident Nelson Mandela een van haar gedigte voorgelees het tydens sy inhuldiging.
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Wie gaan in 2019 regeer? – Jan-Jan Joubert
R249.00Die politieke verslaggewer Jan-Jan Joubert het met hierdie boek ’n groot uitdaging suksesvol aangepak: ’n sinvolle uiteensetting van faktore wat ’n rol speel in die Suid-Afrikaanse politiek. Kernkwessies wat die uitslag van die 2019-verkiesing sal beїnvloed word bespreek.
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Truitjie roer my nie – Schalk Bezuidenhout & Erns Grundling
R220.00Dis die 80’s truitjie op die voorblad wat my laat vassteek en die boek optel. Helder pryk hy daar in die truitjie, met die gelaatstrekke van Borat en die uitdrukking van Charlie Chaplin: Schalk Bezuidenhout.
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Star of the North – D B John
R299.00This title is making some buzz overseas and on social media. It’s an intricate, intelligent and compulsive thriller, set in North Korea. Soo-min, a US citizen, is abducted from a South Korean beach, and twelve years later her twin sister, Jenna, now a professor in Georgetown, is recruited by the CIA and sees this as a chance to discover what happened to her. Mrs Moon works on a penal farm and discovers an aid package which she decides to use to her own advantage.
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The Burning Chambers – Kate Mosse
R299.00The Burning Chambers is Kate Mosse’s new historical novel, this time veering towards being more romance than thriller. Set in her trademark region of Languedoc, France, in the sixteenth century. It is a fraught and dangerous time: the Catholic Church strives to repress the Reform tradition of the Hugenots.
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On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures & Wilbur Smith
R285.00Smith’s latest title is a memoir of his fascinating life, and reads like an adventure story. He grew up in Rhodesia on a farm, and from a young age was taught to the necessity of protecting their livestock from predators – and was well able to wield a rifle. Smith had to endure a harsh boarding school education, and eventually became a tax assessor.
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Warlight – Michael Ondaatje
R290.00Ondaatje new title, Warlight, is set in London in 1945, and tells the story of 14-year-old Nathaniel and his 16-year-old sister, Rachel, who, when their parents disappear on as mysterious mission, are left in the care of a boarder they refer to as The Moth.
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The President Is Missing – James Patterson & Bill Clinton
R249.00A very exciting duo for Patterson fans: a thriller written with ex-president Clinton in which the fictional Jonathan Lincoln Duncan bears some resemblance to Clinton in personal detail.
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