Highlights catalogue JULY – December 2016 Fiction & non-fiction july – december 2016 fiction & non-fiction july 2016

Magic july Danielle Steel Trade paperback | R305 9780593069110

It starts on a summer evening, with the kind of magic found only in Paris. Once a year in the City of Light, a lavish dinner takes place outside a spectacular landmark. Selected by secret invitation, the guests arrive dressed in white, and when the night is over, hundreds of white paper Fiction lanterns bearing everyone’s fervent wishes are released into the sky. Amid this wondrous White Dinner, a group of close friends stand at the cusp Dead to Me of change. Lesley Pearse A transformative year of successes and heartbreaks is Trade paperback | R305 | 9780718181215 to come, until the next White Dinner… When Ruby and Verity met as girls they came from different worlds. Verity was privately A tender and passionate story educated, living in a beautiful Hampstead home, while Ruby was being raised in exploring what it really means extreme poverty. Nevertheless, they became to have magic in our lives… the Kept Woman firm friends. Karin Slaughter However, fortunes are not set in stone and Trade paperback | R305 | 9781780893587 soon the girls find their situations reversed. A body is discovered in an empty Atlanta As Ruby goes up in the world, Verity en- warehouse. It’s the body of an ex-cop, and from counters more and more tragedy, but still the moment Special Agent Will Trent walks in he the girls remain a large part of each other’s What Remains of Me knows this could be the most devastating case lives. That is, until one day in 1938 when A L Gaylin of his career. The warehouse belongs to the city’s Ruby says the terrible words ‘You’re dead to Trade paperback | R305 biggest, most politically-connected, most high- me’ and it looks like their friendship might 9781780896533 profile athlete – a local hero protected by the be over for good... world’s most expensive lawyers. A local hero June, 1980: Kelly Lund shoots and Will has spent the last six months investigating kills Oscar-nominated director on a brutal rape charge. New from the international John McFadden at a party in his But then an unexpected discovery at the scene home. Convicted of the murder, No. 1 bestselling author reveals a personal link to Will’s troubled past. she loses her youth and her freedom – but keeps The consequences will wreak havoc on his life her secrets to herself. and the lives of those he loves, those he works Thirty years later – and five years after her release with, and those he pursues. from prison – the past has come back to haunt Kelly. Her father-in-law, movie legend Sterling Marshall, is shot dead just like his old friend John McFadden. Once again, Kelly is suspected of the high profile The latest novel in the Will Trent murder. But this time, she’s got some unexpected allies who believe she’s innocent – of both killings – series from No. 1 bestelling author, and want to help her clear her name. Karin Slaughter.

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Fiction continued… the Long Cosmos Dear Amy Tom Clancy’s Duty Terry Pratchett & Helen Callaghan and Honour Stephen Baxter Trade paperback | R250 | 9780718182663 Grant Blackwood Trade paperback | R305 | 9780857521798 Trade paperback | R305 Margot Lewis is the agony aunt for The Cambridge 2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day 9780718181956 Examiner. Her advice column, Dear Amy, gets all kinds and in the Long Earth, the new Next post- of letters – but none like the one she’s just received: Someone wants Covert operative Jack human society continues to evolve. Ryan Jr dead, and he is going to find For Joshua Valienté, now in his late Dear Amy, out why. sixties, it is time to take one last solo journey into the High I don’t know where I am. I’ve been kidnapped and am Using clues left by his would-be Meggers: an adventure that turns into a disaster. Alone and being held prisoner by a strange man. I’m afraid he’ll assassin, Jack follows a trail that leads facing death, his only hope of salvation lies with a group of kill me. through France and Switzerland to trolls. But as Joshua confronts his mortality, the Long Earth Please help me soon, Rostock, a shadowy security firm receives a signal from the stars. A signal that is picked up by Bethan Avery based in Germany. Jack knows its radio astronomers but also in more abstract ways – by the head, Jurgen Rostock, from a previous trolls and by the Great Traversers. Its message is simple but Bethan Avery has been missing for nearly two decades. operation. its implications are enormous: JOIN US. This is surely some cruel hoax. But, as more letters Without the resources of The Campus arrive, they contain information that was never made – the elite agency from which he is public. How is this happening? Answering this question on a leave-of-absence – but with the United As One will cost Margot everything… help of an investigative journalist, Jack Pittacus Lore embarks on his own secret campaign Trade paperback | R305 | 9780718184902 to uncover the truth about Rostock. And what he finds is that they are up The Mogadorian invasion has come to to something both big and very, very Earth, and they have all but won the battle bad. for our planet. Their warships loom over Baby Doll I Found You But what can one man do against all our most populous cities and no army Hollie Overton Lisa Jewell Rostock’s might? will risk making a move against them. Trade paperback | R250 Trade paperback | R305 The Garde are all that stand in their way... but they are no 9781780895079 9781780893624 longer alone in this fight. Human teens from across the globe, like John Smith’s best friend, Sam Goode, have begun to You’ve been held captive in one East Yorkshire: Single mum Alice develop Legacies of their own. room, mentally and physically Lake finds a man on the beach The Garde have always known there is power in numbers. abused every day, since you were outside her house. He has no If they can find these new allies and join forces with them, sixteen years old. name, no jacket, no idea what he they just might be able to win this war. The time has come Then, one night, you realise your captor has left the is doing there. Against her better judgement she for the Garde to make their final stand. door to your cell unlocked. invites him in to her home. For the first time in eight years, you’re free. Surrey: Twenty-one-year-old Lily Monrose has This is about what happens next… only been married for three weeks. When her new Lily knows that she must bring the man who nearly husband fails to come home from work one night wars of the roses 4: ruined her life – her good-looking high-school she is left stranded in a new country where she Ravenspur teacher – to justice. But she never imagined that knows no one. Then the police tell her that her Conn Iggulden reconnecting with her family would be just as husband never existed. Trade paperback | R305 | 9780718181437 difficult. Reclaiming her relationship with her twin Two women, twenty years of secrets and a man This novel from bestselling author Conn sister, her mother, and her high school sweetheart who can’t remember lie at the heart of Lisa Jewell’s Iggulden is the fourth book in the critically who is in love with her sister may be Lily’s greatest brilliant new novel. acclaimed Wars of the Roses series. challenge. After all they’ve been through, can Lily Following Stormbird, Trinity and her family find their way back after this life- and Bloodline this novel will continue through the brutal Civil altering trauma? War that we now know as the Wars of the Roses.

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Go Set a Watchman Moordvis Harper Lee The Dust that Falls from Irna van Zyl Paperback | R180 Dreams Sagteband | R220 | 9781415207208 (druk) 9781784752460 Louis de Bernières 9781485903567 (e-boek) | 9781485903574 (PDF) Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set Paperback | R180 | 9780099597834 Also available in English: Dead in the Water a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer 9781415207215 In the brief golden years before the outbreak understanding and appreciation of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three ’n Grieselige gesig begroet speuradjudant Storm van der of Harper Lee. Here is an very different sisters are growing up in Merwe en haar hond op Grootbaai se strand: die lyk van ’n jong unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, an eccentric household in Kent, with their joernalis – sonder haar arm. humour and effortless precision – a profoundly neighbours the Pitt boys on one side and the Vir dié kusdorpie se inwoners is dit slegte nuus; lyke wat rondlê affecting work of art that is both wonderfully Pendennis boys on the other. But their days kan die haaiduikbedryf waarvoor Grootbaai beroemd is, erge evocative of another era and relevant to our own of childhood adventure are shadowed by the skade berokken. times. It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of approach of the conflict that will engulf them Storm se hande jeuk om die saak te ondersoek, maar sy To Kill a Mockingbird, but also serves as its essential on the cusp of adulthood. is vir eers ingeperk tot saai kantoorwerk. Boonop het sy nie ’n companion, adding depth, context and new meaning When the boys end up scattered along ryding nie nadat ’n inwoner – ’n aantreklike een daarby – met sy to a classic. the Western Front, Rosie is left confused insleepwa in haar Volla vasgejaag het. by her love for two young men – one Intussen sukkel Storm se onmoontlike oudkollega, Andreas an infantry soldier and one a flying ace. Moerdyk, om te fokus terwyl hy ondersoek instel na die dood Can she, and her sisters, build new lives out van ’n bekende Springbokstut wie se motor op die N1 deur ’n of the opportunities and devastations that soortgelyke trok getref is. follow the Great War? Het Storm se ongeluk iets met die rugbyspeler se noodlottige botsing te doen? En hoe steek die joernalis se dood en die stories oor perlemoenstropery op Grootbaai in mekaar? After You Terwyl Storm antwoorde op dié tergende vrae soek, raak dinge Jojo Moyes vir haar gevaarliker as ’n haaihokduik – sonder die hok. Paperback | R180 9781405909075

Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she’s ended up working in an airport bar. Amatola Whether her family can ever Piet van Rooyen forgive her. And will she ever get over the love Sagteband | R220 | 9781485903161 (druk) of her life. What she knows for certain is that 9781485903178 (e-boek) | 9781485903185 (PDF) something has to change. Then it does. In die afgeleë Sneeuberge van die Oos-Kaap soek ’n groep argeoloë But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the onder leiding van die nimlike professor Attie Vermaak na ’n reeks answers Lou is searching for? rotstekeninge: ’n befaamde oorlogstafereel van ruiters en vlugtendes. Close the door and life continues: simple, ordered, Groot is hul vreugde toe hulle dié kunswerk na ’n uitmergelende soektog safe. Open it and she risks everything. vind. But Lou once made a promise to live. And if Hulle blydskap is egter van korte duur: ’n gevaarlike groep drosters she’s going to keep it, she has to invite them in… oorrompel hulle en neem hulle gevange. Onder angswekkende omstandighede deel ekspedisie- en bendelede dieselfde kampeerplek terwyl die bendekaptein wag op verslag deur twee verspieders wat hy The stunning sequel to the na die buitewêreld stuur om ’n losprys te eis. Amatola is Piet van Rooyen op sy beste. worldwide phenomenon Me Before You

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Shopaholic to the Rescue Something to Hide Sophie Kinsella Deborah Moggach Paperback | R180 Paperback | R180 | 9781784701901 9781784160364 ‘Nobody in the world knows our secret… that Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) I’ve ruined Bev’s life, and she’s ruined mine.’ is on a major rescue mission! Hollywood was full of surprises, Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. Petra’s love life is a bit of a car-crash, even in and now she’s on a road trip to Las Vegas to help her her sixties. But then she falls for Jeremy, an friends and family. old chum, visiting from abroad. The catch? She’s determined to get to the bottom of why her Jeremy is her best friend’s husband. dad has mysteriously disappeared, help her best And just as Petra is beginning to relax guiltily friend Suze and even bond with Alicia Bitch Long- into her happy ever after, she finds herself legs (maybe…). catapulted to West Africa, and to Bev, her As Becky discovers just how much her friends and best friend who she’s been betraying so family need help, she comes up with her biggest, spectacularly. boldest, most brilliant plan yet! So can she save the It turns out that no matter where you are in day just when they need her most? the world, everyone has something to hide. Becky is setting out to make things right in this Can Bev – can anyone – be trusted? laugh-out-loud, feel-good conclusion to her Airport: Learning Little Black The Trial American adventure. Code Red To Ride Dress James Patterson James Patterson James Patterson James Patterson Paperback | R59,95 Paperback | R59,95 Paperback | R59,95 Paperback | R59,95 9781786530257 9781786530370 9781786530059 9781786530073 Midnight Sun ‘I’m not on trial. A major terrorist cell She never wanted to Can a little black dress San Francisco is.’ Jo Nesbo sets a devastating love a cowboy… change everything in Paperback | R160 plan in motion. Their Rodeo king Tanner her life? Detective Lindsay Boxer 9780099593799 target? One of the Callen doesn’t want to Magazine editor Jane has finally managed Jon is on the run. He has betrayed world’s busiest airports be tied down. When he Avery spends her to capture the drug Oslo’s biggest crime lord: the – London Churchill sees Madeline Harper at nights alone with cartel boss who has Fisherman. International Airport. a local honky-tonk and Netflix and Oreos – until been tormenting her for Fleeing to an isolated corner Retired SAS Captain everything about her the Dress turns her months. And now he’s of Norway, to a mountain town so far north that the Matt Bates and ex- screams New York, he loose. Suddenly she’s about to go on trial for sun never sets, Jon hopes to find sanctuary among Delta Force officer brings out every trick surrendering to dark his life. a local religious sect. Chaz Shoeman find in his playbook to take desires, and New York Hiding out in a shepherd’s cabin in the wilderness, all themselves caught her home. But soon he City has become her that stands between him and his fate are Lea, up in the attack. And learns that he doesn’t erotic playground. But a bereaved mother and her young son, Knut. they are London’s only just want her for a night what began as a fantasy But while Lea provides him with a rifle and Knut hope at stopping an and, instead, hopes for will go too far… and her brings essential supplies, the midnight sun is slowly atrocity that could kill forever… next conquest could be driving Jon to insanity. thousands. her last. And then he discovers that the Fisherman’s men are getting closer…

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The Solomon Curse the Long Utopia Clive Cussler & Russell Blake Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter Paperback | R180 | 9781405919036 Paperback | R180 | 9780552169363

In the clear blue waters of the Solomon Islands the ruins of 2045-2059. Humanity is spreading further into the an ancient city have lain undisturbed for hundreds of years – Long Earth, and society continues to evolve. until now. Now an elderly and cantankerous AI, Lobsang Legend – even recent history – tells of a terrible fate befalling lives in disguise with Agnes in an exotic, far-distant anyone foolish enough to venture near. Visitors do not return world. He’s convinced they’re leading a normal life alive. in New Springfield. But when treasure-hunting team Remi and Sam Fargo Millions of steps away, Joshua is learning about dive to investigate the city, they find more than ancient the father he never knew. But then he receives monuments and lost artefacts. a summons from New Springfield. Lobsang now Because someone is using the legends to hide their own understands the threat to all the worlds of the dark and grisly secret. And the closer Remi and Sam get Long Earth. to discovering the truth, the closer they come to being the To counter this threat will require the combined curse’s next victims… efforts of humankind, machine and the super- intelligent Next. And some must make the ultimate sacrifice…

the Invasion of the Tearling Erika Johansen Alert the Ends of the Earth Paperback | R180 | 9780857502483 James Patterson Robert Goddard Paperback | R180 Paperback | R180 With each passing day, Kelsea Glynn is growing into 9780099594376 9780552167079 her new responsibilities as Queen of the Tearling. But she crossed the Red Queen, who is sending her New York has seen more than its Ex-flying ace James ‘Max’ fearsome army into the Tearling to take what is hers. fair share of horrific attacks, but Maxted’s attempt to uncover And nothing can stop the invasion. the city is about to be shaken in the secret behind the death of As the Mort army draws ever closer, Kelsea develops a way it never has before. After his father, Sir Henry Maxted, has a mysterious connection to a time before the two devastating catastrophes in quick succession, seemingly ended in failure – and his own death. Crossing, and she finds herself relying on a strange everyone is on edge. Detective Michael Bennett is Unaware of Max’s fate, the team continue to pursue and possibly dangerous ally: a woman named Lily, assigned to the case and given the near impossible their only lead, travelling to Japan in search of a fighting for her life in a world where being female can task of hunting down the shadowy terror group mysterious prisoner held by Sir Henry’s old enemy, feel like a crime. The fate of the Tearling – and that of responsible. Count Tomura. Kelsea’s own soul – may rest with Lily and her story, A shocking assassination makes it clear that these The quest Max embarked on in Paris will reach its but Kelsea may not have enough time to find out. inexplicable events are just the prelude to the dizzying end at Tomura’s castle in the mountains of biggest threat of all. Now Bennett is racing against Honshu – and the full truth of what occurred thirty the clock to save his beloved city – before the most years before will finally be laid bare… destructive force he has ever faced tears it apart.

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Fiction continued… POCKET PENGUINS The House of Ulloa Emilia Pardo Bazán Paperback | R135 | 9780241259160

Set in a crumbling Spanish mansion, The House of Ulloa follows innocent and timid Father Julián Alvarez as he tries to turn his aristocratic employer away from drinking, womanizing and emptying the last of the family coffers. But his attempts end in disgrace and disaster in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s brilliant novel, which seamlessly mixes The Beast The Good The Malay Metamorphosis realism with the gothic, and pathos with a rich vein Within Soldier Švejk Archipelago Franz Kafka of humour. Emile Zola Jaroslav Hasek Alfred Russel Wallace Paperback | R135 Paperback | R180 Paperback | R205 Paperback | R205 9780241260654 9780241261736 9780241260036 9780241261873 A collection of Kafka’s One of Zola’s darkest The chaotic, hilarious The spectacular, true work published in and most violent works – adventures of an account of the great his lifetime. Includes a tense thriller of political ordinary soldier, who zoologist’s adventures, his classic tale of corruption and a graphic is either genuinely from Borneo and alienation and angst exploration of the a total idiot or a genius Java, to the wilds of Metamorphosis, criminal mind, as pretending to be one New Guinea – and the along with other a murder is committed – perhaps the greatest people, butterflies, ships, claustrophobic, unsettling on the new railways of book to come out of crocodiles and plants and brilliant short stories, the Second Empire. the First World War. that he found there. essays and fragments.

The Cossacks and Hadji Murat Leo Tolstoy Paperback | R160 | 9780241261897

Two great works, one from early in Tolstoy’s career and one written towards the end of his life, both drawn from his adventurous years in the army among the Cossacks of the The Master the Call of Fathers The Betrothed far south of the Russian empire. And Margarita Cthulhu and Sons Alessandro Manzoni ‘He said that Shamil had ordered Hadji Murat to be taken Mikhail Bulgakov H P Lovecraft Ivan Turgenev Paperback | R205 dead or alive....’ Paperback | R160 Paperback | R180 Paperback | R135 9780241259078 9780241259320 9780241260777 9780241261972 A wildly influential A spectacular satire of Mad, macabre tales of Turgenev’s renowned early Italian novel the USSR achieved by demonic spirits, hideous story of intergenerational and a masterpiece of combining the fantastical rites, ancient curses and conflict, addressing world literature, this with the political. alien entities lurking contemporaneous sinister, fast-paced and Although written in beneath the surface of tensions between engrossing work was 1940, publication was rural New England, from liberals and nihilists. one of the first ever suppressed until 1966. the man who created the historical novels. modern horror story.

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POCKET PENGUINS Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf Paperback | R135 | 9780241261798

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax in Woolf’s great novel of time, memory, war and the city.

The Secret Out of Africa The Lost Estate Agent Karen Blixen Henri Alain-Fournier Joseph Conrad Paperback | R160 Paperback | R135 Paperback | R135 9780241262115 9780241258910 9780241259528 A poignant memoir of A novel of desperate Set in an Edwardian being young, falling yearning and vanished London underworld in love and farm life in adolescence, the story of terrorist bombers, East Africa in the early of Meaulnes and his spies, grotesques and twentieth century, and restless search for a lost, fanatics, Conrad’s dark, a melancholic snapshot enchanted world has unsettling masterpiece of colonial life in the atmosphere of asks if we ever really the last years of a dream and the know others, or the British Empire. purity of a fairy tale. ourselves.

A Parisian Affair Guy de Maupassant Paperback | R160 | 9780241260845

Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small- minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty- The Rainbow My Childhood O Pioneers! three tales in this volume are among the most darkly D H Lawrence Maxim Gorky Willa Cather humorous and brilliant short stories in nineteenth-century Paperback | R180 Paperback | R135 Paperback | R135 literature. 9780241260739 9780241261958 9780241262153

The Rainbow tells One of the most moving A rapturous work of the story of three accounts of being savage beauty, Willa generations of the a boy ever written, Cather’s 1913 tale of Brangwen family and My Childhood is both a pioneer woman who their struggles with each a wonderful and tames the wild, hostile other and themselves. harrowing memoir – lands of the Nebraskan Beautiful, strange and and one of the great prairie is also the story with a power all its own, works of Russian of what it means to The Rainbow redefined literature. be American. the English novel.

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non-Fiction That’s Not How When to Rob a Bank We Do It Here! Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Super Food Family classics John Kotter & Dubner Jamie Oliver Holger Rathgeber Paperback | R230 | 9780141980980 Hardcover | R395 | 9780718178444 Hardcover | R250 Why don’t flight attendants get Get more goodness into the ones you love. 9780241255360 tipped? If you were a terrorist, how Jamie’s Super Food – Family Classics continues A business parable about would you attack? And why does with the popular philosophy behind Jamie’s a clan of meerkats who live KFC always run out of fried chicken? Everyday Super Food, bringing exciting healthy in the Kalahari. Well organised and efficient, the eating to the heart of the home. colony enjoys many years of successful growth, Over the past decade, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Mix up your recipe repertoire and freshen up your until it suddenly comes under threat from a new Dubner have published more than 8,000 blog posts on family favourites with new nutritious, tasty meals. form of predator and is forced to rethink its Freakonomics.com. Now the very best of this writing Make your family menu something to shout about. organizational structure. has been carefully curated into one volume, the perfect Sneak in extra veg with Squash Mac ‘N’ Cheese and John Kotter uses this charming parable to explore solution for the millions of readers who love all things enjoy a no-arguments family dinner with Chicken why organisations often struggle no matter their Freakonomics. Fajitas. When you need a no-fuss meal on the table past success, and why they fall. fast try Chicken Goujons or Pasta Pesto, or get Kotter shows that by embracing reliability, efficiency, ahead with freezer-friendly Jumbo Fish Fingers or speed and agility, and building passion, discipline A curated collection of the most Proper Chicken Nuggets. Use ingredients you know and personal growth, organisations can once again the family already love in new, exciting ways, with readable economics blog on the prosper, fulfil their mission, create great jobs and Sweet Potato Fish Cakes or Chocolate Porridge. services and generate wealth. planet from the phenomenally successful Freakonomics authors. Continues the popular philosophy behind Everyday Super Food, bringing exciting healthy eating A Fox’s Tale to the heart of the home. Chantell Ilbury as told to Daryl Ilbury Softcover | R230 | 9781770229952 (print) 9781770229969 (ePub) | 9781770229976 (PDF)

Sit down with one of Africa’s most creative strategic minds, and really get to know her and how she thinks… Baking with Jackie Cameron In this book, and for the first time, Chantell Ilbury Jackie Cameron – bestselling business author, renowned scenario Softcover | R290 | 9781485900153 strategist and speaker – tells her remarkable story. Jackie Cameron made her first biscuits under the watchful eyes She talks candidly about dealing with physical threat, of her grandmothers. Now she is able to pay tribute to them by controversy, reputational risk and the dangers of including some of their cherished recipes in Baking with Jackie a woman travelling the world alone; and provides Cameron. But she wouldn’t be an award-winning chef if she refreshing perspectives on entrepreneurism, working in didn’t take a recipe and make it her own. Jackie has applied Africa, balancing the demands of family and business, her formidable culinary skills to some of her favourite recipes, and on women in the corporate working environment. presenting the reader with a selection of recipes that are A Fox’s Tale is loaded with strategic insight, yet often utterly delectable, yet reassuringly familiar. Covering everything reads like an adventure novel, rich with humour and from biscuits, breads, pies and quiches for family meals, to entertaining anecdotes. celebration cakes and delectable desserts, Baking with Jackie Cameron is a book no keen baker should be without.

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The Power Paradox Guide to Trees Introduced into The Springbok Coaches Dacher Keltner Southern Africa Gavin Rich Trade paperback | R320 Braam van Wyk & Hugh Glen Softcover | R230 | 9781776090587 (print) 9780241256688 Softcover | R390 | 9781775841258 (print) 9781776090594 (ePub) 9781775844709 (ePub) | 9781775844716 (PDF) The Machiavellian view of power In The Springbok Coaches, rugby writer as a coercive force is one of the Southern Africa is home to more than 2,000 introduced (not Gavin Rich takes us past the disappointment deepest currents in our culture, indigenous) trees. These non-native species are encountered of the 2015 Rugby World Cup right up to yet new psychological research daily and form a familiar part of our urban landscapes, growing the appointment of Allister Coetzee in April reveals this vision to be dead wrong. Influence successfully in parks, gardens, along road sides, and in other 2016, and dissects not only the successes is gained instead through social intelligence and open spaces. This guide features nearly 600 of the most common and failures of these two Springbok coaches, empathy – but ironically the seductions of power and familiar of these and facilitates ID based on leaf and stem but of all the post-isolation coaches who make us lose the very qualities that made us features. The book provides the country of origin for each species preceded them. powerful in the first place. By drawing on fascinating and offers key information on cultivation and uses. Each entry From the triumphs to the controversies, the case studies that debunk longstanding myths, is supported by colour images that depict key features, and boardroom to the rugby field,The Springbok Dacher Keltner illuminates this ‘power paradox’, a shaded map that shows the plant’s cold tolerance (where Coaches will reveal exactly what it takes to revealing how it shapes not just boardrooms and the species can grow). be the Bok coach, and why each and every elections but everyday relationships, and affects one of them had, at some time or another whether or not we will have an affair, break the law in the toughest job in South African sport, or find our purpose in life. lost it. A riveting, often revelatory and definitely controversial read! An essential guide for landscapers and gardeners as well as tree enthusiasts who will struggle to The Way I See It find these trees in their guide Lerato Tshabalala Softcover | R210 to indigenous trees. 9781776090150 (print) 9781776090167 (ePub) 9781776090174 (PDF) With her customary wit and keen POCKET PENGUINS insight into social, political and The Notebooks of Walden cultural affairs, Lerato shines a bright light on South Malte Laurids Brigge Henry Thoreau African society and the quirky ways of the country. Rainer Maria Rilke Paperback | R160 She is brutally honest about her experiences as Paperback | R135 9780241261859 a black South African in post-apartheid Mzansi, 9780241261194 and no subject is too sacred for her to explore: Inspiring, brilliantly written, annoying car guards, white-dominated corporate A masterpiece of the uncanny, cantankerous and funny – South Africa, cultural stereotypes, economic and The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Walden is both a very specific racial inequality, and gender politics, among many Brigge is a Parisian coming-of- story about one man’s attempt other topics, come under her careful – and often age story like no other. to live the simple life in the laugh-out-loud – scrutiny. The Way I See It is written wilderness, and the great, for people who are hungry for a book that is thought- founding text both for the provoking, funny, irreverent and truly South African environmental movement all at the same time. It is light but full of depth: like and the entire counter-culture. a supermodel with an MBA!

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the Couple Next Door AUGUST Shari Lapena Trade paperback | R305 9780593077399

Your neighbour told you that she didn’t want your six-month-old Fiction daughter at the dinner party. Nothing personal, she just couldn’t The Owl Always Hunts stand her crying. at Night Your husband said it would be fine. After all, you Samuel Bjork only live next door. You’ll have the baby monitor and Trade paperback | R305 | 9780857522535 you’ll take it in turns to go back every half hour. Your daughter was sleeping when you checked on When a young woman is found dead, the her last. But now, as you race up the stairs in your police are quick to respond. But what they deathly quiet house, your worst fears are realised. find at the scene is unexpected. The body She’s gone. is posed, the scene laboriously set. And there What would you be capable of, when pushed past is almost no forensic evidence to be found. your limit? Detective Mia Krüger has been signed off work pending psychological assessment. But her boss has less regard for the rules ‘Meticulously crafted and than he should. Desperate to get Mia back razor-sharp. The Couple Next in the office, Holger Munch offers her an unofficial deal. Door lingers long after you turn But the usually brilliant Mia is struggling and the final page’– HARLAN COBEN Underground Airlines the team are unable to close the case. Until Ben H. Winters a young hacker uncovers something that Trade paperback | R305 | 9781780894317 forces the team to confront the scope It is the present-day, and the world is as we of the murderer’s plans and face the Speaking in Bones know it. Except for one thing: slavery still exists. possibility that he may already be on the Kathy Reichs Victor has escaped his life as a slave, but his hunt for a second victim. Paperback | R100 GREAT freedom came at a high price. Striking a bargain 9780099558125 DEAL! with the government, he has to live his life When forensic anthropologist working as a bounty hunter. And he is the best The second dark and twisted Dr Tempe Brennan is approached they’ve ever trained. Norwegian crime thriller from by amateur detective Hazel ‘Lucky’ But in tracking his latest target, he can sense Samuel Bjork - a Scandinavian Strike, at first she is inclined that something isn’t quite right. to dismiss the woman’s claims that she’s matched For this fugitive is a runaway holding something bestseller. a previously unidentified set of remains with a name. extraordinary. Something that could change the But as the words of a terrified young woman echo state of the country forever. round her office from an audio recorder found near And in his pursuit, Victor discovers secrets at where the bones were discovered, something about the core of his country’s arrangement with the the story won’t let Tempe go. system that imprisoned him, secrets that will be As Tempe investigates further she finds herself preserved at any cost. involved in a case more complicated and horrifying than she could ever have imagined. A high concept novel with lots of suspense, and a deeply human, flawed protagonist.

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Fiction continued… The Last One Peacock & Vine Small Gods Alexandra Oliva A. S. Byatt Terry Pratchett Trade paperback | R250 Hardcover | R340 Hardcover | R305 9781405923170 9781784740801 9780857522962 When Zoo agrees to take part in a This ravishing book opens In the beginning was the Word. new reality television show, In the a window onto the lives, And the Word was: ‘Hey, you!’ Dark, she knows she will be tested to designs, and passions of This is the Discworld, after all, the limit. Fighting to survive deep in two charismatic artists. and religion is a controversial the forest, every moment analysed by the outside world, Born a generation apart, they were seeming business. Everyone has their own opinion, and this is her ultimate challenge before starting a family. opposites: Mariano Fortuny, a Spanish aristocrat indeed their own gods, of every shape and size, But as the contestants are overtaken by hunger, injury thrilled by the sun-baked cultures of Crete and and all elbowing for space at the top. In such and psychological breakdown, the mind games and Knossos; William Morris, a British craftsman, in a competitive environment, shape and size can hazards to which they are subjected seem increasingly thrall to the myths of the North. Yet through their be pretty crucial to make one’s presence felt. extreme and dark beyond measure. revolutionary inventions and textiles, both men So it’s certainly not helpful to be reduced to This isn’t what Zoo signed up for. Is she in a game with inspired a new variety of art, as vibrant today appearing in the form of a tortoise, a manifestation no end? Discovering the truth is just the beginning… as when it was first conceived. far below god-like status in anyone’s book. Generously illustrated with the artists’ beautiful The Queen of the Night designs – pomegranates and acanthus, peacock Now adapted into graphic Alexander Chee and vine – A.S. Byatt brings the visions and ideas Bullseye Trade paperback | R305 | 9780718185329 of Fortuny and Morris dazzlingly to life. novel form with new artwork James Patterson Paris, 1882. by Ray Friesen. Trade paperback | R305 | 9781780892733 Lilliet Berne is a sensation, a legendary As the most powerful men on earth soprano with every accolade except an gather in New York for a meeting of original role. When one is finally offered the UN, Detective Michael Bennett to her, she realises with alarm that the receives intelligence warning that there story is based on a hidden piece of her past. Only four could The Woman in Cabin 10 will be an assassination attempt on the have betrayed her. Ruth Ware US president. Even more shocking, the A blazing tale of lust, ambition and revenge set in the glitzy, Trade paperback | R230 | 9781910701843 intelligence suggests that the Russian gritty world of Second Empire France, The Queen of the government could be behind the plot. Night follows Lilliet as she transforms herself from circus This was meant to be the perfect trip. Tensions between America and Russia are rider to courtesan to empress’s maid to stage ingénue, all The Northern Lights. A luxury press launch on the highest they’ve been since the Cold the while weaving a web of passion and intrigue. a boutique cruise ship. War, but this would be an escalation no A chance for travel journalist Lo Blacklock to recover one could have expected. from a traumatic break-in that has left her on the verge The details are shadowy, and Bennett Precious Gifts GREAT of collapse. finds false leads and unreliable sources Danielle Steel DEAL! Except things don’t go as planned. at every turn. But he can’t afford to get Paperback | R100 | 9780552166232 Woken in the night by screams, Lo rushes to her window this wrong. If the plotters succeed, the to see a body thrown overboard from the next door As a devoted mother, Veronique Parker has shockwaves will be felt across the globe. cabin. But the records show that no-one ever checked dedicated herself to her three daughters, into that cabin, and no passengers are missing from the before and since her divorce. boat. The ninth novel in the Her world is turned upside down, however, Exhausted, emotional and increasingly desperate, action-packed series fea- when her former husband dies suddenly, Lo has to face the fact that she may have made a terrible leaving her and their daughters astonishing inheritances: a mistake. Or she is trapped on a boat with a murderer – turing NYPD detective painting of mysterious provenance, a château in the south of and she is the sole witness… Michael Bennett. France, the freedom to pursue their dreams, and a shocking revelation from the past. The precious gifts he left will lead them on a journey certain to change Veronique and her daughters’ destinies in the most surprising of ways.

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The Moment She Left Susan Lewis Trade paperback | R230 | 9781780891859

Kesterly-on-Sea is full of secrets. Some are darker than others; many are shameful. One is even deadly. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. Andee is an ex-detective whose marriage is breaking up. So when a young female student disappears without trace, she throws herself into the search. Meanwhile, the town’s beloved Rowzee Cayne has just discovered that she is terminally ill, and doesn’t want to burden her family and friends with the news. Andee and Rowzee don’t know it yet, but their journeys are going to help them uncover a secret. One that is going to affect them more than they could ever imagine.

Triple Threat Chase Let’s Play The McCullagh James Patterson James Patterson Make Believe Inn in Maine Paperback | R160 Paperback | R59,95 James Patterson James Patterson 9781786530585 9781786530448 Paperback | R59,95 Paperback | R59,95 9781786530394 9781786530356 James Patterson’s A man plunges to his The Girl Who Murder House BookShots. Short, fast- death from the roof Both survivors of the Chelsea O’Kane escapes Came Back James Patterson GREAT GREAT paced, high-impact of a Manhattan hotel. divorce wars, Christy to Maine with fresh Susan Lewis Paperback | R100 DEAL! DEAL! entertainment. It looks like a suicide and Martin don’t believe bruises. She’s ready to Paperback | R100 9780099594895 Triple Threat contains – except the victim in love at first sight begin anew – until she 9780099586548 No. 7 Ocean Drive is a multi­ three BookShot stories. has someone else’s and certainly not on runs into her old flame, Jules Bright gets the news she’s million-dollar beachfront house fingerprints and a first date. But from the Jeremy Holland. As he feared for the last three years. in the Hamptons, but its beautiful $10,000 in cash. instant they lock eyes, helps fix up her inn, her Amelia Quentin is being released exterior hides a horrific past. Enter Detective Michael life becomes a sexy, heart heals and they from prison. This house was the setting for a series of depraved Bennett. romantic dream come rediscover what they Jules’s life is very different now to the one she’d killings that have never been solved. true. That is, until they once loved about each known before Amelia shattered it completely. Detective Jenna Murphy has moved to the area to start playing a strangely other. But as the two Knowing the girl is coming back she needs to escape her troubled past and rehabilitate a career intense game of make- play house, it starts to decide what to do. Friends and family gather round, on the rocks. But when a Hollywood power broker believe – a game that’s seem too good to last… fearing for Jules’s safety. They know that justice was and his mistress are found dead in the abandoned about to go too far. never served; every one of them wants to make the Murder House, Jenna becomes involved in a case Quentin girl pay. that at first seems open and shut, but reveals more The question is, what will Jules do; and which of secrets than she could possibly imagine. them – her or Amelia – has the most to fear?

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Fiction continued… Doodskoot Our Fathers François Bloemhof Karin Brynard non-Fiction Sagteband | R200 Softcover | R250 Good Cop, Bad Cop 9781485903086 9781415206928 Andrew Brown Also available in English In one of Stellenbosch’s most Softcover | R220 | 9781776090952 (print) Double Echo 9781485903093 affluent areas an apparent house 9781776090969 (ePub) Dit gaan nag raak in die Swartland… break-in goes awry, leaving a Once an enemy of the apartheid police, Andrew Brown Paul Matthee het baie meer bagasie millionaire property developer’s has worked as a police reservist for almost twenty years. as die rugsak waarmee hy die land platloop. Daar is ’n beautiful wife dead. Inspector Albertus Beeslaar, in In this book he takes the reader on patrol with him – into aand, ’n uur in sy verlede waarvan hy nie kan ontsnap nie. town to visit a former colleague, is reluctantly drawn the ganglands of the Cape Flats, the sprawling township of Langs die pad naby Riebeek-Kasteel help hy vir Bernard into the investigation led by the formidable Captain Masiphumelele and the comparatively leafy suburb of Mowbray. Ackerman, ’n ryk sakeman, om in gietende reën sy motor Vuyokazi Qhubeka of the Stellenbosch SAPS. Soon Good Cop, Bad Cop is a personal account of the perilous and se gebarste band om te ruil. this picturesque town with its historic white gables, often conflicting work of a SAPS reservist. Brown describes Ackerman bied hom skuilplek aan, maar Paul besef world-famous wineries and big money begins to being shot at, arresting suspects in a drug bust, chasing down gou die weelderige wynlandgoed Welverdiend is geen reveal its dark underbelly. leads in a homicide investigation, and even confronting an veilige hawe nie – sy tyd daar begin meer voel soos Fifteen hundred kilometres to the north, Sergeant armed burglar in his own home. een van daardie ou swart-en-wit-rolprente waarin Johannes Ghaap is thrust into a drama of his own as Brown illustrates how difficult the job of the police is: he himself ’n dodelike jong vrou se kop vol planne op ’n vreeslike he races to save a kidnapped woman and her child, has come close to shooting innocent or unarmed suspects. Yet einde kan afstuur. who are being held captive in Soweto. Fate will steer he argues passionately that the role of the police is to serve Doodskoot is ’n boek vol versoeking, geheime, him to The Fatha – a man capable of such evil that communities and not to respond with undue force. Gripping oëverblindery en konfrontasie deur ’n veteraan van most consider him a mere urban legend… and insightful, this is a fascinating insight into the social fabric die spanningsverhaal in Afrikaans. of current South Africa.

Agents of the State #ZuptasMustFall, The New Manager Mike Nicol and other rants Steven Jacobs Trade paperback | R230 | 9781415207185 Fred Khumalo Softcover | R220 Ook beskikbaar in Afrikaans Softcover | R220 9781776091010 (print) StaatSrotte 9781415207338 9781776091072 (print) 9781776091027 (ePub) Late one afternoon on the steps of St George’s 9781776091089 (ePub) In this book, new managers will Cathedral in Cape Town, the leader of opposition In #ZuptasMustFall, and other find solutions to typical challenges forces in the Central African Republic (CAR) is gunned rants Fred Khumalo runs riot, by using practical examples of down. He survives, but his young daughter is killed. contemplating the pressing issues that continue to what other leaders have faced in similar situations. Private investigator Fish Pescado is called in, but confound, infuriate or exasperate the nation – or to As they work through daily issues in 52 easily his attempts to locate the hitmen come to nothing – sink it into further controversy. Covering a wide range accessible steps, they will build leadership skills in a hardly surprising, as the assassination attempt was of topics, including politics, history, current events concrete and lasting way. At the end of each chapter organised by a faction in the South African Secret and celebrity gossip, this compilation of some of there are reflection questions to help identify their Service Agency (SSA) loyal to the South African Khumalo’s writings contains his trademark blend of current leadership approach. president, who has mining interests in the CAR. humour and shrewd analysis, as well as his treatment The New Manager will make everyone’s journey as Meanwhile Vicki Kahn, an agent in the SSA, is sent of everyday issues from a uniquely South African a new leader exciting and allow them to prosper in to Amsterdam to set up a sting operation to trap the perspective. every challenge. president’s son who is involved in a human trafficking This is an entertaining collection of thoughts from operation. one of the country’s most seasoned journalists, When Fish, Vicki’s long-time love interest, learns that offering many questions, and tongue-in-cheek Vicki is in danger, he needs to take action. answers, on who we are as a nation, where we are going, and how we compare to the rest of the world.

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Weber Hot & Spicy Jamie Purviance Softcover | R170 9781432305185

Weber Hot & Spicy is a straightforward­ guide to cooking mouth­wateringly tasty dishes that have been given a lift by chillies and spices. South Africans love Is Your Thinking Who Rules the World? Justice Served? spicy food, especially when it is hot off the braai fire Keeping You Poor? Noam Chomsky Jamaine Krige and washed down by our favourite cold beverage. Douglas Kruger Trade paperback | R320 Softcover | R210 Master griller Jamie Purviance’s recipes are simple to Softcover | R210 9780241189443 9781770229808 (print) follow and take the guesswork out of cooking with 9781776091133 (print) 9781770229815 (ePub) In the post-9/11 era, America’s chillies and spices. But the recipes are not only about 9781776091140 (ePub) policy-makers have increasingly This book takes the reader behind cranking up the heat. There are plenty of fragrant In this book, business and wealth prioritised the pursuit of power, the scenes of the trial that shook spices on the menu, too. Handy tips provide advice guru Douglas Kruger gets right both military and economic, above the foundations of the international where it is needed, and the short introduction covers down to the practical principles all else – human rights, democracy, sporting world. It follows the case how to prepare chillies, and what equipment you of wealth creation. He leads you even security. Drawing on examples against Bob Hewitt instituted by need for efficient braaiing. Includes information on Understanding LCHF through the types of thinking ranging from expanding drone Suellen Sheehan and two fellow where different chillies rank on the ‘heat scale’. Martina Johansson that hold individuals, families and assassination programs to civil war accusers, only a few of the dozens Softcover | R220 | 9781432306250 businesses in generational cycles in Syria to the continued violence of survivors who allegedly suffered Swedish biophysicist, fitness athlete and low- of poverty, and explores the in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel and abuse at his hands. The result was carb nutrition expert Martina Johansson has dramatically different approaches Palestine, philosopher, political a six-year prison sentence handed the ability to explain complex biochemistry in typical to the self-made rich and commentator and prolific activist down to the frail 75-year-old, more Weber an accessible and interesting manner to help super-rich, showing you which Noam Chomsky offers unexpected than 30 years after his crimes. Mediterranean readers understand why the Low Carb High Fat behaviours to begin practising and nuanced insights into the Jamie Purviance or ketogenic diet actually works and is healthy, if and which are traitorous to your workings of imperial power in our Softcover | R170 followed correctly and tailored to your individual wealth potential. increasingly chaotic planet. 9781432307042 needs. Understanding LCHF is the key to: South Africans love the Losing weight flavours of the Mediterranean: Looking terrific olive oil, lemons, herbs, vine- Finding new energy ripened tomatoes, fragrant spices, fresh seafood Staying healthy or improving your health. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and succulent grilled meats get us excited. In Weber The book will give readers the tools to achieve Carlo Rovelli Mediterranean, master griller Jamie Purviance all of this without complicated meal plans Paperback | R160 | 9780141981727 explores the cuisine of the region. Jamie’s recipes and tedious exercise routines. Martina also In this mind-bending introduction to modern are simple to follow and take the guesswork out of shares her in-depth knowledge of hormonal physics, Carlo Rovelli explains Einstein’s theory braaiing, while his handy tips provide advice where responses, as well as the health aspects and of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black it is needed. The short introduction includes how to benefits of different types of micro- and holes, the complex architecture of the universe, make flat breads and kebabs, and what equipment macronutrients. She even includes elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of you need for efficient braaiing. Also included are a chapter on fitness training and another with the mind. Not since Richard Feynman’s celebrated cooking charts for fish and shellfish, lamb, beef, relevant recipes. bestseller Six Easy Pieces has physics been so pork, poultry and vegetables. vividly, intelligently and delightfully revealed.

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non-Fiction continued… Chalk-style Chalk-style Botanicals Good Times september Deluxe Deluxe Colouring Book Colouring Book Valerie McKeehan Deb Strain Softcover | R120 Softcover | R120 9781432307585 9781432307578

All the beauty of These 32 beautiful Fiction colouring with chalk – but without the mess! hand-drawn designs celebrate life’s little moments These 32 gorgeous hand-drawn floral and plant with all of the charming imperfections of original Rushing Waters designs feature all of the charming imperfections chalkboard art. Danielle Steel of original chalkboard art. Each whimsical white line illustration is presented Trade paperback | R305 Each whimsical white line illustration is presented on a black background, just like a real chalkboard. 9780593069158 on a black background, just like a real chalkboard. Warm colours, bright colours, neons, and lighter As Hurricane Ophelia bears down on Warm colours, bright colours, neons, and lighter pastel shades will really pop from these designs, New York City, millions are caught up in pastel shades will really pop from these designs, which are suitable for use with light-coloured pencils the horrific flooding it unleashes. which are suitable for use with light-coloured pencils and gel pens to personalise the work with lettering, Ellen Wharton flies into New York from and gel pens to personalise the work with lettering, flourishes, and patterning. London, heedless of the hurricane flourishes, and patterning. Each design is printed on one side only of high- warnings. She is intent on seeing her Each design is printed on one side only of high- quality, extra-thick paper. mother, Grace. quality, extra-thick paper. British investment banker Charles Williams is travelling on business but is also eager to see his young daughters, who live with his beautiful, estranged ex-wife. The day of chaos takes its toll as New the Magical Journey Yorkers struggle to face a natural Lizzie Mary Cullen disaster of epic proportions. But as lives Trade paperback | R230 | 9781405927987 are shattered, heroes are revealed – and Join Lizzie Mary Cullen on a magical expedition around then the real challenge begins, when the the world, with her brand new colouring book for adults. survivors face their futures… This is an epic trip that will transport you from the depths of the Brazilian rainforest to the dizzying heights of the New Zealand mountains. Join Lizzie and faithful friend Paddy the Pug as they trek, fly, sail and swim Unforgettable and powerful, Rushing Waters through the wonders of the world, discovering hidden proves that even in the darkest storm there objects along the way. is courage, unexpected joy and new life…

A brand new colouring book for adults from international colouring star Lizzie Mary Cullen.

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Nutshell Zodiac Home Ian McEwan Sam Wilson Harlan Coben Hardcover | R365 Trade paperback | R305 | 9780718181536 Trade paperback | R305 | 9781780894225 9781911214335 A series of uniquely brutal murders targets A decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from Nutshell is a classic story of murder victims from totally different walks of life. In wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. and deceit, told by a narrator with a society divided according to Zodiac signs, No trace of the boys ever surfaced. a perspective and voice unlike those differences are cast at birth and binding For ten years their families have been left with nothing any in recent literature. A bravura for life. but painful memories and a quiet desperation for the day performance, it is the finest recent work from All eyes are on Detective Jerome Burton and that has finally, miraculously arrived: Myron Bolitar and a true master. astrological profiler Lindi Childs – divided his friend Win believe they have located one of the boys, To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two in their beliefs over whether the answer now a teenager. inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when is written in the stars but united in their Where has he been for ten years, and what does he know all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour, is just conviction that there is an ingenious serial about the day, more than half a life ago, when he was a speck in the universe of possible things. killer executing a grand plan. taken? And most critically: what can he tell Myron and Together, they will unravel a dark tale Win about the fate of his missing friend? of betrayal, lost love, broken promises and Drawing on his singular talent, Harlan Coben delivers an a devastating truth with the power to tear explosive and deeply moving thriller about friendship, their world apart… family, and the meaning of home. A high-concept thriller and Ten years after the high-profile kidnapping of two young a hugely original page- boys, only one returns home... By the international number turning début. one bestselling author of Tell No One and Fool Me Once, The Comet Seekers soon to be a major movie starring Julia Roberts. Helen Sedgwick Trade paperback | R285 9781910701744

Here I Am Never Never Roisin and François first meet Jonathan Safran Foer James Patterson in the snowy white expanse Trade paperback | R305 Trade paperback | R305 of Antarctica. And everything 9780241146187 9781780895444 changes. While Roisin grew up in a tiny village in Ireland, ablaze This is the story of a fracturing When Sydney police department with a passion for science and the skies and for all family in a moment of crisis. sex crimes detective Harriet Blue there is to discover about the world, François was Over the course of three weeks is called into her boss’s office, raised by his beautiful young mother, who in present-day Washington DC, three sons watch she never imagined it would be to tell her that her dreamt of new worlds but was unable to turn her their parents’ marriage falter and their family brother is the prime suspect in the brutal murders back on her past. home fall apart. Meanwhile, a larger catastrophe of three women. As we loop back through their lives we see how their is engulfing another part of the world: a massive Shocked and in denial, Harry is transferred to Perth paths cross as they come closer and closer to this earthquake devastates the Middle East, sparking to avoid the media exposure this case will attract. moment. a pan-Arab invasion of Israel. With global upheaval Harry is sent into the outback – the never never – to Theirs are lives filled with love and hope and in the background and domestic collapse in the investigate the disappearance of mine worker Danny heartbreak, in a story that shows how strangers foreground, Jonathan Safran Foer asks us – what Carter. The mining town is a seedy place, full of can be connected and ghosts can be real, and the is the true meaning of home? Can one man ever money and immoral ways to spend it. As Harry delves world can be as lonely or as beautiful as the comets reconcile the conflicting duties of his many roles – deeper into the murky lives of these miners, she finds themselves. husband, father, son? And how much of life can that Danny isn’t the first to go missing. a person bear?

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Fiction continued… The Dress Mount! the Schooldays of Jesus Jane L. Rosen Jilly Cooper J M Coetzee Trade paperback | R250 Trade paperback | R305 Trade paperback | R305 | 9781911215363 9781780895895 9780593072912 The curiously contrived family of Simón, Inés and Davíd Legend has it that every season The glorious new novel from resettle in the city of Estrella, after being forced to flee there is one dress. The dress that Jilly Cooper, featuring Rupert their previous home in Novilla following a dispute with can make your career, ignite Campbell-Black and a raft of the education authorities. There they seek to continue the a spark with that special someone, characters new and old, human schooling of the headstrong and gifted boy, Davíd. Davíd or utterly transform your life. For Felicia, who has and equine. starts attending an unusual Dance Academy and falls under been in love with her boss for 20 years; for Natalie the influence of his charismatic teacher and the unnerving who has sworn off men since her ex dumped her – doorman, Dmitri. This mesmerising and thought-provoking for them and for others, life is about to change. novel is a masterwork from one of our most important writers. And all because of their brush with the dress of the season, the perfect little black number that everyone J. M. Coetzee’s work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, wants to get their hands on… Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime and The Childhood of Jesus. He was the From design concept to runway, from first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was Bloomingdales to red carpet, this is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. the story of THE dress and the lives it touches. If you loved The Devil Wears Prada, you’ll love this! Second Life Truly Madly Guilty S J Watson Liane Moriarty Paperback | R180 Trade paperback | R305 9781784161644 9780718180287

the Secret Diary of Hendrik She loves her husband. Despite their differences, Erika and 1 Groen, 83 /4 Years Old She’s obsessed by a stranger. Clementine have been best friends Hendrik Groen She’s a devoted mother. since they were children. So when Trade paperback | R250 | 9780718182953 She’s prepared to lose everything. Erika needs help, Clementine should She knows what she’s doing. be the obvious person to turn to. Or so you’d think. 1 Hendrik Groen is 83 /4 years old and he has decided that She’s out of control. For Clementine, as a mother of two desperately trying it is time to make something of his life. He may be rich She’s innocent. to practise for the audition of a lifetime, the last thing in years, but he refuses to give in to all the trappings of She’s guilty as sin. she needs is Erika asking for something, again. old age just yet. Hendrik’s hilarious and touching diary She’s living two lives. But the barbecue should be the perfect way to forget documents his life as an OAP living in a care home. She might lose both. their problems for a while. Especially when their hosts, When he recruits some similarly young-at-heart friends Vid and Tiffany, are only too happy to distract them. to join his ‘Old But Not Dead Club’, Hendrik proves that Which is how it all spirals out of control… love can blossom, rules can be broken and fun is within reach, even at their age. So begins a charming, poignant and moving novel that reminds us not to underestimate The electrifying new novel from the oldest amongst us. the international bestselling author, Liane Moriarty.

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Fiction continued… NYPD Red 4 James Patterson Heroes of the Frontier Paperback | R180 Dave Eggers 9780099594451 Trade paperback | R305 | 9780241289945 A jewel heist. A murdered actress. A mother and her two young children A killer case for NYPD Red. rent a battered old RV and embark upon Detectives Zach Jordan and Kylie a journey through the Alaskan wilderness. MacDonald are the best At first their trip feels like a vacation, but as Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. of the best – brilliant and tireless investigators Josie drives her kids deeper into the forest, who will stop at nothing to catch a criminal. dodging wildfires and increasingly eccentric When a glitzy movie premiere is the scene of locals, we learn more of the events that a shocking murder and high-stakes robbery, NYPD forced her to escape her old life. Her tiny Red gets the call. In a hunt that takes Zach and 113 Minutes Dazzling family must survive this surreal adventure Kylie from celebrity penthouses to the depths of James Patterson James Patterson at all costs, in order to finally discover Manhattan’s criminal underworld, they have to find Paperback | R59.95 Paperback | R59.95 something clean and redemptive at the very the cold-blooded killer – before he strikes again. 9781786530417 9781786530219 edge of civilization. Heroes of the Frontier is a captivating I know who killed my son. She’s a starving artist and he’s and hilarious novel about family, loss and Molly Rourke’s son has been a billionaire playboy… recovery, and a powerful examination of murdered… And she knows Siobhan came to New York with contemporary American life. Numero Zero who’s responsible. Now she’s a purpose: she wants to become Umberto Eco taking the law into her own a successful artist. To pay her bills Paperback | R205 hands. Never underestimate in the meantime, she’s the hostess 9781784701826 a mother’s love. at The Stone Room, a bar for the beautiful and the billionaires. She Fuelled by conspiracy theories, was fine with being on her own – Mafiosi, love, corruption and until tech billionaire Derick takes murder, Numero Zero reverberates her breath away. with the clash of forces that have shaped Italy since the Second World War. This gripping novel from the author of The Name of the Rose is told with all the power of a master storyteller.

Hide and Seek M. J. Arlidge Fool Me Once Trade paperback | R305 | 9780718183844 Harlan Coben Paperback | R180 Helen awaits trial in a crumbling women’s prison 9781784751111 in Southampton. She has a fight on to prove her innocence from inside her prison cell, but this If your husband was murdered, soon turns out to be the least of her worries. and you were a witness, how do A serial killer is picking off fellow inmates, thriving you explain it when he appears in an environment where there is truly nowhere on your nanny cam? to run. Is it a criminal giving in to their dark urges You thought you trusted him. or a member of the prison staff preying on the Now you can’t even trust yourself. captive population? Dark secrets and a terrifying hunt for the truth lie at Helen must work fast to reveal this devious killer, the heart of this gripping thriller by the ‘master all the time wondering if she will be next of the double twist’, Harlan Coben. on her list…

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Fiction continued… Eeny Meeny GREAT The Printmaker A Handful of Earth M. J. Arlidge DEAL! Bronwyn Law-Viljoen Simon Bruinders Paperback | R100 Hardcover | R250 Trade paperback | R200 9781405915342 9781415209127 9781485903192 A young couple wakes disorientated, When a reclusive printmaker dies, It is the year 1939 and in the trapped and without food or water. his friend inherits the thousands Outeniqua Mountains carpenter There’s no escape. Instead there’s of etchings and drawings he has Abraham de Bruin dreams of a gun loaded with a single bullet stored in his house over the years. owning land and starting a family and a mobile phone with charge enough only to Overwhelmed by the task of sorting and exhibiting with Stella, a young teacher. Abraham goes off to deliver a short message: when one of you kills the this work, she seeks the advice of a curator. fight in World War II for the promise of land, but on other, the survivor will walk free. What compulsion drove the printmaker to make art his return he finds that the promise is not fulfilled. He Other pairs are soon taken. The victims appear for four decades, and why did he so seldom show must battle against a world that he does not always to be chosen at random, but the planning is his prints? understand, but is determined to conquer. meticulous. And until DI Helen Grace can establish When the curator discovers a single, sealed a connection, a twisted killer will remain out of reach. box addressed to a man in Zimbabwe, she feels A breakthrough is elusive, but then the investigation compelled to go in search of him to present him with begins to turn full circle… the package, hoping to find an answer to the enigma of the printmaker’s solitary life. Little Boy Blue GREAT Bronwyn Law-Viljoen’s subtle and sophisticated M. J. Arlidge novel reflects on one man’s obsessive need to make Paperback | R100 DEAL! meaning through images and to find, in art, the traces 9781405919234 of love and friendship.

Helen’s most personal case yet as I’m Travelling Alone she investigates the shocking and Samuel Bjork unexpected murder of a close friend Paperback | R180 | 9780552170901 found cocooned in plastic. It looks like it was a tragic accident – a sex game gone wrong. When the body of a young girl is found hanging As Helen closes in on her prey, a shocking truth is from a tree, the only clue the police have is The Safest Place You Know revealed – these murders are part of a calculated an airline tag around her neck. It reads ‘I’m Mark Winkler attempt to bring Helen down… travelling alone’. Hardcover | R250 | 9781415209097 Police investigator Holger Munch is immediately charged with assembling a special On a hot November day in the drought-stricken Free State, Hennie the Pharaoh’s Secret homicide unit. But to complete the team, he Durandt shoots his father after receiving a letter from his estranged Clive Cussler & Graham Brown must track down his former partner, Mia Krüger sister. He leaves the derelict family farm with no plan, and with no way Paperback | R180 – a brilliant but troubled detective – who has of knowing that his life will soon be changed for ever by two strangers 9781405919005 retreated to a solitary island with plans to kill he encounters on his journey south: a mute little girl who bears Buried deep beneath the Saharan herself. a striking resemblance to his late niece, and a troubled lawyer who desert is a secret – an ancient elixir Reviewing the file, Mia finds something new – detests the Cape wine estate she’s inherited from a father she despised. so powerful that it is rumoured to a thin line carved into the dead girl’s fingernail: Set in South Africa against the backdrop of a country in flux,The Safest take life from the living and restore the number 1. She knows that this is only the Place You Know is a powerful story, rendered in meticulously crafted, it to the dead. beginning. To save other children from the lyrical prose, about redemption and recovery, and what it means to Off a remote island, a mysterious ship releases same fate, she must find a way to cast aside carry the past with you. a deadly poison. Minutes later everyone on the her own demons and stop this murderer from island is dead. becoming a serial killer. Responding to a distress call, Kurt Austin and the NUMA team struggle to understand what has caused this disaster. As they investigate the incident further they uncover a far greater threat.

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Fiction continued… POCKET PENGUINS non-Fiction the Pigeon Tunnel John le Carré Trade paperback | R320 | 9780241976876

The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carré’s memoir and his first work of non-fiction, is a thrilling journey into the worlds of his ‘secret sharers’ – the men and women who inspired some of his most enthralling novels. From terrifying meetings with Yasser Arafat in war-torn Beirut to brilliantly observed encounters with the great figures of 20th century film, from Stanley Kubrick to Alec The Island Dream Story The Gambler and The Heart is a Guinness. The reader is swept along not just by the chilling winds of Doctor Arthur Schnitzler A Nasty Business Lonely Hunter of the Cold War or by the author’s frightening journeys into Moreau Paperback | R160 Fyodor Dostoyevsky Carson McCullers places of terrible violence but, most importantly, by the author’s H G Wells 9780241284483 Paperback | R160 Paperback | R180 inimitable voice. Paperback | R135 9780241259580 9780241259740 This is a beautiful, In this astonishing work we see our world, both public and 9780241261828 heartless and baffling The Gambler and A The Heart is a Lonely private, through the eyes of one of the world’s greatest writers. A terrifying, prescient novella of life in the Nasty Business are two Hunter was Carson portrayal of a scientist seemingly prosperous of Dostoevsky’s most McCullers’ first novel, trying to create a new and comfortable spectacular stories - the written in 1940. Set The extraordinary memoir from one super-breed, The Island world of a prosperous first a horrifying account of in a small town in the of Doctor Moreau was Viennese family. roulette addiction, and the American South, it is of the world’s greatest living novelists. described by H. G. second a waking nightmare the story of a group of Wells as an ‘exercise in in which a well-meaning people who have little youthful blasphemy’. official attends the wedding in common except that of one of his subordinates. they are all lonely. How to Make Your Wat die hart First Million van vol is Don’t Look Now Warren Ingram Peter Veldsman met Daphne Du Maurier Softcover | R220 Elmari Rautenbach Paperback | R180 9781770227613 (print) Sagteband | R230 9780241259726 9781770227620 (ePub) 9781770229716 (print) 9781770229723 (ePub) John and Laura have come to Venice Have you ever wondered how

to try and escape the pain of their wealthy people actually made their P eter V eldsman Met erferniskos wat deesdae young daughter’s death. But when they first million? Here is a book that shows how various internasionaal hoogmode is, staan een kok uit: encounter two old women who claim people have made their money in their own unique Peter Veldsman, die man wat van streekskos to have second sight, they find that way, thus allowing you to find a method that works fynkos gemaak het en met sy kosskrywes, 11 Sanshiro instead of laying their ghosts to rest for you so that you, too, can make your first million kosboeke en sy restaurant Emily’s vir meer as Natsume Soseki they become caught up in a train of and gain financial freedom. 40 jaar ’n huishoudelike naam in Suid-Afrikaanse Paperback | R160 increasingly strange and violent events. The book provides practical ways of setting goals – maar veral Afrikaanse – kombuise was. Vir 9780241284469 The four other haunting, evocative and keeping yourself motivated to achieve them, Peter loop kos en kultuur hand aan hand. Hy’t dit stories in this volume also explore deep One of Soseki’s most especially in tough times. uitgeleef en uitgevoer, tot die “101ste variasie van fears and longings, secrets and desires. beloved works of fiction, How to Make Your First Million provides people from waterblommetjiebredie ... ” the novel depicts the all walks of life with practical information on how Nostalgies, hartroerend en humoristies – ’n boek 23-year-old Sanshiro to achieve financial freedom in a range of different waarmee jy met ’n lekker glasie rooiwyn voor die leaving the sleepy ways and shows that it is possible for everyone to vuur wil kuier. countryside for the be financially free. first time.

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non-Fiction continued… Make or Break Richard Calland POCKET PENGUINS Softcover | R220 | 9781776090761 (print) | 9781776090778 (ePub)

In his new book, Richard Calland raises a compelling argument: South Africa is at a critical juncture, and events over the next three years are going to shape the country’s next three decades. Jacob Zuma’s term as president is due to end in 2019 and there are calls for him to resign; the ANC is declining in popularity and moral stature; opposition parties are gaining ground; the economy and the currency are in trouble; the Treasury has been wracked by power struggles; the Public Protector’s term ends later in 2016; and the rule of law and judicial independence are Good Morning, Storm of Steel The Twelve Wind, Sand under pressure. Midnight Ernst Jünger Caesars and Stars Looking at these and other issues, Calland explores possible Jean Rhys Paperback | R180 Suetonius Antoine De Saint- futures for South Africa, showing how the next few years are the Paperback | R180 9780241261996 Paperback | R180 Exupéry most critical since the 1990s, and how South Africa can set itself 9780241261408 9780241261675 Paperback | R180 Storm of Steel is one on a path to either success or failure. 9780241261644 In 1930s Paris, where of the greatest works The Twelve Caesars one cheap hotel room to emerge from the chronicles the public In 1926 de Saint- is much like another, catastrophe of the First careers and private Exupéry began flying How the next three years will shape a young woman World War. A memoir lives of the men who for the pioneering South Africa’s next three decades is teaching herself of astonishing power, wielded absolute power airline Latécoère – later indifference. She has savagery and ashen over Rome, from the known as Aéropostale – escaped personal lyricism, it illuminates foundation of the opening up the first mail tragedy and has like no other book the empire under Julius routes across the Sahara come to France to horrors but also the Caesar and Augustus, and the Andes. Wind, History Matters Student Comrade find courage and seek fascination of total war, to the decline into Sand and Stars is drawn Bill Nasson Prisoner Spy independence. She presenting the conflict depravity and civil war from this experience. Hardcover | R280 Bridget Hilton-Barber tells herself to expect through the eyes of under Nero and the ‘Self-discovery comes 9781776090273 (print) Softcover | R230 nothing, especially not an ordinary German recovery that came when a man measures 9781776090280 (ePub) 9781770228009 (print) kindness, least of all soldier. As an account with his successors. himself against an 9781770228016 (ePub) History Matters is an eloquent from men. Tomorrow, of the terrors of the A masterpiece of obstacle,’ writes selection of writings over four When Bridget Hilton-Barber got she resolves, she will Western Front and of observation, anecdote Saint-Exupéry. With decades by Bill Nasson, one on a train in 1982 to go to Rhodes dye her hair blonde. the sickening allure that and detailed physical this book he explores of South Africa’s most popular and highly University to study journalism, she had no idea of the made men keep fighting description, The Twelve the transcendent respected historians. brutal drama that would unfold. A rebellious young on for four long years, Caesars presents us perceptions that arise The pieces in this compendium are lively and girl, she became politically involved in anti-apartheid Storm of Steel has no with a gallery of vividly when life is tested to its entertaining, written with wit, humour and a finely organisations and got caught up in the massive equal. drawn – and all too limits. Both a gripping tuned sense of irony. Chapters cover the Anglo- resistance and repression sweeping the Eastern Cape human – individuals. tale of adventure and Boer War, the two World Wars, cricket, District Six, at the time. She ended up spending three months in a poetic meditation. schooldays and education, Spike Lee, Hollywood and detention without trial, and after her release discovered history, Mandela and other political biographies, and she had been betrayed by one of her best friends, a great many other topics. Resembling a pudding Olivia Forsyth, who was a spy for the South African of spicy plums, this is a perfect book for anyone security police. This is Hilton-Barber’s harrowing and interested in South Africa and its history, and in powerful story. Thirty years later, a horrific flashback a broader appreciation of tweaking the tail of life triggers her journey back to the Eastern Cape to see in the past. if she can forgive her betrayer and finally let go of the extraordinary violence she encountered in the final days of apartheid.

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non-Fiction continued… Fun Foods Hidden Johannesburg Sam Scarborough Paul Duncan & Alain Proust Softcover | R170 | 9781432306441 Hardcover | R390 | 9781770079922 Ook beskikbaar in Afrikaans In a town that prides itself on the pursuit of fortune, it’s Pretkos 9781432306458 a challenge to preserve heritage, and it is against this Most mothers are familiar with the daily challenge of encouraging their background that Hidden Johannesburg offers a snapshot children to eat healthy, sustaining meals that will fill them with vitality of 28 notable buildings. From the stately mansions of as well as nourishment. the Randlords to their downtown headquarters, the Fun Foods offers a treasure trove of ideas for how to create healthy clubs where they socialised and the churches where they meals for kids that are also inspiring and, well, fun! Covering salads, worshipped, the architecture of early Johannesburg lives snacks, lunchboxes and sarmies, dinner, tea time, picnics, veggies and on in sandstone, granite, marble and slate. But this is a fruit, the chapters include many creative ideas for dishes that children city that constantly reinvents itself, and where the old can make for themselves, using their imagination. Throughout, the is all-too-readily demolished to make way for the next recipes have been styled to make everyday meals fun: think Funny ‘big thing’. Some buildings will survive, others will be Bunny Salad, Frittata Faces, Purple Pasta, Owl Rice Cakes and Sushi consigned to memory. Sandwiches. Hidden Johannesburg reveals fragments of the history of this vibrant city but, perhaps, the book also tells us something about our future, for if we allow our heritage to be swept away in the name of progress, are we advancing at all?

The Cookie Jar Lisa Clark Softcover | R200 | 9781432306632 Ook beskikbaar in Afrikaans Die Koekiefles 9781432306649

The Cookie Jar is a collection of 100 recipes for biscuits, cookies and rusks, written by Lisa Clark specifically for the home baker. The recipes have been thoroughly tried and tested and will please anyone who wants to bake their own biscuits for the cookie jar. Best of all, you don’t need to be an experienced baker Magical Jungle Artist’s Painting the Art Book to achieve success with these recipes. They are easy to Johanna Basford Techniques Johanna Basford follow and use everyday ingredients. The Cookie Jar will Trade paperback | R200 Hardcover | R350 Hardcover | R250 take you back to the days when baking was therapeutic 9780753557167 9780241229453 9780241239018 and an important part of life. A new, jungle themed colouring Follow the fully illustrated step- Take a tour of the world’s greatest book by the multi-million-copy- by-step guides and get inspiring artistic works and movements – selling worldwide phenomenon, advice from practising artists, from prehistoric cave painting to Johanna Basford, creator of the working with watercolour, acrylic, postmodern art – and explore the global bestsellers, Lost Ocean, and oil paints in a variety of techniques, styles, and concepts Enchanted Forest and Secret art techniques. Kickstart your behind each one. Garden. creativity and develop your own style with Artist’s Painting Techniques.

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Homo Deus the Bedside Ark Wildlife of the Okavango Yuval Noah Harari David Muirhead Duncan Butchart Trade paperback | R340 Softcover | R160 Softcover | R160 | 9781775843382 (print) 9781910701881 9781775844617 (print) 9781775843399 (ePub) | 9781775843405 (ePDF) 9781775844624 (ePub) Yuval Noah Harari, author of the A remarkable variety of animals and plants can be found 9781775844631 (ePDF) bestselling Sapiens: A Brief in the wilderness region surrounding the Okavango Delta. History of Humankind, envisions This riotous assembly of This photographic guide covers more than 470 of the area’s a not-too-distant world in which unrespectable creatures most conspicuous and interesting mammals, birds, reptiles, we face a new set of challenges. Now, in Homo Deus, comprises 42 short accounts of southern Africa’s frogs, fishes, invertebrates, trees and aquatic plants. he examines our future with his trademark blend most intriguing wild animals. An informative introduction describes the area’s geology, of science, history, philosophy and every discipline Basing his accounts on accurate, true-to-life detail, climate, habitats and the key roles played by some animals, in between. but always looking on the light side, author David such as termites and elephants. The species accounts Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and night- Muirhead captures the weird and wonderful lives of feature concise text describing the species’ appearance, mares that will shape the twenty-first century – from his subjects, investigating their often exaggerated size, habits, habitat and status, with full-colour photographs overcoming death to creating artificial life. reputations, their habits, weaknesses, armouries and to facilitate identification. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we modi operandi. go from here? And how will we protect this fragile At once informative and hugely entertaining, this An invaluable guide to this world from our own destructive powers? This is light-hearted collection will appeal to anyone with the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus. the slightest interest in wildlife and – for its excellent magnificent oasis. entertainment value – will make a particularly wonderful gift.

South Africa Africa’s Top Geological Sites Softcover | R250 | 9781775845119 Softcover | R390 | 9781775844488 (print) Every day, everywhere, there are new 9781775845386 (ePub) | 9781775845393 (ePDF) sights to behold and new experiences This detailed and colourful book features 44 of the to share – a graceful old Cape Dutch continent’s most spectacular and interesting ‘geosites’, homestead set against lush vineyards, from Table Mountain in the south to the eroded necks blue-purple mountains, the demure smile and plugs of the Hoggar region in Algeria; and from of a Zulu bride, a bird on a wire. It is the the volcanic islands of the Atlantic Ocean to the sun, the sand, the textures, the colours continental fragments off the African east coast. Each and the sounds that conjure up the spirit site is authored by a geologist (or specialist in a related of South Africa. This volume is a fine field) with in-depth knowledge about the particular tribute to the country, its people and its feature or landform: how it formed and developed, its land- and cityscapes. This is the face of current geological status, ecological impact, and its the nation – the essence of South Africa. archaeological and cultural interest. Supported with many photographs, maps, satellite images and explanatory illustrations, the text is accessible to geologists and lay enthusiasts alike, unpacking the hows and whys of Africa’s most intriguing landforms, sites and geological features.

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october Tom Clancy’s Woman of God Commander-in-Chief James Patterson Mark Greaney Trade paperback | R305 | 9781780895376 Paperback | R180 St Peter’s Square, Rome. 9781405922180 White smoke signals that a new Pope has Russia is hurting. It’s economy is been chosen. tanking and its ‘adventures’ abroad Is it possible that the new Pope… is a have proved costly. President woman? Volodin knows that his own survival depends on The world is watching as historic crowds restoring Russian pride. gather in Rome, waiting for news of a new When a series of explosions, assassinations and Pope. Some followers are ecstatic, but the attacks rock the global order, only one man in leading candidate has made a legion of the West recognizes the true cause of the chaos: powerful enemies. American President Jack Ryan. Brigid Fitzgerald’s convictions and callings President Ryan cannot use military might without have made her the target of all those who escalating conflict and playing into Volodin’s hands. fear that the Church has lost its way – Fiction Instead he turns to his covert intelligence agencies. dangerous adversaries who abhor challenges They must uncover, infiltrate and neutralize each and to tradition. Pirate every threat. But time is running out. And this war is Locked in a deadly, high-stakes battle with Clive Cussler & Robin Burcell about to go global… forces determined to undermine everything Trade paperback | R305 | 9780718182915 she believes in, Brigid must convert her enemies to her cause before she loses her An 800-year-old treasure… faith… and her life. An ancient cypher wheel… A brutal murder… And a man who will stop at nothing to Conclave claim what he considers rightfully his. Robert Harris Trade paperback | R305 Husband-and-wife treasure-hunting 9780091959173 team Sam and Remi Fargo have gone on impossible missions before and faced The Pope is dead. many perils, but never have they faced Behind the locked doors of the an adversary as determined as the one Sistine Chapel, one hundred and before them now. The battle will take them twenty Cardinals from all over halfway around the world, and at its end the globe will cast their votes in the world’s most will be either one of the most glorious finds secretive election. in history – or certain death. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will Husband-and-wife become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth. treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo try to unravel yet another

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Fiction continued… Playing with Fire Tess Gerritsen Private Paris Paperback | R180 | 9780857502940 James Patterson What if your child wanted you dead? Paperback | R180 | 9780099594475 Julia doesn’t understand what is happening to her Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. When Jack Morgan stops by daughter, but she thinks she knows what’s causing Private’s Paris office, he is quickly it. She is terrified for Lily, and for herself, but what pressed into duty after a call from scares her more is that no one believes her. one of his most important clients If she is going to help Lily, she will have to find asking Private to track down his the answers alone, embarking on a search that will young granddaughter who is on the run from a brutal take her to the shadowy back streets of Venice. drug dealer. There, Julia uncovers a heartbreaking, long-buried As Jack scours the city, several members of Paris’s tale of tragedy and devastation – a discovery that cultural elite are found dead – murdered in shocking, puts her in serious danger. Some people will do symbolic fashion – and the French police need anything in their power to keep the truth silent… Private’s help.

Princess: Secrets to Share Jean Sasson Paperback | R180 | 9780857503084

This new book will attract both Jean Sasson’s many loyal readers and new audiences eager to learn the Girl on Never Go Back film film more about not only how the the Train Lee Child Saudi Royal family live, but how with courage and Paula Hawkins tie-in Paperback | R180 tie-in The Verdict determination the Princess continues the fight for Paperback | R180 9780857503497 James Patterson Cover not Cover not equal rights for women in the Middle East. 9781784161750 Paperback | 59,95 | 9781786530318 available available Drop-out military cop Jack Rachel catches the same Reacher has finally hitch-hiked A woman violently attacked in her bed. commuter train every morning. his way to Virginia. His destination, A billionaire businessman on trial at She knows it will wait at the same the closest thing to a home The Old Bailey. Shepherds film signal each time, overlooking he ever had: the headquarters of his old unit, As the world’s press gather outside London’s & Butchers tie-in a row of back gardens. She’s even started to feel like the 110th Military Police. luxurious Tribeca hotel, can Jon Roscoe Chris Marnewick she knows the people who live in one of the houses. Reacher has no real reason to be here, except protect his own family from the terrifying Paperback | R210 And then she sees something shocking. It’s only that he spoke to the new commanding officer on consequences of the verdict? 9781415209011 a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. the phone. He liked Major Susan Turner’s voice. Leon Labuschagne’s livelihood Now everything’s changed. Now Rachel has But now he’s arrived, she’s disappeared, and things depends on death. At nineteen, a chance to become a part of the lives she’s only are getting weird. he is a warder on Death Row: watched from afar. Accused of a sixteen-year-old homicide and a shepherd who cares for the condemned – and Now they’ll see; she’s much more than just the girl on co-opted back into the army, Reacher says nothing. a butcher who escorts them to the gallows. After the train… But he’s sure as hell thinking of a way out. a gruelling two-week stint in which thirty-two men were hanged, Leon loses control, with tragic results. And now he’s the one facing the death penalty.

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Fiction continued… The Truth According The Long Wave non-Fiction to Us Tom Dreyer The Classic South African Cookbook Annie Barrows Trade paperback | R220 Melinda Roodt Paperback | R180 | 9781784160760 9781415208953 Hardcover | R350 | 9781432306731 Ook beskikbaar in Afrikaans Miss Layla Beck despises small- Ook beskikbaar in Afrikaans Die Klassieke Suid- Dorado 9781415208960 town life. Afrikaanse Kookboek 9781432306748 After refusing to marry the man After his father dies, Gilbert begins to The Classic South African Cookbook is exactly that – classic her rich father has picked for her, have grand visions of schools of fish home cooking for South Africans the way they eat now. In line Layla is banished to the remote town of Macedonia, and contour-lines of light that he believes are sending with the country’s diverse cultures, which often blend more West Virginia, a place where nothing important ever him a message. He embarks on a road trip, following harmoniously in the kitchen than in any other sphere of life, happens – or so she thinks. his hallucinations as they guide him from his small-town this book is a kaleidoscope of our modern lifestyle with Tasked to write down the history of the town, Layla existence in Kirkwood through the Karoo and ultimately influences from grandma’s kitchen, popular Mediterranean meets the seductive Romeyn clan. As she peels back to Cape Town. cuisine, as well as both Indian and African culture. the layers of family feuds and deceit, she discovers to Although the road trip starts off with a sense of purpose, But no matter what your roots may be, this book sets her cost an unknown story far darker than she could it transforms into a manic expedition to find meaning and a foundation for good, honest, carefree home cooking, ever have imagined. design in a randomised world, and to reconcile with his incorporating all the well-loved and familiar favourites. The smallest towns have the biggest secrets. past. Gilbert’s journey takes him to Kuils River, where he The more than 170 recipes have been refined to guarantee meets and falls in love with Katie. mouth-watering results, no matter your skill level. Only fresh But are the signs Gilbert spots mere coincidences, or are and locally available ingredients are used, while the various they proof of a greater power guiding him? techniques are carefully explained – a real boon to those just setting out on their culinary journeys. Best of all, every recipe 170+ recipes for all occasions – is accompanied by a full-colour photograph. from home cooking to everyday entertaining

Tannie Maria & the Satanic Mechanic: A Tannie Maria Mystery Sally Andrew Trade paperback | R230 | 9781415207673

Meet Tannie Maria – food writer turned crime fighter. Before she has time to take her Venus Chocolate Cake out of the oven, she finds herself embroiled in another mystery. In this delectable sequel to Recipes for Love and Murder, Slimkat finds his life under threat and Tannie Maria is determined to find out who wants to kill him. Ottolenghi: The Cookbook Her new boyfriend wants to keep her out of danger Yotam Ottolenghi though, but she’s pretty sure he’s hiding something. Hardcover | R615 | 9781785034770 Suddenly Tannie Maria has a host of mysteries to solve… Yotam and Sami’s inventive yet simple dishes rest on numerous culinary traditions, ranging from North Africa to Lebanon, Italy Blending an irresistible whodunnit and California. The 140 original recipes cover everything from with lovable characters and delicious accomplished meat and fish main courses, through to healthy and quick salads and suppers, plus Ottolenghi’s famously delectable food, Sally Andrew has perfected the cakes and breads. recipe for a crime series.

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non-Fiction continued… Jamie’s Christmas The Spiritual Mandela Cookbook The Dalai Lama: Dennis Cruywagen Jamie Oliver The Definitive Biography Softcover | R200 | 9781770227828 (print) Hardcover | R590 | 9780718183653 Cover not Alexander Norman 9781770227835 (ePub) available Jamie’s Christmas Cookbook will Trade paperback | R305 | 9781846044670 This book traces the spiritual aspect of Mandela’s be packed with all the classics you In this new biography, the first in 25 years, life, from his youth in a traditional Thembu village, need for the big day and beyond, Alexander Norman reveals the complex and to his education at Wesleyan and Methodist as well as loads of delicious compelling character of the Dalai Lama in mission schools, to his time as an activist, his recipes for edible gifts, party food and new ways more detail than ever before. Drawing on his period on Robben Island and the years thereafter. to love those leftovers. It’s everything you need for long friendship with His Holiness and with It explores the way that he balanced Christianity the best Christmas ever. his full support, Norman gives unparalled with traditional African beliefs, and with his With chapters including The Main Event: Meat, insights into the Dalai Lama’s life, from being political views, and how he reconciled his own The Wonderful World of Potatoes, Vegetarian Mains chosen as a young boy, his exile from Tibet beliefs with the fact that religion had been used and Scrumptious Veggie Sides, Cute Edible Gifts and his involvement in political negotiations, as a tool to oppress his people. and Festive Puddings, you’re guaranteed to have to the present day. Uniquely, however, this Based on interviews with some of Mandela’s close a super-delicious festive period, without the stress. book also reveals the private life of a very colleagues, such as Ahmed Kathrada, as well as public man, including his personal spiritual priests and other religious figures with whom he experiences, daily Buddhist practice and the interacted, this book unearths an issues that are closest to his heart. unknown dimension of recent history’s most Illuminating, surprising and fascinating, this famous man. The Book of Joy book is essential reading for all those who Dalai Lama & want to understand the Dalai Lama. Desmond Tutu Hardcover | R305 9781786330444

Two of the world’s most Field Guide to Lies influential spiritual leaders, Daniel Levitin His Holiness the Dalai Lama Trade paperback | R320 | 9780241240007 and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have come We live in a world of information overload. Facts and together to share their thoughts on achieving figures on absolutely everything are at our fingertips, enduring happiness. but are too often biased, distorted, or outright lies. Whether we are frustrated with the morning traffic, From unemployment figures to voting polls, IQ tests fearful that we cannot provide for our families, to divorce rates, we’re bombarded by seemingly or grieving for the loss of a loved one, is it really plausible statistics on how people live and what they possible to be joyful in the face of our daily troubles? think. Daniel Levitin teaches us how to effectively And even if our lives are well and good, how can we ask ourselves: can we really know that? And how do live in joy when so many others are suffering? they know that? With jokes, discussions, fondness and friendship, In this eye-opening, accessible guide filled with the ‘mischievous spiritual brothers’ from different fascinating examples and practical takeaways, cultures and religions tackle the answers to these acclaimed neuroscientist Daniel Levitin shows us questions, and share their personal stories of how learning to understand statistics will enable you struggle and renewal. to make better, smarter judgements on the world around you.

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non-Fiction continued… The Euro Together Ripley’s Believe It Joseph Stiglitz is Better or Not! 2017 Hardcover | R455 Simon Sinek Ripley’s 9780241258156 Hardcover | R320 Hardcover | R455 | 9781847947888 9780241187296 Laying bare the European Central The Ripley’s Believe It or Not! annual Bank’s misguided inflation-only Every day, hundreds of has now firmly established itself as a mandate and explaining why thousands of fans eagerly wait on social media for Christmas must-have, with an ever- austerity has condemned Europe Simon Sinek’s aphorisms on leadership, teamwork growing army of loyal fans. Following to unending stagnation, Stiglitz outlines three and motivation. Now he has collected his best hot on the heels of last year’s possible ways forward: fundamental reforms in the axioms and anecdotes into a small, beautifully Top 10 bestseller, Ripley’s Believe It structure of the Eurozone and the policies imposed illustrated book. or Not! 2017 offers a completely new on the member countries suffering the most; a well- Tackling the realities and foibles of modern work, compendium of strange but true facts managed end to the euro; or a bold, new system he from initial doubts to ever-escalating obstacles, and amazing stories, ranging from the dubs the ‘flexible euro’. This important book, by one Together is Better will lift readers out of their rut Polar Bear robot, to the edible human of the world’s leading economists, addresses the and inspire leaders at every level. skull, to the woman who still suffers euro-crisis on a bigger intellectual scale than any from sea-sickness three years after her predecessor. last boat trip, to the Swiss daredevil who soars over famous landmarks in his custom-made jet pack.

The amazing Ripley’s Believe It or Not! annual is back again, with yet more extraordinary stories, mind- Feminist Fight Club Jessica Bennett boggling facts and amazing Trade paperback | R320 | 9780241244838 photographs.

If this were an equal world, this book wouldn’t have to exist. But the reality is, it’s not; and we shouldn’t wait around for somebody else to save us. We need to fight for ourselves. Welcome to the Feminist Fight Club. the Classic Car Book Here is an arsenal of weapons for surviving in an Hardcover | R455 | 9780241240489 unequal world. You will learn how to fight micro- Fully illustrated and packed with stunning photography, The Classic Car aggressions, correct unconscious bias, deal with Book uses specially commissioned photographic tours to put you in the male colleagues who can’t stop ‘manterrupting’ (yes, driver’s seat of the world’s most famous vintage cars, including stylish women get interrupted in meetings more than men) roadsters and luxury limousines from manufacturers such as Mercedez- or ‘bro-propriating’ your ideas – and lean in without Benz, Ferrari, Rover, Jaguar, and Bentley. falling the f**k over. The Classic Car Book takes you on a scenic drive through the history of Every woman needs this book, and they needed it classic cars, profiling iconic models and key details of the world’s most yesterday. famous vehicles, and charting their legacy as objects of luxury and desire. A battle guide for the intentional and unintentional douchebaggery we sometimes call sexism.

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non-Fiction continued… The Stars Tissue Salts for Great City Maps Hardcover | R570 Anti-ageing Hardcover | R455 | 9780241238981 9780241226025 Margaret Roberts Softcover | R140 This beautifully illustrated book explores the Fully authenticated by the 9781775843580 (print) world’s most celebrated historical city maps. Smithsonian Institution, 9781775843597 (ePub) Richly detailed ancient and modern maps of The Stars lets you explore 9781775843603 (PDF) important cities take you on a journey across the awe-inspiring wonders the globe in stunning detail, from Athens to of our universe and discover In this book, Margaret Roberts Alexandria and Cape Town to Cairo, with close the most fascinating objects known to astronomy, draws on decades of experience to advise readers up views of each city’s most intriguing features. from glittering starbirth nebulae to supermassive on using the 12 key tissue salts to slow the ageing Great City Maps gives you more than just black holes. Stunning 3D graphics chart all process, promote vitality and enhance health. a bird’s-eye-view, telling the tales behind the 88 constellations from Andromeda to Virgo, Each tissue salt is presented in its own chapter, city from the hubs of ancient civilisation to forming a complete map of the night sky. with tips on treating specific ailments and advice modern mega-cities. Follow the history of on increasing the intake of the salts through diet. maps and their stories, with profiles of iconic An ailment chart is included for quick reference. cartographers and artists showing you who An indispensable guide for anyone interested in created each map, how, and why. health, wellness, and using natural remedies to ease the effects of ageing.

Hoe verklaar jy dit? Chocolate Science Danny Fourie Hardcover | R340 Hardcover | R685 Sagteband | R220 | 9781776090495 (print) 9780241229439 9780241240472 9781776090501 (e-boek) | 9781776090518 (PDF)

Indulge your inner chocoholic Delve into the history of Ons weet dat die maan iets met die getye te doen het, with Chocolate, the decadent science and the discoveries maar het jy geweet dat jy met volmaan altyd dieselfde and in-depth exploration that changed the world with kant van die maan sien? Of dat gaap aansteeklik is vir of the world’s favourite Science. This brand new die mens en sommige diere? As jy lees of praat oor sweet treat. edition is fully up-to-date, gaap, begin jy onmiddellik te gaap. Step-by-step masterclasses in using chocolate are and covers everything from ancient Greek geometry Hierdie feite is deel van ’n magdom kennis oor die supplemented by mouth-watering photography to quantum physics, IVF, and global warming. natuur, fisiese wetenskap en die ruimte wat die to tickle your tastebuds. Once you’re a chocolate RSG-program Hoe verklaar jy dit? reeds jare lank expert, get creating with 15 indulgent recipes worthy beantwoord. Die publikasie bevat ’n keur uit die of a chocolatier including hot chocolate, truffles, and honderde vrae van nuuskierige luisteraars wat deur chocolate brownies. kundiges verduidelik is om die wêreld minder vreemd Try something delicious with Chocolate, te maak, want nie alle kennis van die wêreld om ons is the perfect gift for all foodies and chocoholics. voor die hand liggend nie.

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non-Fiction continued… guide to Birds of the Kruger National Park november Warwick Tarboton & Peter Ryan Softcover | R250 | 9781775844495 (print) 9781775844501 (ePub) | 978177584451 (PDF) The Kruger National Park, one of the largest and best- Fiction known conservation areas in the world, supports a remarkable diversity of birds. This attractive and handy Night School field guide lists more than 500 species that have been Lee Child recorded here, and provides full-colour photographs, Trade paperback | R340 | 9780593073919 detailed distribution maps and succinct information on 400 of these – all the species that a visitor is likely In the morning, they gave Reacher a medal. to encounter in the park. An informative introduction And in the afternoon, they sent him back to describes the park’s underlying geology, vegetation school. types, climate and rainfall, and how these dictate bird Night School takes Reacher back to his distributions within the area. army days, but this time he’s not in uniform. With trusted sergeant Frances Neagley at his side, he must carry the fate of the world on his shoulders, in a wired, fiendishly clever new adventure that will make the cold sweat trickle down your spine. Distribution maps uniquely depict recorded sightings

Dr Jack’s Illustrated South African Byrd Book (again) Softcover | R120 | 9781775845287

This humorous book follows two earlier books by Dr Jack that proved highly popular. Picture driven, it features a collection of cartoons that lampoon birds on the basis of their common The twenty-first Jack Reacher names. The author draws on some existing material, but also turns to the renaming of a number of southern African birds for thriller by number-one fresh inspiration. bestselling author Lee Child. The book is targeted specifically at South African ‘twitchers’, as well as more relaxed bird watchers and nature lovers in general – the perfect affordable gift for the birder who already has everything else.

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Fiction continued… Hag-seed The Award Cross the Line The Bone Collection Margaret Atwood Danielle Steel James Patterson Kathy Reichs Trade paperback | R305 | 9781781090237 Trade paperback | R240 Trade paperback | R220 Trade paperback | R305 | 9781785150968 9780593068960 Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Cover not 9781780892696 In First Bones, a prequel to Reichs’s very Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. available The Award is an epic, emotionally Shots ring out in the early first novel,Déjà Dead, she at last reveals His productions have amazed and confounded. resonant tale stretching from morning hours in the suburbs how Tempe became a forensic anthropologist. Now he’s staging a Tempest like no other: not World War II France to present-day of Washington, D.C. When the In this never-before-published story, only will it boost his reputation, it will heal Paris, from one of our most gifted, smoke clears, a prominent police Tempe recalls the case that lured her from emotional wounds. beloved storytellers: Danielle Steel at her finest. official lies dead, leaving the city’s police force a promising career in academia into the grim Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of scrambling for answers. but addictive world of criminal investigation. unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in Under pressure from the mayor, Alex Cross steps Three more stories take Tempe from the low a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of An epic and emotionally into the leadership vacuum to investigate the case. country of the Florida Everglades, where she his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And also resonant tale from the But before Cross can make any headway, a brutal makes a grisly discovery in the stomach of brewing revenge. crime wave sweeps across the region. The deadly an eighteen-foot Burmese python, to the Margaret Atwood’s novel take on world’s favourite storyteller, scenes share only one common thread – the victims heights of Mount Everest, where a frozen Shakespeare’s play of enchantment, revenge Danielle Steel. are all criminals. And the only thing more dangerous corpse is unearthed. and second chances leads us on an interactive, than a murderer without a conscience, is a killer who illusion-ridden journey filled with new surprises thinks he has justice on his side. A collection of short stories and wonders of its own. featuring Dr Temperance Brennan, from the Sunday Times and New York Times No. 1 bestselling author, Kathy Reichs. Lugkasteel The Kidnapping Annelie Botes Jo Nesbo Sagteband | R220 Trade paperback | R305 9781770229297 (print) 9781846557422 Cover not 9781770229303 (ePub) available The eagerly anticipated new book Die gewilde skrywer van die from Jo Nesbo. blitsverkoper Sabbatsreis is terug met ’n aangrypende “Nesbo explores the darkest vertelling oor haar ervaring as goewernante vir criminal minds with grim delight and puts his killer vier onhebbelike bloubloed-seuntjies in Engeland. where you least expect to find them…. His novels In Lugkasteel lewer Annelie Botes verslag oor haar are maddeningly addictive.” – Vanity Fair hellejaar in ’n grillerige ou kasteelhuis naby die grens van Wallis. Lesers word meegevoer deur die humor en patos van ’n verhaal waarin lugkastele ineentuimel en alles soms vlietend is soos swaanvere in die wind. Shakespeare’s play of magic Maar ondanks ons stukkende vlerke neem Botes ons saam op haar vlug – hoër en verder as wat and illusion reimagined enigiemand kon droom. by one of the world’s great literary innovators.

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Honeymoon in Paris and Other Stories Jojo Moyes non-Fiction Hardcover | R305 | 9780718185367 Not Without a Fight From provincial Sophie being swept off of her feet in the glamour Helen Zille of belle époque Paris to Beth’s unexpected confrontation with an Hardcover | R380 | 9781776090426 (print) old lover in a marquee in Britain, this first collection of short stories 9781776090433 (ePub) from internationally bestselling author Jojo Moyes contains ten tales Prior to entering politics, Zille made a name for herself as a of love, loss, liberation and laughter. Honeymoon in Paris and Other political journalist and outspoken critic of apartheid, working for Stories is ideal for fans of Me Before You and After You as well as South Africa’s leading liberal newspaper, the Rand Daily Mail. It being the perfect gift this Christmas. was during her tenure at the paper that she famously exposed the circumstances behind Steve Biko’s death in police custody in Jojo Moyes worked at the Independent for ten years before 1977. Zille joined the former Democratic Party in the mid-1990s, leaving to write full-time. Her novels have all been critically where she was asked to reformulate the party’s education policy. acclaimed and include the Sunday Times Number One bestseller After a term in the Western Cape provincial legislature under The One Plus One and the global phenomenon Me Before You, the newly formed Democratic Alliance she was elected to the which has sold over eight million copies to date. National Assembly as a Member of Parliament in 2004, serving on the Portfolio Committee on Education and as the party’s national spokesperson. In 2006 Zille was elected mayor of Cape Town and in 2007 took over as leader of the Democratic Alliance. When her party won the Western Cape in the 2009 general Not Without a Fight is the long- election, she was appointed premier of the province. In this Cover not awaited autobiography of Helen available highly anticipated book, Helen Zille discusses frankly all these and the many other events that helped shape her into one of Zille, premier of the Western South Africa’s most formidable and recognisable politicians. Cape and former leader of the film tie-in Democratic Alliance. Adder Cross Justice Inferno Christelle Wessels James Patterson Dan Brown Trade paperback | R220 Paperback | R180 Paperback | R180 9781485903109 9780099594338 9780552172127 SAS Rogue Heroes – The Klara Francke is ’n maatskaplike When his cousin is accused of a ‘Jam-packed with tricks… A book Authorized Wartime History werker met meer as een donker heinous crime, Alex Cross returns length scavenger hunt Mr Brown Ben Macintyre geheim. Sy is vasgekeer in to his North Carolina hometown creates so energetically’ Trade paperback | R340 | 9780241186633 ’n giftige huwelik en leef in for the first time in over three – New York Times In the summer of 1941 a young officer, David konstante vrees vir haar eie lewe decades. As he tries to prove his Stirling, came up with a plan that was imaginative, en dié van haar tienerjarige seun, cousin’s innocence in a town where Robert Langdon wakes up in radical and entirely against the rules: a small, op wie sy swaar steun. everyone seems to be on the take, a Florence hospital with no clue undercover unit that would wreak havoc behind Wanneer haar man die Cross unearths a family secret that how he got there. enemy lines. Despite intense opposition, Winston nuwe ingenieur wat by ’n forces him to question everything Another attack on his life makes Churchill personally gave Stirling permission to sonkragaanleg buite die dorp he’s ever known. it very clear – someone wants him recruit the most ruthless soldiers he could find. begin werk het, huis toe nooi, Chasing a ghost he believed was dead. And fast. So began the most celebrated and mysterious voel Klara onmiddellik tot hom long dead, Cross gets pulled into a To survive, Langdon must work military organization in the world: the SAS. aangetrokke. Terwyl sy worstel case that has local cops scratching out who it is. And then he must The history of the SAS is an exhilarating tale of met haar gevoelens vir haar man their heads and needing his help. answer the next question – why? fearlessness and heroism, recklessness and tragedy; se kollega, spook die polisie op Now he’s hot on the trail of both of extraordinary men willing to take monumental die dorp om die moorde op twee a brutal killer, and the truth about risks. It is a story of the meaning of courage. aantreklike jong vroue te ontrafel. his own past – and the answers he finds might be fatal.

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non-Fiction continued… Making It Up as I Go Along not dead yet Marian Keyes Phil Collins Paperback | R180 Trade paperback | R340 | 9781780895130 9781405922074 In his memoir Phil talks honestly about his A hilarious collection of Marian’s three failed marriages, his alcoholism and hilarious and heartfelt observations his ill health but also describes the highs and on modern life, love and much, lows of his career, and what it is like to work much else besides. Such as? you ask. Well, how with other rock legends from Clapton to Johanna’s Christmas Reality Is Not What Ardennes 1944 about her guide to breaking up with your hairdresser. Robert Plant. Johanna Basford It Seems Antony Beevor The warning she has for us all after a particularly Published to coincide with the release of Trade paperback | R230 Carlo Rovelli Paperback | R205 traumatic fling with fake tan. Not to mention the a singles collection Not Dead Yet will thrill 9780753557563 Hardcover | R455 | 9780241257968 9780241975152 very best lies to tell if you find yourself on an fans and change minds. Antarctic cruise. The perfect Christmas present What are time and space made On 16 December 1944, Hitler launched You’ll be wincing in recognition and won’t be able to for colouring fans, full of festive of? Where does matter come his ‘last gamble’ on the Belgian/ stop laughing at the sheer delightful absurdity that and winter themed illustrations from? And what exactly is reality? German border. Although his generals is modern life – because each and every one of us is by the multi-million-copy- Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent were doubtful of success, younger clearly making it up as we go along. selling worldwide phenomenon, his life exploring these questions officers and NCOs were desperate to Johanna Basford, creator of the and pushing the boundaries of believe that their homes and families global bestsellers, Lost Ocean, what we know. Here he explains could be saved from the vengeful Red The extraordinary memoir from one Enchanted Forest and Secret how our image of the world has Army approaching from the east. The of the world’s greatest living novelists. Garden. changed throughout centuries. Ardennes offensive, with more than From Aristotle to Albert Einstein, a million men involved, became the Michael Faraday to the Higgs greatest battle of the war in western boson, he takes us on a wondrous Europe. journey to show us that beyond In January 1945, when the Red Army our ever-changing idea of reality launched its onslaught towards Berlin, Absolutely on Music is a whole new world that has yet the once-feared German war machine Haruki Murakami to be discovered. was revealed to be broken beyond Hardcover | R455 repair. The Ardennes was the battle 9781846559198 which finally broke the Wehrmacht. Cover not available Murakami fulfills a personal dream, sitting down with his friend, acclaimed conductor Seiji Ozawa, 500 Low-carb Dishes to talk about their shared interest. Deborah Gray Transcribed from lengthy conversations about Softcover | R150 | 9781432307608 the nature of music and writing, here they discuss everything from Brahms to Beethoven, from Leonard Being healthy shouldn’t mean missing out on the foods that Bernstein to Glenn Gould, from record collecting to This is the rollercoaster you love. 500 Low-carb Dishes is a comprehensive collection pop-up orchestras, and much more. Ultimately this journey from his beginnings of breakfasts, snacks, packed lunches, mains, sides and sweet book gives readers an unprecedented glimpse into treats to delight at every meal. You will be amazed at the the minds of two maestros. as a child actor to his number of recipes that can be easily adapted to fit in with your domination of the charts needs. Lose weight and improve your health with 500 delicious low-carb dishes that will show you how to find innovative ways both as a solo artist and to cut down on sugar and carbs, while still indulging in tasty part of Genesis. treats and satisfying meals.

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The Wildlife of Southern Africa Vincent Carruthers DECember Softcover | R300 | 9781775843535 (print) 9781775844648 (ePub) | 9781775844655 (PDF) Ook beskikbaar in Afrikaans Die Natuurlewe van Suider-Afrika 9781775843542 (print) 9781775844662 (eboek) | 9781775844679 (PDF)

A field guide to the diverse wildlife of southern Africa, describing over 2,000 plants and animals, with accurate illustrations in full colour. Now fully revised and updated, and including range maps for all entries at species level, the book has been a trusted field companion for many years. Each subject chapter (birds, mammals, reptiles, insects, spiders, trees and flowers among others) is written by a leading expert in the field and is colour-coded for easy reference. Fiction

Odessa Sea Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler Trade paperback | R305 | 9780718184636

A desperate attempt in 1917 to preserve the wealth and power of the Romanov Empire. A Cold War bomber lost with a deadly cargo. Mysterious deaths on the Black Sea linked to modern-day smugglers of nuclear materials. At the center of it all is Dirk Pitt and his team from NUMA. As the danger escalates, there’s only one man who can avert catastrophe. From London to Washington, from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, Sky Guide Africa South 2017 the action never stops, as Pitt races to Softcover | R125 | 9781775844778 prevent the next global war. Sky Guide Africa South 2017 is a practical resource for all astronomers, whether they be novice, amateur or professional. It covers the upcoming year’s planetary movements, predicted eclipses, meteor showers – any events and facets of the night sky that change annually. Star charts plot the evening sky for each Dirk Pitt returns in season, facilitating the identification of stars and constellations. the much anticipated The guide contains a wealth of information about the Sun, Moon, planets, comets, meteors and bright stars, with photos, diagrams, brand-new thriller for charts and images. There’s also an excellent list of useful websites 2016 from the grand and a comprehensive glossary. master of adventure, Clive Cussler.

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Tom Clancy’s True Cousins 15th Affair Autumn Faith and Allegiance Salley Vickers GREAT James Patterson Ali Smith Tom Clancy & Mark Greaney Trade paperback | R305 Paperback | R100 DEAL! Trade paperback | R305 Trade paperback | R305 9780241187722 Cover not Cover not 9780099594598 9780241207017 9780718181970 available available Will Tye, a teenage boy from Four bodies are found in a luxury The first of four novels in a shape- The latest Tom Clancy Jack Ryan a middle-class, suburban family, hotel. shifting series, wide-ranging adventure thriller written by Mark develops his first intense crush on The first is a man who checked in timescale and light-footed Greaney, Clancy’s last and most a girl. But the girl is his own cousin in under a false name. Two are through histories. Fusing Keatsian successful collaborator. Cecelia. News of the infatuation spreads through in a room next door, full of surveillance equipment. mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the generations of the Tye family, leaving ripples of And the fourth is the house maid, who saw immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art – via a bit ‘The inventor of the techno-thriller’ – Daily Telegraph resentment and disquiet. When Will experiences too much. of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery a life-changing accident, Cecelia is the most closely Detective Lindsay Boxer is sent in to investigate – Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by affected by his suffering – and her own life is forever and hunt down an elusive and dangerous suspect. the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take changed by how she will respond to it. But when her husband Joe goes missing, she begins on popular culture, and a meditation, in a world Told through the eyes of three women close to Will, to fear that the suspect she is searching for could growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what his sister, his grandmother and his aunt, Cousins be him. richness and worth are, what harvest means. Autumn takes us from the outbreak of the Second World As the case gets ever more complicated and is part of the quartet Seasonal: four stand-alone War to the present day, exploring the recurrence personal, San Francisco is suddenly faced with novels, separate yet interconnected and cyclical of tragedy, the nature of transgression, and the limits an atrocity no one will ever forget. (as the seasons are), exploring what time is, how of morality and love. we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative.

The Wangs VS The World Swing Time Jade Chang Zadie Smith Trade paperback | R305 | 9780241249222 Trade paperback | R305 | 9780241247310

Charles Wang has just lost the cosmetics fortune Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, Swing Time he built up since emigrating to the US. Gone are the is a story about friendship and music and true identity, houses, the cars, and the incredible lifestyle. Faced how they shape us and how we can survive them. with this loss, he decides to take his family on a trip Moving from north-west London to West Africa, it to China and attempt to reclaim his ancestral lands. is an exuberant dance to the music of time. But first they must go on a cross-country journey Two brown girls dream of being dancers – but only to his eldest daughter in New York. Charles takes one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about his other two children out of schools that he can no rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, longer afford and packs them into the only car that what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. wasn’t repossessed – along with their wealth-addicted It’s a close but complicated childhood friendship stepmother. that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never But Charles may have to choose between the old to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either… world and the new, between keeping his family intact and finally, finally fulfilling his dream of China. The unmissable new novel from the one and only, bestselling, prize-winning, generation-defining Zadie Smith. Z a d ie s m i th

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The Age of Dead Souls Eugénie The Good Laughter in The Magician lust, caution Put Out More Reason Nikolay Gogol Grandet Soldier the Dark of Lublin Eileen Chang Flags Jean-Paul Sartre Paperback | R180 Honoré De Balzac Ford Madox Ford Vladimir Nabokov Isaac Bashevis Paperback | R180 Evelyn Waugh Paperback | R180 9780241259993 Paperback | R180 Paperback | R180 Paperback | R180 Singer 9780241259092 Paperback | R180 9780241259696 9780241260050 9780241259405 9780241261248 Paperback | R180 9780241261699 A mysterious stranger In 1940s Shanghai, 9780241260692 Set in the volatile proposes to buy the In a gloomy house in The Dowells, a wealthy Albinus – rich, married, beautiful young Jiazhi Upper-class scoundrel Paris summer of 1938, names of dead serfs provincial Saumur lives American couple, have middle-aged and Yasha the magician spends her days playing Basil Seal, mad bad The Age of Reason still registered on the the miser Grandet with been close friends respectable – is an – sword swallower, mahjong and drinking and dangerous to know, follows two days in census, saving their his wife and daughter, with the Ashburnhams art critic and aspiring fire eater, acrobat tea with high society creates havoc wherever the life of Mathieu owners from paying Eugénie, whose for years. Edward filmmaker who lusts and master of escape ladies. But China is he goes, much to the Delarue, a philosophy tax on them, and to use lives are stifled and Ashburnham, a first- after the coquettish – is famed for his occupied by invading despair of the three teacher, and his circle these ‘souls’ as collateral overshadowed by his rate soldier, seems to young cinema usherette extraordinary Houdini- Japanese forces and women in his life – in the cafés and bars of to re-invent himself obsession with gold. be the perfect English Margot. Gradually like skills. Half Jewish, things are not always his sister, mother and Montparnasse. Mathieu as a gentleman. In this Guarding his piles of gentleman, and Leonora he seduces her and half Gentile, a free what they seem in mistress. And when has so far managed ebullient masterpiece, glittering treasures and his perfect wife, but convinces himself he thinker who slips easily wartime… Neville Chamberlain to contain sex and Gogol created his only child equally beneath the surface is irresistible to her, between worlds, Yasha A passionate tale of declares war on personal freedom in a grotesque gallery closely, he will let no their marriage seethes but Margot has other has an observant wife, espionage, deception Germany, it seems the conveniently separate of human types, from one near them. But with unhappiness plans. She wants to be a loyal assistant who and love, Lust, Caution perfect opportunity compartments. But the bear-like Sobakevich when the arrival of and deception. Our a film star, and when travels with him and is accompanied here for more action and now he is urgently to the insubstantial her handsome cousin, only window on the Albinus introduces her a woman in every by four further dazzling adventure. So Basil trying to raise 4,000 fool Manilov, and, Charles, awakens strange tangle of events to the American movie town. Now, though, his short stories by Eileen follows the call to arms francs to procure a safe above all, the devilish Eugénie’s own desires, surrounding Edward producer Axel Rex, she exploits are catching Chang. and goes forth to have abortion for his mistress. con man Chichikov. her passion brings her is provided by John sees her chance – and up with him, and he is his finest hour – as a war Beyond all this, filtering Dead Souls, Russia’s into a violent collision Dowell, the husband plotting, duplicity and tempted to make one hero. But, with Europe an uneasy light on his first major novel, is one with her father that he deceives. Gradually tragedy ensue. final escape – from his frozen in the ‘phoney predicament, rises the of the most unusual results in tragedy for Dowell unfolds a Deadpan and devilishly marriage, his homeland war’, when will Basil’s distant threat of the works of nineteenth- all. Eugénie Grandet is devastating story, funny, Laughter in and the last tendrils big chance to fight coming of the Second century fiction and one of the earliest and in which everyone’s the Dark is a tense, of his father’s religion. finally arrive? World War. a devastating satire finest works in Balzac’s honesty is in doubt. teasing account of lust, Set in Warsaw and the Based on Evelyn on social hypocrisy. Comédie humaine cycle. This extraordinary novel infatuation and self- shtetls of the 1870s, Waugh’s own time of passion and betrayal deception. Isaac Bashevis Singer’s as a soldier, Put out is a masterpiece of second novel is a More Flags is a painfully narrative skill and haunting psychological funny satire on the emotional depth. portrait of a man’s flight military establishment. from love.

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non-Fiction Everyone’s Guide to the South African Economy (12th edition) André Roux the undoing project Softcover | R240 | 9711776090327 (print) Michael Lewis 9781776090334 (ePub) | 9781776090341 (PDF) Hardcover | R455 | 9780241254738 If you are baffled by the specialised jargon of economists The eagerly anticipated new book by Michael Lewis. and bankers and want to know more about the economic forces that subtly dictate your day-to-day existence, Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Everyone’s Guide to the South African Economy will put Princeton University and the London School of Economics. you in the picture. This is essential reading for every South He has written several books including the New York African consumer and taxpayer. Economics, after all, is too Times bestsellers Liar’s Poker, widely considered the book important to be left to economists. that defined Wall Street during the 1980s,The Big Short, ‘probably the single best piece of financial journalism ever written’ (Reuters), the breakneck tour of Europe’s post- crunch economy, Boomerang, and the bestselling exposé of high-speed financial scams,Flash Boys. Lewis is contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and writes for Vanity Fair and Portfolio magazine. ‘Michael Lewis has a spellbinding talent for finding emotional dramas in complex, highly technical subjects.’ – Financial Times POCKET PENGUINS Monkey Ten Days That Shook Wu Ch’êng-ên the World the Road to Ruin Paperback | R180 | 9780241259184 John Reed James Rickards Paperback | R180 | 9780241261170 Monkey depicts the adventures Trade paperback | R340 of Prince Tripitaka, a young Ten Days That Shook the World 9780241189207 Buddhist priest on a dangerous is John Reed’s eyewitness In The Road to Ruin, bestselling author James pilgrimage to India to retrieve account of the Russian Revolution. Rickards identifies how governments around the sacred scriptures accompanied A contemporary journalist writing world are secretly preparing by his three unruly disciples: in the first flush of revolutionary an alternative strategy for the next big crisis: the greedy pig creature Pipsy, enthusiasm, he gives a gripping a lockdown. Instead of printing money to reliquify the river monster Sandy – and record of the events in Petrograd markets and prop up assets, governments are Monkey. Wu Ch’êng-ên wrote in November 1917, when Lenin and preparing to close banks, shut down exchanges Monkey in the mid-sixteenth the Bolsheviks finally seized power. and order powerful asset managers not to sell. century, adding his own Containing verbatim reports both They’re putting provisions in place that will allow distinctive style to an ancient of speeches by leaders and the them to do so legally. What’s more, the global elite Chinese legend, and in so doing chance comments of bystanders, has already started making their own preparations, created a dazzling combination set against an idealized backcloth including hoarding cash and hard assets. of nonsense with profundity, of the proletariat, soldiers, sailors, When the next one comes, it will be the average slapstick comedy with spiritual and peasants uniting to throw off investor who suffers most – unless he or she heeds wisdom. oppression, Reed’s account is the Rickards’ warning and prepares accordingly. product of passionate involvement and remains an unsurpassed classic of reporting.

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Andy and his 9-12 Magic Phone years July The Lemon Tree 6-9 Kim Ebner Katherine Graham years Softcover | R100 | 9781432305161 Softcover | R80 | 9781432306069 When twelve-year-old Andy is Roald Dahl: When it’s pouring with rain, Gogo decides given a secondhand cell phone Whizzpopping Joke Book to pass the time by making some pancakes. for his birthday, it’s a dream Roald Dahl 9-12 But she soon discovers that the family has come true. But what Andy Paperback | R135 | 9780141368238 years run out of three important ingredients: flour, doesn’t realise is that his phone contains secret and eggs and milk. Without those, you can’t This collection of hundreds of great magical powers. Within just a few hours of turning make pancakes. jokes would make even the Trunchbull on the phone, he is swept up into an adventure of But clever Gogo sends Lungi and Sipho to laugh! Inspired by Roald Dahl’s magnificent proportions. Receiving cryptic text their neighbours to borrow what they need, wonderful world, these gigglesome messages, meeting a mysterious stranger and being and to take each of them a gift of lemons gags are guaranteed to raise a chuckle whisked off to what he soon learns is ‘the world next from the family’s lemon tree in return. And from human beans young and old. door’ is just the start for Andy. so, due to the kindness of the neighbours, A wonderful web of fantasy, mystery and new friends Gogo and the eager children are finally able begins to unfold around the amazed Andy as he to make the pancakes. discovers the secrets of this new world. But when he In The Lemon Tree, nominated for the loses his phone, he can’t get home. And the world is prestigious Golden Baobab Prize in 2014, changing. Evil Elvira has arrived and she has plans author Katherine Graham tells a simple, of her own. Trapped in ‘the world next door’, Andy moral story with charm and an ability to must now embark on a mission to find his phone. transport the young reader evocatively Can Andy save himself and his new friends before into the moment. Elvira takes over?

Diary of 0-3 0-3 0-3 9-12 a Wimpy Kid 10: jaar jaar jaar years Old School Jeff Kinney My Eerste Dinosourus My Eerste Plaas My Eerste Trekker Paperback | R160 Dikbandboek | R90 Dikbandboek | R90 Dikbandboek | R90 9780141370613 9781432307288 9781432307295 9781432307301 Life was better in the old days. My Eerste Dinosourus maak deel uit My Eerste Plaas maak deel uit My Eerste Trekker maak deel Or was it? van die prettige eerste woord-en- van die prettige eerste woord- uit van die prettige eerste That’s the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town prenteboek-reeks. Die peuter leer en-prenteboek-reeks. Die peuter woord-en-prenteboek-reeks. voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But verskillende soorte dinosourusse leer eenvoudige woorde lees Die peuter leer eenvoudige modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn’t cut deur die pragtige kleurfoto’s ken. en die gepaardgaande pragtige woorde lees en die gepaardgaande out for an old-fashioned world. Die uitspraak van die moeiliker kleurfoto’s identifiseer. Die soorte pragtige kleurfoto’s van voertuie, With tension building inside and outside the Heffley dinosourussoorte word aangedui diere wat op ’n plaas aangetref hoofsaaklik trekkers, benoem. home, will Greg find a way to survive? Or is going sodat die peuter leer om die name word, hul kleintjies en geluide word Die dele van ’n trekker en ‘old school’ just too hard for a kid like Greg? korrek uit te spreek. Verskillende aangedui. verskillende werktuie wat op dele en interessanthede van elke Die verskillende plaasprodukte, ’n plaas gebruik word, word soort dinosourus word uitgelig wat soos groente en vrugte, graan, geïdentifiseer. die peuter help om die soorte te en bone, neute en sade word herken en te onderskei. ook uitgebeeld en benoem.

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Never Follow 3-6 9-12 12 a Dinosaur + teens years years years Alex Latimer Paperback | R160 The boy at the Top The 5th Wave 03: Caspar Lee 9780552569385 of the Mountain The Last Star Caspar Lee Sally and Joe discover John Boyne Rick Yancey Trade Paperback | R250 a mysterious set of footprints Paperback | R180 Trade paperback | R305 9780718185275 leading out into their garden 9780552573504 9780141345925 Unbeknownst to Caspar, his mum and beyond. They are When Pierrot becomes an orphan, We’re here, then we’re gone, secretly signed a deal to write his convinced the footprints were he must leave his home in Paris for and that was true before they life story. Luckily, he discovered her left by a dinosaur. Could they a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a came. That’s always been true. plan and dashed to the printers, possibly be right? servant in a wealthy household at The Others didn’t invent death; just in time to correct some of her the top of the German mountains. they just perfected it. Gave death allegations. The story of Caspar’s But this is no ordinary time, for a face to put back in our face, crazy life so far is brimming with it is 1935 and the Second World because they knew that was the hilarious anecdotes, including how War is fast approaching; and this only way to crush us. It won’t he tried to kill his mum on his first is no ordinary house, for this is the end on any continent or ocean, day on earth, his ‘eventful’ time at Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler. no mountain or plain, jungle or school, and how he always was a Quickly, Pierrot is taken under desert. It will end where it began, hit with the ladies... THE must-have Hitler’s wing, and is thrown into an where it had been from the book for Caspar’s fans around the 9-12 12+ 12+ increasingly dangerous new world: beginning, on the battlefield of world. years years years a world of terror, secrets and the last beating human heart. betrayal, from which he may never Little Stars the Shepherd’s And I Darken be able to escape. Jacqueline Wilson Crown Kiersten White Paperback | R160 | 9780552569941 Terry Pratchett Paperback | R180 | 9780552573740 Paperback | R180 | 9780552574471 Hetty Feather has begun a new No one expects a princess to be The Trials of Apollo 01: chapter in her life story. Escaping Deep in the Chalk, something brutal. And Lada Dragwyla likes The Hidden Oracle from Tanglefield’s Travelling is stirring. The owls and the it that way. Ever since she and Rick Riordan Circus with her dearest friend foxes can sense it, and Tiffany her brother were abandoned by Trade paperback | R230 | 9780141363936 Diamond, Hetty is determined to Aching feels it in her boots. An their father to be raised in the find them positions as glamorous old enemy is gathering strength. Ottoman sultan’s courts, Lada has After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is music hall artistes. Starring a cast This is a time of endings and known that ruthlessness is the cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he of wonderful characters, this beginnings, old friends and new, key to survival. For the lineage lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, is the fifth fabulousHetty a blurring of edges and a shifting that makes her and her brother without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old Feather story. of power. Now Tiffany stands s p e c i a l a l s o m a k e s t h e m t a r g e t s . deity must learn to survive in the modern world until between the light and the dark, The first of an epic new trilogy he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus’s favour. the good and the bad. starring the ultimate anti-princess But Apollo has many enemies – gods, monsters and As the fairy horde prepares for who does not have a gentle mortals who would love to see the former Olympian invasion, Tiffany must summon heart. Lada knows how to wield permanently destroyed. Apollo needs help, and he all the witches to stand with her. a sword, and she’ll stop at can think of only one place to go… an enclave of To protect the land. Her land. nothing to keep herself and modern demigods known as Camp Half-Blood. There will be a reckoning… her brother alive.

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September Minecraft: Herobrine’s The Witch’s Vacuum Cleaner 6-9 Revenge 6-9 Terry Pratchett years years Jim Anotsu Hardcover | R305 | 9780857534835 Sbonelo Snoop Paperback | R160 6-9 Poor Mr Swimble is having a bad day. Sarah Groves 9780141373751 years Rabbits are bouncing out of his hat, pigeons Softcover | R80 | 9781432306779 Another thrilling unofficial are flying out of his jacket and every time he His name is Sbonelo, but everyone calls him Overworld adventure by Minecraft points his finger, something magically appears Snoop. That’s short for detective, in case you fan Jim Anotsu! – cheese sandwiches, socks… even a small hadn’t heard. The Minecraft universe is being destroyed. Herobrine yellow elephant on wheels! You wouldn’t think that the tiny rural village is getting closer to achieving his aim: total chaos It’s becoming a real nuisance – and he’s allergic where ten-year-old Sbonelo lives with his across the Overworld and beyond. Meanwhile, there to rabbits. mother would offer much in the way of are rumours about a terrifying dragon capable of His friends at the Magic Rectangle can’t help, opportunities for the smartest and youngest destroying the digital world - and perhaps even the but the mysterious vacuum cleaner he saw that detective around. But it does. There’s the real world too… morning may have something to do with it… curious case of the missing sheets, the Can a pair of young Minecraft fans save us all from Fourteen fantastically funny stories from complicated case of the chicken wings and Herobrine? Or will the nastiest creature from the master storyteller Sir Terry Pratchett, full of the mysterious parcel, and the puzzling case of Nether succeed in destroying the whole Minecraft food fights, pirates, wizards and crooks! the headmaster’s words. But even these are all world – and our own? in a day’s work for Sbonelo, who hangs up his sign in the village market every Saturday, where – at R5 a time – he investigates and unravels all sorts of mysteries for his eager clients.

Minecraft: Sword of Herobrine Jim Anotsu 6-9 Paperback | R160 years 9780141373744

A brand-new unofficial story set in the world of the game Minecraft! 0-3 0-3 0-3 jaar jaar jaar Arthur’s sister Mallu is obsessed with Minecraft. Arthur, on the other hand, can’t stand playing the game… but when a mysterious My Eerste 123 My Eerste Liggaam My Eerste code sucks his sister into the Overworld, Arthur has Dikbandboek | R90 Dikbandboek | R90 Troeteldiere no choice but to follow her. Arthur and Mallu must 9781432307257 9781432307264 Dikbandboek | R90 | 9781432307271 battle creepers, endermen and zombies if they’re My Eerste 123 maak deel uit van My Eerste Liggaam maak deel My Eerste Troeteldiere maak deel ever going to make it home. die prettige eerste woord-en- uit van die prettige eerste uit van die prettige eerste woord- As they fight to survive in the Overworld, prenteboek-reeks. Die peuter woord-en-prenteboek-reeks. en-prenteboek-reeks. Die peuter it becomes clear that their only hope lies in an word aangemoedig om te tel en Die peuter leer om dele van die leer verskillende troeteldiere met ancient legend. A legend about the very worst syfervaardighede te ontwikkel met liggaam te benoem en ontwikkel behulp van pragtige kleurfoto’s creature in the world of the game. ‘Arresting stuff! behulp van pragtige kleurfoto’s. waarnemingsvaardighede met identifiseer en ontwikkel hul His name? So funny it’s criminal!’ behulp van pragtige kleurfoto’s. waarnemingsvaardighede. Herobrine. – PC Gorsebush Jones

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Girl Online: On tour 12+ Zoe Sugg years Paperback | R180 | 9780141364223 October

Penny’s bags are packed. When Noah invites Penny on his European music tour, she The Tale of Kitty-In-Boots can’t wait to spend time with her rock-god-tastic boyfriend. 3-6 Beatrix Potter But, between Noah’s jam-packed schedule, less-than- years Hardcover | R305 | 9780241247594 welcoming bandmates and threatening messages from jealous fans, Penny wonders whether she’s really cut out for life on When Miss Kitty sneaks out to go hunting in her beautiful boots, tour. She can’t help but miss her family, her best friend Elliot… she gets herself into all sorts of scrapes, but on this particular and her blog, Girl Online. night she meets the foxiest hunter of them all – Mr. Tod! Can Penny learn to balance life and love on the road, or will This utterly entertaining tale is filled with mistaken identities, she lose everything in pursuit of the perfect summer? devious villains and even an appearance from Peter Rabbit. Told with Beatrix Potter’s trademark dry humour and wry observations, this brilliant tale is sure to become as popular as her original classics and is illustrated by the best- loved Quentin Blake.

Die Fout by ons Sterre tiener John Green, vertaal deur Tinus Horn Sagteband | R180 | 9781485900122

Ondanks die mediese wonderwerk wat gewasse laat krimp en vir haar ’n paar jaar koop, stuur Hazel se lewensverhaal op die einde af; haar diagnose het die inhoud van die laaste hoofstuk bepaal. Maar wanneer ’n uiters aantreklike omwenteling met die naam 0-3 0-3 0-3 Augustus Waters by die kankerondersteuningsgroep jaar jaar jaar vir kinders instap, word Hazel se storie van voor tot agter herskryf. My Eerste Dinge My Eerste My Eerste Diere Rou, dapper, oneerbiedig en vol insig, Die Fout By wat Beweeg Vragmotors Dikbandboek | R90 Ons Sterre is tot dusver die bekroonde skrywer John Dikbandboek | R90 Dikbandboek | R90 9781432307332 Green se mees ondernemende en hartroerende roman, 9781432307233 9781432307240 My Eerste Diere maak deel uit waarin hy die lagwekkende, asembenewende en My Eerste Dinge Wat Beweeg My Eerste Vragmotors maak deel van die prettige eerste woord- tragiese aard van die lewe en liefde skitterend verken. maak deel uit van die prettige uit van die prettige eerste woord- en-prenteboek-reeks. Die peuter eerste woord-en-prenteboek- en-prenteboek-reeks. Die peuter word aangemoedig om te praat reeks. Die peuter word word aangemoedig om te praat en sy woordeskat met behulp van aangemoedig om te praat en en sy woordeskat met behulp van pragtige kleurfoto’s uit te brei. sy woordeskat met behulp van pragtige kleurfoto’s uit te brei. pragtige kleurfoto’s uit te brei.

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Magisterium 03: The Bronze Key Roald Dahl Postcard Box Holding Up the Universe 9-12 Holly Black & 12+ Roald Dahl Jennifer Niven years Cassandra Clare years Box | R215 | 9780141371221 9-12 Paperback | R180 | 9780141357058 Paperback | R180 years Greetings to you, the lucky finder of this little box – 9780552567701 Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl tremendous postcards are inside. once dubbed ‘America’s Fattest Teen’. But no one’s The third, powerful From Golden Tickets and giant peaches to thank taken the time to look past her weight to get to see instalment in the Magisterium sequence. you, good-luck and congratulations cards, it’s filled who she really is. Since her mum’s death, she’s been The mysteries of the magic school like no with MAGIC. Fizzing with the iconic illustrations of picking up the pieces in the privacy of her home, other deepen and widen, as best-selling Quentin Blake, greetings for every occasion, and dealing with her heartbroken father and her own authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare quotes and covers from your favourite stories. grief. Now, Libby’s ready: for high school, for new take readers on an extraordinary journey All you need to do is add your own WHOPPSY- friends, for love, and for every possibility life has through one boy’s conflict – and a whole WHIFFLING words. to offer. I know the part I want to play here at MVB world’s fate. High. I want to be the girl who can do anything. Everyone thinks they know Jack Masselin too. Yes, he’s got swagger, but he’s also mastered the art of fitting in. What no one knows is that Jack has a secret: he can’t recognise faces. Even his own brothers are strangers to him. He’s the guy who can re-engineer and rebuild anything, but he can’t understand what’s going on with the inner workings of his own brain. So he tells himself to play it cool: Be charming. Be hilarious. Don’t get too close to anyone. Until he meets Libby. When the two get tangled up in a cruel high school game which lands them in Tales of the group counseling, Libby and Jack are both angry, Treasure Hunters 04: 12+ Peculiar and then surprised. Because the more time they Peril at the Top of the World years 9-12 Ransom Riggs spend together, the less alone they feel. Because James Patterson years Trade paperback | R230 sometimes when you meet someone, it changes the Paperback | R160 | 9781784754310 9780141374482 world – theirs and yours. When the biggest heist in history takes place in Tales of the Peculiar is Moscow, the Kidds rush in to save the day – but a unique book of fairy instead, they’re accused of being the thieves tales set in the world of themselves. Time is running out to find the stolen Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, treasure, and they’re this close to being thrown the internationally bestselling series by into a Russian prison for a crime they didn’t Ransom Riggs. commit! In this collection, Ransom invites you to Will the Kidd family find the golden goods in share his secrets and uncover hidden the middle of the frigid Arctic? And even more information about the peculiar world. important – will they make it out of the icy A fork-tongued princess, and wealthy wasteland alive? cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars, are just two of the stories sure to please the many fans of the series. Featuring stunning illustrations from world-renowned artist Andrew Davidson, this compelling, rich, and truly peculiar anthology is the perfect gift for not only fans, but for all lovers of great storytelling.

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Middle School Magnus Chase and James Patterson the Hammer of Thor November 9-12 Paperback | R160 Rick Riordan years 9-12 9781784755393 Trade paperback | R250 years 9780141342559 Rafe Khatchadorian has enough Dagboek van ’n Wimpy Kid 06: 9-12 problems at home without Thor’s hammer is missing again. Kamerkoors film years throwing his first year of middle The thunder god has a disturbing Jeff Kinney, vertaal deur Tinus Horn tie-in school into the mix. Luckily, he’s habit of misplacing his weapon – Sagteband | R130 | 9781485900139 got an ace plan for the best year ever, if he can the mightiest force in the Nine Worlds. But this time Greg Heffley is in groot moeilikheid inDagboek van pull it off. With his best friend Leonardo the Silent the hammer isn’t just lost, it has fallen into enemy ’n Wimpy Kid: Kamerkoors. Skooleiendom is beskadig awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in hands. If Magnus Chase and his friends can’t retrieve en hy is die hoofverdagte in die saak. his school’s oppressive Code of Conduct. Chewing the hammer quickly, the mortal worlds will be Maar hy is egter onskuldig, of eintlik, redelik onskuldig. gum in class – 5,000 points! Running in the hallway – defenseless against an onslaught of giants. Ragnarok Die owerhede stel ondersoek in maar ’n frats sneeustorm 10,000 points! Pulling the fire alarm – 50,000 points! will begin. The Nine Worlds will burn. Unfortunately, tref die dorp en die Heffley-familie word binnenshuis But when Rafe’s game starts to catch up with him, the only person who can broker a deal for the ingeperk. Greg weet dat wanneer die storm bedaar en he’ll have to decide if winning is all that matters, or if hammer’s return is the gods’ worst enemy, Loki – die sneeu smelt, sal hy die saak moet hanteer. Maar kan he’s finally ready to face the rules, bullies, and truths and the price he wants is very high. enige straf erger wees as om met jou familie ingehok te he’s been avoiding. wees vir die vakansie?

Middle School 08: Magnus Chase and the Sword Dog’s Best Friend 9-12 of Summer 9-12 James Patterson years Rick Riordan years Trade paperback | R230 | 9781784753894 Paperback | R250 | 9780141342443 It’s a dog-eat-dog world, and Rafe Khatchadorian is Magnus Chase has always been a troubled kid. Since just trying to live in it. Life in middle school is finally his mother’s mysterious death, he’s lived alone on the starting to seem bearable – until Rafe spots his streets of Boston, surviving by his wits. grandmother standing in the free-meal line at the local One day, he’s tracked down by an uncle he’s never met – soup kitchen. who tells him an impossible secret: Magnus is the son of To help earn some money for the family, Rafe concocts a Norse god. a brilliant plan – a dog-walking business that soon The Viking myths are true. The gods of Asgard are turns into a huge money-making neighbourhood preparing for war. Trolls, giants and worse monsters are empire. He’ll even have extra cash to buy his own stirring for doomsday. To prevent Ragnarok, Magnus WormHole Deluxe Multi-Platform GameBox! must search the Nine Worlds for a weapon that has been That is, until two terrible twins launch the Great lost for thousands of years. Dog War by sabotaging Rafe’s flyers and stealing his customers. Plus, his bratty kid sister Georgia has skipped a grade – so now she’s in all of Rafe’s classes. Throw a kid a bone!

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid 11: 9-12 Double Down jaar Jeff Kinney Hardcover | R230 | 9780141373027

The pressure’s really piling up on Greg Heffley. The only thing he’s good at is playing video games, but his parents want him to broaden his horizons by doing something – anything – else. When Greg finds an old video camera in his basement, he thinks he may have discovered just the thing to prove he’s got big-time talent. With the help of his best friend, Rowley, Greg hatches a plan to make a scary movie… and to become rich and famous in the process. But is doubling down on movie-making a smart plan? Or is it just a recipe for doubling Greg’s troubles?

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