Macbeth - William Shakespeare
R200,00
Macbeth is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. Set mainly in Scotland, the play dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. The play is believed to have been written between 1599 and 1606. The earliest account of a performance of what was probably Shakespeare's play is April 1611, when Simon Forman recorded seeing such a play at the Globe Theatre. It was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book. It was most likely written during the reign of James I (of England), who had already been crowned James VI of Scotland before he succeeded to the English throne as well in 1603. James VI/I was a patron of Shakespeare's acting company, and of all the plays Shakespeare wrote during James's reign, Macbeth most clearly reflects the playwright's relationship with the sovereign. Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy, and tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia, and he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler as he is forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness, and death.
Product code: 9781533379238
Two Gentlemen of Verona - William Shakespeare
R75,00
This early experimental play illuminates the comic vision that informs all Shakespeare's later successes including his last great plays. Two pairs of lovers are forcibly parted and human fickleness is contrasted with constancy, reality with illusion, and the bonds of friendship with those of sexual attraction. The serious elements of Romance are fused with satire and burlesque as The Two Gentlemen of Verona examines the importance of identity with lucid charm and hilarious comedy.
The Mind's Eye - Oliver Sacks
R60,00
The bestselling author of "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat" describes how we experience the visual world. In "Musicophilia", Oliver Sacks explored music and the brain; now, in "The Mind's Eye", he writes about the myriad ways in which we experience the visual world: how we see in three dimensions; how we recognize individual faces or places; how we use language to communicate verbally; how we translate marks on paper into words and paragraphs, even how we represent the world internally when our eyes are closed. Alongside remarkable stories of people who have lost these abilities but adapted with courage, resilience and ingenuity, there is an added, personal element: one day in late 2005, Sacks became aware of a dazzling, flashing light in one part of his visual field; it was not the familiar migraine aura he had experienced since childhood, and just two days later a malignant tumor in one eye was diagnosed. In subsequent journal entries - some of which are included in "The Mind's Eye" - he chronicled the experience of living with cancer, recording both the effects of the tumor itself, and radiation therapy. In turning himself into a case history, Sacks has given us perhaps his most intimate, impressive and insightful book yet.
Product code: 9780330513999
Six Suspects - Vikas Swarup
R65,00
There's a caste system even in murder.Seven years ago, Vivek 'Vicky' Rai, the playboy son of the Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh, murdered Ruby Gill at a trendy restaurant in New Delhi simply because she refused to serve him a drink. Now Vicky Rai is dead, killed at his farmhouse at a party he had thrown to celebrate his acquittal. The police search each and every guest. Six of them are discovered with guns in their possession. In this elaborate murder mystery we join Arun Advani, India's best-known investigative journalist, as the lives of these six suspects unravel before our eyes: a corrupt bureaucrat; an American tourist; a stone-age tribesman; a Bollywood sex symbol; a mobile phone thief; and an ambitious politician. Each is equally likely to have pulled the trigger. Inspired by actual events, Vikas Swarup's eagerly awaited second novel is both a riveting page turner and an insightful peek into the heart and soul of contemporary India.
Product code: 9780385608169
Over the Line - Faye Sultan
R90,00
The book is a psychological fiction thriller based on a true-life murder. The story follows Portia McTeague, a forensic psychologist, who is called in to evaluate Jimmy Wier. Jimmy is a seemingly naive delivery worker charged with the brutal murder of two elderly women. Portia must examine him to understand the dark impulses that drove him across the line and determine if he is mentally stable.
Product code: 9781857027426
Poison Study - Maria V Snyder
R100,00The story follows Yelena, a young woman locked in a dungeon and sentenced to death for murdering her abuser. On the eve of her execution, she is offered an extraordinary reprieve: become the personal food taster for the Commander of Ixia.Â
While she gets to live in the palace, she faces constant threat of assassination from political factions. To ensure her absolute loyalty, the chief of security deliberately poisons her with a substance called Butterfly's Dust, requiring her to receive a daily antidote to survive. As rebels plot to overthrow the government, Yelena begins to develop magical powers she cannot control, forcing her to unravel her mysterious past to survive
Product code: 9780373802302
Cold - John Smolens
Set in one three day blizzard in the remote woods of the deepest Mid-West, COLD tells the story of an escaped prisoner (who may or may not have committed the crimes that he was locked up for), a lonely widow who rescues him, half-dead, from the storm, an enigimatic Sheriff and a not-so-innocent ex-wife. As the temperature drops and the snow buries the land, these characters act-out a macabre play which will leave few standing at its end.
Product code: 9780340792339
Larry's Party - Carol Shields
R120,00
The novel is a warm, witty coming-of-middle-age story following the life of its protagonist, Larry Weller, between 1977 and 1997. It explores the changing landscape of masculinity and self-discovery at the end of the twentieth century through Larry's unique passion for creating hedge mazes.
Product code: 9781857026160
The British Ambassador - Michael Shea
R75,00
Sir Martin Milner is set to become Her Majesty's Ambassador in Washington. An assassination attempt on his life leaves his son ill and his wife on the verge of a breakdown. He must find the strength to take up his post, even though the next attempt to kill him might prove to be successful.
Product code: 9780002252348
R75,00
Hill Towns - Anne Rivers Siddons
A couple traveling through the hill towns of Italy find themselves and learn something about marriage on their journey
Product code: 9780316909150
Gister is 'n ver land - Malene Breytenbach
R150,00
Wanneer Maureen Sneddon Barnard die uitsettingsbevel in Zimbabwe kry, vertrek sy met haar waardevolste besitting, die bruin skooltassie met jarelange dagboeke. 'n Aangrypende roman wat temas soos besitreg, verganklikheid en verlies op roerende wyse aanspreek.
Product code: 9780624047278
R150,00
McNally's Caper - Lawrence Sanders
R95,00
Called in by patriarch Griswold Forsythe, II, to discover which relative is stealing family valuables piece by piece, eccentric discreet detective Archy McNally plunges to the perilous depths of Palm Beach high society.
Product code: 9780450610011
R95,00
A Model for Living - Julian Short
R65,00
How to have a happy relationship. The author draws upon over 30 years' experience as a psychiatrist to offer hints, tips and guidelines for coping with many of the problems we face every day. In a simple, no-nonsense style he shows you how to: cope with rejection - how to deal with being dumped or being turned down for a job; improve self esteem - learn to feel better about yourself and gain the admiration of others; win every argument, even when you lose - a simple strategy for making sure you walk away from any dispute feeling great; deal with family relationships - whether you are a parent, husband, wife or child. A Model for Living has advice and tips that really help, and they are all easy to introduce into your daily life.
Product code: 9781906321826
R65,00
The Pumpkin Coach - Susan Sallis
R45,00
Set in the late 1940s near Gloucester, England, the story follows Alice Pettiford, who takes a job as a railway secretary. Her life shifts focus when she and a character named Joe discover an abandoned railway coach hidden in the Forest of Dean. This hidden coach becomes a crucial sanctuary and emotional focal point as they navigate personal drama and relationships.
Product code: 9780552151443
R45,00
Wat sê Die Bybel oor ... - Marius Nel
R250,00
Konkordansie en Bybel in een - Vergemaklik Bybelstudie omdat die onderwerpindeling en die Woord in een bundel vervat is.Alfabetiese & Tematiese indeling vergemaklik naslaan sodat die regte onderwerp vir die regte situasie maklik opgespoor kan word.
Product code: 9781770003217
Dink soos Jesus - Kobus Neethling
R95,00
'n Praktiese geestelike selfhelpboek wat lesers aanmoedig om te dink soos Jesus deur kreatiewe probleemoplossing, nuwe geleenthede te skep en die beginsels van Jesus se denke en optrede op moderne lewe toe te pas. Dit verbind geestelike refleksie met alledaagse uitdagings en visiegedrewe optrede.
Product code: 9781919818467
R95,00
Uiltjie, Uiltjie in die spieël - Pieter W Grobbelaar
R75,00
Uilspieël geniet dit om menslike swakhede aan die kaak te stel. Is 'n boer te beterweterig of 'n buurman te vrekkerig of 'n keiser te hooghartig, sal hy wel met hierdie aartspoetsbakker te doen kry.
Product code: 9780798147354
Liefde, natuurlik - Daniel Hugo en Carina Diedericks-Hugo
R75,00
Die liefde sal die mensdom altyd boei en boelie, want dit is nie net ‘n geluksalige toestand nie. Dit is waarskynlik die kompleksste van alle emosies – dit kan ‘n mens streel en troos, maar ook kwel en kasty.
Product code: 9780799332735
Drie Lemoene en 'n duif - Rona Rupert
R60,00
Sophia ervaar al die verwarring wat die puberteitsjare meebring – buierigheid, teneergedruktheid, en die gevoel dat haar ma haar nie verstaan nie. Alles word vererger toe haar ma verlief raak, en Sophia gedwing word om te aanvaar dat haar eie pa dood is.
Product code: 9780624031659
R60,00
The Witches - Roald Dahl
R65,00
THE WITCHES by Roald Dahl is the story of a detestable breed of Witches. BEWARE. Real witches dress in ordinary clothes and look like ordinary women. But they are not ordinary. They are always plotting and scheming with murderous, bloodthirsty thoughts - and they hate children. The Grand High Witch hates children most of all and plans to make every single one of YOU disappear. Only one boy and his grandmother can stop her, but if their plan fails the Grand High Witch will frizzle them like fritters, and then what . . . ? Now you can listen to THE WITCHES and other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams and Steven Fry - plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios! And look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store and Google Play- including the disgusting TWIT OR MISS! and HOUSE OF TWITS inspired by the revolting Twits.
Product code: 9780141365473
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life - Roald Dahl
R50,00
The sweet scents of rural life infuse this beautifully crafted collection of Roald Dahl’s country stories, but there is always something unexpected lurking in the undergrowth. Whether it is taking a troublesome cow to be mated with a prime bull; dealing with a rat-infested hayrick; learning the ways and means of maggot farming; or describing the fine art of poaching pheasants using nothing but raisins and sleeping pills, Roald Dahl brings his stories of everyday country folk and their strange passions wonderfully to life. Lacing each tale with dollops of humor and adding a sprinkling of the sinister, Dahl ensures that this short story collection celebrates the sweet mysteries of life.
Product code: 9780140118476
R50,00
A Secret Kept - Tatiana de Rosnay
R60,00
It all began with a simple seaside vacation, a brother and sister recapturing their childhood. Antoine thought he had the perfect surprise for his sister Melanie's birthday: a weekend by the sea at Noirmoutier Island, where the pair spent many happy childhood summers playing on the beach. But the island's haunting beauty triggers more than happy memories; it reminds Melanie of something unexpected and deeply disturbing about their last island summer. When, on the drive home to Paris, she finally summons the courage to reveal what she knows to Antoine, her emotions overcome her and she loses control of the car. Alone, waiting for news of Melanie, Antoine reflects on his life: his wife has left him, his teenage children are strangers to him, his job bores him, and his father is an ageing tyrant who still poisons every aspect of his life. How did he end up here? And, more importantly, what was the secret that his sister wanted to tell him? A Secret Kept plumbs the depths of complex family relationships and the power of a past secret to change everything in the present.
Product code: 9780330531269
Prince of the Clouds - Gianni Riotta
R75,00
A rousingly romantic Mediterranean novel of love and war. 'Even more enchanting than Louis de Bernieres's Captain Correlli's Mandolin, Riotta's novel is a revelation' (Daily Mail). The Second World War has just ended, and Colonel Carlo Terzo, a brilliant military strategist, retires to Sicily with his beautiful Russian wife Emma. There he spends long afternoons tutoring two young lovers -- Salvatore, a poet, and the feisty, aristocratic Fiore. But the Terzo household becomes caught in a standoff between rebel peasants and the murderous private army of Fiore's malicious mother. Will Carlo finally be given the chance to measure his learning on a real battlefield?
Product code: 9780007120031
Here lies Arthur - Philip Reeve
R90,00
The novel offers a gritty, demythologised reimagining of the King Arthur legend. It is told through the eyes of Gwyna, a young servant girl who is forced to flee her village after a brutal attack. She meets Myrddin (Merlin), a clever bard and master manipulator who creates propaganda to spin the local war-band leader, Arthur, into a legendary hero. Myrddin forces Gwyna to disguise herself as a lady goddess, a boy warrior, and a spy to help solidify Arthur's mythical status.
Product code: 9780439955331
Staying Alive - Janet Reibstein (A Family Memoir)
R95,00
Staying Alive is at once heartbreaking and heartwarming, a brilliant rendering of the emotional and psychological shadows cast on both the afflicted and the family members who support them. It is a story of sisters, of mothers and daughters, and also the men who loved them. In the end we are inspired by the extraordinary strength of these women, by their will to fight the disease, and the power of love in survival.
Product code: 9780747555933
The End of The Dream and other True Cases - Ann Rule
R50,00
Crime Stories
Product code: 9780751523683
Early Bird - Rodney Rothman
R95,00
Everyone says they would like to retire early, but Rodney Rothman actually did it -- forty years early. Burnt out, he decides at the age of twenty-eight to get an early start on his golden years. He travels to Boca Raton, Florida, where he moves in with an elderly piano teacher at Century Village, a retirement village that is home to thousands of senior citizens.Early Bird is an irreverent, hilarious, and ultimately warmhearted account of Rodney's journey deep into the heart of retirement. Rodney struggles for acceptance from the senior citizens he shares a swimming pool with, and battles with cranky octogenarians who want him off their turf. The day-to-day dealings begin to wear on him. Before long he observes, "I don't think Tuesdays with Morrie would have been quite so uplifting if that guy had to spend more than one day a week with Morrie."Rodney throws himself into the spirit of retirement, fashioning a busy schedule of suntanning, shuffleboard, and gambling cruises. As the months pass, his neighbors seem to forget that he is fifty years younger than they are. He finds himself the potential romantic interest of an aging femme fatale. He joins a senior softball club and is disturbed to learn that he is the worst player on the team. For excitement he rides along with a volunteer police officer on his patrols, hunting for crime. But even the criminals in his community seem to have retired.
Product code: 9780743242172
Hellfire - Chris Ryan
The story follows SAS Regiment hero Danny Black as he is deployed to Nigeria following the kidnapping of the British High Commissioner. Upon arrival, Black and his four-person team uncover a devastating plot. Terrorists have infected prisoners with a mysterious, deadly plague, revealing a joint Boko Haram and IS plan to unleash a global bio-terror attack. Black must race against a ticking clock to stop the outbreak and hunt down a mysterious, masked terrorist leader known only as the Caliph.
Product code: 9781444783346
The Dirty Girls Social Club - Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
R60,00
It is the story of six very different women who met at college in Boston and swore to be friends for the rest of their lives. They call themselves the Dirty Girls Social Club. The only obvious thing they have in common is that they are all professional women and Latin American, but the real thing about them is that their lives tap into universal truths about women and sisterhood. There is Lauren, a journalist, who is used to getting what she wants and kicking ass when she doesn't, except when it comes to men...- Sara, wife of a corporate lawyer, upstanding member of the Jewish community, one of the best interior designers and party givers around, and seriously uptight...- Elizabeth, the beautiful co-host for a TV morning show and former runway model with a secret which will test the bonds of their friendship to the limit...- Rebecca, owner and founder of the most popular Hispanic woman's magazine in the market; nobody works the room like she does...- Amber, a rock singer waiting for her first big break, the spiritual one of the group...And then there is Usnavys, a big gal who is as showy as Liberace; no-one would guess, meeting her for the first time in her full-length white fur coat with the price tag still on the inside, that she is Vice President for Public Affairs for the United Way of Massachusetts. They all feel perfectly licensed to tell each other what do and how to live their lives, and boy do they ever...
Product code: 9780091795344
Don't let him know - Sandip Roy
R65,00
In a boxy apartment building in an American university town, Romola Mitra, a newly arrived young bride, anxiously awaits her first letter from home in India. When she accidentally opens the wrong letter, it changes her life. Decades later, her son Amit finds that letter and thinks he has discovered his mother's secret. But secrets have their own secrets sometimes, and a way of following their keepers.Amit does not know that Avinash, his dependable and devoted father, lurks on gay Internet groups at times, unable to set aside his lifelong attraction to men. Avinash has no idea that his dutiful wife had once romanced a dashing Bengali filmstar, whose memory she keeps tucked away in a diary amongst her silk saris.
Growing up in Calcutta, in a house bustling with feisty grandmothers, Amit has been shielded from his parents' secrets. A successful computer engineer, he settles in San Francisco, torn between his new life and his duties towards the one he has left behind.
Moving from adolescent rooftop games to adult encounters in gay bars, from hair salons in Calcutta to McDonald's drive-thrus in California, Don't Let Him Know is an unforgettable story about family, the struggle between having what we want and doing what we feel we must - and the sacrifices we make for those we love.
Product code: 9781408856642
The Innocence of Roast Chicken - Jo-Anne Richards
R60,00
Set against the backdrop of the ending of apartheid in South Africa, a woman named Kate looks back on her childhood holidays spent on her grandparents' farm in the Eastern Cape. The novel masterfully contrasts her seemingly idyllic early life with the harsh realities of rural farming and the deep, underlying horrors of apartheid, which eventually culminate in an act of revenge
Product code: 9780747277262
Unexpected Dismounts - Nancy Rue
R65,00
Allison Chamberlain thought she was doing everything God required of her—but as her journey continues in the second book of The Reluctant Prophet series, she might have to let go of everything she loves to follow the call. Allison is already taking care of five former prostitutes, trying to adopt an orphan, and helping a woman who’s been raped. Along the way, she experiences unexpected dismounts, as every Harley owner who risks the ride eventually does. A relative challenges the adoption. An influential businessman blocks her ministry. A beloved friend is seriously injured. A piece of her past adds even more turmoil. As she picks herself up again and again, Allison realizes that some are guilty of terrible wrongs—but everyone must be responsible for righting them.
Product code: 9781434764928
Nomad - James Swallow
R100,00
Marc Dane is a MI6 field agent at home behind a computer screen, one step away from the action. But when a brutal attack on his team leaves Marc as the only survivor - and with the shocking knowledge that there are traitors inside MI6 - he's forced into the front line.
However the evidence seems to point towards Marc as the perpetrator of the attack. Accused of betraying his country, he must race against time to clear his name.
With nowhere to turn to for help and no one left to trust, Marc is forced to rely on the elusive Rubicon group and their operative Lucy Keyes. Ex US Army, Lucy also knows what it's like to be an outsider, and she's got the skills that Marc is sorely lacking.
Product code: 9781785760419
Stung - Gary Ross
R60,00
An extraordinarily powerful story of a secret obsession
Product code: 9780333492246
War of the Whales - Joshua Horwitz (A True Story)
R160,00
This real-life legal and environmental thriller follows an epic confrontation between marine conservationists and the US Navy. The story centers on environmental attorney Joel Reynolds and marine biologist Ken Balcomb. Together, they investigate a series of mysterious whale mass strandings in the Bahamas. Their investigation uncovers a high-intensity, top-secret sonar submarine detection system deployed by the military that floods ocean basins with deafening sound waves, driving the whales ashore. The narrative tracks their multi-year "David vs. Goliath" legal battle that went all the way to the US Supreme Court, balancing national security interests against the protection of marine ecosystems.
Product code: 9781451645026
What Hidden Lies - Michéle Rowe
When Detective Persephone (Persy) Jonas is forced to work with retired criminal psychologist Dr Marge Labuschagne to solve the murder of a suspected sex offender, suspicion and distrust threaten to derail the investigation.Persy believes the killer is her childhood sweetheart, now turned vicious gangster; Marge is sure the answer lies in the victim's shady past. As the women race against time and their own prejudice to hunt the killer, past and present collide, unearthing long buried secrets and lies. As the hunt intensifies they realise they have more in common than they think and are bound in ways they could never have imagined.Finally faced with a ruthless killer, it seems that the darkest secrets are the ones they are hiding from themselves.
Product code: 9780143530893
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
R60,00
Rene is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building. She maintains a carefully constructed persona as someone uncultivated but reliable, in keeping with what she feels a concierge should be. But beneath this facade lies the real Rene: passionate about culture and the arts, and more knowledgeable in many ways than her employers with their outwardly successful but emotionally void lives.
Down in her lodge, apart from weekly visits by her one friend Manuela, Rene lives with only her cat for company. Meanwhile, several floors up, twelve-year-old Paloma Josse is determined to avoid the pampered and vacuous future laid out for her, and decides to end her life on her thirteenth birthday. But unknown to them both, the sudden death of one of their privileged neighbours will dramatically alter their lives forever.
Product code: 9781906040185
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender
R75,00
On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her mother—her cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do mother—tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes a peril and a threat to Rose.The curse her gift has bestowed is the secret knowledge all families keep hidden—her mother’s life outside the home, her father’s detachment, her brother’s clash with the world. Yet as Rose grows up she learns to harness her gift and becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern.
Product code: 9780099538271
The Last Con - Zachary Bartels
R60,00Former con man Fletcher Doyle is finally home after six years in the pen. He’s working a menial job, regaining his bearings in the world, and trying to revive his relationships with his wife and twelve-year-old daughter. No easy feat.But when Fletcher and his family go on a mission trip to Detroit—in the company of the condescending church leader who also happens to be his landlord—Fletcher finds his old life waiting for him. Within hours of arriving in the city, he’s been blackmailed into doing a job for a mysterious criminal who calls himself The Alchemist.A series of relics hidden by the Knights of Malta, as ancient as they are priceless, are in the sights of The Alchemist. What he needs is a gifted grifter with a background in ecclesiastical history . . . what he needs is Fletcher Doyle.Between hiding his reawakened criminal life from his wife and trying to hide her from their relentless landlord, Fletcher is ready to give up. But when his family is drawn into the dangerous world he can’t shake, Fletcher is forced to rely on his years in the game to save the only people who mean more to him than the biggest con in history.
Product code: 9781401690564
The Bachelor - Tilly Bagshawe
R90,00
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of ... anything but a wife? The third book in the Swell Valley series by bestselling author Tilly Bagshawe Henry Saxton-Brae has it all - a titled, self-made millionaire, his fiancée just happens to be a supermodel who is as kind and loyal as she is ravishingly beautiful. To top it all, he's just bought Hanborough Castle, the jewel in the crown of the Swell Valley. Life couldn't be better...for someone who was ready to settle down. Could he really be the only man in the world not in love with his future wife? Flora Fitzwilliam has been summoned by legendary designer Graydon James to restore Hanborough to its former glory. She soon discovers that it's not just the house that needs fixing, and Flora seems to be the only person who sees the real Henry Saxton-Brae.
Product code: 9780008132811