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New Local Books

A Social History From Below

Bronwynne Anderson, Gregory Houston, Heidi van Rooyen

R295.00 Add to Cart
Love from Manenberg

Sarah Stacke

R767.00
Desire at the End of the White Line

Azille Coetzee

R300.00 Add to Cart
Tree Encounters

Brita Lomba, Ruth Parker

R580.00 Add to Cart
In These Mountains

Stephen Watson

R230.00 Add to Cart
We Shall Remain

Various

R290.00 Add to Cart
A Guide to Tidal Pools of the Western Cape

Serai Dowling

R395.00 Add to Cart
No Time to Mourn 

Thandiwe Nqanda

R269.00 Add to Cart
Buried in the Chest

Lindani Mbunyuza-Memani

R260.00 Add to Cart
Unleaving

Ingrid de Kok

R325.00 Add to Cart
Into the Uncut Grass

Trevor Noah

R399.00 Add to Cart
The Frightened

Lethokuhle Msimang

R260.00 Add to Cart
The First Murder on Mars

Sam Wilson

R450.00 Add to Cart
The Queer Book of Revelation

Siya Khumalo

R335.00
A Rare Gift to the Struggle

Maria Suriano

R265.00 Add to Cart
Self-Portrait of a Guava

Lucienne Argent

R180.00
Umbhoxo

Buntu Siwisa, Hendrik Snyders, Mzukisi Twala, Philani Nongogo

R384.00 Add to Cart
Available Light

Daniel Magaziner

R420.00 Add to Cart
Life is like that sometimes

Khaya Dlanga

R330.00 Add to Cart
Good Luck to Us All

Karen Vermeulen

R325.00 Add to Cart
Canary

Onke Mazibuko

R320.00 Add to Cart
Man with the One Black Glove

Salie Manie

R250.00
White Supremacy

Gavin Evans

R295.00 Add to Cart
All Dhal’d Up

Kamini Pather

R420.00 Add to Cart
Staging Black, Queer South Africa

S’fundo W. Sosibo

R520.00 Add to Cart
Imprint Africa

R300.00 Add to Cart
Odyssey of Liberation

Muzi Sikhakhane

R412.00 Add to Cart
South African Indigenous Garden Plants

Andrew Hankey, Elsa Pooley, Geoff Nichols

R850.00 Add to Cart
Song of the Slave Girl

Ashraf Kagee

R300.00 Add to Cart
An Act of Murder

Tom Eaton

R320.00 Add to Cart
The Unwoven Warrior

Jon Keevy

R360.00 Add to Cart
the Agonies and Ecstasies of Saint Marguerite

Keely Shinners

R200.00 Add to Cart
The Lucky Ones

Alistair Mackay

R295.00 Add to Cart
We Two From Heaven

James Whyle

R315.00 Add to Cart
Tears Before Bedtime

Diane Awerbuck

R280.00 Add to Cart
Not This Tender

Sarah Uheida

R240.00 Add to Cart
Lives on the Line

David Africa

R387.00 Add to Cart
In Search of Nongqawuse

Treive Nicholas

R350.00 Add to Cart
Fading Footprints

José Manuel de Prada-Samper

R350.00 Add to Cart
Hollywood on the Veld

Ted Botha

R320.00 Add to Cart
Khaki Fever

Lindsay Norman

R310.00 Add to Cart
Braids & Migraines

Andile Cele

R260.00 Add to Cart
Between the Cracks

Paul Weinberg

R950.00 Add to Cart
Making a Killing

Bonnie Espie

R320.00 Add to Cart
Led By Shepherds

Jeffrey Rakabe

R240.00 Add to Cart
Vosburg to Washington

Franklin Sonn

R320.00 Add to Cart
The Interpreters

Hedley Twidle, Sean Christie

R370.00 Add to Cart
Blood’s Inner Rhyme

Antjie Krog

R360.00 Add to Cart
Binnerym van Bloed

Antjie Krog

R360.00 Add to Cart
The Nicotine Gospel

Sven Axelrad

R340.00 Add to Cart
The Fragile Mental Health of Strong Women

Michelle Kekana

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Cities Rethought

Edgar Pieterse, Gautam Bhan, Michael Keith, Susan Parnell

R495.00 Add to Cart
Between the Sea and the Land

Sean Baumann

R380.00 Add to Cart
Prins

Ryan Pedro

R280.00 Add to Cart
The Early Writings of Alex La Guma

André Odendaal, Roger Field

R495.00 Add to Cart
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Events

Cities Rethought: A New Urban Disposition

May 13, 2025

5:30 pm

Join us on Tuesday 13 May for the launch of Cities Rethought by Edgar Pieterse, Susan Parnell, Michael Keith and Gautam Bhan.

Susan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse will be in conversation with Divine Fuh.

Thank you to our wine sponsor, Spier.

Events

The Splendid Tapestry of African Life

May 14, 2025

5:30 pm

Join us on Wednesday 14 May for the launch of The Splendid Tapestry of African Life by Adekeye Adebajo. He will be in conversation with Keith Gottschalk.

Thank you to our wine sponsor, Spier.

Events

The Nicotine Gospel

May 15, 2025

5:30 pm

Join us on Thursday 15 May for the launch of The Nicotine Gospel by Sven Axelrad. He will be in conversation with Pippa Hudson.

Thank you to our wine sponsor, Spier.

New Fiction

Havoc

Christopher Bollen

R395.00 Add to Cart
Beartooth

Callan Wink

R445.00 Add to Cart
And He Shall Appear

Kate van der Gorgh

R410.00
Dream Count

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

R385.00 Add to Cart
Burning Grass

Cyprian Ekwensi

R300.00 Add to Cart
So Long a Letter

Mariama Bâ

R300.00 Add to Cart
Nesting

Roisin O'Donnell

R390.00 Add to Cart
The Book of George

Kate Greathead

R390.00 Add to Cart
Disappoint Me

Nicola Dinan

R380.00 Add to Cart
Victorian Psycho

Virginia Feito

R385.00 Add to Cart
Dealing With the Dead

Alain Mabanckou

R380.00 Add to Cart
The Persians

Sanam Mahloudji

R410.00 Add to Cart
Oromay

Baalu Girma

R450.00
Death of the Author

Nnedi Okorafor

R440.00 Add to Cart
Confessions

Catherine Airey

R355.00 Add to Cart
Bat Eater

Kylie Lee Baker

R425.00 Add to Cart
Sky Full of Elephants

Cebo Campbell

R389.00
The Boyhood of Cain

Michael Amherst

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This Is a Love Story

Jessica Soffer

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Good Dirt

Charmaine Wilkerson

R380.00 Add to Cart
Sweetness in the Skin

Ishi Robinson

R275.00 Add to Cart
Thirst

Giles Foden

R435.00 Add to Cart
Nobody’s Fool

Harlan Coben

R390.00 Add to Cart
The Summer Guests

Tess Gerritsen

R370.00 Add to Cart
The Ghosts of Rome

Joseph O' Connor

R395.00 Add to Cart
Counterattacks at Thirty

Won-pyung Sohn

R360.00 Add to Cart
The Wardrobe Department

Elaine Garvey

R425.00 Add to Cart
We Do Not Part

Han Kang

R495.00 Add to Cart
Universality

Natasha Brown

R350.00 Add to Cart
Fundamentally

Nussaibah Younis

R440.00
Three Days in June

Anne Tyler

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Madame Sosostris & the Festival For the Broken-Hearted

Ben Okri

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Mothers and Sons

Adam Haslett

R430.00 Add to Cart
This Immaculate Body

Emma van Straaten

R415.00 Add to Cart
Once the Deed is Done

Rachel Seiffert

R395.00
The Stolen Heart

Andrey Kurkov

R440.00 Add to Cart
A Mouth Full of Salt

Reem Gaafar

R295.00 Add to Cart
Sycorax

Nydia Hetherington

R440.00 Add to Cart
Deep Cuts

Holly Brickley

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Killer Potential

Hannah Deitch

R395.00 Add to Cart
The Dream Hotel

Laila Lalami

R515.00 Add to Cart
Twist

Colum McCann

R405.00
The Simple Art of Killing a Woman

Patricia Melo

R305.00
The Homemade God

Rachel Joyce

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Perspectives

Laurent Binet

R380.00 Add to Cart
The Bones Beneath My Skin

TJ Klune

R385.00 Add to Cart
Luminous

Silvia Park

R415.00 Add to Cart
The Great Divide

Cristina Henriquez

R300.00 Add to Cart
Sweet Fury

Sash Bischoff

R380.00 Add to Cart
The Unworthy

Agustina Bazterrica

R370.00 Add to Cart
Air

John Boyne

R355.00 Add to Cart
The Midnight Carousel

Fiza Saeed McLynn

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The Architecture of Modern Empire

Arundhati Roy

R295.00 Add to Cart
The Power of Art

Caroline Campbell

R415.00
Black Friend

Ziwe

R410.00 Add to Cart
Oliver Sacks: Letters

Oliver Sacks

R399.00
The Serviceberry

Robin Wall Kimmerer

R380.00 Add to Cart
James Baldwin Collection Library Classics

James Baldwin

R505.00 Add to Cart
Seven Deadly Sins

Guy Leschziner

R470.00 Add to Cart
The New Rulebook

Chris Cheers

R300.00 Add to Cart
Survivors

Hannah Durkin

R330.00
Hour of the Heart

Benjamin Yalom, Irvin D. Yalom

R450.00 Add to Cart
Unity and Struggle

Amílcar Cabral

R300.00 Add to Cart
The Devil’s Best Trick

Randall Sullivan

R575.00
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Jeanne Theoharis

R480.00 Add to Cart
Same River, Twice: Putin’s War on Women

Sofi Oksanen

R420.00 Add to Cart
Shoulder to Shoulder

Jake Hall

R305.00
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa

Anthony Grafton

R345.00
Cities Made Differently

David Graeber, Nika Dubrovsky

R435.00 Add to Cart
The Love That Dares

Barbara Vesey, Rachel Smith

R305.00 Add to Cart
Can Feminism be African?

Minna Salami

R440.00 Add to Cart
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza

Peter Beinart

R435.00
The World After Gaza

Pankaj Mishra

R530.00
Careless People

Sarah Wynn-Williams

R399.00 Add to Cart
A Liveable Future is Possible

C. J. Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky

R295.00 Add to Cart
Three Wild Dogs

Markus Zusak

R385.00 Add to Cart
Committed

Suzanne Scanlon

R360.00 Add to Cart
Voice for the Voiceless

Dalai Lama

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The Light of Asia

Christopher Harding

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How To Be a Bad Botanist

Simon Barnes

R330.00
Why Animals Talk

Arik Kershenbaum

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What I Believe

Andrew Copson

R470.00 Add to Cart
Waste Wars

Alexander Clapp

R450.00 Add to Cart
Trans Femme Futures

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Yoko

David Sheff

R440.00 Add to Cart
Crypt

Alice Roberts

R330.00 Add to Cart
A History of the World in Six Plagues

Edna Bonhomme

R470.00
Bluestockings

Susannah Gibson

R360.00
Melting Point

Rachel Cockerell

R360.00
The Thinking Machine

Stephen Witt

R430.00
Edith’s Story

Edith Velmans

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More Than A Doll

Jodi Bondi Norgaard

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The Incarcerations

Alpa Shah

R390.00 Add to Cart
Spring

Michael Morpurgo

R470.00 Add to Cart
Birds, Sex and Beauty

Matt Ridley

R480.00
Baltic

Oliver Moody

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The Age of Diagnosis

Suzanne O Sullivan

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Christopher Isherwood (Critical Lives)

Jake Poller

R365.00 Add to Cart
Pathless Forest

Chris Thorogood

R345.00 Add to Cart
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From beautifully illustrated picture books to thrilling reads for Young Adults, we have something for all ages.

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Caledonian Road

Andrew O' Hagan

R290.00
Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

R245.00
My Friends

Hisham Matar

R275.00 Add to Cart
Be a Revolution

Ijeoma Oluo

R400.00
The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

Adam Shatz

R325.00
Supercommunicators

Charles Duhigg

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Warhol After Warhol

Richard Dorment

R299.00 Add to Cart
Why We Remember

Charan Ranganath

R315.00
Monstrous Anger of the Guns

Andrew Feinstein, Paul Rogers, Rhona Michie

R375.00
The Parlour Wife

Foluso Agbaje

R295.00 Add to Cart
James

Percival Everett

R285.00 Add to Cart
Parasol Against the Axe

Helen Oyeyemi

R290.00
Smoke and Ashes

Amitav Ghosh

R305.00 Add to Cart
Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

R295.00
Green Dot

Madeleine Gray

R280.00 Add to Cart
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

Clay McLeod Chapman

R300.00 Add to Cart
Night Watch

Jayne Anne Phillips

R295.00 Add to Cart
The Premonition

Banana Yoshimoto

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The Other Valley

Scott Alexander Howard

R290.00
How We Break

Vincent Deary

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How Infrastructure Works

Deb Chachra

R345.00
Fervour

Toby Lloyd

R280.00 Add to Cart
The Cliffs

Julie Courtney Sullivan

R295.00
The Best Way to Bury Your Husband

Alexia Casale

R275.00
The Hunter

Tana Hunter

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Blessings

Chukwuebuka Ibeh

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The Lagos Wife

Vanessa Walters

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The Edges

Angelo Tijssens

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Mongrel

Hanako Footman

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The Last Song of Penelope

Claire North

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The Vulnerables

Sigrid Nunez

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Rabbit Hole

Kate Brody

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Deliver Me

Malin Persson Giolito

R295.00 Add to Cart
Shanghai

Joseph Kanon

R295.00
My Favourite Mistake

Marian Keyes

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Why We Die

Venki Ramakrishnan

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Who’s Afraid of Gender?

Judith Butler

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How the World Made the West

Josephine Quinn

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The Instruments of Darkness

John Connolly

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The Next Girl

Emiko Jean

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Dead Ends

Jeffery Deaver

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Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

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Mona of the Manor

Armistead Maupin

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Three Burials

Anders Lustgarten

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The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt

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Rewilding Africa

Graham Spence, Grant Fowlds

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Amphibious Soul

Craig Foster

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Butter

Asako Yuzuki

R295.00
The Sea Cemetry

Aslak Nore

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An Abundance of Wild Roses

Feryal Ali-Gauhar

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The Immune Mind

Monty Lyman

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Lobbying For Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic

Ilan Pappe

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Short Stories

Haruki Murakami: Manga Stories

Haruki Murakami

R495.00
Wise Women

Angharad Wynne, Sharon Blackie

R440.00
Flowers From the Void

Gianni Washington

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She’s Always Hungry

Eliza Clark

R290.00
The Best Short Stories 2024

Amor Towles

R415.00
A Sunny Place for Shady People

Mariana Enriquez

R450.00 Add to Cart
The Best American Short Stories 2024

R440.00
Reservoir Bitches

Dahlia de la Cerda

R295.00
The Last Dream

Pedro Almodóvar

R420.00 Add to Cart
No and Other Love Stories

Kirsty Logan

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A Kind of Madness

Uche Okonkwo

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Midnight in the Morgue

Femi Kayode, Karen Jennings

R280.00 Add to Cart
For What Are Butterflies Without Their Wings

Troy Onyango

R338.00 Add to Cart
A View From the Stars

Cixin Liu

R300.00
The Collected Short Stories of Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolaño

R665.00 Add to Cart
Out There Screaming

Jordan Peele

R320.00
Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space

Rémy Ngamije

R395.00 Add to Cart
The Vanishing Point

Paul Theroux

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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

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A Short History of Trans Misogyny

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