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Book of the Year Shortlist

The Nicotine Gospel

Sven Axelrad

R340.00 Add to Cart
Braids & Migraines

Andile Cele

R260.00 Add to Cart
The Fragile Mental Health of Strong Women

Michelle Kekana

R280.00 Add to Cart
The Lucky Ones

Alistair Mackay

R295.00 Add to Cart
Bosadi

Kopano Matlwa

R240.00 Add to Cart
Ghost in the Drum

Nthato Mokgata

R200.00 Add to Cart
Rootbound

Manthipe Moila

R240.00 Add to Cart
A Collection of Gaps

Frankie Murrey

R380.00 Add to Cart
Journey Kwantu

Vusumzi Ngxande

R290.00 Add to Cart
Book People

Paige Nick

R360.00 Add to Cart
Lone Wolf Living

Werner Pretorius

R280.00 Add to Cart
Kwandis Shandis

Nokwanda Sihlali

R120.00 Add to Cart

New Local Books

Colorblind Tools

Marzia Milazzo

R375.00 Add to Cart
Ulibambe Lingashoni!

Bongani Ngqulunga

R450.00 Add to Cart
The Last Lions

Colin Bell, Don Pinnock

R750.00 Add to Cart
The Deal

Mandy Wiener

R360.00 Add to Cart
Belonging

Ashwin Desai, Goolam Vahed

R350.00 Add to Cart
Ons Klyntji

Erns Grundling, Joe Botha, Toast Coetzer

R70.00 Add to Cart
The Essence of Success

Emanuele Pirro, Greg Mills

R380.00 Add to Cart
The State of the South African State

Musa Nxele, Na’eem Jeenah, Sandy Africa

R380.00 Add to Cart
Liberation and Corruption

Peter Hain

R375.00 Add to Cart
Bosadi

Kopano Matlwa

R240.00 Add to Cart
New Contrast Issue 209

R217.00 Add to Cart
KasiNomics Unleashed

GG Alcock

R350.00 Add to Cart
This Is Wild

Carlos Amato

R250.00 Add to Cart
Damn Good Food

Fehmz

R420.00 Add to Cart
Skorpio

Deon Meyer

R375.00 Add to Cart
Why Am I Like This?

Qaanitah Hunter

R290.00 Add to Cart
Upwards

Karen Dudley

R450.00 Add to Cart
The Consulting Room

Dawn Garisch

R180.00 Add to Cart
Under Smuts’s Rule

Bongani Ngqulunga

R380.00 Add to Cart
Speaking Likeness (limited edition)

Kathryn Smith

R1,821.00 Add to Cart
Madam & Eve Annual 2025 Madam: Impossible

Rico Schacherl, Stephen Francis

R240.00 Add to Cart
Zapiro Annual 2025: What Else Could Go Wrong?

Zapiro

R240.00 Add to Cart
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Events

Magnitude

November 6, 2025

5:30 pm

Join us on Thursday 6 November for the launch of Magnitude by Deborah Seddon. She will be in conversation with Michèle Betty.

Thank you to our wine sponsor, Spier.

Events

The Consulting Room

November 11, 2025

5:30 pm

Join us on Tuesday 11 November for the launch of The Consulting Room by Dawn Garisch. She will be in conversation with Kate Sidley.

Thank you to our wine sponsor, Spier.

Events

Liberation and Corruption

November 12, 2025

5:30 pm
Join us on Wednesday 12 November for the launch of Liberation and Corruption by Peter Hain. He will be in conversation with Carol Paton. Thank you to our wine sponsor, Spier.
 

Events

How to Build a House in the Mountains

November 13, 2025

6:00 pm

Join us on Thursday 13 November for the launch of How to Build a House in the Mountains by Roger Lucey. He will be in conversation with John Maytham.

Thank you to our wine sponsor, Spier.

New Fiction

The Tiger’s Share

Keshava Guha

R470.00 Add to Cart
False War

Carlos Manuel Álvarez

R435.00 Add to Cart
Cleaner

Jess Shannon

R430.00 Add to Cart
Rosa Mistika

Euphrase Kezilahabi

R405.00 Add to Cart
Flashlight

Susan Choi

R395.00 Add to Cart
Buckeye

Patrick Ryan

R445.00 Add to Cart
Cursed Daughters

Oyinkan Braithwaite

R385.00 Add to Cart
The House of Wolf

Tony Robinson

R395.00 Add to Cart
Blood Book

Kim De L' Horizon

R440.00 Add to Cart
Seascraper

Benjamin Wood

R395.00
Moscow Underground

Catherine Merridale

R440.00 Add to Cart
Hot Wax

M. L. Rio

R425.00 Add to Cart
A Particularly Nasty Case

Adam Kay

R425.00 Add to Cart
Will There Ever Be Another You

Patricia Lockwood

R520.00 Add to Cart
House of Day, House of Night

Olga Tokarczuk

R430.00 Add to Cart
We Love You, Bunny

Mona Awad

R410.00 Add to Cart
A Splintering

Dur e Aziz Amna

R430.00 Add to Cart
The Two Roberts

Damian Barr

R565.00 Add to Cart
Discontent

Beatriz Serrano

R395.00 Add to Cart
The Midnight Timetable

Bora Chung

R360.00 Add to Cart
More New Fiction

New Non-Fiction

Apocalypse

Lizzie Wade

R440.00 Add to Cart
A Different Kind of Power

Jacinda Ardern

R399.00
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad

R505.00
Every Monument Will Fall

Dan Hicks

R420.00 Add to Cart
Mother Mary Comes to Me

Arundhati Roy

R430.00 Add to Cart
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

R535.00 Add to Cart
Fly, Wild Swans

Jung Chang

R410.00 Add to Cart
Surviving the Twenty-First Century

José Mujica, Noam Chomsky

R395.00 Add to Cart
This Queer Arab Family

Elias Jahshan

R445.00 Add to Cart
Fires Which Burned Brightly

Sebastian Faulks

R535.00 Add to Cart
The Cultural Tutor

Sheehan Quirke

R505.00
A Truce That Is Not Peace

Miriam Toews

R500.00 Add to Cart
Israel on the Brink

Ilan Pappe

R550.00 Add to Cart
Strong Ground

Brene Brown

R585.00 Add to Cart
The Whispers of Rock

Anjana Khatwa

R470.00 Add to Cart
Progress

Samuel Miller McDonald

R440.00 Add to Cart
Books: A Manifesto

Ian Patterson

R550.00 Add to Cart
A Short History of the Gaza Strip

Anne Irfan

R440.00 Add to Cart
Nobody’s Girl

Virginia Roberts Guiffre

R480.00 Add to Cart
168 Songs of Hatred and Failure

Keith Cameron

R525.00 Add to Cart
Chromorama

Riccardo Falcinelli

R440.00 Add to Cart
The Little Book of Miriam

Miriam Margolyes

R470.00 Add to Cart
Sparta

Andrew Bayliss

R565.00 Add to Cart
Scattered

Aamna Mohdin

R325.00 Add to Cart
The Traitor’s Daughter

Roxana Spicer

R410.00 Add to Cart
The Traitors Circle

Jonathan Freedland

R470.00 Add to Cart
A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness

Francesca Albanese

R325.00 Add to Cart
Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave

Mariana Enriquez

R590.00 Add to Cart
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares

R440.00 Add to Cart
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Kids & Teens

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

Browse books for Kids and Teens

New in Paperback

This Motherless Land

R275.00 Add to Cart
Question 7

Richard Flanagan

R295.00 Add to Cart
The Intersectional Environmentalist

Leah Thomas

R350.00 Add to Cart
Private Revolutions

Yuan Yang

R325.00 Add to Cart
The Garden Against Time

Olivia Laing

R299.00 Add to Cart
The Happiness of Dogs

Mark Rowlands

R325.00
No Escape

Nury Turkel

R330.00 Add to Cart
Want

Gillian Anderson

R325.00 Add to Cart
Didion and Babitz

Lili Anolik

R315.00
Health Communism

Artie Vierkant, Beatrice Adler-Bolton

R350.00
Thirst

Robert Macfarlane

R385.00 Add to Cart
Misinterpretation

Ledia Xhoga

R315.00 Add to Cart
The Bitter Water of the Lake

Giulia Caminito

R375.00 Add to Cart
Colored Television

Danzy Senna

R295.00 Add to Cart
Whites Can Dance Too

Kalaf Epalanga

R290.00 Add to Cart
Creation Lake

Rachel Kushner

R275.00 Add to Cart
Go Lightly

Brydie Lee-Kennedy

R300.00 Add to Cart
The Granddaughter

Bernhard Schlink

R305.00 Add to Cart
Rosarita

Anita Desai

R285.00 Add to Cart
Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound

Kate Kennedy

R325.00
One Of Our Kind

Nicola Yoon

R280.00 Add to Cart
Familiaris

David Wroblewski

R360.00
The Instrumentalist

Harriet Constable

R300.00
The Women Behind the Door

Roddy Doyle

R275.00 Add to Cart
The Rich People Have Gone Away

Regina Porter

R275.00 Add to Cart
Honeybee

Dawn O' Porter

R295.00 Add to Cart
Survival is a Promise

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

R380.00 Add to Cart
Hungerstone

Kat Dunn

R299.00 Add to Cart
You Like it Darker

Stephen King

R295.00 Add to Cart
A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage

Asia Mackay

R295.00 Add to Cart
The City and its Uncertain Walls

Haruki Murakami

R295.00 Add to Cart
No Place Like Home

Charlene White

R305.00 Add to Cart
In Search of Beethoven

John Suchet

R330.00 Add to Cart
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Short Stories

Haruki Murakami: Manga Stories

Haruki Murakami

R495.00
Reservoir Bitches

Dahlia de la Cerda

R295.00
Midnight in the Morgue

Femi Kayode, Karen Jennings

R280.00
For What Are Butterflies Without Their Wings

Troy Onyango

R338.00 Add to Cart
Out There Screaming

Jordan Peele

R320.00 Add to Cart
Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space

Rémy Ngamije

R395.00 Add to Cart
The Vanishing Point

Paul Theroux

R395.00 Add to Cart
African Stories

R395.00 Add to Cart
Hail Mary

Funmi Fetto

R470.00 Add to Cart
I Hope You’re Happy

Marni Appleton

R375.00
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak

Jamil Jan Kochai

R300.00 Add to Cart
Good and Evil and Other Stories

Samanta Schweblin

R385.00 Add to Cart
The Land of Sweet Forever

Harper Lee

R540.00 Add to Cart
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Pride Celebration: Kids & Teens

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Staff Recommendations

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

R275.00 Add to Cart
Chain-Gang All-Stars

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

R275.00 Add to Cart
In The Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

R360.00 Add to Cart
Minor Detail

Adania Shibli

R375.00 Add to Cart
Mornings in Jenin

Susan Abulhawa

R305.00
Show Me the Place

Hedley Twidle

R295.00 Add to Cart
Weeping Becomes a River

Siphokazi Jonas

R220.00 Add to Cart
Patient 12A

Lesedi Molefi

R370.00 Add to Cart
Cityscapes Issue 11

Edgar Pieterse, Tau Tavengwa

R950.00 Add to Cart
Hoe Ek Dit Onthou

Francois Van Coke

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

Nathan Thrall

R295.00 Add to Cart
Leo (English)

Deon Meyer

R295.00 Add to Cart
The Devil’s Best Trick

Randall Sullivan

Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

R285.00 Add to Cart
Trilobites & Other Stories

Breece Pancake

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