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Midnight

Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back in their most gripping story yet, as book 11, Midnight, picks up where Resurrection left off – and runs. For years, Valkyrie Cain has struggled to keep her loved ones safe from harm, plunging into battle – time and time again – by Skulduggery Pleasant’s side, and always emerging triumphant. But now the very thing that Valkyrie fights for is in danger, as a ruthless killer snatches her little sister in order to lure Valkyrie into a final confrontation. With Skulduggery racing to catch up and young sorcerer Omen scrambling along behind, Valkyrie only has twelve hours to find Alice before it’s too late. The clock is ticking…

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Derek Landy
Art of Howl's Moving Castle

A hardback, prestige format book with a generous collection of concept sketches, fully rendered character and background drawings, paintings and cell images. Along with the stunning visuals, the book also presents interviews and comments with the production staff, including key points from the director.

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Hayao Miyazaki

R 800.00
Esio Trot

Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller!This is the wonderful and warm-hearted Roald Dahl classic, Esio Trot.Mr Hoppy really loves his neighbour Mrs Silver, and Mrs Silver really loves her tortoise, Alfie. One day Mrs Silver asks Mr Hoppy how to make Alfie grow, and suddenly Mr Hoppy knows the way to win her heart. With the help of a magical spell and some cabbage leaves, can Mr Hoppy be happy at last?'A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero' - David Walliams And now you can listen to ESIO TROT ( with THE GIRAFFE AND THE PELLY AND ME) 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.

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Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
Algebra of Happiness

From the New York Times bestselling author, a provocative book of hard-won wisdom for achieving a fulfilling career and life. - How can you have a meaningful career, not just a lucrative one?- Is a work/life balance really possible?- What does it take to make a long-term relationship succeed?- What can you do now so there are no regrets aged 40, 50 or 80? As Scott Galloway puts it, by the time you hit your mid twenties sh*t gets real. Life become stressful. Even the smart, the hard working and the elite can feel lost in a chaotic, noisy and unpredictable world. As a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, the debate in Galloway's MBA class often veers away from business strategy to the challenging issue of life strategies. Which is why Galloway, in his signature, take-no-prisoners style, has developed a dynamic formula for a life well lived. In The Algebra of Happiness Galloway tells you how life can be navigated and negotiated better to maximise happiness and minimise the inevitable stress. Delivering practical advice and hard-won wisdom on everything from when to own property to how hard to work, this is self-help for anyone struggling with life's big questions. Through simple equations that measure the relationship between success, resilience and failure or the correlation between happiness and money, Galloway attempts to convert intangible advice to tangible equations.

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Scott Galloway
South Africa, A Visual Journey

Published a year following the passing away of legendary South Africa photographer Gerald Hoberman, "South Africa - a visual journey" is a culmination of his and his son Marc's most loved iconic imagery, taken over 25 years. With over 100 spectacular full page colour photographs representing all of South Africa's nine provinces, and bound in a luxurious printed silk cloth hardcover, this is a coffee table book unlike any other published on one of the world's most relevant and loved destinations.

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Gerald Hoberman
We're Pregnant! the First Time Dad's Pregnancy Handbook

Adrian Kulp

R 366.00
The Escape

From the Sunday Times number one bestselling author, David Baldacci, The Escape is the third title in this fast-paced, breathtaking series. CID investigator, John Puller, has returned from his latest case in Florida to learn that his brother, Bobby, on death row at Leavenworth Prison for national security crimes, has escaped. Preliminary investigations show that he may have had help in his breakout. Now he's on the run, and in disguise, and he's the US government's number one target. John Puller has a dilemma. Which comes first, loyalty to his country or to his brother? Bobby has state secrets that certain people will literally kill for. But blood is thicker than water, and the brothers are close although even John does not know for sure what Bobby really did for the government, nor if he's even guilty of his crimes. It becomes swiftly apparent, however, that Bobby's role was powerful and far-reaching.With the help of John's long-time friend and colleague, General Julie Carson, both brothers move closer to the truth from their opposing directions. And this case puts John Puller in a place he thought he'd never be, on the other side of the law, where even his skills as an investigator, and his strength as a fighter, might not be enough to save him. And his brother.

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David Baldacci

R 308.00
Next Person You Meet in Heaven

THE LIFE-AFFIRMING FOLLOW UP TO THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN, FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER WHOSE BOOKS HAVE TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF OVER 40 MILLION READERS'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecilia AhernNo act done for someone else is ever wasted.The accident that killed Eddie left an indelible mark on Annie. Only a girl at the time, injured, scarred, and unable to remember why, Annie's life is forever changed by the incident.Bullied by her peers and haunted by something she cannot recall, Annie struggles to find acceptance as she grows. When, as a young woman, she reconnects with Paulo, her childhood love, she believes she has finally found happiness.But when her wedding day ends in an unimaginable accident, Annie finds herself on her own heavenly journey. It will lead her to her very own five people, whose responsibility it falls on to teach her about the meaning of her life, and to her inevitable reunion with Eddie.WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE NEXT PERSON YOU MEET IN HEAVEN'The story has your heart in a million pieces whilst you smile and simply can't wait to read what happens next''A master storyteller!''A perfect end to an already perfect story. It is truly a gift for any reader''Anyone who read the first book would expect this second book to be a work of art. It is just that''Mitch Albom knows how to tug on the heartstrings!'

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Mitch Albom

R 339.00

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Het twee misdade in die dorp dalk 'n verband?

Bloedbande is die vierde boek in ’n reeks oor die speurder, Adriaan Kruger. Die skrywer was die baie gewilde Eleanor Baker, en is onder die skuilnaam, Alex Muller, uitgegee. Sedert Human & Rousseau die reeks in splinternuwe baadjies begin uitgee het in 2025 volg ek die wel en weë van Adriaan Kruger, wat in Bloedbande bevorder word na kaptein. Adriaan, sy vrou Karien en haar tweeling sussies, voel al soos ou bekendes wat tuis hoort op my boekrak.
Moorde maak soos voorheen deel uit van die storielyn, maar sonder grieselrige detail. Daar word eerder deeglik aandag gegee aan die unieke persoonlikhede van die rolspelers. Daar is ook genoeg intrige om die leser tot aan die einde aan die wonder te hou. Selfs wanneer daar ’n belangrike deurbraak gemaak word in die ondersoek, kies die skrywer om die leser nog ’n rukkie in die duister te laat. Hierdie reeks is ’n bewys van die veelsydigheid van die skrywer, wat ewe tuis was met ernstige prosa, jeugverhale, liefdesverhale en speurverhale.
Bloedbande het die eerste maal in 2001 verskyn, en hoewel dit kronologies sin maak om in volgorde te lees, kan dit wel individueel sin maak. Die reeks bestaan uit Die vyf susters, Die rooi angelier, Drie misdade in ’n knoop en Bloedbande. Gawe nuus is dat die skrywer ’n vyfde verhaal geskryf het oor Adriaan Kruger. Ek hoop dat Hotel Bergsig ook ’n heruitgawe gaan sien in die nabye toekoms.
Human & Rousseau is ’n druknaam van Jonathan Ball uitgewers.

Pret vir laerskoolkinders

Dieselfde prettigheid van grappe, raaisels en woordspeletjies wat ek in Hannes Barnard se Allamapstieks raakgeloop het, is weer in Allegaartjie te vind. Zinelda McDonald se kreatiewe illustrasies vra ook weereens om ingekleur te word, dus kan kinders maar die inkleurpotlode byderhand hou om hulle besig te hou tydens die vakansie.
Hannes was onlangs op Lekkerleesboekrak die Skrywer van die maand. ’n Interessante feit wat ons daar gehoor het, was dat hy kan “rap”. Hy bewys dit in sy kinderboeke deur self kletsryme te skryf, en boonop kan jy, deur die kode te skandeer, luister hoe hy die bonusrym, Allegaartjie, voordra. In Allamapstieks, klets hy deur die storie, Giep se groot geheim.
Allegaartjie sluit af met nog ’n aflewering oor die avonture van die leerders van die Skool vir rampspoedige talente. Julle sal onthou dat Hannes teksbydraes gelewer het vir hierdie skreeusnaakse bundel stories. Lesertjies gaan dit geniet om te lees waarom Chadoné beskou word as ’n Gholfzilla.
Hierdie oulike boek vir laerskoolkinders is ’n publikasie van Lapa Uitgewers se afdeling vir Jeug- en kinderboeke.

Volop raaisels, prettige stories en aktiwiteite vir die jongklomp

Allamapstieks rol so gemaklik oor die tong en val só lekker op die oor - en dit is Hannes Barnard se prettige boek vir laerskoolkinders wat saam met sy tweelingboetie, Allegaartjie, op die rakke is. Ons het hierdie skrywer leer ken as jeugverhaalskrywer van formaat, maar hy kwyt homself baie goed van die taak om jonger lesers te vermaak.
Ek het gehou van sy idees om kinders aan die skryf te kry met “Wat as” vrae. Daar is plek gelaat vir die kind om sy of haar storie neer te pen. Daar is ook twee langer stories om te lees, een waaroor daar ook ’n koerantberig geskryf is. Lees self, dit is regtig baie oorspronklik. En boonop is daar ’n lekker lang kletsrym, Giep se groot geheim.
Verder is daar grappe, raaisels, en woordspeletjies en illustrasies wat ingekleur kan word. Dit word uitgegee deur Lapa Kinder- en jeugboeke en kan ’n kinderhart bly maak in die vakansie.

'n Storie oor tweede kanse

Daar is ’n bekende uitdrukking wat dikwels toegeskryf word aan Richard Bach, die skrywer van Jonathan Livingston Seagull, hoewel dit nie met sekerheid geverifieer kan word nie. Dit lui dat as jy iets of iemand liefhet, jy dit moet vrylaat. As dit na jou toe terugkeer is dit joune. As dit nie terugkom nie, was dit nooit joune nie. Ek skat Ewald het so gevoel toe hy uit Rinelda se lewe verdwyn het sodat sy haar drome kon najaag.
Daardie opoffering het ongelukkig nie vir een van die twee goed uitgewerk nie. Baie water moes in die see loop voordat hulle verhouding na jare weer op dreef kon kom. Selfs toe sy uiteindelik weer syne word, het ’n venynige en arrogante antagonis ’n finale stok in die speke kom steek.
Hierdie storielyn sou ’n lys van karakters vooraf, kon regverdig. Ek het nogal gesukkel om kop te hou met die familieverband tussen die talle familielede en hulle verband met Beukes Eiendomme en die werknemers aldaar.
Serenade vir die hart is Corné van Rooyen se verhaal oor tweede kanse, nie net vir die held en heldin nie, maar ook vir die Beukes familie. Dit is ’n Romanza in die sub-genre, Modern.

Raw, Hilarious, Heartbreaking and Unforgettable!

A Qualified Disappointment is one of the best South African books I have ever read.

From the first page to the last, it takes you on an incredible emotional journey full of joy, heartbreak, laughter, hope, and everything in between. Prev writes with remarkable honesty and vulnerability, never shying away from the harsh realities of growing up Indian while navigating identity within the LGBTQIA+ community. His voice is raw, authentic, and deeply human.

The book feels like an unexpected blend of Spud, a coming-of-age romance, memoir, and sharp social commentary, all wrapped in brilliant wit and laugh-out-loud humour. What makes it truly special, though, is its distinctly South African Indian perspective and a voice that is so rarely represented with this level of authenticity and heart.

It’s funny, moving, insightful, and beautifully written. More than just a great story, it’s a work of art that stays with you long after you’ve turned the final page. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

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