A South African lover of books and everything connected to them. I used to run a small bookstore in a beautiful town surrounded by vineyards.
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One of NPR's Best Books of 2016, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, the British Fantasy Award, the This is …
This newly updated guide offers sound advice on every aspect of writing and giving an effective speech. Filled with fresh …
Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize …
Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip. …
Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and memory as has …
A classic horror book that stands the test of time. Will, Jim and Will’s father are characters that will stay with you long after you’ve closed the book. As will the characters and freaks that inhabit the carnival and continue to lure unsuspecting carnival goers to a somewhat unexpected end…
There’s not much more I can add to the millions of glowing reviews out there about The Little Prince. It’s one of the all time great books. In less than 100 pages it manages to grab your heart and give you such a Seth of emotion on finishing it. That speaks volumes about just how amazing a story it presents. This is most assuredly a book everyone should read.
From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative …
Welcome to Night Vale is as unique in book form as it is in podcast form. If you’re a fan of the show and it’s cast of weird and quirky characters, then you’ll love this.
The authors have done a great job at translating the show’s humor into words and sentences and paragraphs and chapters, and thereby into a fully formed and engrossing book.
All hail the Glow Cloud!
This is an inspired children's book about a boy's passage through tempestuous aspects of life.
Max, a naughty little boy, …
Gosford Park meets Groundhog Day by way of Agatha Christie and Black Mirror – the most inventive story you'll read …
To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork - a great clanging monster …
In a touching reflection on love between generations, a grandfather passes down a hat that has seen a world of …
Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) was the daughter of Lord Byron, a poet, and Anna Isabella Milbanke, a mathematician. Her parents separated …
A stunning gift to treasure from the astonishingly talented illustrator of Animalphabet by Julia Donaldson.
Starbird is an original fable …
