Happy Pride!To celebrate all the super strides that are being made in the book world in terms of representation, variety, and queerness - and to treat you all to some wonderful gay stories, of course - we have put together a list of scintillating pride reads. There’s...

Roald Dahl Month At Bargain Books, this September is Roald Dahl month! And, yes, there are Golden Tickets up for grabs. The children’s books of Roald Dahl, not that you needed telling, are among the most charming, memorable, and evergreen stories ever put to page....

Betrayal by Lesley Pearse Because we couldn’t choose between these two exciting new releases, Pip Williams’ new novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho, is joined by the newest home-based suspense novel from one of the best household names in fiction. Being one of the UK’s...

The Bookbinder of JerichoBy Pip Williams   Imagine spending your life surrounded by the most mind-expanding books being written. Imagine spending your life in a city absolutely overflowing with knowledge and learning. And then imagine being told that it is not...

Book of the Month June: Killing Moon by Jo Nesbø It’s been a little while since we’ve had anything new from Nesbø - who’s still, often convincingly, called the king of crime writers - and thus we’ve not heard from one of the book world’s most compelling and memorable...

Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt By Lucinda Riley and Harry Whittaker An epic family saga reaches its stunning, long-awaited conclusion.  In crafting the epic, resonant Seven Sisters series, the late Lucinda Riley not only captured the hearts and minds of readers...

This month, we thought we’d go with something thrilling. And then we saw that there are two enormous thrillers new to the shelves this month and, rather than attempting to choose between them, we thought we’d feature them both. So, if you’re into shocking twists,...

Our Book of the Month is, as seems only appropriate for February, a book about love. A book about romance, connection and intimacy, about how to find these things, keep them and improve upon them. A book by a former Vedic monk and current leading light of wellness and...

Heartstopper Yearbook by Alice Oseman 👉WAS R359 NOW R329 SAVE R30 Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. This joyful trip into the LGBTQ+ world of Heartstopper is the perfect gift for anyone who loves the graphic novels or Netflix TV series The...

Die Demokratiese Republiek van Braai 2 by Jan Braai 👉WAS R429 NOW R399 SAVE R30 Die nuwe uitgawe van Die Demokratiese Republiek van Braai bevat 'n keur van nuwe resepte. Die indeling van die hoofstukke is aangepas, met besonderse resepte vir steak, hoender,...

Minecraft Gift Box 👉WAS R389 NOW R359 SAVE R30 Dive into Minecraft with the official Minecraft Gift Box, packed with tips and tricks for creating amazing builds in the game. Get creative with this ultimate builder's gift box, a must-have for all Minecraft...

Terry Pratchett A Life with Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins 👉WAS R359 NOW R329 SAVE R30 Terry Pratchett, as if you need telling, was one of the greatest world-creators, wordplay humourists, off-kilter satirists, unseen academics and, of...

Op pad na Moormansgat by Chris Karsten 👉WAS R229 NOW R199 SAVE R30 Een aand in 1914 word Koos de la Rey op pad na ’n rebellie noodlottig gewond. Die teiken was die bendelid William Foster. Dat De la Rey in die spervuur beland het, was pure toeval. Of was dit?...

Terry Pratchett A Life with Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins 👉WAS R359 NOW R329 SAVE R30 Terry Pratchett, as if you need telling, was one of the greatest world-creators, wordplay humourists, off-kilter satirists, unseen academics and, of...

All the Broken Places by John Boyne 👉WAS R339 NOW R299 SAVE R40 It may be fair to suggest that The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas occupies a special place within the myriad fiction that has been written about the atrocities of that particularly awful period of...

Koos Bekker's Billions by T.J. Strydom 👉WAS R289 NOW R269 SAVE R20 In Koos Bekker’s Billions, business journalist T. J. Strydom takes a detailed look at Bekker’s life and career, evaluating business decisions and identifying successful patterns on the way....

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 17: Diper Overload by Jeff Kinney 👉WAS R259 NOW R239 SAVE R20 Greg Heffley and his wimpy kid diary are back at last with another hilarious new adventure… and this time, it is all about fame and glory and rock n’ roll! As we all know,...

Was R359, Now R329. Save R30 Picoult continues to demonstrate her knack for conjuring difficult decisions and complex pasts with this new tale of secrets and sacrifice. Olivia McAfee thought she had the perfect life. Married to a successful surgeon and raising a...

The Thursday Murder Club is back! And this time our intrepid detectives are faced with their very favourite kind of case… one that’s tantalising, complex, famous, and a decade old. Perhaps life ought to be quieting down for Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim. But being...

That’s right, it’s time for another of our famous warehouse sales! By now you’re hopefully at least a little familiar with these spectacular sales of ours, but in case you are not, here’s a little about them. The range and value at Bargain Books is, of course,...

Join us in championing the great writers and writing that continue to make this country, and all the people in it, more interesting, creative and valuable. As part of our celebrations, we will be offering you the chance to do this via even better prices than usual....

Never is it a bad idea to avail yourself of all the wisdom and insight that the great minds of recent times have taken pains to set down in print. Which is why it's handy that Bargain Books has collected for your consideration some of the best books out there on...

This month, every customer who buys a copy of our Book of the Month will get the chance to win a fabulous and exclusive prize: two luxurious nights at Thula Thula Game Reserve. More details on that below, but first, a little about the book. Even though it’s brand new,...

A shoutout to the Bargain Books Community From Tracy Terblanche, manager of Bargain Books Walmer Park  I love working for Bargain Books, for we are given a huge amount of autonomy in our shops. This is not a cooky-cutter book chain. Each store has a unique set of...

Koos Bekker, South African businessman, is the chairman of the media group Naspers - and that’s an entity we are all familiar with, whether we know it or not. Naspers is the parent organisation of Media 24 and Takealot, it’s the largest media company outside of the...

A Good Way to Have Some Calming and Magical Indoor Fun It’s a testament to the lasting appeal of the world of Harry Potter and Hogwarts that more lovely ways to conjure and interact with that universe are being continuously developed. As part of our efforts to keep an...

There are many ways to celebrate the women in your life. There are many ways, too, to celebrate all the women of the world. But, and you may already have guessed our position here, the best way, naturally, is with books! The best way involves sharing directly in the...

A is vir Augustus en Afrikaans. B is vir Bargain Books! In Augustus vier Bargain Books die werk van ‘n groot aantal van ons beste Afrikaanse skrywers deur daagliks afslag te gee op ‘n bepaalde titel. Elke dag, ja, letterlik elke dag, van hierdie maand bied ons 20%...

  How are you and how's 2022 treating you? I’m very well, thank you! 2022 has been lovely – it has been wonderful bringing The No-Show out into the world, and meeting readers face-to-face at last after years of pandemic publication dates. And my little one is...

A good start in education is vital not only to life outcomes but to the health of our nation and our kind as a whole. For some, a foundational education is harder to achieve than it should be, harder than many of us realise… and that's where our new promotion comes...

One of Us is Lying: #BookTok and Streaming Sensation Karen M. McManus is a bestselling author known primarily for the series One of Us Is Next, now also a series on Netflix. Many are calling her the queen of teen crime. She’s also one of the authors benefiting from...

Once again delving into the world of first novels to find the most tantalising debuts, we bring you The Measure by Nikki Erlick - a fascinating and ambitious book that begins with a compelling concept and grows to encompass as many forms of love, hope and fate as you...

Our pick for BOTM this month comes from a beloved author who’s been gripping readers the world over for some time with her suspenseful storytelling and intense domestic dramas.   Deception by Lesley Pearse We all have to wonder, from time to time, whether we...

If the bestseller lists over the course of this year have been any indication, #BookTok - the arm of TikTok dedicated to the love of literature and all things bookish - has been having quite an effect on the publishing industry, and on reading in general. This...

Our picks for the most exciting new fiction of the month this month do feature a whole bunch of murder and mayhem. And who doesn’t like a nice murder, after all? But be not afeared, some of those murders are of the more lighthearted variety (which certainly is a...

June is Pride Month – a month for celebrating and contemplating all things LGBTQ+, for encouraging unity and for honouring the long and often arduous journey that the global queer community has taken to get to this point… as well as all that has yet to be achieved....

June is Pride Month – a month for celebrating and contemplating all things LGBTQ+, for encouraging unity and for honouring the long and often arduous journey that the global queer community has taken to get to this point… as well as all that has yet to be achieved....

It’s amazing to think that not long ago there was something controversial about a book having LGBTQ+ themes. Books with queer content - sometimes even just perceived queer content - were being banned all over the place, being blamed for some kind of vague moral decay...

There’s a new book absolutely smashing the bestseller lists as of right now and we thought you’d like to know about it! It’s a stunningly honest memoir written with unrestrained fervour, and it packs one heck of a personal punch. It’s Finding Me by the legendary actor...

  Twenty-five years ago, the book industry was changed forever. The line between children’s and adult literature was all but dissolved, witches and wizards flew (we’re picturing broomsticks, but there’s the whole apparating thing too, if you prefer) to...

We know, a Bargain Books Warehouse Sale and only a month apart from the other, can it be real? Yes, it most certainly can. Come and enjoy a trip to a warehouse filled with books at LOW PRICES. Our warehouse or rather book heaven offers a large range of books that are...