Back to School! A Little Study Guide Guidance
It’s a heck of wrench, isn’t it, getting back into school-mode after so much carefree festive fun time? Not only that, it can be frightening too. You’re starting a new grade, there’s a lot more to learn, and all sorts of things have the potential to be “different” in...
A Dozen Upcoming Originals: Releases to Watch out for Early this Year, Part One
Everybody, I have a New Year’s resolution for you – it’s not too late is it? Here’s what it is: keep a proper, organised and dutiful list of the exciting books you come across. I suggest this simply because it is something that I so often forget to do. You see a new...
10 Books Full of Improvements and Advice for a New Year and a Better Life
So, it’s a new year! Inevitably, this means that you’ve probably already thought of plenty of things that you’d like to change about your life (and plenty of complacencies that you’d like to banish). You might reject the notion of New Year’s resolutions, which is...
Final Christmas Countdown: More For the Kids
Well, Christmas is finally upon us. Probably you’re doing the final run-throughs in your head, making sure that you have gotten everything that you need, that everyone is catered for and that all of your gifts are top-notch. But, it never really ends, does it? Not...
More Non-Fiction Picks for Christmas
Here are some more selections for those in your life more likely to prefer facts and opinion (and food) to fiction. There’s an incredible variety of topics, observations and guides to choose from this time of year, and there’s pretty much no chance that you’ll...
Yet Further Christmas Fiction!
As you all will have gathered by now, there’s a massive amount of new and brilliant fiction to choose from as far as Christmas gifts go this year. But it’s always handy to have some recommendations from which to specifically pick the best for the fiction-lovers in...
Books for the Young Folk This Christmas
Obviously it goes without saying that you’ll all be getting the important young people in your lives books this Christmas. If I could go back in time, I’d tell my younger self to forget about all the toys and fads that vie for top spot on the wish list and put books...
Top Non-Fiction Books for Christmas
In addition to all the great fiction available this year, there is also a pretty great selection of new non-fiction from which to choose. Which is excellent, because, as you well know, some avid readers are not so much into the made-up. Therefore, here are five...
Season’s Reviews! Five New Novels you’ll Want to Get and Give as Gifts this Festive Season
We are positively flush this holiday season with great new fiction offerings. Personally, I’ve always tried to abide by the rule “one for me, one for you” when buying books as presents (because that way you guarantee yourself immense joy on both sides of the literary...
12 of the Most Chilling Lines Ever Written
Is it possible to conjure absolute dread with just a single sentence? Well, yes. Often you’ll be needing more than that (a whole book is usually recommended), but these creepy lines are a testament to what can be triggered in the mind by a few well-chosen words....
The 8 Scariest Novels of the Decade
Within the many genres that go into making up modern literature, horror has a special place. The shelves are positively teeming with vampires, zombies, psychos, apocalypses… it’s a wonder they don’t drip when we aren’t looking. And yet, as a subset of fiction, it...
Face To Face with Evil: Two Studies by Christopher Berry-Dee
This Halloween week, or indeed any week, you can get your shivers and chills from a good monster story or a dark paranormal encounter… or you can gaze into the fascinatingly heinous minds of people harbouring true wickedness. Christopher Berry-Dee is one of the...
Shop Early for Christmas: What to Get the Kids from our Christmas Special
Do kids still do a Christmas list every year? I hope that’s still a thing. But mostly, I hope that said list consists of nothing but books! Sort out Christmas gifts for the young folks early this year, save yourselves the stress of the last minute rush, and save a...
Shop Early for Christmas: Some Highlights from our Christmas Special
We all know the Christmas Shopping madness. Every year you promise yourself that you’ll get it done early, that you’re gifts will be neatly and timeously prepared, safely stacked somewhere secure until the family and friends arrive. Then you glance at the calendar and...
Exploring the Modern SA: Great Recent Books from a Diverse Set of Voices
The past couple of months, like many of those that preceded them, have seen the publication of some really good books exploring the recent goings-on of this country and exploring the many things that go into constructing the South African Identity. For humorous,...
Stories of Auschwitz, the Holocaust, Survival and Hope
Stories of Auschwitz, the Holocaust, Survival and Hope It might feel a little odd, celebrating this particular subset of literature – we can be happy that these books exist, but we must inevitably be sobered by the events that brought them into being. Tales of the...
The Booker Prize Shortlist 2019
One of the very best things about the Booker Prize is that it brings to the very forefront of the publishing world the kinds of literary and diverse works that so often lack effusive marketing campaigns, books that are true achievements regardless of genre and...
Heritage Day 2019
Big word, heritage, isn’t it? You could go on for hours about what it entails: there’s such a host of intellectual, personal and cultural factors that make up the topic, all very important… Ultimately though, Heritage Day is about celebration. So whether you spend it...
Brew Etc at The Warehouse Books Sale
Brew Etc are our resident coffee partners at The Warehouse Book Sale. They make great coffee and provide yummy treats to ensure visitors have the energy to keep shopping as long as they like. They have a variety of hot and cold drinks available PLUS you can buy beans...
Rugby World Cup 2019: Celebrate the Springboks this year with some fantastic books and merchandise.
This year’s World Cup, as I’m sure you know, kicks off in Japan on September 20th. SA will play its first match the following day, against the All Blacks, and hopefully won’t have too much trouble ultimately emerging from a pool that also includes Italy, Namibia and...
Upcoming Film-to-Book Adaptations
Of course, It Chapter Two is out this week, which is madly exciting because, well, it’s absolutely bound to be thrilling, but also because Stephen King adaptations always prompt such vigorous and fascinating comparison – as do most film adaptations. Often these...
The Warehouse Book Sale: 24th September 2019
The Bargain Books Warehouse Sale had its first event in April 2018. We opened our doors ahead of schedule as we had customers queuing from early in the morning! It was a very busy day and we all loved it. So much so that we have since had 5 more sales and it has...
Q&A With Sally Andrew, Author of Death on the Limpopo
The Karoo’s best loved agony aunt and crime fighter, Tannie Maria returns in a new mystery-thriller that takes us on a murderous journey with new allies and a little love-trouble. Sally Andrew answered some questions we had about the latest instalment in this charming...
14 of The Fiercest, Funniest Burns in Literature
The other day I spent a little too long flicking through my copy of The Shakespeare Insult Generator (which is a little book that all word lovers should own… and possibly carry at all times), and it got me to thinking about insults in literature. It takes special...
Three Empowering Titles for Women’s Day
This Women’s Day (while you’re being rightly celebrated and adored, of course), why not also get your go-getter on with these three recent looks into feminine power and experience? Collectively they look at gaining independence and worth by taking it into your own...
5 of The Greatest Female Characters in Literature
Right, I’m not going to officially “rank” them, because I’m sure I could hardly handle the arguments with myself, much less weather the idea of courting impassioned contention, so, in no particular order, here are some of the greatest – and my favourite – female...
10 Fun Facts About The Lion King
Exciting news… The new version of The Lion King is out this week! Before you head off to see it, here are some fun facts for you to chew on. • Twenty-five years have passed since The Lion King came out in 1994! • Jeremy Irons, the originally voice of Scar was...
Pangebraaide geelstert met quinoa en botterbone
Die vars roketblare en bros dennepitte laat hierdie gereg besonder smaaklik en vars lyk. Sorg dat die botterboontjies en quinoa louwarm is wanneer jy die vis voorsit. As jy nie geelstert in die hande kan kry nie, vervang dit met geskroeiroosterde tuna. Lewe 4 porsies...
Q&A with Dominique Valente, Author of Starfell: Willow Moss and the Lost Day
Starfell: Willow Moss and the Lost Day is the first in a fantastic new series of magical middle-grade novels ideal for fans of Cressida Cowell. Willow Moss, the youngest and least powerful sister in a family of witches, has a magical ability for finding lost things –...