ADULT Categories
-
Uncategorized (6)
-
Classics (Adult) (11)
-
Fiction (Adult) (123)
-
Fiction Fantasy (Adult) (9)
-
Fiction General (Adult) (163)
-
Fiction Historical (Adult) (10)
-
Fiction Mystery / Suspense (Adult) (22)
-
Fiction Phycological (Adult) (8)
-
Fiction Romance (Adult) (24)
-
Fiction Thriller/Crime (Adult) (107)
-
Graphic Novels (Adult) (10)
-
Humor/Jokes (Children) (8)
-
Science-Fiction (Adult) (10)
-
A Cask of Jerepigo by Herman Charles Bosman (Hardback)
R50,00The enduringly funny A Cask of Jerepigo has become a South African favourite, with pieces like Shanty Town, Johannesburg Riots, Street Processions and Jam Session frequently reprinted and performed. The satirical sharpness and unique comic reporting of South Africa’s jaunty man about town are still unmatched.
-
Mafeking Road by Herman Charles Bosman (Hardback)
R50,00Arguably the most enduring collection of South African short-fiction, Mafeking Road has never been out of print since its first publication in 1947.
-
WHY ARE GIRAFFES SO TALL? by Eric Marson Illustrated by Olivier Huette (hardback)
R40,00Once upon a time, the giraffe had short legs and short neck. in the savannah, all the animals would laugh at him. So one day, he took his courage and went to ask Mother Nature to repair her mistake.
-
The Biggest Ever Knock Knock Joke Book by Parragon Plus Publishing (Hardback)
R100,00When you need a few Knock-Knock jokes, this is the book for you!
-
This Year It Will Be Different by Maeve Binchy (Hardback)
R50,00This Year It Will Be Different is from the short story collection by Maeve Binchy. A middle-aged woman, Ethel, is not looking forward to Christmas. She’s reached a point where Christmas seems like too much hard work because her family has come to expect her to do everything for them (as well as go out to work), without offering to help. But when her family realise that something’s amiss, they promise “this year it will be different”…
-
FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT by Stephen King (Paperback)
R300,00Jet passengers are stuck in a time-slip, a psychopath accuses a writer of plagiarism, a man with an overdue book encounters a demonic librarian, and a boy’s camera snaps photos of a huge and nasty dog in these four horror novellas.
-
Personally, I Blame My Fairy Godmother by Claudia Carrol (Paperback)
R70,00The fairytale ending was just the beginning…
Jessie Woods absolutely believes in fairytale endings. So would you if you had a recession-proof career as a daredevil TV host, a palatial pink mansion, and the dream boyfriend. But, quicker than you can say Cinderella, her life falls to pieces and suddenly her prince isn’t quite so charming, her party-loving friends disappear and even her faithful friend Visa no longer loves her. Utterly heartbroken and jobless, Jessie is forced back home, to live with her stepmum and two evil stepsisters. Is it time for her to give up on the dream – or will Jessie learn that happy endings can come in the strangest of places?
-
QI: The Book of Animal Ignorance by John Mitchinson & John Lloyd (Hardback)
R100,00Join the QI team for an off-road safari through a hundred of the most interesting members of the animal kingdom, armed with illuminating illustrations and diagrams by award-winning artist Ted Dewan. Meet the water bears that can live in suspension for hundreds of years, the parasite carried by your cat that makes men grumpy and women promiscuous, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom. Marvel at elephants that walk on tiptoe, pigs that shine in the dark, and woodpeckers that have ears on the end of their tongues. If you still think a pangolin is a musical instrument, that hyenas are dogs, or that sheep are pointless and stupid, “The Book of Animal Ignorance” has arrived just in time.
-
The Road to NAB END An Extraordinary Northern Childhood by William Woodruff (Hardback)
R70,00William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill and two days later his mother was back at work. Life was extrememly tough for the family in 1920’s Blackburn — a treat was sheep’s head or cow heel soup — and got worse when his father lost his job when the cotton industry started its terminal decline. Woodruff had to find his childhood fun in the little free time he had available between his delivery job and school, but he never writes self-pityingly, leaving the reader to shed the tears on his behalf.
-
Beyond the Blue Hills by Katie Flynn (Paperback)
R50,00Laura Collins, a widow, is struggling to make a good life for her daughters, Tess and Tina.They are living with Laura’s sister Millie and her seven children so when Laura is offered a good job, with accommodation, she is delighted. Life is very different for the Brewsters, living on Manor Farm in Herefordshire.Danny and his girlfriend, Sophie, intend to marry one day so that they can run Manor Farm together but his cousin and best friend, Phil Ryland, feels differently.He longs to get away from farming and intends to escape as soon as he can. Then war comes and changes everything
-
The Prince by Tiffany Reisz (Paperback)
R50,00The Prince is the third book in Tiffany’s Original Sinners trilogy.
Her only weakness, his deepest desire
Two worlds of wealth and passion call to Nora Sutherlin and, whichever one she chooses, it will be the hardest decision she will ever have to make. Unless someone makes it for her…
Wes Railey is the object of Nora’s tamest yet most maddening fantasies, and the one man she cant forget.
He’s young.
He’s wonderful.
He’s also thoroughbred royalty and, reuniting with him in Kentucky, she’s in his world now. But this infamous New York dominatrix is no simpering Southern belle, and Nora’s dream of fitting into Wesleys world is perpetually at odds with the relentlessly seductive pull of Søren -her owner, her lover, the forever she cannot have.
At least, not completely. -
By Frank Herbert – Heretics of Dune, 1st Edition 1984 (Hardcover – Excellent Condition)
R550,00Spine is slightly faded. Book has original dust jacket , this book is in a very good condition.
-
A Bad Day for Alibaba by Craig Shaw Gardner (Paperback)
R30,00Fantasy novel, second in the ”The Arabian Nights” sequence, comprising The Other Sinbad (1991), A Bad Day For Ali Baba (1991) and Scheherazade’s Night Out (1992)
-
Avalanche Express by Colin Forbes (Paperback)
R40,00When an unknown source, obviously high-up in the Politburo of the Soviet Union, sends word that his cover is blown, American intelligence launches an all-out attempt to rescue the man known only by his code name, Angelo
-
Classical Legends by A.R. Hope Moncrieff (Paperback)
R60,00Drawn from classical authors and retold in accessible prose, this volume contains a selection of stories based on the legends and myths of Ancient Greece, featuring a cast of memorable figures ranging from the gods of Olympus to legendary heroes such as Odysseus and Theseus, and also includes extracts of verse by great English poets inspired by Greek mythology.
-
The Birds and the Bees by Milly Johnson (Paperback)
R45,00Romance writer and single mum Stevie Honeywell has only weeks to go to her wedding when her fiance Matthew runs off with her glamorous new friend Jo MacLean. It feels like history repeating itself for Stevie, but this time she is determined to win back her man. She isn’t going to act as he might expect. She isn’t going to wail and dig her heels in, she is simply going to pretend to let him go whilst she pursues a mad course of dieting, exercising and self-improvement.
-
After You by Jojo Moyes (Paperback)
R70,00***THE SEQUEL TO THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING BOOK ME BEFORE YOU – THE FILM ADAPTATION WILL BE RELEASED JUNE 3RD***
Lou Clark has lots of questions.
Like how it is she’s ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places.
Or why the flat she’s owned for a year still doesn’t feel like home.
Whether her close-knit family can forgive her for what she did eighteen months ago.
And will she ever get over the love of her life.
What Lou does know for certain is that something has to change.
-
The Liar by Stephen Fry (Paperback)
R80,00Stephen Fry’s breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax device; unprepared for more murders and wholly unprepared for the truth. The Liar is a thrilling, sophisticated and laugh out loud hilarious novel from a brilliantly talented writer.
-
Colonisation Aftershocks by Harry Turtledove (Hardback)
R70,00Humanity is still locked in a battle for supremacy with the conquering alien invaders, the Race. The German Reich has finally been subdued and the Race believe it only to be a matter of time before the rest of the planet follows suit. However, they underestimate humanity’s desire for freedom and the lengths they will go to gain it. With America and Russia holding the alien invaders off in a technological standoff, the disorganised red armies of Mao Tse-tung’s revolutionaries causing havoc and the ever-increasing dependence of the Race on the addictive substance ginger, the Empire realises that the colonisation of Earth may only be achieved through its total destruction.
-
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday (Paperback)
R40,00This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist – for whom diary-notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article on caddis fly larvae published in ‘Trout and Salmon’ – who finds himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to the Highlands of the Yemen – a project that will change his life, and the course of British political history for ever.
