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Avenge Tobruk by E.P. Hartshorn (Hardcover)
R400,00No dust jacket, Tightly bound,no hight lighted pages .
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Art & Artists of South Africa: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary and Historical Survey of Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists Since 1875 by Esme Berman (Hardback)
R300,00An illustrated biographical dictionary and historical survey of painters and graphic artists since 1875.
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Cape Wine Homesteads by Cor Pama paintings by Ted Hoefsllot (Hardcover)
R250,00Condition: Good. Dust jacket is shelf worn
A short history of wine farming and a tour of the historic homesteads that grace the well-known estates.
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Help! There’s a Stove in My Kitchen by Annabel Frere (Paperback)
R60,00From learning the basics to producing impressive, yet cunningly simple, meals, Help! there’s a stove in my kitchen gives you an easy way to get started in the kitchen. With over 170 recipes, Help! there’s a stove in my kitchen is primarily a cookbook for school leavers and young adults who have mostly never had to cook for themselves and who need a few ideas on what to prepare and how to go about it.
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Quick Lets Get Out Of Here by Michael Rosen Illustrated by Quentin Blake (Paperback)
R200,00Shreddies in my hair. I looked at Eddie. Eddie’s looking at me. Big grin on his face. I knew he had done it. Last week he put pepper in the raisins. The yucky things your borther does, the annoying things your parents say, the funny things you feel. Michael Rosen knows all about YOU! Look inside and see if he’s spotted your deepest, darkest secrets. A much-loved classic of family life from the brilliant Michael Rosen & Quentin Blake.
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Return to Camdeboo: A Centuryʼs Karoo foods and flavours by Eve Palmer (Paperback)
R150,00This is not a cookery book, although recipes are included. It is a book about food.’This is how it happened. I had been planning a book on plants, and in between notes for this, I had been collecting recipes, for the benefit of children, and grandchildren, of the farm food we had enjoyed on my old Karoo home Cranemere between Graaff-Reinet and Somerset East on the plains of Camdeboo. Our family has been there since 1880, so the food goes back over a hundred years.
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Jan Braai The Vegetarian Option (Paperback)
R150,00Jan Braai’s friends have been badgering him to write a vegetarian braai book for years, and he has finally done it! Once he sat down to tackle the task, he realised that his books have loads of great vegetarian recipes, but it isn’t fair to make the vegetarians buy all the books to find them. So Jan collected all his best vegetarian recipes together, and then added a whole lot more. If you’re looking for a meat-free Monday option, have to cater for your son’s new vegetarian girlfriend or the grandchildren, or have even decided to take the vegetarian plunge yourself, there’s no reason to neglect your braai – Jan has you covered.
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Reader’s Digest Illustrated History of South Africa: The Real Story (Hardback)
R75,00Surveys the history of South Africa from its early civilizations to significant twentieth-century events
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MasterChef South Africa – The Cookbook published by Human & Rousseau (Paperback)
R300,00Signed by Judge, Pete Goffe-Wood
They came, they cooked. Only one conquered!
Never before have South Africans been gripped by a food phenomenon quite like MasterChef South Africa, aired on M-Net. Now, with MasterChef South Africa – The Cookbook, the gazillion fans following every beat of the whisk can recreate the dishes that made celebrities out of 18 hopefuls.
This cookbook has it all: Behind-the-scenes moments, flashbacks of mystery box challenges and grueling pressure tests – not to forget the invention tests that had us wondering “what on earth will they pull off with those ingredients?!”
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Kokkedoor 2 Versamelresepte saamgestel deur Errieda Du Toit (Paperback)
R75,00Woelige weeksdae wat fyn verdeel word tussen werk, skool, sport en huiswerk beteken nie dat aandete moet bestaan uit gebakte boontjies op roosterbrood nie. 50 Prutpotgeregte wys vir jou hoe om met behulp van jou prutpot (slow cooker) en minimale voorbereiding heerlike bredies, sop, sappige braaistukke en selfs poeding kan gaarmaak terwyl jy aandag aan belangriker dinge skenk. Al die resepte maak gebruik van bestanddele wat reeds in jou koskas is of maklik by jou plaaslike supermark bekombaar is.
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Franschhoek: South African Winelands by Jeremy Browne (Hardcover)
R150,00Condition: NEW
An in-depth tour of this iconic South African winelands destination.
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Doodle Design – Christmas Memories (Paperback)
R70,00Doodle Design is a wonderfully relaxing pastime, a great no-fuss travelling companion or an absorbing hobby to pursue at home.
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The Best Pub Joke Book Ever! (Paperback)
R70,00The Best Pub Joke Book Ever! is packed with over 1,000 of the best quality pub jokes available. From shaggy dog stories to one-liners, this book contains a joke for every occasion – apart from entertaining your mother-in-law. All of the jokes are geared towards an adult audience – specially selected for use in pubs, clubs and parties.
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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.
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‘Boy’ and ‘Going Solo’ by Roald Dahl (Paperback)
R80,00Boy and Going Solo is the whole of Roald Dahl’s extraordinary autobiography in one volume. Reissued in the exciting new Roald Dahl branding. Boy is the story of Roald Dahl’s very own boyhood, including tales of sweet-shops and chocolate, mean old ladies and a Great Mouse Plot – the inspiration for some of his most marvellous storybooks in the years to come. Going Solo tells of how, when he grew up, Roald Dahl left England for Africa and later went flying with the Royal Air Force, before he became the world’s number-one storyteller.
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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.
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The Poker Encyclopedia: The Definitive Poker Book by Elkan Allan and Hannah Mackay (Hardback)
R200,00The arrival of the Poker Encyclopedia reflects the growing popularity of this sport. Poker is now more popular than ever an estimated 50 million people play regularly in North America alone with more and more people playing at home and online. ‘The Poker Encyclopedia’ covers such topics as Alexander the Great (traditionally associated with the King of Clubs) Amarillo Slim, aggression, alcohol and Anna Kournikova (not a reference to her Poker playing skills, but an Ace-King in the pocket which doesn’t go on to win. A pun on the initials of the tennis player who looked good, but never won a major title.) All this, and that’s just under A. Lovingly complied and meticulously researched, this is the reference book worth going all in for.
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Pansegrouw Makro Blokraaiselwoordeboek (Afrikaans), saamgestel deur LL Pansegrouw (Paperback)
R70,00Met meer as 182 000 inskrywings is hierdie moet-he-woordeboek reeds jare lank die staatmaker van elke blokraaiselliefhebber.
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The Illustrated Compendium of Magic Tricks by Nicholas Einhorn (Paperback)
R80,00A fully accessible step-by-step guide to more than 320 amazing conjuring tricks, including card magic, stage and optical illusions, stunts, puzzles, party and dinner table pranks and much more Each fantastic trick is fully illustrated and expertly described, enabling both novice and experienced magicians alike to perform wondrous feats like bending a knife, making money appear from thin air, predicting the future, making an assistant levitate, cutting a person in two and dissolving a coin More than 2300 specially commissioned colour photographs guide you through every illusion, showing both the performer’s and the audience’s perspectives.
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Jackson Unveiled: The Complete Story of the King of Pop by James Fletcher and Jan (Paperback)
R300,00Haynes Publishing has teamed up with the Daily Mirror to be one of the first to market with the definitive story on the life of Michael Jackson. As the world devoured every detail of the King of Pop’s sudden death Haynes and the Daily Mirror are determined to present the story of his life.
Colour illustrations.
