The Book Cottage

You are invited to our first Book Launch of the season - https://mailchi.mp/0fd8e792c0b9/you-are-invited-to-our-first-book-launch-of-the-season

You are invited to our first Book Launch of the season Taking its title from a chilling warning made by the United Nations that the world's soils could be lost within a lifetime, Sixty Harvests Left uncovers how the food industry is threatening the planet. Put simply, without soils there will be no food: game over. And time is running out. Bloomsbury ...

Come and see our beautiful new location at 8 High Street Hermanus. Lots of new stock... books, music, greeting cards and gifts. More than a bookshop. Open every day, and weekends till 14:00.

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We have a great selection of children's books! Raise a reader!

How many books on your bedside table?

Let's read more in 2021

Choose well!

Come buy some happiness!

For my Hermanus friends, you can pick up your copy of As the Kettle Boils from The Book Cottage or you can order online at https://derpfeifendekessel.de/home-en.html
I am super excited to share this with all of you!!!

is out today, and available at The Book Cottage 😄

And still the best combination, books and choclates.

Agree?

Just in time for a Christmas filler! J.K Rowling never ceases to surprise!
The Ickabog is coming... A mythical monster, a kingdom in peril, an adventure that will test two children's bravery to the limit. Discover a brilliantly original fairy tale about the power of hope and friendship to triumph against all odds, from one of the world's best storytellers.

Eli's Promise is a masterful work of historical fiction spanning three eras—Nazi-occupied Poland, the American Zone of post-war Germany, and Chicago at the height of the Vietnam War. Award-winning author Ronald H. Balson explores the human cost of war, the mixed blessings of survival, and the enduring strength of family bonds.

And the winner is...

https://ewn.co.za/2020/11/20/scottish-author-douglas-stuart-wins-booker-prize-for-shuggie-bain

Scottish author Douglas Stuart wins Booker Prize for 'Shuggie Bain' Stuart's book reflects his own experiences growing up with a mother who was an alcoholic and died from her addiction.

Sound familiar?

This was very appropriate for 2020... And of course we always have the best reading material in stock at The Book Cottage!

I cannot think of anything better.

Happiness is...

Homegrown Crime Writer Rudi van Rensburg: SAP Captain Kassie Kasselman is a crack detective, in spite of appearances. When he starts investigating the disappearance of an ex-colleague, it becomes clear that more is going on than a simple drug-related missing person case. Somehow it seems linked to the kidnapping that has struck the curio shop where his colleague Rooi Els’s wife has started work.
From the Cape ganglands to Kruger’s rhino poachers, Kassie must unravel the mystery quickly but with care – or Rooi’s wife is fish food.

At last, stupidity explained!

And so I proclaim, o idiots of every stripe and morons of all kinds, this is your moment of glory: this book speaks only to you. But you will not recognize yourselves…

Stupidity is all around us, from the coworker who won’t stop hitting “reply all” to the former high school classmate posting conspiracy theories on Facebook. But in order to vanquish it, we must first understand it. In The Psychology of Stupidity, some of the world’s leading psychologists and thinkers–including a Nobel Prize winner and bestselling authors–will show you…

• why smart people sometimes believe in utter nonsense;
• how our lazy brains cause us to make the wrong decisions;
• why trying to debate fools is a trap;
• how media manipulation and Internet overstimulation make us dumber;
• why the stupidest people don’t think they’re stupid.

The wisdom and wit of these experts are a balm for our aggrieved souls and a beacon of hope in a world of morons.

That feeling of connection with a stranger! 🙃

From 1600 to 1652 there was already vibrant multicultural interaction at a nascent refreshment station and proto-port settlement that would eventually become Cape Town and a colony run by the Dutch East India Company (in Dutch the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or VOC). A fresh look at the narrative of the founding of the port of Cape Town enables us to understand and appreciate not only the role that the Peninsula indigenes – the Khoe – played in its establishment, but also their holding of the shoreline frontier for 52 years prior to colonial domination.