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29/05/2026

📦 The arrival of new boxes is always a thrill, especially on a Friday!
Each delivery tends to be a mix of customer orders, hot-off-the-press newbies and something quietly beautiful, like Seascraper by Benjamin Wood.

Here’s what John’s just unpacked; much more to come in the weeks ahead:

📖 The Light Remains by Samantha Keller
📖 Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt
📖 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
📖 Grootbos Florilegium by Sean Privett and 44 Botanical Artists
📖 The Myth of American Idealism by Noam Chomsky & Nathan J. Robinson
📖 When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzén
📖 Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
📖 How the World Works by Noam Chomsky

Happy weekend reading ❤️

26/05/2026

🥳 Join our next Cookbook & Supper Club this Thursday, hosted by CanD’s Kitchen.

The Book Cottage’s John Morris shares some excellent books on World War II, inspired by his love of history and music.

Don’t miss a fireside evening of good eats, great reads and fine company 🍷🔥

Bookings through CanD’s Kitchen

22/05/2026

We’re diving into Friday with three fabulous new books!

📖 Rory: The Heartache and Truth of Golf’s Most Human Superstar.
Arguably the sport’s most eloquent ambassador and a transcendent talent, McIlroy remains a complex and vulnerable sporting hero.

Biographer Alan Shipnuck examines his prolific career, including his vociferous stance on the LIV tour, his many golfing demons and phenomenal Masters win.

📖 Colm Toibin’s The News from Dublin is a collection of beautiful short stories about ‘the complexities of family, longing, loss and love.’

Told with powerful restraint, the nine stories cross eras and nations from Ireland and Spain to Argentina and the US.
A poignant must-have from one of our favourite authors.

📖 Statecraft by Jack Watling is a timely non-fiction read. It examines the world’s intense competition for power, and asks how do smaller states shape world events when dwarfed by superpowers.
From Iran to the Ukraine, the Arctic to Taiwan, it’s a compelling framework for understanding an increasingly divided world.

13/05/2026

🔥 Hope Rises is Baldacci’s heart-stopping new thriller and the sequel to Nash Falls.

‘The once gentle and sensitive Walter Nash has transformed himself into something he never thought he’d be. Lethal.
And now he has only one goal: taking down master criminal Victoria Steers.’
Expect killer twists and heroes to believe in.

🔥 Lynda la Plante’s Sacrifice is the latest in the unputdownable DC Jack Warr series.

‘Warr leads Scotland Yard’s fledgling anti-fraud unit, and its survival hinges on exposing a suspected forgery - a multimillion-dollar masterpiece.

When his informant is brutally murdered, Jack’s hunt spirals into obsession.’

08/05/2026

This June marks the 50th anniversary of the Soweto student uprising.

In The End of Normal, Max du Preez, veteran journalist and founder of the former Vrye Weekblad, chronicles the road to democracy after 16 June 1976.

Du Preez will be in conversation with Adriaan Basson at FynArts Festival on 11 June, together with authors Pieter du Toit and Anthony Butler.
Book now at Webtickets

05/05/2026

We’re celebrating 30 years as the Home of Fine Books! 🥳

To mark our birthday edition, a group of serial book lovers gathered at CanD’s Kitchen.
Ahead of the Springbok Wellington, John devised a delightfully tricky quiz based on The Book Cottage’s top sellers of the last two decades.

After much debate and hilarity, here are the Top Five:

1 The President’s Keepers
2 The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
3 My African Conquest
4 The Promise
5 The Book of Joy

With trademark understatement, John shared some lovely stories, and some noteworthy Book Cottage trivia too:

✍🏼The shop sold 60 000 newspapers and 50 000 postcards in the last two decades

✍🏼 In 2006, a delivery to The Book Cottage included In Praise of Slow.
20 years later, we’ve received orders for The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry ☺️

A big thank you to Team CanD’s Kitchen for hosting our special supper.
And especially to all our loyal customers, who continue to support a much-loved bookshop on High Street 📚

01/05/2026

We’re diving into the long weekend with two light-hearted and local murder mysteries:

🔎 Lifting the Lid by
Espie’s stories are about ‘ordinary characters who do dark things for the right reason.’
In this follow-on to Making a Killing, we join unlikely friends Winifred and Sylvie at The Novel Eatery. Someone knows their dark secret though, and a wine-themed reality TV show is coming to town... All the while, tensions bubble over in the village of Riviersvalleij

🔍 Wild Things Never Die by
Tannie Maria is back, and she’s going undercover with her fiancé, Detective Henk Kannemeyer, to the Karoo Wilderness Reserve. The mission: to save the succulents!
Amid the poaching, murder ensues, with a botanist cowboy and a sangoma among the colourful suspects.
This is the fifth book in the series from the much-loved Andrew.

28/04/2026

Plotting a road trip? 🇿🇦🇧🇼🇳🇦
We’ve got five stunning guides to make the most of your getaway:

📍Field Guide to the Battlefields of South Africa by Nicki von der Heyde

📍Cederberg The Book by Peter Slingsby

📍 Wild Flowers of Namaqualand: A Botanical Society Guide by Annelise le Roux

📍Animals of the Kgalagadi: ID Checklist & Map by Niel Cilliè

📍A Visitor’s Guide to Etosha National Park by Willie Olivier & Ute von Ludwiger

25/12/2025

Merry Christmas from The Book Cottage 🎄and thank you to all who’ve supported us this year by buying books, joining our events, and sharing your love of reading 📖✨

Wishing you a day of comfort, good cheer, and a story worth staying up past your bedtime for.

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Tuesday	08:30 - 17:00
Wednesday	08:30 - 17:00
Thursday	08:30 - 17:00
Friday	08:30 - 17:00
Saturday	08:30 - 14:00

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