• Alexander McCall Smith – The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

    R280.00 ISBN: 9780349116754

    Wayward daughters. Missing Husbands. Philandering partners. Curious conmen. If you’ve got a problem, and no one else can help you, then pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s only – and finest – female private detective. Life has not been easy for Mme Ramotswe; she has survived a disastrous marriage and learned a thing or…

  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Simon Armitage)

    R550.00 ISBN: 9780571340163

    This story, first told in the late fourteenth century, is one of the most enthralling, enigmatic and beloved poems in the English language. Simon Armitage’s prizewinning version is meticulously responsive to the tact, sophistication and dramatic intensity of the original. It is as if, six hundred years apart, two northern poets set out on a…

  • Cambridge School Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet (Fourth edition)

    R210.00 ISBN: 9781107615403

    An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare’s imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare’s love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre. Substantially revised and extended in full colour, classroom activities are thematically organised in distinctive ‘Stagecraft’, ‘Write about it’, ‘Language in the…

  • Romeo & Juliet OSS (Oxford School Shakespeare)

    R94.00 ISBN: 9780198321668

    Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. This edition of Romeo and Juliet includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes. Romeo and Juliet is a set text for KS3 in England, and remains one of the…

  • Wits School Shakespeare: Romeo and Julie

    R470.00 ISBN: 9781415409961
  • Antony and Cleopatra (Stratford Series)

    R218.00 ISBN: 9780636007260
  • Tsotsi

    R148.00 ISBN: 9780994651648
  • Cambridge School Shakespeare: Hamlet (Third edition)

    R210.00 ISBN: 9781107615489

    An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare’s imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare’s love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre. Substantially revised and extended in full colour, classroom activities are thematically organised in distinctive ‘Stagecraft’, ‘Write about it’, ‘Language in the…

  • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    R270.00 ISBN: 9780007356348
  • The BFG

    R195.00 ISBN: 9780241558348

    Product details “Human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.” One dark, silvery moonlit night, Sophie is snatched from her bed by a giant! Luckily it is the Big Friendly Giant (the BFG), who is no ordinary bone-crunching giant, but instead prefers snozzcumbers and frobscottle to…

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray

    R195.00 ISBN: 9781847493729

    Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in…

  • District Six and Other Plays (Drama)

    R283.00 ISBN: 9780195761429

    District Six and other plays, a collection of short, modern South African drama, will engage learners everywhere. From a one-woman play to physical theatre, it meets teacher’s needs for plays that have literary value and can be studied in-depth, as well as for those that can be easily performed. Featuring successfully staged works by acclaimed…

  • The White Tiger

    R305.00 ISBN: 9781848878082

    Balram Halwai is the White Tiger – the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and…

  • Tempest (Oxford School Shakespeare)

    R94.00 ISBN: 9780198325000

    Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. The Tempest is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes. This title is suitable for…

  • School edition: The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife

    R115.00 ISBN: 9781775898306

    About this book: It’s 1900 and Robben Island is inhabited by lepers, a lighthouse keeper and his lonely wife. Included are a discussion of key features of drama, an introduction to the play, notes on characters (with illustrations by Robert Foote), explanations of difficult words, a glossary of literary terms, and contextual questions on answers….

  • Pygmalion (Penguin Classic Ed.)

    R245.00 ISBN: 9780141439501

    Shaw wrote the part of Eliza Doolittle—“an east-end dona with an apron and three orange and red ostrich feathers”—for Mrs. Patrick Campbell, with whom he had a passionate but unconsummated affair. From the outset the play was a sensational success, although Shaw, irritated by its popularity at the expense of his artistic intentions, dismissed it…

  • Atonement (Fti)

    R270.00 ISBN: 9780099507383

    On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day,…

  • Goodnight Mister Tom

    R120.00R190.00 ISBN: 9780141354804
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  • Global Tales – Stories From Many Cultures

    R272.00 ISBN: 9780582289291

    These sixteen stories by new and internationally-known writers reveal a rich diversity of story telling. They offer a variety of forms, settings, contexts, characters, themes and language in stories that are both accessible and challenging. Authors include: R.K. Narayan, Beverley Naidoo, Mildred D Taylor, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Anita Desai.

  • Mother To Mother, Sindiwe Magona

    R125.00 ISBN: 9781485622925

    In August 1993, Fulbright scholar Amy Biehl was killed in Cape Town by a group of black teenagers incited by an upsurge in ‘anti-white’ sloganeering. She died just a few metres away from Sindiwe Magona’s house. One of the boys held responsible for the killing was her neighbour’s son. Mother To Mother takes the form of an…

  • The Mark

    R160.00 ISBN: 9781928294023
  • The Theory of Flight

    R320.00 ISBN: 9781415209424
  • Hamlet (Stratford Series)

    R218.00 ISBN: 9780636004719
  • Othello (Oxford School Shakespeare)

    R94.00 ISBN: 9780198328735
  • The picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

    R120.00 ISBN: 9780008465414

    This edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray provides depth and context for students, with the complete novel in an easy-to-read format, and a detailed introduction and bespoke glossary written by a teacher with academic expertise in the area. Explore the contemporary context, Oscar Wilde’s writing, the novel’s critical reception, and subsequent interpretations for a deeper reading of…

  • Things Fall Apart (Penguin Modern Classics)

    R270.00 ISBN: 9780141186887

    One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’ A worldwide bestseller and the first part of Achebe’s African Trilogy, Things Fall Apart is the compelling story of one man’s battle to protect his community against the forces of change Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West…

  • Twelfth Night OSS Oxford School Shakespeare

    R94.00 ISBN: 9780198328711

    Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. Twelfth Night is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes. This title is suitable for…

  • Diamond boy

    R266.00 ISBN: 9780199049042

    M. Williams My father always said that a journey should change your life in some way. Well, I suppose that when you have nothing, a journey promises everything. As long as we arrived at a place better than the one we had left, I would be happy … When fifteen-year-o

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stratford Series)

    R218.00 ISBN: 9780636010871

    This series of unabridged Shakespeare titles is based on the premise that students can reach a clear understanding of their work only through a close and careful reading of the text. The commentary facing each page of the text has been designed to suggest a critical interpretation of the play.

  • FINDERS KEEPERS

    R105.00 ISBN: 9780994651655
  • The Mark – Edyth Bulbring

    R255.00 ISBN: 9780624068815

    In the future, the world has flipped. Ravaged by the Conflagration, this is a harsh world where the relentless sun beats down, peoples lives are run by a heartless elite and law is enforced by a brutal brigade. A mark at the base of the spine controls each persons destiny. The Machine decides what work…

  • Cambridge School Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice (Third edition)

    R150.00R210.00 ISBN: 9781107615397

    An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare’s imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare’s love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre. Substantially revised and extended in full colour, classroom activities are thematically organised in distinctive ‘Stagecraft’, ‘Write about it’, ‘Language in the…

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  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    R100.00R210.00 ISBN: 9781107615458

    An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare’s imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare’s love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre. Substantially revised and extended in full colour, classroom activities are thematically organised in distinctive ‘Stagecraft’, ‘Write about it’, ‘Language in the…

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  • A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics)

    R270.00 ISBN: 9780141183961

    After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. Brilliantly combining tragedy, comedy and savage irony, A…

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream SparkNotes Literature

    R195.00 ISBN: 9781411469617

    When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this book offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols, a review quiz, and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing.

  • Song for A Whale Author: Lynne Kelly

    R250.00 ISBN: 9781848126916

    Synopsis A stirring and heart-warming tale of a young deaf girl who is determined to make a difference, the perfect read for fans of Wonder. Iris was born deaf, but she’s never let that define her; after all, it’s the only life she’s ever known. And until recently she wasn’t even very lonely, because her grandparents…

  • Atonement

    R270.00 ISBN: 9780099429791

    On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day,…

  • Six Shakespeare Stories

    R272.00 ISBN: 9780435124243

    One of a series which offers classic and contemporary fiction for schools to suit a range of ages and tastes this book contains adaptations of Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest.

  • The River Singers

    R226.00 ISBN: 9780192734815

    Something was approaching the burrow. Something deadly. Something that made Sylvan’s fur bristle with fear . . . Knowing their lives are under threat, Sylvan and his brother and sisters have no choice but to abandon their burrow for ever. Together they set out on an epic journey along the Great River; but with dangers…

  • Sophiatown

    R180.00 ISBN: 9781868142361

    Sophiatown – Until its destruction by government decree in the mid-1950s, Sophiatown was the “”Chicago of South Africa””, a vibrant community that produced not only gangsters and shebeen queens but leading journalists, writers, musicians and politicians; one which gave urban African culture its rhythm and style. This play, based on the life history of the…

  • Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oxford School Shakespeare)

    R94.00 ISBN: 9780198328667

    Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of the most popular texts for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom…

  • Things Fall Apart

    R104.00 ISBN: 9780636179530

    This classic of African literature by Nigerian Chinua Achebe was originally published in 1958 and has been translated into 32 different languages. Chinua Achebe’s novel shows the clash of African and European cultures in people’s lives. Okonkwo, a great man in Igbo traditional society, cannot adapt to the changes brought about by British colonial rule….

  • Wordsmiths – an approach to short story study

    R202.00 ISBN: 9780636014077
  • My children! My Africa! (A Play by Athol Fugard)

    R81.00 ISBN: 9780636186934
  • The Merchant of Venice (Stratford Series)

    R208.00 ISBN: 9780636005303
  • King Lear (Stratford Series)

    R208.00 ISBN: 9780636001657
  • TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

    R272.00 ISBN: 9780435120962

    One of a series of fiction titles for schools. Scout, the keen-eyed narrator, and her brother Jem interrupt their games to champion their lawyer father when, in a hostile, racist town in the American South, he battles to defend Tom, who is black and accused of murder.

  • Macbeth: Shakespeare for Southern Africa 2e (CAPS Approved)

    R176.00 ISBN: 9780190407315
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  • The Great Gatsby

    R215.00 ISBN: 9780141023434
  • Cambridge School Shakespeare: Macbeth (Third edition)

    R170.00R210.00 ISBN: 9781107615496

    An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare’s imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare’s love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre.Substantially revised and extended in full colour, classroom activities are thematically organised in distinctive ‘Stagecraft’, ‘Write about it’, ‘Language in the play’,…

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