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THE HOME OF FINE BOOKS The village bookshop with a city selection
With simplicity in mind, we’ve got four covetable cookbooks filled with the delicious and the attainable:
🇿🇦 The South African Cookbook - Authentic flavour-packed recipes from Cape Town to Durban
Chef Nokx Majozi of the legendary burger pie (and countless beautiful dishes) wows with her personal take on much-loved classics - from boerewors rolls and Cape Malay chicken curry to lamb bunny chow and milk tart.
🇿🇦 Simple Suppers
Sarah Graham’s seventh cookbook is filled with fuss-free recipes that will transform pantry staples into hero meals.
📖 Simple Dinners Every Day by Australian Nicole Maguire delivers over 80 low-cost dinner ideas. Take her One-pan cheesy black bean enchiladas: ‘This lazy enchilada bake skips the drama and brings all the comfort.’
And as Yotam Ottolenghi puts it in Simple Too: ‘It’s a noisy world out there, and simple cooking is our solution.’
Now in store. Happy weekend 🍽️🍹
11/09/2026
September’s new arrivals: Dave Eggers, John Boyne, Valérie Perrin and Emily St John Mandel.
Perfect weekend company. And causing havoc with our TBR pile ☺️
In store at The Book Cottage 📙
September is a big month for new releases. After reading Paradiso 17 by Hannah Lillith Assadi, John’s next TBRs feature Sebastian Faulks and Kate Atkinson.
Faulks’ Farewell to Eden is set in the same time-frame as Assadi’s protagonist’s Palestine, moving between that country and post-war Britain.
Covering a similar era, Atkinson’s Our Noble Selves takes place in London in 1951 during the Festival of Britain.
The fine threads of place and time that connect one book to another.
Which books are on your list this September?
27/08/2026
What a privilege to have legendary SA photographers and Hermanus locals Roger de la Harpe and Pat de la Harpe in the shop.
Their new book The African Lion is a quietly magnificent tribute to Panthera leo; a must for anyone who’s ever felt a connection to southern African wildlife.
Published by Flyleaf Publishing & Distribution expect outstanding imagery and remarkable insights into this apex predator, currently listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
With linen quarter-binding and gilt accents, this beautiful book is a heart-singing thing. Above all though, it’s about why lion conservation matters.
Find your copy at The Book Cottage 🦁
What draws us back to a favourite book? Sometimes it’s the entire story, sometimes a few tender lines that resonate and linger.
by features some fabulous titles, including Fay Weldon’s Down Among the Women.
Their Contemporary Classics series includes Joyce Cary’s trilogy written in the 1940s.
Cary was a contemporary of Graham Greene, and together with Weldon, is one of several authors that John returns to.
Which are the books that you’ve read more than once?
Find us on High Street Hermanus, we’re sure to have your favourites. If not, we’ll find them for you 📚
14/08/2026
What a treat to have Tony Park in the shop for a book signing.
King of Beasts is Tony’s 24th novel - a high-octane thriller set between the Ukraine and the wilds of SA, featuring the infamous former mercenary Sonja Kurtz..
Tony’s national book tour has seen him criss-crossing South Africa in his trusty Landy, via KZN snowfalls all the way to Hermanus. We wish him all the very best with the rest of his travels 🇿🇦📚
Pan Macmillan South Africa
07/08/2026
In celebration of Women’s Day on 9 August, and in acknowledgment of Women’s Month in SA, we’d love to share some of the outstanding books on our shelves.
From literary fiction to memoir, poetry to humour, thrillers to South African space exploration, it’s a remarkable showcase.
Let us know what you’re reading!
Ps if you’re in Hermanus this long weekend, please pop in and say hello 🇿🇦
We’re open til 2pm on Monday
We love a light-hearted prediction, and in anticipation of the Booker Prize longlist here’s our dozen.
It’s based on valuable customer feedback, a book-seller’s intuition, and many blissful lost hours of reading (we’re perhaps a third of the way through).
Let us know which ones you fell for 📚☺️
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