The countdown has begun...

11.00am
Saturday 5 August




DeonMeyer....the international crime writer is 
coming to :

bookmark
171 Main Road
Hermanus

tel : 028 312 2000
email : books@hermanus.co.za

Some cats can be quite literary when they set their mind to it, and don't let their thoughts stray to bird hunting, butterfly catching and other such joyful activities.

Out of print? Back in print??

Yes, it's back in print!  "A Higher Call" has just arrived.  Copies are selling fast with most of the current delivery being reserved for those who have been exceptionally patient.

A very hot day in the bookshop

The layers of thick hot air hit you as you left home to travel anywhere.  The greatest solace was to be found through the portals of 'bookmark'.....cool and calm, and those were just the staff!  The aircon was at its most appealing, particularly in the travel and self-help sections which happen to lie below the aircon unit.

BACK IN PRINT!!! A truly remarkable story which is guaranteed to give you goosebumps at some stage

Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a 21-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly, a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the bomber’s tail—a German Messerschmitt fighter. Worse, the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber in the squeeze of a trigger. What happened next would defy imagination and later be called the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.

This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies that day—the American—2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17—and the German—2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.

A Higher Call follows both Charlie and Franz’s harrowing missions. Charlie would face takeoffs in English fog over the flaming wreckage of his buddies’ planes, flak bursts so close they would light his cockpit, and packs of enemy fighters that would circle his plane like sharks. Franz would face sandstorms in the desert, a crash alone at sea, and the spectacle of 1,000 bombers each with eleven guns, waiting for his attack. Ultimately, Charlie and Franz would stare across the frozen skies at one another. What happened between them, the American 8th Air Force would later classify as “top secret.” It was an act that Franz could never mention or else face a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men, they would search for one another, a last mission that could change their lives forever.

Twice on one day

Big names....new titles.  Wilbur Smith and "Vicious Circle", Frederick Forsyth and "Kill List", William Boyd and "Solo" to name but three.

Does absence make the heart grow fonder?

Miaow, miaow and miaow.......it has been a long time since anything was written.  We, the cats-in-residence,  have been on vaCATion, and our owner has been distracted by many other things. 
Now we are all back and raring to go.