Syllable’s big book sale

Welcome to Syllable’s big book sale. You’ll find a variety of titles and asking price starts at R50. first come, first served.

I’m getting tired of moving boxes of books and never unpacking them because I don’t have a proper bookshelf. And since I’m listening to books more than reading them – with a few exceptions – I’ve finally decided that the best thing would probably to sell them, helping myself get through my not-so-fun funemployment spell.

I haven’t decided on set prices for any of these books, but thinking of asking between R50 and R100 for most of them. There are some door stops (Tools of Titans, for example) that I’d hope to get more for, but that would be at the buyer’s discretion.

Buying from the big book sale

If you’re interested in any of the titles, you can leave a comment with the title and offer or send me a mail. Postage will be extra except for purchases exceeding R500.

There’s a huge range. I’ve tried sorting them by theme when I took the pics but got over that fast. So, in no specific order, here we go.

Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl – Tracy Quan (R50)
Diary of Married Call Girl – Tracy Quan (R50)
Girl in High Heels – Ellouize Moore (R50)
Girl with a One Track Mind – Abby Lee (R50)
The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl – Belle de Jour (R50)
The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl – Belle de Jour (R50)

The Royal Pain – MaryJanice Davidson (R50)
The Royal Treatment – MaryJanice Davidson (R50)
The Royal Mess – MaryJanice Davidson (R50)
Dead and Loving it – MaryJanice Davidson (R50)
Dead Over Heels – MaryJanice Davidson (slight damage on spine – R40)

Mysteria – MaryJanice Davidson (R20)
Mysteria Lane – MaryJanice Davidson (R20)
Kick @$$ – MaryJanice Davidson (R20)
Blood Lite – Charlaine Harris (R20)

Picture Perfect – Jodi Picoult (R50)
Handle with Care – Jodi Picoult (R50)
Vanishing Acts – Jodi Picoult (R50)
The Tenth Circle – Jodi Picoult (R50)
Change of Heart – Jodi Picoult (R50)
Second Glance – Jodi Picoult (damaged cover – R40)

How to Walk in High Heels – Camilla Morton (R50)
A Year in High Heels – Camilla Morton (R50)

Sushi en sjampanje – Kristel Loots (R20)
Mieke Rock Uit – Jana du Plessis (R20)
Iemand vir ‘n Scoop? – Marida Fitzpatrick (R20)
Heidronk op ‘n gypsyromp – Nadia de Kock (R20)
Lisa se Dagboek – Susan Coetzer (R20)

Dark Poppy’s Demise – S.A. Partridge (R50)
The Ward – S.L. Grey (R50)
The Mall S.L. Grey (R50)
Disgrace – J. M. Coetzee (R50)
The Good Doctor – Damon Galgut (R50)
South African Miscellany – David van Lill (R50)
Stolen Lives – Jassy Mackenzie (R50)
Folly – Jassy Mackenzie (R50)
Karma Suture – Rosamund Kendal (R50)
Exhibit A – Sarah Lotz (R50)
Till We Can Keep an Animal – Megan Voysey Braig (R50)
Red Ink – Angela Makholwa (R50)
My Brother’s Keeper – Jassy Mackenzie (R50)
A Million Miles from Normal – Paige Nick (R50)
Things I Thought I Knew – Kathryn White (R50)
Trinity Rising – Fiona Snyckers (R50)
Team Trinity – Fiona Snyckers (R50)
Trinity on Air – Fiona Snyckers (R50)

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters – Jaune Austen & Ben H. Winters (R50)
Android Karenina – Leo Tolstoy and Ben H. Winters (R50)
Romeo & Juliet & Vampires – William Shakespear & Claudia Gabel (R50)
Mr Darcy. Vampyre – Amanda Grange (R50)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith (R50)
Dawn of the Dreadfuls – Steve Hockensmith (R50)
Little Vampire Women – Loisa May Alcott and Lynn Messina (R50)
iZombie graphic novel 1 (R50)

That’s Quite a Dress You Almost Have On – Craig Bennett (R50)
My Blind Date Went Blind – Virginia Vitzthum (R50)
Bad Dates – Sam Jordison (R50)
The Journal of Mortifying Moments – Robyn Harding (R50)

Tools of Titans – Tim Ferriss (R200)
Rich Woman – Kim Kiyosaki (R50)
Poverty Proof – Douglas Kruger (R50)
90 Rules for Entrepreneurs – Marnus Broodryk (R50)
Own your Industry – Douglas Kruger (R50)
Will Work from Home – Tory Johnson (R50)

From Edison to iPod – Frederick Mostert (R50)
Chambers Dictionary of Literary Characters (R100)
Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream – Jennifer Ackerman (R50)
The Lazy Girl’s Guide to Success – Anita Naik (R50)
The Lazy Girl’s Guide to the High Life on a Budget – Anita Naik (R50)

The Devil’s Dictionary – Ambrose Bierce (R50)
The Art of Punctuation – Noah Lukeman (R50)
Talk to the Hand – Lynne Truss (R50)
Engleish, our Engleish – Pharos (R50)
The Maeve Binchy Writers’ Club (R50)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves – Lynne Truss (R50)

Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations – Ned Sherrin (R100)
The Complete Letter Writer – Foulsham Books (R50)
How Big is Your Brain – Ian Livingstone (R20)
Norme vir Afrikaans – W.A.M. Carstens (R50)
Making the Alphabet Dance – Ross Eckler (R50)
Don’t Swallow Your Gum! – Dr Aaron E. Carroll (R20)

Ad Boy – Warren Dotz (R50)
The Philosophy of Branding – Thom Braun (R50)
How to Write Great Copy – Dominic Gettins (R50)
Hey Whipple, Squeeze This. – Luke Sullivan (R50)
Everything I Know I Learned From TV – Mark Rowlands (R50)
The Copywriting Sourcebook – Andy Maslen (R50)

Forget About It – Caprice Crane (R20)
The Balance Thing – Margaret Dumas (R20)
She Woke Up Married – Suzanne Macpherson (R20)
Confessions of an Air Hostess – Marisa Mackle (R20)
Playing Away – Adele Parks (R20)
The WAG’s Diary – Alison Kervin (R20)
The Chocolate Lovers’ Club – Carole Matthews (R20)
What a Girl Wants – Kristin Billerbeck (R20)
Under the Knife – Tess Gerritsen (R20)
Under the knife – Diane Fanning (R20)
Flesh and Blood – Thomas H. Cook (R20)
Bite – Laurell K. Hamilton (R20)

Vlad – C.C. Humphreys (R50)
Many Bloody Returns – Charlaine Harris (R50)
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie (R50)
Reheated Cabbage – Irvine Welsh (R50)
Ancient Images – Ramsey Campbell (R20)
The Book of Other People – Zadie Smith (R50)

How to Kill Your Husband – Kathy Lette (R50)
The School for Husbands – Wendy Holden (R50)
Secret Diary of a Demented Housewife – Niamh Greene (R50)
Getting mad, getting even – Annie Sanders (R50)
Wedding Belles – Zoe Barnes (R50)
Marriage and Other Games – Veronica Henry (R50)

The Female of the Species – Joyce Carol Oates (R50)
The Godmother – Carrie Adams (R50)
The Abortionist’s Daughter – Elisabeth Hyde (R50)
Bad Behavior – Mary Gaitskill (R50)
The Household Guide to Dying – Debra Adelaide (R50)
Out of Sight Out of Mind – Evonne Wareham (R50)

The Winter Ghosts – Kate Mosse (R50)
The Book of Regrets – Juliet Solomon (R50)
The Children’s Book – A.S. Byatt (R50)
Running with Scissors – Augusten Burroughs (R50)
On the Road – Jack Kerouac (R50)
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller (R50)

The Folklore of Discworld – Terry Pratchett & Jacqueline Simpson (R50)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke (R100)
Red Carpets and other banana skins – Rupert Everett (R50)
The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion (R50)
The Night Rainbow – Claire King (R50)
The Standing Chandelier – Lionel Shriver (R50)

~~I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhere – Anna Gavalda~~
Lucky Man – Michael J. Fox (R50)
The Monday Night Cooking School – Erica Bauermeister (R50)
A Wedding in December – Anita Shreve (R50)
The Mathematics of Love – Emma Darwin (R50)
A Secret Rage – Charlaine Harris (R20)

Adverbs – Daniel Handler (R50)
Nobel Wisdom – David Pratt (R50)
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides (R50)
One Day – David Nicholls (R20)
I Capture The Castle – Dodi Smith (R50)
High Fidelity – Nick Hornby (R50)

The Clamorous (Double) Life of Isabel Bookbinder – Holly McQueen (R50)
The Girl Next Door – Elizabeth Noble (R50)
Because She Can – Bridie Clark (R50)
The Diplomatic Corpse – Anne Marshall Zwack (R50)
Chasing Harry Winston – Lauren Weisberger (R50)
The Good Girl’s Guide to Bad Men – Jessica Brody (R50)

I’m Not Julia Roberts – Laura Ruby (R50)
Girlfriend in a Coma – Douglas Coupland (R50)
The Love Resort – Faith Bleasdale (R50)
Remind me again why I need a man – Claudia Carroll (R50)
My not so Perfect Life – Sophie Kinsella (R50)
Why Pandas Do Handstands and other curious truths about animals – Augustus Brown (R50)

Petite Anglaise – Catherine Sanderson (R50)
Sickened – Julie Gregory (R50)
Big Magic – Elizabeth Gilbert (R50)
The Food of Love – Anthony Capella (R75)
Double Game – Sophie Calle (R100)

The Earth Hums in B Flat – Mari Strachan (R50)
Life’s Too Short – Grace Saunders (R50)
Things I Wish I’d Known – Linda Green (R50)
Pest Maiden – Dillys Rose (R40)
Scandalous – Martel Maxwell (R50)
My Mother’s Wedding Dress – Justine Picardie (R50)

The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger (R50)
Three Perfect Liars – Heidi Perks (R100)
Miss Benson’s Beetle – Rachel Joyce (R100)
Separation Anxiety – Laura Zigman (R100)
All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr (R50)
The Silent Treatment – Abbie Greaves (R100)

Books on CD

Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination – Helen Fielding (a firm favourite – R75)
Beggars Banquet – Ian Rankin (still sealed – R75)
My Life as a Fake – Peter Carey (R75)
Spud – John van de Ruit (still sealed – R75)