Good Neighbours Bookshop and Augustine Bookroom will both be closed from 23rd December until 6th January. Orders placed during this time will only be processed and posted/couriered when we re-open on 8th January 2018. Any urgent queries can be directed to Kathy on info@goodneighbours.org.za .
Dear Customers, After another sleepless night because of our neighbour’s rooster crowing from just past midnight, there is not much energy left to write any article. The only thing on my mind is the suggestion of roast chicken to my neighbour as a solution to disturbance-of-the-peace rooster! We are all geared up for our annual…
Dear Customers, We take great delight in watching our children and grandchildren grow up – first steps, first words, first time on a bike without fairy-wheels, first anything! We know that our children will one day master all the levels of development, yet every new skill along the way fascinates and pleases us. Parenting…
Dear Customers In this 500th year of the commemoration of the Reformation, we have been inundated with books on the subject and many good ones too. As it has been 500 years since Luther nailed a few points up for discussion, there are many Luther biographies that have surfaced and some new ones about his…
Appreciating God’s Garden Dear Customers, We have just returned from a two-week road-trip, exploring the beauty of South Africa. The power of the Augrabies, Falls, the aridness of the Northern Cape, the majesty of folded mountains and the immense variety of our flora, all proclaim…
Quote of the day Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord; that chastisements are a token of His love; that the season, measure, and continuance of his sufferings, are appointed by Infinite Wisdom, and designed to work for his everlasting good;…
The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is, because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation. ~ Thomas Watson ~ While pulling books for the Rez conference, I came across God’s Battle Plan for the Mind, The Puritan Practice of Biblical meditation by David Saxton (paperback; 145pp;…
We have had nothing new for ages and then everything lands at once! Our overseas shipments were all late, but when they did come in, it was all at once. And this coincided with some local orders and the processing of orders for the Rez conference. A very busy time! There are so many…
Dear Customers When new customers walk into the shop, I always ask how they heard about us. It’s usually a friend or a colleague that has told them about Good Neighbours and Augustine. Word of mouth remains a very powerful advertiser. Some of these new customers, though, express frustration that they hadn’t heard about us…
With sober judgement Newsletter 24/8/2017 Dear Customers I was reviewing a sample book that I was given about the myth of being a perfect mom. Most of us consider ourselves more highly than we ought, but a busy, exhausted mother, falling apart at the…
