Good Neighbours Bookshop

Augustine Bookroom

Little Seeds

                                       Little Seeds    Newsletter 10/8/2017   Dear Customers, Last week Joey, at Augustine, shared a daily devotion with me. It is from the book Come Ye Apart by J R Miller (which we don’t have in stock, sorry).  I share...

Keep checking the map

              Keep checking the map    Newsletter 27/7/2017   Dear Customers During our years of home education, my children and I travelled throughout Joburg, Pretoria and surrounds on various outings a to home ed. events. In those days, there were no...

Flavour of the month…or not

              Flavour of the Month … or Not    Newsletter 18/7/2017     Dear Customers, We can never tell in advance what book is going to be flavour of the month. Word-of-mouth is a powerful advertiser. It takes one customer to tell a couple of...

Judgement is a Good Thing

                            Judgement is a good thing    Newsletter 7/7/2017                      Dear Customers As a church, we are busy going through the book of Isaiah with John Oswalt as our guide (he is the author of Isaiah in the NICOT...

This and That

                           This and That    Newsletter 14/6/2017     Dear Customers, I have just returned from a relaxing week in the bush, so writing is not going to happen at any length – my brain is still there! What a blessing to take the time...

New Stuff

                                        New Stuff    Newsletter 29/5/2017     Dear Customers, Our ‘new releases’ table is overflowing with all sorts of good new stuff. So much so that we can’t feature all the pics. One usually tells a...

Dying Well

              Dying well       Dear Customers A Prayer by John Calvin: Almighty God and Father, grant unto us, because we have to go through much strife in this earth, the strength of thy Holy Spirit, in order that we may courageously go through the...

Stand!

  Stand!    Newsletter 10/5/2017     Dear Customers Imagine you were alive at the time of the Reformation and you heard that your friend had been burnt at the stake for his beliefs. What would you do? Recant? Run for cover? I’m busy reviewing an...

Our King is on His Throne

              Our King is on his throne    Newsletter 6/4/2017     Dear Customers, Every time a new shipment comes in, I am delighted to note that the prices are dropping. That is about to be reversed and I want to weep! I won’t tell you what i...

Exposed!

Exposed! Newsletter 16/3/2017     Dear Customers, One of the teachers at my daughter’s pre-school told the staff of an amusing interaction she had with one of the pupils. She was teaching the letter T to her class of 4-year-olds. After listing a number of...

Trials and Trust

                            Trials and Trust    Newsletter 9/3/2017     Dear Customers, There’s something gloriously relaxing about being just short of 60. Of course, my body doesn’t often co-operate with the ‘young’ instructions...

Why do we do what we do?

              Why do we do what we do?    Newsletter march 2017     Dear Customers, After more than 2 months of silence from me, the first order of business is thanks. We sincerely thank you for your support. Last year was a record year and these last...

Year-end Closure

  Dear Customers, “Rest time is not a waste of time. It is economy to gather fresh strength… It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.” ~ Charles Spurgeon ~ We are open till midday on...

Year-end Sale

It’s that time of year again when we offer you all some bargains. Our annual sale starts on Friday, 25th November and runs till Saturday, 3rd December, during normal shop hours. It’s very difficult for a discount store to have a sale. Our prices are...