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We are absolutely delighted to be at Thomson Plaza from 1 JUNE to 28 JUNE 2026 for our SCHOOL HOLIDAY SALE!

Get ready for tons of freebies, fun activities, good books and new releases and a meet and greet together with an autograph from Geronimo Stilton plus all Geronimo Stilton and Thea Stilton paperback titles at $7.50 ONLY!

The best books at the best prices!!!

Visit us at the Atrium, Level 1 and look out for our gift packs, flash sales, special deals and giveaways at this incredible event!

School Holiday Sale 2026 | Atrium, Level 1, Thomson Plaza | 1 June - 28 June 2026

“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
— Albert Camus, *The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays*

There is something haunting about that line. To imagine Sisyphus, the man condemned by the gods to roll a boulder up a mountain for eternity, as *happy*, is to accept one of life’s hardest truths: that meaning is not given to us, we make it.

Camus did not write for the comfortable. He wrote for those who stare at life’s absurdity, the daily repetitions, the unending toil, the quiet futility, and still choose to live, still choose to push. He saw in Sisyphus not a symbol of defeat but of defiance. The moment Sisyphus descends the mountain to reclaim his stone, he is no longer a victim; he becomes conscious, and in that consciousness lies his freedom.

We live this story every day. We wake, we work, we climb, we fail, we start again. The mountain is always there. But Camus asks us to see something different, to find dignity in the act of pushing, to find joy in the effort itself, not in the imagined reward at the top. Because the truth is, there may never be a top.

And yet, we go on. We write, we build, we teach, we love, all in spite of knowing that time will erase it all. That is what makes it beautiful. That is what makes it human.

Sisyphus, in the end, is every one of us who keeps going when the world offers no applause. His happiness is not in victory but in persistence, in the sheer courage to try again.

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

Albert Einstein's life advice in a letter to his son Eduard on 5 February 1930. In the picture, Einstein is riding a bicycle in Santa Barbara, USA in 1933.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1), 1954.

Emma Auguste Løffle - Yellow yarrow, white umbellifer flowers and blackberries by a field, 1896.

Wishing all Buddhists a blessed, beautiful and revitalising Vesak Day filled with peace, happiness, brotherly love, joy, harmony, empathy and compassion for all of God's creation from all of us at Fables!

FALLING UP turns 30 this year!

From the legendary Shel Silverstein, this classic keeps falling up into readers’ hearts everywhere!

📖Falling Up by Shel Silverstein

Twenty-year-old John Nash arrived at Princeton University as a graduate student with a letter of recommendation that simply read: "He is a mathematical genius."

He was awarded the 1994 prize in economic sciences. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3fpYROQ