In 221 BCE, the Qin state conquered its neighbours and created the first unified Chinese empire in history. So began the imperial era, where dynast...

Explore the long and rich history of China's great dynasties.From the clans and legends of prehistory to the last Qing emperor, this book brings Ch...

Die boek gee 'n voelvlugoorsig van die vier Suid-Afrikaanse kolonies gedurende die Eduardiaanse tydperk van 1902–1910. Die tydperk word deur Karel ...

*Shortlisted for the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction* *Shortlisted for the RNA Fantasy Romantic Novel 2023* *Shortlisted ...

A difficult boss can be the cause of many sleepless nights, or in extreme cases make you want to quit your job. What to do with that ego-driven man...

Eerie and menacing, timely and moving, Impossible Causes is an unputdownable novel that examines the consequences of silence kept at young women's ...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A Waterstones Best History Book of 2024 Pick'Kuper is a shrewd observer [in] this entertaining mix of memoir...

There's a place where all the wildest stories began . From Katherine Rundell, winner of the Costa Children's Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award ...

The dragons call out, and the ratatoskas tell of murder. Come with us now. There is justice to be done. Return to the magic of the Archipelago... T...

Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world.'An...

In December 2017, Walter Meyer was stabbed in the heart with a kitchen knife by his wife, Sophia. Dubbed "South Africa's own van Gogh" and critical...

Nick: Failed writer. Failed husband. Dog owner. Bee: Serial dater. Dress maker. Pringles enthusiast. One day, their paths cross over a misdir...

"Von Daniken writes and theorizes compellingly, giving pause to even the most rigid of skeptics, and the more than 150 colour photographs only enha...

They say you can't choose your family . . . But what if they're wrong?Chloe lives a quiet life. Working as a newspaper archivist in the day and tak...

Lynch, a mysterious grifter, is enlisted by the wealthy Pierce family to impersonate their missing son so they can find out what really happened to...

Arguably the most important movement in the history of modern art, Impressionism changed the way audiences perceived painting. This elegant and p...

With IMPRESSIONS, award-winning photographer and graphic artist Gunther Komnick has brought together 50 years of masterful photography. Since the 1...

Continuing in the success of the AA "Impressions Series", "Impressions of South Africa" is a beautiful picture book to this wonderful country. With...

This extraordinary account of imprisonment shows with exacting clarity the awful injustices of the system. Sylvia Neame, activist against apartheid...

Bidding in the slam area has developed rapidly over the past 20 years and players are bidding slams more often and more accurately. In this book Ro...

A remote solar systemA fragile galactic allianceAn interstellar war is on the brink of eruption...When the Lightship Impulse is attacked without pr...

Imtiaz Sooliman, a medical doctor practising in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, visited a Shaikh in Istanbul in 1992. The Sufi teacher gave him a m...

Dit was die vyftiende jaar van ekonokrasie. Vyftien jaar nadat ons ons demokrasie vir die Korporasie verruil het. Die politiek is geprivatiseer. Ne...

In 'n oomblik toon die hand van 'n ervare digter wie se poetika reeds gevestig is in terme van temas en tegnieke. Die digbundel verteenwoordig 'n v...

Soms verdwaal jy in jou eie sprokie Alichi, ’n kunswewer, moet nuwe verblyf soek, maar haar weefgetou is te groot vir ’n plek in die stad. Sy vin...

‘The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong’ – Stephen King A lost village. Past crime...

From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, a remarkable journey into the practice of groundbreaking science 'Giorgio Parisi is renowned for his ...

No writer has rendered our boundaryless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a haunti...

Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. In a Free State tells the story first of an Indian serva...

Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver meets Game of Thrones in a mesmerising and unputdownable Balkan fantasy novel of family and survival from the instant...