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Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

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  • Winged Messenger: Running Your First Comrades Marathon (Paperback)

    Bruce Fordyce
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    The year is 1976, and South Africa is gripped by a terrible lockdown – apartheid. Nelson Mandela is in prison on Robben Island; South Africa is iso...

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  • WINDSOR DIARIES BPB

    HOWARD, ALATHEA
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    **SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020****TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020****SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020****A DAILY MAIL CHRISTMAS BOOKS PICK**'...

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  • Winging It: On Tour with the Boks

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    Winging It: On tour with the Boks is an insider's view of life on tour from one of South Africa's most enduring sports writers, Liam Del Carme, whi...

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  • Winging it: Jonathan Kaplan's journey from world-class ref to rookie solo dad

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    Jonathan Kaplan, celebrated international rugby referee and former world record-holder for most Test caps, had his fair share of challenging moment...

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  • Winnie Mandela: A life

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    Witboy in Berlyn: Avonture in die Eerste Wereld (Paperback)

    Deon Maas
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    “Die honde en kinders verstaan Duits, maar ek nie.” Toe sy vrou werk kry in Duitsland, besluit Deon Maas in ’n oogwink om Berlyn toe te trek. In...

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  • Women in Solitary: Inside the Female Resistance to Apartheid (Paperback)

    Shanthini Naidoo
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    ‘The freezing loneliness made one wish for death,’ journalist Joyce Sikakane-Rankin said of solitary confinement. With seven other women, including...

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  • Woord Vir Woord

    Johan Stemmet
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    Daar is min gesigte op Suid-Afrikaanse televisie so wyd herken en geliefd soos die van Johan Stemmet, en min kenwysies so sinoniem met naweekaand-v...

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  • Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir (Paperback)

    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
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    Ngugi wa Thiong'o's powerful prison memoir begins half an hour before his release on 12 December 1978. A year earlier, he recalls, armed police arr...

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  • Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person (Paperback)

    Shonda Rhimes
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    In this poignant, hilarious and deeply intimate call to arms, Hollywood's most powerful woman, the mega-talented creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scan...

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  • Year Of The Monkey (Paperback)

    Patti Smith
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    Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to ...

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  • A Year Of Living Simply (Paperback)

    Kate Humble
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    'Simply wonderful' - BEN FOGLE'Kate's book has the warmth and calming effect of a log fire and a glass of wine. Unknit your brow and let go. It's a...

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  • Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith, Hardcover

    Year of the Monkey (Hardcover)

    Patti Smith
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    Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to ...

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  • YELLOW HOUSE BPB

    BROOM, SARAH M.
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    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION'A major book that I suspect will come to be considered among the essent...

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  • YEARBOOK TPB

    ROGEN, SETH
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    Hi! I'm Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the inside cover flap (which is a gross phrase) and for websites and shit like that, s...

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  • You have to be gay to know God by Siya Khumalo

    You Have to Be Gay to Know God (Paperback)

    Siya Khumalo
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    Siya Khumalo grew up in a Durban township where one sermon could whip up a lynch mob against those considered different. Drawing on personal experi...

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  • You make me possible: The love letters of Karina M. Szczurek & Andre Brink

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  • You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol

    Louisa Young
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    'Spectacular. I can't stop thinking about it. Louisa Young is a beautiful, beautiful writer' Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Ac...

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  • Young Rembrandt: A Biography

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    Rembrandt's life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist in the world? With his f...

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    Young Stalin (Paperback B-format)

    Simon Sebag Montefiore
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    Winner of the Costa Biography AwardWhat makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did th...

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  • You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)

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    The Internet isn't all cat videos. There's also Felicia Day - violinist, filmmaker, Internet entrepreneur, compulsive gamer and former lonely homes...

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  • You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)

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    The Internet isn't all cat videos. There's also Felicia Day - violinist, filmmaker, Internet entrepreneur, compulsive gamer and former lonely homes...

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    Your People Will Be My People: The Ruth Khama Story (Paperback)

    Sue Grant-Marshall
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    Their love story was one of the greatest of our times. Ruth Williams was a middle-class Londoner who loved ballroom dancing and ice skating when...

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    Zephany: Two Mothers, One Daughter. An Astonishing True Story (Paperback)

    Joanne Jowell
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    “I saw my mommy walking to the court with a hoodie on and a scarf covering her face. She looked almost like someone that was poor. People were curs...

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