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Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

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  • Annelee Murray: The First Lady Of Springbok Rugby (Paperback)

    Mark Keohane
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    Springbok rugby public relations manager Annelee Murray was with the team for 244 matches, during which time she worked with seven national coaches...

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  • Waterboy: Making Sense Of My Son's Suicide (Paperback)

    Glynis Horning
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    A compelling and agonising story. Durban-based journalist Glynis Horning and her husband Chris woke up one Sunday morning almost two years ago t...

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    Act Like You Got Some Sense: And Other Things My Daughters Taught Me (Paperback)

    Jamie Foxx
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    From Academy Award-winning multi-talent Jamie Foxx, a hilariously candid look at the joys and pitfalls of being the father of two daughters. Jam...

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  • My Unapologetic Diaries (Paperback)

    Joan Collins
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    Joan Collins has been a diarist from the age of twelve, writing enthusiastically over the years. She dictated most of these entries in real time in...

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    The Wild Oats Project

    Robin Rinaldi
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    A testament to how far feminism has taken us all...her search for sexual nirvana is hugely refreshing. The Sunday Times A revealing...quest for...

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  • Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Paperback)

    Amy Chua
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    A SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: the most talked-about book of the year'Blissfully funny' India Knight, Sunday Times'Entertaining, bra...

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  • Living The Hustle - Dala (do) What You Must (Paperback)

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    Yusuf brings another epic book to life with some hard-hitting stories with his usual craziness added. From gold deals at KFC to hustling in China, ...

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  • A Street Cat Named Bob: How one man and his cat found hope on the streets

    James Bowen
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      From the author of A Christmas Gift from Bob, the original bestseller and heartwarming story of the life-saving friendship between a man and his...

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    Poli Poli: A Memoir (Paperback)

    Barbara Masekela
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    ‘Poli Poli by Barbara Masekela is an adorable book full of childhood thrills and teeming with vignettes of memory retold in brilliant prose. It rem...

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  • Desmond Tutu: A Spiritual Biography of South Africa's Confessor

    Michael Battle: His Holiness The Dalai Lama: Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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    The first biography of its kind about Desmond Tutu (with a foreword by the Dalai Lama and an afterword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu himself), this bo...

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    When Secrets Become Stories: Women Speak Out (Paperback)

    Sue Nyathi
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    A young girl on the Cape Flats is gifted in exchange for a bottle of alcohol, a woman is beaten by her boyfriend and told to bezekela (persevere), ...

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  • Louis Botha: Krygsman, Generaal, Staatsman

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    Louis Botha was ’n briljante Boeregeneraal wie se taktiese vernuf en intuïtiewe aanslag vir etlike oorwinnings oor die Britse magte in die Anglo-Bo...

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  • Robey Leibbrandt: 'n Lewe van Fanatisme (Afrikaans, Paperback)

    Albert Blake
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    ’n Epiese reis in ’n klein seiljag van Frankryk tot aan die Namakwalandse kus gedurende die Tweede Wêreldoorlog, sabotasiepogings en planne om Eers...

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  • Ystervuis Uit Die See (Trade Paperback)

    Arne Soderlund
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    Gedurende die Grensoorlog het die Spesiale Magte se 4 Verkenningsregiment tientalle klandestiene seewaartse operasies saam met die SA Vloot uitgevo...

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  • Our Ghosts Were Once People: Stories on Death and Dying

    Bongani Kona
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    “I would get out of the car at every shopping centre and want to ask the stranger walking by with their trolley: ‘Why are you still shopping? Someo...

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    Wreed en Mooi is die Dood: Verhale Oor Verlies, Hunkering en Heling (Paperback)

    Tobie Wiese
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    Van die oomblik wat ons gebore word, begin ons ook te sterf. Maar al is die dood een van die algemeenste menslike gebeurtenisse, vermy die meeste m...

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  • Curator and Crusader: The Life and Work of Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (Paperback)

    Mike Bruton
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    A mystery egg (is it a dodo’s?), a wandering hippo, an enigmatic human skull, a secret visit by a famous aviator, a mysterious monster, the most fa...

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    Op Soek Na Saartjie: Langenhoven se Geheime Liefde

    Dominique Malherbe
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    Op 15 Julie 1932 sterf CJ Langenhoven skielik. Dat hy ’n jong Joodse vrou, die vurige rooikop Sarah Eva Goldblatt, as eksekuteur van sy literêre na...

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    Die Brug: Na die Hel en Terug in Angola (Paperback)

    Deon Lamprecht
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    In vergeelde foto’s van drie dekades gelede staan oopgesigseuns vol bravade voor Ratel-gevegsvoertuie. Hierdie dienspligtiges van 61 Gemeganiseerde...

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    Gesprekke oor Ingrid Jonker (Paperback)

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    'n Versameling van gesprekke met vriende en kennisse van die digter Ingrid Jonker, met kommentaar deur 'n sielkundige. 'n Nuwe boek oor die immer g...

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  • Fortuine: Die Wel En Wee Van Afrikaner-Magnate

    Ebbe Dommisse
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    ’n Ongekende opkoms van Afrikaner-magnate het die Suid-Afrikaanse ekonomie die afgelope drie dekades gekenmerk. Dit is veral merkwaardig in die lig...

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  • Robert : A Queer & Crooked Memoir for the not so Straight & Narrow (Paperback)

    Robert Hamblin
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    Robert Hamblin's much awaited memoir is a tale of a human who refuses to live in a box, confronting and healing from gender confines and racism. It...

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  • Ek Onthou: 'n Outistiese Seun se Lewensreis

    Anton Muller
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    Anton Müller is in 1962 as driejarige met 'n ernstige graad van outisme gediagnoseer en as “onopvoedbaar” geklassifiseer. Hy sou waarskynlik in 'n ...

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  • Churchill & Smuts: Die Vriendskap

    Richard Steyn
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    Die eiesoortige vriendskap tussen Winston Churchill en Jan Smuts is ’n studie in kontraste. In hul jeug het hulle uiteenlopende wêrelde bewoon: Chu...

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    Rateltaai: Ethienne Reynecke se reis van tragedie tot triomf

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    Ethienne reynecke se ongelooflike verhaal In 2018 het die doodsengel drie keer aan die oudrugbyspeler Ethienne Reynecke se deur geklop. Hy het g...

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    Will (Paperback)

    Will Smith
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    One of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life, in a brave and inspiring book that ...

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  • Debbie Calitz: 20 Maande Van Gyselaarshel

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    Toe Debbie Calitz en Bruno Pelizzari in Oktober 2010 in Dar-es-Salaam anker lig, sou hulle nooit kon raai dat hulle op 'n hellevaart vertrek het n...

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  • Martha: 'n Verhaal oor Martha Solomons, Countess of Stamford

    Hemel En See Boeke
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    Martha Solomons is 'n eenvoudige vrou, die dogter van 'n vrygestelde slaaf. Harry Grey is 'n gewese priester uit die Britse adelstand, wat weens wa...

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  • Amper Frans: 'n Lewe van Fanfare en Faux Pas

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    Toe hy 21 jaar gelede vir die eerste keer in Parys aankom, sou die kunstenaar Louis Jansen van Vuuren hom nooit kon indink dat hy eendag ’n château...

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  • A Home on Vorster Street: A Memoir (Paperback)

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    As a young girl, Razina Theba makes her way every day to the tiny family flat on Vorster Street in Fordsburg. It is here, just outside of the Johan...

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  • White Trash: My Year as a High Class Call Girl (Paperback)

    Terry Angelos
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    Raised during the Rhodesian bush war in the 1970s and then immigrating to South Africa at the age of 11, Terry is shaped by a white culture that is...

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  • Now You Know How Mapetla Died: The Biography of a Black Consciousness Martyr (Paperback)

    Ntombizikhona Valela
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    Mapetla Mohapi was a leading member of the Black Consciousness Movement, and the first to die in detention in 1976. Police produced a 'suicide note...

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  • A Taste for Life: How the Spur Legend Was Born (Paperback)

    Allen Ambor
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    ‘If there’s one sure thing I have learned from half a century in the restaurant business, it’s that patience isn’t a virtue when you’re hungry. Ser...

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    A Pretoria Boy: The Story Of South Africa's Public Enemy Number One (Paperback)

    Peter Hain
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    A highly readable, dramatic story of a colourful South African journey in politics lasting over 50 years, from anti-apartheid protester to Right Ho...

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  • Secrets From the Cockpit: Pilots Behaving Badly and Other Flying Stories (Paperback)

    Robert Schapiro
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    Robert Schapiro always wanted to fly. Challenging anti-Semitic bullying, mockery and fierce rivalry, he realised his dream by earning his wings in ...

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  • Die Stella moorde

    Susan Cilliers
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    “Maar, Xander, wat het by die koshuis gebeur? Ons weet jy was by die koshuis. Wat het presies gebeur daar? Vertel vir my. Jy kan maar met my gesels...

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    How I Took Back My Power (Paperback)

    Nompumelelo Runji
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    Not even all the scientific articles about ectopic pregnancies and how little is understood about them and that nothing can be done to prevent and ...

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  • Freek Robinson: Op die Man Af

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    Vir 45 jaar het Freek Robinson die grootste nuusgebeure in die ou én nuwe Suid-Afrika eerstehands beleef. As TV-joernalis en nuusanker was hy ’n ge...

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  • LARAMIE

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    Laramie: 'n Terugblik op Eugène N. Marais: Eugène N. Marais is in 2021 honderd en vyftig jaar gelede gebore en het vyf en tagtig jaar gelede aan...

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  • 100 Great Philosophers Who Changed the World

    Philip Stokes
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    Who am I? What is justice? What does it mean to live a good life? From the metaphysics of Plato to the nihilism of Nietzsche, this engaging and acc...

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  • 1986

    William Dicey
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    1986 was a pivotal year in South African history. It was the year of the vigilante, the year of the necklace – but also the year the talking began....

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  • 200 Women: Who will change the way you see the world

    Ruth Hobday
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    Two hundred women from a variety of backgrounds are asked the same five questions. Their answers are inspiring human stories of success and courage...

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  • 1 Recce: Die Nag Behoort Aan Ons (Paperback)

    Alexander Strachan
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    1-Recce was the sharpest, most versatile and deadliest specialist unit in the entire South African army. These men were super fit, unbelievably tou...

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  • 1 Recce: The Night Belongs to Us (Trade Paperback)

    Alexander Strachan
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    1-Recce was the sharpest, most versatile and deadliest specialist unit in the entire South African army. These men were super fit, unbelievably tou...

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  • 1 Recce: Agter Vyandelike Linies (Paperback)

    Alexander Strachan
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    1 Recce: Agter vyandelike linies neem die leser tot in die Recces se “binnekamer”. In hul eie woorde vertel Recce-operateurs van die lewensgevaarli...

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  • 1 Recce: Behind Enemy Lines (Paperback)

    Alexander Strachan
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    1 Recce: Behind Enemy Lines takes the reader into the ‘inner sanctum’ of the Recces. In their own words, Recce operators recount some of the life-t...

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  • Jonathan Ball: A Tribute (Paperback)

    Michele Magwood
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