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Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

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  • Against All Odds: The Epic Story of the Oceanos Rescue (Paperback)

    Andrew Pike
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    It was a dark and stormy night in 1991 when a magician took over the bridge of the Oceanos, an ageing passenger liner travelling up the Wild Coast....

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    All Rise: A Judicial Memoir (Paperback)

    Dikgang Moseneke
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    Law as a profession was not Dikgang Moseneke’s first choice. As a small boy he told his aunt that he wanted to be a traffic officer, but life had o...

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  • An Unwitting Assassin: The Story of my Father's Attempted Assassination of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd

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    At Any Cost: The South African Fraudster Who Took The Tech World For More Than $40 Million (Paperback)

    Stephen Timm
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    Eran Eyal had it all: a trendy New York apartment, a jet-set lifestyle and investors lining up to get in on his million-dollar cryptocurrency start...

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  • Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China (Paperback)

    Jung Chang
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    They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the th...

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  • Catch And Kill (Paperback)

    Ronan Farrow
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    In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of p...

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  • Dan Carter: The Autobiography of an All Blacks Legend

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    Dan Carter's last game as an All Black culminated with him declared Man of the Match following the 2015 Rugby World Cup final at Twickenham - an un...

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  • Davy Samaai: Kampioen van die Struggle

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    Hierdie boek het ontstaan as 'n verhaal oor die lewe van 'n besonderse mens: David Samaai. Maar baie gou besef jy dat dit eintlik 'n boek oor 'n ba...

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  • Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia - Special Anniversary Edition (with new chapter 25 years on)

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    A special anniversary edition with an updated chapter set 25 years on by Chris Stewart. Over two decades ago we set up Sort of Books to help our...

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  • Educated (Paperback)

    Tara Westover
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    Tara Westover and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but, according to the government, she didn't exist. She hadn't been registered f...

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  • Fast Forward (Trade Paperback)

    Andrew Cole
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    'A moving chronicle of a journey' - Mail on Sunday'A powerful and moving book - it's quite a battle he has faced' - Nick Robinson, BBC Radio 4 Toda...

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  • JUST AS I AM HB

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    "In her long and extraordinary career, Cicely Tyson has not only succeeded as an actor, she has shaped the course of history." -President Barack Ob...

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  • Khamr: The Makings of a Waterslams (Paperback)

    Jamil F. Khan
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    Khamr: The Makings of a Waterslams is a true story that maps the author’s experience of living with an alcoholic father and the direct conflict of ...

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  • Kidnapped: And Other Dispatches

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    Not since John McCarthy walked free in Beirut over 15 years ago has the world held its breath over the fate of a British journalist. Five months on...

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  • Koerantkamerade

    Naledi
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    Kanniedood-koerantman Hennie van Deventer verklap geheime en intriges in nuuskantore en direksiekamers in ? 50-stuks informele "grafskrifte" vir on...

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  • Leadership: Lessons From My Life In Rugby (Paperback)

    Eddie Jones
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    Eddie Jones is one of the most successful sports coaches of all time. From coaching three different nations to Rugby World Cup Finals and with a wi...

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    Los Gedagtes

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  • Lost & Found (Trade Paperback)

    Kathryn Schulz
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    Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's beloved father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & Found, she weaves the stories of thos...

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    Maid Film Tie-In (Paperback)

    Stephanie Land
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    BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING PICK, 2019. BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK. Educated meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about worki...

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    Magnifico! The A to Z of Queen (Paperback)

    Mark Blake
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    A unique 'A to Z' biography from music journalist and Queen biographer Mark Blake that will shed new light on the story of the biggest rock band of...

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    Mauritanian FTI

    Mohamedou Ould Slahi
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    Previously published as Guantanamo Diary, this momentous account and international bestseller is soon to be a major motion picture The first and...

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  • Miracle girl: Life Stories from a Xhosa Girl

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    Sivosethu Ndubela - fondly known as Vovo - is a young Xhosa girl who lives in New Brighton, near Port Elizabeth. Apart from growing up with the cha...

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  • Moord Op Pofadder: Die Skokkende Verhaal Agter Suretha Brits se Meesterplan en die Kontrak op Haar Man (Paperback)

    Charne Kemp
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    Wat dryf ’n beeldskone jong ma van drie daartoe om haar man wreed te laat vermoor? Waarom wou Suretha Brits só graag van haar Leon ontslae raak? ...

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    MURDER OF AHMED TIMOL

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