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  • Lost On The Map: A Memoir Of Colonial Illusions (Paperback)

    Bryan Rostron
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    For 250 years the Bryan Rostron’s family spread across the globe, helping to expand the British Empire and paint the map red. This is a personal re...

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  • I Am Malala: 10th Anniversary Edition (Paperback)

    Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
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    In the face of Taliban oppression, one girl's unwavering defiance sparked a worldwide movement. Shot in the head for daring to seek an education, M...

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  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    Alex Haley
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    Malcolm X's The Autobiography of Malcolm X was written in collaboration with Alex Haley, author of Roots, and includes an introduction by Paul Gilr...

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  • Decolonising The Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)

    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
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    A collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity, that advocates for linguistic decoloniz...

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  • Kings and Queens of Britain (Paperback)

    Cath Senker
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    For more than 1,000 years the British monarchy has dramatically shaped national and international history. Kings and queens have conquered territor...

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  • Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent (Paperback)

    Wendy Law-Yone
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    POLITICIAN • PRISONER • PARENT A portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leaders Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laurea...

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  • A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History (Paperback)

    Edward Wilson-Lee
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    A History of Water follows the interconnected lives of two men across the Renaissance globe. One of them - an aficionado of mermen and Ethiopian cu...

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  • Off-Centre and Out of Focus - Growing Up "Coloured" in South Africa (Paperback)

    Nadia Kamies
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    Nadia Kamies has written a profound and moving meditation on what it meant to grow up ‘coloured’ in South Africa under apartheid. The photographs f...

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  • Mokgomana: The Life of John Nkadimeng 1927-2020 (Paperback)

    Peter Dellius, Daniel Sher
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    When John Kgoana Nkadimeng travelled from Sekhukhuneland to the Witwatersrand in 1944, he was one of thousands of migrants seeking work in town. Bu...

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  • Diary of an Invasion (Paperback)

    Andrey Kurkov
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    'At first we did not understand what war was. You can't understand it until you see it and hear it.' As Russian forces build up beyond the Ukrainia...

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  • Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson (Hardcover)

    Ferdinand Mount
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    Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it...

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  • SAS Battle Ready: True Stories From Memorable Missions Around The World (Paperback)

    Dominic Utton
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    The Special Air Service – the SAS – are known to be the greatest elite fighting force in the world. This book focuses on the most famous operations...

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  • Ndabaningi Sithole: A Forgotten Founding Father (Paperback)

    Tinashe Mushakavanhu
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    Seismic shifts in Zimbabwe's politics since the 2017 demise of Robert Mugabe have generated renewed interest in Ndabaningi Sithole, the first presi...

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  • My Friend Anne Frank (Trade Paperback)

    Hannah Pick-Goslar
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    The inspiring and heartbreaking true story of two best friends torn apart and reunited against all odds. When Hannah Pick-Goslar's family fled Naz...

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  • Milk the Beloved Country (Paperback)

    Sihle Khumalo
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    Buckle up for a tour of South Africa - your guide the inimitable Sihle Khumalo. Born in South Africa, and having lived here for almost fifty years,...

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  • Searching for Papa's Secrets in Hitler's Berlin (Paperback)

    Egonne Roth
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    A moving journey of discovery into the unexplored continent that is often our families’ past. It can be read as a reconstruction of one’s own Jewis...

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    The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps And Became A Nazi Hunter (Trade Paperback)

    Josef Lewkowicz, Michael Calvin
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    One of the last great untold stories of the Holocaust, The Survivor is an astonishing account of one man's unbreakable spirit, unshakeable faith, a...

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  • Hani: A Life Too Short (30th Anniversary) (Trade Paperback)

    Janet Smith
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    Chris Hani’s assassination in 1993 gave rise to one of South Africa’s greatest political questions: if he had survived, what impact would he have h...

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  • The Man Who Shook Mountains: In the Footsteps of My Ancestors (Trade Paperback)

    Lesley Mofokeng
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    Journalist Lesley Mofokeng investigates the life of his remarkable grandfather, Mongangane Wilfred Mofokeng, a prominent Dutch Reformed Church evan...

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  • Letters to My Mother: The Making of a Troublemaker (Paperback)

    Kumi Naidoo
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    This is more than a book. This is a blazing voyage.  Growing up in apartheid-era Chatsworth, Kumi Naidoo tells how his mother’s suicide when he was...

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  • My Thirty-Minute Bar Mitzvah (Paperback)

    Denis Hirson
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    “There were three other people present, or five, depending on whom one chooses to include. Five, let’s say, the men divided from the women accordin...

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    The Truths We Hold (Young Reader Edition)

    Kamala Harris
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    Now adapted for young readers, Vice President Kamala Harris's empowering memoir about the values and inspirations that guided her life. With her...

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    The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake

    Profile Books Ltd
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    'A deeply human read, wonderfully written, on the foibles of a fascinating, flawed, treacherous and sort of likeable character.' Philippe Sands Th...

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  • SAS Brothers in Arms: Churchill's Desperadoes: Blood-and-Guts Defiance at Britain's Darkest Hour (Trade Paperback)

    Damien Lewis
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    The riveting birth story of the SAS Damien Lewis's new bestseller tells the action-packed, riveting story of the band of mavericks and visionari...

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