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  • Dare not linger: The presidential years (Hardcover)

    Nelson Mandela
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    Dare Not Linger is the story of Mandela's presidency, drawing heavily on the memoir he began to write as he prepared to finish his term as presiden...

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  • Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years (Paperback)

    Nelson Mandela
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    Drawing on Nelson Mandela's own unfinished memoir, Dare Not Linger is the remarkable story of his presidency told in his own words and those of dis...

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    Death, Detention and Disappearance: A Lawyer's Battle to Hold Power to Account in 1980s Namibia (Paperback)

    David Smuts
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    In Namibia, the 1980s were a dark decade of human rights abuses by South African security forces. Justice David Smuts, then a young Windhoek lawyer...

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  • Degas' dust: Joburg maverick's quest to regain Nazi way booty

    Carnie Matisonn
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  • Double Crossed: A Code of Honour, A Complete Betrayal (Paperback)

    Brian Wood
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    The Sunday Times Bestseller that inspired BBC drama Danny BoyAt the age of 23, Brian Wood was thrust into the front line in Iraq, in the infamous B...

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  • Double Crossed: A Fighting Man Under Fire

    Brian Wood
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    The Sunday Times Bestseller At the age of 23, Brian Wood was thrust into the front line in Iraq, in the infamous Battle of Danny Boy. Ambushed, ...

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  • Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

    Wordsworth Books
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    An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young ma...

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  • Fighting ISIS

    Wordsworth Books
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    In February 2015, Tim Locks headed to Kurdistan to fight ISIS. After watching images of the Yazidi people being slaughtered, he couldn't sit back a...

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    First Man In: Leading from the Front

    Ant Middleton
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    NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER No one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life's challenges, Ant Middleton ha...

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  • From cattle-herding to editor's chair: A forgotten founder of the ANC

    Wordsworth Books
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  • Get up! Stand up!: Personal journeys towards social justice

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  • Historian: An Autobiography (Paperback)

    Hermann Giliomee
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    Internationally-renowned historian Hermann Giliomee has himself been intimately involved in the unfolding drama of South Africa's history, as parti...

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  • Homage to Catalonia

    George Orwell
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  • How I Stopped Being a Jew

    Wordsworth Books
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    Shlomo Sand was born in 1946 in a displaced persons camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. During his life, Sa...

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  • I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

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    *Winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize*'Malala is an inspiration to girls and women all over the world' J K Rowling'Inspirational and powerful' GRAZ...

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  • I Was Told To Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad

    Souad Mekhennet
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    I was told to come alone. I was not to carry any identification, and would have to leave my cell phone, audio recorder, watch, and purse at my hote...

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  • In the Ring: A Commonwealth Memoir

    Don McKinnon
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    'In the Ring' deals with impossibly devious plots and characters - ambitious presidents and prime ministers from all corners of the world, some det...

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  • Infidel (Paperback)

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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    Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of today's most admired and controversial political figures. She burst into international headlines following the murder of ...

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  • Inge's War: A Story of Family, Secrets and Survival under Hitler

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    'A lyrical, engrossing and essential read' - Sathnam Sanghera 'A superbly nuanced reclamation of history and family secrets' - Brian Van Reet, auth...

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    Joe Biden: American Dreamer (Paperback)

    Evan Osnos
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    The new biography of President-elect Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos President-elect Joseph R. Bi...

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  • Let Her Fly: A Father's Journey and the Fight for Equality

    Ziauddin Yousafzai
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    In this intimate and extraordinary memoir, Ziauddin Yousafzai, the father of Malala, gives a moving account of fatherhood and his lifelong fight fo...

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  • Let Her Fly: A Father's Journey and the Fight for Equality

    Ziauddin Yousafzai
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    In this intimate and extraordinary memoir, Ziauddin Yousafzai, the father of Malala, gives a moving account of fatherhood and his lifelong fight ...

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  • Life Under Fire TPB

    Wordsworth Books
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    Learn how to manage stress, harness fear, and develop the mindset required to thrive under pressure in the powerful and inspiring new book from Jas...

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  • Long Shot: My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS

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    In September 2014, Azad Cudi became one of seventeen snipers deployed when ISIS, trying to shatter the Kurds in a decisive battle, besieged the nor...

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