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A brief yet lively introduction to antiapartheid activist Steve Biko, this biography argues that Biko was the most important political figure to ha...

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Jennie Churchill was said to have had two hundred lovers, three of whom she married. But her love for her son Winston never wavered. Jennie Churchi...

A lost boy. A fractured family. A continent that will test them all. Vilna, Russia- 1899. Eight-year-old Izzy Lieberman leaves his mother and sibli...

Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of an ordinary life lived in extraordinary circumstances that has enthral...

From the former prime minister of New Zealand comes a guide for young readers on chasing your dreams and embracing the unexpected qualities that tr...

Voor Max du Preez as joernalis bekend – en omstrede – geword het, was hy ʼn doodgewone kaalvoet Boerseun van die Vrystaat, die kleinseun van Boer...

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Fifty years after the Soweto Uprising, little is known about its most iconic youth leader, the elusive Tsietsi Mashinini, who instigated the school...

How could a barely literate peasant from Siberia determine the fate of the world? Undoubtedly, the so-called 'mad monk' Rasputin bewitched Tsar Nic...

THE AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Even in hell, hope can flower 'I'll be forever changed by her story' - Oprah Winfrey 'Extraordi...

On 21 March 1960, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe led a mass defiance of South Africa's pass laws. He urged blacks to go to the nearest police station and...

Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the YearLonglisted for the Samuel Johnson PrizeThis thrilling biography of Stalin and his entoura...

‘A book that everyone should read’ The TimesA harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of the bombing of Nagasaki – and the acts of human kindne...

In 1940, Private Raymond Bailey, a 21 year old Vauxhall motors apprentice, serving with the 1st Kensington Regiment, was captured in Northern Franc...

Zelensky is the first major biography of Ukraine's leader written for a Western audience. Told with flair and authority, it is the gripping story ...

During his 84-year life Benjamin Franklin was America's best scientist, inventor, publisher, business strategist, diplomat, and writer. He was also...

As seen in BEST magazine In an atmosphere of abolition and revolution, Queen Charlotte Sophia, Britain's most famous (possibly) mixed-race Princess...

In the secret annex of a housé in Amsterdam, a young Jewish girl named Anne Frank records her daily life while hiding from the Nazis during World W...

The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist ...

An unforgettable testament to hope and the bonds of brotherhood, Miracle reveals the untold story of the boys who escaped the gas chamber in Auschw...

'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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'I read this as a young pilot about to embark on a career flying military helicopters. It should have put me off for life. Robert Mason tells a gri...

Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material - available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union - Robert Service's biograph...