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Historical & Political Biographies

  • Becoming Dr Seuss (Trade Paperback)

    Brian Jay Jones,
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    Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. The sill...

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  • Begging to be black

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  • Black Boy

    Richard Wright
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    Richard Wright's memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and 30s is a stark depiction of African American l...

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  • BLACK WOMANISM IN SOUTH AFRICA

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    Janet Hodgson tells the inspiring story of Emma Sandile (1842-1892)-Princess Emma, as she was known in southern African colonial circles-in a narra...

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  • Boris: The Adventures of Boris Johnson

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    THE MAKING OF A PRIME MINISTER 'My biography of the year' Michael Crick 'The scariest thing I've read since Silence of the Lambs' Ken Livingstone A...

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  • Boris Johnson: The Gambler TPB

    Bower, Tom
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    'EXPLOSIVE... Contains a string of startling revelations about Mr Johnson's public and personal life, and goes farther than any previous biography ...

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  • Hitler and Stalin

    Laurence Rees
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    Hitler and Stalin. Two tyrants, two sides of the same coin. The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarit...

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  • Catherine the Great and Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair

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    'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra ... Excellent, with dazzling mastery o...

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  • Christiaan Barnard: The Surgeon Who Dared

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    From humble beginnings as a `barefoot boy' in a small town in the heart of South Africa, he learned to mix with presidents and prime ministers, wit...

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  • CHURCHILL & SON TPB

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    'In this fascinating account of the turbulent Churchill father-and-son relationship, Josh Ireland shows how central Winston and Randolph were to ea...

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  • Churchill and the Jews

    Martin Gilbert
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    CHURCHILL AND THE JEWS covers the whole life of this greatest of Britons -- from his youth, when he was shocked by the anti-Semitism displayed duri...

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  • Arik

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  • Churchills Shadow TPB

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    A critical but fair political biography of Churchill that zooms in on crucial moments in his life and career that help us understand the man in his...

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    Codename Suzette: An extraordinary story of resistance and rescue in Nazi Paris

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    The thrilling and previously untold true story of Suzanne Spaak, who abandoned her life of opulence to save the Jewish children of Occupied Paris d...

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  • Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane

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    Hans Sloane was the greatest collector of his time, and one of the greatest of all time. His name is familiar today through the London streets and ...

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  • Cyril Ramaphosa: The Road to Presidential Power

    Anthony Butler
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    The 53rd ANC National Conference held in Maungang saw the return of Cyril Ramaphosa to the centre stage of national politics. To the great surprise...

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  • Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigmas

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    The highly eccentric Alfred Dillwyn Knox, known simply as 'Dilly', was one of the leading figures in the British codebreaking successes of the two ...

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  • Dr Abdullah Abdurahman: South Africa's First Elected Black Politician (Paperback)

    Martin Plaut
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    Dr Abdullah Abdurahman (1872–1940) was the first person of colour ever to be elected to political office in South Africa. He represented some of th...

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  • Enemy of the people: How Jacob Zuma stole South Africa and how the people fought back

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  • Fey's War

    Catherine Bailey
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    **Formerly published as The Lost Boys** 'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from ...

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  • Florence Nightingale

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    Winner of the Elizabeth Longford prize for Historical Biography 'Engrossing' Claire Tomalin / 'Superb' Sunday Times / 'A triumph' Daily Mail Whet...

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  • Franci's War

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    Discover unrelenting spirit and strength in the extraordinary true story of Franci: a woman who survived the holocaust against all of the odds'Achi...

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  • FRANCIS I BPB

    Leonie Frieda
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    'A captivating biography ... This rollicking story is packed with anecdotes' The Times 'I can't suppose that there has been a better English biogr...

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  • Generaal Ben Viljoen, 1868-1917 (Afrikaans Edition)

    J.W. Meijer
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