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  • A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

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    'Absolutely essential reading, period' Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Lets Go to the Dogs TonightWINNER of the 2018 PEN Open Book Aw...

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  • Chasing the Scream: The inspiration for the feature film The United States vs Billie Holiday

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    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE INSPIRATION FOR THE FEATURE FILM THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY 'Screamingly addictive' STEPHEN FRY 'Superb...

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  • Confronting apartheid: A personal history of South Africa, Namibia and Palestine

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    Most personal histories of apartheid in Southern Africa tell the story of the armed struggle. This book is about opposition to apartheid within the...

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  • DANCING IN THE MOSQUE TPB

    QADERI, HOMEIRA
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    An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother's unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afg...

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  • DAY OF THE ASSASSINS TPB

    Michael Burleigh
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    The traditional image of a political assassin is a lone wolf with a gun, aimed squarely at the head of those they wish to kill. But while there has...

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  • Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising

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    Dirty Tobacco: Spies, Lies and Mega-Profits (Paperback)

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    What is more profitable than cocaine, heroin, marijuana or guns? Illegally trafficked cigarettes . . . Reputable tobacco companies have – for decad...

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    Encountering Apartheid's Ghosts: From Krugersdorp To Constitution Hill (Paperback)

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    This book is a chronicle of the political and moral evolution of an Afrikaner within the context of the political evolution of South Africa and how...

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  • For the Love of the Land: Being a Farmer in South Africa Today (Paperback)

    Ivor Price, Kobus Louwrens
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    For the Love of the Land introduces South Africans to the heroes of agriculture. A diverse crop of farmers from across the country share complex, l...

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  • From Beirut To Jerusalem

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    A Second Edition of Thomas Friedman's stunning book, the first edition of which won the American National Book Award. 'If you're only going to read...

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    Future Tense: Reflections On My Troubled Land (Paperback)

    Tony Leon
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    Future Tense analyses the squandered and corrupted years since Leon’s first award-winning biography. Leon, with unique access and penetrating in...

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    Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule's Web Of Capture (Paperback)

    Pieter-Louis Myburgh
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    In spite of Cyril Ramaphosa's "new dawn", there are powerful forces in the ruling party that risk losing everything if corruption and state capture...

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  • Gangs, Rituals And Rites Of Passage

    Don Pinnock
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  • Give Us More Guns (Paperback)

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    It was one of the most brutal criminal acts of the post-apartheid era, and its consequences devastating. Thousands of people died between 2011 –...

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  • Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy

    Noam Chomsky
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    'If I were a voter in Britain, I would vote for [Jeremy Corbyn]' - Noam Chomsky, 2017Global Discontents is an essential guide to geopolitics and ho...

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  • HIDDEN HAND PB

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    'Heavily sourced, crisply written and deeply alarming.' The Times 'This is a remarkable book with a chilling message.' Guardian The Chinese Comm...

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  • House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia

    Craig Unger
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    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A bombshell.' Daily Mail'Damning, terrifying and enraging.' The Spectator'The story Unger weaves with his original re...

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    How To Be an Antiracist

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    **SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'Could hardly be more relevant ... it feels like a light switch being flicked on' OWEN JONESNot being racist is not enou...

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  • How to Make a Difference: The Definitive Guide from the World's Most Effective Activists

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    "An exceptionally relevant book for this age of activism." Bob GeldofWith a foreword by Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the UN (1997-2006)....

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  • How to steal a country: State capture and hopes for the future in South Africa

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    How to Steal a Country describes the vertiginous decline in political leadership in South Africa from Mandela to Zuma and its terrible consequences...

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  • How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS

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    Winner of The Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ literatureWinner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT non-fictionShortlisted for the Wellcome Book P...

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  • I Am Not Your Negro

    James Baldwin
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    The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated documentary filmIn June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarke...

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  • I'm Going to Ruin Their Lives: Inside Putin's War on Russia's Opposition

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    In 2012, on the eve of Vladimir Putin's inauguration for a controversial third term as president, mass protests ended in violent clashes between de...

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  • Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation POSTMASTER: The Untold Top Secret Story

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    This is a true story of a force of licensed to kill" secret agents, commanded by a real war time secret service chief code names M, with whom Ian ...

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    Indentured: Behind the scenes at Gupta TV (Paperback)

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    “Why Zuma?” asked Atul Gupta. “We have close relations with everyone in the ANC. If Zuma is ever ousted, I can tell you for sure that the next one ...

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  • Invisible Women (Paperback)

    Caroline Criado Perez
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    *THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER*'HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things - a monumental piece of resea...

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  • ISIS: The State of Terror

    Jessica Stern
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    The first major book on ISIS to be published since the group exploded on the international stage in summer 2014. Drawing on their unusual...

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  • It's Our Turn to Eat (Trade Paperback)

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    A gripping account of both an individual caught on the horns of an excruciating moral dilemma and a continent at a turning point. When Mi...

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  • Jihadi John: The Making of a Terrorist

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    It was a defining moment, the first time 'Jihadi John' appeared. Suddenly Islamic State had a face and the whole world knew the extent of their sav...

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  • Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

    Tom Burgis
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    AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'If y...

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  • Lawfare: Judging Politics In South Africa (Paperback)

    Michelle Le Roux, Dennis Davis
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    Throughout the past 50 years, the courts have been a battleground for contesting political forces as more and more conflicts that were once fought ...

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  • Lawless World: Making and Breaking Global Rules (Paperback)

    Philippe Sands
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    International lawyer Philippe Sands has a unique insider's view of the elites who govern our lives. His sensational revelations in Lawless World c...

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  • Licence to Loot: How the plunder of Eskom and other parastatals almost sank South Africa

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  • Lift As You Rise: Speeches And Thoughts On Leadership (Paperback)

    Bonang Mohale
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    Bonang Mohale is a highly respected South African businessman, who is known as much for his patriotism and his active role in seeking to advance hi...

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  • Make or break: How the next three years will shape South Africa's next three decades

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  • MAKE IT HAPPEN TPB

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    'Make It Happen reminds us that people of any age can create change in their communities. From finding allies to setting goals, everyone who wants ...

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  • Merchants of Men: How Kidnapping, Ransom and Trafficking Fund Terrorism and ISIS

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    Every day, a powerful and sophisticated underground business delivers thousands of refugees along the Mediterranean coasts of Europe. A new breed o...

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  • Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs and Trolls

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    'A rallying cry for privacy justice . . . chilling . . . take-no-prisoners and warmly gregarious' New York Times'We need more warriors like Carrie'...

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  • Novacene

    James Lovelock
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    SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time has produced an astounding new the...

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    Optimism Over Despair

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    An essential overview of the problems of our world today -- and how we should prepare for tomorrow -- from the world's leading public intellectualW...

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    Our Malady PBO

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    A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. America has not measured up well. Tens of thousands are dead for no reason. ...

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  • Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis

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    A toxic ideology rules the world - of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Onl...

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  • The Outlaw Ocean (Paperback)

    Ian Urbina
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    'Just incredible' Naomi Klein'Gripping and shocking...with the pace of a thriller' The TimesA New York Times bestseller, The Outlaw Ocean is a rive...

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    Paper Tiger (Paperback)

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    When Iqbal Survé fired Cape Times editor Alide Dasnois the day after Nelson Mandela’s death amid accusations of disrespect towards Mandela, a storm...

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  • Power of Geography

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    'Quite simply, one of the best books about geopolitics you could imagine: reading it is like having a light shone on your understanding' - Nicholas...

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  • Promise and despair: The first struggle for a non-racial South Africa

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    Rattling the Cage

    Brent Meersman
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    Most South Africans have strong views on our past and present, often based on how we have been personally affected by history, and an understanding...

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  • SEX ROBOTS & VEGAN MEAT TPB

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    'A tour of the lurid fringes of the tech world' - The Times'Entertaining . . . like Louis Theroux channelling Margaret Atwood' - New StatesmanWhat ...

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