Author: Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob / Supplier: Penguin Random House

The Aichele family were decent, cultured, peace-loving Germans trying their hardest not to get swept up in the madness of Hitler's Third Reich. But...

Winner of the Costa Biography AwardWhat makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did th...

This biography of Govan Mbeki (1910-2001), activist and intellectual, goes beyond the narrative details of his long life. Drawing on lengthy interv...

A powerful, candid, and richly detailed memoir from an American icon, revealing what life looks like after the presidency: triumphs, tribulations, ...

Frank McCourt continues his life story in the brilliant, bestselling sequel to the million-selling 'Angela's Ashes'. 'Angela's Ashes' was a publish...

The book that inspired the major new motion picture "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom." Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders...

Tony Blair learnt the precepts of governing the hard way: by leading a country for over ten years. In that time he came to understand that there ar...

READ FORMER BRITISH ARMY SOLDIER SHAUN PINNER'S EXTRADORDINARY FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IN UKRAINEFor fans of Bravo Two Zero, Touching the Voi...

In the stirring first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his i...

"At once the diary of a young Jewish girl under the German Occupation of Paris, a work of exceptional literary quality, and a powerful historical d...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING COLIN FIRTH, NICOLE KIDMAN AND JEREMY IRVINE During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on th...

The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Th...

The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFICThis was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the...

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...

Waris Dirie (the name means desert flower) lives a double life - by day she is a famous model and UN spokeswoman on women's rights in Africa, at ni...

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

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

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

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...

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

'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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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,...

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...

A new interpretation of the life of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture Among the defining figures of the Age of Revolution, Toussain...

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...

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

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...

“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...

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

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...

This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remarkable record of a brilliant writer at th...

South Africa is in the eye of a slow-building economic storm: junk status, political upheaval, civil unrest, spiralling unemployment, state capture...

'It is through that choice of taking a resistance road, the one less travelled, that I got to experience a liberated life.' Patric Tariq Mellet too...

Lincoln Mali spent his youth as a student activist fighting the apartheid system. After spending many nights in jail and detention, he reached a tu...

Mandela: His Essential Life chronicles the life and legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and admired statesmen. Charting his d...

Action-packed biography of Ukraine's leader Millions who have admired Volodymyr Zelensky's defiance during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will lea...

How public events affect private lives is a Leitmotiv of this moving memoir. Eva and her secular Jewish family managed to evade the Holocaust and l...

Lucy Easthope lives with disaster every day. When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, she's the one they call. ...