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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

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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)

    Telita Snyckers
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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)

    Leon Wessels
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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

    Thomas Friedman
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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

    HAMILTON, CLIVE & OH
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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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