"This is the most unusual history of Africa... it compares three religious systems: Christianity, Islam and indigenous African religions, in their ...

This is the story of Comrade September, a member of the ANC and its military wing, MK, who was abducted from his hideout in Swaziland by an aparthe...

The town of Bethlehem carries so many layers of meaning--some ancient, some mythical, some religious--that it feels like an unreal city, even to th...

The town of Bethlehem carries so many layers of meaning--some ancient, some mythical, some religious--that it feels like an unreal city, even to th...

Written by Marilyn Martin, a former director of the South African National Gallery, Between Dreams and Realities is based on extensive research and...

The book is not about the colourful houses, the cooking, music, minstrels or slavery - it is an attempt to achieve a greater understanding of the h...

* * A Daily Mail Book of the Week * * The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history. ____________...

Author: Rudi Buys / Supplier: Penguin Random House

Cape Town is a place between. Between two oceans, between first and third worlds, between east and west. So too the majority of its citizens, a peo...

'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...

From the monarchical terror of the Middle Ages to the mangled Europe of the twenty-first century, A People's History of Modern Europe tells the his...

In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, ...

Scientists, and their research, are often shaped by the prevailing social and political context at the time. Kuljian explores this trend in South A...

The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, i...

In die vroee beplanningsfase van die Vryheidspark was Robin Binckes 'n lid van die subkomitee oor geskiedenis. Die mate van debatvoering en besprek...

Author: Francis Wilson / Supplier: Penguin Random House

'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of Engla...

'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of Engla...

ECONOMIST, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Comprehensive and compelling ... A nuanced, landmark study that has de...

'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. A tour de force that explains how Europe'...

Author: R.W. Johnson / Supplier: Jonathan Ball

Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume o...

On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down twenty-three steps into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the younges...

Uniquely imprisoned, most Palestinians in Gaza cannot travel beyond the confines of the Strip, and in times of war escape is impossible. They live ...

Winner of the Moore Prize 2020 In Going Home, Orwell Prize winning author Raja Shehadeh travels Ramallah and records the changing face of the city....

China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th cen...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'The best history of Greece around... Beautifully written and packed with insights about the culture...

Thomas Gresham was arguably the first true wizard of global finance. He rose through the mercantile worlds of London and Antwerp to become the hidd...

Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before.Traditiona...

Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before.Traditiona...

'More than 70 years ago I was a "gift" for Adolf Hitler. I was stolen as a baby to be part of one of the most terrible of all Nazi experiments: Leb...