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An essential global survey of the most exciting contemporary painters, as selected by the world’s leading art experts Painting is one of the oldest...

Rensche van der Walt was slegs 23 jaar oud toe Britse soldate haar en haar gesin van hul plaas na die Bethulie-konsentrasiekamp weggevoer het. Sy...

A WARTIME MISSION UNLIKE ANY OTHER Autumn 1943: the SAS hijack a train, raid deep into enemy territory, and liberate a concentration camp. A missio...

The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would ex...

Leveraging her personal insights alongside the sharp analyses of progressive, Pan-Africanist and decolonisation scholars. Heller unmasks White libe...

At dusk, on a warm evening in 2016, a group of forty men gathered in the corner of a dusty field on a farm outside Parys in the Free State. Some we...

Twilight in Paradise tells the tale of a ‘disappearing people’, ex-Rhodesians, Zimbos, who  remained in Zimbabwe after 1980, and the ethnocide infl...

Through exclusive interviews with zama zamas, syndicate insiders, intelligence operatives, and law enforcement officials, Zama Zama sheds light on ...

Digging Deep explores South Africa’s great mineral revolution – the lucky strikes and the struggles of prospecting in the late 1800s, the rushes to...

In a series of 50 accessible essays, Susie Hodge introduces and explains the central concepts that underpin Western art and design.From Romanesque ...

The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and one of the continent's principal arteries of movement, migration, conquest and commerce. In ...

This timely and visually striking volume offers a long-overdue exploration of Dr. Esther Mahlangu (born 1935), the internationally acclaimed South ...

From top defence analyst Jack Watling, Statecraft reveals how states collaborate, compete and fight in this era of global turmoil. For readers of P...

Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Desig...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn Peter Beinart's view, one story dominates Jewish communal life: that of persecution and victimhood. It is a...

Situated at the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East has confounded the ambition of conquerors and peacemakers alike. Christianity, Juda...

A radical reassessment of one of the most pervading myths of our time: that the African continent is uniquely ill-suited to economic development Th...

'Wonderful' JOHN BARTON 'A stupendous intellectual achievement' ANDREW PETTEGREE 'A stunning love song to the Bible . . . this will be a clas...

THE MODERN CLASSIC AND SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER.NOW BOLDER, BRIGHTER AND EXPANDED INTO GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOUR WITH 25 NEW COLOURS. 'Dazzling a...

Top 3 Sunday Times Bestseller BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction A sweeping and immersive h...

Jan Smuts is revered by some as a national and international statesman, but he is condemned by others as an architect of segregation. In his new bo...

‘Honest and credible about both the successes and the failings of liberation leaders.’ - Mavuso Msimang Deputy President of ANC Veterans and former...

In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing their beloved Iraq to the new state of Israel. 'Remarkable.' Ma...

Discover the ground-breaking, must-read history of Africa, the Sunday Times bestseller charting the epic story of the oldest inhabited continent in...

In 1944, sixteen-year-old ballerina Edith was sent to Auschwitz and endured unimaginable experiences. When the camp was finally liberated, she was ...

With a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales. 'A stunningly moving book about the power of hope and love to overcome the very worst of mankind' - ...

In this book are fifty-two compelling tales that will lead the reader on a journey of discovery of the African continent. It tracks the ancient gra...

THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An angry and important work of historical detection, calling time on the misogyny that has fed t...

Form, from the Latin forma, meaming shape. It means the inherent nature of an onject, that in  which the essence of a thing costsist.  –ALI SMITH ...

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On the Railway takes readers through South Africa’s rich railway history, from Estcourt to the grand steam engines on narrow gauges. David Williams...