On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the comma...

If you are an English-speaking South African, chances are that way back in your ancestry was an 1820 Settler. This book marks the 200th anniversary...

JAMES FELTON'S NEW BOOK "SUNBURN" ('AN ASTONISHING PIECE OF WORK' James O'Brien; 'FUNNY, SCATHING AND WITTY' IAN DUNT) IS OUT NOW 'Scurrilous, sca...

65 Years of Friendship  tells the heartrending story of a remarkable friendship between two remarkable men: world-renowned human-rights lawyer Geor...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDMussolini was not only ruthless: he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work fo...

In times of fundamental change, people tend to find a space, lose it and the find another space as life and the world transform around them.  What ...

Despite being relatively brief, this very readable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and artistic elements, and i...

Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Cundill History Prize, Fage and Oliver Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Mem...

This is the story of military aviation in Rhodesia from the romantic days of 'bush' flying in the 1920s and '30s-when aircraft were refuelled from ...

In A Short History of South Africa, Gail Nattrass, historian and educator, presents the reader with a brief, general account of South Africa’s hist...

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. ____________...

A classic and vivid history of Ukraine, fully updated to cover the Euromaidan Revolution of 2014 and ongoing crisis in the Donbass. Centre of th...

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...