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    Maverick Africans: The Shaping of the Afrikaners (Paperback)

    Hermann Giliomee
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    Hermann Giliomee, pre-eminent South African historian, dissects the forces that shaped the Afrikaners into an unusual ‘maverick African’ nation.   ...

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  • Memory Against Forgetting (Hardcover)

    Ranjith Kally
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    Renowned South African photographer Ranjith Kally captured iconic scenes throughout his career, such as his portrait Umkumbane, which has come to s...

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  • MONEY FOR NOTHING PB

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    A Financial Times Economics Book of the Year A brilliant narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bank...

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  • Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia

    Peter Pomerantsev
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    "A riveting portrait of the new Russia." (Tina Brown). "Pomerantsev is one of the most brilliant observers of Putin's Russia...an electrifying, ter...

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  • Oliver Tambo

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  • Paper Tiger: Inside the Real China

    Xu Zhiyuan
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    In PAPER TIGER the Chinese journalist and intellectual Xu Zhiyuan paints a portrait of the world's second-largest economy via a thoughtful and wide...

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  • People's War: New Light on the Struggle for South Africa

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  • Queens of the Conquest: The extraordinary women who changed the course of English history 1066 - 1167

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    Full of passion and betrayal, murder and war, the first volume of an epic new series from bestselling historian Alison Weir, bringing five of Engla...

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  • Ramaphosa's turn: Can Cyril save South Africa

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  • Revolution: A History of England Volume IV

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    Revolution, the fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous vic...

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  • Rise & Fall of the ANCYL TPB

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  • Robben Island Rainbow Dreams

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    Following the birth of democracy in South Africa in 1994, Robben Island, once a symbol of pain, injustice, and closed spaces, became a famous world...

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  • RUSSIAN JOB PB

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    'Brilliant, disturbing . . . an important story that needed to be told. A fast-moving and most compelling read.' - Helen Rappaport, author of Four...

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  • Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister

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    A fascinating and dramatic investigation into the events that led to Winston Churchill becoming Prime Minister against the odds.'A gripping story o...

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  • South Africa at War, 1939-1945: A Jacana pocket history (Paperback)

    Bill Nasson
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    Bill Nasson's South Africa at War, 1939-1945 is the first history of South Africa's involvement in World War II to appear for a very long time. It ...

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  • South Africa's Struggle for Human Rights (Paperback)

    Saul Dubow
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    South Africa's transition to a post-apartheid democracy has been widely celebrated as a triumph for global human rights. Yet, less than a generatio...

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  • South Africa's constitution at 21

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  • SQUARE HAUNTING BPB

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    A SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (AS CHOSEN BY AUTHORS) **LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD P...

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  • The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind

    Professor A. C. Grayling
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    What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration ...

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  • The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind

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    What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration ...

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  • The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu (Paperback)

    Charlie English
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    'An exemplary work of investigative journalism that is also a wonderfully colourful book of history and travel' Observer, Book of the ...

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  • The Burning Time: The Story of the Smithfield Martyrs

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    Smithfield, settled on the fringes of Roman London, was once a place of revelry. Jesters and crowds flocked for the medieval St Bartholomew's Day c...

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  • The Caliban Shore

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    The Grosvenor was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, but she ran aground on the treacherous coast of south-east Africa. An astonishing num...

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  • The Crown: The Official History Behind the Hit NETFLIX Series: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle and the Years that Defined Elizabeth II, 1956-1977

    Robert Lacey
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    In this eye-opening companion to Netflix's acclaimed series The Crown, renowned biographer and the show's historical consultant, Robert Lacey takes...

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