Die Slag van Cuito Cuanavale is al dekades lank 'n bron van hewige konflik en emosie, maar tot nou toe was min bekend oor die Recces se teenwoordig...

From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for...

A strikingly original book about a terrible photograph – an exceptionally rare image documenting the horrific final moments of a Jewish family in U...

Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? Which people from history would best pull off a casino heist? Who was the richest person of all time? ...

Nelson Mandela: By Himself is the definitive book of quotations from one of the great leaders of our time. This collection - gathered from privileg...

The human rights legacy of former Chief Justice Ismail Mahomed features in a biographical sketch titled Ismail Mahomed: Liberating the Law. A secon...

If a mere seven more MPs had voted with Prime Minister JBM Hertzog in favour of neutrality, South Africa’s history would have been quite different....

A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever....

**THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment. ...

It has been 21 years since the dawn of democracy in South Africa. To mark the "coming of age" of the nation, Melanie Verwoerd and Sonwabiso Ngcowa ...

A Brief History of South Africa is an introduction to South African history from the earliest times to the Mandela Presidency. Using both a narrati...

'Moving and inspired book ... An evocative and deeply affecting requiem for what might have been.' - Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin and Former P...

LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 'Urgent, profound and extraordinarily timely...throws light on our contemporary predicament, when the neglect...

All of us will go through times that we don't understand: a difficulty with a friend, an unfair situation at work, a financial setback, an unexpect...

Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated - and timely - history of countries that, for ...

From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader - an MIT-credentialled scientist, popular podcast host and SpaceX mission manager - an illuminating chro...

From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader - an MIT-credentialled scientist, popular podcast host and SpaceX mission manager - an illuminating chro...