Sport in South Africa(Paperback / softback)

Sport in South Africa(Paperback / softback)

Distant Suns - Adventure in the Vastness of Africa and South America (Manicom Sam)(Paperback / softback)

1956, The World in Revolt (Hall Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Across the American South, and in the Union of South Africa, black people risk their livelihoods, and their lives, in the struggle to dismantle institutionalised white supremacy and secure first-class citizenship. It was an epic contest, and one which made 1956 - like 1789 and 1848 - a year

Africa39 - New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara(Paperback / softback)

Pickup (Gordimer Nadine)(Paperback / softback)

Stunning novel set in South Africa about forbidden love by the Nobel Prize-winning

Let's Look at South Africa (Clapper Nikki Bruno)(Paperback / softback)

Welcome to South Africa! Hear the sounds of 11 official languages. See lions and elephants on safari. Watch sports such as cricket and rugby. Learn about the people, places and traditions of this diverse African

Autobiography (Gandhi M. K.)(Paperback / softback)

Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself. This book features his

Marabou Stork Nightmares (Welsh Irvine)(Paperback / softback)

Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. But behind this world lies another: the world of Roy's bizarre family, the Scottish housing scheme in which he grew up, his mundane job, a disastrous emigration to Africa, and his youthful life of brutality with a gang of soccer

Birds of Africa South of the Sahara (Ryan Peter)(Paperback)

Birds of Africa South of the Sahara provides unrivalled coverage of African birds in a single volume, and is the only book to describe and illustrate all of the birds found in Africa south of the Sahara Desert (the Afrotropic Region), including Socotra, Pemba and islands in the Gulf of Guinea

Heinemann Book of South African Short Stories (Hirson Denis)(Paperback / softback)

All by writers who spent their formative years in South Africa, this diverse range of short stories spans from the end of World War II when the National Party was on the upsurge, to the early 1990s when the legal framework of apartheid was abolished, the ANC was legalized and Mandela was

Age of Iron (Coetzee J. M.)(Paperback / softback)

In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies and the brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face to face with its

Once We Were Sisters (Kohler Sheila)(Paperback / softback)

A powerful and heartbreaking memoir of a childhood in South Africa, and a story of a bond between two sisters, in life and beyond

Youth (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

Youth's narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and transform it

In The Heart Of The Country (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. As she dreams madly of bloody revenge, Magda's consciousness starts to drift and the line between fact and the workings of her excited

No Future Without Forgiveness (Tutu Desmond)(Paperback / softback)

Desmond Tutu describes his childhood and coming of age in the apartheid era in South Africa. Tutu draws important parallels between the Commissioners' approach to the situation in South Africa with other areas of conflict such as Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Rwanda and the

Understanding South Africa (Du Plessis Carien)(Paperback)

When Nelson Mandela emerged from decades in jail to preach reconciliation, South Africans truly appeared a people reborn as the Rainbow Nation. Yet, a quarter of a century later, the country sank into bitter recriminations and rampant corruption under Jacob Zuma. Why did this happen, and how was

Shadow World - Inside the Global Arms Trade (Feinstein Andrew)(Paperback / softback)

Reveals the corruption behind BAE's controversial transactions in South Africa, Tanzania and eastern Europe and the relationships that characterise the US Congressional-Military-Industrial Complex. This title exposes both the formal government-backed trade in arms as well as the illicit deals and

South Wales Sport Climbs (Glaister Mark)(Paperback / softback)

South Wales Sport covers the area to the south of the Brecon Beacons, spanning the land and sea cliffs from the River Wye on the Welsh border to Pembrokeshire in the west. The area is home to a wealth of sport climbing on a multitude of venues ranging from small inland quarries to extensive

The War in South Africa - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - e-kniha

eBook:,Published in 1902, ‘The War in South Africa’ is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s account of the Boer War. Keen to play his part, Doyle enlisted as a doctor after being turned down by the Imperial Yeomanry. Naturally skewed towards British interests and beliefs of the time, it is an account

A Dangerous Deceit (Eccles Marjorie)(Paperback)

The key to unlocking a series of murders in 1920s' Worcestershire lies in South Africa - and a devastating 20-year-old secret February, 1927. The remains of an unidentified middle-aged man are found beneath the snow in the grounds of Maxtead Court, home of the wealthy Scroope family. Meanwhile,

Twentieth-Century South Africa (Beinart William)(Paperback)

An innovative examination of the forces--both destructive and dynamic--which have shaped South Africa, this book provides a stimulating introduction to the history of the nation in the twentieth century. It draws on the rich and lively tradition of radical history writing and weaves economic and

Good Morning, Mr Mandela (Grange Zelda la)(Paperback / softback)

The author grew up in South Africa as a white Afrikaner who supported the rules of segregation. Yet just a few years after the end of Apartheid she would become a most trusted assistant to Nelson Mandela. In this book, she pays tribute to Nelson Mandela as she knew him - a teacher who gave her the

Life And Times Of Michael K (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving

Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Story (Naidoo Beverley)(Paperback)

A classic look at prejudice and racism in apartheid South Africa, this short and compelling novel is perfect for independent reading projects and classroom sharing.Separated from their mother by the harsh social and economic conditions prevalent among blacks in South Africa, thirteen-year-old