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The Betrayal by Gillian Slovo 9781853814754
Booksplease Price: $43.47The story of Alan, a white ANC member, who is suspected by his comrades of the unthinkable; of Rebecca, the black woman the ANC choose to judge him and of Sarah, an English woman whose political... -
The Riots Gillian Slovo (Author) 9781350262676
Booksplease Price: $28.64The Government has so far refused a Public Inquiry into the riots that shook our cities this Summer, so the Tricycle is mounting its own. This verbatim play builds a real-time picture of the riots... -
An Honourable Man Gillian Slovo 9781844086658
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24In Khartoum the trumpeters, layers of red sand glittering on their faces, are posted at each corner of the palace roof. Trapped between the desert and the Jihad, oblivious to the heat and the... -
Ten Days Gillian Slovo 9781782116400
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.64It's 4 a.m. and Cathy Mason is watching dawn break over the Lovelace estate. By the end of the day, her community will be a crime scene. By the end of the week, her city will be on fire.In this... -
Black Orchids Gillian Slovo 9781844083138
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84When the genteely impoverished and rebellious Evelyn marries the charming Emil, scion of a privileged Sinhalese family, she thinks that her dream of a life in England can now at last come true. So... -
Ice Road Gillian Slovo 9781844080595
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Irina Davydovna is a cleaner. She has no time for politics or even for that matter, people: 'rules and rulers may come and go, but dirt never changes.' Boris Aleksandrovich is a revolutionary. He... -
Red Dust Gillian Slovo 9781860499159
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84There was probably only one person who could make Sarah Barcant, successful prosecutor, leave New York and return home to Smitsrivier, the small town in South Africa she left years before. Ben. Her... -
Red Dust: A Novel by Gillian Slovo 9780393323993
RRP: $44.10Booksplease Price: $40.07"Written with the pace of a thriller"-Times Literary Supplement. Red Dust is set in a rural South African town, where three people are about to meet their past. Sarah Barcant has left her law career... -
Grenfell: in the words of survivors by Gillian Slovo 9781839042638
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $19.47'It was a tower block, but it was home.' The early hours of Wednesday 14 June 2017. The north-west corner of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. A twenty-four-storey residential tower... -
Ice Road: A Novel by Gillian Slovo 9780393327205
Booksplease Price: $53.17Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State by Gillian Slovo
Booksplease Price: $28.18The new verbatim drama from the pioneering team behind Guantanamo: Honour Bound to Defend Freedom. Over the last twelve months headlines have been dominated by the growth of Islamic State, and... -
Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country Gillian Slovo 9781844085996
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter... -
The Meaning of Waiting by Victoria Brittain
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $19.43Stories of real women, from cultures as varied as Palestine, Senegal, Jordan, Libya, St. John's Wood, and the English Midlands. All came to the United Kingdom as refugees, or married refugees. After... -
The Housemaid's Daughter Barbara Mutch 9780755392124
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.80Duty and love collide on the arid plains of central South Africa. Previously released as 'Karoo Plainsong' this is a fully revised debut novel.Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919... -
Taduno's Song by Odafe Atogun 9781782118053
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'Burning with magic and loss, exile and return, beauty and heartache, Taduno's Song is a colossal epic, disguised as a small novel' MARLON JAMES, Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History Of... -
Murder by the Book?: Feminism and the Crime Novel by Sally Rowena Munt 9780415109192
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $91.37Murder by the Book? is a thorough - and thoroughly enjoyable - look at the blossoming genre of the feminist crime novel in Britain and the United States. Sally Munt asks why the form has proved so... -
Taduno's Song by Odafe Atogun
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $7.12The day a stained brown envelope arrives from Taduno's homeland, he knows that the time has come to return from exile. Back in Nigeria, Taduno discovers that his community no longer recognises him,... -
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Taduno's Song by Odafe Atogun 9781782118053 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $5.02'Burning with magic and loss, exile and return, beauty and heartache, Taduno's Song is a colossal epic, disguised as a small novel' MARLON JAMES, Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History Of... -
Decolonising the Neoliberal University: Law, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Student Protest by Jaco Barnard-Naude 9781032056548
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $85.97Taking the postcolonial - or, more specifically, the post-apartheid - university as its focus, the book takes the violence and the trauma of the global neoliberal hegemony as its central point of... -
117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation under the South African 90-Day Detention Law by Ruth First 9781844086306
Booksplease Price: $31.98'Her life and her death remain a beacon to all who love liberty' NELSON MANDELAAn unforgettable account of defiance against political terror by one of South Africa's pioneering anti-apartheid... -
This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature by J. M. Coetzee 9781408884980
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64________________ 'This anthology will help turn your intellectual understanding of oppression into an emotional one' - New Statesman 'Thanks for being who you are and for giving us such... -
Brief Loves That Live Forever by Andrei Makine
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of... -
African Pasts: Memory and History in African Literatures by Tim Woods 9780719064944
Booksplease Price: $49.43'A people who do not preserve their memory are a people who have forfeited their history.' So argues Wole Soyinka, in his book The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness, and this provides the... -
Bring Me My Machine Gun by Alec Russell 9781586487386
Booksplease Price: $60.31Award-winning journalist Alec Russell was in South Africa to witness the fall of apartheid and the remarkable reconciliation of Nelson Mandela's rule; and returned in 2007-2008 to see Mandela's... -
Guantanamo by Victoria Brittain 9781840024746
RRP: $37.70Booksplease Price: $31.08"""I don't know what crime I am supposed to have committed for which not only I but my wife and children should continually suffer."" - British detainee Moazzam Begg This verbatim play, drawn from ... -
Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Vasily Grossman 9781784871963
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.42Life and Fate is an epic tale of twentieth-century Russia told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad.As the battle of... -
Trauma and Attachment by Sarah Benamer
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $48.20'This monograph contains a rich variety of material that is not usually included in traditional writings on trauma. In addition to the theoretical and clinical perspectives, poetry and storytelling... -
Love the Dark Days by Ira Mathur 9781845235352
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.20A Guardian biography of the year 2022 Non-Fiction winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Literature 2023 This frank, fearless and multi-layered debut centres on a privileged but dysfunctional Indian... -
The General: The ordinary man who challenged Guantanamo by Ahmed Errachidi 9780099572299
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $16.57On 11 September 2001, in a cafe in London, Ahmed Errachidi watched as the twin towers collapsed. He was appalled by the loss of innocent life. But he couldn't possibly have predicted how much of his... -
Once We Were Sisters Sheila Kohler 9781786890009
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70This is the story of Maxine and Sheila Kohler, two sisters who grew up in the suffocating gentility of 1950s South Africa. When Maxine is just shy of her fortieth birthday her husband, a brilliant... -
The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir by Aminatta Forna 9780006531265
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.22An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period. Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history... -
Where the Line is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine by Raja Shehadeh
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12As a young boy, Raja Shehadeh was entranced by a forbidden Israeli postage stamp in his uncle's album, intrigued by tales of a green land beyond the border.He couldn't have known then what Israel... -
Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation by Raja Shehadeh
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12Winner of the Moore Prize 2020 In Going Home, Orwell Prize winning author Raja Shehadeh travels Ramallah and records the changing face of the city. Walking along the streets he grew up in, he... -
Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years by Nelson Mandela
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45'I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that... -
Homesick: The End of London Peter Apps 9781836430360
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $29.42From the author of the Orwell Prize-winner SHOW ME THE BODIES: HOW WE LET GRENFELL HAPPEN, the gripping story of how housing defines a city's past, present and future 'Apps set the gold standard... -
Prison Letters Nelson Mandela 9781631495960
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.63First published to mark the centenary of Nelson Mandela's birth, The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela sparked celebrations around the globe. Featuring 94 letters selected from that landmark... -
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $54.85Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had... -
Eleanor Marx: A Life by Rachel Holmes
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.95The extraordinary and dramatic biography of the first modern feminist, who spent her entire life fighting for the principle of equality 'Gripping ... Most lives would be overshadowed by such a... -
Five Ideas to Fight For: How Our Freedom is Under Threat and Why it Matters by Anthony Lester
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.95Human Rights Equality Free Speech Privacy The Rule of Law These five ideas are vitally important to the way of life we enjoy today. The battle to establish them in law was long and... -
Cells: memories for my mother by Gavin McCrea 9781914484988
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35From the author of Mrs Engels and The Sisters Mao, an intimate family memoir about filial love and its limits, separation, and loss. Gavin is spending the quarantine with his eighty-year-old mother,...