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The Heart of the Matter: The Gerald Kraak Anthology by Otosirieze Obi-Young
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £12.72This is the third volume of The Gerald Kraak Anthology, The Heart of the Matter.With the prize ceremony linked to Africa Day, the publication of the anthology is tied to the Pride Month of June and... -
Saving a Stranger's Life: The Diary of an Emergency by Anne Biccard 9781431430659
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £10.71Anne Biccard has worked as an emergency doctor in Johannesburg for more than 30 years. It is a job that is both terrifying and thrilling, where death can be outwitted by skill and quick thinking, and... -
The Lion, the Dung Beetle and the Veld Tool Box: 20 Bush Tales from Southern Africa by David Bristow 9781431431908
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £10.71In The Lion, the Dung Beetle and the Veld Tool Box, natural history and travel writer David Bristow delivers the fourth in his Stories from the Veld series of non-fiction narratives. You could... -
Fascists, Fabricators and Fantasists: Anti-Semitism in South Africa from 1948 to the Present by Milton Shain 9781431433582
Booksplease Price: £20.39In the third volume of Milton Shain’s history of antisemitism in South Africa, he traces and unpacks hostile attitudes towards Jews and irrational fantasies that accompany them in apartheid and... -
The Joy Dancer by Gregory Maqoma 9781431433773
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.65My parents named me Vuyani, which simply means be happy and let us rejoice!’ The Joy Dancer, by multi-award-winning dancer and choreographer, Gregory Vuyani Maqoma, co-written with the legendary... -
Freedom never rests by James Kilgore 9781431401192
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.40This extraordinary story portrays the historical roots of the service delivery revolts that have swept South Africa in recent years. Freedom never rests centres around an engaging and tragic couple: ... -
Nobody's business by Thabo Jijana 9781431420292
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £9.35In 2003, Thabo Jijana's father was gunned down in a scrap between rival taxi associations who had been forced to operate from a single rank. A decade later, Thabo faces up to South Africa's most... -
Govan Mbeki: A Jacana pocket history by Colin Bundy 9781431404872
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.69This biography of Govan Mbeki (1910-2001), activist and intellectual, goes beyond the narrative details of his long life. Drawing on lengthy interviews with 'Oom Gov', it analyses his thinking,... -
Those Who Live in Cages: A Novel by Terry-Ann Adams 9781431430147
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £9.35This novel opens the door to the lives of five Coloured women facing life-changing challenges while trying to do the most important thing - survive another day in Eldorado Park in the south of... -
Zondo at Your Fingertips by Paul Holden 9781431433261
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £14.09The Zondo Commission of Inquiry was one of the most important political developments in modern South African history. The commission sat for years, hearing the evidence of 300 witnesses and gathering... -
Postcards from Soweto by Makone Molete 9781770093690
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05A series of lively, colourful stories from South Africa's most famous township - snapshots of life and the characters that inhabit the area.Heartwrenching, poignant, and hilarious, these fascinating... -
On That Wave of Gulls by Vernon R.L. Head 9781431432998
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05From the bestselling author of The Search for the Rarest Bird in the World comes On That Wave of Gulls. An audacious novel, the tale is told by three characters – an architect, a Khoisan vagrant and... -
Nyama and the Eland by Dorothy Kowen 9781770095731
RRP: £7.25Booksplease Price: £6.15This is the coming-of-age story of Nyama, a young San girl. As she listens to her grandmother's traditional stories. She takes part in a traditional ceremony that leads her on her own journey to... -
Call on the wind by David Donald 9781770093607
RRP: £10.50Booksplease Price: £8.37Call on the Wind tells the story of Isaak and Liesa, young people growing up in a small Griqua fishing village on the Tsitsikamma coast. Isaak and Liesa struggle with their life choices and their... -
The Dancing and the Death in Lemon Street by Denis Hirson 9781770098763
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.40Violence rendered things visible, writes Denis Hirson in this beautifully crafted, musical story, which is as much about seeing how people lived at that time as it is about desire, loneliness and the... -
Great Lives: Pivitol Moments by P. Holden 9781770095922
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £15.08As part of its centenary in 2006, the Sunday Times newspaper created a trail of street memorials across South Africa to celebrate newsmakers and important events of the last 100 years. Great lives:... -
Afropolis: City/Media/Art by Kerstin Pinther 9781431403257
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £17.64Metropolises often evoke images of flashy high-rise buildings, permanent background noise, backed-up cars and people moving quickly in all directions in their masses. New York, Tokyo, London, Sao... -
South Africa's struggle for human rights by Saul Dubow 9781431403790
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £7.30South Africa's transition to a post-apartheid democracy has been widely celebrated as a triumph for global human rights. Yet, less than a generation after the achievement of freedom, the future of... -
Of Hominins, Hunter-Gatherers and Heroes: Searching for 20 Amazing Places in South Africa by David Bristow 9781431429059
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.73Of Hominins, Hunter-Gatherers and Heroes offers spellbinding stories of some amazing, little-known places in South Africa. Who knew that on the West Coast, just an hour's drive from Cape Town, is one... -
Scatterlings by Resoketswe Manenzhe 9781431429851
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £10.71In this journey, someone will get lost, someone will give up and turn back, and someone may go all the way to the end. All these people will try to tell you the story of what happened. Abram, a South... -
Girls Don’t Do That: The story of Thembi Kgatlana The Greatest Player in Africa by Thembi Kgatlana 9781431433230
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.94In this courageous and inspiring book, Thembi Kgatlana tells the story of her beginnings in the tough streets of Mohlakeng. She always had the talent and a dream to play soccer for South Africa but... -
The Great Pretenders: Race and Class under ANC Rule by Ebrahim Harvey 9781431430567
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £16.15This is a wide-ranging and trenchant critical account of South Africa since 1994, focusing particularly upon the follies and failures of the ANC government over the past 25 years. It anatomises an... -
Indentured: Behind the scenes at Gupta TV by Rajesh Sundaram 9781431409921
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £12.72A senior broadcast journalist from India is headhunted to lead the team that's been tasked to launch the latest privately owned 24-hour television news channel in South Africa. He is lured with... -
The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology 9781431431328
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.03Now in its 10th year, the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award is a launching pad for upcoming poets. From slam poetry to formal rhyme, the anthology is a celebration of language and cultural... -
Kgalema Motlanthe by Ebrahim Harvey 9781431404384
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £16.45Presenting a superb account of a man characterized by his reticence, this biography offers rare and thorough insight into the life of one of South Africa's most powerful men: Kgalema Motlanthe. From... -
Zapiro Annual 2021: It Only Comes in Orange, Mr Zuma by Zapiro Zapiro 9781431431649
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £8.66No little thorn in the flesh or irritating fly in the ointment, Zapiro just cannot be ignored. It's been another helluva year, and who better to make sense of it than Zapiro, political analyst,... -
The Communist Manifesto: The Modern South African Edition by Jeremy Cronin 9781431430581
RRP: £10.25Booksplease Price: £8.19'...the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.' The Modern South African Edition of the Communist Manifesto Includes: Leon Trotsky's Afrikaans Introduction to the... -
Imbokodo: Women Who Shape Us: 10 Inspiring Singers, Writers & Artists by Athambile Masola 9781431431786
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.62Imbokodo: Women Who Shape Us is a groundbreaking series of books which introduces you to the powerful stories of South African women who have all made their mark and cleared a path for women and... -
The founders: The origins of the African National Congress and the struggle for democracy by Andre Odendaal 9781431402915
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £20.48The African National Congress was founded a hundred years ago, in January 1912. But the roots of the ANC run even deeper in South African history. In fact, the ANC's founding was the culmination of... -
Race by Ryland Fisher 9781770093737
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £14.78The author, interviews some South Africans of different hues, about the idea of race, what it has meant to them and how they envision a future South Africa, steeped as the country and its people are... -
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[Br]other by James Oatway 9781431429783
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £17.52A strongly truthful book. Oatway and Skuy have brought together this collection of photographs in a way that forces us to view the individuals as human. Unsettling and disturbing, it is unapologetic... -
Featherings: True stories in search of birds by Vernon R.L. Head 9781431425792
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £14.09The southernmost tip of Africa is home to a vast and shifting population of birds whose soaring movements and flocks are closely followed by a human flock: the entranced and captivated... -
Catching Tadpoles: The Shaping of a Young Rebel by Ronnie Kasrils 9781431429356
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £14.09Ronnie Kasrils's memoir reflects on compelling questions as to what turned a white youngster from a modest background into a life-long revolutionary of note. A tiny minority who abandoned a life of... -
Shorty and Billy Boy: A tale of two naughty dogs by Gerard Sekoto 9781431406067
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.98Written and illustrated in 1973 by one of South Africa's most famous artists, Gerard Sekoto, Shorty and Billy Boy is a book for children as well as art lovers and collectors. The manuscript formed... -
Jingle-jingle in my pocket by Catherine Groenewald 9781770098329
RRP: £5.50Booksplease Price: £4.96Thandi needs new shoes but she knows they cost a lot of money. After thinking for a while, she goes to her grandmother, who helps plan a way to get the money with a little bit of help from Nosipho,... -
Hauntings by Niq Mlongo 9781431431670
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05A thrilling array of African writers, including Fred Khumalo, Sibongile Fisher, Lucas Ledwaba, Vonani Bila, Lynn Joffe and Christopher Mlalazi, tell surprising and unnerving tales in this collection... -
Saving the Zululand Wilderness: An Early Struggle for Nature Conservation by Donald P. McCraken 9781770095960
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.17Within a generation, the wilderness of Zululand, with its spectacular array of mammals, birds and plants, came near to extinction. This is the saga of that decline and of the heroic and successful... -
The search for the rarest bird in the world by Vernon R. L. Head 9781431410927
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £10.71Part detective trail, part love affair and pure story telling at its best. In 1990 an expedition of Cambridge scientists arrived at the Plains of Nechisar, tucked between the hills of the Great Rift... -
Joonie by Rayda Jacobs 9781431400997
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £12.72Heartwarming yet tough, this unforgettable story centers around a brave, young black girl named Joonie from Grassy Park, South Africa. When both her uncle and local priest attempt to take sexual... -
Soweto by Jodi Bieber 9781770098060
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.17A celebration of modern life in Soweto, these stunning and stirring photographs show the importance of this township within the collective consciousness of South Africa. Going beyond Soweto's...