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Lion in the Bedroom by Pat Cavendish O'Neill 9781868422098
Booksplease Price: $27.90In "A Lion in the Bedroom" Pat tells the story of her charmed life among the glittering names of the twentieth century and the day everything changed for her, when a lover in Africa presented her... -
Hani: A life too short by Janet Smith 9781868423880
Booksplease Price: $19.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781868423880Author Janet SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint -
Intelligence isn't Enough: A Black Professional's Guide to Thriving in the Workplace by Carice Anderson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'This book should be part of every corporate onboarding programme!' Celiwe Ross, Human Capital Director Old MutualHaving worked for over 17 years with top companies including Deloitte, Google and... -
Jan Smuts: Unafraid of greatness by Richard Steyn 9781868426942
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $18.69Jan Christian Smuts was soldier, statesman and intellectual, one of South Africa's greatest leaders. Yet little is said about him today even as we appear to live in a leadership vacuum. This is a... -
The rise and fall of apartheid: From racial domination to majority rule by David Welsh 9781868423521
Booksplease Price: $29.47Did white South Africa crack, or did its leadership yield sufficiently and just in time to avert a revolution? The transformation has been called a miracle, belying gloomy predictions of race war in... -
Unforgiven: Face to Face with my Father's Killer by Liz McGregor
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.05'This is a shocking story told by a searingly honest writer ready to look her country - and herself - squarely in the eye. It offers no false cheer, but something far more valuable and compelling:... -
The Stellenbosch Mafia: Inside the Billionaire's Club by Pieter Du Toit 9781868429189
Booksplease Price: $18.75About 50km outside of Cape Town lies the beautiful town of Stellenbosch, nestled against vineyards and blue mountains that stretch to the sky. Here reside some of South Africas wealthiest... -
The Unicorn Baby: Debunking 10 Myths of Modern Parenting Roxanne Atkinson 9781776191437
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.54Honest and hilarious - not your run-of-the-mill parenting book!If you have read parenting books or searched the Internet for parenting tips you have most likely stumbled across the mythical Unicorn... -
Foreign Native: An African Journey by RW Johnson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.37In Foreign Native, political commentator and author RW Johnson looks back with affection and humour on his life in Africa. From schooldays in Durban to later years as an Oxford don, director of the... -
Shared World by Jonathan Ball 9781990690150
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $17.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990690150Author Jonathan BallFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint -
The cowboy capitalist: John Hays Hammond, the American West and the Jameson raid by Charles Van Onselen 9781868427383
RRP: $40.19Booksplease Price: $31.95The Jameson Raid was a pivotal moment in the history of South Africa, linking events from the Anglo-Boer War to the declaration of the Union of South Africa in 1910. For over a century the failed... -
Miracle Men: How Rassie's Springbok's won the World Cup by Lloyd Burnard
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $8.84'This book belongs on the shelf of every genuine rugby fan' - News24.comWhen Rassie Erasmus took over as coach of the Springboks in 2018, few thought they had a chance of winning the Rugby World Cup... -
Black Lion: Teachings from the Wilderness by Sicelo Mbatha
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Wilderness guide Sicelo Mbatha shares lessons learnt from a lifetime's intimate association with Africa's wildest nature.Black Lion begins in rural South Africa where a deeply traumatic childhood... -
Road to Glory - Cheslin Kolbe by Jeremy Daniel 9781868429493
RRP: $11.39Booksplease Price: $10.95Cheslin roared with happiness as the final whistle blew on the field in Japan. They were champions! Later, as his captain lifted the 2019 Rugby World Cup trophy into the air, he had never felt... -
Future Tense: Reflections on my Troubled Land by Tony Leon
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $17.92'Tony Leon is not only an experienced politician but also a talented writer, and this book is the highly readable result of that combination.' - Lord William Hague, former British Foreign Secretary... -
Impossible Bosses: Secret Strategies to Deal with 8 Archetypal Managers Vivienne Lawack 9781776192151
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Ever had a sleepless night or wanted to quit your job because of an impossible boss?Difficult managers can obstruct your professional growth by hiding corporate ladders and trapping you in an... -
Give Us More Guns: How South Africa's Gangs were Armed by Mark Shaw
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'It will terrify you but it's a story you must know.' - Mandy WienerIt was one of the most brutal criminal acts of the post-apartheid era, and its consequences were devastating.At least a thousand... -
John Paizs's Crime Wave by Jonathan Ball 9781442616172
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07John Paizs’s ‘Crime Wave’ examines the Winnipeg filmmaker’s 1985 cult film as an important example of early postmodern cinema and as a significant precursor to subsequent postmodern blockbusters,... -
Years of Fire and Ash: South African Poems of Decolonisation by Wamuwi Mbao
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A unique anthology containing over five decades of protest poetry.'i may have been born on 27 April 1994 - but i was never born free.' Mjiele MsimangContemporary poet Mjiele Msimang captures... -
A Wilder Life: Journey of an Adventuring Doctor by Joan Louwrens
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80A doctor follows her calling to practise medicine in wild, remote placesDr Joan Louwrens has always been drawn to wild places, which are balm to her soul. When her husband died, leaving her alone... -
Autopsy: Life in the trenches with a forensic pathologist in Africa Ryan Blumenthal 9781776191109
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80A hair-raising account about the ins and outs of practising forensic pathology in AfricaAs a medical detective of the modern world, forensic pathologist Ryan Blumenthal's chief goal is to bring... -
Africa First!: Igniting a Growth Revolution by Jakkie Cilliers
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'A roadmap that could turn Africa's potential into prosperity.' - President Cyril RamaphosaWhat stops Africa, with its abundant natural resources, from capitalising on its boundless potential?Africa... -
Harry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, Gold and Dynasty by Michael Cardo 9781868428014
RRP: $27.47Booksplease Price: $26.75Harry Oppenheimer, the international gold-and-diamond magnate, presided over the corporate dynasty of Anglo American and De Beers for more than 25 years. Famed for his wealth and his companies'... -
The ANC Billionaires: Big Capital’s Gambit and the Rise of the Few by Pieter Du Toit 9781776191345
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $20.42In September 1985 a group of white South African business leaders travelled to a game lodge in Zambia to meet with the exiled ANC leadership under Oliver Tambo and Thabo Mbeki. The group wanted to... -
Almost French: A Life of Fanfare and Faux Pas Louis Jansen van Vuuren 9781776191178
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80When he first visited Paris as a young student, artist Louis Jansen van Vuuren could never have imagined that one day he would end up owning a chateau in rural France.Almost French is the... -
A BREED APART - The Inside Story of a Recce's Special Forces Training Year by Johan Raath 9781928248248
RRP: $20.77Booksplease Price: $19.85Over the years, many have signed up for the South African Special Forces selection course but only a select few have ever passed. The gruelling course pushes recruits to their physical and mental... -
Hitler's South African Spies: Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa by Evert Kleynhans
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65The story of the intelligence war in South Africa during the Second World War is one of suspense, drama and dogged persistence. In 1939, when the Union of South Africa entered the war on Britain's... -
Fortunes: The Rise and Rise of Afrikaner Tycoons by Ebbe Dommisse
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65** South African Number One Bestseller **A comprehensive work based on personal interviews and insider knowledge - bound to become a classic.The past three decades have seen a remarkable rise of... -
Jock of the Bushveld by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick 9780868522371
Booksplease Price: $18.12"Jock of the Bushveld", published in 1907, has been read and enjoyed by millions of children and is now a classic among animal stories. It remains as fresh and exciting as it was when it was first... -
Femme Feral: OBSERVER DEBUT NOVELIST OF THE YEAR 2026 by Sam Beckbessinger 9781526687883
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.20Hyper-competent tech CEO Ellie find herself beset by strange physical changes: hair sprouting in new places, running hot, trouble sleeping, losing time, rage, howling at the moon. There's a new power... -
Inside the Mind of Rose West 9781802472684
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.09Rose West was, on the face of it, a typical mother living with her husband, Fred, and their children in a three-storeyed terraced house in Gloucester. But behind the building's modest facade, 25... -
Never Leave a Man Behind: Around the Falklands and Rowing across the Pacific by Mick Dawson 9781472144034
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Mick Dawson's gripping Never Leave A Man Behind, effectively two adventure stories for the price of one, can be justifiably described as "unputdownable". Dawson is a man you would want on your side,... -
Never Leave a Man Behind: Around the Falklands and Rowing across the Pacific by Mick Dawson
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $7.88'Mick Dawson's gripping Never Leave A Man Behind, effectively two adventure stories for the price of one, can be justifiably described as "unputdownable". Dawson is a man you would want on your side,... -
At the Limit of Breath: Poems on the films of Jean-Luc Godard by Stephen Scobie
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.35"I wanted this to be a narrative. So finally Jean-Luc went all the way: every line in the script a quotation from somewhere else. Every blessed line. Love doesn't die. It's people who die. Love just... -
Fields of Light and Stone by Angeline Schellenberg 9781772125115
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.44You lie awake, needlessly fingering this patchwork guilt. Remorse, a code you live by; distress calls for someone to blame. -from "Threads" Following the deaths of her Mennonite... -
The Last Temptation of Bond by Kimmy Beach 9780888646439
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.35you can't stop it. everyone's expendable, James. everyone's replaceable. even you. especially you. In a penetrating, violent, sexy, and often hilarious apocalypse, a world-famous superspy meets his... -
The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great defied a deadly virus by Lucy Ward 9780861545186
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.37A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 SO FAR Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2022 'Sparkling history...with a fairytale atmosphere of sleigh rides, royal palaces and heroic risk-taking' The...