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Becoming: The No. 1 International Bestseller
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An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States, now a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller. A genuine page-turner, full of intimacies and reflections' Evening Standard, A polished pearl of a memoir' New York Times, A rich, entertaining and candid memoir. And...
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We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Named a Best Book of the Year by The Root. Chosen by Emma Straub as a Best New Celebrity Memoir "A book of essays as raw and honest as anyone has ever produced." - Lena Dunham, Lenny Letter, In the...
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God's Generals, 1: Why They Succeeded and Why Some Fail
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In  God’s Generals , Roberts Liardon will help you recapture God’s glory with compelling spiritual biographies of some of the most powerful ministries to ever ignite the fires of revival. Liardon faithfully chronicles their lives in this work, along with their teachings, their spiritual...
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
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'A refreshingly honest reminder of what the path to business success really looks like ... It's an amazing tale' Bill Gates 'The best book I read last year was  Shoe Dog , by Nike's Phil Knight. Phil is a very wise, intelligent and competitive fellow who is also a gifted...
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Becoming: Adapted for Young Readers
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An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir; 17 million copies sold worldwide THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER - AND THE BOOK WE'LL BE GIFTING TO EVERY FAMILY MEMBER AND FRIEND THIS CHRISTMAS! Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and...
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Rise: The Brand New Autobiography
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His truth. His story. In his words. There have been many comments made and books written about Siya Kolisi, captain of the Springboks, and the first black man to lead his country in over 128 years of South African rugby. But now, for the very first time, Siya Kolisi shares his story in an...
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A Biography Mandela
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Nelson Mandela stands out as one of the most admired political figures of the twentieth century. It was his leadership and moral courage above all that helped to deliver a peaceful end to apartheid in South Africa after years of racial division and violence and to establish a fledgling democracy...
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Mandela Authorised Biography
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Nelson Mandela, who emerged from twenty-six years of political imprisonment to lead South Africa out of apartheid and into democracy, is perhaps the world's most admired leader, a man whose life has been led with exemplary courage and inspired conviction. Now Anthony Sampson, who has known...
Long Walk to Freedom
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The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time,  Long Walk to Freedom  brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling and uplifting,  Long Walk to Freedom  is the exhilarating...
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Against All Odds: An Unauthorised Biography Siya Kolisi
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This is the updated edition of the highly successful unauthorised biography of Springbok Captain Siya Kolisi. It includes all the games at the Rugby World Cup in Japan in 2019, and the tumultuous victory tour around South Africa when the team brought home the cup. Victory at the Rugby World Cup...
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No Longer Whispering to Power: The story of Thuli Madonsela
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Advocate Thuli Madonsela has achieved in her seven years as Public Protector what few accomplish in a lifetime; her legacy and contribution cannot be over-stated. In her final days in office she compiled the explosive State Capture report and, before that, the report on President Jacob Zuma’s...
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Black Tax: Burden or Ubuntu?
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A secret anguish for some, a proud responsibility for others, black tax draws heated and wide-ranging reactions. While the debate rages, these payments and other forms of support to family members remain a daily reality for many black South Africans. Black tax has its historical roots in the...
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Heart of a Strong Woman: A Memoir
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Xoliswa Nduneni-Ngema loved the theatre and dreamed of being an actress. She soon discovered that acting wasn't for her and that managing productions was. She meets rising-star, Mbongeni Ngema and they marry.  As his success grows, they start a company that births the...
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Masters of Money: Strategies for Success from the CFOs of South Africa’s Biggest Companies
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The role of the chief financial officer (CFO) is critical to the success or failure of any company as they are central to the financial performance of the business. In Masters of Money, chartered accountant and financial consultant KC Rottok Chesaina interviews 30 chief financial officers from...
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The Race To Be Myself
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Aged eighteen, Caster Semenya shot to fame on the global sporting stage for her blistering speed. But shrouding her monumental win were fierce rumours about her physical body rather than her phenomenal performance. Called ‘a threat to the sport’ and ‘not woman enough’, she found herself at the...
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Love Pamela: A Memoir
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Instant  New York Times  bestseller.  The actress, activist, and once infamous  Playboy  Playmate reclaims the narrative of her life in a memoir that defies expectation in both content and approach, blending searing prose with snippets of original poetry. “The...
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The Mandela Brief: Sydney Kentridge and the Trials of Apartheid
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Sydney Kentridge carved out a reputation as South Africa's most prominent anti-apartheid advocate - his story is entwined with the country's emergence from racial injustice and oppression. He is the only lawyer to have acted for three winners of the Nobel Peace Prize - Nelson Mandela, Archbishop...
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I Dared to call him Father - The Miraculous Story of a Muslim Woman`s Encounter with God
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I Dared to Call Him Father is the fascinating true story of Bilquis Sheikh, a prominent Muslim woman. Her unusual journey to a personal relationship with God turned her world upside down-and put her life in danger. Originally published in 1978, the book has sold 300,000 copies and is a classic...
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Year Of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
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In this poignant, hilarious and deeply intimate call to arms, Hollywood's most powerful woman, the mega-talented creator of  Grey's Anatomy  and  Scandal  and executive producer of  Bridgerton ,  For the People  and  How to Get Away with Murder...
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Screw it, Let's Do It: Lessons In Life
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Throughout my life I have achieved many remarkable things. In  Screw It, Let's Do It , I will share with you my ideas and the secrets of my success, but not simply because I hope they'll help you achieve your individual goals. Today we are increasingly aware of the effects of our actions on...
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
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'A refreshingly honest reminder of what the path to business success really looks like ... It's an amazing tale' Bill Gates 'The best book I read last year was  Shoe Dog , by Nike's Phil Knight. Phil is a very wise, intelligent and competitive fellow who is also a gifted...
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Tambo Lenyoka: Endurig friendships - Olof Palame and Thabo Mbeki
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Much has been written about Oliver Reginald Tambo, by diverse writers and from different perspectives. Lindiwe Mabuza, who spent much of her life in the service of the South African struggle, now presents us with a unique look into his life with an anthology of poems and writings about him and...
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Elon Musk: Risking It All
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In 2022 Elon Musk - one of the richest and best-known people on earth - made headlines worldwide with his bid to buy Twitter, and he is often in the news for his entrepreneurial exploits and his controversial tweets. Who is this boundary-pushing billionaire with grand plans of inhabiting Mars,...
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Conquering the Poverty of the Mind: From Shipping Container to BUSY CORNER – The Entrepreneurial Journey of the Shisanyama Pioneer
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'When you see a township resident driving past in their new car, and they wave, and you wave back, it is extremely gratifying to know that they built their chakalaka business based on the small contract you gave them ten years previously, and now they have expanded and provide other companies...
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Mandela: His Essential Life
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Mandela: His Essential Life chronicles the life and legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and admired statesmen. Charting his development from remote rural roots to city lawyer, freedom fighter, and then political leader, Peter Hain takes an in-depth look at Mandela's rise...
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Hearing Grasshoppers Jump The Story of Raymond Ackerman
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Raymond Ackerman, South Africa's most successful retailer, is a man of enormous energy and passions. This account of his life and his building of Pick 'n Pay chain into one of the world's greatest retail organizations is full of marvellous stories and larger than life personalities. It offers...
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I Choose To Live, Life After Losing Gugu
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In July 2016, Letshego Zulu set off with her husband, SA racing champion Gugulethu Zulu, to conquer Mount Kilimanjaro. She had no idea that she would return to South Africa days later with her husband’s body in a coffin. This is the untold story of what really happened on Kilimanjaro. Told in...
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Hustle Harder Hustle Smarter
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For the first time, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson opens up about his amazing comeback - from tragic personal loss to thriving businessman and cable’s highest-paid executive - in this unique self-help guide, his first since his blockbuster  New York Times  best seller  The 50th Law...
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It Takes A Tsunami: Knocked down, but Not gone. Lessons in catastrophe and tenacity
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When Rael Levitt stepped onto the podium at Quoin Rock Wine Estate in Stellenbosch, South Africa, in December 2011, he was CEO of the industry-pioneering Auction Alliance and at the pinnacle of a glittering 20-year career. But then disaster struck. After being accused by a powerful...
Love And Fury A Memoir
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Love and Fury is the compelling and intimate account of the life, loves and furies of Margie Orford. In this brave memoir, the renowned South African crime writer divulges some of the harrowing experiences that have shaped her life and influenced her writing. Through sexual assault, divorce,...
When Love Kills: The Tragic Tale Of AKA and Anele
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When Love Kills is the tale of hip hop star, AKA. whose life unravelled when he embarked on a relationship with 21 year-old Anele Tembe. When she "fell" to her death from the 10th storey of the Pepper Club in April, 2021, after a long night of heated arguing, details would emerge that...
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You Got Anything Stronger?
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"You Got Anything Stronger continues the project of unshackling. It's soul-baring work." - The Washington Post So. Where were we Right, you and I left off in October 2017. When I released We're Going to Need More Wine, the response was so great people asked when I would do a sequel....
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We're Going To Need More Wine: Stories That are Funny, Complicated, and True
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NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Named a Best Book of the Year by The Root Chosen by Emma Straub as a Best New Celebrity Memoir “A book of essays as raw and honest as anyone has ever...
Bring Back Our Girls: The Heart-Stopping Story of the Rescue of Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls
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A 2021  Daily Telegraph  Book of the Year 'Had me gripped from the outset' Fergal Keane 'Everyone should read the testimonies of the Chibok girls who survived the capture' Malala In the spring of 2014, an American hip hop producer unwittingly triggered an online...
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On The Rocks: Memoir of A High-Functioning Alcoholic
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Thirty-nine-year-old Thando is living in total denial about her drinking. On the surface her life looks aspirational – great job, apartment, snazzy car. But behind the façade she harbour"s a shameful secret – she can’t control her drinking. To the outside world she's...
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Tough Love: The Amazing True Story of a Boxing World Champion Turned Lawyer
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Growing up in extreme poverty in Messina (today Musina) in the early 1980s, Lovemore Ndou was forced to start fighting to protect himself, his parent and his siblings. At an early age he experienced the injustices of the apartheid system when his arm was broken during a beating in a police cell...
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DAISY DE MELKER - Hiding among killers in the City of Gold
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Ahis true crime classic about Daisy de Melker in ragtime Joburg – a city of murder, mayhem and gold. Ted Botha takes the reader into the underbelly of Johannesburg in the 1920s and 1930s as he traces the fascinating story of the mysterious Daisy de Melker, who was hanged for poisoning her son....
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Winnie & Nelson (Portrait Of A Marriage)
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One of the most celebrated political leaders of our time, Nelson Mandela has been written about by many biographers and historians. But in one crucial area, his life remains largely untold: his marriage to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. During his years in prison, Nelson grew ever more in love with...
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Rogue: The Inside Story of SARS's Elite Crime-busting Unit
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The story of a 'rogue unit' operating within the South African Revenue Service (SARS) became entrenched in the public mind following a succession of sensational reports published by the Sunday Times in 2014. The unit, the reports claimed, had carried out a series of illegal spook operations:...
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The Second Life Of Tiger Woods
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“F ascinating...[Bamberger] knows the world of professional golf, and the pressures it exacts, like few others.” — The Wall Street Journal It’s one of the greatest comebacks of all time. And for Tiger Woods—his game, his body, and his life in shambles—getting back to...
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Breaking Bread: A Memoir
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Professor. Pundit. Public nuisance. In his columns, books and on social media, Jonathan Jansen is prolific, and he likes to speak his mind about schools and universities, race, politics and our complex South African society. He has brought incisive analysis, compassion and a sense of humour...
Enemy Of The People: How Jacob Zuma Stole South Africa And How The People Fought Back
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Enemy of the People is the first definitive account of Zuma’s catastrophic misrule, offering eyewitness descriptions and cogent analysis of how South Africa was brought to its knees – and how a people fought back. When Jacob Zuma took over the leadership of the ANC one muggy Polokwane evening in...
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Cheslin Kolbe: Road To Glory
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Cheslin 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 prouder of himself, his team and his country. Cheslin Kolbe tells the story of a kid from Kraaifontein,...
Putco Mafani: The Price and Prize of Greatness
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Putco Mafani has become a household name. He overcame poverty, solitary confinement by a brutal government, tribalism, being doubted, a traumatic divorce, and unemployment. Putco, the former deputy principal, at Umhlobo Wenene FM anchored the biggest breakfast show in the country. He was Kaizer...
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Ramaphosa The Man Who Would Be king
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Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is credited with driving through the deal between the apartheid government and the African National Congress that was at the heart of South Africa’s democratic constitution. He was the ANC’s lead negotiator and the man who persuaded one of the most recalcitrant...
Doing Life With Mandela
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When separate worlds collide... "I was 19 years old when I came face to face with Nelson Mandela. He was 60. Until that day I had never heard of him, or his African National Congress. I was his prison warder on Robben Island and he changed my life forever." The two of them – one a young white...
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A Testament Of Hope: The Autobiography Of Dr. Sam Motsuenyane
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A Testament of Hope is an uplifting story about one man's dream to succeed and achieve, despite severe political and socio-economic obstacles. The book traces Dr Motsuenyane's humble beginnings in a village in the North West Province and reveals how he reached the highestechelons of black...
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A Life Of Colour: A South African doctor’s pursuit of integrity
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DR ERROL HOLLAND: A LIFE OF COLOUR A SOUTH AFRICAN DOCTOR’S PURSUIT OF INTEGRITYErrol Holland grew up in Coronationville, a then ‘coloured’ township in Johannesburg. As a child he witnessed the destruction of the flamboyant racially mixed suburb of Sophiatown. As a young medical student in Cape...
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Stand Against Bland
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Multi-award-winning Sylvester Chauke is a self-confessed Madonna crazy, entrepreneur and founder of DNA Brand Architects. After an illustrious career as the national marketing manager for Nando’s South Africa, Sylvester joined broadcasting giant MTV Networks Africa as its director of marketing...
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Give Us More Guns: How South Africa's Gangs Were Armed
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It was one of the most brutal criminal acts of the post-apartheid era, and its consequences devastating. Thousands of people, including women and children, died between 2011 and 2019 as a result of one senior police officer’s crime: his decision to sell millions of rands’ worth of guns to fund...
Take Charge: Life Lessons on the Road to CEO
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‘I believe there are many potential senior leaders out there who simply lack the self-belief and toolkit to begin their own journey to the top. There are, as they say, many ways to skin a cat . . .’ Join Nyimpini Mabunda on his journey from his childhood in an apartheid-era homeland to the CEO’s...
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How I Took Back My Power
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‘I feel as if I have been holding onto myself and holding my breath; as if I have had a bomb strapped around my body and have had to watch my every step and move – just in case it exploded. Slowly, I’m gaining the confidence to breathe deeply and exhale longer. Slowly, I’m reclaiming the freedom...
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My African Conquest: Cape to Cairo at 80
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‘Next year I’m going to be 80 years old. My car will be 20 years old. Together we’ll be 100. We’re going to drive to London.’ ‘And what route are you going to take?’ ‘I have no idea. I think I’ll keep to the right.’ When 80-year old Julia Albu calls into her favourite radio show with a zany,...
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Joining the Dots: A Biography of Pravin Gordham
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In April 2017 Pravin Gordan addressed a packed audience in St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town. It was a week after President Jacob Zuma had fired him as Finance Minister, a move that signalled South Africa had been well and truly captured. Gordhan urged the crowd not to give up hope and to ‘join...
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That One Patient: Doctors and Nurses’ Stories of the Patients Who Changed Their Lives Forever
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THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH DR ANTHONY FAUCI, DAME SALLY DAVIES AND DR JIM DOWN For every doctor there is that one patient, whose story touches them in a way they didn’t expect, changing their entire outlook on life. This inspiring and deeply moving book is the...
White Trash: My Year as a High-Class Call Girl
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Raised during the Rhodesian bush war and immigrating to SA at the age of 11, Terry is shaped by a white culture that is racist, unstable and deeply divided. Her childhood is bizarre as adults around her insist on living their version of normality while the world falls apart.  White Trash...
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The Big Picture: Getting Perspective on What's Really Important
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Dr. Ben Carson is known as the originator of ground-breaking surgical procedures, a doctor who turns impossible hopes into joyous realities. He is also known as a compassionate humanitarian who reaches beyond corporate boardrooms to touch the lives of inner-city kids. Where does this drive...
Rafa: My Story
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As he announces his retirement, relive the story of one of the greatest to ever play the game - Rafael Nadal. This winning memoir, in Rafa's own words, gets to the heart of his major achievements on and off court, and is a fascinating insight into the making of a champion. 'A...
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Love Of My Life: The Life And Loves Of Freddie Mercury
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'EYEWITNESS GOLD' SUNDAY TIMES WHO - OR WHAT - WAS THE REAL LOVE OF FREDDIE MERCURY'S LIFE? THE SENSATIONAL NEW BIOGRPHAY OF QUEEN'S FRONTMAN Millions of Queen and screen fans who watched the Oscar-winning film  Bohemian Rhapsody  believe that Mary Austin, the woman he could...
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Trump: Surviving At The Top
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The business magnate discusses his purchases of the Eastern Shuttle and Plaza Hotel, his construction of the Taj Mahal, and his sponsorship of heavyweight boxing, and gives advice on dealing with success and the importance of toughness.
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