The Craft – Selected Poems 1989-2016
R200Michael Cope was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1952. He has published three novels (one with Ken Barris), two volumes of poetry and a memoir.
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Out of stockThe Disenfranchised
R190The Disenfranchised provides a provocative alternative view of the recent political history of South Africa and events leading up to the first democratic election and the enfranchisement of all South Africans.
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The Fall of the Black -Eyed Night
R100Using the fictive setting of the upmarket Bay Regal Hotel in a very recognisable Cape Town, this novel brings several lives together in dramatic and unusual combinations. Through the main character, Shehzad Shadhili, son of an imam, it expresses a sense of dislocation and shame that can be traced to two episodes in Shehzad’s past in London at the time of the July 2005 Islamist bombings in the city.
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The Good Value Guru
R30Take two adventurous wine-lovers, a few thousand kilometres through ten South African wine regions and enough newly-discovered vinous gems to fill a transport truck, and the Good Value Guru has what he would call “a pleasant sort of journey”.
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The Herd Boy
R120This beautiful picture book is about a boy who dares to dream of a big future. It is a story of empowerment, self-belief and leadership, and is inspired by the life of former president Nelson Mandela.
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The Human Past: World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies
R360Truly global coverage spanning the past three million years, from human origins in Africa and the spread of modern humans around the world to the great civilizations of Egypt and Africa, the Mediterranean, Europe, South and East Asia, and the Americas.
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The Impossible Five: In Search of South Africa’s Most Elusive Mammals
R220In a humorous, original, off-beat adventure story, Justin travels around Africa in search of these forgotten animals. Along the way he meets some very weird characters, and other absurd mammals.
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Out of stockThe Kasrils Affair
R195In 2007, Minister Ronnie Kasrils, the highest-ranking Jew in South Africa’s post-apartheid government, launched a campaign against Israeli policy in the occupied territories.
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The Lion Hunts in the Land of Kachoo
R90In the heart of Africa lies the Land of Kachoo, with vast open plains and deep rivers, too. Animals roam freely in their wild domain through forests and grasslands and rocky terrain. Big cats and rhino and Thomson’s gazelle, elephant and zebra – they live here as well.
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Out of stockThe Madonna of Excelsior
R155“A generous, patient, wry and intelligent voice…[that] suggests not just a writer who can seduce us through beautiful language and unfailing humor. We also encounter a writer who has the power to shock and frighten us, to astound and anger and unsettle us…In short, his is a voice for which one should feel not only affection but admiration.”
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Out of stockThe Mlungu in Africa: Art from the Colonial Period, 1840-1940
R400This work examines African art that engages with the presence of white people in the ‘contact zones’ and colonial states in sub-Saharan Africa.
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The Monopoly
R195This publication will teach you how to be fruitful, multiply, replenish and dominate your space through self-governing, love, compassion, leadership, control and management. If you cannot be successful where you are, find an environment in which you can establish yourself. About The Author-Benjamin Nengwani is an author, speaker, market disruptor, relationship and business coach.
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The myth of this is that we’re all in this together
R140Nick Mulgrew’s first collection of poems, the myth of this is that we’re all in this together, is a three-part meditation on the ways in which people lose trust in themselves, each other and their communities.
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Out of stockThe Neanderthals Rediscovered
R400The Neanderthals’ story has been transformed thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. It turns out that the Neanderthals behaviour was surprisingly modern. They buried the dead, cared for the sick, hunted large animals, harvested seafood, used red paint and spoke.
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The New Black Middle Class in South Africa
R280The “”rise of the black middle class”” is one of the most visible aspects of post-apartheid society in South Africa. Yet while it has been a major actor in the country’s democratic reshaping, analysis of its role has been all but lacking.
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The Other Side
R70Hillary might be a mother, writer and avid gardener now, but she hasn’t always lived an ordinary life
