The Thabo Mbeki I Know (Paperback) - Sifiso Ndlovu, Miranda Strydom
R295,00
The Thabo Mbeki I Know is a collection that celebrates one of South Africa’s most exceptional thought leaders. The contributors include those who first got to know Thabo Mbeki as a young man, in South Africa and in exile, and those who encountered him as a statesman and worked alongside him as an African leader.In The Thabo Mbeki I Know, these friends, comrades, statesmen, politicians and business associates provide insights that challenge the prevailing academic narrative and present fresh perspectives on the former president’s time in office and on his legacy – a vital undertaking as we approach a decade since an embattled Thabo Mbeki left office. Edited by Miranda Strydom and Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu, The Thabo Mbeki I Know provides readers with an opportunity to reassess Thabo Mbeki’s contribution to post-apartheid South Africa – as both deputy president and president – to the African continent and diaspora – as a highly respected state leader – and to the international community as a whole.
Product code: 9781770103412
Ab : Die Outobiografie - AB de Villiers
R350,00
AB de Villiers is sonder twyfel een van die beste kolwers wat krieket nog ooit opgelewer het, maar sy prestasies strek veel verder as sy ongelooflike arsenaal dryf-, trek-, skep-, kap- en veeghoue. Of hy nou die tuisskares by die Wanderers of Nuweland laat jubel, of in Bengaluru of Sydney nuwe rekords opstel, die vriendelike krieketheld speel 'n vreeslose, vurige spel wat miljoene Suid-Afrikaners trots maak en altyd 'n positiewe beeld van sy land uitstraal. Dat sy gewildheid steeds toeneem, blyk duidelik, nie net uit sy derduisende Facebook-aanhangers en meer as twee miljoen Twitter-volgelinge nie, maar ook uit die duidelik waarneembare gevoel van afwagting in die paviljoene wanneer hy uitstap om sy plek voor die paaltjies in te neem. Dis AB se storie die, in sy eie woorde - die verhaal van die jongste van drie talentvolle, sportmal broers se grootwordjare in Warmbad; van 'n seun wat in sy hoerskooljare by een van Pretoria se topskole in tennis, rugby en krieket uitgeblink het; van 'n jong man wat op 20 sy internasionale krieketdebuut gemaak het en in die volgende 11 seisoene vir elke enkele toets gekies is waaraan Suid-Afrika deelgeneem het; van 'n kolwer wat besig is om die kuns te herdefinieer, wat boulaanvalle in elke variasie van die spel oorheers en onder die wereld se bestes gereken word in toets- sowel as internasionale eendag- en T20-krieket. Maar, te midde van die vuurwerke en deurlopende staatmakerspel, bly AB 'n ware sportman in die beste sin van die woord - beskeie oor sy eie welslae maar gou om sy opponente lof toe te swaai, altyd gereed om hard te werk, om sy span se volgende uitdaging te aanvaar en om sy land te verteenwoordig - iets wat hy steeds as 'n enorme voorreg beskou.
Product code: 9781770104525
Rogue : The Inside Story of Sars's Elite Crime-Busting Unit - Johann van Loggerenberg , Adrian Lackay
R150,00
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: they had spied on President Jacob Zuma, run a brothel, illegally bought spyware and entered into unlawful tax settlements.In a plot of Machiavellian proportions, head of the elite crime-busting unit Johann van Loggerenberg and many of SARS’s top management were forced to resign. Van Loggerenberg’s select team of investigators, with their impeccable track record of busting high-level financial fraudsters and nailing tax criminals, lost not only their careers but also their reputations.Now, in this extraordinary account, they finally get to put the record straight and the rumours to rest: there was no ‘rogue unit’. The public had been deceived, seemingly by powers conspiring to capture SARS for their own ends.Shooting down the allegations he has faced one by one, Van Loggerenberg tells the story of what really happened inside SARS, revealing details of some of the unit’s actual investigations.
Product code: 9781868427406
Verlore Onskuld : Suid-Afrikaanse Kinders Wat Moor En Roof - Chris Karsten
R195,00
Tien verhale oor Suid-Afrikaners op die drempel van hul lewe, wat hulle skuldig maak aan ernstige misdaad en moord. Dis stories van onverklaarbare geweld en ontsporing - van jongmense wat roof om die guns van ander te wen, van leerders uit vooraanstaande gesinne wat 'n hawelose man wreed om die lewe bring, van sestienjariges wat hul eie ouers en gesinslede koelbloedig vermoor. Daar word ook vertel van heldemoed en hoop klein Angeline Taljaard sing dapper in 'n musiekblyspel nadat haar gesin die vorige aand deur twee seuns, jonger as syself, vermoor en vermink is. Polities opgesweepte jeugdiges vermoor die Amerikaner Amy Biehl en baie Suid-Afrikaners en ook Amerikaners trek steeds voordeel uit haar nalatenskap.
Product code: 9780798148993
Crocodile Attack - Hugh Edwards
R250,00
Dramatic true stories of fatal and near-fatal encounters between humans and crocodiles.
Product code: 9780060161217
Mense van my asem - Steve Hofmeyr
R150,00
Hy begelei ons op ’n fassinerende reis deur sy kinderjare, sy tyd in die weermag en sy loopbaan daarna, en staan kort-kort stil by die gebeurtenisse en mense wat ’n groot impak op hom gehad het. Alle aspekte van sy lewensgeskiedenis word blootgelê – sy onkonvensionele godsdienstige en politieke oortuigings, sy liefdesverhoudings en buite-egtelike kinders, ’n selfmoordpoging, sy huwelik en die ernstige operasies wat hy ondergaan het.
Product code: 9781770220492
Best of Eating for Sustained Energy - Gabi Steenkamp , Liesbet Delport
R270,00More and more people are realising the everyday advantages of following a low-GI (Glycaemic Index) diet. Besides resulting in sustained energy levels, improved concentration and increased stamina, low-GI eating holds the following specific health benefits:
lowered and stabilised blood glucose levels in diabetics
easier permanent weight-loss
improved concentration in children with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
improved performance for sportsmen and women
reduced cholesterol and blood pressure levels
Gabi and Liesbet have put together the best and popular recipes from the series, which includes 4 titles for everyday use. The family-friendly recipes include low GI versions of popular dishes like scones, creamy spinach soup and desserts – proving that you don’t have to sacrifice taste or indulgence for good health.
The detailed introduction explains exactly how the Glyceamic Index works, and gives practical guidelines on low-GI, low-fat eating for specific conditions. The handy GI food lists will become an indispensable tool in identifying suitable food types and products.
Also available in Afrikaans as Beste van Eet vir Volgehoue Energie.
Product code: 9780624071488
Beste van eet vir volgehoue energie - Gabi Steenkamp , Liesbet Delport
R320,00Die nuutste toevoeging tot Suid-Afrika se topverkoper GI-kookreeks. Al hoe meer mense ontdek deesdae die voordele van ’n lae-GI-, laevet eetpatroon. Hierdie manier van eet verseker jou nie net van volgehoue energie, verbeterde konsentrasie en verhoogde stamina nie, maar hou ook die volgende spesifieke gesondheidsvoordele in:
• Verlaagde en bestendige bloedglukosevlakke by diabete
• Makliker permanente gewigsverlies
• Verbeterde konsentrasie by kinders met aandaggebreksindroom (AGS)
• Beter prestasie onder sportmanne en –vroue
• Verlaagde cholesterol en bloeddruk
Gabi en Liesbet het die beste en gewildste resepte uit die Eet vir Volgehoue Energie reeks wat 4 titels insluit saamgestel vir elke dag se lekker eet. Dié gesinsvriendelike resepte sluit lae-GI-weergawes in van gewilde geregte soos Lamsbrijani, ontbytmuffins en selfs kaaskoek – en bewys dat gesonde kos ook smulkos kan wees.
Die volledige inleiding verduidelik presies hoe die Glukemiese Indeks werk en verskaf praktiese riglyne vir lae-GI-, laevet-eetgewoontes vir spesifieke mediese toestande. Die nuttige GI-produklyste is ’n onontbeerlike hulpmiddel om geskikte voedselsoorte en –produkte te identifiseer.
Ook verkrygbaar in Engels as Best of Eating for Sustained Energy.
Product code: 9780624071457
Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and me - Marianne Thamm
R280,00
Marianne Thamm delves into her own unconventional life story. Her German father fought for Hitler and made munitions for Verwoerd. He married her largely illiterate Portuguese mother who worked as a cleaner in England. Today Marianne is the proud mother of two (black) teenagers ... Hers is the story of the last century, of the defeat of bigotry and a new era ushered in by Mandela. Sad at times, deeply moving and, like Marianne, hugely entertaining.
Product code: 9780624075202
Omega, oor en uit - Francois Verster
R200,00
From his first day as a national serviceman, Francois Verster’s rebellious streak landed him in trouble. His descriptions of basic training and life on Omega, where he was sent to teach, are hilarious. A second, more serious storyline tells of his experiences in the present as an archivist who has to deal with affirmative action.
Product code: 9780624072614
Heart to Heart Stories for Sisters - Joe L Wheeler
R150,00
Sisters who wish it can choose to journey toward a friendship and closeness they never thought possible.
Product code: 9780842353786
Heart to Heart: Stories of Friendship - Joe L Wheeler
R100,00
Friends come in all shapes and sizes, but one thing remains the same - they touch our hearts and we are never the same again.
Product code: 9780842305860
Heart to Heart Stories of Love - Joe L Wheeler
R150,00
Various novelists, some contemporary, contribute to this collection of love stories, including the story of a teenager's first love and a married couple of 27 years who fall in love all over again.
Product code: 9780842318334
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
R100,00
It's about imagination - not just the kind you need for childhood games. Because you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Product code: 9780878919468
Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace 1957-1958
R295,00
Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace was Fantagraphics' second "complete" series of newspaper strip collections and one of the most successful books in the company's history, greeted by reviews with praise similar to that garnered by The Complete Peanuts. We are proud to present the fourth volume of Hank Ketcham's phenomenal panel covering the years 1957 and 1958. Dennis the Menace began on March 14, 1951 and he went on to become the second most popular cartoon kid in the world (after Charlie Brown). The timing was perfect: the post-war generation, at the height of the baby boom, embraced the perennial troublemaker and turned Dennis into a global publishing, merchandising and multi-media phenomenon, with over 50 million book collections sold, the fondly remembered live-action TV show from 1959-63, two major motion pictures in the '90s, a full-length animated film in 2002, and many other media tie-ins.
Product code: 9781560978800
Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace 1959-1960
R295,00
We are proud to present the fifth volume of Hank Ketcham's phenomenal panel covering the end of the Postwar Era, 1959-1960. Ketcham captured the mischievousness, rambunctiousness, and anarchy of a kid's world better than any other cartoonist. The strip appeals to both parents and children while parents shake their head ruefully at how accurately Ketcham caught the essence of children's natural zest for mayhem, children identify with Dennis and the chaos that he leaves in his wake. Ketcham's gags are funny, subtle and touching, and executed with a vivacious, exquisite line.Ketcham drew Dennis the Menace from 1951 to 1994, when he retired and let his assistant take over the strip.
Product code: 9781560979661
I am David - Anne Holm
'You must get away tonight,' the man had told him. David escapes from the concentration camp where he has spent his entire life and flees across Europe. He is utterly alone - who can he trust? What will await him? And all the while, how can he be sure that they won't catch up with him ...This is the remarkable story of David's introduction to the world: sea, mountains and flowers, the colours of Italy, the taste of fruit, people laughing and smiling, all are new to David. David learns that his polite manner, his haunted eyes and his thin features are strange to other people. He must learn to fend for himself in this strange new world. This is The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas meets Jonathan Safran Foer for children. An incredible story of survival against all odds and self discovery.
Product code: 9780749701369
Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Aron Ralston
R150,00
On Saturday, 26 April 2003, Aron Ralston, a 27-year-old outdoorsman and adventurer, set off for a day's hike in the Utah canyons. Eight miles from his truck, he found himself in the middle of a deep and remote canyon. Then the unthinkable happened: a boulder shifted and snared his right arm against the canyon wall. He was trapped, facing dehydration, starvation, hallucinations and hypothermia as night-time temperatures plummeted. Five and a half days later, Aron Ralston finally came to the agonising conclusion that his only hope was to amputate his own arm and get himself to safety. Miraculously, he survived. BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE is more than just an adventure story. It is a brave, honest and above all inspiring account of one man's valiant effort to survive, and is destined to take its place among adventure classics such as TOUCHING THE VOID.
Product code: 9780743495806
The Sound of Music Story - Tom Santopietro
R300,00
In March 1965 the film of The Sound of Music was released - and the love affair between moviegoers and the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical began. Rarely has a film so captured the love and imagination of the public, blending history, music, Austrian location filming, heartfelt emotion and the yodelling of Julie Andrews into a monster hit. Now, Tom Santopietro has written the ultimate "Sound of Music" fan book with all the inside information - the real-life story of the Von Trapps, the behind the dramas of the casting - we all know that Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer played Maria and Captain Von Trapp, but who else had been considered? - and the many hazards of shooting the film on location. We learn how some of the iconic songs came into being and what the actors really thought of it. Tom Santopietro knows all and will tell all. The Sound of Music Story is a book for everyone who cherishes this classic musical.
Product code: 9780593075562
Lawrence in Arabia : War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East - Scott Anderson
The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, 'a sideshow of a sideshow'. Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant attention to the Middle Eastern theatre. As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by a small handful of adventurers and low-level officers far removed from the corridors of power. At the centre of it all was Lawrence. In early 1914 he was an archaeologist excavating ruins in the sands of Syria; by 1917 he was battling both the enemy and his own government to bring about the vision he had for the Arab people. Operating in the Middle East at the same time, but to wildly different ends, were three other important players: a German attache, an American oilman and a committed Zionist. The intertwined paths of these four young men - the schemes they put in place, the battles they fought, the betrayals they endured and committed - mirror the grandeur, intrigue and tragedy of the war in the desert
Product code: 9781782392026
Annexed - Sharon Dogar
R250,00
Everyone knows about Anne Frank, and her life hidden in the secret annexe - or do they? Peter van Pels and his family are locked away with the Franks too, and Peter sees it all differently. What is it like to be forced into hiding with Anne Frank, to hate her and then find yourself falling in love with her? To know you're being written about in her diary, day after day? And, what's it like to sit and wait and watch whilst others die, and you wish you were fighting? Anne's diary ends on August 4 1944, but Peter's story takes us on, beyond their betrayal and into the Nazi death camps. He details with accuracy, clarity and compassion, the reality of day to day survival in Auschwitz - and the terrible conclusion.
Product code: 9781849391245
Lessons from the Boot of a Car - Reg Lascaris
R200,00
Reg Lascaris, one of South Africa's most celebrated marketers, literally started out from the boot of an old car. The road leading from the one point to the other has been long, uneven and often difficult, but in one respect it never failed: there was always a lesson to be learnt. Lascaris, together with his partner John Hunt, sparked not only some of the most iconic ad campaigns in the world, but the transformation of the South African advertising industry into a twenty-first century powerhouse. This is where the famous Nando's campaign was born, these were the men the ANC turned to for their first election campaign. They were the first to inject human emotion into financial services for South Africa's best loved bank, Standard Bank...And who can forget the BMW mouse?
Product code: 9780143538509
Start with Why : How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action - Simon Sinek
R250,00
Why are some people and organisations more inventive, pioneering and successful than others? And why are they able to repeat their success again and again? In business, it doesn't matter what you do, it matters why you do it. "Start with Why" analyses leaders like Martin Luther King Jr and Steve Jobs and discovers that they all think in the same way - they all started with why. Simon Sinek explains the framework needed for businesses to move past knowing what they do to how they do it, and then to ask the more important question - Why? Why do we do what we do? Why do we exist? Learning to ask these questions can unlock the secret to inspirational business. Sinek explains what it truly takes to lead and inspire and how anyone can learn how to do it.
Product code: 9780241958223
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
R150,00
Becky Sharp is a poor orphan when she first makes friends with the lovely Amelia Sedley at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies. She may not have the natural advantages of her companion but she more than makes up for it with her wit, charm, deviousness and determination to make a success of herself whatever the cost.
Product code: 9781848376113
R150,00
Mr Wrong - Mark Barrowcliffe
R150,00
How many partners should it take to find The One? Meet a man with a commitment problem. Women wouldn't commit to him. Mark Barrowcliffe has had around forty girlfriends in all, depending on what your definition of a girlfriend is. He's now happily married, but why couldn't he hold on to any of the others? From first kisses to commitment, whirlwind affairs and heartbreak, Mr Wrong is a very funny, sometines uncomfortable, true account of every girl Mark has ever been out with. But does his story constitute the rakish diaries of a dedicated ladies' man, or twenty-five years of abject failiure with women?
Product code: 9780230709690
The Collected Works of A. J. Fikry - Gabrielle Levin
R195,00
AJ Fikry owns a failing bookshop. His wife has just died, in tragic circumstances. His rare and valuable first edition has been stolen. His life is a wreck. Amelia is a book rep, with a big heart, and a lonely life. Maya is the baby who ends up on AJ's bookshop floor with a note. What happens in the bookshop that changes the lives of these seemingly normal but extraordinary characters? This is the story of how unexpected love can rescue you and bring you back to real life, in a world that you won't want to leave, with characters that you will come to love.
Product code: 9781408704615
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
R195,00
"One of the greatest productions of the human mind". (Leo Tolstoy). When a Kentucky farmer faces financial ruin, he reluctantly sells his slaves, and Uncle Tom finds himself the property of a cruel plantation owner, fighting for his freedom and ultimately, for his right to live. With a rich narrative and wonderfully realised characters, this is a panoramic, incredibly accomplished work. Originally published to much acclaim in 1852, it quickly established Harriet Beecher Stowe as one of America's most influential female novelists and was crucial in helping to secure the abolition of slavery. .
Product code: 9780099595830
Stoicism and the Art of Happiness: Teach Yourself - Donald Robertson
R175,00
The stoics lived a long time ago, but they had some startling insights into the human condition - insights which endure to this day. The philosophical tradition, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in 301 BC, endured as an active movement for almost 500 years, and contributions from dazzling minds such as Cicero, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius helped create a body of thought with an extraordinary goal - to provide a rational, healthy way of living in harmony with the nature of the universe and in respect of our relationships with each other. In many ways a precursor to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Stoicism provides an armamentarium of strategies and techniques for developing psychological resilience, while celebrating all in life which is beautiful and important. By learning what stoicism is, you can revolutionise your life and learn how to seize the day, live happily and be a better person. This simple, empowering book shows how to use this ancient wisdom to make practical, positive changes to your life. Using thought-provoking case studies, highlighting key ideas and things to remember and providing tools for self-assessment, it demonstrates that Stoicism is a proven, profound pathway to happiness.
Product code: 9781444187106
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher - Hilary Mantel
R250,00
A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'. Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday facades. Childhood cruelty is played out behind the bushes in 'Comma'; nurses clash in 'Harley Street' over something more than professional differences; and in the title story, staying in for the plumber turns into an ambiguous and potentially deadly waiting game. Whether set in a claustrophobic Saudi Arabian flat or on a precarious mountain road in Greece, these stories share an insight into the darkest recesses of the spirit.
Product code: 9780007580972
Animal Farm - George Orwell
R150,00
'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others'. When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another. 'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine,' wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished; its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's ally, led to the book being refused by publisher after publisher. Orwell's simple, tragic fable has since become a world-famous classic.
Product code: 9780141393056
A Passage to India - E M Forster
R160,00
What did happen to Miss Quested in the Marabar Caves? This tantalizing question provides the intense drama of racial tension at the centre of Forster's last and greatest novel. After a mysterious incident during their visit to the caves, the charming Dr Aziz is accused of assaulting Adela Quested, a naive young Englishwoman new to India. As he is brought to trial, the fragile structure of Anglo-Indian relations collapses and the racism inherent in colonialism is exposed in all its ugliness - a theme which still has powerful, dangerous realities today.
Product code: 9780140274233
R160,00
Hiroshima - John Hersey
2015 is the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima, when, at 8.15am, an atomic bomb was dropped over the Japanese city, killing one hundred thousand men, women and children in its white fury. John Hersey's spare, devastating report on the attack was first published in the New Yorker in 1946. Written in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, it chronicles what happened through the eyes of six civilians who survived against the odds. It is a classic piece of journalism, and a defining moment of the nuclear age. 'One of the most powerful writers of modern times' Washington Post
Product code: 9780141982243
Great Dialogues of Plato - Plato , Translated by W H D Rouse
R160,00
Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato. Emerson "The Republic" and other great dialogues by the immortal Greek philosopher Plato are masterpieces that form part of the most important single body of writing in the history of philosophy. Beauty, love, immortality, knowledge, and justice are discussed in these dialogues, which magnificently express the glowing spirit of Platonic philosophy.
Product code: 9780451471703
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
R160,00
Huckleberry Finn had a tough life with his drunk father until an adventure with Tom Sawyer changed everything. But when Huck's dad returns and kidnaps him, he must escape down the Mississippi river with runaway slave, Jim. They encounter trouble at every turn, from floods and gunfights to armed bandits and the long arm of the law. Through it all the friends stick together - but can Huck and Tom free Jim from slavery once and for all? With an inspirational introduction by Darren Shan, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the twenty wonderful classic stories being relaunched in Puffin Classics in March 2015.
Product code: 9780141321097
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
R300,00
This beautiful volume covers the literary career of one of England's finest prose stylists of any century. Jane Austen (1775-1817) was famously modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most revered writers. Austen began writing at a young age, embarking on what is possibly her best-known work, Pride and Prejudice, at the age of 22. She was the author of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey.
Product code: 9780141030173
A Room with a View - E M Forster
R150,00
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "A Room with a View" by E. M. Forster '"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it..." Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George. Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fiance Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?
Product code: 9780141199825
Judasbok: Verraad ter will van Oorlewing - Wynand du Toit
R250,00In Mei 1985 land ‘n nege-man-span van die Suid-Afrikaanse Spesiale Magte op ‘n strand in die olieryke Cabinda-provinsie van Angola. Hul uitsluitlike doel is die vernietiging van ses massiewe olie-opgaartenks. Die daaropvolgende skietgeveg lei tot die dood van twee soldate en die gevangeneming van kaptein Wynand du Toit. Dit alles dui op een ding : Verraad!
Lees hier in sy eie woorde die gebeure van daardie nag en die diepgaand nagmerrie van sy gevangeneskap, die sameswerings en die uiteindelike afleiding dat die hele operasie slegs ‘n openingskuif was wat uiteindelik die Suid-Afrikaanse volk moes mislei tot oorgawe in Angola en die onafhanklikheid van Namibië.
Product code: 9781928327776
JOSEFSKLEED: Stryd om te Oorleef - Wynand du Toit
R260,00
Op 11 Februarie 2014 woon Wynand en Frances du Toit die 25ste herdenkingsvieringe van die ondertekening van die Brazzaville Protokol by. President Denis Sassou N'Guesso van die Republiek van die Kongo hang die Nasionale Meriete Order van die Kongo om Wynand se nek.
Wat hy daar beleef en besef, laat die laaste stukkie van die legkaart in plek val, dertig jaar na sy gevangeneming in Cabinda, Angola.Lees hier in sy eie woorde van sy stryd om te oorleef, om weer 'n plek in die samelewing in te neem. Hoe hy en talle ander veteraan soldate misbruik, misken en verstoot is. As vergete slagoffers van die destydse Kodesa samesprekings, lewe baie oud-soldate in gebrek en armoede, hul onvermoë om in die nuwe Suid Afrika aan te pas 'n bewys van die ou regering se kille hantering van die eens magtigste weermag in Afrika.Die politieke poppe-meesters trek op 10 Mei 1994 die Josefskleed oor die donker jare waarin sy eens getroue soldate en landsburgers steeds verkeer. Die politieke en militêre vuilspel gerieflik verswyg in die gemak van hul aftree-pakette.Dit bly 'n ope vraag: was dit nie juis diegene wat bereid was om die grense van lojaliteit oor te steek wat die werklike helde was en die land van 'n bloedige burgeroorlog gered het nie?
Product code: 9781928349839