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Random Commentary (Paperback): Dorothy Whipple Random Commentary (Paperback)
Dorothy Whipple
R570 Discovery Miles 5 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sigh, Gone - A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In (Paperback): Phuc Tran Sigh, Gone - A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In (Paperback)
Phuc Tran
R494 R462 Discovery Miles 4 620 Save R32 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature. In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance they land in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a small town where the Trans struggle to assimilate into their new life. In this coming-of-age memoir told through the themes of great books such as The Metamorphosis, The Scarlet Letter, The Iliad, and more, Tran navigates the push and pull of finding and accepting himself despite the challenges of immigration, feelings of isolation, and teenage rebellion, all while attempting to meet the rigid expectations set by his immigrant parents. Appealing to fans of coming-of-age memoirs such as Fresh Off the Boat, Running with Scissors, or tales of assimilation like Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Displaced and The Refugees, Sigh, Gone explores one man's bewildering experiences of abuse, racism, and tragedy and reveals redemption and connection in books and punk rock. Against the hairspray-and-synthesizer backdrop of the '80s, he finds solace and kinship in the wisdom of classic literature, and in the subculture of punk rock, he finds affirmation and echoes of his disaffection. In his journey for self-discovery Tran ultimately finds refuge and inspiration in the art that shapes--and ultimately saves--him.

Too Much and Never Enough - How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (Paperback): Mary L. Trump Too Much and Never Enough - How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (Paperback)
Mary L. Trump
R438 R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Save R37 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Blurry Daydream - When Faith Feels Like Make Believe (Paperback): Anthony J. Does Blurry Daydream - When Faith Feels Like Make Believe (Paperback)
Anthony J. Does
R509 R479 Discovery Miles 4 790 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
You Slept Where? - Calamities of a Clumsy Businesswoman (Hardcover): Brenda Prater Sellers You Slept Where? - Calamities of a Clumsy Businesswoman (Hardcover)
Brenda Prater Sellers
R793 R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Save R79 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
American Heroes (Paperback): James Patterson, Matt Eversmann American Heroes (Paperback)
James Patterson, Matt Eversmann
R430 R384 Discovery Miles 3 840 Save R46 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

‘Life has no meaning unless it’s lived for the benefit of future generations’

Crafted from original interviews, American Heroes tells the vivid, authentic stories of the veterans who give themselves – and even their lives – serving in overseas conflict from World War Two to Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Outnumbered, under pressure and under fire, these men and women exhibited extraordinary selflessness, camaraderie and patriotism. For their service and sacrifice, they earned the US military’s highest awards for valour.

In this powerful collection of never-before-told stories, James Patterson and First Sergeant U.S. Army (Ret.) Matt Eversmann salute America’s most courageous military heroes.

Gertrude Stein - An Afterlife (Hardcover): Francesca Wade Gertrude Stein - An Afterlife (Hardcover)
Francesca Wade
R626 R558 Discovery Miles 5 580 Save R68 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

From the celebrated author of Square Haunting comes a biography as unconventional and surprising as the life it tells.

'Think of the Bible and Homer, think of Shakespeare and think of me,' wrote Gertrude Stein in 1936. Admirers called her a genius, sceptics a charlatan: she remains one of the most confounding - and contested - writers of the twentieth century.

In this literary detective story, Francesca Wade delves into the creation of the Stein myth. We see her posing for Picasso's portrait; at the centre of Bohemian Parisian life hosting the likes of Matisse and Hemingway; racing through the French countryside with her enigmatic companion Alice B. Toklas; dazzling American crowds on her sell-out tour for her sensational Autobiography - a veritable celebrity.

Yet Stein hoped to be remembered not for her personality but for her work. From her deathbed, she charged her partner with securing her place in literary history. How would her legend shift once it was Toklas's turn to tell the stories - especially when uncomfortable aspects of their past emerged from the archive? Using astonishing never-before-seen material, Wade uncovers the origins of Stein's radical writing, and reveals new depths to the storied relationship which made it possible.

This is Gertrude Stein as she was when nobody was watching: captivating, complex and human.

Kaufmann's - The Big Store in Pittsburgh (Paperback): Letitia Stuart Savage Kaufmann's - The Big Store in Pittsburgh (Paperback)
Letitia Stuart Savage
R544 R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
William Robert Grove - The Lawyer Who Invented the Fuel Cell (Hardcover): John Wilson, William Wilson, James M. Wilson William Robert Grove - The Lawyer Who Invented the Fuel Cell (Hardcover)
John Wilson, William Wilson, James M. Wilson
R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Big Friendship - How We Keep Each Other Close (Paperback): Aminatou Sow, Ann Friedman Big Friendship - How We Keep Each Other Close (Paperback)
Aminatou Sow, Ann Friedman
R416 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R29 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
I Want To Die But I Want To Eat Tteokbokki (Hardcover): Baek Sehee I Want To Die But I Want To Eat Tteokbokki (Hardcover)
Baek Sehee; Translated by Anton Hur 2
R394 R357 Discovery Miles 3 570 Save R37 (9%) In Stock

The phenomenal Korean bestseller translated by international booker shortlistee Anton Hur.

PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?

ME: I don't know, I'm – what's the word – depressed? Do I have to go into detail?

Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her – what to call it? – depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgemental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends; adept at performing the calmness, even ease, her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting, overwhelming, and keeps her from forming deep relationships. This can't be normal.

But if she's so hopeless, why can she always summon a desire for her favourite street food, the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? Is this just what life is like?

Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over a 12-week period, Baek begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions and harmful behaviours that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse. Part memoir, part self-help book, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki is a book to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness.

Lydia - Anthem To The Unity Of Women (Paperback): Kally Forrest Lydia - Anthem To The Unity Of Women (Paperback)
Kally Forrest
R300 R277 Discovery Miles 2 770 Save R23 (8%) In Stock

'When I’m dead, you make sure that ordinary people, ordinary rural women, must be at the forefront of my funeral. I want my rural women to be there at the forefront: people that know me well.’

With great care and meticulous research, Kally Forrest brings us the life of Lydia Komape, also known as Mam Lydia Kompe. Kally travels in Lydia’s footsteps, with family, friends, comrades and ancestors from Limpopo and Johannesburg to Cape Town where Lydia sat in Nelson Mandela’s parliament.

Her family’s shattering loss of land in the 1930s deeply impacted Lydia’s life choices. She was fiercely independent, yet bound by the collective, forceful but consultative, humorous and deeply serious.

Lydia closely identified with rural women, remarking, ‘We are so discriminated against, but we are made to work like donkeys. We do all the dirty work – you must go and plough, hoe, harvest, carry water, fetch wood, and men are just sitting drinking alcohol under the tree.’

This is a biography that will open your eyes and heart.

What My Bones Know - A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma (Paperback): Stephanie Foo What My Bones Know - A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma (Paperback)
Stephanie Foo
R491 R427 Discovery Miles 4 270 Save R64 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rossini - His Life and Works (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Richard Osborne Rossini - His Life and Works (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Richard Osborne
R1,733 Discovery Miles 17 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Gioachino Rossini was one of the most influential, as well as one of the most industrious and emotionally complex of the great nineteenth-century composers. Between 1810 and 1829, he wrote 39 operas, a body of work, comic and serious, which transformed Italian opera and radically altered the course of opera in France. His retirement from operatic composition in 1829, at the age of 37, was widely assumed to be the act of a talented but lazy man. In reality, political events and a series of debilitating illnesses were the determining factors. After drafting the Stabat Mater in 1832, Rossini wrote no music of consequence for the best part of twenty-five years, before the clouds lifted and he began composing again in Paris in the late 1850s. During this glorious Indian summer of his career, he wrote 150 songs and solo piano pieces his 'Sins of Old Age' and his final masterpiece, the Petite Messe solennelle. The image of Rossini as a gifted but feckless amateur-the witty, high-spirited bon vivant who dashed off The Barber of Seville in a mere thirteen days-persisted down the years, until the centenary of his death in 1968 inaugurated a process of re-evaluation by scholars, performers, and writers. The original 1985 edition of Richard Osborne's pioneering and widely acclaimed Rossini redefined the life and provided detailed analyses of the complete Rossini oeuvre. Twenty years on, all Rossini's operas have been staged and recorded, a Critical Edition of his works is well advanced, and a scholarly edition of his correspondence, including 250 previously unknown letters from Rossini to his parents, is in progress. Drawing on these past two decades of scholarship and performance, this new edition of Rossini provides the most detailed portrait we have yet had of one of the worlds best-loved and most enigmatic composers.

Madame Ph.D. - Growing Up Black in DC and Beating the Odds: Nettie's DC Story of Perseverance, Hope, and Determination... Madame Ph.D. - Growing Up Black in DC and Beating the Odds: Nettie's DC Story of Perseverance, Hope, and Determination (Phd) (Paperback)
Gwynette Ford Lacy Ph D Mba
R854 R748 Discovery Miles 7 480 Save R106 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
I'll Tell You When I'm Home - A Memoir (Hardcover): Hala Alyan I'll Tell You When I'm Home - A Memoir (Hardcover)
Hala Alyan
R717 R601 Discovery Miles 6 010 Save R116 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The rich and deeply personal debut memoir by award-winning Palestinian American poet and novelist Hala Alyan, whose experience of motherhood via surrogacy forces her to reckon with her own past, and the legacy of her family’s exile and displacement, all in the name of a new future.

After a decade of yearning for parenthood, years marked by miscarriage after miscarriage, Hala Alyan makes the decision to use a surrogate. In this charged time, she turns to the archetype of the waiting woman—the Scheherazade who tells stories to ensure another dawn—to confront her own narratives of motherhood, love, and inheritance.

As her baby grows in the body of another woman, in another country, Hala finds her own life unraveling—a husband who wants to leave; the cost of past traumas and addictions threatening to resurface; the city of her youth, Beirut, on the brink of crisis. She turns to family stories and communal myths: of grandmothers mapping their lives through Palestine, Kuwait, Syria, Lebanon; of eradicated villages and invading armies; of places of refuge that proved only temporary; of men that left and women that stayed; of the contradictions of her own Midwestern childhood, and adolescence in various Arab cities.

Meanwhile, as the baby grows from the size of a poppyseed to a grain of rice, then a lime, and beyond, Hala gathers the stories that are her legacy, setting down the ones that confine, holding close those that liberate. It is emotionally charged, painstaking work, but now the stakes are higher: how to honor ancestors and future generations alike in the midst of displacement? How to impart love for those who are no longer here, for places one can no longer touch?

A stunningly lyrical and brutally honest quest for motherhood, selfhood, and peoplehood, I’ll Tell You When I’m Home is a powerful story of unraveling and becoming, of destruction and redemption, and of homelands lost and recreated.

Unleashed (Paperback): Boris Johnson Unleashed (Paperback)
Boris Johnson
R480 R428 Discovery Miles 4 280 Save R52 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming Britain’s prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as London’s mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as foreign secretary. He won the largest Tory majority since 1987 when he went to the polls in December 2019 for a mandate to ‘Get Brexit Done’ – only to have his administration hit by the global Covid pandemic and toppled in a Tory putsch.

Unleashed is his account of his time in politics, and a book that shatters the mould of the modern prime ministerial memoir. Written in his inimitable style, it is honest, unrestrained and deeply revealing about the politician who has dominated our times.

This is his story of the fifteen years since he trounced Ken Livingstone at the polls to become mayor of London. Riots, tackling knife crime, bikes, buses, the London Olympics, and so much more. He writes about his role in Brexit, takes readers through all the big decisions and his reasons for taking them, and describes how he nearly died from Covid.

Underlying everything in the book is his view that the UK is an extraordinary country and should have an exceptional future. These are the reflections of a political leader who believes fundamentally in levelling up – that there are millions of people in Britain who do not have the present they need or the future they deserve, and that it is the first job of politicians to put this right.

It is all here. From soup to nuts, warts and all. As a journalist he was famed as a blurter of unsayable truths, and he has drawn again on this quality for the book. About people, policies, mistakes and triumphs. This is it – the reality as he saw it: unvarnished, unlocked, unleashed.

Allies on the Rhine, 1945-1950 (Hardcover): Elena Skrjabina Allies on the Rhine, 1945-1950 (Hardcover)
Elena Skrjabina
R4,464 Discovery Miles 44 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In The Allies on the Rhine Skrjabina describes the coming of the Allies to the Rhineland, the occupation, and the first clear signs of the recovery of war-shattered Germany. She describes what occurred and how it was interpreted at the time by a keen observer who had lived under Soviet, Nazi, American, and French rule. She describes the first chaotic days of the occupation when instead of the calm and peace expected as a remit of the American advance, there was fearful chaos. She shows clearly that as the main allied forces moved on there was no real law and order and that she and the frightened populace were often terrorized by marauding youthful former work camp inmates over whom there was no effective control.

Somewhere In Between (Paperback): Niki Malherbe Somewhere In Between (Paperback)
Niki Malherbe
R249 Discovery Miles 2 490 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

The self-righteous, headstrong lawyering mother has a new and greater challenge. No longer seeking the approval of her successful mother, one of South Africa’s first women judges, Niki is out to find that elusive concept of the ‘work/life’ balance and some real, sustainable solutions.

Her journey takes her deep into feminist philosophies as she struggles to understand the unfolding media-driven drama of the Oscar Pistorius trial while researching issues of ethics in the legal profession. But in between life and children, Niki is also determined to navigate her own way around the new world of print and publishing and connect with her own identity as a writer. How is she going to survive all this?

Something In Between is a light-hearted non-fiction narrative about real issues in a changing world: issues of parenting and the legal profession, tertiary institutions and marriage institutions; issues about the old feminist debate and why it’s still unresolved and some lessons learnt about the world of books and book publishing. A memoir of her last three years and all of it absolutely true.

Let Yourself Be Loved - Big Lessons From a Little Life (Hardcover): Elizabeth Leon Let Yourself Be Loved - Big Lessons From a Little Life (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Leon
R582 Discovery Miles 5 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Deviant's War - The Homosexual vs. the United States of America (Paperback): Eric Cervini The Deviant's War - The Homosexual vs. the United States of America (Paperback)
Eric Cervini
R576 R530 Discovery Miles 5 300 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness - A Memoir (Paperback): Sarah Ramey The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness - A Memoir (Paperback)
Sarah Ramey
R485 R457 Discovery Miles 4 570 Save R28 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hope - The Autobiography (Hardcover): Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio Hope - The Autobiography (Hardcover)
Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio; Translated by Richard Dixon, Carlo Musso
R727 R619 Discovery Miles 6 190 Save R108 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The groundbreaking, intimate and inspiring memoir from Pope Francis.

Pope Francis originally intended this exceptional book to appear only after his death, but the needs of our times and the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope have moved him to make this precious legacy available now.

HOPE is the first autobiography in history ever to be published by a Pope. Written over six years, this complete autobiography starts in the early years of the twentieth century, with Pope Francis’s Italian roots and his ancestors’ courageous migration to Latin America, continuing through his childhood, the enthusiasms and preoccupations of his youth, his vocation, adult life, and the whole of his papacy up to the present day.

In recounting his memories with intimate narrative force (not forgetting his own personal passions), Pope Francis deals unsparingly with some of the crucial moments of his papacy and writes candidly, fearlessly and prophetically about some of the most important and controversial questions of our present times: war and peace (including the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East), migration, environmental crisis, social policy, the position of women, sexuality, technological developments, the future of the Church and of religion in general.

HOPE includes a wealth of revelations, anecdotes and illuminating thoughts. It is a thrilling and very human memoir, moving and sometimes funny, which represents the ‘story of a life’ and, at the same time, a touching moral and spiritual testament that will fascinate readers throughout the world and will be Pope Francis’s legacy of hope for future generations.

Paris France - Gertrude Stein (Paperback): Gertrude Stein Paris France - Gertrude Stein (Paperback)
Gertrude Stein
R180 R163 Discovery Miles 1 630 Save R17 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

“All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by revolution, by army discipline, by any escape or any subjection, and then you are civilised and life goes on normally in a latin way.” Gertrude Stein’s Paris France, published in 1940 on the day Paris fell to Nazi Germany, is a witty account of Stein’s life in France, and the perfect introduction to her work.

This I Believe: - Philadelphia (Paperback): Dan Gediman, Mary Jo Gediman This I Believe: - Philadelphia (Paperback)
Dan Gediman, Mary Jo Gediman
R574 R522 Discovery Miles 5 220 Save R52 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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