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A Hundred And One Days - A Baghdad Journal - from the bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul (Paperback): Asne Seierstad A Hundred And One Days - A Baghdad Journal - from the bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul (Paperback)
Asne Seierstad 2
R332 R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Save R61 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the life of a foreign correspondent. An award-winning writer, Seierstad brilliantly details the frustrations and dangers journalists faced trying to uncover the truth behind the all-pervasive propaganda. She also offers a unique portrait of Baghdad and its people, trying to go about their daily business under the constant threat of attack. Seierstad's passionate and erudite book conveys both the drama and the tragedy of her one hundred and one days in a city at war.

The Bounty - The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (Paperback, New ed): Caroline Alexander The Bounty - The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (Paperback, New ed)
Caroline Alexander 2
R526 R434 Discovery Miles 4 340 Save R92 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The bestselling author of The Endurance reveals the startling truth behind the legend of the Mutiny on the Bounty -- the most famous sea story of all time. More than two centuries have passed since Fletcher Christian mutinied against Lt. Bligh on a small armed transport vessel called Bounty. Why the details of this obscure adventure at the end of the world remain vivid and enthralling is as intriguing as the truth behind the legend. Caroline Alexander focusses on the court martial of the ten mutineers captured in Tahiti and brought to justice in Portsmouth. Each figure emerges as a richly drawn character caught up in a drama that may well end on the gallows. With enormous scholarship and exquisitely drawn characters, The Bounty is a tour de force.

Mother Country - Real Stories of the Windrush Children (Paperback): Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff Mother Country - Real Stories of the Windrush Children (Paperback)
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff 1
R385 R312 Discovery Miles 3 120 Save R73 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 JHALAK PRIZE*** A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation featuring David Lammy, Lenny Henry, Corinne Bailey Rae, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Hannah Lowe, Jamz Supernova, Natasha Gordon and Rikki Beadle-Blair. For the pioneers of the Windrush generation, Britain was 'the Mother Country'. They made the long journey across the sea, expecting to find a place where they would be be welcomed with open arms; a land in which you were free to build a new life, eight thousand miles away from home. This remarkable book explores the reality of their experiences, and those of their children and grandchildren, through 22 unique real-life stories spanning more than 70 years. "The story of Windrush, is, like any other, a story of humanity. Of life, love, struggle, hope, misery, success and failure. It's one that is too often neglected in our media ... but this volume acts as a remedy to that failure of story-telling, which I ask you to both savour and share." - David Lammy MP Contributors include: Catherine Ross, Corinne Bailey-Rae, David Lammy, Gail Lewis, Hannah Lowe, Howard Gardner, Jamz Supernova, Kay Montano, Kemi Alemoru, Kimberley McIntosh, Lazare Sylvestre, Lenny Henry, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, Myrna Simpson, Naomi Oppenheim, Natasha Gordon, Nellie Brown, Paul Reid, Riaz Phillips, Rikki Beadle-Blair, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Sharon Frazer-Carroll.

Lion Heart (Paperback): Darren Cox Lion Heart (Paperback)
Darren Cox
R218 Discovery Miles 2 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fall or Fly - The Strangely Hopeful Story of Foster Care and Adoption in Appalachia (Hardcover): Wendy Welch Fall or Fly - The Strangely Hopeful Story of Foster Care and Adoption in Appalachia (Hardcover)
Wendy Welch
R1,186 R1,012 Discovery Miles 10 120 Save R174 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Chaos. Frustration. Compassion. Desperation. Hope. These are the five words that author Wendy Welch says best summarize the state of foster care in the coalfields of Appalachia. Her assessment is based on interviews with more than sixty social workers, parents, and children who have gone through "the system." The riveting stories in Fall or Fly tell what foster care is like, from the inside out. In depictions of foster care and adoption, stories tend to cluster at the dark or light ends of the spectrum, rather than telling the day-to-day successes and failures of families working to create themselves. Who raises other people's children? Why? What's money got to do with it when the love on offer feels so real? And how does the particular setting of Appalachia-itself so frequently oversimplified or stereotyped-influence the way these questions play out? In Fall or Fly, Welch invites people bound by a code of silence to open up and to share their experiences. Less inspiration than a call to caring awareness, this pioneering work of storytelling journalism explores how love, compassion, money, and fear intermingle in what can only be described as a marketplace for our nation's greatest asset.

Join Me (Paperback): Danny Wallace Join Me (Paperback)
Danny Wallace 2
R443 R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Save R83 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Some men are born to lead. Others, not so much... Danny Wallace was bored. Just to see what would happen, he placed a whimsical ad in a local London paper. It said, simply, 'Join Me'. Within a month, he was receiving letters and emails from teachers, mechanics, sales reps, vicars, schoolchildren and pensioners - all pledging allegiance to his cause. But no one knew what his cause was. Soon he was proclaimed Leader. Increasingly obsessed and possibly power-crazed Danny risked losing his sanity and his loyal girlfriend. But who could deny the attraction of a global following of devoted joinees? A book about dreams, ambition and the responsibility that comes with power, Join Me is the true story of a man who created a cult by accident, and is proof that whilst some men were born to lead, others really haven't got a clue.

Pilgrim's Wilderness - A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier (Paperback): Tom Kizzia Pilgrim's Wilderness - A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier (Paperback)
Tom Kizzia
R445 R361 Discovery Miles 3 610 Save R84 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

"Into the Wild" meets "Helter Skelter" in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness - and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch.
When Papa Pilgrim appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy with his wife and fifteen children in tow, his new neighbors had little idea of the trouble to come. The Pilgrim Family presented themselves as a shining example of the homespun Christian ideal, with their proud piety and beautiful old-timey music, but their true story ran dark and deep. Within weeks, Papa had bulldozed a road through the mountains to the new family home at an abandoned copper mine, sparking a tense confrontation with the National Park Service and forcing his ghost town neighbors to take sides in an ever-more volatile battle over where a citizen's rights end and the government's power begins.
In "Pilgrim's Wilderness," veteran Alaska journalist Tom Kizzia unfolds the remarkable, at times harrowing, story of a charismatic spinner of American myths who was not what he seemed, the townspeople caught in his thrall, and the family he brought to the brink of ruin. As Kizzia discovered, Papa Pilgrim was in fact the son of a rich Texas family with ties to Hoover's FBI and strange, oblique connections to the Kennedy assassination and the movie stars of "Easy Rider." And as his fight with the government in Alaska grew more intense, the turmoil in his brood made it increasingly difficult to tell whether his children were messianic followers or hostages in desperate need of rescue. In this powerful piece of Americana, written with uncommon grace and high drama, Kizzia uses his unparalleled access to capture an era-defining clash between environmentalists and pioneers ignited by a mesmerizing sociopath who held a town and a family captive.

Instituto Nacional Mejia - Anecdotas de la Epoca de Oro (Spanish, Paperback): Juan Gachet Instituto Nacional Mejia - Anecdotas de la Epoca de Oro (Spanish, Paperback)
Juan Gachet
R646 R575 Discovery Miles 5 750 Save R71 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Five Patients (Paperback, Reissue): Michael Crichton Five Patients (Paperback, Reissue)
Michael Crichton 2
R293 R237 Discovery Miles 2 370 Save R56 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

ER has become the most successful television series in the world since Charlie’s Angels. Michael Crichton created the series from his own experiences as a medical doctor in the emergency rooms, operating rooms and wards of Massachusetts General Hospital. Five Patients is Michael Crichton's true account of the real life dramas so vividly portrayed in ER. A construction worker is seriously injured in a scaffold collapse: a middle-aged dispatcher is brought in suffering from a fever that has reduced him to a delirious wreck; a young man nearly severs his hand in an accident; an airline traveller suffers chest pains; a mother of three is diagnosed with a life-threatening disease.

?????? ??? ???? (Arabic, Paperback): ??? ???? ريحونا بلا رجّة (Arabic, Paperback)
آدم هانم
R325 R274 Discovery Miles 2 740 Save R51 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
???? ?????? ?????? (Arabic, Paperback): ???? ???? ???? ?????? وادي الذئاب الأخير (Arabic, Paperback)
محمد وسيم أحمد الغضبا
R218 R182 Discovery Miles 1 820 Save R36 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
?????? ?? ???? (Arabic, Paperback): ???? ?????? قويتني يا محمد (Arabic, Paperback)
ماهر الشهري
R141 R117 Discovery Miles 1 170 Save R24 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Trials Of Allura (Paperback): El Shammaa Dina The Trials Of Allura (Paperback)
El Shammaa Dina
R349 R294 Discovery Miles 2 940 Save R55 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lines to the Horizon - Australian Surf Writing (Paperback): Jock Serong Lines to the Horizon - Australian Surf Writing (Paperback)
Jock Serong
R510 Discovery Miles 5 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Mass Incarceration Nation - How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How It Can Recover (Hardcover):... Mass Incarceration Nation - How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How It Can Recover (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Bellin
R2,201 Discovery Miles 22 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The United States imprisons a higher proportion of its population than any other nation. Mass Incarceration Nation offers a novel, in-the-trenches perspective to explain the factors - historical, political, and institutional - that led to the current system of mass imprisonment. The book examines the causes and impacts of mass incarceration on both the political and criminal justice systems. With accessible language and straightforward statistical analysis, former prosecutor turned law professor Jeffrey Bellin provides a formula for reform to return to the low incarceration rates that characterized the United States prior to the 1970s.

Mass Incarceration Nation - How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How It Can Recover (Paperback):... Mass Incarceration Nation - How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How It Can Recover (Paperback)
Jeffrey Bellin
R806 Discovery Miles 8 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The United States imprisons a higher proportion of its population than any other nation. Mass Incarceration Nation offers a novel, in-the-trenches perspective to explain the factors - historical, political, and institutional - that led to the current system of mass imprisonment. The book examines the causes and impacts of mass incarceration on both the political and criminal justice systems. With accessible language and straightforward statistical analysis, former prosecutor turned law professor Jeffrey Bellin provides a formula for reform to return to the low incarceration rates that characterized the United States prior to the 1970s.

Harbin - A Cross-Cultural Biography (Hardcover): Mark Gamsa Harbin - A Cross-Cultural Biography (Hardcover)
Mark Gamsa
R1,739 R1,575 Discovery Miles 15 750 Save R164 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book offers an intimate portrait of early twentieth-century Harbin, a city in Manchuria where Russian colonialists, and later refugees from the Revolution, met with Chinese migrants. The deep social and intellectual fissures between the Russian and Chinese worlds were matched by a multitude of small efforts to cross the divide as the city underwent a wide range of social and political changes. Using surviving letters, archival photographs, and rare publications, this book also tells the personal story of a forgotten city resident, Baron Roger Budberg, a physician who, being neither Russian nor Chinese, nevertheless stood at the very centre of the cross-cultural divide in Harbin. The biography of an important city, fleshing out its place in the global history of East-West contacts and twentieth-century diasporas, this book is also the history of an individual life and an original experiment in historical writing.

True Story (Paperback): Michael Finkel True Story (Paperback)
Michael Finkel
R384 R312 Discovery Miles 3 120 Save R72 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Michael Finkel was a top New York Times Magazine journalist publicly fired and disgraced for making up a composite character for a big investigative news piece about Africa. This book is about how this brilliant, high achieving journalist found himself at that point in his life. But in parallel it's also about Christian Longo, a man accused of the multiple murder of his own wife and three children. After the deaths, Longo fled to Mexico, where he passed himself off as Michael Finkel, New York Times journalist. These two weird stories come together as Finkel in turn becomes fascinated (perhaps obsessed) with Longo the accused murderer, who while in prison and during his trial would talk only to Finkel. Who is using whom...?

Familia Pierret (Portuguese, Paperback): Alexandre Kraemer Familia Pierret (Portuguese, Paperback)
Alexandre Kraemer
R797 Discovery Miles 7 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Calor (Spanish, Paperback): Bill Buford Calor (Spanish, Paperback)
Bill Buford
R483 Discovery Miles 4 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
John Stonehouse, My Father - The True Story of the Runaway MP (Paperback): Julia Stonehouse John Stonehouse, My Father - The True Story of the Runaway MP (Paperback)
Julia Stonehouse
R334 R274 Discovery Miles 2 740 Save R60 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Clear, dispassionate and selfless' Spectator 'Exhaustive in her research, tenacious in spotting errors, indignant in denouncing lies.' Guardian 'A compelling account of an extraordinary political scandal, written from inside the Stonehouse family'. Martin Bell ** The authoritative account of the infamous runaway MP, by his daughter ** On 20 November 1974, British Labour MP and Privy Counsellor John Stonehouse faked his death in Miami and, using a forged identity, entered Australia hoping to escape his old life and start anew. One month later his identity was uncovered and he was cautioned; the start of years of legal proceedings. In a tale that involves spies from the communist Czechoslovak secret service, a three-way love affair and the Old Bailey, John's daughter examines previously unseen evidence, telling the dramatic true story for the first time, disputing allegations and upturning common misconceptions which are still in circulation. The story was never far from the front pages of the press in the mid-70s, and yet so much of the truth is still unknown. A close look at the political dynamics of the time; paced like a thriller, it's time for the world to know the real John Stonehouse. 'No book before this has delved into this fascinating political scandal in so much detail and with empathy.' Reaction

An Accidental Icon - How I dodged a bullet, spoke truth to power and lived to tell the tale (Hardcover): Norman Scott An Accidental Icon - How I dodged a bullet, spoke truth to power and lived to tell the tale (Hardcover)
Norman Scott
R663 R542 Discovery Miles 5 420 Save R121 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Compelling' The Daily Mail 'So many gripping moments... a real cracker' The Evening Standard The jaw-dropping and inspiring story of accidental queer icon Norman Scott (the hero of TV drama A Very English Scandal) and the part he played in one of the greatest political scandals of the 20th century. In October 1975 an assassin tried to murder Norman Scott on Exmoor but the trigger failed and he only succeeded in shooting Scott's beloved dog, Rinka. Scott subsequently found himself at the centre of a major political scandal and became an unlikely queer icon. But this was never his intention... He was born in 1940 into a poor, dysfunctional and abusive family. Aged sixteen he began an equestrian career, animals having been the one source of comfort in his childhood. By the age of twenty he had run into debts and had suffered a nervous breakdown. In 1960 Scott began a sexual affair with Jeremy Thorpe. By the time of the attempted assassination of Scott, Thorpe was married, leader of the Liberal Party and a figure at the heart of the establishment. He was embarrassed by their former relationship and wanted to cover it up. But he failed. The assassination attempt culminated in a sensational trial in 1979, where Thorpe was tried for conspiracy to murder. The press labelled Scott a madman and the establishment protected Thorpe, who was acquitted. Only recently has Scott's version of events been vindicated. An Accidental Icon tells a story that is inspiring and jaw droppingly unbelievable: it is the tale of the courage and survival of one man who took on the establishment

A Linhagem Bronze da Fenix 2019 - Historia de, uma menina desconhecida, indesejada e inoportuna, nascida com capacidades... A Linhagem Bronze da Fenix 2019 - Historia de, uma menina desconhecida, indesejada e inoportuna, nascida com capacidades unicas. (Portuguese, Paperback)
Dallas P. Elkheart; Translated by Leonilda Santana; Edited by Angelo Santana
R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ladka Hua Hai ???? ??? ?? (Hindi, Paperback): Jyoti Tiwari Ladka Hua Hai लड़का हुआ है (Hindi, Paperback)
Jyoti Tiwari
R541 Discovery Miles 5 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL (Paperback): Anne Frank The DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL (Paperback)
Anne Frank
R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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