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Julius Caesar (Paperback): Richard Appignanesi Julius Caesar (Paperback)
Richard Appignanesi; Originally written by William Shakespeare; Illustrated by Mustashrik Mahbub 2
R286 R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Save R44 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This manga recreation of Shakespeare's text transfers the action from Ancient Rome to a future Iraq, once again facing dictatorship after its prolonged struggles to establish a democracy. Part of the successful Manga Shakespeare series, a fusion of classic Shakespeare with manga visuals.

Eat, Drink & Blame The Ancestors - The Best Columns 2009-2014 (Paperback): Ndumiso Ngcobo Eat, Drink & Blame The Ancestors - The Best Columns 2009-2014 (Paperback)
Ndumiso Ngcobo
R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For five years, Ndumiso Ngcobo, South Africa’s favourite big-headed columnist, has entertained Sunday Times readers with his hallucinations: amusing anecdotes, outlandish opinions and furiously funny tales that are required reading for legions of fans.

Eat, Drink & Blame The Ancestors is a collection of Ngcobo’s most memorable columns in that time, edited and reworked for maximum effect, providing the perfect overview of his unique and wonderful insights.

Whether he’s consuming fermented beverages and communing with the ancestors, describing life with his terrorist children and skollie dog (RIP Spiderman), or dissecting dung-beetle philosophy with the Men of Thurst, this is the finest and funniest writing in the land.

I Write The Yawning Void - Selected Essays Of Sindiwe Magona (Paperback): Sindiwe Magona I Write The Yawning Void - Selected Essays Of Sindiwe Magona (Paperback)
Sindiwe Magona; Compiled by Renée Schatteman
R350 R273 Discovery Miles 2 730 Save R77 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

These essays bring to life many facets of Magona’s personal history, her deepest convictions, love for her country and belief in her ability to activate change. They are a meaningful supplement to her fictional works, while offering insightful responses to the conditions that inspired them.

Sindiwe Magona is a celebrated South African writer, storyteller and motivational speaker known mainly for her autobiographies, biographies, novels, short stories, poetry and children’s books. I Write the Yawning Void is a collection of essays that highlight her engagement with writing that span the transition from apartheid to the post-apartheid period and addresses themes such as HIV/Aids, language and culture, home and belonging.

Magona worked as a teacher, domestic worker and spent two decades working for the United Nations in the United States of America. She has received many awards for her fearless writing ‘truth to power’. Her written work is often informed by her lived experience of being a black woman resisting subjugation and poverty.

These essays bring to life many facets of Magona’s personal history as well as her deepest convictions, her love for her country and despair at the problems that continue to plague it, and her belief in her ability to activate change. They demonstrate Magona’s engaging storytelling and mastery of the essay form which serve as meaningful supplements to her fictional works, while simultaneously offering insightful responses to the conditions that inspired them.

Nou In Infrarooi - Gedigte (Afrikaans, Paperback, Reprint): Tom Dreyer Nou In Infrarooi - Gedigte (Afrikaans, Paperback, Reprint)
Tom Dreyer
R235 R202 Discovery Miles 2 020 Save R33 (14%) In Stock

Fisika, die metafisiese, en selfs wetenskapfiksie word verweef in Nou in infrarooi. Soos die titel suggereer, gaan dit hier oor dit wat sigbaar is versus dit wat nié deur blote sig waarneembaar is nie.

Bestaande plekke – sommige naby en ander ver – word taktiel en ewokatief in reisgedigte uitgebeeld. Hiermee saam hang die verkenning van die onsigbare: van identiteit, ’n soeke na waar jy hoort, weemoed en liefde.

’n Debuutbundel wat bekroonde skrywer Tom Dreyer onomwonde as digter vestig.

Geagte Skrywer - Briewe Aan 'n Verhaalredakteur (Afrikaans, Paperback): Engela Linde van Rooyen Geagte Skrywer - Briewe Aan 'n Verhaalredakteur (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Engela Linde van Rooyen 1
R20 Discovery Miles 200 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Engela Linde-Van Rooyen, ervare redakteur, letterkundige, verhaalredakteur en veral befaamde skrywer. Haar liefdesverhale, jeugverhale en kontreikuns het haar 'n huishoudelike naam gemaak lank voor haar meesterwerk - en toevallig haar honderdste boek - Vuur op die horison verskyn het (laasgenoemde was op die kortlys vir die M-Net-prys).

Geagte skrywer is 'n keur uit die briewe wat sy as verhaalredakteur aan skrywers geskryf het wat verhale aan haar gestuur het.

Finding Me - A Memoir (Paperback): Viola Davis Finding Me - A Memoir (Paperback)
Viola Davis
R360 R288 Discovery Miles 2 880 Save R72 (20%) In Stock

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A mind-blowing and emotionally honest tale of survival against all odds.' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'A breathtaking memoir...I was so moved by this book.' Oprah 'It is startlingly honest and, at times, a jaw-dropping read, charting her rise from poverty and abuse to becoming the first African-American to win the triple crown of an Oscar, Emmy and Tony for acting.' BBC News THE DEEPLY PERSONAL, BRUTALLY HONEST ACCOUNT OF VIOLA'S INSPIRING LIFE In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose and my strength, but also to finding my voice in a world that didn't always see me. As I wrote Finding Me, my eyes were open to the truth of how our stories are often not given close examination. They are bogarted, reinvented to fit into a crazy, competitive, judgmental world. So I wrote this for anyone who is searching for a way to understand and overcome a complicated past, let go of shame, and find acceptance. For anyone who needs reminding that a life worth living can only be born from radical honesty and the courage to shed facades and be...you. Finding Me is a deep reflection on my past and a promise for my future. My hope is that my story will inspire you to light up your own life with creative expression and rediscover who you were before the world put a label on you.

Churchill & Smuts: Die Vriendskap (Afrikaans, Paperback): Richard Steyn Churchill & Smuts: Die Vriendskap (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Richard Steyn 1
R295 R236 Discovery Miles 2 360 Save R59 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Die eiesoortige vriendskap tussen Winston Churchill en Jan Smuts is ’n studie in kontraste. In hul jeug het hulle uiteenlopende wêrelde bewoon: Churchill was die weerbarstige en energieke jong aristokraat; Smuts die asketiese, filosofiese Kaapse plaasseun, wat later aan Cambridge sou gaan studeer. Daar sou hy die eerste student word wat albei dele van die finale regskursus in dieselfde jaar neem en al twee met onderskeiding slaag.

Nadat hulle in die Anglo-Boereoorlog eers as vyande, en later in die Eerste Wêreldoorlog as bondgenote byeengebring is, het die mans ’n vriendskap gesmee wat oor die eerste helfte van die twintigste eeu gestrek het en tot Smuts se dood in 1950 voortgeduur het. Richard Steyn, die skrywer van Jan Smuts: Afrikaner sonder grense, bestudeer dié hegte vriendskap deur twee wêreldoorloë aan die hand van ’n magdom argiefstukke, briewe, telegramme en die omvangryke boeke wat oor albei mans geskryf is.

Dit is ’n fassinerende verhaal oor twee besonderse individue in oorlog en vrede – die een die leier van ’n groot ryk, die ander die leier van ’n klein, weerspannige lid van daardie ryk.

Verwoerd - My Journey Through Family Betrayals (Paperback): Wilhelm Verwoerd Verwoerd - My Journey Through Family Betrayals (Paperback)
Wilhelm Verwoerd
R345 R297 Discovery Miles 2 970 Save R48 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

When, in the 1990s, Wilhelm Verwoerd openly spoke out against his grandfather's racist policies and joined the ANC, he was ejected from the family. Working in Northern Ireland, making peace between former enemies, he feels the urge to return to his homeland, to make peace with his own family. 

Between listening to searing stories of friends and neigbours’ suffering under apartheid, he reads Betsie Verwoerd’s intimate private diaries. This moving memoir examines the complexities of having Verwoerd blood in your veins in the full knowledge that Verwoerd has blood on his hands.

A nuanced and intimate look at family loyalty, betrayal, and the demands of restitution in South Africa.

The Gift of Who I Am - Living Prayer Series: Book 1 (Paperback): Christine Black Cummings The Gift of Who I Am - Living Prayer Series: Book 1 (Paperback)
Christine Black Cummings
R390 R316 Discovery Miles 3 160 Save R74 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Space Crone (Paperback): Ursula K. Le Guin Space Crone (Paperback)
Ursula K. Le Guin
R440 R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Save R78 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Terugblik 2 - Nog 80 Sketse Van Ons Geskiedenis (Afrikaans, Paperback): Fransjohan Pretorius Terugblik 2 - Nog 80 Sketse Van Ons Geskiedenis (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Fransjohan Pretorius
R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 In Stock

Die tweede versameling van prof. Fransjohan Pretorius se rubrieke oor die geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika van die vroegste tye tot taamlik onlangs wat in die dagblad Beeld verskyn het.

Maak kennis met nog helde en hendsoppers, die skurke en sterre van die land se verlede in kort en boeiende rubrieke wat die leser se geheue sal verfris oor al die grootste momente in ons geskiedenis asook 'n paar minder bekende maar ewe interessante gebeure.

Melusi's Everyday Zulu - There Is Umzulu In All Of Us (Paperback): Melusi Tshabalala Melusi's Everyday Zulu - There Is Umzulu In All Of Us (Paperback)
Melusi Tshabalala
R250 R200 Discovery Miles 2 000 Save R50 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Duduza. Bopha. Imbiza. Phapha. Asixoliseni. Amapopeye . . . What is the power of a single word?

Six days a week, advertising creative Melusi Tshabalala posts a Zulu word on his Everyday Zulu Facebook page and tells a story about it. His off-beat sense of humour, razor-sharp social observations and frank political commentary not only teaches his followers isiZulu but also offer insight into the world Melusi inhabits as a 21st century Zulu man.

Over the past few months he has built up a big and a loyal following that include radio host Jenny Crwys-Williams and Afrikaans author Marita van der Vyfer. He pokes fun at our differences and makes us laugh at ourselves and each other.

Melusi asks critical questions of everyone, from Aunty Helen, Dudu-Zille to Silili (Cyril Ramaphosa) and even Woolworths (why are their aircons always set on ‘jou moer’?). His fans love him for his honesty and commitment to pointing out subtle and overt forms of prejudice and racism.

Melusi’s Everyday Zulu holds up a mirror that shows South African society in all its flaws and its sheer humanity. Most importantly, he shows the power of words and that there’s umzulu in all of us!

Elizabeth Taylor - The Grit And Glamour Of An Icon (Paperback): Kate Andersen Brower Elizabeth Taylor - The Grit And Glamour Of An Icon (Paperback)
Kate Andersen Brower
R472 Discovery Miles 4 720 In Stock

The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor.

Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the twentieth century's most famous film star. Including unseen photographs and unread private reflections, this authorised biography is a fascinating and complete portrait worthy of the legend and her legacy.

Elizabeth Taylor captures this intelligent, empathetic, tenacious, volatile and complex woman as never before, from her rise to massive fame at the age of twelve in National Velvet to becoming the first actor to negotiate a million-dollar salary for a film, from her eight marriages and enduring love affair with Richard Burton to her lifelong battle with addiction and her courageous efforts as an AIDS activist.

Using Elizabeth's unpublished letters, diary entries and off-the-record interview transcripts as well as interviews with 250 of her closest friends and family, Kate Andersen Brower tells the full, unvarnished story of the classic Hollywood star who continues to captivate audiences the world over.

Die Eindelose Avontuur - 'n Venser op die Wereldletterkunde (Afrikaans, Paperback): Audrey Blignault Die Eindelose Avontuur - 'n Venser op die Wereldletterkunde (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Audrey Blignault
R186 Discovery Miles 1 860 Ships in 4 - 8 working days
Chocolate Affirmations (Paperback): Leah Love Chocolate Affirmations (Paperback)
Leah Love
R485 R391 Discovery Miles 3 910 Save R94 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Terugblik - Sketse Van Ons Geskiedenis (Afrikaans, Paperback): Fransjohan Pretorius Terugblik - Sketse Van Ons Geskiedenis (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Fransjohan Pretorius
R210 Discovery Miles 2 100 In Stock

Prof. Fransjohan Pretorius se rubrieke oor die geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika van voor Jan van Riebeeck se landing tot die jongste tye wat in die dagblad Beeld verskyn het.

Maak kennis met die helde en hendsoppers, die skurke en sterre van die land se verlede in kort en boeiende rubrieke wat die leser se geheue sal verfris oor al die grootste momente in ons geskiedenis asook 'n paar minder bekende maar ewe interessante gebeure.

There Is Life After Tragedy - God's Pathway to Healing for Deeply Wounded Souls (Paperback): Sarah Jane Kellogg There Is Life After Tragedy - God's Pathway to Healing for Deeply Wounded Souls (Paperback)
Sarah Jane Kellogg
R372 R310 Discovery Miles 3 100 Save R62 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Black Joy - Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration (Paperback): Lewis-Giggetts Black Joy - Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration (Paperback)
Lewis-Giggetts
R472 R392 Discovery Miles 3 920 Save R80 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Your Silence Will Not Protect You - Essays and Poems (Paperback): Reni Eddo-Lodge Your Silence Will Not Protect You - Essays and Poems (Paperback)
Reni Eddo-Lodge; Audre Lorde; Introduction by Sara Ahmed
R428 R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Save R79 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Kodachrome - 90 Flitse (Afrikaans, Paperback): Tom Dreyer Kodachrome - 90 Flitse (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Tom Dreyer
R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Om hierdie skryfsels te lees is soos die oomblik wanneer jy ’n 3D-bril opsit of ’n towersampioen eet: Alles lyk opeens anders, die wêreld is op sy kop gedraai, oral knetter moontlikhede.

Dreyer het die vermoë om op hierdie manier te sien en om die leser só te laat sien.

Dis ’n wonderbaarlike mengelmoes van alledaagse sowel as fantasmagoriese objekte soos ’n vingerhoed, ’n verdwaalde los skroefie, ’n geel badeendjie op die vloer van ’n afdelingwinkel, die bloop, Napoleon en sy jaggeselskap wat op die vlug slaan voor ’n spul mak hase, die klankeffekte in Star Wars, ’n intakte beesoog in die pad, meerminne, ’n mimeerkunstenaar, Noorderligte, monsters, vampiere, salmanders en ander.

Die skrywer, wat ook digter is, mors nie met woorde nie en sy gedagtes is elegant.

Right as Rain (Paperback): Luellen Fletcher Right as Rain (Paperback)
Luellen Fletcher
R369 R299 Discovery Miles 2 990 Save R70 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stripping - My Fight to Find Me (Hardcover): Sunita Merriman Stripping - My Fight to Find Me (Hardcover)
Sunita Merriman
R746 R622 Discovery Miles 6 220 Save R124 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ons praat Afrikaans - diverse mense - een taal (Afrikaans, Hardcover): Douw Greeff, SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns Ons praat Afrikaans - diverse mense - een taal (Afrikaans, Hardcover)
Douw Greeff, SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns
R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Ons praat Afrikaans – diverse mense – een taal is meer as net nog ’n fotoboek: dit is die eindproduk van ’n projek wat sy ontstaan gevind het in een individu se liefde vir die Afrikaanse kultuur en taal, Douw Greeff. Die projek is geloods in 2016 toe fotograwe (amateur en ook professioneel) genader is om werke in te skryf wat hulle voel die Afrikaanse kultuur en taal raakvat. Verskeie inskrywings is ontvang en die top foto’s het deurgegaan na ’n beoordelings-rondte, waar ’n paneel die beste foto’s gekies het om in hierdie pragpublikasie te pronk.

N.P. Van Wyk Louw - Versamelde Dramas (Afrikaans, Hardcover): N. P. van Wyk Louw N.P. Van Wyk Louw - Versamelde Dramas (Afrikaans, Hardcover)
N. P. van Wyk Louw; Edited by Deborah Steinmair, Kristel de Weerd
R568 Discovery Miles 5 680 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Vir die eerste keer ooit word al die dramas, hoorspele en die libretto van N.P. Van Wyk Louw in ’n versamelbundel uitgegee, met ’n voorwoord deur prof. Chris van der Merwe.

Van der Merwe sê: “Met die herlees van die dramas, hoorspele, koorspel en libretto van N. P. van Wyk Louw het dit my opgeval hoe dikwels hulle ʼn gesprek met mekaar voer. Soortgelyke temas word herhaaldelik uitgebeeld; die tekste sluit by mekaar aan, komplementeer mekaar, spreek mekaar soms teen. Dikwels kom die temas wat Louw in sy essays bespreek het of in sy poësie tot uiting gebring het, ook in die karakterisering en die intriges van die dramas na vore. Dit is opmerklik dat die denke van Louw nooit stagneer nie; steeds is daar tekens van ʼn voortgaande worsteling en vernuwing. Die indiwiduele dramas, in die groter konteks van sy oeuvre gelees, laat ʼn fassinerende skrywerspersoonlikheid na vore kom."

A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback): Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
Tennessee Williams; Edited by E. Browne; Introduction by Arthur Miller 1
R240 R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Save R48 (20%) In Stock

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Arthur Miller. 'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers' Fading southern belle Blanche DuBois is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley Kowalski. Eventually their violent collision course causes Blanche's fragile sense of identity to crumble, threatening to destroy her sanity and her one chance of happiness. Tennessee Williams's steamy and shocking landmark drama, recreated as the immortal film starring Marlon Brando, is one of the most influential plays of the twentieth century. Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was born in Columbus, Mississippi. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published The Glass Menagerie (1944), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), The Night of the Iguana (1961), and Small Craft Warnings (1972). If you enjoyed A Streetcar Named Desire, you might like The Glass Menagerie, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Lyrical and poetic and human and heartbreaking and memorable and funny' Francis Ford Coppola, director of The Godfather 'One of the greatest American plays' Observer

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