Memoir, Biography & True Crime

Inside Out

Tim Jenkin was imprisoned by apartheid authorities in ...

Make a Skyf, Man!

At last! The long awaited sequel to Way Up Way Out, Harold ...

The House at the Edge of the World

This is an hilarious account of a South African family's ...

Child Soldier

This is the heartrending account of the author's terrifying ...

Mending a Broken Heart

In 2004, Nadine’s son, Zack, was born with severe and ...

With the Lid Off

OUT OF STOCK "This book provides a bridge across a gap of ...

The White Life of Felix Greenspan

These twenty chapters are stories generated during the ...

Love & Courage

Pregs Govender is widely respected and admired as someone ...

Mr Chameleon

OUT OF STOCK Few people can have had so extraordinary a ...

Dear Ahmedbhai, Dear Zuleikhabehn

Extraordinary stories can sometimes be found in ordinary ...

The Unlikely Secret Agent

It is 1963. South Africa is in crisis and the white state ...

Alex La Guma

Best known as a novelist and political activist, Alex la ...

Cyril Ramaphosa REVISED

This commanding biography by Anthony Butler tells the story ...

Black Bull, Ancestors and Me

As a sangoma, Nkunzi is able to explore dimensions of her ...

A Life's Mosaic

In the preface to her autobiography Phyllis Ntantala tells ...

The Woman Who Lived in a Tree

There really is a woman who lived in a tree – for sixteen ...

Three

In her humorous collection of columns, award-winning writer ...

When Hungry, Eat

Reminiscent of Eat, Pray, Love, When Hungry, Eat is a ...

The Au Pair

The Au Pair is a tantalising true story of a British wife ...

The First President

John Dube is a revered and important figure in the history ...

My Father, My Monster

Former TV journalist and now police spokesman McIntosh ...

Kader Asmal (Hardcover)

Kader Asmal was one of the most respected senior statesmen ...

Up in Arms

This is an insider’s story of political drama and intrigue ...

Battle for the President's Elephants

Searching for something more than her high-flying ...

From Me to Me

From Me To Me: Letters to my 16½-year-old-self is a ...

Dear Edward

This book is a personal journey into the family archives of ...

The Kelly Khumalo Story

Kelly Khumalo is an award-winning kwaito star who rose to ...

The Kebble Collusion

This is the story of the world’s biggest unprosecuted ...

Endings & Beginnings

When Redi Tlhabi is eleven years old, two years after her ...

Ingrid Jonker

Dubbed the South African Sylvia Plath due to the intensity ...

The Last Right

How would you like to die? This is the question Craig ...

Boy

It’s as though by repeating the words they will somehow ...

Dwelm Slagoffer

Die 21-jarige Vanessa Goosen, ʼn finalis in die Mej. ...

The Young Man with the Red Tie

It is November 1963. The white police state has captured ...

Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War against Apartheid

Ruth First and Joe Slovo, husband and wife, were leaders of ...

Armed and Dangerous

First published in 1993, Armed and Dangerous was one of the ...

Baobab Trails

Clive Walker has changed the face of conservation in South ...

Choosing to be Free

Rick Turner was one of South Africa’s most original and ...

Love is War: The Modimolle Monster

Young mother Surinda du Preez stood transfixed, barely able ...

Doing Time

Doing Time is more than just a book. It’s an invitation ...

With my Head above the Parapet: An insider account of the ANC in power

‘There is no room for sentimentality in politics and I am ...

Blood Money: The Cyril Karabus Story

“Murderer, murderer! You are under arrest.”

Memoirs of a Born Free: Reflections on the Rainbow Nation

On 19 October 1991, Malaika Lesego Samora Mahlatsi was born ...

The Class of 79

When did this story begin?... It began when three Rhodes ...

Coolie Woman

In 1903 a Brahmin woman sailed from India to Guiana as a ...

Love. Loss. Life.

More bizarre than any fiction imagined, this is a true ...

The Search for the Rarest Bird in the World

This book is more than a Boy’s Own adventure in search of ...

Bollywood Blonde

The inside story of the world’s biggest movie industry

Nobody's Business

In 2003, Thabo Jijana’s father was gunned down in a scrap ...

Tri the Beloved Country