As a medical detective of the modern world, forensic pathologist Ryan Blumenthal’s chief goal is to bring perpetrators to justice. He has performed thousands of autopsies, which have helped bring numerous criminals to book. In Autopsy he covers the hard lessons learnt as a rookie pathologist, as well as some of the most unusual cases he’s encountered.
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Nicole Engelbrecht is back with a new book that delves into the cold cases of her phenomenally popular True Crime SA podcast.
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This is not a book about breakups. It’s about erasure. About the quiet harm that can live inside love, the kind that doesn’t leave bruises on the skin but rewrites the architecture of your mind. It’s for anyone who’s wondered whether they were overreacting, too sensitive, too much, too little. Anyone who has asked, ‘Am I the problem?’
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“Mass incarceration has not just brought us nowhere. It has taken us backwards.” Edwin Cameron takes an unflinching look at what it will take to fix South Africa’s broken prison system and build a safer society. As inspector of prisons, he has intimate insights into what goes on behind prison walls. And it is shocking.
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In Being There, Leon reflects, too, on the nostalgia we often feel, through pain and pride, of childhood, school and the many ‘what ifs’ which inform a well-lived and varied life on the frontlines of South Africa and its history-in-the-making. And how a wrong turn, or too few votes, can change the course of one life.
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Belonging: A History of Indian South Africans is a comprehensive historical account by Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed that explores the complex journey of Indian South Africans from indenture and empire through apartheid to the present, examining their struggles for belonging, identity, and resilience against segregation and exclusion.
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Bessie se hangkasbiblioteek by Madelein Rust is a work of Afrikaans fiction full of nostalgia, humor, and colorful characters, set around Bessie Botha living on a small farm near Bloemfontein in 1974.
Louis Jansen van Vuuren se kostelike vertellings oor sy lewe in Frankryk word verryk met boeiende brokkies oor die Franse geskiedenis en raad vir hoe om te oorleef in ’n samelewing met ’n haas onleerbare taal en eiesoortige gewoontes. Uiteindelik gee dié Afrikaanse Fransman se lewe in die vreemde hom ’n nuwe waardering vir sy tuisland.
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