Robert Schapiro is disarmingly frank about life as an international pilot. He divulges near misses, emergency landings, navigation errors, passenger shenanigans, how pilots control rowdy travellers and absorbing detail about the technique of flying different aircraft types.
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How to Steal a City is an insider’s account of state capture in the city of Port Elizabeth from an ANC member and former senior government official. Written as a gripping real-life thriller, it takes the reader into the rotten heart of a city.
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Make Your Money Work for You by investment specialist Anthea Gardner is a user-friendly guide that shows it’s within everyone’s power to create wealth and retire well.
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80-year old Julia Albu drives from Cape Town to Cairo in her 20-year-old Conquest called Tracy. She has plenty of adventures, meets people from all walks of life, and learns an awful lot about Africa (‘it’s very big!).
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After many years of serving the country and doing his part to help rebuild South Africa, Dr Peter Friedland was given an opportunity to serve as a member of Nelson Mandela’s medical team and helped to monitor his hearing. Through many conversations had with Mandela and lessons he learnt from his life, Peter worked through some of his PTSD, his fears and the deep sense of hopelessness he felt as he came to terms with his decision to emigrate to Australia.
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Crash and Burn is an insider’s tale of the South African airline industry over the past thirty years, as told by Glenn Orsmond, and particularly the story of the dramatic collapse of Comair in 2022.
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In Killer Stories, Hodgskiss uses interviews, combined with the tenets of narrative psychology, to take the reader into the minds of killers. He lays out how the stories these men tell themselves about their lives contributed to where they ended up – and how they aren’t that different from the stories we all tell ourselves.
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Nomad Heart by actor and musician Ian Robert offers a highly entertaining glimpse of how actors make the magic happen, whether on a theatre stage or before the TV cameras.
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The ANC has ruled South Africa for three decades during which time the country has gone from the promise of the Rainbow Nation to dysfunction and despair. In The Super Cadres, bestselling author Pieter du Toit examines this legacy from the early halcyon days through to the disappointment of the Ramaphosa presidency.
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