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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’n Groep jong Suid-Afrikaanse Jode, die teiken van ’n terreuraanval in Kairo, is die vlam in ’n kruitvat vir grootskaalse oorlog in die Midde-Ooste. In die middel daarvan is joernalis Ruby Heyns, in besit van inligting wat die skaal in dié konflik kan swaai. Wanneer Ruby verdwyn, moet agent Reuben Kruger al sy kennis inspan om haar spoor op te tel.
Seun by Jacques Pauw is a powerful investigative work that explores contemporary South African issues through Pauw’s characteristic journalistic lens.
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Bestselling Richard Steyn presents the first book to analyse in detail the impact of WWII on South Africa. The book brings to life an extraordinary cast of characters, including wartime leader Jan Smuts, DF Malan and his National Party colleagues, African nationalists from Anton Lembede and AB Xuma to Walter Sisulu and Nelson Mandela, the influential Indian activists Yusuf Dadoo and Monty Naicker, and many others.
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From award-winning non-fiction writer Hedley Twidle comes Show Me the Place, an essay collection searching through history, memory and literature to find glimmers of utopia.
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‘This enthralling saga of crime, passion, and betrayal, is a compelling portrait of one of empire’s great, unsung antiheroes. The book is a scintillating achievement.’ – Jean Comaroff, Harvard University
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Single Minded is a contemporary South African novel that explores themes of focus, determination, and personal growth in modern society.
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Architect Sir Herbert Baker left an indelible mark on South Africa and much of the British Empire in the first half of the 20th century. This is the first full biography from childhood and was written with full cooperation from his family and with access to his archive and private papers.
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Author Jeremy Daniel tracks Siya’s journey from running wild on the streets of Zwide, through some crucial games in high school, into the Western Province rugby set-up and his fight to become Springbok captain.
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