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| BOOK DESCRIPTIONS & REVIEWS |
| This online books facility lists brief synopses of hand-selected fiction and non fiction books available at Kalk Bay Books.
Titles marked with an * indicate the entry includes comments/reviews from staff and readers.
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The books listed here have been hand-selected for inclusion. New titles are added each week. Please note, we have many more titles in stock and can order thousands that aren't. To enquire about books not yet listed here, send us a query through the Book Orders & Enquiries option on the navigation bar. |
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| 1000 Books to Change Your Life | | Read more |
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| Fifty leading novelists, writers and critics draw the arc of a life lived in books, from birth to death.(Non fiction books) |
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| Author: Time-Out Guides |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781846700521 |
| Categories: Books about Books |
| Date posted: 6 October 2009 |
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| 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (Updated Edition) | | Read more |
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| Newly revised to include the most up-to-date publications and the best selections from the international fiction scene. (Non fiction books) |
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| Author: Boxall, Peter |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781844036141 |
| Categories: Books about Books |
| Date posted: 6 October 2009 |
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| 101 Ways to Work Out on the Ball | | Read more |
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| Illustrated guide to Pilates, yoga and more. (Non fiction books) |
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| Author: Gillies, Elizabeth |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781592330843 |
| Categories: Health & Exercise |
| Date posted: 6 October 2009 |
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| 12 Books that Changed the World | | Read more |
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| How words and wisdom have shaped our lives. (Non fiction books, book publishing) |
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| Author: Bragg, Melvyn |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780340839829 |
| Categories: Books about Books |
| Date posted: 6 October 2009 |
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| 13 Uur | | Read more |
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| ... Redelik normale dag, jou tipiese 13 uur van Suid-Afrikaanse wetstoepassing. (Non fiction books) |
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| Author: Meyer, Deon |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780798150101 |
| Categories: Fiksie: Afrikaans, Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 6 October 2009 |
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| 142 Strand: A Radical Address in Victorian London | | Read more |
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| The gathering place forthe daring and avant-garde writers and thinkers of Victorian London gathered here. (Non fiction books, book publishing) |
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| Author: Ashton, Rosemary |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780712606967 |
| Categories: History, Books about Books |
| Date posted: 6 October 2009 |
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| 2666 | | Read more |
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| Acclaimed as Roberto Bolano's masterpiece. |
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| Author: Bolano, Roberto |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780330447430 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 28 October 2009 |
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| 50 Ways to Save Water & Energy | | Read more |
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| Ways to introduce change into you lifestyle. (Non fiction books, green books) |
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| Author: Berry, Sian |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781856267731 |
| Categories: Green Books |
| Date posted: 6 October 2009 |
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| 84 Charing Cross Road (H & F) | | Read more |
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| A classic love story to the power of books. (Non fiction books, fiction books, classics) |
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| Author: Hanff, Helene |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781860498503 (H) & 9781860498503 (F) |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary, Fiction: film adaptations |
| Date posted: 6 October 2009 |
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| A-Z Guide to Good Mental Health, The | | Read more |
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| You don't have to be famous to have manic depression, with a foreword by Stephen Fry. |
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| Author: Thomas, Jeremy & Hughes, Dr Tony |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780141032177 |
| Categories: Psychology |
| Date posted: 28 November 2008 |
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| A-Z of Vegetable Gardening in South Africa, The | | Read more |
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| This comprehensive guide to vegetable gardening in South Africa, written specially for the home gardener, is based on practical experience and intimate knowledge of local growing conditions. |
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| Author: Hadfield, Jack |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868726295 |
| Categories: Gardening |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Achieving the Impossible | | Read more |
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| Inspiring new book from the explorer, athlete and polar protector Lewis Gordon Pugh. |
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| Author: Lewis Gordon Pugh |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868423408 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - Sport |
| Date posted: 19 June 2010 |
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| Acid Alex | | Read more |
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| Word-of-mouth has seen Al Lovejoy's memoir move steadily off the shelves at Kalk Bay Books. |
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| Author: Lovejoy, Al |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770070936 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Ad Hoc at Home | | Read more |
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| Family-style recipes from one of America's best-loved chefs. |
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| Author: Keller, Thomas |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781579653774 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 22 January 2010 |
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| Adrift on the Open Veld | | Read more |
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| The Deneys Reitz Trilogy included Commando (1929, Trekking On (1933) and No Outspan (1943), first published together in 1999. This description refers to the 2006 edition. (Non fiction books) |
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| Author: Reitz, Deneys |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780620243803 |
| Categories: African History |
| Date posted: 6 October 2009 |
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| Adventures of Tintin: The Blue Lotus | | Read more |
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| This collector's edition is published in English for the first time. |
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| Author: Herge |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781405240703 |
| Categories: Fiction: Classics |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Africa Remix | | Read more |
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| Contemporary art of a continent, published on the occasion of the exhibition by the same name at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, June-September 2007 |
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| Author: Njami, Simon |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770093638 |
| Categories: African Arts & Culture |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Africa: A Biography of a Continent | | Read more |
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| Winner of the1998 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction. |
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| Author: Reader, John |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780140266757 |
| Categories: African History |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| African ABC, An | | Read more |
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| Learning the ABC in an African context. |
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| Author: Taylor, Jacqui |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868727032 |
| Categories: African Children's books |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| African Designs | | Read more |
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| Line drawings of African patterns and designs. |
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| Author: Jewell, Rebecca |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780714180748 |
| Categories: African Arts & Culture |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| African Psycho | | Read more |
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| The southern African debut of a remarkable new African voice, Alain Mabanckou.
* On the Bookshelf of: Ingrid de Kok * |
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| Author: Mabanckou, Alain |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770093775 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 11 March 2009 |
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| African Salad | | Read more |
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| African Salad is a photographic trek to find lekker South African flavour. It has very little to do with salads. |
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| Author: Engelbrecht, Stan & De Beer, Tamsen |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780620354516 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| African Style | | Read more |
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| A visual feast from Taschen Icons. |
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| Author: Von Schawen, Deidi (Phot) |
| EAN/ISBN: 9783822839171 |
| Categories: Interiors |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| African Women's Protocol, The | | Read more |
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| The guide explores in practice the rights ratified for women by the protocol. |
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| Author: Mukasa, Rosemary Semufumu |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781920196080 |
| Categories: African Studies, Women's Studies |
| Date posted: 14 January 2009 |
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| Africanismo | | Read more |
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| Interior inspiration from Africa, photographed by Craig Fraser. |
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| Author: Fraser, Craig |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780980265125 |
| Categories: Interiors |
| Date posted: 10 December 2009 |
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| After Mandela | | Read more |
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| The battle for the soul of South Africa. |
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| Author: Russell, Alec |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780091926021 |
| Categories: African Current Affairs & Politics |
| Date posted: 8 June 2009 |
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| After Tears | | Read more |
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| Shortlisted for the 2008 Sunday Times Fiction Prize. |
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| Author: Mhlongo, Niq |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780795702563 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| After the Party | | Read more |
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| Andrew Feinstein received public acclaim when he published his 'insider's' story of the ANC's doings on the Arms deal. (Non fiction books) |
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| Author: Feinstein, Andrew |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868423149 |
| Categories: African Current Affairs & Politics |
| Date posted: 14 October 2009 |
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| Agaat (Eng) * | | Read more |
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| The winner of the Sunday Times Fiction Award 2007 for both author Marlene van Niekerk and translator Michiel Heyns, Agaat ranks at the forefront of contemporary South African fiction. (Fiction books, KBB best sellers) |
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| Author: Van Niekerk, Marlene & Heyns, Michiel (transl.) |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868422562 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 6 October 2009 |
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| Agatha Christie: An English Mystery | | Read more |
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| A perceptive biography of Agatha Christie written with unique access to her diaries, letters and family. |
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| Author: Thompson, Laura |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780755314881 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - Literary |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Age of Oprah, The | | Read more |
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| Cultural icon for neoliberal era. |
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| Author: Peck, Janice |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781594514692 |
| Categories: Popular Culture |
| Date posted: 1 April 2009 |
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| Age of the Warrior: Selected Writings, The | | Read more |
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| Robert Fisk's passionate writing in this book will anger those who talk uncritically about the 'war on terror', who refer to torture as 'abuse', who call dictators 'strongmen' if they're on our side - and dictators if they are not. In a journalistic world in which criticism of authority, however mild, is considered subversive, Fisk's reporting is more vital than ever. |
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| Author: Fisk, Robert |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780007270736 |
| Categories: Politics & Current Affairs |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Age of Wonder, The | | Read more |
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| How the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science. Short-listed for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Science Books 2009. |
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| Author: Holmes, Richard |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780007149537 |
| Categories: Science & Nature |
| Date posted: 28 October 2009 |
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| Ageless Yoga | | Read more |
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| Gentle workouts for health and fitness. |
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| Author: Pegrum, Julia |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781904991182 |
| Categories: Health & Exercise |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Aidsafari | | Read more |
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| Joint Winner of the 2006 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award. With searing honesty, tender prose and outrageous humour, Adam Levin takes us through the daily trials of living with Aids |
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| Author: Levin, Adam |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868729289 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Alchemist, The (P) | | Read more |
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| The Alchemist is a global phenomenon, selling over 30 million copies worldwide. This edition includes exclusive content, such as a new forward to the book by the author, an interview with Paulo Coelho, and much more, providing an in-depth look at this much-loved title. |
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| Author: Coelho, Paulo |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780722532935 |
| Categories: Mind, Body, Spirit, Fiction: General |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Algeria's Way | | Read more |
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| This novel was inspired by author Alex Smith's life-changing pilgrimage on the El Camino de Compostello. It was launched at Kalk Bay Books in 2007. |
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| Author: Smith, Alex |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781415200391 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Alias Grace | | Read more |
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| Margaret Atwood's extraordinary account of the psyche of a murderer.
On the Bookshelf of: Anne Schuster |
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| Author: Atwood, Margaret |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781860492594 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 3 January 2009 |
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| All One Horse | | Read more |
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| Poetry, philosophy and paintings |
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| Author: Breytenbach, Breyten |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780979333071 |
| Categories: Essays & Literary Journals |
| Date posted: 27 February 2010 |
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| All the Sad Young Literary Men (T) | | Read more |
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| The engaging and hilarious story of three young men and their circuitous paths through sex, love, betrayal, and the writing of books. |
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| Author: Gessen, Keith |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780434018482 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Allergy Explosion | | Read more |
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| Jo Revill looks at the nature of allergy. |
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| Author: Revill, Jo |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781856267304 |
| Categories: Health & Exercise |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Almost Moon, The (P) * | | Read more |
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| The second novel by Alice Sebold, author of the unforgettable The Lovely Bones. This one is no less forgettable... |
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| Author: Sebold, Alice |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780330451352 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Alpha Dogs | | Read more |
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| How political spin became global business |
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| Author: Harding, James |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781843548683 |
| Categories: Politics & Current Affairs |
| Date posted: 9 December 2009 |
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| Amber Spyglass, The: Book 3 in His Dark Materials | | Read more |
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| His Dark Materials is a story in three volumes that moves between different universes. |
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| Author: Pullman, Philip |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780439944687 |
| Categories: Children's Books, Fiction: Classics |
| Date posted: 28 January 2009 |
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| Amenable Women * | | Read more |
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| While retaining her characteristic lightness and humour, in Amenable Women, Mavis Cheek explores new territory, both in content and structure. |
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| Author: Cheek, Mavis |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780571238965 |
| Categories: Fiction: General |
| Date posted: 30 April 2009 |
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| American Wife | | Read more |
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| From small town to First Lady, a new novel from Curtis Sittenfeld. |
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| Author: Sittenfeld, Curtis |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780385616416 |
| Categories: Fiction: General |
| Date posted: 19 December 2008 |
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| Amis & Son (H) | | Read more |
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| A critical biography of two literary generations. |
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| Author: Powell, Neil |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781405054621 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - Literary |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Amsterdam | | Read more |
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| Winner of the Booker Prize in 1997. |
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| Author: McEwan, Ian |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099272779 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 23 December 2008 |
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| Anathem * | | Read more |
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| *Read & Highly Recommended*
A brilliant, complex, highly readable new book from the author of Cryptonomicon. |
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| Author: Stephenson, Neal |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781843549161 |
| Categories: Fiction: SciFi & Fantasy |
| Date posted: 30 January 2009 |
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| Anatomy of Deception, The (T) | | Read more |
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| An atmospheric thriller by Lawrence Goldstone. |
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| Author: Goldstone, Lawrence |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780593058909 |
| Categories: Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Anatomy of South Africa | | Read more |
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| An essential book for anyone wanting to now anything about the power structures in South African politics. |
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| Author: Calland, Richard |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868729036 |
| Categories: African Current Affairs & Politics |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Angaza Afrika: African Art Now | | Read more |
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| This book brings together more than 60 of Africa's most creative contemporary artists. |
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| Author: Spring, Chris |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868590803 |
| Categories: African Arts & Culture |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902, The | | Read more |
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| An outline of the war, through the first formal stages to the guerilla struggle of the bitter end. |
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| Author: Pretorius, FransJohan |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868721795 |
| Categories: African History |
| Date posted: 6 October 2009 |
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| Animal's People (P) | | Read more |
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| Animal has gone on all fours ever since That Night when, thanks to an American chemical company, the Apocalypse visited his slum. |
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| Author: Sinha, Indra |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781416526278 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (P) | | Read more |
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| Barbara Kingsolver opens her home to us, as she and her family embark on a year of eating locally. |
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| Author: Kingsolver, Barbara |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780571233571 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - Literary, Gardening, Green Books |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Annie Leibowitz at Work | | Read more |
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| The stories behind her most famous photographs |
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| Author: Leibowtiz, Annie |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780224087575 |
| Categories: Photography |
| Date posted: 1 May 2009 |
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| Answer to Cancer, The | | Read more |
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| How to take control of your cancer risk, by Carolyn D Runowicz. |
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| Author: Runowicz, Carolyn D |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781594862939 |
| Categories: Health & Exercise |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Appeal to Reason, An | | Read more |
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| A cool look at global warming - the controversial bestseller with an new afterword. |
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| Author: Lawson, Nigel |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780715638415 |
| Categories: Politics & Current Affairs |
| Date posted: 8 December 2009 |
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| Architects of Poverty | | Read more |
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| Why African capitalism needs changing. |
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| Author: Mbeki, Moeletsi |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770101616 |
| Categories: African Current Affairs & Politics, African Studies |
| Date posted: 9 December 2009 |
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| Architecture of Happiness, The | | Read more |
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| The secret art of furnishing your life, by Alain de Botton |
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| Author: De Botton, Alain |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780141015002 |
| Categories: Architecture, Philosophy |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Arms Deal in Your Pocket, The | | Read more |
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| At last - for those who don't know their corvettes from their combat suites. |
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| Author: Holden, Paul |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868423132 |
| Categories: African Current Affairs & Politics |
| Date posted: 3 December 2008 |
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| Around Africa on my Bicycle | | Read more |
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| In a world first, almost incredibly, Riaan Manser rode a bicycle right around the continent of Africa. |
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| Author: Manser, Riaan |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868422470 |
| Categories: African Travel |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Around the World in 80 Days | | Read more |
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| One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. |
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| Author: Verne, Jules |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780141035871 |
| Categories: Fiction: Classics |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Arse Poetica | | Read more |
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| Musings on muse abuse by Gus Ferguson |
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| Author: Ferguson, Gus |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780795701610 |
| Categories: Poetry |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Art of Eating magazine | | Read more |
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| The Fall 2009 edition of one of the best food magazines in the world, is now available at Kalk Bay Books. |
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| Author: Behr, Edward (editor) |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 10 December 2009 |
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| Art of Reading Poetry, The | | Read more |
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| In this essay, Harold Bloom conveys his passionate concern for how a poem should be interpreted and appreciated. |
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| Author: Bloom, Harold |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780060769666 |
| Categories: Poetry |
| Date posted: 11 December 2009 |
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| Art of Simple Food, The | | Read more |
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| 'This book is for everyone who wants to learn to cook, or to become a better cook.' - Alice Waters |
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| Author: Waters, Alice |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780718154387 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Art of the Surfboard, The | | Read more |
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| Author: Kampion, Drew |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781586857769 |
| Categories: Sport |
| Date posted: 11 July 2009 |
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| Art of Travel, The | | Read more |
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| Alain de Botton's perfect antidote to those travel guides that tell us what to do when we get there... |
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| Author: De Botton, Alain |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780140276626 |
| Categories: Philosophy, Travel |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Art Thief, The | | Read more |
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| Three masterpieces, one mastermind. A thriller by Noah Charney. |
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| Author: Charney, Noah |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781847393524 |
| Categories: Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Assault on Reason, The (P) * | | Read more |
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| After the success of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s most recent book has confirmed him as a man with a conscience a brain, and the guts to use them both |
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| Author: Gore, Al |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780747593348 |
| Categories: Politics & Current Affairs |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Asthma Controlled Naturally | | Read more |
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| Natural therapies to help sufferers control their condition and become less drug dependent. |
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| Author: Roberts, Ron |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770076341 |
| Categories: Health & Exercise |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| At Home with White | | Read more |
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| Atlanta Bartlett explores inspirational interiors and shows how you can transform your home with white. |
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| Author: Bartlett, Atlanta |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781845973483 |
| Categories: Interiors |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Atlas of the Southern Sky | | Read more |
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| Take a sky tour with Steve Massey and Steve Quirk. |
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| Author: Massey, Steve & Quirk, Steve |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781741105308 |
| Categories: Science & Nature |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Atonement (F) | | Read more |
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| Ian McEwan's compelling book about guilt and atonement. |
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| Author: McEwan, Ian |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099507383 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary, Fiction: film adaptations |
| Date posted: 3 August 2009 |
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| Audacity of Hope, The | | Read more |
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| Barack Obama's dreams for a changed America. |
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| Author: Obama, Barack |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781847670830 |
| Categories: Politics & Current Affairs |
| Date posted: 30 November 2008 |
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| Azincourt | | Read more |
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| A historical novel culminating in the historical battle of Azincourt. |
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| Author: Cornwell, Bernard |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780007273713 |
| Categories: Fiction Historical |
| Date posted: 18 December 2008 |
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| Babar the King | | Read more |
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| One of the classic series of children's stories by Jean de Brunhoff. |
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| Author: De Brunhoff, Jean |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781405238199 |
| Categories: Children's Books |
| Date posted: 2 December 2008 |
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| Baby | | Read more |
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| An amazing book from Desmond Morris, author of The Naked Ape |
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| Author: Morris, Desmond |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780600609018 |
| Categories: Science & Nature |
| Date posted: 2 December 2008 |
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| Baby Einstein Mirror Me | | Read more |
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| A mirror on every spread teaches babies and young children parts of the face in a playful way. |
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| Author: Aigner-Clark, Julie |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781741118421 |
| Categories: Children's Books |
| Date posted: 24 May 2010 |
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| Bad Company | | Read more |
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| Stories of intrigue, suspense and thrills from South Africa's best crime writers. |
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| Author: Hichens, Joanne (ed) |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770100879 |
| Categories: African Fiction, Fiction: Short Stories, Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 17 April 2009 |
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| Bad Science | | Read more |
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| Ben Goldacre masterfully dismantles the dodgy science that is used to fool us. |
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| Author: Goldacre, Ben |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780007240197 |
| Categories: Science & Nature |
| Date posted: 2 December 2008 |
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| Bafana Bafana | | Read more |
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| A story of soccer, Magic and Mandela. Illustrated by Andrew Stooke. |
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| Author: Blacklaws, Troy |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770097186 |
| Categories: African Children's books, Children's Books |
| Date posted: 11 December 2009 |
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| Bake | | Read more |
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| Delicious bakes from the Queen of Tarts, Tina Bester. |
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| Author: Bester, Tina |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780981428710 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 9 December 2009 |
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| Baker, The | | Read more |
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| Part of a beautifully designed and photographed ingredients-based series, by Leanne Kitchen. |
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| Author: Kitchen, Leanne |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781741960976 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 2 December 2008 |
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| Baking Artisan Bread | | Read more |
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| A simplified, formula-based approach to baking bread at home, by Ciril Hirtz |
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| Author: Hirtz, Ciril |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781592534531 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 2 December 2008 |
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| Barefoot Architect, The | | Read more |
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| The first English translation from a 1982 Portuguese guide to building just about everything needed for human habitation using 'green' methods. |
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| Author: Van Lengen, Johan |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780936070421 |
| Categories: Architecture |
| Date posted: 9 December 2009 |
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| Basics, The * | | Read more |
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| A small and neat, black cloth-bound, gilt-edged food bible. |
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| Author: Verheyden, Filip |
| EAN/ISBN: 9789077695166 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 2 December 2008 |
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| Basket of Leaves, A: 99 Books that Capture the Spirit of Africa | | Read more |
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| A literary tour of the best-written, the most interesting books to come from every country in Africa |
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| Author: Wisner, Geoff |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770092068 |
| Categories: Books about Books |
| Date posted: 2 December 2008 |
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| Bathrooms: Simply Add Water | | Read more |
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| Terence Conran on how to design the perfect bathroom. |
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| Author: Conran, Terence |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781840915075 |
| Categories: Interiors |
| Date posted: 2 December 2008 |
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| Batting in the Baltic | | Read more |
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| 1 year, 19 countries, an 8,000-mile quest for a century by Angus Bell. |
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| Author: Bell, Angus |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780143024224 |
| Categories: Sport, Travel |
| Date posted: 2 December 2008 |
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| Beach Houses | | Read more |
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| The best of beach and bay living |
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| Author: Australian House & Garden |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781863964975 |
| Categories: Interiors |
| Date posted: 2 December 2008 |
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| Beacon, The | | Read more |
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| An unsettling story about memory, truth and lies. |
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| Author: Hill, Susan |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780701183400 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 8 June 2009 |
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| Beatrix Potter: Complete Tales | | Read more |
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| This complete and unabridged collection contains all 23 of Beatrix Potter's Tales in one deluxe volume with all their original illustrations. |
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| Author: Potter, Beatrix |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780723258049 |
| Categories: Children's Books |
| Date posted: 2 December 2008 |
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| Beautiful Machine, The | | Read more |
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| A philosophy of life-cycling that is sure to satisfy those for whom it is about more than the bike. |
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| Author: Fife, Graeme |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781845962418 |
| Categories: Sport |
| Date posted: 2 December 2008 |
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| Beautiful Place to Die, A | | Read more |
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| In 1950s South Africa the colour of a killer's skin matters more than justice... Introducing Detective Emmanuel Cooper. |
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| Author: Nunn, Malla |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770101579 |
| Categories: African Fiction, Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 17 April 2009 |
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| Beauty's Gift | | Read more |
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| '...I have been to many funerals of Beauty ... I have looked into the eyes of every Mamkwayi - and yet Magona has made me cry.' - Zachie Achmat. |
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| Author: Magona, Sindiwe |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780795702723 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 19 December 2008 |
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| Becoming Jane | | Read more |
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| A intimate portrait of the much-loved novelist, by Jon Spence. |
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| Author: Spence, Jon |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781847250469 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - Literary |
| Date posted: 2 December 2008 |
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| Beethoven was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories | | Read more |
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| A collection of short stories from Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer |
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| Author: Gordimer, Nadine |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780747593843 |
| Categories: African Fiction, Fiction: Short Stories |
| Date posted: 2 December 2008 |
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| Before I Forget | | Read more |
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| Erotic, searingly honest, elegaic and profoundly moving, Before I Forget is the history of a life set against the history of a nation, and the history of a transforming love. |
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| Author: Brink, Andre |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099477525 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 2 December 2008 |
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| Begging to Be Black | | Read more |
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| The third book in Antjie Krog's trilogy of books examining the meaning of living and being in South Africa. |
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| Author: Krog, Antjie |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770220706 |
| Categories: African Studies |
| Date posted: 20 November 2009 |
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| Behaviour of Moths, The | | Read more |
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| As dark as it is funny - a wonderfully creepy gothic tale by Poppy Adams |
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| Author: Adams, Poppy |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781844085125 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 2 December 2008 |
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| Behind the Curtain | | Read more |
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| Jean launched her memoir at Kalk Bay Books, cheered on by family and friends. As a member of AA, neither Jean's real name nor picture may be published. |
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| Author: Jean |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780798148344 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs |
| Date posted: 2 December 2008 |
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| Beijing Blur | | Read more |
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| A head-spinning journey into modern China |
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| Author: West, James |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780143006756 |
| Categories: Travel |
| Date posted: 2 December 2008 |
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| Being Shelley | | Read more |
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| Anne Wroe's biography takes the life of one of England's greatest poets and turns it inside out. |
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| Author: Wroe, Anne |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099507895 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - Literary |
| Date posted: 2 December 2008 |
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| Bel Canto | | Read more |
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| The poignant - and at times very funny - novel, repackaged and promoted as part of Perennial's fiction promotion in 2008. |
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| Author: Patchett, Ann |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780007268313 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 23 December 2008 |
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| Believers, The | | Read more |
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| A new novel from the author of Notes on a Scandal. |
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| Author: Heller, Zoe |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780141024677 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 9 June 2009 |
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| Beloved | | Read more |
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| An American masterpiece by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison. |
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| Author: Morrison, Toni |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099511656 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 2 December 2008 |
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| Ben Naparstek in Conversation | | Read more |
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| Encounters with 39 great writers |
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| Author: Naparstek, Ben |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781921640117 |
| Categories: Books about Books, Essays & Literary Journals |
| Date posted: 10 December 2009 |
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| Bessie Head: Thunder Behind Her Ears | | Read more |
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| Her life and writing. |
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| Author: Eilersen, Gillian Stead |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868144464 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs, Biographies & Memoirs - Literary |
| Date posted: 2 May 2009 |
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| Best British Mysteries | | Read more |
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| Over 35 new short stories from the UK's premier crime writers. |
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| Author: Jakubowski, Maxim |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780762433780 |
| Categories: Fiction: Short Stories, Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 2 December 2008 |
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| Bethlehem Murders, The | | Read more |
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| An intelligent detective story by Matt Rees. |
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| Author: Rees, Matt |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781843546030 |
| Categories: Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 2 December 2008 |
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| Bettina Valentino and the Picasso Club | | Read more |
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| A new book for children from the inimitable Niki Daly |
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| Author: Daly, Niki |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780374307530 |
| Categories: Children's Books, African Children's books |
| Date posted: 17 August 2009 |
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| Bibendum Cookbook, The | | Read more |
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| Favourite Bibendum Classics. |
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| Author: Conran, Terence |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781840915051 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Big Fat Duck Cookbook, The | | Read more |
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| In this enormous, beautiful book, we hear the full story of the meteoric rise of Heston Blumenthal and The Fat Duck. |
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| Author: Blumentahal, Heston |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780747583691 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Birds in Words | | Read more |
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| The twitcher's guide to South African poetry, compiled by Gus Ferguson and Tony Morphet |
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| Author: Ferguson, Gus & Morphet, Tony |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781415200247 |
| Categories: Poetry |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Birdsong | | Read more |
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| Sebastian Faulks'magnificent novel is testimony to the power of literature to bear witness to history. |
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| Author: Faulks, Sebastian |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099387916 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 28 January 2009 |
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| Black Butterflies | | Read more |
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| This is an important new translation of the work of Ingrid Jonker, one of the best-loved Afrikaans poets of all time. It includes an introduction by Andre Brink and a more extensive selection of her poems than the earlier collection of her poetry published in 1988. |
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| Author: Jonker, Ingrid |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780798148924 |
| Categories: Poetry |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Black Diamond | | Read more |
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| In Black Diamond, Zakes Mda tackles every conceivable South African stereotype, skilfully turning them upside down and exposing their ironies. |
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| Author: Mda, Zakes |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780143026198 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 10 December 2009 |
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| Black Petals | | Read more |
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| A new novel by Bryan Rostron, a story about South Africa today: of secrets, mislaid hopes and lost love. |
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| Author: Rostron, Bryan |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770096486 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 22 March 2009 |
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| Blake | | Read more |
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| Peter Ackroyd's masterful biography of William Blake. |
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| Author: Ackroyd, Peter |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780749391768 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - Literary |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Blazing Saddles | | Read more |
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| Well-known to readers of The Star, James Clarke now brings his sense of humour to book readers with his hilarious account of an alternative Tour de France - a Tours de Farce. |
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| Author: Clarke, James |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868422678 |
| Categories: Travel |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Blindness (F) | | Read more |
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| Saramago's apolcalyptic novel of a society blinded to civilisation. |
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| Author: Saramago, Jose |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099532163 |
| Categories: Fiction: film adaptations, Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 22 July 2009 |
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| Bloke | | Read more |
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| The cookbook to get blokes to cook. |
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| Author: Comins, Jason |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770097711 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 9 December 2009 |
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| Blood Kin | | Read more |
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| Winner of the 2008 Sunday Times Fiction Prize and the University of Johannesburg Prize for Creative Writing. Also shortlisted for the 2008 Commonwealth Prize, Africa, and longlisted for the 2008 Dylan Thomas Prize. |
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| Author: Dovey, Ceridwen |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780143025306 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Blood Rose | | Read more |
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| Margie Orford's second crime novel. |
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| Author: Orford, Margie |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770200128 |
| Categories: African Fiction, Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Blood Safari | | Read more |
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| A new Deon Meyer thriller. |
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| Author: Meyer, Deon |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780340953570 |
| Categories: African Fiction, Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Bluebeard's Egg | | Read more |
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| In these exceptional short stories, by turns funny and searingly honest, Atwood captures brilliantly the complex forces that govern our relationships, and the powerful emotions that guide them. |
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| Author: Atwood, Margaret |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099741213 |
| Categories: Fiction: Short Stories |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| BMA Concise Guide to Medicines & Drugs | | Read more |
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| Your essential quick reference to over 2,500 prescription and over-the-counter drugs. |
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| Author: Dorling Kindersley (pub) |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781405326407 |
| Categories: Health & Exercise |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Bodies | | Read more |
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| Susie Orbach contributes powerfully to the debate on body image. |
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| Author: Orbach, Susie |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781846680199 |
| Categories: Popular Culture, Psychology |
| Date posted: 13 March 2009 |
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| Bodies Politic | | Read more |
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| Shortlisted for the 2009 Sunday Times Fiction Prize.
Michiel Heyns again moves outside South Africa with this fictionalised account of the personal lives of the Pankhurst women. An extraordinary work. |
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| Author: Heyns, Michiel |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868422982 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary, African Fiction |
| Date posted: 4 June 2009 |
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| Body Bereft | | Read more |
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| Poems by Antjie Krog |
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| Author: Krog, Antjie |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781415200124 |
| Categories: Poetry |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Body of Lies (F) | | Read more |
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| Trust no one. Deceive everyone. A tale of espionage. |
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| Author: Ignatius, David |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781847245892 |
| Categories: Fiction: film adaptations, Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 22 July 2009 |
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| Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing | | Read more |
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| Body Parts offers valuable insights into writing memoirs for those interested in embarking on their own writing. |
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| Author: Lee, Hermione |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781844137466 |
| Categories: Essays & Literary Journals, Writing & Language |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Boer War, The | | Read more |
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| Thomas Pakenham has constructed a narrative as vivid and fast-moving as a novel. (Non fiction books) |
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| Author: Pakenham, Thomas |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868422029 |
| Categories: African History |
| Date posted: 6 October 2009 |
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| Boiling Point | | Read more |
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| Considering the plight of people who have contributed little to the pollution responsible for global warming. |
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| Author: Joubert, Leonie |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868144679 |
| Categories: African Current Affairs & Politics, Green Books |
| Date posted: 14 January 2009 |
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| Bonfire of the Brands | | Read more |
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| Neil Boorman's account of his experiences trying to live without brands or labels. |
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| Author: Boorman, Neil |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781847670878 |
| Categories: Politics & Current Affairs |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Bonk | | Read more |
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| The curious coupling of sex and science, by Mary Roach. |
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| Author: Roach, Mary |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781847672261 |
| Categories: Science & Nature, Sex & Erotica |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Book of Dave, The | | Read more |
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| A strange and troubling mirror held up to our times: disturbing, satirising, and vilifying who and what we think we are. |
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| Author: Self, Will |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780141014548 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Book of Hours, The | | Read more |
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| From the moment the first rays of light creep over the horizon through to the darkest hours of the night, this is a collection of the greatest literary moments that define the twenty-four hours of our day. |
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| Author: Jackson, Kevin |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780715636084 |
| Categories: Books about Books, Essays & Literary Journals |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Book of Lost Books, The | | Read more |
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| Stuart Kelly brings us an incomplete history of all the great books we will never read. |
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| Author: Kelly, Stuart |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780141016740 |
| Categories: Books about Books |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Book of Murder, The | | Read more |
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| A chilling thriller by Guillermo Martinez, author of The Oxford Murders. |
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| Author: Martinez, Guillerma |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780349120928 |
| Categories: Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Book of Spells, The | | Read more |
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| A magical book for young teens written by Professor Pieter Scholtz - Emiritus Professor of Drama from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and the author of 25 plays written for young audiences. This First Edition is particularly special as only a limited number have been published. Beautifully designed, with a unique typeface, this is sure to become a collector's edition. |
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| Author: Scholtz, Pieter |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780620398619 |
| Categories: African Children's books |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Book of the Dead, The | | Read more |
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| Author: Kgebetli Moele |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780795702884 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 26 June 2010 |
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| Book Thief, The (P) | | Read more |
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| When death tells a story, you really have to listen. |
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| Author: Zusak, Markus |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781862302914 |
| Categories: African Children's books, Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Books I've Read: Books I Want to Read - a journal | | Read more |
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| A reader's checklist; a reminder of books to read, and a place for all your literary memories. |
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| EAN/ISBN: 9780711226289 |
| Categories: Notebooks & Journals |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Books that Changed the World | | Read more |
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| The great works that revolutionised our ideas about the universe - and ourselves. |
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| Author: Down, Robert B |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780451529282 |
| Categories: Books about Books |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Border Songs | | Read more |
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| A tender, comic and beautifully peculiar new novel from the bestselling author of The Highest Tide |
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| Author: Jim Lynch |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781408800652 |
| Categories: Fiction: General |
| Date posted: 27 June 2010 |
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| Bosman at His Best | | Read more |
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| A selection from the writings of the inimitable Herman Charles Bosman |
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| Author: Bosman, Herman Charles |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780798144339 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 28 January 2009 |
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| Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The (P & F) | | Read more |
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| A story of innocence in a world of ignorance. |
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| Author: Boyne, John |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099487821 (P) & 9781862305274 (F) |
| Categories: Fiction: film adaptations, Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 22 July 2009 |
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| Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, The | | Read more |
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| An inspiring story of a young boy who made a difference. |
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| Author: Kamkwamba, William |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780007316182 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs |
| Date posted: 12 October 2009 |
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| Boy Who Loved Books, The | | Read more |
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| This is the story of how books saved one man's life - twice, by John Sutherland. |
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| Author: Sutherland, John |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780719564321 |
| Categories: Books about Books |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Boyhood | | Read more |
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| Scenes from provincial life by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2003. |
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| Author: Coetzee, JM |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099268277 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Braai | | Read more |
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| 166 Modern recipes to share with family and friends by Hilary Biller, Elinor Storkey and Jenny Kay. |
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| Author: Biller, Hilary |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770075061 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Bram Fischer Afrikaner Revolutionary | | Read more |
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| Joint winner of the 1999 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction. |
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| Author: Clingman, Stephen |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780864866776 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Brave New World | | Read more |
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| Aldous Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.
SciFi Classics |
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| Author: Huxley, Aldous |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099458166 |
| Categories: Fiction: SciFi & Fantasy |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Breakfast at The Wolseley | | Read more |
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| Breakfast at The Wolseley serves up everything that you could ever want to know about cooking, serving and enjoying a superb breakfast, by AA Gill. |
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| Author: Gill, AA |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781844004447 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Breath * | | Read more |
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| Tim Winton's masterful new novel. |
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| Author: Winton, Tim |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780330456111 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 30 January 2009 |
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| Breathing Space | | Read more |
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| Twelve lessons for the modern woman, revealing the 'advantages of breath work in resolving problems and increasing well-being'. |
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| Author: Repka, Katrina & Finger, Alan |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781401303471 |
| Categories: Mind, Body, Spirit |
| Date posted: 31 March 2009 |
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| Brideshead Revisited (F) | | Read more |
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| Evelyn Waugh's classic novel. |
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| Author: Waugh, Evelyn |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780141036861 |
| Categories: Fiction: Classics, Fiction: film adaptations |
| Date posted: 22 July 2009 |
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| Bring on the Apocalypse | | Read more |
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| Six arguments for global justice. |
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| Author: Monbiot, George |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781843548584 |
| Categories: Politics & Current Affairs |
| Date posted: 1 April 2009 |
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| Brontes, The | | Read more |
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| If you thought you knew all there was to know about the Bronte family, think again |
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| Author: Barker, Juliet |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781842125878 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - Literary |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Brooklyn | | Read more |
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| A story of departure and return from one of Ireland's most respected authors. |
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| Author: Toibin, Colm |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780670918133 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 15 June 2009 |
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| Brutal Art, The | | Read more |
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| Don't be put off by the Kellerman name, Jesse Kellerman is a superb writer who takes his parents' craft to new levels. |
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| Author: Kellerman, Jesse |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780751540284 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 12 June 2009 |
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| Bulgari Connection, The | | Read more |
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| The novel Fay Weldon was commissioned to write by the Italian luxury goods firm,Bulgari. |
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| Author: Weldon, Fay |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780007121274 |
| Categories: Fiction: General |
| Date posted: 19 October 2009 |
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| Bungle in the Jungle, The | | Read more |
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| Baboon's message on a tree backfires. |
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| Author: Bush, John & Thomson, Gavin |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780620361828 |
| Categories: African Children's books |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Bustin' Down the Door | | Read more |
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| The surf revolotion of '75 |
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| Author: Tomson, Shaun |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780810995680 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - Sport |
| Date posted: 11 July 2009 |
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| Calling of Katie Makanya, The | | Read more |
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| Winner of the 1996 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award, and the CNA Award. |
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| Author: McCord, Margaret |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780864862525 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Campo Santo | | Read more |
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| The final collection of essays by the late WG Sebald. |
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| Author: Sebald, WG |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780141017860 |
| Categories: Essays & Literary Journals |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Canadian Mounted Rifleman at War 1899-1902, A | | Read more |
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| The reminiscences of AE Hilder. (Non fiction books) |
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| Author: Morris, AG (ed) |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780958411271 |
| Categories: African History, African Biographies & Memoirs |
| Date posted: 6 October 2009 |
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| Cancer is a Word, not a Sentence | | Read more |
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| Essential facts and advice for everyone dealing with a diagnosis of cancer, by Dr Robert Buckman. |
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| Author: Buckman, Robert |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780007254682 |
| Categories: Psychology |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Cape Town - An Illustrated Poem (out of print) | | Read more |
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| Cape Town – an illustrated poem is a personalised account of life in the Mother City told through poetry and illustrations. |
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| Author: Grey, Julia |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770071896 |
| Categories: Poetry |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Cape Town Architecture & Design | | Read more |
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| A comprehensive look at Cape Town's built envionment. |
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| Author: Lauber, Pascale |
| EAN/ISBN: 9783866540309 |
| Categories: Architecture |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Cape Town Calling | | Read more |
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| From Mandela to Theroux on the Mother City. A collection of writings about Cape Town by some of the best authors around. |
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| Author: Fox, Justin (ed) |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780624042976 |
| Categories: African Travel |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Cape Town Stories | | Read more |
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| A wonderful collection of stories of the people of Cape Town who have contributed to making this one of the most diverse cities in South Africa. |
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| Author: Barnard, Madeleine |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868729401 |
| Categories: African Travel |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Capote (F) | | Read more |
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| The biography |
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| Author: Clarke, Gerald |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780349105451 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - Literary, Fiction: film adaptations |
| Date posted: 22 July 2009 |
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| Captain Corelli's Mandolin (P) | | Read more |
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| The Reading Guide edition of this bestselling title. |
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| Author: de Bernieres, Louis |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099496984 |
| Categories: Fiction: film adaptations, Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 22 July 2009 |
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| Captain's Diary, A | | Read more |
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| Graeme Smith records the games he captained between 2007 and 2009. |
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| Author: Smith, Graeme |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868423538 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - Sport |
| Date posted: 11 December 2009 |
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| Captivated | | Read more |
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| Piers Dudgoen's compelling account of JM Barrie, the Du Mauriers & the dark side of Neverland. |
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| Author: Dudgeon, Piers |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780701182175 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - Literary |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Carrion Death, A | | Read more |
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| Poachers, witch doctors, diamond-smuggling and corruption: welcome to the world of Detective Kubu...
On the Bookshelf of: John Maytham |
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| Author: Stanley, Michael |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780755344055 |
| Categories: African Fiction, Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 4 January 2009 |
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| Casa Moro: The Second Cookbook | | Read more |
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| The second cookbook from Sam & Sam Clark |
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| Author: Clark, Samantha & Samuel |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780091894498 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 23 December 2008 |
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| Catch-22 | | Read more |
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| Joseph Heller's savage indictment of 20th century madness, and a desire of the ordinary man to survive it. |
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| Author: Heller, Joseph |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099477310 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Cellist of Sarajevo, The | | Read more |
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| Life under siege creates agonising and almost impossible choices in this new novel from Steven Galloway.
On the Bookshelf of: John Maytham |
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| Author: Galloway, Steven |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781843547396 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 4 January 2009 |
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| Chalk Circle Man, The | | Read more |
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| A new mystery from Fred Vargas, and introducing policeman Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg |
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| Author: Vargas, Fred |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099488972 |
| Categories: Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 27 April 2010 |
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| Change of Tongue, A | | Read more |
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| A bold and challenging book from one of the very few writers in this world whom anyone may justifiably term unique. |
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| Author: Krog, Antjie |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780958446846 |
| Categories: African Studies |
| Date posted: 24 January 2009 |
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| Che Guevara and the Mountain of Silver | | Read more |
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| Anne Mustoe on bicycle and train through South America. |
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| Author: Mustoe, Anne |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780753512746 |
| Categories: Travel |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Cheri | | Read more |
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| Cheri, first published in 1920, is considered Colette's finest novel. |
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| Author: Colette |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099422761 |
| Categories: Fiction: Classics |
| Date posted: 23 December 2009 |
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| Chez Moi | | Read more |
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| A delicious novel by Agnes Desarthe. |
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| Author: Desarthe, Agnes |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781846271014 |
| Categories: Fiction: General |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Child 44 | | Read more |
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| Tom Rob Smith's crime novel was long-listed for the 2008 Booker Prize. |
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| Author: Smith, Tom Rob |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781847371270 |
| Categories: Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Child in Time, The | | Read more |
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| A fine and subtle novel by Ian McEwan |
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| Author: McEwan, Ian |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099755012 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 28 January 2009 |
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| Children's Book, The | | Read more |
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| A new work by AS Byatt. |
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| Author: Byatt, AS |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780701183905 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 9 June 2009 |
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| Chilling Stars: A Cosmic View of Climate Change , The | | Read more |
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| Controversial, compelling and necessary, The Chilling Stars has beome, the words of The Times, the 'new totem of the climate-change sceptics'. |
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| Author: Svensmark, Henrik & Calder, Nigel |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781840468663 |
| Categories: Science & Nature |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Chocolat (P) | | Read more |
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| Rich, clever and mischievous, this is a triumphant read. |
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| Author: Harris, Joanne |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780552998482 |
| Categories: Fiction: film adaptations, Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 22 July 2009 |
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| Choice, Not Fate | | Read more |
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| Shortlisted for the 2009 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction. Pippa Green has written an eloquent and illuminating account of the life of Trevor Manuel. |
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| Author: Green Pippa |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780143025337 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs |
| Date posted: 4 June 2009 |
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| Choke (F) | | Read more |
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| Described by the Independent on Sunday (UK) as 'Fight Club for sex addicts'. |
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| Author: Palahniuk, Chuck |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099535256 |
| Categories: Fiction: film adaptations, Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 22 July 2009 |
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| Choke Chain | | Read more |
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| A coming-age-story in 1980s South Africa. |
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| Author: Donald, Jason |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780224087186 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 17 April 2009 |
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| Choral Society | | Read more |
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| From food to friendship, a delightful new novel by Prue Leith |
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| Author: Leith, Prue |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781849160131 |
| Categories: Fiction: General |
| Date posted: 1 September 2009 |
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| Churchill Wanted Dead or Alive | | Read more |
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| Churchill's granddaughter retraces his footsteps during the Boer War. (Non fiction books) |
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| Author: Sandys, Celia |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868420834 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - General, African History |
| Date posted: 6 October 2009 |
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| Cion | | Read more |
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| Shortlisted for the 2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, Zakes Mda's book continues the tale of Toloki, introduced in Ways of Dying |
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| Author: Mda, Zakes |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780143025429 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 25 March 2009 |
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| Circling the Great Karoo | | Read more |
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| A back-roads journey through history on an old scrambler. |
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| Author: Yell, Nicholas |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780620420235 |
| Categories: African Travel |
| Date posted: 24 May 2009 |
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| City Imagined, A | | Read more |
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| Nineteen writers have contributed pieces about what the city of Cape Town means to them. |
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| Author: Watson, Stephen (ed) |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780143024736 |
| Categories: African Travel |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Claim to the Country | | Read more |
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| The Archive of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd is one of the most beautiful and significant books published in 2007. |
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| Author: Skotnes, Pippa |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770093379 |
| Categories: African Arts & Culture, African History |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Clatter of Forks and Spoons, The | | Read more |
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| A cookbook with memoirs and opinions by Richard Corrigan,one of Britain's most respected and outspoken chefs. |
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| Author: Corrigan, Richard |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780007248902 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society | | Read more |
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| Negative Returns on South African Investments. Editors Patrick Bond, Rehana Dada and Graham Erion have assembled a cutting-edge collection to highlight the urgent situation. |
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| Author: Bond, Patrick et al |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781869141417 |
| Categories: African Current Affairs & Politics, Green Books |
| Date posted: 14 January 2009 |
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| Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other stories (F) | | Read more |
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| 11 extraordinary stories by Annie Proulx |
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| Author: Proulx, Annie |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780007205585 |
| Categories: Fiction: film adaptations, Fiction: Short Stories |
| Date posted: 22 July 2009 |
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| Clothes on Their Backs, The | | Read more |
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| Short-listed for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. |
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| Author: Grant, Linda |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781844085415 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Cloud Atlas | | Read more |
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| In his extraordinary third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us. |
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| Author: Mitchell, David |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780340822784 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary, Fiction: SciFi & Fantasy |
| Date posted: 28 January 2009 |
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| Clouds Move | | Read more |
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| A revealing memoir of living with HIV in South Africa. |
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| Author: Fine, Derrick |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780620394765 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Coast to Coast | | Read more |
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| Rick Stein's passion for fresh, well-sourced food has taken him from continent to continent, across magnificent shorelines and to the very best produce the coast has to offer. |
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| Author: Stein, Rick |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781846076145 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Cocina Nueva | | Read more |
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| Jane Lawson has artfully reinvented traditional Spanish dishes with a modern flair |
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| Author: Lawson, Jane |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781741962208 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Coconut | | Read more |
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| Kopana Matlwa's debut novel tackles a new challenge to young, middle-class black women in South Africa - that of reaching their potential in a modern world, while not letting go of their traditional culture. |
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| Author: Matlwa, Kopana |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770093362 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Cold Meat and How to Disguise It | | Read more |
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| A history of advice on how to survive hard times: A hundred years of belt tightening. |
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| Author: Davies, Hunter |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780711230514 |
| Categories: Humour |
| Date posted: 10 December 2009 |
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| Coldsleep Lullaby | | Read more |
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| Winner of the 2006 Sunday Times Fiction Prize. A spellbinding story about prejudice and deceit, courage and redemption. |
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| Author: Brown, Andrew |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770071056 |
| Categories: African Fiction, Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 4 June 2009 |
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| Collected Stories of Grace Paley , The | | Read more |
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| Grace Paley's quirky, boisterous characters and rich use of language have secured her a place as one of America's most accomplished short story writers. |
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| Author: Paley, Grace |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781860495212 |
| Categories: Fiction: Short Stories |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Comfort | | Read more |
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| The Queen of Tarts brings out a second cookbook |
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| Author: Bester, Tina |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780981428765 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 27 April 2010 |
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| Commando | | Read more |
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| A Boer journal of the Anglo-Boer War. (Non fiction books) |
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| Author: Reitz, Deneys |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868420667 |
| Categories: African History, African Biographies & Memoirs |
| Date posted: 6 October 2009 |
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| Complete First Aid | | Read more |
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| Everything you need to know to deal with accidents, emergencies & illnesses. |
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| Author: Bass, Dr David |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781845378837 |
| Categories: Health & Exercise |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome, The | | Read more |
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| An essential resource for therapists, by Tony Atwood. |
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| Author: Atwood, Tony |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781843106692 |
| Categories: Health & Exercise |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Complete Idiot's Guide to English Literature | | Read more |
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| A dazzling display of the best the English language has to offer. |
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| Author: Stevenson, Jay |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781592576562 |
| Categories: Books about Books |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Complete Idiot's Guide to The Ultimate Reading List | | Read more |
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| The Complete Idiot's Guide to The Ultimate Reading List recommends popular and entertaining titles in a variety of genres. |
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| Author: Hamilton-Selway, Joanne |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781592576456 |
| Categories: Books about Books |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Complete Oom Schalk Lourens Stories, The | | Read more |
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| In one volume for the first time, the entire sequence of Bosman's famous Oom Schalk Lourens stories. |
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| Author: Bosman, Herman Charles |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780798146760 |
| Categories: African Fiction, Fiction: Short Stories |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Complete Polysyllabic Spree, The | | Read more |
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| In his monthly accounts of what he's read - along with what he may one day read - Nick Hornby brilliantly explores everything from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, sports books and other kinds of non-fiction. |
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| Author: Hornby, Nick |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780141028491 |
| Categories: Books about Books |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Complete Robuchon, The | | Read more |
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| Joel Robuchon is the most influential French chef of the post-nouvelle cuisine era. |
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| Author: Robuchon, Joel |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781906502225 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Complete Secret Diaries of God, The | | Read more |
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| as (exclusively) revealed to Koos Kombuis |
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| Author: Kombuis, Koos |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780798149785 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 1 April 2009 |
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| Confessions of a Gambler | | Read more |
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| Rayda Jacobs' provocative story, which has just released as a film, was the winner of the Sunday Times Fiction Award and the Herman Charles Bosman Prize in 2004 |
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| Author: Jacobs, Rayda |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780795701603 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, The | | Read more |
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| A Constitution that is among the most progressive in the world. |
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| EAN/ISBN: 9780702179228 |
| Categories: African Studies |
| Date posted: 14 January 2009 |
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| Conversation | | Read more |
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| A history of a declining art, by Stephen Miller |
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| Author: Miller, Stephen |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780300123654 |
| Categories: Writing & Language |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Cooee | | Read more |
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| A novel by Vivienne Kelly |
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| Author: Kelly, Vivienne |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781921372186 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 19 December 2008 |
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| Cooked in Africa | | Read more |
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| A cooking journey through Southern Africa |
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| Author: Bonello, Justin |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780143026044 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 23 October 2009 |
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| Cooking | | Read more |
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| James Peterson's definitive, all-inclusive learn-to-cook cookbook. |
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| Author: Peterson, James |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781580087896 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Cooking Book, The | | Read more |
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| The ultimate bible for today's busy cook; a cookbook, pocket shopping list and DVD in one, by Victoria Blashford-Snell. |
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| Author: Blashford-Snell, Victoria |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781405332224 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Cool Restaurants: The Cookbook | | Read more |
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| Features recipe highlights from the highly successful Cool Restaurants series. |
|
| Author: Smith, John Jr |
| EAN/ISBN: 9783832792718 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Corrections, The | | Read more |
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| The winner of the National Book Award, the New York Times No.1 Bestseller and the worldwide literary sensation, The Corrections has established itself as a truly great American novel. |
|
| Author: Franzen, Jonathan |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780007232444 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 23 December 2008 |
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| Couldn't Keep it to Myself and I'll Fly Away (2 books) | | Read more |
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| In 2003, Wally Lamb - the author of She's Come Undone and I Know This Much is True - published Couldn't Keep it to Myself , a collection of essays by the students in his writing workshop at the maximum-security York Correctional Institution, Connecticut's only prison for women. Now Lamb returns with I'll Fly Away, a new volume of intimate, searching pieces. |
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| Author: Lamb, Wally (ed) |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780060595371 & 9780061369223 |
| Categories: Essays & Literary Journals |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Country at War with Itself , A | | Read more |
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| A Country at War with Itself is a penetrating exploration of South Africa’s crime problem. |
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| Author: Altbeker, Antony |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868422845 |
| Categories: African Current Affairs & Politics, African Studies |
| Date posted: 14 January 2009 |
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| Country of My Skull (2nd ed) | | Read more |
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| Joint winner of the 1999 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction.
*On the Bookshelf of: Nancy Richards* |
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| Author: Krog, Antjie |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780958419567 |
| Categories: African Studies |
| Date posted: 11 March 2009 |
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| Courage and Rice | | Read more |
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| My journey along the Great Wall of China, by David Grier |
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| Author: Grier, David |
| EAN/ISBN: N/A |
| Categories: Travel |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Cranford (P) & Cranford Chronicles, The (F) | | Read more |
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| A delightful account of small-town life in 19th century England.
The Cranford Chronicles(F)includes the stories Mr Harrison's confession and My Lady Ludlow. |
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| Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780141039374 (P) & 9780099518457 (F) |
| Categories: Fiction: Classics, Fiction: film adaptations |
| Date posted: 22 July 2009 |
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| Creator's Map, The | | Read more |
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| The quest for a mysterious map charts a path through the dark intrigue, romantic entanglements ad divided loyalties of war-torn Europe. By Emilio Calderon |
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| Author: Calderon, Emilio |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780719596407 |
| Categories: Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Crime | | Read more |
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| A new novel from Irvine Welsh. |
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| Author: Welsh, Irvine |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780224080538 |
| Categories: Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Crime and Punishment | | Read more |
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| 'Dostoevsky's finest masterpiece', translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky. |
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| Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099981909 |
| Categories: Fiction: Classics |
| Date posted: 28 January 2009 |
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| Crops in Pots * | | Read more |
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| 50 great container projects using vegetables, fruit and herbs. |
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| Author: Purnell, Bob |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780600615514 |
| Categories: Gardening |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Cry, the Beloved Country | | Read more |
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| Described as the single most important novel in 20th-century South African literature. |
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| Author: Paton, Alan |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099766810 |
| Categories: African Fiction, Fiction: Classics |
| Date posted: 28 January 2009 |
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| Cultural Amnesia | | Read more |
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| Notes in the margin of my time, by Clive James |
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| Author: James, Clive |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780330418867 |
| Categories: Essays & Literary Journals |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The | | Read more |
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| An imaginative fable of ageing. |
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| Author: Fitzgerald, F Scott |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780141039343 (F) & 9780141190198 (P) |
| Categories: Fiction: film adaptations, Fiction: Short Stories |
| Date posted: 22 July 2009 |
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| Curious George Visits a Library | | Read more |
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| George finds so many books he wants at the library. |
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| Author: Rey, Margaret & HA |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781406314076 |
| Categories: Children's Books |
| Date posted: 19 June 2009 |
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| Cyanide & Happiness: I'm Giving You the Finger | | Read more |
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| A laugh-out-loud and exceedingly irreverent collection of comics from the #1 hit web comic. |
|
| Author: Kris, Rob, Matt & Dave |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780007318865 |
| Categories: Humour |
| Date posted: 10 December 2009 |
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| Cycle Tour, The | | Read more |
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| A collector's piece for anyone who has ridden or plans to ride the Argus Cycle Tour. Launched by author Mike Wills at Kalk Bay Books just before the 2008 tour. |
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| Author: Wills, Mike |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770130654 |
| Categories: African Travel, Sport |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Cyclist's Training Manual, The | | Read more |
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| Practical guidance to new and experienced cycling enthusiasts |
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| Author: Andrews, Guy & Doughty, Simon |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780713677416 |
| Categories: Sport |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Cyril Ramaphosa | | Read more |
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| Released just as the ANC's 2007 Polokwane conference came to a close, expectations that Ramaphosa may have been voted in as the new ANC President were left in the mud. This book takes us some way to understanding the man many hoped would one day be the President of South Africa. |
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| Author: Butler, Anthony |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770093706 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| D-Day | | Read more |
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| The battle and the day that awed even Stalin. |
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| Author: Beevor, Antony |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780670887033 |
| Categories: History |
| Date posted: 8 December 2009 |
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| Daddy's Girl | | Read more |
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| A new thriller featuring Dr Clare Hart. |
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| Author: Orford, Margie |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868423262 |
| Categories: African Fiction, Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 25 November 2009 |
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| Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter | | Read more |
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| Pamela Jooste's acclaimed novel about a young girl growing up in Cape Town |
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| Author: Jooste, Pamela |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780552997577 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Dances with Devils | | Read more |
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| Highly-acclaimed South African journalist Jacques Pauw has delivered a memorable collection of his work. |
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| Author: Pauw, Jacques |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770073302 |
| Categories: African Current Affairs & Politics |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Daphne | | Read more |
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| Described by the Financial Times as a 'tantalising literary mystery'. |
|
| Author: Picardie, Justine |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780747596349 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 1 May 2009 |
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| Dark Continent My Black Arse | | Read more |
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| Sihle Khumalo travelled 'by bus, boksie, matola .. from Cape to Cairo'. This is his story of his
African travels. |
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| Author: Khumalo, Sihle |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781415200360 |
| Categories: African Travel |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Dark Fire | | Read more |
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| The second historical crime novel featuring Shardlake, by CJ Sansom.
On the Bookshelf of: Jane Raphaely |
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| Author: Sansom, CJ |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780330450782 |
| Categories: Fiction Historical, Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 4 January 2009 |
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| Dark Star Safari | | Read more |
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| Paul Theroux's bestselling account of his overland trip from Cairo to Cape Town. |
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| Author: Theroux, Paul |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780140281118 |
| Categories: African Travel |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Darkmans | | Read more |
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| Nicola Barker's 2007 novel was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. |
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| Author: Barker, Nicola |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780007193639 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Darkness at Noon | | Read more |
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| The moving and thought-provoking masterpiece by Arthur Koestler.
Fiction Classics |
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| Author: Koestler, Arthur |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099424918 |
| Categories: Fiction: Classics |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Darkness of Wallis Simpson, The | | Read more |
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| A disquieting theme of the difference between public history and private truth permeates the stories in this marvellous collection, which range through a brilliant variety of narrative voices and unexpected dilemmas. |
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| Author: Tremain, Rose |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099268567 |
| Categories: Fiction: Short Stories |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Darwin's Garden | | Read more |
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| Michael Boulter brilliantly shows how Darwin's first studies into the history of life are as important and controversial now, as then. |
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| Author: Boulter, Michael |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781845295998 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - General |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Daughter of the Desert | | Read more |
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| The remarkable life of Gertrude Bell. |
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| Author: Howell, Georgina |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780330431576 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - Literary |
| Date posted: 2 May 2009 |
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| Day After Night | | Read more |
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| By the author of The Red Tent |
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| Author: Diamant, Anita |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781847377074 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 27 April 2010 |
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| Day at elBulli, A | | Read more |
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| For the first time, A Day at elBulli: An Insight into the Ideas, Methods and Creativity of Ferran Adria allows unprecedented access to one of the world's most famous, sought after and mysterious restaurants. |
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| Author: Adria, Ferran et al |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780714848839 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Dead Poets Society (F) | | Read more |
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| He was their inspiration. He made their lives extraordinary. |
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| Author: Kleinbaum, NH |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781401308773 |
| Categories: Fiction: film adaptations, Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 22 July 2009 |
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| Dead will Arise, The | | Read more |
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| The winner of the 1990 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction. |
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| Author: Peires, Jeff |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868421589 |
| Categories: African History |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Death of a Murderer | | Read more |
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| Rupert Thomson takes on one of the most controversial subjects of our time and addresses the difficult questions that arise from it. |
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| Author: Thomson, Rupert |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780747590682 |
| Categories: Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Decoding the Heavens | | Read more |
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| Jo Marchant tells of the quest to solve the mystery of the world's first computer. |
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| Author: Marchant, Jo |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780434018352 |
| Categories: Science & Nature |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Decolonising the Mind | | Read more |
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| Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's groundbreaking study of the politics of language in African literature |
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| Author: Thiong'o, Ngugi Wa |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780852555019 |
| Categories: African Studies, Writing & Language |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Democracy Compromised | | Read more |
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| A spotlight on traditional authorities and the process of land allocation in South Africa. |
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| Author: Ntsebenza, Lungisile |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780796921307 |
| Categories: African Current Affairs & Politics, African Studies |
| Date posted: 14 January 2009 |
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| Democracy Kills | | Read more |
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| What's so good about having the vote, asks Humphrey Hawksley |
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| Author: Hawksley, Humphrey |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780230744080 |
| Categories: Politics & Current Affairs |
| Date posted: 9 December 2009 |
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| Depths * | | Read more |
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| A compelling thriller by Henning Mankell. |
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| Author: Mankell, Henning |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099488651 |
| Categories: Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Devil May Care | | Read more |
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| Who could resist the inimitable Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming in the newest James Bond novel? |
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| Author: Faulks, Sebastian |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780718154189 |
| Categories: Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Devil Wears Prada, The (F) | | Read more |
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| High fashion, low cunning - and the boss from hell. |
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| Author: Weisberger, Lauren |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780007156108 |
| Categories: Fiction: film adaptations, Fiction: General |
| Date posted: 22 July 2009 |
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| Devil's Peak | | Read more |
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| Deon Meyer's latest thriller. |
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| Author: Meyer, Deon |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780340822661 |
| Categories: African Fiction, Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 19 December 2008 |
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| Diabetes Revolution, The | | Read more |
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| Improve the control of diabetes naturally, by Dr Charles Clark & Maureen Clark. |
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| Author: Clark, Dr Charles & Maureen |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780091912642 |
| Categories: Health & Exercise |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Diamonds, Gold and War | | Read more |
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| The acclaimed author of The State of Africa Martin Meredith turns his attention to the turbulent years leading up to the modern state of South Africa in 1910. (Non fiction books, KBB best sellers) |
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| Author: Meredith, Martin |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868423118 |
| Categories: African History |
| Date posted: 6 October 2009 |
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| Diary of a Bad Year | | Read more |
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| Shortlisted for the 2008 Sunday Times Fiction Prize. An unusual structure adds a surprising element to Coetzee's new novel. |
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| Author: Coetzee, JM |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099516224 |
| Categories: African Fiction, Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Diary of a Provincial Lady, The | | Read more |
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| Behind this rather prim and proper title lies the hilarious fictional diary of a long-suffering, disaster-prone Devon lady of the 1930s.
Fiction Classics |
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| Author: Delafield, EM |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781844085224 |
| Categories: Fiction: Classics |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Diddakoi, The | | Read more |
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| Winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award, by Rumer Godden. |
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| Author: Godden, Rumer |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780330453301 |
| Categories: Children's Books |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Difficult Daughters | | Read more |
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| The acclaimed first novel by Manju Kapur |
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| Author: Kapur, Manju |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780571195695 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 1 May 2009 |
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| Dinner with Mugabe | | Read more |
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| Heidi Holland looks at the man behind the monster in this penetrating, timely portrait of Robert Mugabe. |
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| Author: Holland, Heidi |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780143025573 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Dinosaurs, Diamonds and Democracy | | Read more |
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| A short, short history of South Africa |
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| Author: Wilson, Francis |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781415200865 |
| Categories: African History |
| Date posted: 9 December 2009 |
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| Dirty Work of Democracy, The | | Read more |
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| An account of the year he spend observing South Africa's police in action across the country. |
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| Author: Altbeker, Antony |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868422302 |
| Categories: African Current Affairs & Politics, African Studies |
| Date posted: 14 January 2009 |
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| Discovering God | | Read more |
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| A monumental history of the origins of the great religions from the Stone Age to the Modern Age, by Rodney Stark. |
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| Author: Stark, Rodney |
| Categories: History, Religion & Spirituality |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Disgrace * | | Read more |
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| There is no middle ground when it comes to JM Coetzee's controversial novel, which is lauded as his best ever by some and dismissed heatedly by others. Whichever way you come to regard it, it's one that should be read. |
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| Author: Coetzee, JM |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099289524 (PB) & 9780099526834 (F) |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs, Fiction: film adaptations |
| Date posted: 22 July 2009 |
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| Dissolution | | Read more |
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| Historical crime from CJ Sansom.
On the Bookshelf of: Jane Raphaely |
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| Author: Sansom, CJ |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780330450799 |
| Categories: Fiction Historical, Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 4 January 2009 |
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| Divisadero | | Read more |
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| Michael Ondaatje's new novel, now in paperback |
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| Author: Ondaatje, Michael |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780747592686 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Do It! | | Read more |
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| Every South African's Guide to Making a Difference |
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| Author: Motlatsi, James & Godsell, Bobby |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770096400 |
| Categories: African Current Affairs & Politics |
| Date posted: 14 January 2009 |
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| Do Not Take This Road to El-Karama | | Read more |
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| A journey of ups and downs in eight African countries. |
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| Author: Harvie, Chris |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781415200643 |
| Categories: African Travel |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Doctor's Book of Food Remedies, The | | Read more |
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| From Selene Yeager and the editors of Prevention magazine. |
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| Author: Yeager, Selene |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781594866630 |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Don't Climb Kilimanjaro... | | Read more |
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| Described as a guide for the traveller who knows better, and sub-titled 'Climb the Rwenzori), this is the perfect travel book for anyone looking for somewhere different. |
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| Author: McIntosh, Fiona & Richman, Tim |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781920137090 |
| Categories: African Travel |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Don't Mess with the President's Head | | Read more |
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| The 2009 collection of cartoons from the Mail & Guardian, Sunday Times and The Times. |
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| Author: Zapiro |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770097575 |
| Categories: African Current Affairs & Politics, Humour |
| Date posted: 9 December 2009 |
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| Don't Run Whatever You Do | | Read more |
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| The jacket of Peter Allison's adventures as a safari guide carries a pithy warning from which the title comes: 'In Africa "only food runs ... don't run whatever you do!"' |
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| Author: Allison, Peter |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781857885019 |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Don't Tread on My Dreams | | Read more |
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| The manuscript for this collection of short stories by the late Dora Taylor was launched at Kalk Bay Books in March 2008m much to the delight of those who remembered this political activist, literary critic and author from the 50s and 60s. |
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| Author: Taylor, Dora |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780143025702 |
| Categories: African Fiction, Fiction: Short Stories |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Doo Wop Girls of the Universe * | | Read more |
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| Finuala Dowling's second volume of poetry will touch the heart and the funny-bone. Her simplicity belies the complexity of her message. |
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| Author: Dowling, Finuala |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780143025047 |
| Categories: Poetry |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Door, The | | Read more |
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| Margaret Atwood's first poetry collection in 14 years. |
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| Author: Atwood, Margaret |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781844084951 |
| Categories: Poetry |
| Date posted: 11 December 2009 |
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| Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas | | Read more |
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| The extraordinary memoir of a life dedicated to drink and Dylan Thomas. |
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| Author: Thomas, Caitlin |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781844085187 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - Literary |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Down 2nd Avenue | | Read more |
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| First published in 1959, Down 2nd Avenue is Nobel Prize nominee Es'kia Mphahlele's autobiography of his South African childhood and his struggle against discrimination. |
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| Author: Mphahlel, Es'kia |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770100077 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Down South Two | | Read more |
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| The follow-up to Paul Duncan's 2004 best-selling book on South African homes and interiors. |
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| Author: Duncan, Paul |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868422548 |
| Categories: Interiors |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Down to My Last Skin | | Read more |
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| Poems by Antjie Krog |
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| Author: Krog, Antjie |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780958419550 |
| Categories: Poetry |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Dracula | | Read more |
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| The greatest gothic horror story ever written, brought to life in this exceptional pop-up graphic novel. With pop-ups by David Hawcock and art by Anthony Williams. |
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| Author: Bampton, Claire |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781406322309 |
| Categories: Children's Books |
| Date posted: 11 December 2009 |
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| Dream in the Next Body, The | | Read more |
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| Poems by Gabeba Baderoon. Winner of the DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Poetry 2005. |
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| Author: Baderoon, Gebeba |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780795701979 |
| Categories: Poetry |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Dreaming of Jupiter | | Read more |
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| For anyone who ever wanted to travel the world on a motorcycle by one who did - Ted Simon. |
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| Author: Simon, Ted |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780349119601 |
| Categories: Travel |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Dreams from My Father | | Read more |
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| Dreams from My Father is Barack Obama's remarkable memoir written at the age of 33, long before Obama had thoughts of a political career. |
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| Author: Obama, Barack |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781847670946 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - Political |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Dressing Station, The | | Read more |
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| Winner of the 2002 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction. |
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| Author: Kaplan, Jonathan |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780330480796 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Drinking from the Dragon's Well | | Read more |
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| Alex Smith's vivid and warmly personal account of a year spent teaching English in China and Taiwan. |
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| Author: Smith, Alex |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781415200612 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs, Travel |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Driven to Distraction | | Read more |
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| Brace yourself, Clarkson's back. |
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| Author: Clarkson, Jeremy |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780718155735 |
| Categories: Humour, Essays & Literary Journals |
| Date posted: 9 December 2009 |
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| Dry Store Room No. 1 | | Read more |
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| The secret life of the Natural History Museum, by Richard Fortey. |
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| Author: Fortey, Richard |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780007209897 |
| Categories: Science & Nature |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Dubious Delights | | Read more |
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| ... of ageing and other follies, by Gus Ferguson |
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| Author: Ferguson, Gus |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781874923732 |
| Categories: Poetry |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Duchess, The (F) | | Read more |
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| The story of Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire, and the three people in her marriage. |
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| Author: Foreman, Amanda |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780007285754 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - General, Fiction: film adaptations |
| Date posted: 22 July 2009 |
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| Duet | | Read more |
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| Carol Shields at her best. |
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| Author: Shields, Carol |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780007171675 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 23 December 2008 |
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| Dust Diaries, The | | Read more |
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| Owen Sheers stumbled upon a dusty book by the extraordinary Arthur Cripps, prompting a quest into colonial Africa at the turn of the century. |
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| Author: Sheers, Owen |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780571210268 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| East of Eden | | Read more |
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| In East of Eden John Steinbeck created some of his most memorable characters and explored his most enduring themes. |
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| Author: Steinbeck, John |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780141185071 |
| Categories: Fiction: Classics |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Eat, Pray, Love | | Read more |
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| Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling account of her quest to find peace and happiness. |
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| Author: Gilbert, Elizabeth |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780747585664 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - General |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Eating India | | Read more |
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| Bengali food expert Chitrita Banerji takes us on a journey through a national cuisine formed by generations of arrivals, assimilations and conquests. |
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| Author: Banerji, Chitrita |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780747581376 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Eccentric Marriage, An | | Read more |
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| Barbara Bailey's story is frank, funny and at times deeply moving. A dazzling tale set among artists, authors and musicians, it is also a mother's story and a story of love. |
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| Author: Bailey, Barbara |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780624042969 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Eco House Book | | Read more |
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| All the info you need to reduce your home's carbon footprint. |
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| Author: Conran, Terence |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781840915228 |
| Categories: Green Books, Interiors |
| Date posted: 9 December 2009 |
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| Edith Wharton | | Read more |
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| A masterly new biography by Hermione Lee. |
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| Author: Lee, Hermione |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099763512 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - Literary |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Education of a British-Protected Child, The | | Read more |
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| A collection of essays and lectures from the great Chinua Achebe |
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| Author: Achebe, Chinua |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781846142598 |
| Categories: African Studies, Essays & Literary Journals |
| Date posted: 27 April 2010 |
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| Eggs | | Read more |
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| The definitive book about eggs, by Alex Barker. |
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| Author: Barker, Alex |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781845432645 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Eggs to Lay, Chickens to Hatch | | Read more |
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| A memoir by the author of Shirley, Goodness & Mercy |
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| Author: Van Wyk, Chris |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770101739 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs |
| Date posted: 27 April 2010 |
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| Einstein: His Life and Universe | | Read more |
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| Now available in paperback, Walter Isaacson's comprehensive biography of one of the greatest icon's of our age. |
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| Author: Isaacson, Walter |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781847390547 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - General |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Elegance of the Hedgehog, The | | Read more |
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| A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us. |
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| Author: Barbery, Muriel |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781933372600 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 10 December 2009 |
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| Elegy for Easterly, An | | Read more |
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| A collection of stories from Zimbabwe. |
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| Author: Gappah, Petina |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780571246939 |
| Categories: African Fiction, Fiction: Short Stories |
| Date posted: 17 April 2009 |
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| Elephant, the Tiger and the Cell Phone, The | | Read more |
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| Shashi Tharoor describes the vast changes that have recently transformed this once sleeping giant into a world leader in the realms of science and technology. |
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| Author: Tharoor, Shashi |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781559708630 |
| Categories: Business, Economics & Technology |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Emma | | Read more |
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| The classic by Jane Austen |
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| Author: Austen, Jane |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099511168 |
| Categories: Fiction: Classics |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Empire of the Sun | | Read more |
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| The heartrending story of a British boy's four-year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War.
On the Bookshelf of: Jane Raphaely. |
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| Author: Ballard, JG |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780007221523 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 4 January 2009 |
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| Enchantress of Florence, The | | Read more |
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| A new tale from the inimitable Salman Rushdie. |
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| Author: Rushdie, Salman |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099421924 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| End by Barbara Adair | | Read more |
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| Shortlisted for the 2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, this is a fine follow-up to Barbara Adair's first book, In Tangier we Killed the Blue Parrot |
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| Author: Adair, Barbara |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770093058 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| End of Food, The | | Read more |
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| Paul Roberts's startling global investigation of the way we make, market, consume and even think about food. |
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| Author: Roberts, Paul |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780747588818 |
| Categories: Politics & Current Affairs |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Enduring Love | | Read more |
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| A suspense-filled story that will keep you riveted from page one. |
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| Author: McEwan, Ian |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099276586 |
| Categories: Fiction: film adaptations, Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 22 July 2009 |
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| Engleby * | | Read more |
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| *Read & Very Highly Rated*
A brilliant crime novel by master storyteller, Sebastian Faulks. |
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| Author: Faulks, Sebastian |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099458272 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary, Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 28 January 2009 |
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| English Patient, The | | Read more |
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| Winner of the Booker Prize. |
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| Author: Ondaatje, Michael |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780747572596 |
| Categories: Fiction: film adaptations, Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 22 July 2009 |
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| Englishman's Boy, The | | Read more |
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| A story that spans two countries, two centuries, two views of history. |
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| Author: Vanderhaeghe, Guy |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780349119472 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 28 January 2009 |
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| Escape | | Read more |
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| Caroyln Jessop's remarkable story about her escape from a polygamist cult. |
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| Author: Jessop, Carolyn |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780141031514 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - General |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Escarpments | | Read more |
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| Poems 1973-2007 by Patrick Cullinan
* On the Bookshelf of: Ingrid de Kok * |
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| Author: Cullinan, Patrick |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781415200483 |
| Categories: Poetry |
| Date posted: 11 March 2009 |
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| Essential Feminist Reader, The | | Read more |
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| The first anthology to present the full scope of feminist history, edited by Estelle B Freedman |
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| Author: Freedman, Estelle B |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780812974607 |
| Categories: History, Women's Studies |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Every Last Drop | | Read more |
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| A simple, practical guide that will show you how to save up to 50,000 litres of water per person per year |
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| Author: Madden, Craig & Carmichael, Amy |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781741668889 |
| Categories: Green Books |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Every Move You Make | | Read more |
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| Powerfully rooted in the heat and the dust of the vast Australian continent, this is a heartbreakingly beautiful and richly satisfying collection by a great storyteller. |
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| Author: Malouf, David |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099502586 |
| Categories: Fiction: Short Stories |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country | | Read more |
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| A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than the story of her own life. |
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| Author: Slovo, Gillian |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781844084746 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Evil Seed, The | | Read more |
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| The revised and updated re-issue of Joanne Harris's first novel. |
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| Author: Harris, Joanne |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780552775045 |
| Categories: Fiction: General |
| Date posted: 19 December 2008 |
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| Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader | | Read more |
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| Ex Libris wittily recounts a lifelong obsession with books. |
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| Author: Fadiman, Anne |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780140283709 |
| Categories: Books about Books |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Excellent Women | | Read more |
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| Barbara Pym's world at its funniest and most touching.
Fiction Classics |
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| Author: Pym, Barbara |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781844085262 |
| Categories: Fiction: Classics |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Exploded View, The * | | Read more |
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| Ivan Vladislavic's spare prose draw with painful clarity the landscape - both geographic and human - that is Johannesburg today. |
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| Author: Vladislavic, Ivan |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780958446860 |
| Categories: African Fiction, Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 30 January 2009 |
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| Eye in the Door, The | | Read more |
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| The second volume in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy.
On the Bookshelf of: Jane Raphaely. |
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| Author: Barker, Pat |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780141030944 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 28 January 2009 |
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| Eye of the Leopard, The | | Read more |
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| a first-rate and original psychological thriller delving deep into the mind of a man lost in an unknown world, by Henning Mankell. |
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| Author: Mankell, Henning |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781843430483 |
| Categories: Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 9 December 2008 |
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| Eye on the Money | | Read more |
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| a poignant, telling account of the ANC’s slide from the moral high ground of the sanctions campaign to the corrupted lowlands where weapons of war are traded. |
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| Author: Crawford-Browne, Terry |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781415200216 |
| Categories: African Current Affairs & Politics |
| Date posted: 14 January 2009 |
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| Fair Trade: A Beginner's Guide | | Read more |
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| Fair Trade: A Beginner's Guide reveals why Fair Trade means more than just bananas, coffee, and chocolate. |
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| Date posted: 14 May 2008 |
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| Falling Off the Edge | | Read more |
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| Globalisation, world peace and other lies. |
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| Author: Perry, Alex |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780230706897 |
| Categories: African Current Affairs & Politics |
| Date posted: 3 December 2008 |
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| Family Guide to Complementary and Conventional Medicine | | Read more |
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| How to use them together for the safest and most effective treatment. |
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| Date posted: 8 October 2008 |
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| Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets, The | | Read more |
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| Everybody has their secrets, and in Sophie Hannah's fantastic stories the curtains positively twitch with them. |
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| Date posted: 14 May 2008 |
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| Farm in My Heart, A | | Read more |
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| From the yard to the pantry and the table. |
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| Author: Le Roux, Emilia & Smuts, Francois |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780624047292 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 28 October 2009 |
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| Fast Food Nation | | Read more |
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| The book that got everyone talking about what junk food is doing to us, by Eric Schlosser. |
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| Date posted: 29 August 2008 |
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| Fat Duck Cookbook, The | | Read more |
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| A beautiful, smaller format edition of the bestselling Big Fat Duck Cookbook published in 2008 |
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| Author: Blumenthal, Heston |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780747597377 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - General, Food |
| Date posted: 9 December 2009 |
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| Fat is a Feminist Issue | | Read more |
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| Author: Orbach, Susie |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099481935 |
| Categories: Women's Studies |
| Date posted: 26 May 2009 |
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| Fatal Englishman, The | | Read more |
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| Three short lives, brought back to us by the masterful pen of Sebastian Faulks |
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| Date posted: 18 June 2008 |
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| Fence, The | | Read more |
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| Shortlisted for the 2008 Sunday Times Fiction Prize. A political thriller set in Johannesburg around the turn of the millennium. |
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| Date posted: 9 June 2008 |
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| Ferney | | Read more |
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| A love story with a difference, by James Long |
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| Date posted: 19 June 2008 |
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| Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome | | Read more |
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| 7 steps to less pain and more energy, by Fred Friedberg. |
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| Date posted: 8 October 2008 |
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| Field Guide to Fairies, A | | Read more |
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| Explore the secret world of the fairy realm in this exquisite book with pop-up scenes. |
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| Author: Marriott, Susannah |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780753419212 |
| Categories: Children's Books |
| Date posted: 11 December 2009 |
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| Fifteen Men | | Read more |
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| Words and images from behind bars, edited by Margie Orford
*On the Bookshelf of Ingrid de Kok* |
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| Author: Orford, Margie (ed) |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868423224 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs |
| Date posted: 11 March 2009 |
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| Fighting the Banana Wars | | Read more |
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| Harriet Lamb explores the journey, through an often unjust system, that Fairtrade items make from farm to consumer. |
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| Date posted: 14 May 2008 |
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| Film Club, The | | Read more |
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| No school. No work. No responsibilities. Just three films a week. A dad, his teenage son and the education he couldn't refuse. |
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| Date posted: 16 June 2008 |
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| Final Theory | | Read more |
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| Einstein's last secret; mankind's only hope. A crime thriller by Mark Alpert |
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| Date posted: 22 October 2008 |
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| Fine Balance, A | | Read more |
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| One of the most magnificent books about India ever written. |
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| Author: Mistry, Rohinton |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780571230587 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 30 January 2009 |
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| First Drafts | | Read more |
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| South African history in the making |
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| Author: Sparks, Allister |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868423460 |
| Categories: African History |
| Date posted: 4 December 2009 |
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| First Women in Love, The | | Read more |
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| The 'first' Women in Love is the unexpurgated version preferred by Lawrence himself and viewed by many as Lawrence's masterpiece. |
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| Date posted: 16 July 2008 |
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| Fish | | Read more |
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| An essential addition to any cook's kitchen, by tom Aikens. |
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| Date posted: 4 November 2008 |
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| Flashback Hotel | | Read more |
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| A collection of short stories by Ivan Vladislavic |
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| Author: Vladislavic, Ivan |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781415201077 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 12 March 2010 |
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| Fly, Eagle, Fly: An African Tale | | Read more |
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| 'Fly, Eagle, Fly is a charming and innovative adaptation of an African tale attributed to a Ghanaian, James Kwegyir Aggrey - also known as Aggrey of Africa.' Available in English and Afrikaans |
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| Date posted: 14 May 2008 |
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| Flyleaf | | Read more |
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| Shortlisted for the 2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, Finuala Dowling's second novel draws, to great effect, on her experiences as an English lecturer and Kalk Bay local. But it is her observations of characters and their behaviour that linger long. |
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| Author: Dowling, Finuala |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780143025313 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 24 January 2009 |
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| Fold in the Map, A | | Read more |
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| Poems by Isobel Nixon |
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| Date posted: 13 August 2008 |
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| Food for Thought; Thought for Food | | Read more |
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| The creative universe of elBulli's Ferran Adria. A reflection on the worlds of avant garde cooking and art. |
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| Author: Hamilton, Richard & Todoli, Vicente (eds) |
| EAN/ISBN: 9788496954687 |
| Categories: Art & Art Instruction, Food |
| Date posted: 28 October 2009 |
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| Foodie Handbook, The | | Read more |
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| The (almost) definitive guide to gastronomy |
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| Author: Techamuanvivit, Pim |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781840914412 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 22 January 2010 |
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| Foolish Delusions | | Read more |
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| An enthralling novel auto/biography |
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| Date posted: 13 May 2008 |
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| Fools & Other Stories | | Read more |
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| This is an intricate and subtle collection that deals with the formative experiences of growing up in a Johannesburg township during the apartheid years. None of the stories are diminished by time and they remain as compelling as when they first made their appearance. |
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| Date posted: 14 May 2008 |
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| Footprints and Fingerprints | | Read more |
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| Poems by Lindiwe Mabuza |
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| Date posted: 13 August 2008 |
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| Forgotten Shipwrecks of the Western Cape | | Read more |
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| The follow-up to Mike Walker's successful first book on shipwrecks, which focused on Cape Town's Far South coastline. |
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| Date posted: 11 April 2008 |
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| Forgotten Skills of Cooking | | Read more |
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| The time-honoured ways are the best - over 700 recipes to show you why |
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| Author: Allen, Darina |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781856267885 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 22 January 2010 |
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| Fork in the Road, A | | Read more |
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| Available in February 2009, Andre Brink's memoir is something to look forward to. |
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| Date posted: 29 October 2008 |
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| Fountainhead, The | | Read more |
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| First published in 1943, this epic story of money, power and a man's struggle to succeed on his own terms is a paean to individualism and humanity's creative potential. |
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| Date posted: 15 July 2008 |
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| Four Seasons Cookery Book | | Read more |
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| Margaret Costa's Four Seasons Cookery Book is a must for any serious cookbook collection. |
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| Date posted: 28 August 2008 |
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| Fourth Child | | Read more |
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| Poems by Megan Hall |
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| Date posted: 14 August 2008 |
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| Fox & the Flies, The | | Read more |
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| Shortlisted for the 2008 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award. In this brilliant study, Charles van Onselen situates the private life of one man amidst the demi-monde of the Atlantic world and casts a brilliant light on the most infamous serial killer of all time - Jack the Ripper. |
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| Date posted: 2 July 2008 |
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| Fraction of the Whole, A | | Read more |
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| Short-listed for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. |
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| Date posted: 9 September 2008 |
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| Franschhoek Food | | Read more |
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| Recipes from the food capital of South Africa. Non fiction books |
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| Author: Robins, Myrna |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770077379 |
| Categories: Food |
| Date posted: 28 October 2009 |
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| Franschhoek Memories | | Read more |
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| At the heart of Gwen Jennings memoir is a great love and longing for home and family, for church and land, representing a life and an intimacy that are fast disappearing from the valleys of the Boland. |
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| Date posted: 13 May 2008 |
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| French Lieutenant's Woman, The | | Read more |
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| John Fowles' brilliantly sustained allegory of the decline of the 20th century passion for freedom. |
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| Date posted: 15 July 2008 |
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| French Lieutenant's Woman, The | | Read more |
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| The acclaimed novel by John Fowles. |
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| Author: Fowles, John |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099478331 |
| Categories: Fiction: film adaptations, Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 22 July 2009 |
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| Fruit of a Poisoned Tree | | Read more |
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| A true story of murder and the miscarriage of justice |
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| Author: Altbeker, Antony |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868423330 |
| Categories: African Studies |
| Date posted: 18 June 2010 |
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| Fugitive Pieces | | Read more |
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| Anne Michaels's novel won both the Guardian Fiction Award and the Orange Prize in 1997. On the Bookshelf of: Anne Schuster |
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| Author: Michaels, Anne |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780747534969 & 9780747599258 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 22 July 2009 |
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| Fynbos Fairies | | Read more |
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| There is a fairy living around each species of Cape Fynbos, and Antjie Krog introduces them to the world in her inimitable way, in sixteen poems for children, and those who retain the child in them. |
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| Date posted: 13 August 2008 |
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| Gaia Warriors | | Read more |
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| Qrugent - the fight is on. Aimed at the generation who will have to deal with the repercussions of their parents' decisions, with an afterword by James Lovelock. |
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| Author: Davies, Nicola |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781406312348 |
| Categories: Children's Books |
| Date posted: 11 December 2009 |
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| Game of Hide and Seek, A | | Read more |
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| First published in 1958, this is Elizabeth Taylor's subtlest and finest work.
Fiction Classics |
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| Date posted: 15 July 2008 |
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| Garden Guardian's Guide to Environmentally Responsible Garden Care, The | | Read more |
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| At times controversial, and always informative, this first-of-its-kind book informs gardeners about alternatives to chemical responses to garden pest problems |
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| Date posted: 13 May 2008 |
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| Garden of My Ancestors | | Read more |
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| A story about the infamous Hilton-Barber family and their farm set in the wild and misty reaches of Limpopo province. |
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| Date posted: 13 May 2008 |
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| Gardening in the Dark | | Read more |
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| Poems by Denis Hirson |
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| Date posted: 13 August 2008 |
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| Gate at the Stairs, A | | Read more |
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| This long-awaited new novel by one of the most heralded writers of the past two decades is lyrical, funny, moving, and devastating; Lorrie Moore’s most ambitious book to date — textured, beguiling, and wise. |
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| Author: Moore, Lorrie |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780571249466 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 30 July 2010 |
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| Gathering, The | | Read more |
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| Anne Enright's 2007 Man Booker Prize-winning novel.
*On the Bookshelf of: Nancy Richards* |
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| Author: Enright, Anne |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099501633 |
| Date posted: 11 March 2009 |
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| Genetically Modified Food | | Read more |
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| A Short Guide for the Confused |
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| Date posted: 14 May 2008 |
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| Gentlemen of the Road | | Read more |
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| A new collection of stories from the author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay |
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| Author: Chabon, Michael |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780340953556 |
| Date posted: 18 December 2008 |
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| George Eliot | | Read more |
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| Jenny Uglow's biography of one of literature's most intriguing writers. |
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| Date posted: 25 September 2008 |
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| Get Bushwise: A Bushveld Safari | | Read more |
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| A Bushveld Safari takes readers on an intriguing journey through the African Bushveld, where they encounter fascinating animals of all sizes, ranging from termites to prehistoric-looking rhinos. |
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| Author: Clarke, Nadine |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781868727360 |
| Categories: African Children's books |
| Date posted: 6 December 2008 |
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| Getaway Guide to Karoo, Namaqualand & Kalahari | | Read more |
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| Out and about in the Northern Cape. |
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| Author: Naude-Mosely, Brent & Mosely, Steve |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781919938585 |
| Categories: African Travel |
| Date posted: 24 May 2009 |
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| Ghaap | | Read more |
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| Sonnets from the Northern Cape by Michael Cope |
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| Date posted: 13 August 2008 |
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| Ghost Map, The | | Read more |
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| A street, a city, an epidemic and the hidden power of urban networks, by Steven Johnson. |
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| Date posted: 17 November 2008 |
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| Ghost Road, The | | Read more |
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| The third volume in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy. Winner of the 1995 Booker Prize.
On the Bookshelf of: Jane Raphaely |
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| Author: Barker, Pat |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780141030951 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 28 January 2009 |
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| Ghostwriter and Other Poems | | Read more |
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| Poems by Jane Fox |
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| Date posted: 13 August 2008 |
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| Gifted Gabaldon Sisters, The | | Read more |
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| A tale of four gifted women and the truth about their lives. |
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| Author: Lopez, Lorraine |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780446699211 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 2 May 2009 |
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| Gilead | | Read more |
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| Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize For Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
On the Bookshelf of: Finuala Dowling |
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| Author: Robinson, Marilynne |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781844081486 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 30 January 2009 |
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| Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, The | | Read more |
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| The final book in the Millenium trilogy has arrived. (Fiction books; Best sellers) |
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| Author: Larsson, Stieg |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781906694173 |
| Categories: Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 6 October 2009 |
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| Girl Who Played with Fire, The | | Read more |
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| The second of Stieg Larsson's Millenium trilogy is even better than the first. (Fiction books; best sellers) |
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| Author: Larsson, Stieg |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781846680199 |
| Categories: Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 6 October 2009 |
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| Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The | | Read more |
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| The first book in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. (Fiction books, best sellers) |
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| Author: Larsson, Stieg |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781847245458 |
| Categories: Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 6 October 2009 |
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| Girl's Guide to Surfing, The | | Read more |
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| One of our best-selling surf books. |
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| Author: McCloud, Andrea |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780811846455 |
| Categories: Sport |
| Date posted: 11 July 2009 |
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| Glass Castle, The | | Read more |
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| A memoir of a girl who escaped her brilliant, troubled parents to live a middle-class life, by Jeanette Walls. |
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| Author: Walls, Jeanette |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781844081820 |
| Categories: Biographies & Memoirs - General |
| Date posted: 30 April 2009 |
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| Glass Room, The | | Read more |
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| One of the 2009 longlisted titles for the Man Booker Prize. |
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| Author: Mawer, Simon |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781408700778 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 14 August 2009 |
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| God Delusion, The | | Read more |
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| The God Delusion is a brilliantly argued, fascinating polemic that will be required reading for anyone interested in this most emotional and important subject. Non fiction books, religion, science books |
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| Author: Dawkins, Richard |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780552773317 |
| Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Science & Nature |
| Date posted: 14 October 2009 |
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| God of Small Things, The | | Read more |
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| Winner of the 1997 Booker Prize. Two-egg twins Rahel and Estha try to fashion a childhood in the shade of the wreck that is their family. On the Bookshelf of: Anne Schuster. |
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| Author: Roy, Arundhati |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780006550686 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 30 January 2009 |
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| Golden Notebook, The | | Read more |
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| First published in 1962 and now considered one of the major works of 20th century literature by 2007 Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing |
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| Date posted: 7 June 2008 |
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| Golden Spruce, The | | Read more |
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| A true story of myth, madness and greed, by John Vaillant. |
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| Date posted: 19 June 2008 |
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| Good Doctor, The | | Read more |
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| Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. |
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| Author: Galgut, Damon |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780143024569 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 27 April 2010 |
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| Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, The | | Read more |
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| In this ingenious and spell-binding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman revisits the most influential story ever told. |
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| Author: Pullman, Philip |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781847678263 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 23 May 2010 |
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| Good Plain Cook, The * | | Read more |
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| *Read & Highly Rated*
A perfectly pitched story of deception and self-delusion. |
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| Author: Roberts, Bethan |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781846686658 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 2 May 2009 |
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| Goodnight Mister Tom | | Read more |
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| Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, by Michelle Magorian. |
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| Date posted: 16 July 2008 |
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| Gourmet Rhapsody | | Read more |
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| From the author of the bestselling The Elegance of the Hedgehog |
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| Author: Barbery, Muriel |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781933372952 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 27 April 2010 |
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| Grace Notes | | Read more |
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| Shortlisted for the 1997 Booker Prize. |
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| Author: MacLaverty, Bernard |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099778011 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 2 May 2009 |
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| Great Books, The (HB) | | Read more |
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| Anthony O'Hear takes us on a journey through 2,500 years of the West's classic literature. |
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| Date posted: 31 May 2008 |
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| Great Feuds in Mathematics | | Read more |
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| Ten of the liveliest disputes ever, by Hal Hellman |
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| Date posted: 17 November 2008 |
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| Great Karoo, The | | Read more |
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| A wonderful photographic journey around the Karoo and its people and history. |
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| Date posted: 24 May 2009 |
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| Great Lives: Pivotal Moments | | Read more |
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| The stories behind the Sunday Times's memorials to 100 people and events whose contributions influenced the history of South Africa. |
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| Author: Segal, Lauren & Holden, Paul |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770095922 |
| Categories: African History |
| Date posted: 3 December 2008 |
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| Greatest Show on Earth, The | | Read more |
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| The evidence for evolution. |
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| Author: Dawkins, Richard |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780593061749 |
| Categories: Science & Nature |
| Date posted: 28 October 2009 |
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| Green Mile, The | | Read more |
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| One of the best by Stephen King. |
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| Author: King, Stephen |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780575084346 |
| Categories: Fiction: film adaptations, Fiction: Crime/Thriller/Mystery |
| Date posted: 22 July 2009 |
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| Green-Eyed Thieves | | Read more |
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| Short-listed for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, Imraan Coovadia's new book is hugely enjoyable. |
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| Author: Coovadia, Imraan |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781415200094 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 5 June 2009 |
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| Griqua's Apprentice, The | | Read more |
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| Ancient healing arts of the Karoo. |
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| Author: Pienaar, Antoinette |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781415200735 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs |
| Date posted: 31 March 2009 |
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| Grow Organic | | Read more |
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| A beautifully - and responsibly - published book that will give you a wide range of information on organic gardening. |
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| Date posted: 14 May 2008 |
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| Grow to Live | | Read more |
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| A simple guide to growing your own good, clean food. |
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| Author: Featherstone, Pat |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781770096509 |
| Categories: Gardening |
| Date posted: 9 December 2009 |
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| Grow Vegetables | | Read more |
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| For food that's fresh from plot to plate, not flown halfway around the world, you can't beat homegrown and healthy vegetables, salads and herbs. |
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| Date posted: 14 May 2008 |
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| Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The | | Read more |
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| A moving tale of friendship, tolerance, forgiveness and kindness in the wake of a period of unthinkable hardship and horror, this is set to become a classic. |
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| Author: Shaffer, Mary Ann |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780747590644 |
| Categories: Fiction: General |
| Date posted: 19 December 2008 |
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| Guinness World Records 2010 | | Read more |
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| The book of the decade |
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| Author: Guinness World Records |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781904994497 |
| Categories: Children's Books |
| Date posted: 11 December 2009 |
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| Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe | | Read more |
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| An updated edition of the book that recounts the atrocities committed against civilians three years after Mugabe took control of Zimbabwe. |
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| Date posted: 10 April 2008 |
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| Gutenberg Revolution, The | | Read more |
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| How printing changed the course of history. |
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| Author: Man, John |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780553819663 |
| Categories: Books about Books, History |
| Date posted: 8 December 2009 |
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| Half of the Yellow Sun | | Read more |
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| In this novel Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie considers love in the face of political and personal turmoil in Nigeria in the 1960s. On the Bookshelf of: Anne Schuster. |
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| Author: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780007200283 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 3 January 2009 |
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| Handful of Honey, A | | Read more |
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| By Annie Hawes, author of Extra Virgin |
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| Date posted: 9 September 2008 |
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| Handspring Puppet Company | | Read more |
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| The first major South African book looking at the extraordinary work done by the Handspring Puppet Company. |
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| Author: Taylor, Jane (ed) |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780981432854 (HB) & 9780981432830 (SC) |
| Categories: African Arts & Culture |
| Date posted: 1 December 2009 |
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| Hangman's Game, The | | Read more |
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| The hangman's Game by Karen Kin-Aribisala is the winner of the Best Book for the Africa Region of the 2008 Commonwealth Writer's Prize. |
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| Date posted: 17 March 2008 |
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| Harare North | | Read more |
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| The story of a Zimbabwean refugee who ends up in London. |
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| Author: Chikwava, Brian |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780224086110 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 17 April 2009 |
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| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | | Read more |
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| The much-anticipated final book in JK Rowling's world-record-breaking series, went on sale after a special party at Kalk Bay Books in July 2007 |
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| Date posted: 7 October 2008 |
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| Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage | | Read more |
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| A collection from one of the most consistently satisfying short-story writers there is - Alice Munro. |
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| Author: Munro, Alice |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099422747 |
| Categories: Fiction: Short Stories |
| Date posted: 27 May 2009 |
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| Heart of Redness, The | | Read more |
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| Winner of the 2001 Sunday Times Fiction Award. |
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| Date posted: 28 July 2008 |
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| Heliopolis | | Read more |
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| A 2009 longlisted title for the Man Booker Prize. |
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| Author: Scudamore, James |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781846551888 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 14 August 2009 |
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| Help, The | | Read more |
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| A timeless and universal story. |
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| Author: Stockett, Kathryn |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781905490486 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 23 December 2009 |
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| Heretic Queen, The | | Read more |
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| From the author of Nefertiti. |
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| Author: Moran, Michelle |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781847243034 |
| Categories: Fiction Historical |
| Date posted: 12 June 2009 |
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| Hidden and Revealed | | Read more |
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| Poems by Immanuel Suttner |
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| Date posted: 14 August 2008 |
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| Hidden Food Allergies | | Read more |
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| Is What You Eat Making You Ill? by Patrick Holford. |
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| Date posted: 8 October 2008 |
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| High Low In-between | | Read more |
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| A new book from the author of Green-Eyed Thieves |
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| Author: Coovadia, Imraan |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781415200704 |
| Categories: African Fiction |
| Date posted: 25 November 2009 |
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| Hijab: Unveiling Queer Lives | | Read more |
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| The first known collection of South African Muslim stories relating to Islam and sexual diversity. |
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| Author: Hendricks, Pepe (ed) |
| EAN/ISBN: 9781920355203 |
| Categories: African Biographies & Memoirs, African Studies, LGBTI Interest |
| Date posted: 17 February 2010 |
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| Hillary Clinton Her Way | | Read more |
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| A landmark biography by America's two top, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalists. |
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| Date posted: 23 May 2008 |
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| His Illegal Self | | Read more |
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| A new novel from Peter Carey. |
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| Date posted: 7 October 2008 |
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| History of Love, The | | Read more |
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| Lost love, lost books, lost souls. A book to move the heart by Nicole Krauss |
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| Date posted: 7 June 2008 |
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| History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, A | | Read more |
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| Julian Barnes's unconventional account of the voyage on Noah's Ark.
On the Bookshelf of: Jane Raphaely |
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| Author: Barnes, Julian |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780330313995 |
| Categories: Fiction: Literary |
| Date posted: 4 January 2009 |
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| History of the World in Six Glasses, A | | Read more |
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| How to understand the world's history through six beverages. |
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| Date posted: 16 June 2008 |
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| Hitler's Private Library | | Read more |
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| Hitler's Private Library provides us with a remarkable view of Hitler's evolution - and unparalleled insights into his emotional and intellectual world. Utterly compelling, it is also a landmark in our understanding of the Third Reich. Non fiction books |
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| Author: Ryback, Timothy |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780099532170 |
| Categories: Books about Books |
| Date posted: 12 October 2009 |
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| Holding Pattern | | Read more |
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| Poems & Drawings by Gus Ferguson |
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| Author: Ferguson, Gus |
| EAN/ISBN: 9780620453615 |
| Categories: Poetry |
| Date posted: 11 December 2009 |
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| Holford Low-GL Diet Made Easy, The | | Read more |
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| Patrick Holford's simpler version of his best-welling The Holford Low-GL Diet |
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| Date posted: 8 October 2008 |
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