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9780800613419, Bernhard Lohse
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9781843444190, Sean Martin
In 2014 the world faces a global crisis as the Ebola epidemic threatens to spread from Western Africa across the planet. Even before recorded history began...
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9780241352519, Simon Jenkins
The first short single-volume history of the continent from the author of the bestselling A Short History of England Europe has for two millennia been a...
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9781784532833, G. R. Evans
What did people really believe in the Middle Ages? Much of our sense of the medieval period has come down to us from the writings of the learned: the abbots...
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9781868429394, Birmingham,D
Celebrated Africanist David Birmingham draws on decades of extensive scholarly research and the ‘accidental adventures’ that make up his life as an historian...
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9781849045193, Professor David Birmingham
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`26x21x5, Hardcover, English, 624, 2005, 2.005kg, Bill Bryson
In the bestselling, prize a short history of nearly everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the world of science both...
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9781868429592, Nattrass,G
In A Short History of South Africa Gail Nattrass historian and educator presents the reader with a brief general account of South Africa’s history from the...
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9781788311380, Michael Prestwich
The conflict that swept over France from 1337 to 1453 remains the longest military struggle in history. A bitter dynastic fight between Plantagenet and...
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9781780766065, George Lane
George Lane argues that the Mongols were not only subjugators who swept all before them but one of the great organising forces of world history. His book...
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9780241981443, Marina Lewycka
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is bestselling author Marina Lewycka's hilarious and award winning debut novel now available as a Penguin Essential...
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9781843911777, A. E. Housman
A collection of sixty-three short poems. It considers themes of youthfulness and mortality taking as its setting a Shropshire half imagined by the poet and...
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9780241303153, A. E. Housman
A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning clothbound editions of ten favourite poets which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was...
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9780486264684, Housman,Ae
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9780297847168, Matt Rendell
In 2003 Lance Armstrong won the Centenary Tour de France. It was his fifth victory and has cemented his position as one of the greatest cyclists of all time....
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9781529004052, Darcey Bell
A chilling portrayal of female friendship by debut author Darcey Bell.
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9781919790763, Ahmed Kathrada
Sentenced to life imprisonment at the Rivonia Trial in 1964 Ahmed Kathrada spent eighteen years on Robben Island and a further seven in Pollsmoor Prison with...
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111 mm x 161 mm x 6 mm, Paperback / softback, English;French, 64, 25/02/2015, 56 gr, Gustave Flaubert
With pathos and humour the author imagines the unexamined life of a servant girl.
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9781431425778, Ronnie Kasrils
Written like a thriller in the engaging style of his previous best sellers about the liberation struggle this book takes up the tale in 2004 when Ronnie...
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9781920217693, GREEFF,M,A
'I wonder what tree that is' - if this thought has ever occurred to you in the Kruger National Park this book is intended for you. Virtually no visitor to...
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127 mm x 203 mm, Hardback, English, 112, 30/05/2014, Ibrahim Al-Koni
The Libyan landscape is one of the most diverse and breathtaking replete with barren deserts vast ocean coasts and a stunning display of earth's elements....
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9781847490766, Prosper Merimee
Trapped in an unhappy marriage with a boorish inattentive and socially ambitious husband Julie de Chaverny enjoys a flirtatious dalliance with the elegant...
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9781415207383, Beverly Rycroft
Constance West is dead. She is floating above her hometown of Scheepersdorp unsure how long it has been since she died since the cancer took her.
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9780141398754, H. G. Wells
Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe....
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9781743365984, Dianne Touchell
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9780702191060, Juta
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9780702192128, JUTA,A
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9781444922134, David Almond
The epic new novel by David Almond
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9780240812656, Ballou,G
A guide to the fundamentals of test and measurement for various aspects of sound engineering. It includes electrical and acoustic testing measurement systems...
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9781869194154, Kobus van Rooyen
The Author was the Chairman of the Publications Appeal Board from 1980-90. Under his leadership phenomenal steps were taken towards freeing South Africa from...
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9781920689933, Johan Cilliers
Although the act of preaching may take on various forms the author takes a look at preaching as being an event in space and time. Aesthetical-theological...
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9780099518631, Richard Yates
Bobby is eighteen and lost on the battlefields of Europe stumbling his way through World War II. Back home his mother Alice puts all her hopes in her son and...
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9780060082871, Nicholas A. Basbanes
From the notable author of \
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9781868426201, Michiel Heyns
When a young South African literary scholar Michael Marcussi is offered via a Facebook contact a house in the Tuscan village of Gianocini he accepts with...
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9781415209677, COOVADIA,I
Making sure the end of the world never happens again – that is Enver Eleven’s task. A spy for the Historical Agency Enver is based in Johannesburg the...
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HTFX30808, Hamilton, Ian
Volume 1: Poor. Volume 2: Good. Ex-library. Both volumes foxed, and the cloth boards are rubbed and bumped. Volume 1 is missing one of the maps, and 2 maps...
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9781857028881, Madeleine St.John
A poignant and witty portrait of modern life and an elegant anatomy of love telling the story of three people - two men and a woman - locked in an unhappy...
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129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm, Paperback / softback, English, 368, 24/03/2016, 255 gr, Roddy Doyle
A new edition to commemorate the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising. By Easter Monday1916 he's fourteen years old and already six-foot-two a soldier in the...
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9781784740436, Neel Mukherjee
What happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? Can we transform the possibilities we are born into? This book prises...
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9781844762323, Angela Gair
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9780857207432, Anjelica Huston
Academy Award-winning actress Anjelica Huston's spectacular memoir in her own words
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21.5 x 14 x 3.3 cm, Hardcover, cloth bound, with dust jacket, English, 370, 1972, 0.540 kg, Laurens Van der Post
Set in the African bushveld, A Story Like the Wind follows François, a sensitive boy growing up among indigenous peoples and wildlife. Through his deepening...
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9789814751308, Michael Wang
Well-written and with an engaging storyline that parents will enjoy reading with their children. Book focuses on the irrational desires children can have and...
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9780435233105, Tennessee Williams
The Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts....
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9781408106044, Tennessee Williams
'A Streetcar Named Desire is a play of mythological centrality redefining American Theatre with its indelible heightened poetic naturalism breaking down the...
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9780226286969, Martha Gellhorn
Follows a journalist who returns to Prague after its annexation and finds her efforts to obtain help for the refugees and to convey the shocking state of the...
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9780553816334, Laurell K. Hamilton
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9781631582233, Christopher Hollis
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HTFX63175, Kohler, O.
Condition: Fine. Wrapper is lightly shelf worn. Pages slightly yellowed. Small signature on the title page.
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9780747257707, Marianne Wesson
A caller asks lawyer Cinda Hayes a question she cannot answer on a radio show. Then Mariah contacts her again desperate to unravel the meaning of her broken...
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9780913573723, Richard M Riss
The twentieth century has witnessed periodic revivals comparable to the awakenings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. And yet many of the places and...
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9781869143558, Sam Naidu
Crime fiction continues to be a burgeoning literary category in post-apartheid South Africa with more new authors titles and themes emerging every year. This...
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9780310494744, Robert Horton Gundry
This revised fifth edition of author Robert Gundry's A Survey of the New Testament goes beyond providing background information and technical introductory...
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9780141439600, Charles Dickens
This text is a revised edition of Dickens' classic tale. After 18 years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the ageing Dr Manette is finally released and...
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9780007350896, Charles Dickens
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics.
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9781853260391, Charles Dickens
Traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. The author based his historical detail on...
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9780795701221, June McKinnon
This collection of portraits of women at the Cape brings to life some extraordinary personalities from the early day of the settlement. Cape Town was a wild...
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9780545817905, Matthew J Kirby
The mesmerizing story of a young woman in Victorian London who haunted by the ghosts of Jack the Ripper's victims is set on a terrifying path to salvation.
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22 x 14 x 2.5 cm, Hardcover with dust jacket, English, 211, 1971, 0.435 kg, Lawrence G. Green
Memories of Unusual Cape Town characters, queer shops and shows, old bars, hotels and cafes and the panorama of the streets.
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R280.00
9781559362108, Aime Cesaire
First TCG edition of this bestselling adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
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16x24, Hardcover, English, 334, 1982, 0.710kg, C.A.Spinage
Prompted by the need to understand the population dynamics of wildlife in the Queen Elizabeth national park of western Uganda.
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22x15x6, Hardcover, English, 744, 1894, 1.605kg, C.Le Neve foster
The art of mining , in the broadest sense of the word, consists of the processes
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9781920689438, John W. De Gruchy
John de Gruchy is one of the greatest and most respected South African theologians of the past five decades. His work has left an indelible mark on both the...
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9780310511014, Jay E. Adams
This book connects biblical doctrine with practical living. The reader gains an insight into the rich theological framework that supports and directs a...
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22 x 15 x 3 cm, Hardcover, cloth bound, with dust jacket, English, 245, 1974, 0.465 kg, Brian Crozier
An examination of global ideological and political conflict during the Cold War era, this work presents a framework for understanding the methods and...
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R410.00
9780745399096, Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
A bold new theory of ISIS revealing its profound impact on the very nature of contemporary political violence
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9781409121480, Tami Hoag
A botched investigation - and a killer walks free...
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9781599471549, Robert E. Ulanowicz
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9780062671158, Ellen Oh
Compiled by We Need Diverse Books's Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman-who both contributed stories to this edition as well-the authors included in this exquisite...
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9780751534092, Robert James Waller
In this sequel to The Bridges of Madison County it is 16 years after Robert Kincaid and Francesca Johnson agreed that their swift passionate and deep love...
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9781857024074, Kathryn Harrison
A sumptuous novel of love and loss set in 17th-century Spain. From the author of the bestselling novel `The Binding Chair'.
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9781408349908, C. G. Drews
An emotionally charged story about the power of dreams and how passion can turn to obsession.
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9781485903475, Kalmer,H
Spanning more than a hundred years A Thousand Tales of Johannesburg is a novel that documents and probes the lives of the inhabitants of this incomparable...
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9780743208093, John Steele Gordon
In the 19th century a group of extraordinary men decided to use the emerging technology of telegraphy to bridge the Atlantic and unite the Old and New...
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9780802824615, Robert W. Bertram
Foreword by Edward H. SchroederThis book is about faithful witnesses -- from the Reformation to South African apartheid to Bonhoeffer -- to the promise of...
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9780060562427, Patricia Schonstein
When a gifted clairvoyant's wife leaves him for his best friend he casts a spell that will conjure dark unexpected consequences for them all in his efforts...
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9780552771665, Patricia Schonstein
This novel mixes magical realism with the big themes - war love death the afterlife - to devastating effect.
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9780593051764, Patricia Schonstein
Soothsayer and clairvoyant Primo Verona has such a strong gift for the supernatural that he was able to predict his own mother's death when he was still in...
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R165.00
24x16x5, Hardcover, English, 467, 1908, 0.670kg, Boris Wilson
Boris Wilson was never a spectator, he never had a time to sit back and let the world pass him by
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24x16x5, Hardcover, English, 461, 1989, 0.810kg, Wilbur Smith
From the master of epic storytelling comes one of his greatest adventures yet, a towering novel of high suspense.
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21.5 x 14.5 x 2 cm, Hardcover, cloth bound, no dust jacket, English, 179, 1968, 0.430 kg, Robert Carey
Set against the harsh backdrop of wartime, this story explores the psychological and moral struggles of soldiers facing death and duty. Through vivid...
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9780800798086, Chuck D. Pierce
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R290.00
9780624080589, Frans Cronje
What will South Africa look like in 2030? Since leading scenario planner Frans Cronje published his bestseller A Time Traveller’s Guide to Our Next Ten...
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9781407138879, Liz Pichon
Winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Best Story Book Award. Full of doodle-style illustrations. Me...
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9780798183369, Green-Android
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R169.95
210 mm x 260 mm x 15 mm, Paperback / softback, English, 128, 01/01/2005, 440 gr, Lynton V. Johnson
From algae to organic gardening earthworms to water features this is an alphabetically arranged guide to maintaining the typical South African garden.
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9783791346052, Paolo Hewitt
This brilliantly illustrated book is a visual compendium on Mod style.
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9781431428410, Kashiefa Ajam
Puzzled by the difference between a coalition and confidence-and-supply? Confused about how McKinsey Trillian and a bunch of corrupt individuals at Eskom...
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9781784870027, Nevil Shute
Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other women and...
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R245.00
23.8 x 16.5 x 3 cm, Softcover / Paperback, Enflish, 542, 1972, 0.860 kg, Barclay m Newman and Eugene A Nida
A practical guide for Bible translators, this handbook provides detailed linguistic, stylistic, and cultural notes verse?by?verse through the Acts of the...
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9781846556241, Henning Mankell
In 1904 Hanna Lundmark escapes the poverty of rural Sweden for a job as a cook onboard a steamship headed for Australia. On the voyage she finds love in the...
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9780745951515, Olwin Turchetta
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9781431425655, Vernon Head
Vernon Head offers a novel of profound political dances capturing ideas within our vast divides of separation prompting a way for Africa to share solutions...
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9780702192241, Keylinks
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9780798156332, Marie Heese
Engrossing and moving this sequel about the second part of Theodora's life as empress of Byzantium opens with intrigue as one of Justinian's old enemies...
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9781559392907, Jeffrey Hopkins
The Dalai Lama often says Kindness is society. By learning to live from a more compassionate viewpoint Jeffrey Hopkins writes we can create a better life not...
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9781936659029, Warner,B
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129 mm x 198 mm x 6 mm, Paperback / softback, English;Spanish, 112, 05/04/2001, 89 gr, Jorge Borges
This is a collection of Borges' short stories published in 1935.
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9780199693207, Ray Jackendoff
A profoundly arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think speak and see the world. Written with an informality that belies the...
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9789722110501, Couto,M
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9781842156353, Valerie Ferguson
With colour photography and a step-by-step format this book is a guide for novices and experienced cooks alike. Over 140 recipes are included that provide...
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9780798149273, Breyten Breytenbach
The main character and narrator takes the reader on a journey on many journeys through his own history and the places where he lives and works and regularly...
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R375.00
20.7 x 22 x 1.8 cm, Hardcover, cloth bound, with dust jacket, English, 128, 1982, Ian Morris
A celebration in words and pictures of Venice’s rich animal life—real, mythical, and artistic. From prowling cats and barge dogs to the majestic Winged Lion...
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135 mm x 216 mm x 21 mm, Paperback / softback, English, 288, 23/08/2018, 286 gr, Jesse Bering
We are the only species on the face of the planet that deliberately ends its own life. More often than not it is negative social evaluations - real or...
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9780571225064, Michael Frayn
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9780486290362, Mary Wollstonecraft
In an era of revolutions demanding greater liberties for mankind Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was an ardent feminist who spoke eloquently for countless...
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9780099579274, Katie Fforde
A vintage wedding romance and a happily-ever-after ending - what more could you want from the 'modern-day Jane Austen'?So they set up a business of their...
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HTFX69821, Van Zyl, W. J.
Condition: Good/Very Good. No publication date or publisher listed. Introduction dated 1929. Wrapper is stained and the spine is worn. Staples rusted and...
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HTFX89155, Vaughan-Williams, H.
Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards, edgeworn and knocked corners. Pages yellowed.
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9780190405472, Eng-Grr
Oxford Grade R is an exciting CAPS compliant home language series of graded readers supporting emergent literacy and Mathematics through Life Skills topics...
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9780749923938, Anne Dickson
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9780281052530, Lesslie Newbigin
Shortly before he died in February 1998 Lesslie Newbigin recorded a series of eight 15-minute talks pitched at a popular level and entitled A Walk Through...
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22 cm * 13.5 cm * 2.5 cm, Hardcover, English, 326, 1986, 500 gram, Laurens Van der Post
Laurens Van Der Post's impressions on various subjects and personalites that were the talk of his time, as related to Jean-Marc Pottiez
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R119.00
9780520251366, Henia Karmel
Buchenwald survivors Ilona and Henia Karmel were seventeen and twenty years old when they entered the Nazi labor camps from the Krakow ghetto. These...
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9781770130104, Niki Daly
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R375.00
9781919825854, WASSERMAN,A
This publication is a history of Durban during the time of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). What difference did the war make to Durban? What impact did it...
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130 mm x 187 mm x 12 mm, Paperback / softback, English, 160, 09/02/2017, 106 gr, James Patterson
The McCullagh Inn is now open for weddings. Jeremy Holland is exactly what Chelsea O'Kane wants in a man. After he proposes she's ecstatic to host their...
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9780349121291, William Brodrick
A hugely moving and intelligent novel from the bestselling author of The Sixth Lamentation and The Gardens of the Dead A Whispered Name reaches into the...
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24 x 16 x 5 cm, Ha, English, 547, 1998, 0.995 kg, John Irving
Witty and poignant, A Widow for One Year follows Ruth?Cole across three pivotal life stages. In summer 1958 she is a four?year?old amid her grieving,...
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9780007388172, Joyce Carol Oates
`My husband died my life collapsed.'
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9781841498027, Marjorie M. Liu
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R435.00
HTFX30798, Bell, Charles D.
Condition: Very Good. Ex-library. No dust jacket. Rebound by the library in half leather. Spine cocked. Sticker ghost on the front pastedown. Small tear (3...
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R308.00
9781458997395, Aleramo,S
No longer supplied by us
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9780091920791, Carl Bernstein
Carl Bernstein s stunning portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton shows us as nothing else has the true trajectory of her life and career with its zigzag bursts...
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9780857059925, Andrei Makine
A Russian filmmaker discovers that after the fall of Communism the market wields its own forms of censorship.
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9780099440758, Andre Schwarz-Bart
The author's own experience of Nazi oppression finds a clear if distant echo in this chronicle of a woman born into slavery aboard a ship bound for the...
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R108.00
9780713673517, Oscar Wilde
Play script including biographical notes textual details and information about the staging of the play.
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