South Africa
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A Manifesto for Social Change: How to Save South Africa
- £16.00
- A Manifesto for Social Change is the third of a three-volume series that started seven years ago investigating the causes of our country's - and the continent's - development obstacles. Architects of Poverty: Why African Capitalism Needs Changing (2009) set out to explain what role African elites played in creating…
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Cry, The Beloved Country: a Story of Comfort in Desolation
- £12.00
- Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its contemporaneity, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry the Beloved Country is a classic work…
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Disgrace
- £25.00
- A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to apologize to save his job, but instead he refuses and resigns, retiring to live with his daughter on her remote farm. Winner of 1999…
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Disgrace
- £20.00
- A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to apologize to save his job, but instead he refuses and resigns, retiring to live with his daughter on her remote farm. Winner of 1999…
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Hajji Musa and the Hindu Fire-Walker
- £16.00
- South Africa's culturally rich and complex Asian community-the birthplace of Gandhiism - is officially subsumed under apartheid's blanket "non-white" category, with the accompanying indignities of forced removals and other restrictions. Now Ahmed Essop gives these other South Africans a literary voice, in stories ranging from the humorous "Hajji Musa and…
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Half in Love (SIGNED)
- £12.00
- Richard McAllister, a young minister in the government, has temporarily left the Cabinet while recovering from being stabbed by a thug at a football match. He has decided, while recuperating, to go to South Africa to research a relative and his account of the horse in the Boer War. While…
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July’s People
- £8.00
- A fictionalised account of the end of Apartheid in South Africa written 15 years before it happened, by the South African author & political activist Nadine Gordimer who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. The novel was banned in her native country.
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The Blood Knot: a play in seven scenes
- £65.00
- Blood Knot is an early play by South African playwright, actor, and director Athol Fugard. Its single-performance premier was in 1961 in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the playwright and Zakes Mokae playing the brothers Morris and Zachariah. The only two characters in the two-hander play are the brothers Morris and…
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The Blood Knot: a play in seven scenes
- £50.00
- Blood Knot is an early play by South African playwright, actor, and director Athol Fugard. Its single-performance premier was in 1961 in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the playwright and Zakes Mokae playing the brothers Morris and Zachariah. The only two characters in the two-hander play are the brothers Morris and…
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The Caliban Shore: the fate of the Grosvenor castaways (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- The Grosvenor was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, but she ran aground on the treacherous coast of south-east Africa. An astonishing number of her crew and passengers, including women and children, reached the shore safely, but the castaways found themselves hundreds of miles from the nearest…
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The Saboteurs
- £15.00
- une Drummond (1923-2011) was a South African writer of mysteries. Thirty of her crime novels, often set in Durban, South Africa, or London, England, were published between 1959 and 2011. The Saboteurs is her 6th. Set in apartheid-era South Africa, wealthy Caspar Douglas returns to the country and finds his…
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Tsotsi
- £10.00
- Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But one night, in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees, a woman he attempts to rape forces a shoebox into his arms. The box…
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Tsotsi
- £10.00
- Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But one night, in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees, a woman he attempts to rape forces a shoebox into his arms. The box…
- Add to basket
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A Manifesto for Social Change: How to Save South Africa
- £16.00
- A Manifesto for Social Change is the third of a three-volume series that started seven years ago investigating the causes of our country's - and the continent's - development obstacles. Architects of Poverty: Why African Capitalism Needs Changing (2009) set out to explain what role African elites played in creating…
- Add to basket
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Cry, The Beloved Country: a Story of Comfort in Desolation
- £12.00
- Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its contemporaneity, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry the Beloved Country is a classic work…
- Add to basket
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Disgrace
- £25.00
- A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to apologize to save his job, but instead he refuses and resigns, retiring to live with his daughter on her remote farm. Winner of 1999…
- Add to basket
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Disgrace
- £20.00
- A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to apologize to save his job, but instead he refuses and resigns, retiring to live with his daughter on her remote farm. Winner of 1999…
- Add to basket
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Hajji Musa and the Hindu Fire-Walker
- £16.00
- South Africa's culturally rich and complex Asian community-the birthplace of Gandhiism - is officially subsumed under apartheid's blanket "non-white" category, with the accompanying indignities of forced removals and other restrictions. Now Ahmed Essop gives these other South Africans a literary voice, in stories ranging from the humorous "Hajji Musa and…
- Add to basket
-
Half in Love (SIGNED)
- £12.00
- Richard McAllister, a young minister in the government, has temporarily left the Cabinet while recovering from being stabbed by a thug at a football match. He has decided, while recuperating, to go to South Africa to research a relative and his account of the horse in the Boer War. While…
- Add to basket
-
July’s People
- £8.00
- A fictionalised account of the end of Apartheid in South Africa written 15 years before it happened, by the South African author & political activist Nadine Gordimer who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. The novel was banned in her native country.
- Add to basket
-
The Blood Knot: a play in seven scenes
- £65.00
- Blood Knot is an early play by South African playwright, actor, and director Athol Fugard. Its single-performance premier was in 1961 in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the playwright and Zakes Mokae playing the brothers Morris and Zachariah. The only two characters in the two-hander play are the brothers Morris and…
- Add to basket
-
The Blood Knot: a play in seven scenes
- £50.00
- Blood Knot is an early play by South African playwright, actor, and director Athol Fugard. Its single-performance premier was in 1961 in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the playwright and Zakes Mokae playing the brothers Morris and Zachariah. The only two characters in the two-hander play are the brothers Morris and…
- Add to basket
-
The Caliban Shore: the fate of the Grosvenor castaways (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- The Grosvenor was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, but she ran aground on the treacherous coast of south-east Africa. An astonishing number of her crew and passengers, including women and children, reached the shore safely, but the castaways found themselves hundreds of miles from the nearest…
- Add to basket
-
The Saboteurs
- £15.00
- une Drummond (1923-2011) was a South African writer of mysteries. Thirty of her crime novels, often set in Durban, South Africa, or London, England, were published between 1959 and 2011. The Saboteurs is her 6th. Set in apartheid-era South Africa, wealthy Caspar Douglas returns to the country and finds his…
- Add to basket
-
Tsotsi
- £10.00
- Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But one night, in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees, a woman he attempts to rape forces a shoebox into his arms. The box…
- Add to basket
-
Tsotsi
- £10.00
- Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But one night, in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees, a woman he attempts to rape forces a shoebox into his arms. The box…
- Add to basket