Biographies

A fascinating, tremendously insightful journey into the hidden creative world of Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee. Utilizing exclusive access to Coetzee's private manuscripts, notebooks, and early research papers, author David Attwell reveals the intense, self-critical precision that shaped some of the greatest novels of our time. J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing traces how these famous works evolved over dozens of drafts, proving how deeply rooted Coetzee's fiction is within the landscape, complex history, and political conflicts of South Africa. An essential read for every serious lover of South African literature.

Author: David Attwell

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The Paras is an authoritative oral history of one of the world's elite fighting forces. This chronicle features the first-hand, visceral recollections of over one hundred soldiers and individuals closely associated with them, detailing deployment experiences across the Falklands, Kosovo, Iraq, Sierra Leone, and Afghanistan. Moving away from conventional, dry regimental overviews, this text delivers a direct first-person narrative capturing fierce combat where the odds of survival were frequently stacked heavily against the personnel.

Author: Max Arthur

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The true story of one man's battle to save a species from the brink of extinction. When South African game reserve owner Lawrence Anthony learned that only a handful of northern white rhinos remained in the wild—deep in a Congo jungle controlled by the infamous Lord's Resistance Army rebel group—he was determined to save them. What follows is a dangerous, extraordinary adventure as Anthony heads directly into the jungle to enlist the help of the rebels to protect the rhinos, all while battling a terrible drought back home to keep his own animals alive. 

Author: Lawrence Anthony

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In A Sprat to Catch a Mackerel: Key principles to build your business, Raymond Ackerman shares the basic tenets behind his business philosophy – timeless principles that have guided him through some of South Africa's most turbulent times.

Author: Raymond Ackerman

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The true story of one man's battle to save a species from the brink of extinction. When South African game reserve owner Lawrence Anthony learned that only a handful of northern white rhinos remained in the wild—deep in a Congo jungle controlled by the infamous Lord's Resistance Army rebel group—he was determined to save them. What follows is a dangerous, extraordinary adventure as Anthony heads directly into the jungle to enlist the help of the rebels to protect the rhinos, all while battling a terrible drought back home to keep his own animals alive. 

Author: Lawrence Anthony

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This is the story of how a skinny little kid from Kenilworth in Cape Town managed to travel halfway around the world without sponsorship, and then outwit, outsmart and outperform the world's best-paid professional athletes on a day that changed his life, and the sport of big-wave surfing, forever... Big-wave surfer Chris Bertish was the first South African to brave the monster waves of Mavericks, winning the Mavericks Big Wave Invitational surfing event in the biggest and heaviest waves ever recorded in the history of the sport. That same year, he finished third on the Big Wave World Tour, despite only surfing three of the five events.

Author: Chris Bertish

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An unforgettable, darkly funny, and deeply bizarre memoir about an unconventional childhood. The true story of a boy who wanted to grow up with the Brady Bunch but instead found himself living with the Addams Family, this book chronicles the time his mother gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist—a man who was a "certifiable lunatic". In a dilapidated Victorian house where the Christmas tree stayed up until summer and there were no rules, Augusten navigated a strange world of eccentric patients, Valium-popping, and electroshock therapy machines.

Author: Augusten Burroughs

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LESLEY BLANCH was a free spirit who lived by her wits and was her own best example of the saying she used to describe one of the heroines in her bestseller The Wilder Shores of Love: character plus opportunity equals fortune. Vivid yet elusive, she survived a century of adventure, colour, emotion, farce and tragedy and left a legend behind her. 

Author: Anne Boston

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A. Scott Berg is the only writer to have been given unrestricted access to the massive Lindbergh archives - more than two thousand boxes of private papers - and the only one permitted to interview Lindbergh's closest friends, colleagues and family members. The result is a brilliant biography that clarifies a life long blurred by myth and half-truth.

Author: A. Scott Berg

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I Write What I Like features the writing of the famous activist and black consciousness leader, Steve Biko. Before his untimely death in detention at age 30, he was instrumental in uniting black Africans in the struggle against the apartheid government in South Africa. This is a collection of his columns entitled I Write What I Like published in the journal of the South African Student Organisation under the pseudonym of 'Frank Talk'. It also contains other journal articles, interviews and letters written by Steve Biko at the time.

Author: Steve Biko

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Author: Arthur Bryant

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The miraculous, deeply moving true story that inspired the Academy Award-winning film. In My Left Foot, Christy Brown shares his extraordinary journey growing up in Dublin with severe cerebral palsy. Labeled as mentally incapacitated by a world that couldn't understand him, he used his left foot—his only functional limb—to learn to paint, write, and express a brilliant creative voice. This classic autobiography is a powerful, heartwarming celebration of determination and the strength of the human mind.

Author: Christy Brown

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