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Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

  • The man with the black dog: A true modern-day Jock of the Bushveld

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  • The man who founded the ANC: A biography of Pixley ka Isaka Seme

    Bongani Ngqulunga
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  • The Man Who Ate the Zoo: Frank Buckland, forgotten hero of natural history

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    Frank Buckland was an extraordinary man - surgeon, natural historian, popular lecturer, bestselling writer, museum curator, and a conservationist b...

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  • The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave

    Patrick Bishop
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    SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN - Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his...

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    The Measure Of A Man: A Memoir

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    In this beautifully written, candid memoir, legendary actor Sidney Poitier reveals the spiritual depth, passion and intellectual fervour that has d...

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    The Mind of a Murderer: A glimpse into the darkest corners of the human psyche, from a leading forensic psychiatrist

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    'An intricate and brilliantly written psychiatric perspective on the most perplexing of crimes' Kerry Daynes, author of The Dark Side of the Mind'B...

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  • The Monk of Mokha

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    From the best-selling author of The Circle - the gripping true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurre...

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  • The Monk of Mokha

    Dave Eggers
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    From the best-selling author of The Circle - the gripping true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurre...

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  • The Most Dangerous Animal of All

    Gary L. Stewart
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    An explosive and historic book of true crime and an emotionally powerful and revelatory memoir of a man whose ten-year search for his biological fa...

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  • The Moth: Occasional Magic: 50 True Stories of Defying the Impossible

    Catherine Burns
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    Before television and radio, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. Their bewitched listeners would si...

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  • The Most Beautiful: My Life With Prince

    Mayte Garcia
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    In The Most Beautiful, a title inspired by the hit song Prince wrote about their legendary love story, Mayte Garcia for the first time shares the d...

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  • The Mountbattens: Their Lives & Loves: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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    The Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller 'Richly entertaining... impressively well-researched' Daily Mail, Biography of the Year 'Incisive... strongly ...

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  • The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is

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    'Inspiring and heart-wrenching' Paloma Faith 'Love Rhyannon. Love this book' Grace Dent The remarkable transgender memoir you won't stop hearing ab...

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    The Note Through The Wire: The unforgettable true love story of a WW2 prisoner of war and a resistance heroine

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    'An unforgettable love story set in perilous times' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe greatest love blossoms in the darkest h...

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  • The Number (Paperback)

    Jonny Steinberg
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    WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES ALAN PATON AWARD On 9 June 2003, a 43-year-old coloured man named Magadien Wentzel walked out of Pollsmoor Prison in ...

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  • The Onion Field

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    Hollywood. 1963. A Saturday night. A broken taillight leads to a routine traffic stop. It shouldn't have changed the lives of the four men involved...

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  • The Opportunist: The Political Life of Oswald Pirow, 1915-1959

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  • The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe (Hardcover)

    Angela Kelly
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    When Angela Kelly and The Queen are together, laughter echoes through the corridors of Buckingham Palace. Angela has worked with The Queen and w...

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  • The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis

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  • The people's war: Reflections of an ANC cadre

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  • The Photographer at Sixteen: A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

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    A poet's memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, through a tumultuous period of European history - a tender and yet unsparing autob...

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  • The Pianist of Yarmouk (Paperback)

    Aeham Ahmad
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    One morning in war-torn Damascus, a starving man drags a piano into a rubbled street. Everything he once knew has been destroyed by war. Amidst ...

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  • The Prison Letters Of Nelson Mandela (Hardcover)

    Sahm Venter
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    To be published upon the centenary of his birth, The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela is a landmark work: the first, and only, authorized and authe...

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  • The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion

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    One day in 2005 while searching for food, nine-year-old Ugandan Phiona Mutesi followed her brother to a dusty veranda where she met Robert Katende....

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