Kader Asmal (Paperback) Kader Asmal was one of the most respected senior statesmen in South Africa. He lived a rich and varied life, in all the twists and turns of which he has displayed boundless energy, a sharp mind and deep commitment to human rights and democratic values. More details

Kader Asmal (Hardcover) Kader Asmal was one of the most respected senior statesmen in South Africa.He lived a rich and varied life, in all the twists and turns of which he has displayed boundless energy, a sharp mind and deep commitment to human rights and democratic values. More details

My Father, My Monster Former TV journalist and now police spokesman McIntosh Polela has been on the television screens for many years. Bright, articulate and charismatic, his career looks dazzling. But behind McIntosh’s smile, a troubled past haunts him. More details

Fred and I and a Dash of Pepper Fred and I and a Dash of Pepper is Lauren Singer’s inspirational and heartfelt story, told through the eyes of her service dogs Fred and Pepper, about the daily triumphs and defeats of living with Multiple Sclerosis. More details

Africa Trek 2 Three years, eleven countries, 1,200 families, 14,000 kilometers of adventures while walking in the footsteps of mankind through the Cradle of Life. More details

Mending a Broken Heart In 2004, Nadine’s son, Zack, was born with severe and complex congenital heart defects (CHD). He underwent major cardiac surgery when he was only ten days old. He developed complications and for many weeks his life hung in the balance. More details

The Au Pair The Au Pair is a tantalising true story of a British wife and mother of three whose life is turned upside down when she meets and falls in love with her pretty and much younger Afrikaans au pair. More details

In the Dark with My Dress on Fire In the Dark with My Dress on Fire is the remarkable life story of Blanche La Guma, a South African woman who dedicated her life to ending apartheid through her various roles as professional nurse, wife and mother, and underground Communist activist. More details

When Hungry, Eat Reminiscent of Eat, Pray, Love, When Hungry, Eat is a humorous yet poignant celebration of unexpected spiritual wisdom, small portions and the gifts of hunger. More details

The Unlikely Secret Agent It is 1963. South Africa is in crisis and the white state is under siege. On 19 August the dreaded Security Police swoop on Griggs bookstore in downtown Durban and arrest Eleanor, the daughter of the manageress. More details

Slow Motion Slow Motion is a collection of non-fiction stories (essays and interviews) about walking. The collection has been written over a period of six years and so the book has become something of a documentary project, witnessing transformation in South Africa. More details

Alex La Guma Best known as a novelist and political activist, Alex la Guma (1925–85) was also a journalist, comic strip artist, reviewer, sketcher, painter, short story writer and travel writer. More details

Becoming Zimbabwe Becoming Zimbabwe tracks the idea of national belonging and citizenship and explores the nature of state rule, the changing contours of the political economy, and the regional and international dimensions of the country's history. More details

Dear Ahmedbhai, Dear Zuleikhabehn Extraordinary stories can sometimes be found in ordinary letters. This is the discovery that awaits readers of this gentle and beautifully written correspondence between a political prisoner and a self-described housewife during apartheid's last decade. More details

Italian Footprints in South Africa Italian Footprints in South Africa chronicles extraordinary examples of what Italian people have achieved on South African soil. More details

Mounting Queen Victoria Mounting Queen Victoria is an indispensable guide to the politics of culture and identity in the South African public sphere. More details

Clicko: The Wild Dancing Bushman Clicko (Franz Taibosh) was a star performer of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus in the 1920s and 1930s. When he died in 1940, an obituary in the New York Times called him "the only African bushman ever exhibited in this country". More details

Radical Engagements Shaken out of her privileged lifestyle by what she saw around her, Lorna Levy became involved in radical political movements after leaving Wits University. More details

A Life's Mosaic In the preface to her autobiography Phyllis Ntantala tells us that "Like Trotsky, I did not leave home without the proverbial one-and-six in my pocket. I came from a family of landed gentry in the Transkei". More details

Just Keep Breathing Just Keep Breathing brings a stunningly diverse collection of South African birth stories to print. The collection is part of a new wave of South African non-fiction writing and marks a new phase in the maturing of our democracy. More details

Sugar Girls & Seamen Sugar Girls and Seamen explores the hidden world of dockside prostitution in Cape Town and Durban, focusing on the local women (and men) who offer sexual recreation to foreign sailors for the sake of making a living. More details

Cyril Ramaphosa REVISED This commanding biography by Anthony Butler tells the story of Cyril Ramaphosa's life for the first time. More details

Gardening in the Dark Gardening in the Dark begins by evoking a childhood in South Africa under apartheid; it ends with the author as a father evoking his own children and life in France. More details

Postcards from Soweto Postcards from Soweto is a memoir of sorts. In a series of postcard vignettes, Molete relates the anecdotes of 'back in the day' when he was a child and could get away with just about anything except Mama's wrath. More details

Meanwhile Don't Push and Squeeze Meanwhile Don't Push and Squeeze is an account of a year in China written with cinematic immediacy. More details

The Extraordinary Khotso Khotso is a well-known figure who has been left out of the history books. This book recovers a section of South African history that is in danger of being lost, as well as telling a dramatic, gripping tale full of astonishing twists and turns. More details

Love & Courage Pregs Govender is widely respected and admired as someone deeply committed to the development of South Africa as a just and humane democracy, concerned in particular with the rights of women and the poor in our society. More details

A People on the Boil A People on the Boil is a classic of South Africa resistance literature, and a key text of reportage. More details

White Scars A new book by South African author Denis Hirson, White Scars focuses on four books which Hirson himself read obsessively in different phases of his life - both as a youth in South Africa and during his decades in Paris, where he still lives. More details

Drive Out Hunger JJ Machobane is a farmer, novelist, social visionary, and a self-taught scientist. He spent 13 years researching an agricultural system that would allow the poorest people to harvest food all year round. More details

Operation Vula Operation Vula by the renowned Dutch novelist and former head of the Dutch Anti-Apartheid Movement, Conny Braam, is an important addition to the literature on the South African struggle for justice and liberation. More details

The White Life of Felix Greenspan These twenty chapters are stories generated during the years of Felix Greenspan's 'white life'. He is Johannesburg-born, Jewish, spastic. His father provides, his mother protects, but life, of course, impinges with a full share of claims. More details

War of Words War of Words tells the story of lives turned upside down, a nation torn apart, and unforeseen heroism during the madness of the apartheid era in South Africa, one of the most harrowing and significant periods in modern history. More details

With the Lid Off "This book provides a bridge across a gap of time which is hard to comprehend through orthodox historical accounts. The two writers, father and son, reflect the agonies, absurdities, hopes and fears in two quite different South Africas. More details

A Free Mind During his 26 years in jail Ahmed Kathrada refused to allow the apartheid regime to confine his mind. Despite draconian prison censorship practices and heavily restricted access to the written word, Kathrada discovered a wealth of inspiring writings. More details

Positively Alive As a successful, respected and widely accomplished businessman, the last thing Alan Brand expected was to be diagnosed as HIV positive. Positively Alive chronicles Alan's tremendous journey with HIV through vivid and personal journals. More details

The Sunburnt Queen In the late 1730s a seven-year-old English girl is washed up on the Wild Coast ... This is the true account of "the castaways" ... and Bessie, of how she was adopted by her rescuers, the amaMpondo. More details

Child Soldier This is the heartrending account of the author's terrifying journey out of her family home and into the world of bloody warfare. Set in Uganda in the 1970s. More details

Khabzela Khabzela concerns the brief life and perplexing death of Fana Khaba, aka Khabzela, a youth icon whose brief life mirrors that of the first generation to reach adulthood after liberation. More details

The House at the Edge of the World This is an hilarious account of a South African family's four years living in rural Ireland and the hardships they faced rebuilding their dream stone cottage from scratch while trying to deal with meddling locals and their very strange antics. More details

A Life of One's Own This is a unique account of a father and daughter seeking lives of their own, each of whom is trapped in the Soviet Union by choice, circumstance and history - but 20 years apart. More details

Boerejood Ten years after democracy arrived in South Africa here is a book that gives a voice to the Afrikaner, speaking in English about the 'Miracle' of the peaceful transition to majority rule - their worst nightmare. More details

Make a Skyf, Man! At last! The long awaited sequel to Way Up Way Out, Harold Strachan's boisterous tale of the early years of MK and how, because of some rudimentary knowledge of explosives from WWII, he was 'The One' to teach the comrades How To Blow Things Up. More details

Fela Combine elements of Bob Marley, Malcolm X and Patrice Lumumba and you get a sense of the power of the world's wildest rock star. Fela created Afro beat, an infectious mix of American funk and jazz with traditional Yoruba and highlife music. More details

Inside Out Tim Jenkin was imprisoned by apartheid authorities in Pretoria Maximum Security Prison for his activities on behalf of the ANC. This is the thrilling story of his daring escape from prison, and his subsequent flight from South Africa. More details

We Walk Straight So You Better Get Out The Way I remember shaving off my beard in the bathroom on the eve of the camp, with Mahalia Jackson singing rousing spirituals from the living room. Afterwards my chin was strangely smooth, and seemed to have shrunk. More details

I Remember King Kong (the Boxer) I Remember King Kong (The Boxer) is a book of reminiscences which are, and could only be, South African in their timbre, scope and feeling. The memories, some personal and some public, will take you on a journey to a time and place that you'll savour. More details

Darling Mutti When the Nazis began exterminating the Jews in pre-World War II Germany, families were driven to desperate extremes to protect the ones they loved. Only 375 000 Jews were able to escape persecution and they did so by whatever means possible. More details

Running to Stand Still This is a powerful, self-confessional account of O'Riain's troubled life. After many years of anguish and torment, he has confronted his demons, the demons of wife-abuse. More details

Mr Chameleon Few people can have had so extraordinary a life as the poet and novelist Tatamkhulu Afrika. Soldier and freedom fighter, prisoner to the German Reich and the Apartheid State. More details