Mapping My Way Home: Activism, Nostalgia, and the Downfall of Apartheid South Africa Stephanie Urdang Stephanie Urdang was born in Cape Town, South Africa, into a white, Jewish family staunchly...

Rosalind MilesMen dominate history because they write it. This book offers a reappraisal which aims to re-establish women's importance at the centre of the worldwide history of revolution, empire, war...

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Carolyn SlaughterIn this unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Carolyn Slaughter recalls her childhood in Africa and how the land itself released her from a rage that threatened to destroy her.For Carolyn...

Alan Bennett   From one of England's most celebrated writers, the author of the award-winning The History Boys, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and...

Author: Truman Capote On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a...

Caroline HarperAccentuate your strengths, not your negativity! Take a rewarding two-year journey one fulfilling day at a time, to build a better you. Devoting simply five minutes of dail focus...

Michael E AgnesExpanded and updated Webster's dictionay. Small size for purse or pocket. More than 35,000 entries and ready-reference tables. 380 pages.

William FaulknerCommenting on The Sound and the Fury Faulkner said, 'It's the book I feel tenderest towards. I couldn't leave it alone, and I never could tell it right...'Now acclaimed...

John Irving   Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument; he is.This is John Irving's most comic novel; yet Owen Meany...

Beryl CookBeryl Cook, OBE (10 September 1926 – 28 May 2008) was a British artist best known for her original and instantly recognisable paintings. Often comical, her works pictured people...

Italo CalvinoIf on a winter's night a traveller is unquestionably the work of one of the new masters of world literature. It is a fiction about fictions, a novel about...