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In their new book 'Return to the Wild', conservationists Brendan and Danelle Murray write about their experiences of ...
      Non-Fiction     'Female Fear Factory' offers a bold vision for collective action ...   'Female Fear Factory' fuses both razor sharp intellectual rigour and extensive research. 
      Non-Fiction     Getting in Touch with sex - sensual, tricky, fun and, yes, ...   Touch explores sex as a vast, yet intertwined experience with oneself and between people. 
      Non-Fiction     Airline pilot Robert Schapiro lifts the lid on 'Secrets from the ...   Robert Schapiro is disarmingly frank about life as an international pilot, divulging near misses, emergency landings, navigation errors, passenger shenanigans and more. 
      Non-Fiction     'Ougat' - a Jezebel who survives the social conditioning of a Cape ...   Unsettlingly honest and brutally blunt, ‘Ougat’ is Shana Fife’s story of survival. 
     Non-Fiction     ‘Beyond Burnout’ lays bare the relationship between emotional ...   'Beyond Burnout' is the raw narrative of Frank Vos, who penned his “crash and burn” fall from the pinnacle of his career. He shares a vulnerability about his experience, exposing ... 
      Non-Fiction     Extract: ‘Listen to Your Footsteps’ by Kojo Baffoe   This idea of being other, of not quite belonging anywhere yet belonging everywhere is now a source of pride. 
      Non-Fiction     Fierce, funny, harrowing ... Andile Gaelesiwe tells her story   Andile Gaelesiwe is celebrated across SA as the adored host of Khumbul’ ekhaya on SABC 1. Yet few know that behind the glamour of her public image, there is a vulnerable girl from ... 
      Non-Fiction     Recipe: banana fritters à la Fatima Sydow   The Cape Malay cooking queen shares her recipe for banana fritters, which still reminds her of her Bo-Kaap neighbour, Fatima Bobbs. 
      Non-Fiction     A captivating record of the ancient and vanishing world of San ...   'San Elders Speak: Ancestral Knowledge of the Kalahari San' is the first attempt to document indigenous knowledge through the voices of four San elders from the Kalahari. 
      Non-Fiction     An insider’s view from a man who took a brave stand for his country   Compelling and revelatory, Themba Maseko's 'For My Country' shows what it takes to stand up for one’s principles and defy the most powerful man in the country. 
     Non-Fiction     Emergency room doctor details the mayhem of Covid-19   'Saving a Stranger’s Life' covers Anne Biccard's experiences from March until August 2020, dealing with the first rumours of a new virus, the first lockdown and the first wave of ... 
      Non-Fiction     Extract: ‘Native Boy’ by Thabo A. Molefe   On its strength, a man is acknowledged in the townships either as an ingakara, the upwardly mobile man about town, or as an isithipha, the post-apartheid incarnation of the dumb ... 
      Non-Fiction     ‘I Am A Girl From Africa’ is one woman’s extraordinary story about ...   For more than two decades, Elizabeth Nyamayaro has been instrumental in creating change in communities all around the world and uplifting the lives of others, just as her life was ... 
      Non-Fiction     Uncovering ancient kingdoms in southern Africa   Across the face of southern Africa are more than 460 remarkable stone palaces — some small, others rambling, but many astonishing. 
     Non-Fiction     Witchcraft, fake whales and many penises - writer's journey through ...   Travel writing has long ceased to be a straightforward catalogue of journeys and chance encounters and has moved into more philosophical realms, writes reviewer Margaret von ... 
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