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Not Without Honour - The Life and Writings of Olive Schreiner  By: Vera Buchanan-Gould A second edition hardcover published by Hutchinson in 1949 Blue cover boards with black writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, previous owners signature on front flyleaf, foxing to front & rear flyleaves, dustjacket is complete but with closed tear to front flyleaf Postage inside South Africa R30.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quote      

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours Daughters Are Diamonds is a groundbreaking treatise on the objectification of women in honour-bound sectors of society. As a study, it's set out to define these questions: How are the opportunities, challenges and obstacles facing South Africa Indian Muslim woman within the family, perceived and experienced by the individual? To what extent, if at all, does traditionalist culture create/influence a gap between opportunity and achievement for South Africa Indian Muslim Women? The statement that "woman are diamonds" is often used by Indian Muslim traditionalists to justify the abject seclusion of woman. In this view, that which is valuable should be hidden in safekeeping. The metaphor of the diamond is used to illustrate the objectification of daughters borne of honour-bound societies, and the limits put to the administration of their lives, in keeping with the code of honour. This study is a comment on the notion that, in keeping with this honour code, there is a fine line between maintaining the dignity of a people and infringing on the rights of the individual. It also asks whether woman are able to carve out a space for themselves within which a fully reflexive life may be loved in spite of the restrictions placed on them. Features Summary Daughters Are Diamonds is a groundbreaking treatise on the objectification of women in honour-bound sectors of society. Author Shafinaaz Hassim Publisher Reach Publishers Release date 20070101 Pages 144 ISBN 1-920084-67-3 ISBN 13 978-1-920084-67-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 13 working days In the hunt for a spy, he exposed a conspiracy. The winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2014, this is a gripping historical thriller from Robert Harris - Sunday Times bestselling author of Fatherland and The Ghost. Paris, 1895: an army officer, Georges Picquart, watches a convicted spy, Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of a baying crowd. Dreyfus is exiled for life to Devil's Island; Picquart is promoted to run the intelligence unit that tracked him down. But when Picquart discovers that secrets are still being handed over to the Germans, he is drawn into a dangerous labyrinth of deceit and corruption that threatens not just his honour but his life... Features Summary Paris, 1895: an army officer, Georges Picquart, watches a convicted spy, Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of a baying crowd. Dreyfus is exiled for life to Devil's Island; Picquart is promoted to run the intelligence unit that tracked him down. Author Robert Harris Publisher Arrow Books Ltd Release date 20140701 Pages 611 ISBN 0-09-958088-8 ISBN 13 978-0-09-958088-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days 'Jo Cox's selfless service to others made the world a better place' Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States THE NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Jo's dedication to a fairer and kinder world beautifully told...' Bear Grylls | 'A desperately tender account... part love story, part grief memoir... resolutely uplifting' Decca Aitkenhead, Guardian | 'Brave, inspiring, and full of love' Daily Express | 'A chance to get to know the woman behind the headlines - a tiny ball of energy with a heart as big as a lion, a person who wanted to make a difference' Lorraine Kelly, Sun Jo Cox's murder in June 2016 shocked the world. In the aftermath of her tragic death her husband Brendan Cox urged us to remember Jo's life and what she stood for and not the manner of her death. In this inspiring and impassioned portrait of Jo - as daughter, mother, wife, sister, MP and campaigner - we see how much she gave and much more she had to give. The values she embraced of togetherness, inclusion and compassion are needed now more than ever. A touching and very human portrait of an extraordinary woman, whose legacy has already inspired others. This summer over 100,000 events were part of The Great Get Together in honour of Jo. 'We are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us.' Winner of the Best Political Book by a non-Parliamentarian (Parliamentary Book Awards) All Brendan Cox's royalties will go to the Jo Cox Foundation. 'Jo would have no regrets about her life, she lived every day of it to the full.' Features Summary Jo Cox's murder in June 2016 shocked the world. In the aftermath of her tragic death her husband Brendan Cox urged us to remember Jo's life and what she stood for and not the manner of her death... Author Brendan Cox Publisher Two Roads Pub Release date 20170613 Pages 352 ISBN 1-4736-5918-3 ISBN 13 978-1-4736-5918-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days This is the classic novel brought to life in full colour! 'I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future'. Classical Comics' first Dickens title is probably his best-loved story. Scrooge gets a rude awakening to how his life is, and how it should be. Full of Christmas Spirit(s), this is a book that you'll want to read all year round! Features Summary A graphic novel that features Scrooge who gets a rude awakening to how his life is, and how it should be. Author Charles Dickens (Author), Sean Michael Wilson (Editor), Mike Collins (Illustrator), David Roach (Illustrator), James Offredi (Illustrator) Publisher Classical Comics Ltd Release date 20081013 Pages 160 ISBN 1-906332-17-7 ISBN 13 978-1-906332-17-4

Simon Hawkins, Duke of Trent, is no stranger to scandal. Rumours and innuendo have darkened the House of Trent for decades, and it has fallen to Simon to restore his tattered family name. He lives by a strict code of honour, but when he is called home to investigate his mother's disappearance, the distinguished duke will tangle with temptation. For there waits the only woman he has ever loved - and the last woman he should desire...Sarah Osborne has spent her life dreaming of Simon's touch. But dukes do not long for lady's maids - or so Sarah believes, until a stolen kiss sparks a passion that could be her ultimate undoing. As the couple begin a forbidden romance, a cunning enemy plots to destroy the duke and everything he loves. Now, caught in a blackmailer's web, Simon faces an agonizing choice: sacrifice his family's future or break Sarah's heart. Format:Paperback Pages:400

(This title is available on demand: expected date of dispatch will be 4-7 working days once ordered) Imagining the Elephant is a biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack, a physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1979 for his pioneering contributions to the development of the computer-assisted tomography (CAT) scanner, an honour he shared with Godfrey Hounsfield. This title celebrates the life and work of a modest genius who was also a dedicated family man. It starts with his ancestral roots in the North of Scotland, and then chronicles his birth and early years in South Africa, his education at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Cambridge University, and his subsequent academic appointments at UCT and Tufts University in Boston, USA. It details his discovery of the problem at Cape Town in 1956, traces his scientific footsteps all the way to Stockholm in December 1979, and then extends the odyssey to his pursuits beyond the Nobel Prize. Format:paperback Pages:320

Hal Treherne is a soldier on the brink of a brilliant career.  Impatient to see action, his other commitment in life is to his beloved wife, Clara, and when Hal is transferred to Cyprus she and their twin daughters join him.  But the island is in the heat of the emergency: the British are defending the colony against Cypriots - schoolboys and armed guerrillas alike - battling for union with Greece.  Clara shares Hal's sense of duty and honour; she knows she must settle down, make the best of things, smile.  But action changes Hal, and the atrocities he is drawn into take him not only further from Clara but himself, too, a betrayal that is only the first step down a dark path. Soft cover, very good condition.  471 pages.

 Lucia Sartori is the most beautiful girl in Greenwich Village.  Never short of suitors, she is sought after as a potential wife by the best Italian families in New York.  But it is 1950, a time of great opportunity for ambitious girls with dreams of a career, and Lucia is no exception.  She has a glamorous job in a chic Fifth Avenue department store, which she's not ready to swop for a role as a wife. Until a handsome stranger comes into her life and she falls desperately and passionately in love at first sight.  But in order to be together, they must first win over her traditional family.  Their love affair takes an unexpected turn as secrets are revealed, Lucia's family honour is tested, and her own reputation becomes the centre of a sizzling scandal. Soft cover, good condition. 323 pages.

A matchless warrior A true friend lost A love like none before The son of a Celtic King and a Romano-British aristocrat, Uther Pendragon learns early to respect honour, nobility and integrity, but he also learns to love to fight, and to kill when necessary. His closest boyhood friend is his cousin Merlyn Britannicus, and together they will set Britain on a new path. But Camelot attracts the envy and dislike of others, among them Gulrhys Lot, King of Cornwall, and Lot's hunger for power and conquest will come to define Uther's life as his friendship with his cousin Merlyn disintegrates. While war ravages the land, Uther seems invincible, but he is powerless against the love that will undo him; a love that will seal his place in legend as he becomes father to Arthur, High King of Britain. Discover the most authentic telling of the Arthurian legend ever written Format:Paperback