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CHOICE NOT FATE The Life and Times of TREVOR MANUEL by PIPPA GREEN Hardcover published by Penguin Books 2008 ISBN 0 143 02533 7 No of pages 602 including the Index Very very good condition pages white and clean, no foxing, no inscriptions. Dust jacket in very good condition except for some very minor creases at the top of the spine.  For postage with a tracking number within South Africa please add R56.00 (weight over 1 kg) or contact me for more information including alternative shipping arrangements including collection (Pietermaritzburg). If you buy more than one item please contact me and I will see if I can reduce postage by combining the postage. Thank you.  

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Features Author Bernadette Brennan Publisher The Text Publishing Company Release date 20170403 Pages 352 ISBN 1-925498-03-4 ISBN 13 978-1-925498-03-5

Life Histories of the South african Butterflies by G C Clark and C G C Dickson A first edition hardcover published by Purnell in 1971 Blue leatherette covers with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, dustjacket is complete & not priceclipped, 2cm closed tear at spine top & slight rub to corners, still a nice cover Postage within South Africa will be R30-00 overseas buyers can contact us for a postal quote Abe #06426

Life At The Cape A Hundred Years Ago... by a Lady illustrated by Thomas Bowler A reprint hardcover published by Centaur in 1983 Brown cover boards with white writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, dustjacket is complete but with nick & tear to spine top & bottom & fade to spine, Postage within S Africa R60 thru P Office Overseas buyers can contact us for a postal quote

Life & Times Of Michael K by J. M.  Coetzee A first South African hardcover edition published by Ravan Press in 1983 Black cover boards with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, dustjacket is complete, spine is lightly faded. Postage cost within South Africa will be R30.00 Overseas buyers can contact us for a postal quote  

2004. Large hard cover with dust cover. With slip case. 310 high quality pages. Very good condition. Tightly bound, neat and clean. Over 1kg.  Fate, Family & Faith: the life and work of Stanley Lewis Madeline Lass Oceana Retail Holdings Ltd An extract from Fate, Family & Faith: the life and work of Stanley Lewis “I am proud of my parents, brothers, sisters and our entire family and it is that pride in my rich and blessed heritage that finally persuaded me of the value of recording the history of our family and my life. Publishing this book is an attempt to pay homage to their unconditional love, their generosity of spirit, their fortitude, their courage and boundless energy.”   

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Writing beyond Prophecy offers a new interpretation of the American Renaissance by drawing attention to a cluster of later, rarely studied works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. Identifying a line of writing from Emerson's Conduct of Life to Hawthorne's posthumously published Elixir of Life manuscript to Melville's Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, Martin Kevorkian demonstrates how these authors wrestled with their vocational calling. Early in their careers, these three authors positioned their literary pursuits as an alternative to the ministry. By presenting a "new revelation" and a new set of "gospels" for the nineteenth century, they sought to usurp the authority of the pulpit. Later in life, each writer came to recognize the audacity of his earlier work, creating what Kevorkian characterizes as a literary aftermath. Strikingly, each author later wrote about the character of a young divinity student torn by a crisis of faith and vocation. Writing beyond Prophecy gives a distinctive shape to the late careers of Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville and offers a cohesive account of the lingering religious devotion left in the wake of American Romanticism. Features Summary Writing beyond Prophecy offers a new interpretation of the American Renaissance by drawing attention to a cluster of later, rarely studied works by Ralph Waldo Emerson... Author Martin Kevorkian Publisher Louisiana State University Press Release date 20121228 Pages 259 ISBN 0-8071-4760-5 ISBN 13 978-0-8071-4760-3

In Daniel Vilmure's powerful first novel,two brothers take off on a rampage through a seedy Florida port town on a hot August night. The older one is illiterate; one moment he is hypertense, ready to snap, the next, he is James Dean cool.  His kid brother - the one with the sense - goes along to save him but in the end is no match for such hell-bent momentum. "A gratifying first novel.  The talent of the author, who was born in Tampa in 1965, shines in the book's compelling imagery, irony and framing device.  His vivid, terse language aptly embodies the hard-driving, violent drama and makes us feel we are running through the night with these brothers driven by a painful loss of innocence, and fate"  New York Times Book Review. Soft cover, fairly good condition, although the cover is bent in places.  225 pages, all intact.

In the dazzling new thriller from the master of dark suspense, the hand of fate reaches out to touch an ordinary man with greatness. So long as he is ready. So long as he is, above all, afraid.Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. It's a strange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of the storm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the first and last time since his stroke.closed pages yellowed

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days A free-spirited and rebellious Muslim-American of Indo-Pakistani descent, willful, intelligent Saira Qader rejected the constricting notions of family, duty, obligation, and fate, choosing instead to become a journalist, making the world her home. But when tragedy strikes, throwing Saira's life into turmoil, the woman who circled the globe to uncover the details of other lives must confront the truths of her own. In need of understanding, she looks to the stories of those who came before--her grandparents, a beloved aunt, her mother and father. As Saira discovers the hope, pain, joy, and passion that defined their lives, she begins to face what she never wanted to admit: that choice is not always our own, and that faith is not merely an intellectual preference. Features Summary A free-spirited and rebellious Muslim-American of Indo-Pakistani descent, willful, intelligent Saira Qader rejected the constricting notions of family... Author Nafisa Haji Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Release date 20100226 Pages 336 ISBN 0-06-149386-4 ISBN 13 978-0-06-149386-7

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Features Summary Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant... Author Alice Munro Publisher Vintage Release date 20130730 Pages 319 ISBN 0-09-957864-6 ISBN 13 978-0-09-957864-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours ** 'Iggulden has created an intriguingly complex saint - flawed, spiteful and unreliable as the teller of his own tale. Through his eyes we watch the story of the making of England' Times **From acclaimed historical writer Conn Iggulden comes a novel set in the red-blooded days of Anglo-Saxon England. This is the original game for the English throne.In the year 937, King AEthelstan, grandson of Alfred the Great, readies himself to throw a great spear into the north. His dream of a kingdom of all England will stand or fall on one field and the passage of a single day. At his side is Dunstan of Glastonbury, full of ambition and wit, perhaps enough to damn his soul. His talents will take him from the villages of Wessex to the royal court, to the hills of Rome - from exile to exaltation. Through Dunstan's vision, by his guiding hand, England may come together as one great country - or fall back into anarchy and misrule... From one of our finest historical writers, Dunstan is an intimate portrait of a priest and performer, a visionary, a traitor and confessor to kings - the man who changed the fate of England. Features Summary One of our most acclaimed and successful historical fiction writers brings a colossal figure of British history vividly to life. Tenth-century England... Author Conn Iggulden Publisher Michael Joseph Release date 20170428 Pages 480 ISBN 0-7181-8145-X ISBN 13 978-0-7181-8145-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days "Uncovers new facts on the outlaw's life and death" He gained renown as the sidekick of Butch Cassidy, but the Sundance Kid--whose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaugh--led a fuller life than history or Hollywood has allowed. A relative of Longabaugh through marriage, Donna B. Ernst has spent more than a quarter century researching his life. She now brings to print the most thorough account ever of one of the West's most infamous outlaws, tracing his life from his childhood in Pennsylvania to his involvement with the Wild Bunch and, in 1908, to his reputed death by gunshot in Bolivia. Combining genealogical research, access to family records, and explorations in historical archives, Ernst details the Sundance Kid's movements to paint a complete picture of the man. She recounts his homesteading days in Colorado, offers new information on his years as a cowboy in Wyoming and Canada, and cites newly uncovered records that substantiate both his outlaw activities and his attempts at self-reform. While taking readers on the wild chase that became Longabaugh's life, outracing posses and Pinkertons, Ernst corrects inaccuracies in the historical record. She demonstrates that he could not have participated in the Belle Fourche bank heist or the Tipton train robbery and refutes speculations that Butch and Sundance managed to escape their fate in Bolivia. "The Sundance Kid" is enlivened by more than three dozen photographs, including family photos never before seen. Features Summary Uncovers new facts on the outlaw's life and death Author D. B. Ernst Publisher University of Oklahoma Press Release date 20100330 Pages 264 ISBN 0-8061-4115-8 ISBN 13 978-0-8061-4115-2