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Author: Anton Harber Publisher: Jonathan Ball () ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good Binding: Softcover Pages: 231 Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.4 x 1.8 cm +++ by Anton Harber +++ Diepsloot is a microcosm - a post-apartheid settlement with about people crammed into five square miles, with more than its fair share of youth, foreigners and unemployed. Ask most people about Diepsloot and they will talk of vigilante justice, political unrest, poverty, unemployment, political protests and xenophobic violence - a haven for criminals and undocumented foreigners in the middle of one of the country's wealthiest areas.  This title takes you inside, walking the streets, meeting the people, probing the bitter local political battles, and asking what an area like Diepsloot portends for the future of South Africa.   A passion for books and a passion for collecting fine editions was the recipe that created the successful group of bookshops in Johannesburg called Bookdealers. The group started thirty years ago with one store in the quirky suburb of Yeoville and has grown through the years to a total of five shops, plus our online sales. Bookdealers is well-known for its collectable and used books. We also have a large variety of remaindered books sourced from around the world.  If you collect from one of our five branches there is no delivery charge. We also offer postal delivery (when available) and courier delivery, subject to a quote.

Editor: Vic Parker Publisher: Miles Kelly () ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: As New Binding: Hardcover Pages: 384 Dimensions: 22.7 x 17.6 x 3.2 cm +++ edited by Vic Parker +++ This is an exceptional selection of tales, including stories by some of the best children's writers of all time. Each story is accompanied by beautiful colour illustrations. This deluxe edition of captivating stories is brimming with magic and mystery. A book to be treasured and explored again and again. Extracts from: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum E. Nesbit's The Phoenix and the Carpet Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Stories from: Andrew Lang's Blue, Green, Red and Olive Fairy Books English Tales by Joseph Jacobs Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling   A passion for books and a passion for collecting fine editions was the recipe that created the successful group of bookshops in Johannesburg called Bookdealers. The group started thirty years ago with one store in the quirky suburb of Yeoville and has grown through the years to a total of five shops, plus our online sales. Bookdealers is well-known for its collectable and used books. We also have a large variety of remaindered books sourced from around the world.  If you collect from one of our five branches there is no delivery charge. We also offer postal delivery (when available) and courier delivery, subject to a quote.

Author: Jonathan Safran Foer Publisher: Visual Editions () ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: As New Binding: Softcover Pages: 285 Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.5 x 2.4 cm +++ by Jonathan Safran Foer +++ With a different die-cut on every page, Tree of Codes explores previously uncharted literary territory. Initially deemed impossible to make, the book is a first - as much a sculptural object as it is a work of masterful storytelling. Tree of Codes is the story of an enormous last day of life - as one character's life is chased to extinction, Foer multi-layers the story with immense, anxious, at times disorientating imagery, crossing both a sense of time and place, making the story of one person's last day everyone's story. In order to write Tree of codes, the author took an English language edition of Bruno Schulz's The street of crocodiles and cut into its pages, carving out a new story.   A passion for books and a passion for collecting fine editions was the recipe that created the successful group of bookshops in Johannesburg called Bookdealers. The group started thirty years ago with one store in the quirky suburb of Yeoville and has grown through the years to a total of five shops, plus our online sales. Bookdealers is well-known for its collectable and used books. We also have a large variety of remaindered books sourced from around the world.  If you collect from one of our five branches there is no delivery charge. We also offer postal delivery (when available) and courier delivery, subject to a quote.

This is the story of the sinking of the SS Mendi during WW1, the bravery of the men on board and the ensuing inquiry conducted by the Board of Trade in London. The story follows the small band of survivors to France where they complete their tour of duty. The First World War rages in Europe, it is a white mans war, but when the British government calls for 10 000 black soldiers to be sent to France as a labour force, men from around South Africa volunteer for service. In the foothills of the Drakensberg, Kula Hlongwane, an amaNgwane prince steps forward, followed by a group of his tribesmen. Madondo is ordered to accompany them. For him it is a nightmare from which there is no escape. When crossing the English Channel on the troopship, the SS Mendi, lights loom out of the thick black fog, then a siren blasts. With no time to avoid the collision, the Mendi is struck a devastating blow on the starboard side where Kula and his men lie sleeping. Within minutes, the Mendi begins to sink. The book makes use of various historical documents and the transcripts from the inquiry held in London by the Board of Trade to establish causality for the large loss of life. On conclusion of the inquiry, these transcripts were declared secret and concealed from view for the next 50 years. Men of the Mendi gives an in depth account of the inquiry and the apparent reason for the cover-up.  At 5 am on 21 February 1917, in thick fog about 10 nautical miles (19 km) south of St. Catherine's Point on the Isle of Wight, the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company cargo ship Darro accidentally rammed Mendi's starboard quarter, breaching her forward hold. Darro was an 11,484 GRT ship, much larger than Mendi, sailing in ballast to Argentina to load meat. Darro survived the collision but Mendi sank, killing 616 South Africans (607 of them black troops) and 30 crew. Some men were killed outright in the collision; others were trapped below decks. Many others gathered on Mendi's deck as she listed and sank. Oral history records that the men met their fate with great dignity. An interpreter, Isaac Williams Wauchope, who had previously served as a Minister in the Congregational Native Church of Fort Beaufort and Blinkwater, is reported to have calmed the panicked men by raising his arms aloft and crying out in a loud voice: "Be quiet and calm, my countrymen. What is happening now is what you came to do...you are going to die, but that is what you came to do. Brothers, we are drilling the death drill. I, a Xhosa, say you are my brothers...Swazis, Pondos, Basotho...so let us die like brothers. We are the sons of Africa. Raise your war-cries, brothers, for though they made us leave our assegais in the kraal, our voices are left with our bodies." The damaged Darro did not stay to assist. But Brisk lowered her boats, whose crews then rescued survivors. The investigation into the accident led to a formal hearing in summer 1917, held in Caxton Hall, Westminster. It opened on 24 July, sat for five days spread over the next fortnight, and concluded on 8 August. The court found Darro's Master, Henry W Stump, guilty of "having travelled at a dangerously high speed in thick fog, and of having failed to ensure that his ship emitted the necessary fog sound signals." It suspended Stump's licence for a year. Stump's decision not to help Mendi's survivors has been a source of controversy. One source states that it was because of the risk of attack by enemy submarines. Certainly Darro was vulnerable, both as a large merchant ship and having sustained damage that put her out of action for up to three months. But some historians have suggested that racial prejudice influenced Stump's decision, and others hold that he merely lost his nerve. Softcover, 320 pages. First published: February 2017

Subtitle: A Young Girl's Life Under Nazism Author: Ruth Maier Publisher: Harvill Secker () ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good Binding: Softcover Pages: 413 Dimensions: 21.8 x 15.2 x 3 cm +++ by Ruth Maier +++ Ruth Maier was born into a middle-class Jewish family in interwar Vienna. Following the Anschluss of Austria in March , the world of the substantial Viennese Jewish community crumbled. In early , her sister having left for England, Ruth emigrated to Norway and lived with a family in Lillestrom, about thirty miles from Oslo. Ruth Maier kept a diary from until she was deported to Auschwitz in at the age of twenty-two. Although she was only in her teens, she shows a sophisticated understanding of the political forces shaping Europe.   A passion for books and a passion for collecting fine editions was the recipe that created the successful group of bookshops in Johannesburg called Bookdealers. The group started thirty years ago with one store in the quirky suburb of Yeoville and has grown through the years to a total of five shops, plus our online sales. Bookdealers is well-known for its collectable and used books. We also have a large variety of remaindered books sourced from around the world.  If you collect from one of our five branches there is no delivery charge. We also offer postal delivery (when available) and courier delivery, subject to a quote.

Subtitle: The Search for Africa's Fighting Spirit Author: Tim Butcher Publisher: Chatto and Windus () ISBN: Condition: Very Good Binding: Softcover Pages: 325 Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm +++ by Tim Butcher +++ For many years Sierra Leone and Liberia have been too dangerous to travel through, bedevilled by a uniquely brutal form of violence from which sprang many of Africa's cruellest contemporary icons - child soldiers, prisoner mutilation, blood diamonds. With their wars officially over, Tim Butcher sets out on a journey across both countries, trekking for 350 miles through remote rainforest and malarial swamps. Just as he followed H M Stanley through the Congo - a journey described in his best seller Blood River - this time he pursues a trail blazed by Graham Greene in and immortalised in the travel classic Journey Without Maps. Tim walks every blistering inch to gain an extraordinary ground-level view of a troubled and overlooked region.   A passion for books and a passion for collecting fine editions was the recipe that created the successful group of bookshops in Johannesburg called Bookdealers. The group started thirty years ago with one store in the quirky suburb of Yeoville and has grown through the years to a total of five shops, plus our online sales. Bookdealers is well-known for its collectable and used books. We also have a large variety of remaindered books sourced from around the world.  If you collect from one of our five branches there is no delivery charge. We also offer postal delivery (when available) and courier delivery, subject to a quote.

Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Kingdom in the Nineteenth Century Author: John Laband Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers () Edition: First Edition Binding: Softcover ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good - cover slightly scuffed Pages: 517 Dimensions: cm +++ by John Laband +++ Rope of Sand is John Laband's magisterial account of the dramatic emergence and tragic decline of the Zulu kingdom in the nineteenth century. It is the culmination of fifteen years of research and fieldwork.   A passion for books and a passion for collecting fine editions was the recipe that created the successful group of bookshops in Johannesburg called Bookdealers. The group started thirty years ago with one store in the quirky suburb of Yeoville and has grown through the years to a total of five shops, plus our online sales. Bookdealers is well-known for its collectable and used books. We also have a large variety of remaindered books sourced from around the world.  If you collect from one of our five branches there is no delivery charge. We also offer postal delivery (when available) and courier delivery, subject to a quote.

Subtitle: The Zulu War,   Author: James W. Bancroft  Publisher: Jonathan Ball () Edition: First Edition ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good Binding: Softcover Pages: 168 Dimensions: 27.3 x 20 x 1 cm +++ by James W. Bancroft +++ A graphic account of the British defense of the storehouse and field hospital at Rorke's Drift, Natal at the beginning of the Zulu War in January .   A passion for books and a passion for collecting fine editions was the recipe that created the successful group of bookshops in Johannesburg called Bookdealers. The group started thirty years ago with one store in the quirky suburb of Yeoville and has grown through the years to a total of five shops, plus our online sales. Bookdealers is well-known for its collectable and used books. We also have a large variety of remaindered books sourced from around the world.  If you collect from one of our five branches there is no delivery charge. We also offer postal delivery (when available) and courier delivery, subject to a quote.

Author: Paul Holden Foreword: Andrew Feinstein Publisher: Jonathan Ball () Edition: Reprint Edition ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Fine Binding: Softcover Pages: 357 Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 2 cm +++ by Paul Holden +++ The Arms Deal: Simplified, cutting through the clouds of obfuscation, lies and conspiracy theory, this book clearly explains what every swindled South African taxpayer ought to know. "... succinct, informative and devastating" - Andrew Feinstein   A passion for books and a passion for collecting fine editions was the recipe that created the successful group of bookshops in Johannesburg called Bookdealers. The group started thirty years ago with one store in the quirky suburb of Yeoville and has grown through the years to a total of five shops, plus our online sales. Bookdealers is well-known for its collectable and used books. We also have a large variety of remaindered books sourced from around the world.  If you collect from one of our five branches there is no delivery charge. We also offer postal delivery (when available) and courier delivery, subject to a quote.

Author: Mark Haddon Publisher: Jonathan Cape () Uncorrected Proof ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good - Slight time darkening to the cover Binding: Softcover Pages: 271 Dimensions: 21.5 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm +++ by Mark Haddon (Uncorrected Proof) +++ The Curious Incident Of the Dog In The Night-time is a unusual mystery novel. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.   A passion for books and a passion for collecting fine editions was the recipe that created the successful group of bookshops in Johannesburg called Bookdealers. The group started thirty years ago with one store in the quirky suburb of Yeoville and has grown through the years to a total of five shops, plus our online sales. Bookdealers is well-known for its collectable and used books. We also have a large variety of remaindered books sourced from around the world.  If you collect from one of our five branches there is no delivery charge. We also offer postal delivery (when available) and courier delivery, subject to a quote.

Subtitle: A Field Guide Author: Donald Killick Publisher: Jonathan Ball () ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good  Binding: Softcover Pages: 200 Dimensions: 20.7 x 14.8 x 1.2 cm +++ by D J B Killick +++ In The Flora of the Natal Drakensburg, 239 plant species have been illustrated by detailed black and white line drawings, supplemented in some cases by colour photographs. Each entry provides a wealth of information including the current botanical and vernacular names, a brief diagnostic description, habitat, uses and properties, distribution and flowering period.   A passion for books and a passion for collecting fine editions was the recipe that created the successful group of bookshops in Johannesburg called Bookdealers. The group started thirty years ago with one store in the quirky suburb of Yeoville and has grown through the years to a total of five shops, plus our online sales. Bookdealers is well-known for its collectable and used books. We also have a large variety of remaindered books sourced from around the world.  If you collect from one of our five branches there is no delivery charge. We also offer postal delivery (when available) and courier delivery, subject to a quote.

Author: Maurice Lamm Publisher: Jonathan Davi () ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good - Cover edges have some wear Binding: Softcover Pages: 265 Dimensions: 21.5 x 13.1 x 2.4 cm +++ by Maurice Lamm +++ How a person handles death indicates a great deal about how he approaches life. As there is a Jewish way of life, there is a Jewish way of death.   A passion for books and a passion for collecting fine editions was the recipe that created the successful group of bookshops in Johannesburg called Bookdealers. The group started thirty years ago with one store in the quirky suburb of Yeoville and has grown through the years to a total of five shops, plus our online sales. Bookdealers is well-known for its collectable and used books. We also have a large variety of remaindered books sourced from around the world.  If you collect from one of our five branches there is no delivery charge. We also offer postal delivery (when available) and courier delivery, subject to a quote.

Subtitle: Inside the Global Arms Trade Author: Andrew Feinstein Publisher: Jonathan Ball () ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good Binding: Softcover Pages: 701 Dimensions: 19.7 x 13 x 3.5 cm +++ by Andrew Feinstein +++ The Shadow World is a behind-the-scenes expose of the global arms trade. Andrew Feinstien reveals the corruption and the cover-ups behind weapons deals, ranging from the largest in history - between the British and Saudi governments - to South Africa's controversial arms procument deal, and the revolving-door relationships that Based on path-breaking reporting and on unprecededented access to top-secret information and major players in the weapons business, including arms dealers who have never been interviewed before, the Shadow World reveals the dangers this global network represents to all of us.   A passion for books and a passion for collecting fine editions was the recipe that created the successful group of bookshops in Johannesburg called Bookdealers. The group started thirty years ago with one store in the quirky suburb of Yeoville and has grown through the years to a total of five shops, plus our online sales. Bookdealers is well-known for its collectable and used books. We also have a large variety of remaindered books sourced from around the world.  If you collect from one of our five branches there is no delivery charge. We also offer postal delivery (when available) and courier delivery, subject to a quote.

Author: Audrey Niffenegger   Publisher: Jonathan Cape () Uncorrected Proof ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Fine Binding: Softcover Pages: 515 Dimensions: 23 x 15.4 x 4.5 cm +++ by Audrey Niffenegger (Uncorrected Proof) +++ Audrey Niffenegger's first novel is the story of Henry and Clare, who have known each other since Clare was 6 and Henry was 36, and were married when Clare was 20 and Henry 28. This is possible only because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he flashes to other points in time.   A passion for books and a passion for collecting fine editions was the recipe that created the successful group of bookshops in Johannesburg called Bookdealers. The group started thirty years ago with one store in the quirky suburb of Yeoville and has grown through the years to a total of five shops, plus our online sales. Bookdealers is well-known for its collectable and used books. We also have a large variety of remaindered books sourced from around the world.  If you collect from one of our five branches there is no delivery charge. We also offer postal delivery (when available) and courier delivery, subject to a quote.

Subtitle: A Clare Hart Thriller Author: Margie Orford  Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers () ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good - Front cover corners creased Binding: Softcover Pages: 331 Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm +++ by Margie Orford +++ When an emaciated child is found on an icy Cape mountainside, profiler Dr Clare Hart is baffled that no one has reported her missing. Where does she come from? Who does she belong to? To further complicate matters, a distraught man pleads with Clare to find his missing granddaughter, Rosa, a gifted but troubled young cellist who has abandoned her music scholarship. In a race against time, Clare battles to unravel the two cases and locate the missing Rosa.   A passion for books and a passion for collecting fine editions was the recipe that created the successful group of bookshops in Johannesburg called Bookdealers. The group started thirty years ago with one store in the quirky suburb of Yeoville and has grown through the years to a total of five shops, plus our online sales. Bookdealers is well-known for its collectable and used books. We also have a large variety of remaindered books sourced from around the world.  If you collect from one of our five branches there is no delivery charge. We also offer postal delivery (when available) and courier delivery, subject to a quote.