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(This title is available on demand: expected date of dispatch will be 7-10 working days once ordered) With an introduction by Will Self A classic work of psychology, this international bestseller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind. If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it. In this extraordinary book, Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to adapt to often bizarre worlds of neurological disorder. Here are people who can no longer recognize everyday objects or those they love; who are stricken with violent tics or shout involuntary obscenities; who have been dismissed as autistic or retarded, yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales illuminate what it means to be human. A provocative exploration of the mysteries of the human mind, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a million-copy bestseller by the twentieth century's greatest neurologist. Format:Paperback Pages:272

  Author(s): Jo-Anne Richardson  Title:      My Brother's Book  ISBN:  978 1 77010 0770  Publisher: Picador  This Edition: first edition, reprinted  Year of Publication: 2008  Place Of Publication: South Africa  First Published: 2008  Binding: paperback Number of pages: 253  Weight: 357g  Condition:   Excellent, like new   

Book in fair condition. Just some minor scuffs to the dustjacket.  Has inscription by previous owner on inside of front cover.    Author(s): Tim Binding  Title: Island Madness  ISBN: 0 330 35046 3  Publisher: Picador  This Edition: 6th printing  Year of Publication: 1999  Place Of Publication: Great Britain  First Published: 1998  Binding: paperback  Dustjacket: n/a  Number of pages: 360  Weight: 241g     

Eight days in September the Removal of Thabo Mbeki by Frank Chikane Frank Chikane’s Eight days in September is the memoirs Thabo Mbeki and the events of September 2008 and in the decade preceding those events which lead to his downfall. Chikane’s arguments that have come to epitomise both the book and the African National Congress (ANC) response to was that there was the ‘potential for destabilising the country’, and the ‘danger of what the ANC has become’ – and especially where the origins of organisational decay are situated. Had it not been for the Mbeki sacrifice of actually stepping down when the ANC demanded, the country would have been destabilised earlier. Picador Africa Press, 2012 First edition, 272p. Condition: softcover, age yellowing, fraying of cover, good firm condition. Packaging and Postage R48 (in S.A.)  POSTING WILL ONLY BE DONE ON MONDAYS IN ORDER TO CUT OVERHEAD COSTS SUCH AS TRAVELLING (FUEL), PARKING FEES, PACKAGING AND POSTAGE, IN ORDER TO KEEP MY PRICES LOW AND REASONABLE. Should you wish to make other arrangements or need a book(s)/item(s) urgently, please let me know. N.B.: It is cheaper to purchase more than one book at a time, as postage for the first 1 kg remains R48, and R10 per extra book after 1 kg. So do browse through my PoggioBooks BOB page.  

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days 'Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness' Guardian In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. These are case studies of people who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people or common objects; whose limbs have become alien; who are afflicted and yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. In Dr Sacks's splendid and sympathetic telling, each tale is a unique and deeply human study of life struggling against incredible adversity. 'Populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic fiction...Dr Sacks shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be' Sunday Times 'This book is for everybody who has felt from time to time that certain twinge of self-identity and sensed how easily, at any moment, one might lose it' The Times 'A gripping journey into the recesses of the human mind' Daily Mail Features Summary The bestselling author of Awakenings and Musicophilia Author Oliver Sacks Publisher Picador Release date 20110927 Pages 257 ISBN 0-330-52362-7 ISBN 13 978-0-330-52362-2

THE VOICE OF MODERN HATRED - Nicholas Fraser Picador 2000. 160x240mm. 327p. Hard cover book with dust jacket in very fine condition. Postage and Packaging R25. 

  Diary of an Amateur Photographer Rawle, G. ISBN 10: 0330354868 ISBN 13: 9780330354868 Item Description: Picador, London & Basingstoke, 1998. First Edition. Quarto. Unread copy in lovely condition with untouched envelope on the rear paste-down. Zaney, crime fiction illustrated with many photographic clues. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Laminated Pictorial Boards. Jacket: No Jacket - As Published. Bookseller Inventory # 00085 Tall  Stories  Price: R 145.00 Ordinary  postage  within  South  Africa: R 45.00

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days Dying in New York is the haunting story of Lerato Malema, a young and irrepressible South African whose wit and resilience shine through despite the abuse she has endured from before the age of twelve at the hands of her father, Thabo. The narrative opens in a psychiatrist’s office overlooking the Hudson River. Against a backdrop of the magnificent Manhattan skyline, Lerato paints an absorbing picture of her decade-long journey from Johannesburg to the United States. Her story transitions seamlessly from the sessions with Dr Evelyn Webber, her psychiatrist, to her escape from an abusive home and her experiences of the underbelly of modern South Africa. At its heart, Dying in New York is a story of hope and deep longing, made all the more poignant by Lerato’s startling candour from the first page until the book’s surprising conclusion. Features Summary Dying in New York is the haunting story of Lerato Malema, a young and irrepressible South African whose wit and resilience shine through despite the abuse she has endured from before the age of twelve at the hands of her father... Author Ekow Duker Publisher Picador Africa Release date 20140730 Pages 248 ISBN 1-77010-392-9 ISBN 13 978-1-77010-392-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days A Manifesto For Social Change is the third of a three-volume series that started seven years ago investigating the causes of our country¿s ¿ and the continent¿s ¿ development obstacles. Architects of Poverty: Why African Capitalism Needs Changing (2009) set out to explain what role African elites played in creating and promoting their fellow Africans¿ misery. Advocates for Change: How to Overcome Africa¿s Challenges (2011) set out to show that there were short-term to medium-term solutions to many of Africa¿s and South Africa¿s problems, from agriculture to healthcare, if only the powers that be would take note. And now, more than 20 years after the advent of democracy, we have A Manifesto For Social Change: How To Save South Africa, the conclusion in the ¿trilogy¿. This book started its life as Gridlocked, but through the process of research undertaken by Moeletsi and Nobantu it has evolved into a different project, a manifesto that identifies some of South Africa¿s key problems and what is required to change the country¿s downward trajectory. Features Summary A Manifesto for Social Change is the third of a three-volume series that started seven years ago investigating the causes of our country’s – and the continent’s – development obstacles... Author Moeletsi Mbeki (Author), Nobantu Mbeki (Author) Publisher Picador Africa Release date 20160516 Pages 131 ISBN 1-77010-497-6 ISBN 13 978-1-77010-497-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo. They work at home as freelance writers. They no longer have very much to say to one another. One day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. She is a beautiful creature. She leaves, but the next day comes again, and then again and again. New, small joys accompany the cat; the days have more light and colour. Life suddenly seems to have more promise for the husband and wife; they go walking together, talk and share stories of the cat and its little ways, play in the nearby Garden. But then something happens that will change everything again. The Guest Cat is an exceptionally moving and beautiful novel about the nature of life and the way it feels to live it. Written by Japanese poet and novelist Takashi Hiraide, the book won Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, and was a bestseller in France and America. Features Summary An international bestseller. A charming and wonderful novel about a cat that brings joy into a couple's life. Author Takashi Hiraide (Author), Eric Selland (Translator) Publisher Picador Release date 20140929 Pages 140 ISBN 1-4472-7940-9 ISBN 13 978-1-4472-7940-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days The Other Country was Carol Ann Duffy's third collection, and as with her later books, takes its readers on journeys that seem initially similar - but soon prove anything but. This book leads our imagination to places our minds could not have suspected were there, or would not have dared to go alone. Some of its voices are disarmingly direct, while others blur the lines between fantasy and reality, confession and self-delusion, forcing us to re-examine everything we thought we knew about some of our most basic human drives and emotions. Deeply intelligent, unflinchingly honest, with a deftness of touch and tone, and openness all the more moving for its lack of sentimentality, The Other Country is as remarkable a collection today as it was on its first publication. Features Summary The Other Country was Carol Ann Duffy's third collection, and as with her later books, takes its readers on journeys that seem initially similar - but soon prove anything but... Author Carol Ann Duffy Publisher Picador Release date 20170909 Pages 64 ISBN 1-5098-5293-X ISBN 13 978-1-5098-5293-2

Product details:   Author: John Banville Title:  Mefisto Paperback:  234 Pages Publisher:  Picador 1986 Language:  English ISBN-10:  0 33037231 9 Product Dimensions: 12.8cm x 19.6cm x 1.5cm   Used - Good. Previous owner's name on inside.  All pages intact.  The Book: A work of dazzling imagination, Mefisto, like John Banville's other novels, takes as its theme the price the true scientist or artist must pay for his calling in terms of his own humanity, his ability to live fully. Like his Copernicus, Kepler, and the nameless narrator of The Newton Letter, the central character of Mr. Banville's Mefisto, Gabriel Swan, is caught in the dilemma of the divided man who must choose between life and work, thought and action, experience and creation. The solution he seeks to dissolve the dilemma lies in a perhaps discoverable formula that will reduce the disorder of common things to an equation the application of which will "show up the seemingly random for what it is."

Editor: Essop Patel Publisher: Picador Africa (2007) ISBN-10: 1770100199 ISBN-13: 9781770100190 Condition: As new Binding: Softcover Pages: 237 Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.3 x 2.3 cm +++ Edited by Essop Patel +++                                                                                                                          Nat Nakasa was born in Durban on 12 May 1937. He worked as a journalist in Johannesburg writing for  Drum  and  Golden City Post. He eventually became the first black journalist at the  Rand Daily Mail. In 1964 he left South Africa on an exit permit, after being refused a passport, to take up a Nieman Fellowship to study journalism at Harvard University. On July 1965 he committed suicide in New York at the age of 28. Nakasa wrote: I may shut up for some time because of fear. Yet even this will not make me feel ashamed. For I know that as long as the ideas remain unchanged within me, there will always be the possibility that, one day, I shall burst out and say everything that I wish to say in a loud and thunderous voice. In this collection of some of the finest writings by Nat Nakasa, that loud and thunderous voice speaks with such clarity and insight as to create a book that has been read and reread since its first appearance in 1975.

Softcover. Publisher: Picador 1987. 233pp. In fair/good condition, book a little bent. Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. In the pressurized atmosphere of oppression and intimidation they are simply trying to live and love - and remain friends. But in a world where each day brings a new betrayal, hope is hard to cling on to. Anthills of the Savannah (1987), Achebe's candid vision of contemporary African politics, is a powerful fusion of angry voices. It continues the journey that Achebe began with his earlier novels, tracing the history of modern Africa through colonialism and beyond, and is a work ultimately filled with hope.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days Nat Nakasa wrote once - 'I may shut up for some time because of fear. Yet even this will not make me feel ashamed. For I know that as long as the ideas remain unchanged within me, there will always be the possibility that, one day, I shall burst out and say everything that I wish to say – in a loud and thunderous voice.' In this collection of some of the finest writings by Nat Nakasa, that loud and thunderous voice speaks with such clarity and insight as to create a book that has been read and reread since its first appearance in 1975. Features Summary Nat Nakasa wrote once - 'I may shut up for some time because of fear. Yet even this will not make me feel ashamed. Author Essop Patel Publisher Picador Africa Release date 20050502 Pages 237 ISBN 1-77010-019-9 ISBN 13 978-1-77010-019-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days 1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes - Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, 2+2=5 - that gain potency with every year. Particularly in 2016, when the election of Donald Trump made it a bestseller (`Ministry of Alternative Facts', anyone?). Its influence has morphed endlessly into novels (The Handmaid's Tale), films (Brazil), television shows (V for Vendetta), rock albums (Diamond Dogs), commercials (Apple), even reality TV (Big Brother). The Ministry of Truth by Dorian Lynskey is the first book that fully examines the epochal and cultural event that is 1984 in all its aspects: its roots in the utopian and dystopian literature that preceded it; the personal experiences in wartime Britain that Orwell drew on as he struggled to finish his masterpiece in his dying days; and the political and cultural phenomena that the novel ignited at once upon publication and that far from subsiding, have only grown over the decades. It explains how fiction history informs fiction and how fiction explains history. Features Summary In The Ministry of Truth, Dorian Lynskey charts the life of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: one of the most influential books of the 20th Century... Author Dorian Lynskey Publisher Picador Release date 20190528 Pages 368 ISBN 1-5098-9073-4 ISBN 13 978-1-5098-9073-6