Prose passion

Subtitle: Foundation Author: Peter Ackroyd Publisher: Pan Books () ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good Binding: Softcover Pages: 500 Dimensions: 19.5 x 13 x 3.5 cm +++ by Peter Ackroyd +++ In Foundation, the chronicler of London and of its river the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in , of the first Tudor kind, Henry VII. With his extraordinary skill for evoking time and place and his acute eye for the telling detail, Peter Ackroyd recounts the familiar story of warring kinds, of civil strife and foreign wars. But he also gives us a vivid sense of how our forebears really lived, bringing them to life in characteristically rich prose.   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: Patrick Chabal with with Moema Parente Augel, David Brookshaw, Ana Mafalda Leite and Caroline Shaw Publisher: Witswatersrand University Press () ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good Binding: Softcover Pages: 314 Dimensions: 22 x 14 x 2.5 cm +++ by Patrick Chabal +++ This volume examines the Portuguese and Creole languages of the five African Portuguese-speaking countries: Angola; Cape Verde; Guinea-Bissau; Mozambique; and Seo Tome and Principe. The introduction explores the cultural and historical context within which the literature of these five countries was written. It is followed by detailed discussion of, and extensive quotations from, the prose and poetry published by these writers since independence.   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: Eugène Marais Publisher: Stephan Phillips () ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good. Slight wear to cover edges. Binding: Softcover Pages: 174 Dimensions: 21 x 14 x 0.8 cm +++ by Eugène Marais +++ The first man in the history of science to conduct a prolonged study of the ape in its natural environment. Always fascinating with profound insights, written in Eugene Marais' characteristic uncomplicated prose.   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: Memories of the Border War by South African Soldiers who Fought in it. Editor: Karen Batley Publisher: Jonathan Ball () ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good Binding: Softcover Pages: 133 Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 1 cm +++ Edited by Karen Batley +++ A Secret Burden is a selection of poetry and prose, written anonymously by young, white South African conscripts deployed during the so-called 'Border War' in Angola and Namibia. Collected when the South African military withdrew from the Border, and appearing only now almost two decades later, A Secret Burden allows the reader an intimate and sometimes shocking glimpse of the hardships that these young men endured - it is an expression of the bewilderment, anger and bitterness that they felt at the 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 Memoir of My Journey with AIDS  Author: Adam Levin  Publisher: Zebra Press (20) ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good Binding: Softcover Pages: 230 Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 2 cm +++ by Adam Levin +++ With searing honesty, tender prose and outrageous humour, Adam Levin takes us through the daily trials of living with Aids, travelling from promiscuity and dangerous denial, through the terrors of imminent mortality, to face the realities of his disease.   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: Breyten Breytenbach  Publisher: Archipelago () ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good Binding: Softcover Pages: 115 Dimensions: 20.8 x 16.8 x 0.9 cm +++ by Breyten Breytenbach +++ South African poet Breytenbach offers a dreamy take on the artistic impulse in these 27 short prose fictions. Many are slyly couched as fables; each has a facing page watercolor in Breytenbach's own hand.   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: Alexander Fuller Publisher: Picador () ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Fine Binding: Softcover Pages: 310 Dimensions: 19.7 x 13 x 2 cm +++ by Alexander Fuller +++ In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller’s debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary 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.