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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Original tales by remarkable writers Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim to celebrate regional diversity and explore the meaning of home. In these pages on the South Coast, you'll find two unique tales. 'Margate Calling' is an intimate, honest and inspiring account of living in Margate by award-winning BBC broadcaster Gemma Cairney. 'Maisie and Mrs Webster' is a bold, fiercely funny and deeply moving piece of fiction about an obese young woman who is confined to her bed and longs to see the sea, by Brighton-based playwright Judy Upton. Features Summary Hometown Tales: Celebrating regional voices Two remarkable tales of life in the South Coast of England Author Gemma Cairney (Author), Judy Upton (Author) Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson Release date 20180628 Pages 176 ISBN 1-4746-0869-8 ISBN 13 978-1-4746-0869-5

Tales of an African Vet by Roy Aronson. SIGNED COPY. Dr Roy Aronson, an experienced veterinarian, takes the reader with him on his adventures through the South African bush, urban vet practices and animal sanctuaries. Photos, sketches. Arrowvet Publishers, 2007, 201p. Condition:   soft cover, Very good condition. Signed by author with message” To Ferdi and Evan with thanks, Roy Aronson.” Packaging and Postage R55 (in S.A.)   POSTING WILL ONLY BE DONE ON MONDAYS IN ORDER TO CUT OVERHEAD COSTS SUCH A S 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 R55 and R8 per extra book after 1 kg. So do browse through my PoggioBooks BO    

 A first  edition of this book produced by Bernard Sachs,Published by Gryphon Poets,Johannesburg,1972. The poems are by Sinclair Beiles with woodcuts by Cecil Skotnes. The book is in good condition and the soft board cover is  little bumped and marked but not too noticeably.Postage free within South Africa.

Dahl is a master at introducing readers to a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary. This title covers stories including: "Taste", "Lamb to Slaughter", "Man from the South", "Dip in the Pool", "Skin", "Neck", "Nunc Dimittis", "The Landlady", "William and Mary", "The Way up to Heaven", "Parsons Pleasures", "Mrs Bixby and the Colonel Coat", "Royal Jelly", "Edward the Conqueror", and "Galloping Foxley"Slight forward lean; yellowed pages.

The book on which the famous film musical was based in the war torn Pacific islands where James Michener served in the war against the Japanese occupiers. This was his first book and is a rare first edition. d/w good Edition: 1st, UK edition Publisher: Collins Binding: Hardcover

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours Aimed at children everywhere, this wonderful collection of folk tales that find their origins in tribes from all over Africa, have been retold by Dianne Stewart. These include legends such as 'How Lion and Warthog became Enemies' from the Lamba, 'How Giraffe Acquired His Long Neck' from east Africa, 'Why Hippopotamus Lives in the Water' from Nigeria and 'Monkey the Musician' from South Africa. There are tales from the San, the Zulu, Zambia, Congo and West Africa, et al. At the end of each section - devoted to a type of animal - there are facts about the animal in question, adding to the educational value of the stories. The book is beautifully illustrated by Kathy Pienaar with great attention to detail. Features Summary Aimed at children across the African continent, this collection of folk tales find their origins in tribes from all over Africa. Author Dianne Stewart (Author), Kathy Pienaar (Illustrator) Publisher Struik Publishers Release date 20041101 Pages 143 ISBN 1-86872-951-6 ISBN 13 978-1-86872-951-7

White Man's Tales - By Vaughan Grylls **SIGNED COPY** First Edition, Soft Cover, Published By Watson Gallery & Natal Society Of Arts 1994 Cover Boards Clean & Bright With Minimal Rubbing. Binding Tight & Strong. Signed By Artist Inside Front Cover Board In Light Blue Marker. Pages Slightly Yellowed To The Edges. Postage Within South Africa Will Be R40.00 Overseas Buyers Can Contact Us For A Postal Quote.

Beastly Tales From Here & There - By Vikram Seth **SIGNED COPY** First Great Britain Edition, Hard Cover, Published By Phoenix House 1993 Cover Boards Are Brown With Black Text To The Spine, Clean & Bright. Binding Is Tight & Strong. Signed By The Author On The Title Page In Blue Pen. Light Browning & Foxing To The Pages. Dust Jacket Is Complete, Clean & Bright With Minimal Edge Rubbing, Has Not Been Price Clipped. Postage Within South Africa Will Be R30.00 Overseas Buyers Can Contact Us For A Postal Quote. ABE # 05805

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 20 - 25 working days `What we like most is to produce foods ourselves from start to finish - from farm to table, the Riverford way. Food should tell a story and, because we know what it is, we can tell you.'Guy Watson's ethos is simple: he wants to put fresh, flavoursome, seasonal food back onto people's plates. In 1985, armed with a wheelbarrow and a borrowed tractor, he established his first Riverford farm in South Devon. Since then, and largely thanks to a groundbreaking home-delivery vegetable box scheme, a small network of Riverford farms has sprung up across Britain. Packed with tips on growing your own organic vegetables and brimming with hearty recipes from Riverford's celebrated Field Kitchen, the `Riverford Farm Cook Book' gives an organic farmer's unique insight into great-tasting food grown with care and cooked with passion. Features Summary `What we like most is to produce foods ourselves from start to finish - from farm to table, the Riverford way. Food should tell a story and, because we know what it is... Author Guy Watson (Author), Jane Baxter (Author) Publisher Fourth Estate Release date 20080614 Pages 448 ISBN 0-00-726505-0 ISBN 13 978-0-00-726505-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 10 working days All kinds of animals feature in these ten sparkling stories from all over Africa, by an award-winning author and illustrator. Find out what happens to Lion when he challenges Elephant and discovers who is the real king of the savannah; laugh along with Tortoise as he bewitches the animals in Tiger's work-pastry with his irresistible music; find out why Hippo has no hair, how Elephant got his trunk, and why Cockerel crows. Then read about the woman who had a mouse-child! These 10 stories are drawn from the rich folklore of Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Malawi, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and South Africa, and are perfectly matched by Piet Grobler's wonderful illustrations. Features Summary Find out what happens to Lion when he challenges Elephant and discovers who is the real king of the savannah; laugh along with Tortoise as he bewitches the animals in Tiger's work-pastry with his irresistible music; find out why Hippo has no hair... Author Beverly Naidoo (Author), Piet Grobler (Illustrator) Publisher Jacana Media Release date 20150301 Pages 64 ISBN 1-4314-2138-3 ISBN 13 978-1-4314-2138-1

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Rosenthal, Eric. THE HINGES CREAKED. True Stories Of South African Treasure Lost And Found. Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1951. First Edition. Tales of treasure lost and treasure found in South Africa and around its coast. 201pp., illustrated. Very Good. Corners lightly bumped, pages tanned with some minor foxing to textblock's edges, in Very Good, somewhat edgeworn, with closed tear and price clipped, dust-jacket. Original yellow cloth. (##2396)

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days This title features the short stories written by South Africans from all walks of life over a period of a hundred years. From the oral traditions of the San and other African peoples, right through to the most modern writers of the twenty-first century, Chapman has selected the best of this interesting and much loved genre. Some of the old favourites and standards from A Century of South African Short Stories, which had three different editions, remain. Previously unpublished stories have been found and added, and have resulted in an unprecedented treasury of wonderful tales. Features Summary This title features the short stories written by South Africans from all walks of life over a period of a hundred years. Author Michael Chapman Publisher Ad Donker Publishers Release date 20040430 Pages 353 ISBN 0-86852-227-9 ISBN 13 978-0-86852-227-2

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 Marq de Villiers, whose family has been in South Africa for more than 300 years, has travelled to every corner of Africa in search of ancient empires which cut across modern national and traditional boundaries: Great Zimbabwe, at its height before the end of the Crusades; the Land of the Zanj, which the Arabs traded with for centuries before Europe had ever heard of it; the kings of the Kongo, who so impressed the Portuguese in the late 15 century; the Ashanti kingdoms; the ancient kingdom of Benin; the great empires of the Sahel. In his travels, Marq flies in an old plane piloted by an arms smuggler, travels downriver on a barge through some of the least explored jungles in Africa, hires an armed-to-the-teeth four-wheeler driven by a mercenary, and sails in a dhow manned by 4 Swahili teenagers - all through a landscape inhabited by villians and heroes, rascals and saints, and ordinary people.  He tells their stories of what it is like to live in this 'place of prodigies, of great amazements'.  Amplifying and giving context to these tales are the legends, folktales and histories collected by his co-author, Sheila Hirtle. Soft cover, fairly good condition.  The cover has a minor crease at the corner.  Pen inscription on the first page.  399 pages.

We combine postage, so do look at our other items on offer. Postage prices outside of South African borders will differ. Please enquire before purchasing. Dispatched within 3 business days. Our books are protected with a removable plastic cover and sent with care. Condition: Good. In this finely wrought memoir of life in postcolonial Pakistan, Suleri intertwines the violent history of Pakistan's independence with her own most intimate memories—of her Welsh mother; of her Pakistani father, prominent political journalist Z.A. Suleri; of her tenacious grandmother Dadi and five siblings; and of her own passage to the West. "Nine autobiographical tales that move easily back and forth among Pakistan, Britain, and the United States.... She forays lightly into Pakistani history, and deeply into the history of her family and friends.... The Suleri women at home in Pakistan make this book sing." —Daniel Wolfe, New York Times Book Review "A jewel of insight and beauty.... Suleri's voice has the same authority when she speaks about Pakistani politics as it does in her literary interludes." —Rone Tempest, Los Angeles Times Book Review " The author has a gift for rendering her family with a few, deft strokes, turning them out as whole and complete as eggs." —Anita Desai, Washington Post Book World " Meatless Days takes the reader through a Third World that will surprise and confound him even as it records the author's similar perplexities while coming to terms with the West. Those voyages Suleri narrates in great strings of words and images so rich that they left this reader... hungering for more." —Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune "Dazzling.... Suleri is a postcolonial Proust to Rushdie's phantasmagorical Pynchon." —Henry Louise Gates, Jr., Voice Literary Supplement Bibliographic information: Title Meatless Days Authors Sara Suleri, Sara Suleri Goodyear Edition Hardback Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 1990 ISBN 0002154080, 9780002154086 Length 186 pages Please Click ---> HERE PTO Books is selling.

Hearts & Mines - Tales Of A Lost Colony & Other Namibian Graffiti - By Mark Verbaan **SCARCE** SCARCE First Edition, Soft Cover, Published By Free Press Of Namibia 1992 Cover Boards Have Edge Rubbing & Light Browning Throughout. Binding Tight & Strong. Light Browning & Minimal Foxing Of Pages. Postage Within South Africa Will Be R30.00 Overseas Buyers Can Contact Us For A Postal Quote. ABE # 05642

Author: Jane Bennett Publisher: Kwela Books (2010) ISBN-10: 0795702655 ISBN-13: 9780795702655 Condition: Very Good. Light wear to cover corners. Binding: Softcover Pages: 150 Dimensions: 22.1 x 15.1 x 1.3 cm +++ by Jane Bennett +++ Dynamic and unpredictable, this collection weaves together poignant tales rooted in contemporary South Africa. The short stories explore the poverty and violence of the modern nation, but also the unexpected joys of human interaction, examining everything from violence and the life of beggars to desire and dreams of Nelson Mandela.

    Friends of the Bushveld - Fay King - original yellow cloth; pictorial dust cover; shows age related wear -  Jonathan Cape, 1954 tinted top edge; pp. 223; illustrated from drawings by Grace Huxtable.  Fay King herself born and brought up in South Africa brings love and knowledge of the country to this book about a family living on a Bushveld farm. It is a happy life for Jane le Roux and her four brothers and sisters. Once a week they visit the dorp and see their grandmother and their friends there but for the rest of the time they are content to be in the Bushveld where they hear ancient legends from the Zulu Teller of Tales or watch the wild animals a      

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days In this classic thriller, Ira Levin imagines Dr Josef Mengele's nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich. Alive and hiding in South America, thirty years after the end of the Second World War, Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a sinister project - the creation of the Fourth Reich. Ageing Nazi hunter Yakov Lieberman is informed of the plot but before he hears the evidence, his source is killed... Spanning continents and inspired by true events, what follows is one of Levin's most masterful tales, both timeless and chillingly plausible.Praise for Ira Levin:'Levin is the Swiss watchmaker of the suspense novel' Stephen King Features Summary The classic thriller of Dr. Josef Mengele's nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich, with an introduction by Chelsea Cain. Author Ira Levin (Author), Chelsea Cain (Introduction by) Publisher Corsair Release date 20071120 Pages 258 ISBN 1-84901-590-2 ISBN 13 978-1-84901-590-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days ?If we had only two or three of Patrick O?Brian?s Aubrey-Maturin series, we would count ourselves lucky; with six or seven the author would be safely among the greats of historical fiction? This is great writing by an undiminished talent. Now on to Volume Twenty, and the liberation of Chile.? WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE, Literary Review This is the twentieth book in Patrick O?Brian?s highly acclaimed, bestselling series chronicling the adventures of lucky Jack Aubrey and his best friend Stephen Maturin, part ship?s doctor, part secret agent. The novel?s stirring action follows on from that of The Hundred Days. Napoleon?s hundred days of freedom and his renewed threat to Europe have ended at Waterloo and Aubrey has finally, as the title suggests, become a blue level admiral. He and Maturin have ? at last ? set sail on their much postponed mission to Chile. Vivid with the salty tang of life at sea, O?Brian?s writing is as powerful as ever whether he writes of naval hierarchies, night-actions or the most celebrated fictional friendship since that of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Blue at the Mizzen also brings alive the sights and sounds of revolutionary South America in a story as exciting as any O?Brian has written. Features Summary Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning... Author Patrick O'Brian Publisher HarperCollinsPublishers Release date 20000422 Pages 261 ISBN 0-00-651378-6 ISBN 13 978-0-00-651378-0

2014 pages. Soft cover; 344 pages. Very good, clean condition. Under 1kg. Twenty-four safari guides are profiled by experienced safari travel promoter, Susie Cazenove. She tells us their stories of adventure and dreams – of following their passion into the wild and of making their guests see Africa in a new light. Read of the antics of the guides in the early days of Londolozi, of guests having to cling to trees in the face of charging rhinos, of safaris with Mary Leaky and legends of the Masai warriors. The tales tell of a wilderness under increasing threat and these guides’ determination to share the privilege of a truly wild experience with their guests. The stories take the reader from South Africa to Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya and Namibia in search of legendary safari guides   

Hunger For Freedom Food has provided the backdrop and occasionally the primary cause for momentous personal and political events in the life of Nelson Mandela. This innovative approach to history shows that a great man's life can be measured out in mouthfuls, both bitter and sweet. With this book, the reader can cook and taste Nelson Mandela's journey from the corn grinding stone of his boyhood through wedding cakes and curries to prison hunger strikes, presidential banquets and ultimately into a dotage marked by the sweetest of just desserts. Tales told in sandwiches, sugar and samoosas speak eloquently of intellectual awakenings, emotional longings and always the struggle for racial equality. About the Author Anna Trapido trained as an anthropologist at King's College Cambridge and completed her PhD in the Department of Community Health at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She qualified as a chef at the Prue Leith Chef's Academy in Centurion. She combines her culinary and cultural interests in her work. She has worked in garde manger, pastry departments, confectionary and catering companies in South Africa, England, Switzerland and India. She is a food writer, broadcaster and the co-author of To the Banqueting House: African Cuisine ? an epic journey which won the Gold Medal at the World Gourmand Cookbook Awards, Beijing in 2007. Trapido is the editor of Dine: Top 100 Restaurant Guide. She previously taught garde manger and culinary French and is now responsible for the Pan African cuisine programme at the Prue Leith Chef's Academy. Author Anna Trapido ISBN 9781431402977 Format Paperback Pages 216p.

Paperback. English. Kif Komiks. 2014. In fair/good condition. An anthology of real life in prison stories. Young men tell their tales of prison life in South African jails. A project created by the support programme, younginprison.org.za. Black and white.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days Before the Malazan Empire, there was a time that set the stage for all those tales yet to be told...The winter is bitter. Civil war threatens Kurald Galain for the warrior Urusander's army has begun its march on the city of Kharkanas. Led by the ruthless Hunn Raal, it intends to cast aside Mother Dark's consort, Draconus, and set Urusander himself on the throne beside the Living Goddess. Those who would stand in the way of the rebels lie scattered and weakened - leaderless since Anomander went in search of an estranged brother. In his stead, Silchas Ruin resolves to gather the Houseblades of the Highborn families to him, and to resurrect the legendary Hust Legion, but time is not on his side. Far to the west, an unlikely army musters. It seeks an enemy without form, in a place none can find. And yet Hood's call has been heard and the long-abandoned city of Omtose Phellack is now home to a rabble of new arrivals: Dog-Runners from the south, Jheck warriors, and blue-skinned strangers from across the Western Sea have come to offer Hood their swords. From the distant mountains and isolated valleys of the North, Thel Akai arrive to pledge themselves in this seemingly impossible war. Soon, they will set forth with weapons drawn under the banners of the living in pursuit of Death itself. Such events presage chaos, and now magic bleeds into this realm. Unconstrained, mysterious and savage, it begins to run loose and wild and following its scent, seeking the places of wounding and hurt - new and ancient entities gather. In a world becoming rotten with sorcery, can honour truly exist? Features Summary The winter is bitter. Civil war threatens Kurald Galain for the warrior Urusander's army has begun its march on the city of Kharkanas. Led by the ruthless Hunn Raal... Author Steven Erikson Publisher Bantam Press Release date 20160530 Pages 837 ISBN 0-593-06220-5 ISBN 13 978-0-593-06220-3

 Ghost Colonies (Lost and Found in History) - Ed Wright- 2009 - Paperback in nearly new condition. A litany of historical madness and disasters from the Vikings in Greenland and America to Friedrich Nietzsche’s Aryan supremacist sister in South America and finishing with the tragedy of Jim Jones and the Peoples’ Temple. The London Sunday Times wrote: “successful colonies are the stuff of schoolroom history: everyone knows about the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth Rock and Captain Cook at Botany Bay. In this collection of 25 tales of colonies lost, burnt, abandoned or otherwise destroyed, Ed Wright proves that the murky history of colonial disaster is just as fascinating, and just as important.” The Brisbane Courier Mail wrote: “Ghost Colonies, written by established Pier 9 author Ed Wright, is the latest in a Lost and Found in History series to use the format, and is arguably the most interesting. From murderous Icelandic outcast Erik the Red’s Viking settlements in Greenland and his sons’ adventures in Arctic North America in 1000AD to the tragedy of Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978, this 320-page volume tells the story of 25 would-be utopias that failed to live up to the dream. They include a few of history’s better known colonial outpost failures, including the Scottish colony at Darien, Panama (1698-1700) and the failed utopian colonies of New Australia and Cosme in Paraguay at the end of the 19th century. For the most part, though, these are stories of more obscure colonial failures brought about by disease, ignorance, attacks by native people, political misfortune or other reasons. And Wright, who has researched his material thoroughly, tells them with a touch light enough to appeal to a wide readership. Australian readers will be interested in his detailed account of the rise and fall of the British colony at Victoria, Port Essington, on the north coast in what is now Arnhem Land. It fell prey to malaria and cyclones but not before explorer Ludwig Leichhardt stumbled into the settlement in late 1845 at the end of a 15-month overland journey from Moreton Bay that would make him famous. There’s mystery and tragedy in spades in this attractively designed book.