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    Together Apart: The Story of Living in Apartheid

    Age 9+While Apartheid ended 30 years ago, its impact still resonates today. Together Apart teaches children about this dark time in our history and the sacrifices made.  It is vital...

    • Author: Athambile Masola & Dr Xolisa Guzula​
    • Publisher: Jacana
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Price: £13.95

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Together Apart: The Story of Living in Apartheid
Athambile Masola & Dr Xolisa Guzula​
Jacana
£13.95
Age 9+While Apartheid ended 30 years ago, its impact still resonates today. Together Apart teaches children about this dark time in our history and the sacrifices made.  It is vital...
What Sport Does Mpumi Play?
Lebohang Masango​
New Africa Books
£4.99
Mpumi loves to play sport!​From shooting hoops to hitting a cricket ball, follow along as she explores her favourite sports and all the ways to have fun being active. ​With bright pictures...
Bontle's New Wheels
Gomolemo Moagi​
New Africa Books
£7.99
Bontle is a bright and joyful girl with eyes as big as marbles and as sparkly as the stars.​She loves school, playing with her friends on the playground, and lending a helping hand in the kitchen...
Zoya and Naru: An African Journey of a Boy and an Elephant
by Caroline Montague (Author), Richie Ryall (Illustrator)
Jacana
£16.00
This is an African story of a boy and a baby elephant, and their unexpected friendship as they journey to reunite Zoya with his elephant herd. The baby elephant is guided by the intrepid boy and a...
Nomkhubulwane, African Mother Christmas
By Gcina Mhlophe Illustrator: Elizabeth Pulles

£8.99
It’s December in the Valley of a Thousand Hills a time when people return from the cities, a time for swimming in the river and playing in the sun, a time for mangoes and new...
Kantiga Finds the Perfect Name
Mabel Mnensa Illustrations by ​Chantelle ​& Burgen Thorne
Jacana Media
£7.95
‘There was once a beautiful little girl with a heart as big as her name, Kantiga. But Kantiga did not like her name.’ Hearing this, her gogo tells her a family tale inspired...
Joy Dancer, The
Gregory Vuyani Maqoma
Jacana
£7.99
Gregory isn’t keen on soccer, but he loves to dance and jive and feel the energy and rhythm in the music that is all around him.​Dancing brings him joy – and an adventure more dazzling than he...
Shudu Finds Her Magic
Shudufhadzo Musida, Chantelle Thorne
Jacana Media
£7.95
Gugu smiled. "My darling child, you are already perfect. You just have to be yourself." She pulled Shudu closer. "Just remember one thing, my child. If you are beautiful inside," she...
Hooda Al Shawa (author), Sienny Septibella (illustrator)​
Hooda Al Shawa author, Sienny Septibella illustrator
Cinammon Press
£8.99
Zahra is a young donkey who lives with her owner, Sami, in Gaza City, Palestine, where they go about their daily routines. ​One day, a devastating war takes place. ​Through Zahraâ s eyes and...
Exploring Art with David Hockney
By (author): Laura Peh, Illustrated by: Sienny Septibella
Cinammon Press
£8.99
A fun and colourful book for children on British artist David Hockney.     ​Exploring Art with David Hockney traces the British artist’s creative journey and diverse use of...
B is for Breadfruit
Staysean Daley
BLUE BANYAN BOOKS
£5.99
B is for Breadfruit is a charming, colourful, vibrant set of alphabet flashcards that bring more than a fun way to learn the ABCs. Along with the alphabet, budding readers are introduced to...

History
Open Veins of Latin America
Eduardo GALEANO [Foreword by Isabel Allende]
Monthly Review Press
£15.99
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural...
Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern Worl
Steve Cushion
Monthly Review Press
£22.50
Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World situates the crime of enslavement within the business practices that place profit before people. The institution of slavery...
The President's Keepers
Jacques Pauw
NB GROUP
£14.95
Investigative journalist Jacques Pauw exposes the darkest secret at the heart of Jacob Zuma’s compromised government: a cancerous cabal that eliminates the president’s enemies and purges the...
A to Z of SA Politics 3rd Ed
Kashiefa Ajam, Kevin Ritchie, Lebogang Seale, Janet Smith, Thabiso Thakali
JACANA
£16.95
Puzzled by the difference between a coalition and confidence-and-supply? Confused about how McKinsey, Trillian and a bunch of corrupt individuals at Eskom fleeced the utility? Don’t know your...
An Unwitting Assassin
Susie Cazenove
BOOKSTORM
£14.95
The intimate and personal story behind the man who tried to kill Verwoerd but didn’t succeed Release scheduled for anniversary of the assassination attempt Follows the success in 2018 of The...
The Boer War Atlas
Chris Ash
Blueweaver
£35.00
This comprehensive military atlas covers every aspect of the Boer War in some 230 full-colour maps, diagrams and detailed ORBATs. Maps covering the conflict on a strategic, operational...
Masked Raiders
Charles van Onselen
Protea Boekhuis
£15.95
For two decades before a railway system linked southern Africa’s principal cities in the mid-1890’s, the world’s richest supplies of diamonds and gold were transported by coach and...
The New Apartheid
Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh​
NB Tafelberg
£15.99
South Africa’s story is often presented as a triumph of new over old, but ​while formal apartheid was abolished decades ago, stark and distressing ​similarities persist. Dr Sizwe...
The Great Pretenders
Ebrahim Harvey
Jacana Media
£19.95
Ebrahim Harvey delivers a stinging critique of the ANC. This must-read analysis reveals the failure of the ANC to roll back the race and class divide.​​Harvey argues that a series of events...
Whites and Democracy in South Africa
Roger Southall​
James Currey
£65.00
How did the last white minority in Africa give way to majority rule,  the arrival of democracy and new and different modes of transition from "settlers" to "citizens".​How have whites...
Sardinia
Susanna Hoe
Holo Books
£20.00
This book explores Sardinia through the island’s women. Sardinia has been inhabited for longer than many European countries; of its earlier peoples, the best-known are the pre-historic...

Political Science
Voices Against Putin’s War
Edited by Simon Pirani
Resistance Books
£15.00
This book comprises nine speeches in court by people who opposed Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, and were arrested, tried and handed long jail sentences for doing so. There are also letters...
The Exterminating Empire
Chris Kaspar de Ploeg
Monthly Review Press
£28.00
Taking the ongoing genocide in Palestine as a point of departure, The Exterminating Empire traces capital’s centuries-long war against life itself. From the slave plantations and scorched-earth...
Late-Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins​
Eds: Greg Albo & Stephen Maher​
The Merlin Press
£20.00
The current matrix of capital accumulation is shifting, but what is coming? New terms abound – plutocratic plunder, political capitalism, techno-feudalism, techno-futurism, etc. Some see a new...
The Age of Revisionism: International Relations in Times of War, Uncertainty, and Insecurity
Sergiy Korsunsky​
Ibidem
£20.00
Political revisionism is a world-wide and historical trend often defining the nature of international relations of a certain historical period. But today, it has become more important than ever...
Palestine and Feminist Liberation
Nada Elia
Between The Lines
£8.99
How can we explain that Israel, despite its genocidal attacks in Gaza and its violation of international law, remains immune to criticism?​Why do many feminists in the Global North, so quick to...
The Crisis of Social Reproduction
Silvia Federici, Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Louise Toupin, Translated by Käthe Roth
Between The Lines
£10.00
In a series of interviews with Louise Toupin, groundbreaking feminist thinkers Silvia Federici and Mariarosa Dalla Costa return to the movement they co-founded in 1972—the International Feminist...
Israel’s War on Gaza
Gilbert Achcar
Resistance Books
£6.00
Israel has seized the opportunity of Hamas's operation on 7 October 2023 to devastate Gaza, reducing it to rubble, massacring a huge number of its inhabitants and forcing the rest to...
Making sense of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Paul Le Blanc
Resistance Books
£6.00
The Russia’s war on Ukraine is devastating the country and reshaping politics around the world.​The invasion is a major factor in fragmenting left-wing forces. In this small book, Paul Le Blanc...
A New Global Geometry?
Greg Albo
The Merlin Press
£20.00
In October 2022, President Joe Biden launched the United States’ new National Security Strategy, which warned that the world was at an ‘inflection point’, in which the ‘post-Cold War era is...
Walter Sisulu
Tom Lodge
Jacana
£9.99
This book addresses Walter Sisulu’s political impact on the course of antiapartheid resistance. It focuses mainly on his political personality, but it also explores how his public career shaped his ...
Disability Politics and Theory
A J Withers
Fernwood
£20.95
Disability oppression is not simply about making people disabled by notaccommodating impairment; it is interlocked with capitalism,cisheteropatriarchy, colonialism and racism.​Disability Politics...
A Brief History of South Africa
John Pampallis and Maryke Bailey​
Jacana Media
£18.95
A Brief History of South Africa is an introduction to South African history from the earliest times to the Mandela Presidency. Using both a narrative chronology and thematic chapters,...
How to Read Marx's Capital
Michael Heinrich Translated by Alexander Locascio​
Monthly Review Press
£22.50
With the recent revival of Karl Marx's theory, the interest in reading Capital has also increased. But Capital is not an easily understood text. Central concepts such as...
Racism and the Class Struggle
James Boggs
Monthly Review Press
£15.99
“Boggs, a Detroit auto worker and Black man, established his credentials with left-leaning youth when​ his The American Revolution appeared in 1963. His new...
Decolonization and Afro-Feminism
Sylvia Tamale ​
Daraja Press
£25.95
Why do so many Africans believe they cannot break the “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back” cycle?  ​​Six decades after colonial flags were lowered and African countries gained...


Nature
The Search for the Rarest Bird in the World
Vernon R.L. Head​
Jacana
£14.99
Part detective trail, part love affair and pure story telling at its best. In 1990 an expedition of Cambridge scientists arrived at the Plains of Nechisar, tucked between the hills of the Great Rift...
Tracking Animals: A Guide to Trailing Wildlife
Lee Gutteridge & Dr Kersey Lawrence
Jacana
£20.00
Tracking Animals: A Guide to Trailing Wildlife, co-authored by Lee Gutteridge and Dr Kersey Lawrence, provides a fresh look at the processes and skills required to become competent in the art and...
Droppings, Dung & Scats of Southern African Wildlife
Lee Gutteridge​
Jacana
£12.50
One of the keys to understanding the life of the bush is through identifying the droppings of wild animals. Whether you call it scat, poop, spraint, tath or fewmets, the presence of a pile of this...
The Return of Nature
John Bellamy Foster
Monthly Review Press
£20.00
A review of the long history of efforts to unite issues of social justice and environmental sustainability that will help us comprehend and counter today’s unprecedented planetary...
Dialectics of Ecology, The
John Bellamy Foster
Monthly Review Press
£20.00
Today the fate of the earth as a home for humanity is in question—and yet, contends John Bellamy Foster, the reunification of humanity and the earth remains possible if we are prepared to make...