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Picador Africa was launched in 2004 in celebration of Africa’s literary excellence. We aim to raise awareness of the creativity and innovation of Africa’s people, and to showcase Africa’s literary prowess. The main areas of focus are non-fiction memoirs and commentaries, and award-winning, well-crafted fiction. Some of our bestselling backlist authors include Steve Biko (I Write What I Like); Njabulo Ndebele (Fools and Other Stories and The Steve Biko Memorial Lectures); Es’kia Mphahlele (Down 2nd Avenue); and Chris van Wyk (Eggs to Lay, Chickens to Hatch and Shirley, Goodness & Mercy). More recently, Picador Africa has published authors such as acclaimed Chilean-American writer Ariel Dorfman (Writing the Deep South and Heading South, Looking North), Alan Paton Award-shortlisted authors Jay Naidoo (Fighting for Justice) and Kevin Bloom (Ways of Staying); Caine Prize for African Writing-shortlisted author David Medalie (The Mistress’s Dog), Mandla Langa (The Lost Colours of the Chameleon, winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book in the Africa region) and best-selling author Moeletsi Mbeki (Advocates for Change and Architects of Poverty). The year ahead promises more exceptional books from Picador Africa, including: a provocative collection on controversial issues by best-selling author Frank Chikane (The Things That Could Not be Said); Tony Leon’s journey of retirement from active political life into public service as the South African Ambassador to Argentina (The Accidental Ambassador); the powerful autobiography of political activist and champion of women’s rights Amina Cachalia (When Hope and History Rhyme); a poignant account of the 491 days Winnie Mandela spent in Pretoria Central Prison in 1969–70 (491 Days); and an eco-adventure with a difference from best-selling author Patricia Glyn (What Dawid Knew). Jacob Dlamini and 4

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Megan Jones spark a provocative discourse about racial and social stereotyping in their collection of contributions (Categories of Persons); Duncan Brown, academic, literary critic, author and fisherman, explores questions about the complex community of humans, fauna and flora that make up South Africa (Are Trout South African?); and there are two more fresh, entertaining pocket books in The Youngsters series, featuring prominent young South Africans who explore topics of interest to the youth, including Sipho Hlongwane (Get Me Started) and Zama Ndlovu (A Bad Black’s Manifesto). New fiction to look out for in 2013 includes a provocative novel by Steven Boykey Sidley (Stepping Out); a taut psychological mystery by Jo-Anne Richards (The Imagined Child); a subtle and multi-layered collection of short stories from the award-winning pen of Achmat Dangor (Strange Pilgrimages); a compelling novel by Mtutuzeli Nyoka (A Hill of Fools); and paperback releases of Craig Higginson’s award-winning novels, with author’s notes added (The Landscape Painter and Last Summer).

By Himself and Conversations with Myself). In 2013, Pan Macmillan’s highlights include an incisive look at declining political governance in, and the future of, South Africa (The Fall of the ANC, What Next?); Editor-inChief at Eyewitness News and hard-working mother Katy Katopodis reveals what happens when hard news and parenting collide (‘I’m Missing News’); Sagie Moodley’s informative guide to all things cars has readers in stitches (Motoring’s Funny Bone); and Greg Mills celebrates southern Africans, past and present, who have made it to the very top of international motorsport (Agriculture, Furniture and Marmalade). New fiction includes a third nail-biting crime novel by Amanda Coetzee featuring the dark and enigmatic hero Badger (Flaming June); Angela Makholwa’s third novel, a gripping story peppered with coincidence and elaborate murders (Black Widow Society); and, following on from the success of the first instalment of the hilarious misadventures of the MacNaughton brothers who spend a year working at a game lodge in A Year in the Wild: A Riotous Novel, James Hendry sends readers back into the wild for more side-splitting mischief (Back to the Bush: Another Year in the Wild).

24 September; we have a quirky and very original cookbook, Lampedusa Pie from well-known food commentator Andrea Burgener; advice for new graduates from Shelagh Foster in Your First Year of Work; Colen Garrow explains in simple terms, for those of us without an economics degree, how the South African economy really works in Meganomics; a breath of fresh air in the form of Wild Weekends, an adventure travel guide by Claire Keeton and Marianne Schwankhart (columnists of the Sunday Times’s ‘Girls Gone Wild’); and then in the run-up to the 2014 elections we have a provocative look at the Democratic Alliance with A Comedy of Political Errors by Eusebius McKaiser, following on from his best-selling A Bantu in My Bathroom. All of Picador Africa, Pan Macmillan and Bookstorm’s new adult books are available as eBooks. Visit www.bookstorm.co.za or www.panmacmillan.co.za for details.

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PAN MACMILLAN Under the Macmillan imprint, Pan Macmillan publishes mass-market fiction, such as Amanda Coetzee’s chilling Redemption Song and Bad Blood, James Hendry’s riotously funny A Year in the Wild and Angela Makholwa’s The 30th Candle and Red Ink; mass-market non-fiction, such as Mandy Wiener’s South African best-seller Killing Kebble and Joanne Jowell’s Finding Sarah and On the Other Side of Shame; as well as cookery books, such as Marlene van der Westhuizen’s Abundance and Sumptuous (co-published with Bookstorm). Pan Macmillan publishes mass-market memoirs (Allister Sparks and Mpho Tutu’s spectacular Tutu: The Authorised Portrait and Nelson Mandela’s compelling Nelson Mandela

Bookstorm is a boutique book publishing company offering focused experience and innovation in the creation of books for the general reading public in South Africa, with a current emphasis on non-fiction titles for adult readers. Our backlist incorporates books previously published under the Rollerbird and Frontrunner imprints. In 2013, Bookstorm brings new titles from established favourites, while introducing some new writers we are sure will become favourites! We have best-selling Jan Braai’s second cookbook Red Hot following on from the success of Fireworks, in time, once again, for National Braai Day on

Launched in 2004, Giraffe Books is an imprint that features fun, relevant stories inspired by life in Africa, but celebrating universal themes, such as Niki Daly’s Next Stop Zanzibar Road; and Adrian Varkel’s Little Lucky Lolo and the Very Big Boy. Giraffe Books titles are published in many of South Africa’s official languages. Our children’s imprints include Priddy Books, innovative titles specially designed for babies, toddlers and young children; as well as Macmillan Children’s Books, which features the award-winning fictional account of freedom fighter Solomon Mahlangu’s life (Solomon’s Story by Judy Froman); and a beautiful picturebook edition (abridged by Chris van Wyk and illustrated by Paddy Bouma) of Nelson Mandela’s acclaimed autobiography (Long Walk to Freedom). ABOUT OUR IMPRINTS

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The Things that Could Not be Said From A(ids) to Z(imbabwe) ‘Frank Chikane delivers his perspective with honesty and passion. You might not agree with him, but this book is an interesting tour of the mind of the Presidency in the early years of our democracy.’ Mzukisi Qobo

‘Reverend Chikane writes as an observer of events usually hidden in the corridors of power, inviting the reader to sit alongside as a witness to our fraught and fascinating history.’ Laurence Piper

Frank Chikane Following on from the vigorous debate generated by the best-selling Eight Days in September: The Removal of Thabo Mbeki, Frank Chikane turns his attention to a range of issues that the Presidency was criticised for under President Thabo Mbeki. In The Things that Could Not be Said, Chikane, who was Director-General in the Presidency from 1999 to June 2009, uses his insider knowledge to expose what was going on behind the scenes with regard to various issues, including: local and international intelligence projects; the Zimbabwe facilitation process; the international governance system and diplomacy manoeuvrings; the ‘warning lights’ ignored by the African National Congress; the Vusi Pikoli and Jackie Selebi matters; the scourge of corruption; drugs, pharmaceutical companies and the poor; Thabo Mbeki and HIV/AIDS; as well as Chikane’s own experiences in the Presidency, in dealing with his poisoning and his efforts to correct the error in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s initial report. This is a front-row seat to South Africa’s recent history that makes for thought-provoking reading. Frank Chikane’s former appointments include Deputy President of the United Democratic Front, Member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress, Commissioner of the Independent Electoral Commission, Director-General in the Presidency and General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches. He was also involved in the development and promotion of the African Renaissance vision which gave birth to the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the African Peer Review Mechanism. Chikane is currently a pastor of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa (AFM) in Naledi, Soweto, the President of AFM International, and he consults with companies that do business on the African continent. He is the Visiting Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Public & Development Management (P&DM) at the University of the Witwatersrand and serves on a number of NGO and company boards, including City Power (Johannesburg), Kagiso Trust, SciBono Discovery Centre, Amarick Mining Resources (Pty) Ltd and Suntrace Africa (Pty) Ltd.

March 2013 Non-fiction (Current Affairs) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 368 pp 978-1-77010-225-5 Rights: World 6

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Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-226-2 Also available Eight Days in September: The Removal of Thabo Mbeki 978-1-77010-221-7 see p. 62 No Life of My Own: An Autobiography 978-1-77010-223-1 see p. 63 LEAD TITLES ● NON-FICTION

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The Accidental Ambassador From Parliament to Patagonia ‘As a fellow accidental ambassador, reading Tony Leon’s adventures in the land of the original Evita and the gauchos reminded me there are reasons to be grateful we live in South Africa after all.’ Evita Bezuidenhout

Tony Leon The Accidental Ambassador follows on from the successful Tony Leon autobiography, On the Contrary: Leading the Opposition in a Democratic South Africa (2008) to showcase Leon’s wit and sense of humour as he takes the reader on the journey of his retirement from active political life and into public service as the South African Ambassador to Argentina. From Leon’s ‘Job Interview’ with Jacob Zuma in Tuynhuis in 2008, to his immersion in governmental bureaucracy and a three-week crash course on ‘How to be an Ambassador’ to the strange stance and contradictions of South African foreign policy and life in Argentina, he shares with the reader his entertaining experiences of cultural immersion, comical anecdotes and political reflection. This book provides great insight into the behind-thescenes life of an ambassador.

Until recently, Tony Leon was the South African Ambassador to Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. Prior to this appointment he was the leader of the opposition in the parliament of South Africa and of the Democratic Alliance, in addition to being an attorney of the High Court of South Africa and a former lecturer in Law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He currently writes a weekly column in Business Day, delivers lectures and speeches to CEOs (via FutureWorld and other platforms) and is establishing a consultancy to promote business between Africa and South America.

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When Hope and History Rhyme An Autobiography ‘Of all [Amina’s] distinctions, achievements, the greatest is her identity, life-long, active in past and present, as freedom fighter, now needed as much, believe me, in the aftermath of freedom as in the struggle.’ Nadine Gordimer

Amina Cachalia The ninth of eleven children born to political activists Ebrahim and Fatima Asvat, Amina Cachalia’s political activism and championing of women’s rights was almost a preordained path with her father’s connection with Mahatma Gandhi, a family tradition that started with her father’s explanation of racial discrimination. When Hope and History Rhyme explores Amina’s remarkable life, from her early childhood to the women’s march on the Union Buildings in Pretoria on 9 August 1956, to her banning in 1962 for 15 years, and the trials and tribulations when her husband, Yusuf, was placed under house arrest for 25 years. The book includes details of Amina’s close relationship with Nelson Mandela, from their first meeting to their poignant encounters after his release from prison in 1990.

Amina Cachalia served in organisations and groups that focus on the upliftment of women, the nurturing and protection of children and the rehabilitation of the disadvantaged. She was a trustee of the Mandela Children’s Fund, Ububele (a psychotherapeutic rehabilitation centre in Alexandra, Johannesburg) and Operation Hunger. She served on the Finance Committee of the National Women’s League and raised funds for various projects. Amina’s activism continued undiminished into her eighties until shortly before her death on 31 January 2013.

March 2013 Non-fiction (Autobiography) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 448pp 978-1-77010-318-4 Rights: World 10


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491 Days Prisoner Number 1323/69 Winnie Madikizela-Mandela On a freezing winter’s night, a few hours before dawn on 12 May 1969, security police stormed the Soweto home of Winnie Mandela and detained her in the presence of her two young daughters, then aged nine and ten. Rounded up in a group of other anti-apartheid activists under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act, designed for the security police to hold and interrogate people for as long as they wanted, she was taken away. She had no idea where they were taking her or what would happen to her children. For Winnie Mandela this was the start of a 491-day period of detention and two trials. Forty-one years after Winnie’s release on 14 September 1970, Greta Soggot, the widow of David Soggot, one of Winnie Mandela’s advocates during the 1969–70 trials, handed her a stack of papers that included a journal and notes that she had written in detention. Their arrival brought back vivid and horrifying memories and uncovered a unique and personal slice of South Africa’s history. 491 Days: Prisoner Number 1323/69 shares with the world Winnie Mandela’s moving and compelling journal as well as some of the letters written between affected parties at the time, including Winnie and Nelson Mandela, who by then had been in prison for nearly seven years. Readers gain insight into the brutality she experienced, her depths of despair as well as her resilience and defiance under extreme pressure. This young wife and mother emerged after 491 days in detention unbowed and determined to continue the struggle for freedom.

Mrs Winnie Madikizela-Mandela still lives in Orlando West, Soweto. She continues her activism and political service, currently serving on the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress. On 26 September 2012 she celebrated her seventy-sixth birthday in the company of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

August 2013 Non-fiction (Autobiography) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 224 pp 978-1-77010-330-6 Rights: World 12


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What Dawid Knew A Journey with the Kruipers Patricia Glyn Dawid Kruiper was an old Bushman with a secret that had been kept in his family for over a century, and which he wanted to hand on to his sons before he died. But he didn’t have the means to take his children back to the place where his grandfather had witnessed the horror that silenced him. So Dawid asked Patricia Glyn to help him mount the great – and final – odyssey of his life. For two months in 2011, three generations of the Kruiper family, Patricia and her expedition crew, travelled through the Kalahari, visiting and documenting places where Dawid and his forebears had roamed when they were ‘wild’ and free in the decades before the outsiders arrived in their homeland. And their journey culminated in Dawid releasing his secret to the world. This is the story of how Patricia’s assumptions about and relationships with the Kruiper family were tested to the limit before they trusted her with their knowledge and stories. Patricia slowly gains an understanding of the depth of the Kruipers’ pain after centuries of genocide, prejudice and dispossession. The result is a candid but compassionate account of how this historical trauma manifests in the everyday lives of a contemporary Bushman family. Patricia describes what she learned from the family about humankind’s original relationship with wilderness and the natural world. She recounts the Kruipers’ extraordinary veld knowledge and intuition, their in-built GPS and prescience.

Patricia Glyn is an eco-adventurer, professional speaker, former TV and radio presenter, and the author of Footing with Sir Richard’s Ghost about her 2 000 kilometre walk in the footsteps of her Victorian ancestor, and Off Peak, an irreverent diary about the three months she spent on Mount Everest.

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This is an eco-adventure with a difference. What Dawid Knew explores the personal history and heritage of a remarkable family and what the Bushmen have to teach us about respect for, and responsible management of, our natural resources.

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Categories of Persons Rethinking Ourselves and Others

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Edited by Jacob Dlamini and Megan Jones As ongoing controversies demonstrate, race in particular continues to galvanise and polarise public opinion in South Africa. Categories of Persons is a provocative intervention that punctures the rhetoric of contemporary race and social norms and offers alternative ways of looking at how we present ourselves and look at one another in South Africa today. From taxi rides to cross-dressing, inter-race marriages to living with disability and off-beat topics in between, the personal and evocative contributions from Jacob Dlamini, Megan Jones, Kopano Ratele, Neels Blom, Verashni Pillay, Antony Kaminju, Karen Lazar, Riaan Oppelt, Sarah Nuttall and Antjie Krog are guaranteed to challenge assumptions about what it means to be ‘able-bodied’, ‘black’, ‘white’, ‘Indian’ or ‘coloured’ as they narrate encounters and experiences that transcend racial and social stereotyping.

Jacob Dlamini is one of South Africa’s leading young intellectuals. He recently obtained his Ph.D. from Yale and is currently based at the University of Barcelona. Megan Jones holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. She is a post-doctoral fellow in the English Department at the University of Stellenbosch and a Research Associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER).

August 2013 Non-fiction (Current Affairs) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 256 pp 978-1-77010-306-1 Rights: World 16



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Are Trout South African? Stories of Fish, People and Places ‘What a book! I long to flyfish after reading the beautifully rendered memories; I marvel at the profound value of metaphor in the arguments; and I’ve learnt a lot about trout.’ Antjie Krog

Duncan Brown Are trout as South African as braaivleis, biltong and Mrs Ball’s chutney? Duncan Brown, academic, literary critic, author and fisherman, explores questions about the complex community of humans, fauna and flora that make up South Africa. ‘South Africanness’ usually refers to human identity, or at least to something with a valued place in our national history. In asking whether a fish species that was introduced as part of the process of colonial occupation could be called ‘South African’, Are Trout South African? uses discussions on trout, their history, the literature about them, scientific work on what is considered ‘indigenous’ or ‘alien’, as well as the author’s moving personal stories of fishing to provide an engaging and accessible exploration of a contested physical and cultural terrain. Are Trout South African? will be of interest to anyone who is engaged with notions of how people belong or claim to belong, how people interact with landscapes, animals, plants or fish species, how our histories and family relationships may form around shared pursuits such as fishing and, of course, what pleasures, complexities and contradictions there are in the activity of fly fishing for trout in South Africa.

Duncan Brown caught his first fish at the age of four, and has fished ever since. He is happiest in or around water. He is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of English at the University of the Western Cape. Brown has published widely in the field of South African literary and cultural studies.

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The Youngsters

A Bad Black’s Manifesto Zama Ndlovu

A fresh, entertaining series of pocket books that feature prominent young South African voices worth listening to. The Youngsters series explores topics of interest to the youth, ranging from race to rhinos, from discovering who you are to what you should do with your life, as well as issues of women’s rights, making it in the entertainment industry, empowering yourself and more … the series shares the naked reality of being a youngster in South Africa and helps you to make sense of it all.

Zama Ndlovu is a social activist, regular columnist, the MD of Youth Lab and a management consultant. She is known more widely as the vanguard for the bad blacks and inventor of the hashtag and phrase ‘#BadBlacks’, said to describe the ‘angry blacks’ and ‘professional blacks’, coined by historian and journalist Jacob Dlamini and then widely spread by Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille.

The Youngsters is edited by best-selling author and award-winning journalist Mandy Wiener. June 2013 Non-fiction (Youth) Paperback (148 x 128 mm) 128 pp 978-1-77010-333-7 Rights: World

JoziGoddess talks policy-making, self and others’ empowerment, women’s rights as well as the importance of rhinos and education. Twitter: @JoziGoddess Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-337-5

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Get Me Started Sipho Hlongwane

see p. 68 In My Arrogant Opinion 978-1-77010-246-0 Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-251-4

Sipho Hlongwane is a self-taught and award-winning journalist who contributes to the Mail & Guardian’s Thought Leader site as well as Daily Maverick and other publications. Playing off the phrase ‘Don’t Get Me Started’, Sipho Hlongwane REALLY challenges youngsters to get themselves riled up over politics, our justice system and racial slurs, all in the name of a better South Africa. June 2013 Non-fiction (Youth) Paperback (148 x 128 mm) 128 pp 978-1-77010-334-4 Rights: World

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Twitter: @comradesipho Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-336-8

It Feels Wrong to Laugh, But … 978-1-77010-247-7 Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-252-1

South Africa: A Long Walk to a Free Ride 978-1-77010-249-1 Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-254-5

Becoming 978-1-77010-250-7 Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-255-2

Take It From Me 978-1-77010-248-4 Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-253-8


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The Fall of the ANC, What Next? Prince Mashele and Mzukisi Qobo Political governance in South Africa has collapsed. Scandals of corruption, evidence of nepotism, rampant maladministration in provinces, incompetence in public offices and a general decline in the quality of leadership are there for all to see. In the authors’ view, this state of affairs has its origins in the messiness and collapse of the African National Congress. As helplessness deepens in our society, concerned citizens ask: What will happen to South Africa? The Fall of the ANC, What Next? seeks to answer this question of the fate that awaits the country.

Prince Mashele is the Executive Director of the Centre for Politics and Research. He is a leading political commentator in South Africa and the author of The Death of our Society. Mzukisi Qobo teaches International Political Economy at the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria, and is affiliated to the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.

Prince Mashele

Mzukisi Qobo

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‘I’m Missing News’ When Hard News and Parenting Collide Katy Katopodis Any working mother can identify with the constant juggle of career and children, but when your business is bringing breaking news to the world, the pressures you find yourself under can be extreme. Katy Katopodis, head of Eyewitness News, shares the stories and pressures that see her delicately attempting to balance her dual roles as ‘Editor Katy’ and ‘Mommy Katerina’, often with distinctly entertaining and stressful results. She has also canvassed the views and perspectives of other women who work in the media spotlight, and has included their anecdotes and often moving commentary in the course of her own story.

Contributors: Alex Crawford; Aspasia Karas; Debbie Yazbek; Devi Sankaree Govender; Iman Rappetti; Jenny Crwys-Williams; Kate Turkington; Neo Ntsoma; Nikiwe Bikitsha; Peta Krost Maunder; Pippa Green; Robyn Curnow; Rosemary Church; Sophie Mokoena; Vanessa Raphaely Katy Katopodis has been working with Primedia since 1996 and with Talk Radio 702 since 1997. She is an accomplished radio journalist as well as a motivational speaker and media trainer. She has been the Editor-in-Chief of Eyewitness News since August 2001.

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Motoring’s Funny Bone A Hilarious Outlook on All Things Cars Sagie Moodley From how to change a tyre to avoiding the pitfalls of insurance, buying your first car, pimping your ride, dealing with belligerent taxi drivers, tackling the debate ‘All mechanics are the spawn of the devil’, knowing when you are being ripped off by a mechanic and your rights under the Consumer Protection Act, Sagie Moodley shows you how to talk the talk and walk the walk when it comes to cars. Find yourself learning more about spark plugs and tyre treads while clutching your gut in laughter.

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Sagie Moodley is a self-confessed petrol-head and motoring expert as well as a radio and television personality. He started his career at MercedesBenz, qualifying as a mechanic two years later, and now runs his own workshop, Sagie’s Auto Performance, a well-known destination for car lovers in Johannesburg.

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PAN MACMILLAN ‘Greg … [has] delivered an extraordinary book … It will stand out as both a marker and reference for future generations interested in the sport, one from which lessons of hardship, courage, derring-do, sportsman (and woman) ship, ingenuity and excellence should be drawn.’ Howden Ganley, March, BRM, and Maki F1 driver

‘A volume that will be part of my motorsport book collection.’ Arie Luyendyk, winner of the Indy 500 (1990 and 1997)

‘This book perfectly captures the spirit and the characters of the time.’ Sir Frank Williams CBE, Team Principal: Williams F1

Agriculture, Furniture and Marmalade Southern African Motorsport Heroes Greg Mills Jody Scheckter, to date South Africa’s only Formula One World Champion, received the following advice from Jackie Pretorius on his departure for fame and fortune to England in 1971: ‘Jackie pulled me to one side and told me that I had to learn some big words to impress the Europeans. He said he would give me three then and there – Agriculture, Furniture and Marmalade – preferably to be used in conjunction with one another.’ Many of the drivers and designers covered in this book pursued their careers in an era when deaths in motorsport were commonplace, a reflection on the tracks, the cars and on the cavalier attitude of drivers themselves. For them, it was an era of la dolce vita; for the public, braaivleis, sunny skies, Formula One and international sportscar racing. This book covers those southern Africans who made it as drivers, engineers, mechanics, and promoters in international motorsport, from Woolf Barnato’s three victories in the Le Mans 24-Hour Classic to the era of Sarel van der Merwe.

Greg Mills is director of the Johannesburg-based Brenthurst Foundation. A special adviser to a number of African and other governments, he is widely published on international affairs, development and security, a columnist for South Africa’s Sunday Times, and the author of the best-selling books Why Africa is Poor – And What Africans Can Do About It (2010) and, with Jeffrey Herbst, Africa’s Third Liberation (2012). The grandson of pre-war Grand Prix racer Billy Mills, and himself a driver on the African 2014 Le Mans 24-Hour initiative, he has published several titles on motorsport history.

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Red Hot ‘Jan is just the kind of guy you want at a braai – expert at everything from wood to wors.’ Jane Vorster, You magazine previous praise for fireworks

(2012) ‘Destined to be the local cookbook that every household will have on its kitchen shelves.’

Jan Braai In 2012 Jan Braai gave us Fireworks – an instruction manual on how to impress friends and family with great braaied meals. He started with the basics and you should know those by now … in which case you are ready to move on to something a little more challenging. In Jan’s second book he moves beyond the chops and the wors and shows you how to make a range of other delicious meals on a fire (made with real wood, of course). More mouth-watering photographs and clear instructions to turn anyone into a champion of the braai. Try the chicken mayo braaibroodjies, the seafood potjie or the chicken, camembert, fig and bacon burger for a real treat.

Andrea Burgener, The Times

‘Simple, lekker and fun.’ City Press iMagazine

September 2013 Non-fiction (Cookery) Hardback (250 x 200 mm) 200 pp 978-1-92043-450-2 Rights: World 30


Jan Braai is the nom de plume of Jan Scannell. Jan started the Braai Day campaign in 2007 and it has grown into a national phenomenon featured in the media throughout South Africa and even in countries abroad. Jan braais every day, often several times a day, and has braaied with people, ordinary South Africans and celebrities, in every corner of South Africa. Visit www.braai.com for more information.

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A Comedy of Political Errors The DA Story previous praise for eusebius mckaiser

‘McKaiser is no stranger to the masses … As a go-to analyst and radio talk show host, his name on bookshelves will not be unfamiliar. In his first book, A Bantu in My Bathroom, he confront[ed] South Africa’s most thorniest and current subjects with the language and posture of a debater.’ Xhanti Payi, Politicsweb.co.za

Eusebius McKaiser ‘This book unashamedly starts from the premise that it is critical for the health of our democracy to closely examine the fortunes of the official opposition. The overarching claim that I argue for in this book – the book’s central thesis, if you will – is that the Democratic Alliance (DA) is making many unnecessary political errors that stop it from doing better electorally than it is currently doing.’ Why can’t the DA win more votes from black South Africans? Will they remain a white party? What are they doing wrong? Eusebius McKaiser has earned a formidable reputation as a commentator and analyst who does not pull his punches. In this highly entertaining, somewhat provocative book, he unpacks the DA for us and shows us what they do wrong, and what they do right, with a view to determining how well they will perform in future elections. Written in the highly readable style McKaiser is known for, with lots of examples from his own experience, his friends’ experiences and the responses of callers to his radio show.

Eusebius McKaiser is a political and social analyst at the Wits Centre for Ethics. He is also a popular radio talk show host, a top international debate coach, a master of ceremonies and a public speaker of note. He loves nothing more than a good argument, having been both former National South African Debate Champion and the 2011 World Masters Debate Champion. His analytical articles and columns have been widely published in South African newspapers and the New York Times, and his first book, A Bantu in My Bathroom, was published to wide acclaim in 2012. McKaiser has studied law and philosophy. He taught philosophy in South Africa and England.

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A Bantu in My Bathroom ‘Within a minute I was absorbed in the rich, unusual style of writing; within no time I had finished the work to find myself happy, angry, sad, exhilarated, puzzled and, most of all, amused. Nobody writes like this.’ Jonathan Jansen

‘[McKaiser’s] book will be remembered as one of South Africa’s best 2012 reads.’ Percy Zvomuya, Mail & Guardian

‘… an experience at once intellectual and emotional.’ Joseph Roussos, Helen Suzman Foundation

Debating Race, Sexuality and Other Uncomfortable South African Topics Eusebius McKaiser Why are South Africans so uncomfortable with deep disagreement? Why do we lash out at people with opposing views without taking the time to engage logically with their arguments? Eusebius McKaiser is on a mission to raise the level of debate in South Africa. He provokes us from our comfort zones and lures us into the debates that shape our opinions and our society. With surprising candour and intensely personal examples, McKaiser examines our deepest-felt prejudices and ingrained assumptions. Don’t expect to read this book and escape with your defences intact. Immensely readable and completely engaging, McKaiser tackles deeply South African questions of race, sexuality and culture, including: • • • • • •

Can blacks be racist? Why is our society so violent? Is it morally okay to be prejudiced against skinny lovers? Why is the presidential penis so problematic? Is unconditional love ever a good thing? Is it necessary to search for a national identity?

Eusebius McKaiser is a political and social analyst at the Wits Centre for Ethics. He is also a popular radio talk show host, a top international debate coach, a master of ceremonies and a public speaker of note. He loves nothing more than a good argument, having been both former National South African Debate Champion and the 2011 World Masters Debate Champion. His analytical articles and columns have been widely published in South African newspapers and the New York Times. McKaiser has studied law and philosophy. He taught philosophy in South Africa and England.

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Lampedusa Pie ‘Andrea Burgener’s food is based on classics with funny quirks that work … everything smacks of whimsy from this experienced restaurateur.’ Eat Out

‘Andrea Burgener and food go together like hot toffee pudding and ice cream – her food is familiar, comforting, unpretentious, deceptively simple but always with a deliciously decadent (or quirky) twist … Her food philosophy: food you want to eat to make you feel good.’ Dion Chang, Alien Adventures

Andrea Burgener An obsession with food. A nostalgia for the taste of childhood. Living in the fractured and constantly shifting city of Johannesburg. These are the strands that Andrea Burgener weaves together to create an irresistibly quirky collection of recipes. Andrea describes herself as a magpie cook attracted to an eclectic combination of tastes that evoke her world: the reinvention of breakfast expectations with crème brûlée or a bread-and-butter pudding with leeks; the comfort of home in roast chicken with bread sauce; the playfulness of making butter with her children; the exuberance of a party with a bright crimson soup or the 70s nostalgia of strawberry friandise; and the exploration of flavours and ingredients just outside of many people’s comfort zone with an Ethiopian steak tartare, an Ivorian fish or the famous Lampedusa pie. Drawing on recipes from her restaurants Superbonbon, Deluxe I and II and The Leopard, as well as the inspiration of other local and international food experiences, Andrea will take you on a journey of discovery in your own kitchen. Enjoy! ‘Clearly, I am obsessed with food. And that, I suppose, is my chief food credential. I think about things I could cook just about every minute of my waking time.’

Andrea Burgener is a self-taught chef and food writer based in Johannesburg. Her first professional kitchen experience was in Braam Kruger’s Kitchenboy restaurant, and before that she studied Fine Arts at Wits University. She juggles her time between her family, running a busy Johannesburg restaurant, The Leopard, and writing food articles for a range of publications.

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Wild Weekends Places to Go, Things to Do ‘Wild these girls certainly are – Marianne is extremely hardcore and Claire will try anything. But the adventures featured in Wild Weekends are generally accessible to all. The most appealing thing about their exploits is that they clearly had so much fun in the process. I’m envious of their jobs!’ Fiona McIntosh, Nightjar Travel

Claire Keeton and Marianne Schwankhart Sunday Times adventure travel writer, Claire Keeton, and photographer Marianne Schwankhart have worked together to make sure you never have to spend another weekend at home wishing you were doing something more exciting. They have collected 30 great weekend destinations and given you the lowdown on the adventure activities you can do in each – visit Waterval Boven and try rock climbing, a mountain bike trail or learn to fly fish, take your children on a hike to explore the sandstone formations of the Cederberg, go horse riding in the Drakensberg or tackle an urban adventure and bungee jump from the Soweto cooling towers. Decide where you want to go and they’ll tell you what adventures are waiting for you, or decide what activity you want to do and they’ll tell you the best weekend destinations to head for. Wild Weekends covers destinations in all nine South African provinces, as well as Botswana, Lesotho, Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Activities covered include rock climbing, cycling, hiking, caving, horse riding, scuba and shark diving, snorkelling, sea kayaking, surfing, sailing, white-water rafting, croc diving, paragliding, skydiving, microlighting, sandboarding, desert 4x4ing, bush adventures, archery, motor racing, rollerblading, fishing, snowboarding, skiing and ice climbing.

Claire Keeton is a senior Travel and Adventure Lifestyle writer at the Sunday Times. Marianne Schwankhart is a professional climber and fulltime adventure photographer for the Sunday Times Travel Weekly. Together they travel the subcontinent in search of adventure activities as holiday destinations.

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Meganomics How Does the South African Economy Really Work? Colen Garrow What does South Africa’s credit rating indicate? And why does it matter if Moody’s downgrades us? What makes the interest rate go up? How do strikes impact the economy? Who controls South Africa’s economic performance? If you’ve ever wondered about these or other questions about the South African economy, Colen Garrow’s book will give you the answers. Clearly written to make sense to those of us without an economics degree, Meganomics is a must-read for business people and anyone interested in South Africa’s future. Garrow is an independent economist with a passion for simplifying this complex environment.

Colen Garrow is an award-winning economist; voted a number of times by Reuters as among the top five economists in South Africa. With a B.Com (Hons.) degree in economics, Colen started a career in banking with Barclays, trading foreign exchange, bond and derivate markets. Later, he became the economist for Dutch bank ABN AMRO, also becoming the chief economist for Brait, a listed private equity company. He started Meganomics, a platform he currently uses as an independent economist.

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Your First Year of Work A Survival Guide Shelagh Foster You’ve finished matric, you’ve finished at college or university and now you need to tackle the world of work. Maybe you’ve found your first job? The shock of the work environment can be daunting and sometimes it’s difficult to tell why your efforts aren’t always met with success. Have you been to several job interviews and never made it past the first round? Shelagh Foster has seen interviewees and new employees battling to get ahead, and this prompted her to write a survival guide to explain the unwritten codes that exist in the workplace, the codes you need to understand to be successful. Shelagh will show you the ropes – how to write a winning CV, how to impress in an interview, how your body language impacts on your colleagues’ impressions of your performance, how to win respect in written communication, how to interpret dress codes and much more. Essential reading for matriculants, new graduates, first-time employees and interns.

Shelagh Foster has more than twenty years’ experience in the media and communications industry; serving as editor, writer and writing training strategist across media platforms. She holds an Associateship in Speech and Drama (Teachers) with Trinity College London and was voted winner of the Voice of Africa short story competition in 2008. Shelagh is currently lead content editor for a global management consulting firm. In her spare time she cooks, writes and tries to grow vegetables. Shelagh is passionate about making poor communication better, and good communication exceptional.

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Stepping Out ‘Deliciously comedic and poignant.’

Steven Boykey Sidley

Jenny Crwys-Williams, Talk Radio 702

Harold Cummings has led a good life – honest, cautious, prudent. Now retired, financially secure and terminally bored, he asks himself – where are my rewards? When his wife Millie is called away for a few days, Harold slowly begins to unravel. Starting with small incidents of risky and uncharacteristic behaviour, he quickly spirals into a no-holds-barred encounter with the seamy underworld of the city he calls home. Harold careens shockingly and comically into a world without handrails, one that he finds terrifying but strangely compelling. As he is drawn into the ambit of a young hooker and her child, and into encounters with drug dealers and a violent pimp, Harold is forced to confront his demons head on. He must find the means to reverse his slide into self-destruction and rediscover grace in the choices he has made.

‘Words are assembled so sentences sing.’ Denis Beckett, author of Radical Middle

‘Stepping Out is smart, deft, funny, vigorous and intellectually provocative. A compelling tale populated with vivid characters and sharp dialogue.’ Rian Malan, author of My Traitor’s Heart

‘Moving, humane and often very funny, written in Boykey Sidley’s fluent and exemplary prose.’ Craig Higginson, author of The Landscape Painter

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By turns funny, sad, chilling and provocative, Stepping Out continues the dark and humorous intellectual explorations of Sidley’s acclaimed debut novel, Entanglement (2012).

Steven Boykey Sidley has meandered through careers as an animator, chief technology officer for a Fortune 500 company, jazz musician, software developer, video game designer, private equity investor and high technology entrepreneur. He is married and has two children. Stepping Out is his second novel.

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The Imagined Child ‘When you start reading The Imagined Child, don’t be surprised to look up and discover it’s gone 3 a.m. … This superbly written, searing study of secrets, motherhood and guilt – both personal and historical – will stay with you long after you’ve finished it.’ Sarah Lotz

‘Jo-Anne’s trenchant observation of human behaviour, always laced with humour, makes for an engrossing read.’

Jo-Anne Richards Odette leaves Johannesburg to make a new start in Nagelaten, a small Free State town. A writer for a popular TV soap, she appears to be searching for a less complicated life. But others think she’s escaping – to a place where she knows no one and won’t have to share her secrets. Life in Nagelaten isn’t as simple as it seems. The town also holds secrets. Why do people insist there’s no crime, all evidence to the contrary? Who is the strange outcast, whom she feels sorry for, yet doesn’t quite trust? And why will no one tell her his story? Odette is caught up in two deaths – a baby in the United Kingdom whom her troubled daughter, Mandy, is suspected of killing, and a brutal farm murder. Both cause her ordered life to unravel, while a new friendship forces her to question the silences of Nagelaten. Events edge her towards the most courageous act of her life: facing the truth in order to save herself and her daughter. In this taut psychological mystery, Jo-Anne Richards’s trademark lyrical style is combined with tight suspense that will keep you guessing until the last page.

Athol Fugard previous praise for my brother’s book (2008)

‘Richards has an acute sense of place, in its small town and big city guises, and a wonderful ear for South African idiom. My Brother’s Book is her most ambitious work to date. Moving subtly between past and present, it casts a searing light on the way we reveal and conceal our truths in stories.’

Jo-Anne Richards is a South African novelist and journalist, whose work has been published internationally. She teaches creative writing through Allaboutwriting and lectures at Wits University in Johannesburg. Her previous novels include the best-selling The Innocence of Roast Chicken (1996), Touching the Lighthouse (1997), Sad at the Edges (2003) and My Brother’s Book (2008).

Ivan Vladislavić

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Strange Pilgrimages Short Stories ‘Indispensable for anyone trying to plumb the emotional distress and depths of post-apartheid South Africa. Rarely has the loneliness that besieges men and women after a successful revolution been treated with more tender and brutal honesty.’ Ariel Dorfman previous praise for achmat dangor

‘Bitter Fruit has a shocking ability to surprise the reader with the persistence of racial feeling in South Africa.’ Gabriel Gbadamosi, The Guardian

Achmat Dangor From the award-winning pen of Achmat Dangor comes a subtle and multi-layered collection of short stories that showcases an unusual and illuminating take on ‘the struggle years’, and how the past impacts on us in a variety of ways. The reader is introduced to a range of characters and their journeys, both literal and metaphorical. The link between them is that each undertakes a ‘pilgrimage’ into the past and shows the impact this has on their lives. Central to much of this are the struggle years, which saw some sent into exile. Few are able to forget their ‘South Africanness’, for the pull of nostalgia is an ever-present force. Some question the value of what they did during those years, others see it in an ambivalent light, while others want to forget, want to move on, want to be relieved of the baggage of their past. For many of them, sex becomes the means of escape from the shackles of memory. This is not just another encomium to the struggle years; instead, what makes this book stand out is the author’s different perspective on that period of our history.

Achmat Dangor is an award-winning poet and novelist whose titles include Kafka’s Curse (1997) and the 2004 Booker Prize-shortlisted title Bitter Fruit. Until June 2013, Dangor was the Chief Executive of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. He lives and works in Johannesburg.

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A Hill of Fools ‘An insightful exploration of humankind’s fatal fascination with power ... This is Nyoka at his best, wielding a pen rather than his traditional scalpel, to cauterise a malignancy on the body of our continent.’ Mandla Langa

‘We have great need for many, many more individuals like Mtutuzeli Nyoka, all of them inspired by the courage we all need to advance what is just and serves the interests of the people.’ Thabo Mbeki

Mtutuzeli Nyoka Ruled by the dictatorial King Kutu – a man happy to grow his wealth, cultivate his lands and indulge his taste for women – the African country of Doma has been plunged into lawlessness and violence and is plagued by rampant corruption. When Anuba is brutally murdered, the king calls on Anday, a high-ranking member of the country’s police force who has long-standing ties with the royal family, to investigate the killing. Anday must set aside the betrayals and disappointments that have plagued his own life to solve the crime and, in the process, try to bring his beloved country back from the brink of disaster. A policeman turned leader, he finds himself instrumental in leading the people of Doma to rise up against their oppressor and flee to the neighbouring country of Giguyu where they hope for a better life. A Hill of Fools cleverly brings together a poetic and traditional storytelling style with the daunting challenges that contemporary Africa faces to create a compelling and memorable read that resonates with the complexity and beauty of Africa.

Mtutuzeli Nyoka served as the President of Cricket South Africa (CSA) from 2008 to 2011. He currently lives in Johannesburg where he practises as an Ear, Nose and Throat surgeon. His first novel, I Speak to the Silent, was published in 2004 to widespread critical acclaim.

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The Landscape Painter ‘Craig Higginson is one of the most exciting and talented younger writers in the country, bringing with him a remarkable blend of freeranging imagination and superlative narrative control. His sense of time and place is stunning and with his storytelling sleight of hand he is set to conquer the world of fiction.’ André Brink

‘The landscape of this novel … is captured in a synthesis that is surely life itself – our personal landscape of entangled relationships, work, the power of sexuality and the external power of circumstance.’ Nadine Gordimer

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Craig Higginson UPDATED EDITION WITH NEW CONTENT Winner of the University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing in English 2011 Shortlisted for the 2012 English M-Net Literary Award It’s winter in London, 1947. When Arthur Bailey, a solitary landscape painter, catches sight of a young woman, Felicity, who is moving into the neighbouring bed-sit, he’s stirred to recall, in haunting detail, events that have been kept hidden for fifty years. The Landscape Painter is a double tale of obsession, betrayed trust and irrepressible hope. As a young and brilliant artist, Arthur travelled to South Africa in the late 1890s to pursue his best friend’s sister, the beautiful and enigmatic Carwyn Hamilton. His subsequent revelations about Carwyn were to blight his life and torment him for decades afterwards. From the gold-crazed streets of early Johannesburg and the epic battlefields of the Anglo-Boer War, to the austerity of post-War Britain, The Landscape Painter is a spectacular historical novel filled with wit and insight, written in Higginson’s characteristically sinuous, lyrical prose. Craig Higginson is a writer, theatre director and university lecturer who lives in Johannesburg. His writing includes the novel Last Summer (Picador Africa) and the plays Dream of the Dog and The Girl in the Yellow Dress (Oberon Books, London).

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Last Summer ‘This is a tale of understated elegance and empathy, piercing in its honesty, and utterly beguiling from the very first sentence.’ John van de Ruit

‘What a read! ... Craig has beautifully captured the hustle and bustle of Stratford-upon-Avon, the home of Shakespeare, where residents and tourists strut about as actors on stage.’

Craig Higginson UPDATED EDITION WITH NEW CONTENT Shortlisted for the 2011 English M-Net Literary Award It is summer in Stratford-upon-Avon. Thomas is a young theatre director at the Royal Shakespeare Company who is desperately in love with Lucy, the leading actress in a production of The Tempest. Their experiences are woven into the life of a theatre presided over by Harry, an ageing South African exile who becomes caught up in a history he sought to escape. Hilarious and deeply affecting by turn, Thomas’s account is compelling in its lyricism, eccentricity and energetic attachment to life. Through him, we get to meet a colourful cast of characters and live through the gripping events of an ill-fated summer in Stratford.

John Kani

Craig Higginson is a writer, theatre director and university lecturer who lives in Johannesburg. His writing includes the award-winning novel The Landscape Painter (Picador Africa) and the plays Dream of the Dog and The Girl in the Yellow Dress (Oberon Books, London).

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PAN MACMILLAN

previous praise for amanda coetzee

‘Tough, vivid, brutal and compelling. I was gripped and intrigued from the very first page. Amanda Coetzee writes with verve and energy in a very original voice.’ Peter James, international bestselling crime thriller author

‘It’s a fantastic book, a proper heart stopper, and an enviable second novel. Amanda is as skilled with her pen as the other lords and ladies of crime – Meyer, Orford, Reichs and Patterson.’

Flaming June Amanda Coetzee Harry O’Connor, better known as Badger, is back working fulltime with the London Metropolitan Police Force. When a young woman is found drowned with a footprint bruise on her back, Badger is assigned to head up the team to catch the killer(s). The Woodmore twins run the mysterious Connect Healing and Wellness Retreat, a place that styles itself as a haven for the rehabilitation of troubled young women. As Badger uncovers that the murdered young woman was a resident at Connect, the Woodmore twins come under fire as their past is unearthed and as more bodies start to pile up. Badger is forced to send Sofia Puccini, a feisty young policewoman, undercover into Connect to investigate further, with the potential for disaster looming large as the case balances on a knife edge. When Emily Meadows is kidnapped, Badger has to draw on all his resources, from his Irish Traveller connections to Emily’s father, to try to save her before the killer strikes.

Sally Partridge, author of the awardwinning The Goblet Club

‘Bad Blood is best read in large chunks, or preferably, in one sitting: this gripping and enthralling tale will leave you gasping at its climax.’ Nicole Roughley, Fairlady magazine

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When she isn’t writing crime thrillers, Amanda Coetzee works as a deputy headmistress. She grew up in Bedford, England, and now lives in Rustenburg with her husband and son. Flaming June is the third fast-paced, nail-biting crime thriller featuring the dark and enigmatic hero Badger. It follows on from the success of Bad Blood (2011) and Redemption Song (2012), for which French rights were sold to Toucan Publishers.

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PAN MACMILLAN

previous praise for red ink

(2007)

‘This is a chilling novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat as you turn the pages. Set in the background of Jozi, the story is an easy read dashed with a little bit of gore and brutality that is dead frightening and enticing at the same time. Definitely not for the faint-hearted.’ Uncut

‘Red Ink has everything that makes a crime thriller smoke: strong sexy characters, jazzy settings … It has suspense, violence, murder … Makholwa has written a crime thriller that is going to keep the lights in Sandton’s suburbs burning way into the night. And elsewhere in the country too, for that matter. Red Ink is one of those novels you can’t put down.’

Black Widow Society Angela Makholwa In 1994 when South Africans were finally seeing the light of freedom and independence, three well-respected businesswomen – Talullah Ntuli, Edna Whithead and Nkosazana Dlamini – formed the Black Widow Society, a secret organisation aimed at liberating women trapped in emotionally and physically abusive relationships by assisting in ‘eliminating’ their errant husbands. For fifteen years the Black Widow Society operated undetected, impeccably run by The Triumvirate with the help of their suave and mysterious hired gun, Mzwakhe Khuzwayo, a slick ex-convict meticulous in his responsibilities. But as the secret organisation recruits more members, the wheels of this well-oiled machine threaten to fall off. Will Talullah’s controlling streak or Nkosazana’s unfettered material aspirations jeopardise the future of the Black Widow Society? Or perhaps one of the new recruits, unsettled by the reality of the elimination of her former husband, will lose her nerve and expose the workings of the group after all this time? As the tension mounts, Black Widow Society builds to a chilling and bloody climax that will keep you guessing and riveted until the very last page.

Angela Makholwa lives and works in Johannesburg. Her debut novel, Red Ink (2007), is a gripping psychological thriller. This was followed by the entertaining escapades and sexual misadventures of modern women in The 30th Candle (2009). Black Widow Society marks a return to a thrilling, crime-ridden world.

Mike Nicol, Sunday Independent

‘It is refreshing to find a modern South African novel that lures one into the gripping world of a serial killer. The ending does leave one feeling innerved.’ August 2013 Fiction (Novel) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 256 pp 978-1-77010-312-2 Rights: World 58


Phil Murray, The Cape Times

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Back to the Bush Another Year in the Wild

previous praise for james hendry

James Hendry

‘There’s family conflict, romance, funny anecdotes, poaching and all kinds of intrigue – in other words, something for everyone.’

Back to the Bush: Another Year in the Wild is the tale of another year at Sasekile Private Game Reserve for Angus MacNaughton, his brother Hugh and the melange of outlandish characters who staff and visit the lodge.

Kay-Ann van Rooyen, GO magazine

‘It’s both delicious and deliciously funny. It draws easy-to-imagine pictures of madness and mayhem; hilarity and horror. And it gives the most fascinating insights into what goes on behind the posh scenes of larney lodges.’ Tiffany Markman, Women24

‘I laughed, cried and basically didn’t want the book to end.’ Nici De Wet, You magazine

‘… a window into a world juxtaposed between the wilds of Africa and the pampered international guests they attract, who are cosseted by a service contingent catering to their every whim. Staff scandal, sibling rivalry, romantic liaisons and spoofs on South African and international stereotypes made for a rich entertaining read.’

Angus’s weekly journal recounts a positive beginning to the year for the MacNaughton brothers: fastidious Hugh is in love, running his own camp and on the verge of a promotion. Angus is involved in a romantic liaison, which takes the edge off his customary cynicism, and for the first time in their adult lives, a positive fraternal bond exists between them. Inevitably, reality comes calling. Angus’s love affair ends and he copes poorly, Hugh becomes stratospherically arrogant on the back of a promotion and Julia, the MacNaughtons’ sister, starts dating Angus’s nemesis – Alistair ‘The Legend’ Jones. Then there are a series of further ‘hiccups’, from demanding lodge guests and marauding monkeys, to a labour protest, a run-in with a blind-drunk head chef, a winter drought, a rogue elephant that puts staff and guests in danger and the resignation of the sterling head ranger. You are guaranteed to be entertained by the hilarious antics and hard knocks as well as the fierce beauty of the African landscape in Back to the Bush: Another Year in the Wild. James Hendry spent ten years working at exclusive lodges in southern Africa. He worked as a ranger, ranger trainer, head ranger, land manager, lodge manager, researcher and entertainer. James co-authored the nonfiction best-seller Whatever You Do, Don’t Run (2006) and his first novel A Year in the Wild was published by Pan Macmillan in 2011.

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‘I admire the courage with which Frank Chikane engages and reflects on the crucial period in our country’s history he is writing about.’ Nomboniso Gasa ‘Get it, before it sells out again, both for your and our country’s sake.’ Sue Grant-Marshall, Business Day ‘He works well within often frustrating boundaries of state secrets and personal ethics, with the result that reading the book gives you much greater detail, as well as a key to greater depth and breadth in his thinking and your own. This is particularly worthwhile as many still try to fully comprehend the fall out of Polokwane – and all of us await the outcome of Mangaung.’ Patricia McCracken, Farmer’s Weekly

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Eight Days in September

No Life of My Own

The Removal of Thabo Mbeki

An Autobiography

Frank Chikane

Frank Chikane

Eight Days in September is a riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the turbulent eight-day period in September 2008 that led to the removal of Thabo Mbeki as president of South Africa. As Secretary of the Cabinet and head (Director-General) of the Presidency at the time, Frank Chikane was directly responsible for managing the transition from Mbeki to Kgalema Motlanthe, and then on to Jacob Zuma, and was one of only a few who had a frontrow seat to the unfolding drama. Eight Days in September builds substantially on the so-called Chikane Files, a series of controversial articles Chikane published with Independent Newspapers in July 2010, to provide an insider’s perspective on this key period in South Africa’s recent history, and to explore Thabo Mbeki’s legacy.

No Life of My Own recounts the life of one of the leading figures in the Christian resistance to apartheid. Beginning with his childhood growing up black under an oppressive system, and continuing through to his call to the Christian ministry, Frank Chikane tells of his family’s increasing involvement in the struggle against apartheid, the disapproval and suspension he faced from his own church, and the harrowing detention, harassment, torture and exile he endured. Chikane relates his return to South Africa, despite the threat of further detention and death, to continue the fight for freedom. Through it all one thing remains clear: this is a man whose faith compels and sustains him in a courageous and selfless journey towards freedom. First published by Skotaville in South Africa in 1988, this compelling autobiography is revised and updated to include the key events and political and social landscapes that have shaped Chikane’s life since 1988.


‘Frank Chikane is a living example of what we mean by contextual theology … He has given his life, and is still giving it, for the people of South Africa.’ Albert H. Cone ‘No Life of my Own recounts the life of one of the leading figures in the Christian resistance to Apartheid. Frank Chikane retraces his life from boyhood to his call to the Christian Ministry ... This is a story about a man whose faith compels and sustains him in a selfless and courageous journey.’ Meneesha Govender, Daily News

Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-224-8 Also available The things That Could not be Said 978-1-77010-225-5 see p. 6

March 2012 ❘ Non-fiction (Current Affairs) ❘ Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) ❘ 292 pp

March 2012 ❘ Non-fiction (Autobiography) ❘ Paperback (198 x 130 mm) ❘ 312 pp

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Frank Chikane’s former appointments include Deputy President of the United Democratic Front, Member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress, Commissioner of the Independent Electoral Commission, DirectorGeneral in the Presidency and General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches. He was also involved in the development and promotion of the African Renaissance vision which gave birth to the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the African Peer Review Mechanism. Chikane is currently a pastor of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa (AFM) in Naledi, Soweto, the President of AFM International, and he consults with companies that do business on the African continent. He is the Visiting Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Public & Development Management (P&DM) at the University of the Witwatersrand and serves on a number of NGO and company boards, including City Power (Johannesburg), Kagiso Trust, SciBono Discovery Centre, Amarick Mining Resources (Pty) Ltd and Suntrace Africa (Pty) Ltd.


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I Write What I Like

Mukiwa

Steve Biko

Peter Godwin

PICADOR 40TH SPECIAL EDITION Picador has been publishing the finest books from across the globe since 1972. Amongst a number of publishing initiatives to celebrate Picador’s 40th anniversary (in 2012) are these Picador Africa classics reissued in a beautiful new style. Each book includes a sixteen-page section of additional material.

‘It is good that there is this new edition to enable us to savour the inspired words of Steve Biko – perhaps it could just spark a black renaissance.’ Archbishop Desmond Tutu ‘… the indomitable spirit, thoughts and actions of the legendary Steve Biko refuse to sink into oblivion … Biko’s I Write What I Like makes it clear why black consciousness played such an important role in South Africa’s liberation.’ Sowetan

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I Write What I Like features the writing of famous activist and black consciousness leader, Steve Biko. Before his untimely death in detention at the age of 30, he was instrumental in uniting black Africans in the struggle against the apartheid government in South Africa. This is a collection of his columns entitled I Write What I Like published in the journal of the South African Students’ Organisation under the pseudonym of ‘Frank Talk’. It also contains other journal articles, interviews and letters written by Biko at the time and a Preface by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Father Aelred Stubbs was a friend, priest and confidant of the young Biko. His moving Personal

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Memoir, contained within the book, is a tribute to the courage and power of this young leader, who was to become one of Africa’s heroes.

Picador has been publishing the finest books from across the globe since 1972. Amongst a number of publishing initiatives to celebrate Picador’s 40th anniversary (in 2012) are these Picador Africa classics reissued in a beautiful new style. Each book includes a sixteen-page section of additional material.

Includes a Preface by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an Introduction by Nkosinathi Biko and a Personal Memoir by Aelred Stubbs

Steve Biko was born in Tylden, Eastern Cape, South Africa in 1946. As a medical student, he founded a black student organisation in 1969 and created a national black consciousness movement. He was banned in 1973, which prohibited him from speaking in public, writing for publication and travel. Biko was arrested by police in August 1977 and died in detention, naked and manacled, from extensive brain damage. He left a widow and two young children

Regular edition available as an eBook 978-1-77010-186-9 Also available The Steve Biko Memorial Lectures: 2000–2008 978-1-77010-163-0 see p. 86

‘It makes you laugh even while you’re weeping.’ Fiammetta Rocco, The Literary Review ‘A searing and brilliant piece of writing, a lasting literary and personal achievement … If you are to read only one book about that place and time, make it Mukiwa, by Peter Godwin.’ Sunday Independent

Growing up in Rhodesia in the 1960s, Peter Godwin inhabited a frightening world of leopardhunting, witch doctors and forest fires. As an adolescent, a conscript caught in the middle of civil war, and as an adult who returned to Zimbabwe as a journalist to cover the bloody transition to majority rule, Godwin discovered a land stalked by death and danger.

Also available The Fear 978-0-33051-395-1 see p. 84 Rhodesians Never Die: The Impact of War and Political Change on White Rhodesia c.1970–1980 978-1-77010-070-1 see p. 92 When a Crocodile Eats the Sun 978-1-77010-086-2 see p. 84

‘Rarely short of mesmerizing, Mukiwa is extraordinary.’ San Francisco Review

March 2012 ❘ Non-fiction (Politics) ❘ Paperback (198 x 130 mm) ❘ 280 pp

March 2012 ❘ Non-fiction (Memoir) ❘ Paperback (198 x 130 mm) ❘ 434 pp

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Peter Godwin is the author of When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, published by Picador in 2006 and The Fear (2010). He writes for various publications, including the New York Times magazine, National Geographic and Vanity Fair. He lives in Manhattan.


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A Childhood Memoir

Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life

Chris van Wyk

A South African Autobiography

Shirley, Goodness & Mercy

Emma Mashinini PICADOR 40TH SPECIAL EDITION Picador has been publishing the finest books from across the globe since 1972. Amongst a number of publishing initiatives to celebrate Picador’s 40th anniversary (in 2012) are these Picador Africa classics reissued in a beautiful new style. Each book includes a sixteen-page section of additional material.

‘It will draw many tears but persuade several more spasms of laughter. It is a project of restoration; a holding up to the sunlight of the magical prism of who we all are and what we were.’ Mark Espin, Sowetan ‘It’s unusual to find a writer who’s funny both on paper and in person. Chris van Wyk is one of this rare species.’ Fred Khumalo, This Day ‘Author Chris van Wyk finds magic in the mundane and brings it to the page.’ Tiisetso Makube, City Pulse

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Shirley, Goodness & Mercy is a heartwarming, yet compellingly honest story about a young boy growing up in the coloured townships of Newclare, Coronationville and Riverlea during the apartheid era. Despite Van Wyk’s later becoming involved in the struggle, this is not a book about racial politics. Instead, it is a delightful account of one boy’s special relationship with the relatives, friends and neighbours who made up his community, and of the important coping role laughter and humour played during the years he spent in bleak and dusty townships. In Shirley, Goodness & Mercy Chris van Wyk – poet, novelist and short story writer – has created a truly remarkable work, at once both thoughtprovoking and vastly entertaining.

Chris van Wyk was born in 1957 and educated at Riverlea High School. He lives in Northcliff, Johannesburg, where he works as a full-time writer. In 2009 Van Wyk abridged Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, to create a picture book (illustrated by Paddy Bouma) for young children. His second childhood memoir, Eggs to Lay, Chickens to Hatch: A Memoir was published by Picador Africa in 2010. Regular edition available as an eBook 978-1-77010-095-4 Also available Eggs to Lay, Chickens to Hatch: A Memoir 978-1-77010-173-9 see p. 86

‘So is this book still relevant? Yes, very much so. It should be prescribed reading at school. They should forcefeed it to the brats in the African National Congress Youth League to show them the dignity of real suffering.’ Eugene Goddard, Business Day ‘This book is more relevant today than ever. It is yet another indication of the heavy price paid for freedom so that we and those who come after us live in a society free from oppression and hate … a society where the only limitation placed on us is our own imagination.’ Jay Naidoo

Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life describes in compelling detail the life of Emma Mashinini, one of South Africa’s leading trade union organisers and gender-rights activists. From her childhood in Sophiatown to the dark days she spent in detention under apartheid and her lasting contributions to labour organisation in South Africa, Emma’s selfless and courageous story – published for the first time in South Africa – recalls and preserves a vital chapter in our country’s history. Includes a new Foreword by Jay Naidoo


‘A deeply moving autobiography in which Mashinini’s courage blazes from every page.’ Destiny magazine

March 2012 ❘ Non-fiction (Memoir) ❘ Paperback (198 x 130 mm) ❘ 340 pp

May 2012 ❘ Non-fiction (Autobiography) ❘ Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) ❘ 212 pp

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Emma Mashinini’s activism began when she was elected as a shop steward and later appointed as a floor supervisor at Henochsberg’s clothing factory. In 1975, Emma took up a position as the first General Secretary of the Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union of South Africa (CCAWUSA), growing the union substantially in the following years. She was arrested in 1981 under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act and held in solitary confinement at Pretoria Central Prison for six months. After her release she spent some time regaining her strength at a clinic in Denmark before resuming her post at CCAWUSA for another four years. In 1985, through her role in CCAWUSA, Emma was involved in the formation of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). In 1986 she was appointed head of the Department of Justice and Reconciliation, later working as Deputy Chairperson of the National Manpower Commission and then as the Commissioner for Land Restitution. She lives in Pretoria.


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The Youngsters It Feels Wrong to Laugh, But …

A fresh, entertaining series of pocket books that feature prominent young South African voices worth listening to. The Youngsters series explores topics of interest to the youth, ranging from hair weaves to discovering who you are and what you should do with your life, as well as issues of race and gender, love and sex in the time of social networks, the music and radio industries, comedy, empowering yourself and more … The series shares the naked reality of being a youngster in South Africa and helps you to make sense of it all. The Youngsters is edited by best-selling author and award-winning journalist Mandy Wiener.

Anele Mdoda ‘I am not my gap, but I own it. I am not my size, but I own it and you can’t use what you see as a negative against me. I own me and proudly so.’ – Anele Mdoda Carving her own path in radio, Anele Mdoda has become one irreplaceable half of The Grant & Anele Show on 5FM. A talker, a comic, honest and raw, Anele discusses everything from radio to hair weaves and owning your size in It Feels Wrong to Laugh, But …

In My Arrogant Opinion Khaya Dlanga ‘This book isn’t about anything in particular. I know that sounds a little disturbing, but hear me out. I think that those people who read my work read it precisely because there is no particular pattern; they read it to find out what I have to say. Essentially I am like them. I am a conversationalist. I write like people talk. No fancy language; nor do I show how smart I am.’ – Khaya Dlanga

June 2012 ❘ Non-fiction (Youth) Paperback (148 x 128 mm) ❘ 128 pp 978-1-77010-247-7 ❘ Rights: World

‘There is a poetic justice to life because we are the sum of our experiences.’ – Shaka Sisulu Grandson of anti-apartheid stalwart Walter Sisulu, CEO of non-profit organisation Cheesekids, creator, dreamer, father and devoted Afrikan, Shaka Sisulu discusses heritage, BEE, inspiration, leadership, legacy and how you can carve your own destiny in the African soil in Becoming.

‘His business savvy and activism, combined with his political heritage, make him a great young voice to listen to as he discusses what heritage means (or should mean) to young South Africans.’ CLUB magazine


A Bad Black’s Manifesto 978-1-77010-333-7 see p. 21

‘Nobody can deny the hard work and ambition that brought Danny K his success. In his book, Take It From Me, the star explores the local music industry, fame in South Africa and his disastrous tour with Usher.’ – James Francis, Businessnews.howzit.msn.com Available as an eBook: 978-1-77010-253-8

South Africa: A Long Walk to a Free Ride Nik Rabinowitz & Gillian Breslin According to these two ageing youngsters, ‘The hardest thing about history in South Africa is getting people to agree on it.’ A fast-paced, hilarious guide to surviving your youth in South Africa. Expect a history lesson with a difference, what makes a comedian tick, some alternative political insights and thoughtful crystal-ball gazing. Join Nik Rabinowitz and Gillian Breslin on a side-splitting journey to discover the ‘real’ South Africa.

Available as an eBook: 978-1-77010-255-2

Get Me Started 978-1-77010-334-4 see p. 20


Take It From Me records the ups and downs of the career path of South African singer, songwriter, actor and producer, Danny K. A performer from a young age, Danny K talks about the good, the bad and the ugly of the music business, his influences and how rejection can sometimes pay off.

‘As a reader you’ll be enlightened on a couple of topics that relate to him based on his experiences.’ – Loocha magazine

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‘They say there’s no business like show business. And that’s not because of the fame, or the money. It’s because of just how hard it can be.’ – Danny K


Shaka Sisulu


Danny K

‘All his bitter pills seem sugar-coated: it helps them go down easier but that does not hide what’s at their core. This is why, as social commentary and a punchy look at the real “new” South Africa, In My Arrogant Opinion shines.’ – Puku.co.za

Becoming


‘She is that rare woman, sure of herself despite the harsh glare of the public eye.’ Khadija Patel, Daily Maverick

Take It From Me

Award-winning blogger and advertising guy who never eats black jelly babies Khaya Dlanga discusses issues of racism, love and sex, money, gender and a range of things in between. Khaya’s humour mixed with opinion is a recipe guaranteed to make you think and laugh out loud.


‘In this blunt and punchy pocket book, [Mdoda] has ample time to share stories from her childhood, career and her everyday life in ways that are often touching but mostly just really funny.’ – Puku.co.za

‘Mdoda’s natural instinct for connecting with her audience redeems her book, as does her largerthan-life and cheerful personality, which practically bounces off the page.’ Verashni Pillay, Mail & Guardian


‘It’s the perfect holiday read: short, sharp, sarcastic and tremendously funny.’ – Marie Claire Available as an eBook: 978-1-77010-254-5


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PAN MACMILLAN

The Hungry Season

Killing Kebble

Feeding Southern Africa’s Cities

An Underworld Exposed

Leonie Joubert

Mandy Wiener

With Photographs by Eric Miller


‘Against the backdrop of excess and food wastage, this meticulously researched book chronicles the plight of the urban malnourished.’ Don Makatile, The Citizen ‘A coffee table book on hunger and malnutrition comes with its contradictions. Yet, if the intention was to encourage us to read fascinating but sometimes unpalatable truths about who eats and who doesn’t, author Leonie Joubert and photographer Eric Miller have achieved their aim.’ Sue Grant-Marshall, Financial Mail ‘It’s an absorbing and convincing read and the superb photographs by Eric Miller make an integral and significant contribution to the book.’ Philip Todres, Gorrybowestaylor.co.za

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The food we eat is as diverse as the cultures and lifestyles of the people consuming it. But the issues underlying food run much deeper than the whims of our cultures or palates. Until now, the subject of food security has mostly been viewed as a rural issue, with research and development work honing in on subsistence farming. But with the massive influx into cities, the focus needs to shift to the metropolis. The Hungry Season takes science writer Leonie Joubert and photographer Eric Miller to eight different locations around southern Africa as they explore the complex issues around food security. Ultimately, The Hungry Season looks at the crisis of hunger and malnutrition surrounding us in the city, hidden behind layers of affluence and comfort. It tackles the fundamental question: Why is it that in southern Africa we produce enough calories and nutrients to keep the region full, satisfied and well nourished, and yet we still have such high levels of hunger and malnutrition? Leonie Joubert’s previous books include Scorched: South Africa’s Changing Climate, Boiling Point: People in a Changing

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Climate and Invaded: The Biological Invasion of South Africa. She was a Ruth First Fellow in 2007, was listed in the Mail & Guardian’s ‘200 Young South Africans You Must Take To Lunch in 2008’, named SAB Environmental Journalist of the Year (in the print/Internet category) in 2009, and has received two Honorary Sunday Times Alan Paton Non-fiction Awards (in 2007 and 2010). She recently contributed to Max du Preez’s Opinion Pieces by South African Thought Leaders. Photographer Eric Miller covered the anti-apartheid struggle in the 1980s, and since the 1990s has documented South Africa’s transformation. His coverage of Africa for various European publications has taken him from the horrors of the Rwandan genocide to famine in Sudan. His pictures have captured the stories of women’s boxing, the training of sangomas and evocative essays capturing highlights of several dance and opera productions. He has worked in over 26 African countries, plus many others further afield, producing an extensive archive of documentary stock and some travel images. His work has been published in most major magazines in South Africa and is regularly used in a range of major publications across Europe and the United States.

‘Mandy’s book is terrific, although the title disappoints as it turns out, she isn’t the person who killed Kebble. It’s a story that will make you uncomfortable about just how rotten the criminal underbelly of Johannesburg really is – but it is an absorbing investigative account of one of the most interesting murders in our recent criminal history.’ Gareth Cliff ‘After five years of following every thread and detail of the Kebble case Wiener not only had a complex story to which few other journalists had access, but also the perspective needed to turn it into a riveting bestseller that would be both insightful and accessible.’ Mail & Guardian

In September 2005 Brett Kebble, a prominent South African mining magnate, was killed on a quiet suburban street in Johannesburg in an apparent ‘assisted suicide’. The top-level investigation that followed was a tipping point for democratic South Africa. It exposed the corrupt relationship between South Africa’s Chief of Police, Interpol President Jackie Selebi and his friend, Glenn Agliotti, and revealed an underworld dominated by drug lords, steroidfuelled bouncers, hit men for hire, an international smuggling syndicate, a dubious security unit moonlighting for the police and sinister self-serving sleuths abusing state agencies. It even cost the country’s most senior prosecutor his job. Indemnified by an agreement struck with the state, Mikey Schultz, Nigel McGurk and Fiazal ‘Kappie’ Smith come clean to Mandy Wiener in exclusive interviews about the chilling events leading up to the night Kebble was shot dead and the life paths of the ‘bungling assassins’. Glenn Agliotti, the man once accused of orchestrating the hit, has also

provided Wiener with unlimited access to his story, as have other characters whose versions of the events are previously untold. Killing Kebble is not the story of one murder. It’s a gritty, fast-paced chronicle of how one death blew the lid off Johannesburg’s underworld. This new paperback edition includes: • A Postscript that brings readers up to date on events and the people involved in this story since the publication of Killing Kebble in April 2011; and • An extensive Author Interview that explores the author’s background, people’s reactions to the book and its impact on the author’s life. Mandy Wiener is an award-winning Eyewitness News journalist. She has been covering this story for more than five years and has unrivalled access to the main role players. Full revised eBook edition 978-1-77010-272-9

‘Yes, this truth is much stranger than fiction, but in Mandy Wiener’s hands, it is also more enthralling, entertaining and unputdownable. Simply brilliant.’ Deon Meyer

September 2012 ❘ Non-fiction (Food Security) ❘ Paperback (234 x 190 mm) ❘ 240 pp (full-colour throughout)

April 2012 ❘ Non-fiction (Current Affairs) ❘ Paperback (198 x 130 mm) ❘ 412 pp plus 2 x 8 pp photo sections

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Fireworks

Abundance City Food from the Cape

Marlene van der Westhuizen

Jan Braai

Photography by Johan Wilke

‘Beautiful pictures and unusual recipes that are fairly easy to make come together … the photographs and text are exquisite.’ City Press ‘Containing only a few recipes that would not be successful in my clumsy hands, it’s not just a cookery book, but a love story that takes the reader on a journey through a city that provides such a brilliant and varied landscape.’ Shante Hutton, Wine.co.za

Join celebrated Cape Town chef Marlene van der Westhuizen as she shares her love of city living with us in Abundance. From her home in Greenpoint, on the slopes of Table Mountain, Marlene celebrates the truly cosmopolitan tastes, ingredients and aromas that make up the tapestry of her culinary journey through life in her city. We have seen how Marlene lives in a quaint village in central France in Sumptuous, but here she spends time revelling in the diversity and community of life in the city of Cape Town. With entirely new recipes inspired by the way Marlene and her friends live in Cape Town, join Marlene as she shops marketstyle, cooks in kitchens of the city and celebrates the intimacy of shared meals. Johan’s evocative photographs capture the elegant patina of Marlene’s food and favourite places.

‘Marlene makes the romance of French cooking accessible to all South African cooks.’ Top Billing magazine

Marlene van der Westhuizen is the author of numerous cookery books including Delectable and Sumptuous that showcase her love of French and Cape food. She divides her time between Cape Town and Charroux, France, where she runs cookery courses. She is the winner of two Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Johan Wilke is an acclaimed food and fashion photographer based in Cape Town. Also available Decadent Dinners 978-1-92043-405-2 see p. 93 Delectable 978-1-92043-409-0 see p. 89 Delightful Desserts 978-1-92043-421-2 see p. 93 Kuierkos vir die Aand 978-1-92043-407-6 see p. 93 Kuierkos vir die Middag 978-1-92043-408-3 see p. 93 Lazy Lunches 978-1-92043-406-9 see p. 93 Sumptuous 978-1-92043-410-6 see p. 89

‘Destined to be the local cookbook that every household will have on its kitchen shelves.’ Andrea Burgener, The Times ‘Simple, lekker and fun.’ City Press iMagazine ‘Jan is just the kind of guy you want at a braai – expert at everything from wood to wors.’ Jane Vorster, You magazine

South Africa celebrates National Braai Day on 24 September every year. National Braai Day is a day for all the citizens of South Africa to unite around braai fires with family and friends. The driving force behind this initiative is a man known as Jan Braai. If anyone knows how to braai, it is Jan. He has braaied with thousands of South Africans, almost every day since the launch of National Braai Day in 2005. So he knows what people want to know about braaing. In Fireworks, his first book, Jan Braai shares his knowledge about braaing: about making fires with wood and about cooking great meals on the coals. So start with Jan’s clear rules for braaing the perfect steak and, once you have mastered that, move on to lamb chops, curried sosaties and the oxtail potjie. From there you can move to rack of lamb, lamb on the spit, the perfect

Also available in Afrikaans from NB Publishers (see www.nb.co.za)

braaied ribs and the braai staples of braaibroodjies, stywe pap, mealies on the braai and even a dessert or two. Hunting and fishing may not be the measure of a man any longer, but you do need to be able to make the perfect braai, without fuss or fanfare. It’s just one of those things that separates the men from the boys.

Jan Braai is the nom de plume of Jan Scannell. Jan started the Braai Day campaign in 2007 and it has grown into a national phenomenon featured in the media throughout South Africa and even in countries abroad. Jan braais every day, often several times a day, and has braaied with people, ordinary South Africans and celebrities, in every corner of South Africa. Visit www.braai.com for more information.

Also available Red Hot 978-1-92043-450-2 see p. 30 Also available in Afrikaans from NB Publishers (see www.nb.co.za)

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September 2012 ❘ Non-fiction (Cookery) ❘ Full-colour Paperback (210 x 298 mm)

September 2012 ❘ Non-fiction (Cookery) ❘ Hardback (250 x 200 mm) ❘ 200 pp

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Great South African Teachers

Letters to My Children

Jonathan Jansen

Tweets to Make You Think

With Nangamso Koza and Lihlumelo Toyana

Jonathan Jansen @jj_ufs

‘The overriding purpose of this book is to convey a message of hope: there are still powerful teacher models on which we can draw to rebuild a faltering school system.’ – Jonathan Jansen

‘In the gloom surrounding much of the teaching profession in South Africa today, this is a welcome collection … an admirable book.’ Rob Hofmeyr, The Citizen ‘Belongs in every staff room and school library, and in the hands of South Africa’s policy makers.’ Catriona Ross, Times Live

At a time when the newspapers are full of the woes of the South African education system and stories of teachers who fail the country’s children, Great South African Teachers tells another story. It is a celebration of heroic teachers who have struggled against great odds to give their students a chance of success, a collection of tributes from people whose lives were changed by these remarkable teachers. The stories, sent in by South Africans in response to a call in the Sunday Times, pay tribute to teachers who have changed lives through their passion for their subject, their dedication to the dignity of the teaching profession and, above all, their determination to see the children in their classes succeed. The contributions reflect the full range of South African schools – rich and poor schools, white and black schools under apartheid, urban and rural schools, schools past and present.

The contributors share their experiences: privileged children exposed to the realities of apartheid South Africa through their teachers, poor children motivated to work to break the bonds of poverty, angry children and shy children, bright children stretched to achieve their full potential and others taught the value of hard work in the pursuit of success. Jonathan Jansen, assisted by Nangamso Koza and Lihlumelo Toyana, introduces the stories with a thought-provoking commentary on the lessons to be learnt from the tributes. He identifies seven types of inspiring teacher, showing how each type works differently to bring out the best in the children in their charge.

Nangamso Koza and Lihlumelo Toyana are journalism students at the University of the Free State who went to school in the Eastern Cape. They say that working on this book with Professor Jansen has changed their lives.

Letters to my children #8: Speak more than one language; it will improve your love life. Letters to my children #18: Trust your gut; most times it’s right. Letters to my children #29: Be suspicious of crowds; learn to think for yourself. Letters to my children #52: South Africa does not need you; you need this country to teach you humility, compassion and public service.

‘Blame it on his fascinating eminence, his humility, uncommonly strong common sense or his challenging views, it is no surprise that many would like to see him getting a shot at solving a gigantic problem called “SA’s educational system”.’ Daily Maverick ‘Jansen is a towering figure with plenty to say, and the wit and the charisma to carry it off.’ Cape Argus


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It started as advice to his own two children entering adulthood, it spread to his students at the University of the Free State and now tens of thousands of Jonathan Jansen’s followers on Twitter and Facebook wait for his words of wisdom every day. Jansen writes a daily ‘Letter to my children’ – a nugget of advice (in only 140 characters) on life, love and becoming a compassionate, thinking human being. This collection of tweets in the Letters to My Children campaign allows his followers and friends to revisit their favourite letters, ponder the ones that they are not sure about and to share them with family and friends who don’t understand what Twitter, hashtags and Facebook are all about.

November 2011 ❘ Non-fiction (Current Affairs/Education) ❘ Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm)

March 2012 ❘ Non-fiction (Gift) ❘ Paperback (172 x 129 mm) ❘ 200 pp

304 pp ❘ 978-1-92043-424-3 ❘ Rights: World

978-1-92043-434-2 ❘ Rights: World


Professor Jonathan Jansen is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State. He is a respected educationalist, the author of a number of books and a prominent speaker on issues of transformation, reconciliation and educational change.

Available as an eBook 978-1-92043-435-9 Also available in Afrikaans from NB Publishers (see www.nb.co.za) Also available: Available as an eBook Oor Bokdrolletjies en Rosyntjies 978-1-92043-417-5 see p. 88 We Need to Talk 978-1-92043-416-8 see p. 87


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Mxit and Africa’s Mobile Revolution

What To Do When You Want To Give Up

Alan Knott-Craig

Help for Entrepreneurs in Tough Times

Mobinomics

Allon Raiz with Trevor Waller

With Gus Silber

‘Alan Knott-Craig junior believes Africans often underestimate themselves. The owner of one of the continent’s biggest social media applications, Mxit, took the top award in the FORBES AFRICA Top Tech Start-Up awards. Known for its accessibility and cheap IMs, it’s no wonder this company is the thirdmost downloaded free application on the Android marketplace.’ Forbes Africa ‘Highly readable.’ Rebecca Davis, Daily Maverick ‘A fascinating read, opening a window to a connected world that many of us do not know exists.’ Jennifer de Klerk, Artslink.co.za

Three revolutions changed the face of South Africa, the economic powerhouse of the African continent, in 1994. The first was democracy; the second was the Internet. But the real signal of change was the arrival of an electronic device that would put undreamed-of power into the hands of the people: the cellular phone. In a country where less than four per cent of the population had access to a landline phone, mobile telephony opened the gateway to new ways and new worlds of communication. Today, more than 90 per cent of South Africans own a mobile phone, and they’re not just using them to talk to each other. Mobiles have become tools of education, entrepreneurship, trade, empowerment, activism, media and upliftment. Mobiles have also become the hubs of the most powerful force in modern communication. The social network – bringing people together in an interchange of ideas, opinions, chatter and commerce that is changing the way we understand and define communities. This is the story of the biggest and fastest-growing social network in Africa. A network that took shape in the townships of the Western Cape and has grown to be part of the lives of more than 50 million

May 2012 ❘ Non-fiction (Business) ❘ Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 208 pp ❘ 978-1-92043-436-6 ❘ Rights: World 76


users in 120 countries, sending more than 23 billion messages a month. This is the story of Mxit: a community of millions, a cultural force with its own economy, its own infrastructure, its own language and its own traditions. This is the story of Mobinomics, a compelling and insightful journey into the new economy of mobile, and how it is connecting people and changing lives. Read it and learn. Read it and be moved by the power of mobile. ‘Much of Raiz’s advice will cut right to the bone.’ Stephen Timm, Business Day ‘Among the multitude of advisors, Allon Raiz rates as one of the best.’ Josine Overdevest, The Citizen Alan Knott-Craig is a South African mobile entrepreneur with a passion for African business opportunities. He is the former CEO of iBurst and World of Avatar, the company that recently acquired Mxit. His first book was the very successful and inspirational Don’t Panic (2008) compiled to remind South Africans ‘why not to pack for Perth’.

Being an entrepreneur is hard. What do you do when all the financial indicators are telling you your business is failing and you are a failure too? You know that you do have something special to offer and can ultimately succeed, but how do you overcome the odds of entrepreneurial failure? In his first book Lose the Business Plan, Allon Raiz looked at what it takes to start a new business. In this, his second book, Allon explains how to get past the temptation to give up on your own business. He uses a case study to show entrepreneurs how to face down the ultimate business survival questions: • Do I give up or do I go on? • Do I find a way to build my business or do I get a job? • Do I follow my head or risk following my heart? Allon Raiz has faced the same challenges himself and has coached countless business people through their own entrepreneurial journeys. A must-read for entrepreneurs and business people who are facing failure and want to give up.

Allon Raiz is a successful entrepreneur who has built numerous businesses, some successful and some not. He is the founder of Raizcorp which nurtures entrepreneurs and grows profitable businesses. Raiz has won awards for innovation and entrepreneurship and has been invited to speak on business incubation around the world. He was awarded the role of Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2008. Trevor Waller is a wordsmith, one of Allon’s partners in Raizcorp and has worked with Allon for a number of years.

Available as an eBook 978-1-92043-433-5 Also Available Lose the Business Plan: What They Don’t Teach You About Being an Entrepreneur 978-1-92043-403-8 see p. 88

Gus Silber is a journalist, author and digital media technology fetishist, with a special passion for social media and mobile. Available as an eBook 978-1-92043-440-3

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‘This is a story, told with passion, that the world – beaten out of shape by men who prey on the powerless – should hear.’ Mandla Langa ‘Sarah House will stay with you long after you have finished reading this testament to the resilience of the human spirit.’ The Sowetan

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Sarah House

Entanglement

Ifeanyi Ajaegbo

Steven Boykey Sidley

A compelling novel about a young woman’s life in a harrowing Nigerian world of human trafficking and prostitution. Sarah House will stay with you long after you finish reading this testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Nita wakes up in a dark world very different from the life of opportunities promised to her by Slim, the man she loved and trusted to take her away from the small town in Opobo in Nigeria. Soon she realises she is a slave, bought and sold without her consent and forced into a life of prostitution and sleazy strip clubs. Every day Nita walks a tightrope of survival surrounded by vicious pimps and thugs. She meets Tega, a fellow slave lured into prostitution by Slim; she is sold to Madam, who runs Sarah House and makes money from young women and children; she finds favour with Chief, an influential politician who provides protection for Madam’s illicit business; and she must survive Lothar, a renegade porn film maker.

Life in this nightmare world gets more complicated when Nita meets young Damka and is approached by a police detective working undercover. When Damka disappears and Nita discovers the child’s bloodied clothes in a room in Sarah House, she knows she has to work with the police in spite of the dangers to her own life.

Ifeanyi Ajaegbo is a development consultant and communications practitioner who lives and works in Port Harcourt in Nigeria. His writing has won awards and fellowships, including the 2005 African regional prize for the Commonwealth Short Story Competition. Sarah House is his first novel. Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-220-0

‘In a style reminiscent of Ian McEwan’s Solar, Sidley explores a number of ideas about rationality, ageing, masculinity, morality and violence.’ Tymon Smith, Sunday Times ‘A resonant look at issues of masculinity, science and the darkness of a mid-life crisis from a fresh new voice on the South African literature scene.’ Women and Home

Jared Borowitz, charismatic physicist, is fast losing his sense of humour. The world is full of ignorant and superstitious fools. His mentor, a giant of science and logic, is dying. His ex-wife has switched gender preference. He has even punched someone for the first time in his life. And enjoyed it. His girlfriend, morally certain and strong willed, is worried. On a restorative weekend in the country with opinionated and urbane friends, Jared’s arrogance sets in motion a chain of events that brings menace and violence into their lives over a long night. Confronted by both the best and worst in men, he finds his preconceptions about humanity shattered. Entanglement ranges broadly across the tensions between science and belief, free will and fate, art and artefact, violence and justice, sex and love, arrogance and timidity.

February 2012 ❘ Fiction (Novel) ❘ Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) ❘ 208 pp

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Darkly humorous, intellectually adventurous and continually surprising, the novel follows the transformation of a man of certainty and science when confronted with a world he does not know.

Steven Boykey Sidley has divided his adult life between the USA and South Africa. He has meandered through careers as an animator, chief technology officer for a Fortune 500 company, jazz musician, software developer, video game designer, private equity investor and high technology entrepreneur. He currently lives in Johannesburg with his wife and two children. Entanglement is his first novel, sparked by a whiskeyfuelled dinner party debate.

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‘Nadine Gordimer’s sweeping new novel, No Time Like the Present, takes our country by the scruff of its neck and gives it a thorough shaking.’ Country Life ‘The towering figure of South African literature.’ Justin Cartwright, The Spectator ‘Nadine Gordimer has earned a place among the few novelists who really matter.’ Observer

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No Time Like the Present

Redemption Song

Nadine Gordimer

Amanda Coetzee

Nadine Gordimer is one of our most telling contemporary writers. With each new work, she attacks – with a clear-eyed lack of sentimentality, and an understanding of the darkest depths of the human soul – the inextricable link between personal life and political, communal history. The exploration of this theme in each new work, not only in South Africa, but the twenty-first century world, is evidence of her literary genius: in the sharpness of her psychological insights, the stark beauty of her language, the complexity of her characters and the difficult choices with which they are faced. In No Time Like the Present, Gordimer brings the reader into the lives of Steven Reed and Jabulile Gumede, a ‘mixed’ couple, both of whom have been combatants in the struggle for freedom against apartheid. Once clandestine lovers under racist law forbidding sexual relations between white and black, they are now in the new South Africa. The place and time where freedom – the ‘better life for all’ that was fought for and promised – is being created but also challenged by political and racial tensions, while the hangover of moral ambiguities

She thought she would stop breathing. Looking back, she wished she had …

and the vast and growing gap between affluence and mass poverty, continue to haunt the present. No freedom from personal involvement in these or in the personal intimacy of love. The subject is contemporary, but Gordimer’s treatment is timeless. In No Time Like the Present, she shows herself once again a master novelist, at the height of her prodigious powers.

Nadine Gordimer’s many novels include The Conservationist, joint winner of the Booker Prize, Get A Life, Burger’s Daughter, July’s People, My Son’s Story and The Pickup. Her collections of short stories include The Soft Voice of the Serpent, Something Out There, Jump, Loot and, most recently, Beethoven Was OneSixteenth Black. She has also collected and edited Telling Tales, a story anthology published in fourteen languages, the royalties of which go to HIV/AIDS organisations. In 2010 her nonfiction writings were collected in Telling Times and a substantial selection of her stories was published in Life Times. Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. She lives in South Africa.

‘Tough, vivid, brutal and compelling. I was gripped and intrigued from the very first page. Amanda Coetzee writes with verve and energy in a very original voice.’ Peter James, international best-selling crime thriller author ‘Coetzee’s characters and story absorb you and don’t let you go even after you’ve turned the final page.’ Mark Scheepers, Fairlady

Dark, enigmatic hero Harry O’Connor, aka Badger, is on long leave from the London Metropolitan Police Force, living once more among the Traveller community he grew up with as he heals physically and mentally from the strains of his last case. When social worker Emily Meadows calls with news of a mother and daughter trapped in the clutches of a brutal Albanian warlord named Jak Kraja, Badger sets off on a mission to free them. When Badger tries to escape with his charges, things start to go horribly wrong. As Kraja’s net tightens, Badger turns to former police colleagues and the mysterious Albanian Traveller community for help. Badger must pit every ounce of his skills, wit and strength against a wily enemy and his henchmen as a thrilling race for survival unfolds.

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When she isn’t writing crime thrillers, Amanda Coetzee works as a deputy headmistress. She grew up in Bedford, England, and now lives in Rustenburg with her husband and son. Redemption Song is Amanda’s second novel after her acclaimed debut crime thriller Bad Blood.

Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-232-3 Also available Bad Blood 978-1-77010-101-2 see p. 90 Flaming June 978-1-77010-282-8 see p. 56


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‘A tumbledrier of startling insight into loneliness, sexuality, South Africanism, dog ownership and publishing secrets, wrapped in fine writing and knotted with gem phrases.’ Denis Beckett, author of Radical Middle ‘This is the kind of novel you bunk work to finish reading. It draws you in from the first magically written paragraph and keeps you hooked until the last word.’ Rosamund Kendal, author of The Angina Monologues ‘This is a must read for any South African who has felt exasperated at the prospect of finding love amid the political and personal conundrums that are symbolic of our teenage democracy.’ Tony Stewart, Cape Times

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Survival Training for Lonely Hearts

The Agony Chef

Elana Bregin

Kate Sidley

Kate is a burnt-out editor at the busy Centaur Press publishing house. Over forty and lonely, she is driven to searching for love on the Internet. There she encounters not a few daunting challenges – chief among them the realisation of impassable gulfs between the mindsets of the men who cross her inbox and her own personal non-negotiables. When a small Nguni dog enters her life Kate is forced to acknowledge some painful home truths, and in order to find the intimacy she longs for she first has to let go of her own destructive patterns. Part wry romance, part social commentary, Survival Training for Lonely Hearts tracks the personal and political complexities that characterise present-day South Africa, a wounded society caught between the collateral damage of the old and the emerging vibrancy of the new. Along the way, Kate loses her heart, finds her mojo and, as in all good quest journeys, discovers that the map is not the territory.

Recipes and Advice for Life’s Pickles and Predicaments Illustrated by Leigh Forrest

For the past eight years Elana Bregin has worked as a fulltime editor for publishers. Prior to that she was a freelance editor, copywriter, dancer, dance teacher and ‘general factotum’. She lives contentedly in the company of dogs in Assagay, Durban. Survival Training for Lonely Hearts is the latest among several published novels. Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-235-4

‘Unabashed chic lit that will appeal to all right-minded males as well.’ Aubrey Paton, The Times ‘Sassy advice and easy, tasty recipes with a generous dollop of humour and a drizzle of wickedness. We loved it.’ Jeremy & Jacqui Mansfield, authors of Zhoozsh! and Zhoozsh! Faking It

It has tried-and-tested recipes in it, but it isn’t a cookbook. It’s made up, but it isn’t a novel. Agony Chef, the mysterious Delilah, is a witty advice-giver, food-lover and a bit of a know-it-all who seems rather like the alter ego of author Kate Sidley, but isn’t her, actually. There’s no problem, big or small, that sardonic advice, a good pun and a well-chosen recipe won’t solve. Whether you’ve run over the neighbour’s cat or want to feel like Mother of the Year, whether your son’s exited the closet or you’ve just smoked your last cigarette, Agony Chef Delilah is the go-to girl for the vexing situations of modern life. Part-agony aunt, part-foodie, Delilah has been there, cooked that. Neither psychologist nor chef, she’s lived an eventful life on a few continents, making and fixing mistakes both in the kitchen and in everyday life. Join Delilah as she shares her wit and wisdom, her opinions and recipes and her touching belief that food and good humour can mend fences and hearts in The Agony Chef, a unique concept in

Kate Sidley writes a weekly column on books for Sunday Times and a monthly humour column for Shape magazine. Previously a magazine editor, she now writes features and columns for many magazines and newspapers. The Agony Chef is her first book. Kate loves to cook, but lays no claim to ‘chefiness’.


August 2012 ❘ Fiction (Novel) ❘ Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) ❘ 352 pp

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cookery books that puts hilarious, fictitious agony aunt columns alongside delicious, real recipes. • Learn how to control an errant husband with passiveaggressive cooking. • Discover the mysterious etiquette that applies to the newly facelifted. • Indulge in the marvellous magic of make-up ceps. • Make a pasta dish so delicious that your guests weep and beg for your hand in marriage. • Find answers to the trickiest modern day questions: What should I cook for my obese aunt? How do I welcome my fiancé’s gorgeous ex? When did a food aversion become an acceptable replacement for a personality? And many more …


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An Inconvenient Youth Julius Malema and the ‘New’ ANC Fiona Forde An Inconvenient Youth traces Julius Malema’s life, from his early, poverty-stricken years in Limpopo to his joining the student structures of the African National Congress (ANC) in the early 1990s, and his rapid rise through the party’s ranks to become the president of the ANC Youth League in 2008. Forde shows in unprecedented detail how Malema has perfected the practices that characterise a new ‘struggle’ in which individuals extend their personal wealth and political power at the expense of the people. August 2011 ❘ Non-fiction (Current Affairs) ❘ Paperback (198 x 130 mm) ❘ 264 pp 978-1-77010-197-5 ❘ Rights: Southern Africa

Architects of Poverty Why African Capitalism Needs Changing Moeletsi Mbeki In Architects of Poverty Moeletsi Mbeki analyses the plight of Africa and concludes that the fault lies not with the mass of its people but with its rulers – the political elites who contrive to keep their fellow citizens poor while enriching themselves. June 2009 ❘ Non-fiction (Current Affairs) ❘ Paperback (198 x 130 mm) ❘ 216 pp 978-1-77010-161-6 ❘ Rights: World English



The Fear The Last Days of Robert Mugabe Peter Godwin In mid-2008, after nearly three decades of increasingly tyrannical rule, Robert Mugabe, the eighty-four-year-old ruler of Zimbabwe, met his politburo. He had just lost an election. But instead of conceding power, he was persuaded to launch a brutal campaign of terror to cower his citizens. Journalist and author Peter Godwin was one of the few observers to slip into the country and bear witness to the terrifying period that Zimbabweans call, simply, The Fear. November 2010 ❘ Non-fiction (Memoir/Politics) ❘ Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) ❘ 256 pp 978-0-33051-395-1 ❘ Rights: Southern Africa

Also available Mukiwa 978-1-77010-239-2 see p. 65 Rhodesians Never Die: The Impact of War and Political Change on White Rhodesia c.1970–1980 978-1-77010-070-1 see p. 92

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun Peter Godwin This is the powerful, moving story of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country. Peter Godwin is living in Manhattan when he returns to Zimbabwe, his birthplace, having received the news that his father is dying. He finds the former breadbasket of a continent entering a vortex of violent chaos and famine. October 2006 ❘ Non-fiction (Memoir) ❘ Paperback (198 x 130 mm) ❘ 344 pp 978-1-77010-086-2 ❘ Rights: Southern Africa

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Es’kia Mphahlele Down 2nd Avenue is Nobel Prize-nominee Es’kia Mphahlele’s personal account of his struggle for identity and dignity in the face of the growing discriminatory policies of the South African government. It is a compelling mix of humour and pathos. May 2004 ❘ Non-fiction (Autobiography) ❘ Paperback (198 x 130 mm) with flaps ❘ 224 pp 978-1-77010-007-7 ❘ Rights: World

Fighting for Justice A Lifetime of Political and Social Activism Jay Naidoo Fighting for Justice is a gripping account of the life of Jay Naidoo, a tireless anti-apartheid campaigner and the first General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), South Africa’s largest union federation and a backbone of the internal mass struggles against apartheid. July 2010 ❘ Non-fiction (Autobiography) ❘ Paperback (240 x 170 mm) ❘ 408 pp plus 16 pp photo section 978-1-77010-177-7 ❘ Rights: World


Advocates for Change

Lifeblood

How to Overcome Africa’s Challenges Edited by Moeletsi Mbeki

How to Change the World, One Dead Mosquito at a Time Alex Perry

In Advocates for Change, Mbeki brings together experts from across the continent who believe there are solutions to the challenges that Africa faces. The diverse fields covered include Mauritius (L. Amédée Darga), class formation and inequality (David Everatt), entrepreneurship (Mike Herrington), education (Jonathan D. Jansen), mineral resources (Paul Jourdan), elections (Gilbert M. Khadiagala), re-industrialisation (Thandika Mkandawire), the economy (Seeraj Mohamed), regional integration (Sindiso Ndema Ngwenya), traditional agriculture (Mandivamba Rukuni) and health (Francois Venter and Helen Rees).

In Lifeblood, award-winning journalist Alex Perry follows two years of the campaign of Ray Chambers, a rich, well-connected but very private philanthropist, who undertook a mission to eradicate malaria in Africa. In tracking the groundbreaking success of the campaign, Perry takes readers across Africa, from a terrifying visit to the most malaria-stricken town on earth to a star-studded FIFA World Cup concert, encountering jungle scientists, fugitive guerrillas, presidents, religious leaders and icons of the global aid industry along the way. September 2011 ❘ Non-fiction (Current Affairs) ❘ Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) ❘ 240 pp

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Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-193-7 Also available Falling Off the Edge: Globalization, World Peace and Other Lies 978-0-33045-682-1

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The Steve Biko Memorial Lectures

A Memoir Chris van Wyk

2000–2008 The Steve Biko Foundation

Eggs to Lay, Chickens to Hatch is Chris van Wyk’s second childhood memoir about growing up in Riverlea and his colourful interactions with the men and women who lived the African proverb that ‘it takes a village to raise a child’. April 2010 ❘ Non-fiction (Memoir) ❘ Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) with flaps ❘ 304 pp 978-1-77010-173-9 ❘ Rights: World

PAN MACMILLAN

Eggs to Lay, Chickens to Hatch

The annual Steve Biko Memorial Lecture is given by Africa’s foremost scholars, artists and religious and political leaders. Each lecture is a resuscitative moment in which the enduring legacy and leadership of Steve Biko are explored in a contemporary context. This book includes lectures by Chinua Achebe, Nelson Mandela, Trevor Manuel, Thabo Mbeki, Zakes Mda, Njabulo Ndebele, Mamphela Ramphele, Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Desmond Tutu. September 2009 ❘ Non-fiction (History/Politics) ❘ Paperback (230 x 150 mm) ❘ 152 pp

Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-094-7 Also available in Afrikaans Daar's 'n Hoender Wat 'n Eier Nie Kan Lê 978-1-77010-107-4 Also available Shirley, Goodness & Mercy: A Childhood Memoir 978-1-77010-238-5 see p. 66

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Conversations with Myself

Key Financial Skills

PAN MACMILLAN

Nelson Mandela

For South African Managers and Entrepreneurs with No Financial Background Brian Brown

Conversations with Myself gives readers access to the private man behind the public figure with letters written in the darkest hours of Mandela’s imprisonment. Here he is, making notes and doodling during meetings, recording troubled dreams on the desk calendar of his Robben Island prison cell. We find him writing journals while on the run during the antiapartheid struggles in the early 1960s or talking to friends in almost 70 hours of recorded conversations.

Key Financial Skills is written in an easy-to-follow style to help the reader master what could be quite intimidating information relating to basic financial statements, key calculations and the basics of financial systems.

October 2010 ❘ Non-fiction (Memoir) ❘ Hardback (234 x 153 mm) ❘ 344 pp

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Menopause

Nelson Mandela By Himself

Everything You Need to Know Nicole Jaff

PAN MACMILLAN

The Authorised Book of Quotations Nelson Mandela This is the definitive book of quotations from one of the great leaders of our time, gathered from privileged, authorised access to Mandela’s vast personal archive of private papers, speeches, correspondence and audio recordings – featuring nearly 2 000 quotations spanning over 60 years, many previously unpublished.

Nicole Jaff understands the pressures and confusion experienced by women in or approaching menopause and acts as their guide and support. Drawing on extensive research, consultation with numerous medical specialists and her experience as a menopause counsellor, Nicole provides all the information women need to manage their health and well-being during menopause.

May 2011 ❘ Non-fiction (Inspirational Quotations) ❘ Hardback (185 x 110 mm) ❘ 300 pp

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Tutu PAN MACMILLAN

The Authorised Portrait Allister Sparks and Mpho A. Tutu Tutu: The Authorised Portrait is a celebration of eighty years of the life of Desmond Tutu, an icon whose humanity and compassion have touched millions of lives around the world. It features a biography by legendary South African journalist Allister Sparks, over forty interviews conducted by Tutu’s daughter, Reverend Mpho A. Tutu and an unprecedented collection of images and unpublished artefacts drawn from Tutu’s private files. October 2011 ❘ Non-fiction (Photo Biography) ❘ Hardback (295 x 225 mm) ❘ 356 pp 978-1-77010-140-1 ❘ Rights: Southern Africa

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The effects of this decision went beyond our expectations. Within days there was a groundswell of support from across South Africa and other countries lauding the path we had chosen. Across the racial divide, streams of correspondence and calls hailed the decision; people who had left the country promised to come back, given a sense that this was, after all, a place for their children too. Within the campus community, ground was suddenly opened up to advance deep transformation in ways that would have been much more difficult outside the politics of grace and accommodation. The data showed an immediate positive swing, with 40 per cent more students reporting positive race relations than in the period before the Reitz decision. Top black and white academics applied, and many were accepted, to join a university which they saw as opening up new possibilities for scholarship in public. At all levels of the organisation the team worked day and night to create a new institutional culture among students and staff. Academic (and not raceobsessive) contests took centre stage, and compulsory class attendance and increased admission requirements were implemented. A new core curriculum was introduced to provide an intellectual basis for the education of young people, in which they were challenged to take on the big questions of life from the vantage point of science, religion, astronomy and economics. Questions of race, identity and change featured prominently in this interdisciplinary core. Everybody reported a much more positive atmosphere and a consistently inclusive approach to transformation. Of course, this kind of transformation threatened loud voices in a divided society. It threatened the powerful, those in government, who saw reconciliation as the proprietary right of the ruling party. Not surprisingly, soon after the university’s decision, the media reported an attempt by the powerful to release the apartheid killer Eugene de Kock as a gesture of reconciliation. However, neither white nor black supported this move at all and the plan backfired. Next, a trip was scheduled to Orania and Verwoerd’s wife, another gesture of the accommodation of white separatists who had cordoned off a strip of barren land for white occupation in the Northern Cape. The presidency suddenly discovered poor whites again. This explains the fiery outbursts from

the powerful. I became the first vicechancellor of a university in the history of South Africa to be roundly condemned by the cabinet for an institutional decision, and the first to be attacked in public by both the Minister and his political Director-General (DG) in waves of personal attack, in the media and in private circles, as it came to my attention. Reconciliation of this kind also threatened some segments of the white Afrikaner community. One Chris Louw launched a scathing attack: “Come off your cross”, he screamed – the symbolism of care and forgiveness stretching across racial lines and against the logic of racial expectations was too much for the brilliant thinker to bear. Weeks later the troubled man ended his life. Among some Afrikaner intellectuals the critique was stiff, especially in the light of my book, Knowledge in Blood, which carries the theme of mutual destiny, mutual vulnerability and mutual recognition. What was disconcerting to such a group was the return of the anthropological gaze, a black man studying the once-powerful, thereby upsetting the accepted order of scholarly inquiry that had prevailed for hundreds of years. One leader of a conservative Afrikaner youth group admonished his followers not to take me seriously: “Jansen is coloured” – a term I always detested and assign no meaning to – “and knows nothing about us Afrikaners.” There were others who made sustained personal attacks and remained hell-bent on tainting the institution as racist for as long as possible – all other institutions, of course, were stainless, especially the English ones. One such source was the Sunday Independent, which relentlessly pursued dirt on the institution and its leadership, often running besmirching personal attacks that became more and more childish with time. The screaming headlines (labelling me a coconut) bore no relationship even to the manufactured content of their stories. The real test of the Reitz decision, of course, was whether it would make possible the grounds for genuine reconciliation between the workers and the former students. On 11 February 2011, the culmination of years of hard work by an incredible team from the university and the provincial leader of the Human Rights Commission bore fruit in the final reconciliation ceremony. (This while the rest of the HRC at the Johannesburg offices behaved more and more like the ruling party in legal drag.) The students prepared their hearts to ask for forgiveness; the workers were ready to accept the plea and to offer that grace which lifts both the one who asks

and the one who gives. Tears flowed freely and hearts were mended. By this time, of course, the Reitz event had taken on national and even international meanings for divided communities and campuses everywhere. Universities in other countries asked the University of the Free State (UFS) to facilitate reconciliation deliberations on their campuses. Churches and community groups in South Africa filled the diary requesting workshops and speeches that would open up their own settings to difficult dialogues about race and reconciliation, healing and hope. We had come through the storm; the rainbow shone brightly and the rain was gone. The question often asked about Reitz (I use the noun here to refer to the racist incident, as well as the entire swath of decisions and actions related to Reitz afterwards, including the acts of forgiveness) is how we knew that this was the correct decision. Surely, the risks were self-evident? I have made some mistakes in my life, but this is not one of them. As soon as the decision on institutional forgiveness hit the media, a call came through from the political DG: “I might disagree with your decision, but I know you would have thought about it carefully.” Her attitude changed quickly after that, as the political climate cancelled out reasonableness and tamed the quest for understanding. Indeed, the decision was carefully thought through and planned months in advance, and in conversation with all major stakeholders. A careful assessment of what I saw and heard, and a fine understanding of how the institution (as at the University of Pretoria) was shaping the lives and reinforcing the behaviours of young white Afrikaner men, enabled the decision. But it was the overwhelming sense – before the announcement – of what such an act of institutional forgiveness would do for campus and country that had firmed the resolve we would embrace. In the ruling party, all hell broke loose, but with an ominous silence (unnoticed at the time) from one group in the ascendancy after Polokwane – that landmark conference of the African National Congress that removed a sitting president from office – the ANC Youth League. There was therefore an instant adrenalin rush in the media when the League promptly announced that it planned to visit me at 10:00 on an appointed day. That day, I arrived at work earlier than usual and the cameras were out early in front of my office. There was an atmosphere of “High Noon on Red Square”, that curiously named patch of reddish brick pavement that stretches across the front of the

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We Need to Talk

We Need to Talk Jonathan Jansen This collection of Jonathan Jansen’s English columns published in The Times reflects his critical and, at times, inconvenient views on education, race and identity, the state of our nation, leadership and even sport. Jansen takes his inspiration from a diverse group of people – statesmen, teachers, students, children and everyday South Africans he meets – and introduces us to them through his columns. May 2011 ❘ Non-fiction (Current Affairs) ❘ Paperback (198 x 130 mm) ❘ 280 pp 978-1-92043-416-8 ❘ Rights: World

Available as an eBook 978-1-92043-425-0 Also available in Afrikaans Oor Bokdrolletjies en Rosyntjies 978-1-92043-417-5 see p. 88 Also available Great South African Teachers 978-1-92043-424-3 see p. 74 Letters to my Children 978-1-92043-434-2 see p. 75 BEST-SELLING BACKLIST ● NON-FICTION

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Lose the Business Plan Oor Bokdrolletjies en Rosyntjies Jonathan Jansen May 2011 ❘ Non-fiction (Current Affairs) ❘ Paperback (198 x 130 mm) ❘ 160 pp 978-1-92043-417-5 ❘ Rights: World

Available as an eBook 978-1-92043-428-1 Also available We Need to Talk 978-1-92043-416-8 see p. 87

What They Don’t Teach You About Being an Entrepreneur Allon Raiz Some 96% of small businesses fail within ten years – so what does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? How can you beat the statistics and create and grow a successful business? Allon Raiz challenges readers to find their entrepreneurial passion and to have the courage to stay focused and determined to find the path to business success. Raiz has made a business out of growing entrepreneurs and he knows that success is not about the business plan, it is about the drive of the entrepreneur. September 2010 ❘ Non-fiction (Business) ❘ Paperback (198 x 130 mm) ❘ 160 pp 978-1-92043-403-8 ❘ Rights: World

The Ultimate South African Business Companion Forms, Templates and Checklists for Everyday Use Lesley-Caren Johnson

Available as an eBook 978-1-92043-431-3 Also available What To Do When You Want To Give Up 978-1-92043-432-8 see p. 77

150 Years of South African Rugby Wim van der Berg

June 2010 ❘ Non-fiction (Business) ❘ Paperback (298 x 210 mm) and CD ❘ 352 pp

Sports writer and author Wim van der Berg chronicles the development of South African rugby from its earliest beginnings to its status as a national obsession. Supported by inspiring photographs, 150 Years of South African Rugby follows the players and the teams through South Africa’s history to show how far the game has come and how the spirit of the Springbok has endured.

978-1-92043-400-7 ❘ Rights: World

August 2011 ❘ Non-fiction (Sport) ❘ Hardback (246 x 198 mm) ❘ 246 pp

Running a business is really very easy – if you have the right tools. The Ultimate South African Business Companion and its accompanying CD provide all the tools business owners need to run and grow their businesses efficiently.

978-1-92043-414-4 ❘ Rights: World

Also available in Afrikaans from NB Publishers (see www.nb.co.za)

Andrew Levy’s Labour Law in Practice A Guide for South African Employers Andrew Levy, Jackie Kelly and Daniel Levy

Delectable Food from Rural France to Urban Cape Marlene van der Westhuizen

Every business needs to be aware of the complexities of South African labour law, whether it employs one person or a thousand people. In this accessible guide, South Africa’s foremost expert on the subject helps employers through the employment minefield, including chapters on employment contracts, including definitions of who is an employee; labour disputes, both individual and collective; and the ins and outs of disciplinary hearings.

This very popular, trend-setting cookbook has sold over 13 000 copies. Delectable offers magnificent recipes beautifully photographed and inspired from rural France and the urban Cape. The great appeal is that these recipes are simple yet delicious, and can be cooked in anyone’s kitchen. Marlene has set the standard for South African French cookbooks and is the winner of two Gourmand World Cookbook Awards and Jenny Crwys-Williams’s Book of the Year in 2011.

September 2010 ❘ Non-fiction (Business) ❘ Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) ❘ 176 pp

2nd edition August 2011 ❘ Non-fiction (Cookery) ❘ Full-colour Paperback (298 x 210 mm) ❘ 208 pp

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978-1-92043-409-0 ❘ Rights: World

Sumptuous Starting Your Own Business Edited by Eric Parker All you need to know about: the basics of starting a business from scratch; the ins and outs of buying a franchise; and how to go about buying an existing small business.


Sumptuous continues the author’s exuberant annotation of French and Cape recipes. Beautifully photographed and evocative of a lifestyle most of us can only dream of. 2nd edition August 2011 ❘ Non-fiction (Cookery) ❘ Full-colour Paperback (298 x 210 mm) ❘ 208 pp

March 2011 ❘ Non-fiction (Business) ❘ Paperback (198 x 130 mm) ❘ 192 pp

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Also available Abundance: City Food from the Cape 978-1-92043-444-1 see p. 72 Decadent Dinners 978-1-92043-405-2 see p. 93 Delightful Desserts 978-1-92043-421-2 see p. 93 Kuierkos vir die Aand 978-1-92043-407-6 see p. 93 Kuierkos vir die Middag 978-1-92043-408-3 see p. 93 Lazy Lunches 978-1-92043-406-9 see p. 93

Also available in Afrikaans Begin Jou Eie Besigheid 978-1-92043-418-2

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Food From the Heart of France to the Cape Marlene van der Westhuizen


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Fools and Other Stories Njabulo Ndebele The stories in this best-selling South African classic deal with the formative experiences of growing up in a Johannesburg township during the apartheid years, including the title story, ‘Fools’. September 2006 ❘ Fiction (Short Stories) ❘ Paperback (198 x 130 mm) ❘ 240 pp 978-1-77010-030-5 ❘ Rights: Southern Africa ex Zimbabwe, World electronic rights

Available as an eBook (Web PDF) 978-1-77010-276-7

Bad Blood Amanda Coetzee PAN MACMILLAN

Harry is abandoned by his mother at the age of eight and raised by a clan of Irish Travellers. Years later, he severs ties with his clan and joins the London Metropolitan Police Force as an undercover operative. Just as Harry thinks he’s left his roots behind, he is sent to establish a connection with a Traveller clan in Bedford. Together with Emily, a Social Services Liaison Officer, he will uncover a string of gruesome child murders and abductions dating back to 1985 that will force him to confront the truth about his own childhood. February 2011 ❘ Fiction (Novel) ❘ Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) ❘ 208 pp 978-1-77010-101-2 ❘ Rights: World English

Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-137-1 Also available Flaming June 978-1-77010-282-8 see p. 56 Redemption Song 978-1-77010-231-6 see p. 81

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A Year in the Wild

October 2009 Non-fiction (Cookery/Memoir) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 216 pp plus 8 pp photo section 978-1-77010-167-8 Rights: World Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-180-7

Heading South, Looking North A Bilingual Journey Ariel Dorfman October 2011 Non-fiction (Autobiography) Paperback (198 x 130 mm) 308 pp 978-1-77010-154-8 Rights: Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-213-2

Writing the Deep South The Mandela Lecture and Other Mirrors for South Africa Ariel Dorfman October 2011 Non-fiction (Social Commentary) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 200 pp 978-1-77010-151-7 Rights: Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-152-4

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight Alexandra Fuller March 2008 Non-fiction (Memoir) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 336 pp 978-0-33049-019-1 Rights: Southern Africa

A Year in the Wild tells the uproarious, cringe-worthy and hilarious tales of Angus and Hugh MacNaughton, brothers who are sent into the wild to work together at a private game lodge in a bid to help them overcome their dislike of each other and form a brotherly bond. Their stories take the form of weekly emails to their sister Julia back home and include encounters with guests, animals, female staff and often a mixture of these.

South African Odyssey The Autobiography of Bertha Goudvis Bertha Goudvis Edited by Marcia Leveson

The 30th Candle Angela Makholwa

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Emperor can Wait Memories and Recipes from Taiwan Emma Chen

Scribbling the Cat Alexandra Fuller

Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-155-5 Also available Back to the Bush: Another Year in the Wild 978-1-77010-338-2 see p. 60

February 2008 Non-fiction (Memoir) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 258 pp 978-1-77010-074-9 Rights: Southern Africa

February 2011 Non-fiction (Autobiography) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 232 pp plus 8 pp photo section 978-1-77010-102-9 Rights: World Available as an eBook (Web PDF) 978-1-77010-150-0

Dreams, Miracles and Jazz New Adventures in African Writing Edited by Helon Habila and Kadijia Sesay October 2007 Non-fiction (History/Politics) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 382 pp 978-1-77010-025-1 Rights: World English

Paper Sons and Daughters Growing up Chinese in South Africa Ufrieda Ho April 2011 Non-fiction (Memoir) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 224 pp plus 8 pp photo section 978-1-77010-168-5 Rights: Southern Africa Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-149-4

Foot Soldier for Freedom A Life in South Africa’s Liberation Movement Rica Hodgson July 2010 Non-fiction (Autobiography) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 288 pp plus 16 pp photo section 978-1-77010-189-0 Rights: World Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-208-8

In The 30th Candle Angela Makholwa turns her humour and skill for page-turning suspense to the escapades and sexual misadventures of modern women as they search for happiness – and hope for love.

Call me Woman Ellen Kuzwayo

April 2009 ❘ Fiction (Novel) ❘ Paperback (198 x 130 mm) ❘ 226 pp 978-1-77010-158-6 ❘ Rights: World

Hot Type Icons, Artists and God-figurines Bongani Madondo

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October 2010 Non-fiction (Memoir) Paperback (198 x 130 mm) 256 pp 978-1-77010-123-4 Rights: Southern Africa Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-185-2

A Riotous Novel James Hendry

September 2011 ❘ Fiction (Novel) ❘ Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) ❘ 344 pp 978-1-77010-130-2 ❘ Rights: World

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Ways of Staying Kevin Bloom

February 2004 Non-fiction (Memoir) Paperback (198 x 130 mm) 382 pp 978-0-95847-082-7 Rights: World

March 2007 Non-fiction (Social Commentary) Paperback (198 x 130 mm) 320 pp 978-1-77010-063-3 Rights: World

Native Life in South Africa Sol Plaatje October 2007 Non-fiction (History/Politics) Paperback (198 x 130 mm) 382 pp 978-1-77010-072-5 Rights: World

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Into the Past A Memoir Phillip Tobias

From Dust to Diamonds Stories of South African Entrepreneurs Beulah Thumbadoo and Gretchen L. Wilson

October 2005 Non-fiction (Memoir) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 280 pp 978-1-77010-015-2 Rights: World

July 2007 Non-fiction (Social Entrepreneurship) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 256 pp 978-1-77010-069-5 Rights: World

Inside Joburg 101 Things to See and Do Nechama Brodie May 2010 Non-fiction (Travel) Paperback (210 x 130 mm) with flaps 132 pp 978-1-77010-178-4 Rights: World Available as an eBook (Web PDF) 978-1-77010-112-8

The Joburg Book A Guide to the City’s History, People and Places Nechama Brodie October 2008 Non-fiction (Travel) Paperback (260 x 215 mm) 320 pp 978-1-77010-079-4 Rights: World

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The Effective Investor The Definitive Guide for All South Africans Franco Busetti

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Broad-based BEE The Complete Guide Vuyo Jack with Kyle Harris

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Rhodesians Never Die The Impact of War and Political Change on White Rhodesia c.1970–1980 Peter Godwin and Ian Hancock

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October 2007 Non-fiction (Biography) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 496 pp 978-1-77010-236-1 Rights: World

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Man of the People A Photographic Tribute to Nelson Mandela Peter Magubane July 2008 Non-fiction (Photo Biography) Hardback (305 x 270 mm) 204 pp 978-1-77010-065-7 Rights: World

Summer of the Bees A Journey through Childhood Cancer Andy Sutherland August 2008 Non-fiction (Memoir) Paperback (198 x 130 mm) 278 pp 978-1-77010-081-7 Rights: World Available as an eBook (Web PDF) 978-1-77010-122-7 92


September 2010 Non-fiction (Cookery) Full-colour Paperback (173 x 153 mm) 160 pp 978-1-92043-405-2 Rights: World Also available in Afrikaans Kuierkos vir die Aand 978-1-92043-407-6

October 2011 Non-fiction (Cookery) Full-colour Paperback (173 x 153 mm) 160 pp 978-1-92043-421-2 Rights: World Also available in Afrikaans from NB Publishers (see www.nb.co.za)

Lazy Lunches Marlene van der Westhuizen PAN MACMILLAN

September 2010 Non-fiction (Cookery) Full-colour Paperback (173 x 153 mm) 160 pp 978-1-92043-406-9 Rights: World Also available in Afrikaans Kuierkos vir die Middag 978-1-92043-408-3

The South African Dictionary of Finance Rudy Wuite

The Diplomacy of Transformation South African Foreign Policy and Statecraft Chris Landsberg December 2010 Non-fiction (International Relations) Paperback (240 x 170 mm) 328 pp 978-1-77010-170-8 Rights: World

August 2003 Non-fiction (Business) Paperback (222 x 152 mm) 264 pp 978-1-92043-419-9 Rights: World Also available in Afrikaans Maak Hope Geld Uit Jou Eie Besigheid 978-1-92043-402-1

Delightful Desserts Marlene van der Westhuizen PAN MACMILLAN

Transient Caretakers Making Life on Earth Sustainable Mervyn King with Teodorina Lessidrenska August 2009 Non-fiction (Sustainability) 232 pp Rights: World English Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-108-1

March 2011 Non-fiction (Business) Paperback (198 x 130 mm) 192 pp 978-1-92043-412-0 Rights: World

Decadent Dinners Marlene van der Westhuizen PAN MACMILLAN

On the Other Side of Shame An Extraordinary Account of Adoption and Reunion Joanne Jowell August 2009 Non-fiction (Biography) Paperback (198 x 130 mm) 208 pp 978-1-77010-169-2 Rights: World Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-257-6

May 2011 Non-fiction (Business) Paperback (198 x 130 mm) 192 pp 978-1-92043-413-7 Rights: World

Run Your Own Business and Make Lots of Money Eric Parker

Finding Sarah A True Story of Living with Bulimia Joanne Jowell June 2011 Non-fiction (Health) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 236 pp 978-1-77010-131-9 Rights: World Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-144-9

Finance in Your Own Business Edited by Eric Parker Marketing Your Own Business Edited by Eric Parker

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2004 Non-fiction (Memoir) Paperback (198 x 130 mm) 420 pp 978-1-77010-070-1 Rights: World

Oliver Tambo Remembered Edited by Z. Pallo Jordan

Second is Nothing Creating a Multi-Billion Rand Cellular Industry Alan Knott-Craig with Eunice Afonso October 2009 Non-fiction (Autobiography) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 224 pp plus 8 pp photo section 978-1-77010-164-7 Rights: World Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-119-7

Society, Health and Disease in a Time of HIV/AIDS Leah Gilbert, Terry-Ann Selikow and Liz Walker January 2010 Non-fiction (HIV/AIDS/Sociology) Paperback (230 x 150 mm) 416 pp 978-1-77010-159-3 Rights: World

June 2009 Non-fiction (Business) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 512 pp 978-1-92007-580-4 Rights: World Available as an eBook 978-1-92043-427-4

April 2007 Non-fiction (Business) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 528 pp 978-1-92009-921-3 Rights: World

The State We’re In The 2010 Flux Trend Review Edited by Dion Chang October 2009 Non-fiction (Current Affairs) 296 pp Rights: World Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-183-8

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February 2009 Non-fiction (Business) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 416 pp 978-1-92033-402-4 Rights: World

Alexis Preller: Africa, the Sun and Shadows A Visual Biography Esmé Berman PAN MACMILLAN

June 2010 Non-fiction (Art/Biography) Paperback (210 x 130 mm) 356 pp including 500 black and white illustrations, plus a 12 pp photo section 978-1-77010-092-3 Rights: World

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The Lost Colours of the Chameleon Mandla Langa September 2008 Fiction (Novel) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) with flaps 336 pp 978-1-77010-084-8 Rights: World Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-256-9

The Mistress’s Dog Short Stories 1996–2010 David Medalie May 2010 Fiction (Short Stories) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 208 pp 978-1-77010-174-6 Rights: World Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-212-5

The Shadow Follows David Medalie April 2006 Fiction (Novel) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) 256 pp 978-1-77010-014-5 Rights: World Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-263-7

My Brother’s Book Jo-Anne Richards March 2008 Fiction (Novel) Trade Paperback (234 x 153 mm) with flaps 264 pp 978-1-77010-077-0 Rights: World English Also available as an eBook 978-1-77010-258-3

Mushy Peas on Toast Laurian Clemence November 2008 Fiction (Novel) 278 pp Rights: World Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-118-0

Bad Company Edited by Joanne Hichens February 2009 Fiction (Short Stories) 226 pp Rights: World Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-265-1

Red Ink Angela Makholwa June 2007 Fiction (Novel) Paperback (198 x 130 mm) 238 pp 978-1-77010-068-8 Rights: World Available as an eBook 978-1-77010-262-0

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CHILDREN’S BOOKS ‘South African culture flows proudly in this vibrant tale that’s sure to be a hit as a read-aloud or as a beginning-reader.’ School Library Journal Online

Next Stop – Zanzibar Road Niki Daly It’s a hot day on Zanzibar Road and Mama Jumbo puts on her jazzy dress and her ‘Flippy-floppy, flappy-slippy, this-way-that-way pom-pom hat’, hops in Mr Motiki’s taxi and heads off to the market. After a long day of shopping, as Mama Jumbo heads home, Mr Motiki’s taxi has a puncture! How will Mama Jumbo save the day and get home to Little Chico? Later, Mama Jumbo sews Little Chico a cute, tutti-frutti shirt from a piece of fabric that she got at the market. Little Chico is delighted with everyone’s reactions until Baba Jive says that he looks good enough to eat. The quirky and much-loved gang from Zanzibar Road is back for another fun-filled adventure with Mama Jumbo, Little Chico and a host of colourful and entertaining characters that will delight children and adults alike.

Niki Daly’s high regard for children is always beautifully expressed through the books he creates for them. He has won numerous awards at home and abroad for his lyrical writing and gently humorous illustrations.

Also available Zanzibar Road 978-1-92001-665-4 see p. 107

March 2012 ❘ Children’s Fiction ❘ Full-colour Paperback (210 x 297 mm) ❘ 32 pp 978-1-92024-778-2 (Afrikaans) ❘ 978-1-92024-777-5 (English) ❘ 978-1-92024-780-5 (isiXhosa) 978-1-92024-779-9 (isiZulu) ❘ 978-1-92027-183-1 (Sepedi) 978-1-92024-781-2 (Sesotho) ❘ 978-1-92024-782-9 (Setswana) 96

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Little Lucky Lolo and the Very Big Boy Adrian Varkel Illustrated by Daley Muller Little Lucky Lolo loved going to school. He enjoyed learning from his teacher and playing with his friends at break time. One day a big new boy named Khulu joined the school. He ate all of Little Lucky Lolo’s lunch. The next day, Khulu took away the ball everyone was playing catch with. Little Lucky Lolo was very upset. Why was Khulu being so nasty? And what could Little Lucky Lolo do about it? A gentle and humorous story for young children that looks at the subject of bullying.

Adrian Varkel lives in Cape Town with his wife, Stacy, his little boy Seth and his baby girl Ava. He likes to cook pasta, eat ice-cream and swim. He looks forward to reading all about Little Lucky Lolo to his children. Daley Muller lives in Cape Town. Her work has appeared in Marie Claire and Fresh Living magazines and she is the designer of the Mü&Me range of stationery and clothing.

Also available Little Lucky Lolo and the Cola Cup Competition 978-1-92001-683-8 see p. 107

October 2011 ❘ Children’s Fiction ❘ Full-colour Paperback (215 x 260 mm) ❘ 32 pp 978-1-92024-756-0 (Afrikaans) ❘ 978-1-92024-755-3 (English) ❘ 978-1-92024-757-7 (isiXhosa) 978-1-92024-758-4 (isiZulu) ❘ 978-1-92024-759-1 (Sepedi) ❘ 978-1-92024-760-7 (Sesotho) 978-1-92024-761-4 (Setswana) ❘ Rights: World 98



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Lazy Lion

Mwenye Hadithi

Mwenye Hadithi

Illustrated by Adrienne Kennaway

Illustrated by Adrienne Kennaway Lazy Lion orders the animals to build a house for him to live in on the African plain. The Weaver Birds build a house made out of nest grasses and palm leaves, but it isn’t strong enough for Lazy Lion, who is very heavy. The Ant Bears build Lion a house with many rooms and caverns, but it is so dark that Lion can’t see a thing in it. The animals do their best to build Lazy Lion a house, but he is very difficult to please. Will he ever find a home?

One day, all of the animals threw away their old plain skins and got new clothes. But on that day, Greedy Zebra was too busy eating. This is the story of how Zebra got his black and white stripes. All of the animals got to choose their clothing, except for Greedy Zebra, who had to make his clothes from scraps and left-over pieces.

Mwenye Hadithi was born in Nairobi and has written short stories and radio plays. He hopes to be the next great African writer. Adrienne Kennaway is a children’s illustrator and writer who grew up in Kenya. Her work focuses on animal tales and natural history. March 2011 ❘ Children’s Fiction ❘ Full-colour Paperback (215 x 278 mm) ❘ 32 pp ❘ 978-1-92024-738-6 (Afrikaans)

March 2011 ❘ Children’s Fiction ❘ Full-colour Paperback (215 x 278 mm) ❘ 32 pp ❘ 978-1-92024-744-7 (Afrikaans)

978-0-34040-912-1 (English) ❘ 978-1-92024-740-9 (isiXhosa) ❘ 978-1-92024-739-3 (isiZulu) ❘ 978-1-92024-743-0 (Sepedi)

978-0-34056-565-0 (English) ❘ 978-1-92024-746-1 (isiXhosa) ❘ 978-1-92024-745-4 (isiZulu)

978-1-92024-742-3 (Sesotho) ❘ 978-1-92024-741-6 (Setswana) ❘ Rights: Southern Africa

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Solomon’s Story Judy Froman Winner of the Bookchat Book of the Year 2011 ’The fact that Froman has captured this small piece of South African history for the youth is, in itself, inspirational.’ Tshepo Tshabalala, The Star

‘Solomon’s Story goes well beyond sociology or social history by trying to see through the eyes of the ANC struggle martyr Solomon Mahlangu.’ Drew Forrest, Mail & Guardian

To help his family survive Solomon sells apples on the platform at Denneboom train station in Mamelodi. It is 1976, and the closure of schools after the Soweto riots leaves Solomon and his friends with few choices other than to accept their place in apartheid South Africa or to leave the country and try to force change. Solomon chooses to fight for freedom and embarks on a life in exile as a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe. A year later he is sent back to South Africa as an operative, with tragic consequences. Solomon’s Story is a fictional account of the true story of Solomon Mahlangu, a young hero who paid the ultimate price in his contribution to South Africa’s freedom.

Judy Froman was a young child in 1976 and only became familiar with the facts of Solomon Mahlangu’s case in 1995, while working as a research clerk for the inimitable Judge Ismail Mahomed. She has written this novel as a tribute to Solomon, to Judge Mahomed, to her friend Patric Mtshaulana and to all those who made enormous sacrifices to bring South Africa its freedom.


April 2011 ❘ Children’s Fiction ❘ Paperback (198 x 130 mm) ❘ 196 pp 978-1-77010-139-5 ❘ Rights: World 102



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Long Walk to Freedom Abridged by Chris van Wyk Illustrated by Paddy Bouma ‘The amazing story of a true hero of our times … discover how a little boy whose father called him “troublemaker” grew up to fight apartheid, become South Africa’s first black president and campaign for freedom and justice throughout the world.’

Nelson Mandela is a true hero of our times. This book tells the story of Mandela’s life, from his carefree days as an ordinary village boy, to his unflinching leadership of the African National Congress, the long years he spent in prison and his eventual freedom and extraordinary elevation to President of South Africa.

Sowetan

Chris van Wyk is an award-winning and internationally published writer of poetry, books for children and teenagers, short stories and novels. His latest memoir, Eggs to Lay, Chickens to Hatch (2010) follows on from the bestselling Shirley, Goodness & Mercy published by Picador Africa in 2004. Paddy Bouma has illustrated several picture books that have been published internationally.

September 2009 ❘ Children’s Non-fiction (Memoir/Politics) ❘ Full-colour Paperback (215 x 278 mm) ❘ 64 pp 978-1-92027-112-1 (Afrikaans) ❘ 978-0-23001-385-8 (English) ❘ 978-1-92027-119-0 (isiNdebele) 978-1-92027-114-5 (isiXhosa) ❘ 978-1-92027-113-8 (isiZulu) ❘ 978-1-92027-122-0 (Portuguese) 978-1-92027-115-2 (Sesotho) ❘ 978-1-92027-116-9 (Sepedi) ❘ 978-1-92027-117-6 (Setswana) ❘ 978-1-92027-120-6 (Siswati) 978-1-92027-118-3 (TshiVenda) ❘ 978-1-92027-121-3 (XiTsonga) ❘ Rights: Southern Africa and World Afrikaans 104



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GIRAFFE BOOKS

Giraffe’s Knot Michaël Escoffier Illustrated by Kris Di Giacomo One morning, a long time ago, Giraffe woke up with a knot in her throat. She did not know what to do. Join Giraffe and her friends as they try to solve this knotty problem!

Michaël Escoffier and Kris Di Giacomo live in France. This is the first of three picture books they have created together featuring the African animals they love.

November 2010 ❘ Children’s Fiction ❘ Full-colour Paperback (215 x 278 mm) ❘ 32 pp ❘ 978-1-92027-134-3 (Afrikaans) 978-1-92027-133-6 (English) ❘ 978-1-92027-136-7 (isiXhosa) ❘ 978-1-92027-135-0 (isiZulu) ❘ 978-1-92027-137-4 (Sesotho) 978-1-92027-138-1 (Setswana) ❘ 978-1-92027-139-8 (Sepedi) ❘ Rights: Southern Africa

Zanzibar Road Niki Daly Children’s Fiction Full-colour Paperback (215 x 278 mm) 978-1-92001-665-4 (English) 978-1-92001-667-8 (isiNdebele) 978-1-92001-672-2 (isiXhosa) 978-1-92001-676-0 (isiZulu) 978-1-92001-666-1 (Lesotho Sesotho) 978-1-92001-669-2 (Sepedi) 978-1-92001-673-9 (Sesotho) 978-1-92001-670-8 (Setswana) 978-1-92001-674-6 (Siswati) 978-1-92001-671-5 (TshiVenda) 978-1-92001-675-3 (XiTsonga) Rights: Africa

Ouma Ruby’s Secret Chris van Wyk Illustrated by Anneliese Voigt-Peters Children’s Fiction Full-colour Paperback (215 x 278 mm) 978-1-92001-640-1 (Afrikaans) 978-1-92001-639-5 (English) 978-1-92001-648-7 (isiNdebele) 978-1-92001-641-8 (isiXhosa) 978-1-92001-642-5 (isiZulu) 978-1-92001-645-6 (Sepedi) 978-1-92001-643-2 (Sesotho) 978-1-92001-646-3 (Siswati) 978-1-92001-649-4 (TshiVenda) 978-1-92001-650-0 (XiTsonga) Rights: World

Little Lucky Lolo and the Cola Cup Competition Adrian Varkel Illustrated by Jacki Lang and Daley Muller Children’s Fiction Full-colour Paperback (215 x 278 mm) 978-1-92001-684-5 (Afrikaans) 978-1-92001-683-8 (English) 978-1-92001-693-7 (isiNdebele) 978-1-92001-686-9 (isiXhosa) 978-1-92001-685-2 (isiZulu) 978-1-92001-687-6 (Sesotho) 978-1-92001-690-6 (Setswana) 978-1-92001-694-4 (Siswati) 978-1-92001-691-3 (TshiVenda) 978-1-92001-689-0 (XiTsonga) Rights: World

Bettina Valentino and the Picasso Club Niki Daly Children’s Fiction Full-colour Paperback (206 x 152 mm) 978-0-37430-753-0 Rights: Southern Africa

Goal! Mina Javaherbin Illustrated by A.G. Ford Join Bongani and his friends as they kick, dribble and shoot their new football through the dust. Who will win the game? The players – or the bullies who come to stop them?

Elsa and the Little Thingamajig Niki Daly and Joan Rankin Children’s Fiction Full-colour Paperback (215 x 278 mm) 978-1-92016-267-2 (Afrikaans) 978-1-92016-266-5 (English) Rights: Africa

First Day Joan Rankin Children’s Fiction Full-colour Paperback (215 x 278 mm) 978-1-92016-269-6 (Afrikaans) 978-1-92016-268-9 (English) Rights: Africa

Mina Javaherbin lives in southern California with her husband and two children, who all love soccer. A.G. Ford attended Columbus College of Art and Design and illustrated the New York Times bestseller, Barrack.

May 2010 ❘ Children’s Fiction ❘ Full-colour Paperback (283 x 246 mm) ❘ 32 pp ❘ 978-1-92027-124-4 (Afrikaans) 978-1-92027-123-7 (English) ❘ 978-1-92027-131-2 (isiNdebele) ❘ 978-1-92027-126-8 (isiXhosa) ❘ 978-1-92027-125-1 (isiZulu) 978-1-92027-127-5 (Sesotho) ❘ 978-1-92027-129-9 (Sepedi) ❘ 978-1-92027-128-2 (Setswana) ❘ 978-0-98027-028-0 (Siswati) 978-1-92027-132-9 (TshiVenda) ❘ 978-1-92027-130-5 (XiTsonga) ❘ Rights: Southern Africa

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Priddy Books is dié uitgewer van innoverende titels, spesifiek ontwerp vir babas, peuters en kleuters. Priddy Books maak gebruik van eenvoudige konsepte wat kinders se kreatiwiteit en vaardighede sal help ontwikkel.

Baba-Biblioteek: My Eerste Woorde

My Groot Boek Vol Woorde

Hierdie boek bevat meer as 150 woorde en bypassende prente waaroor jy met jou baba kan gesels. Dit is ’n uitstekende eerste leermiddel vir jou baba.

Hierdie boek is propvol woorde en prente wat spesifiek op jou baba se verwysingsraamwerk gemik is sodat hy/sy met selfvertroue ’n basiese woordeskat kan ontwikkel.

November 2012 ❘ Children’s Non-fiction ❘ Full-colour Board Book (Padded Cover) (285 x 240 mm) ❘ 48 pp ❘ 978-1-92027-196-1 Rights: Southern Africa

My Beloningskaartboek

Tandesnyboek: Diere

Hierdie helderkleurige beloningsboek, propvol prettige aktiwiteite en plakkers, sal jou bystaan om goeie gedrag by jou kind te kweek.

’n Kyk, skud en leer kartonboekie wat jou kind kan kou en terselfdertyd leer om diere te identifiseer.

April 2013 ❘ Children’s Non-fiction ❘ Full-colour Canadian-Bound (295 x 224 mm) ❘ 52 pp ❘ 978-1-92027-199-2 ❘ Rights: Southern Africa

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July 2013 ❘ Children’s Non-fiction ❘ Full-colour Board Book (275 x 275 mm) ❘ 10 pp ❘ 978-1-92062-902-1 ❘ Rights: Southern Africa



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Tandesnyboek: Woorde

Vee Skoon: Eerste Woorde

’n Kyk, skud en leer kartonboekie wat jou kind kan kou en terselfdertyd ook nuwe woorde aanleer.

Met meer as 140 eerste woorde om na te teken, sal hierdie boek 'n uitstekende inleiding wees om jou kind te help oefen met die skryf van letters en woorde.


December 2012 ❘ Children’s Non-fiction ❘ Full-colour Board Book (250 x 250 mm) ❘ 28 pp ❘ 978-1-92027-197-8 ❘ Rights: Southern Africa

Vee Skoon: Penbeheer

Hierdie boek bevat aktiwiteite wat kinders sal help om belangrike natrek- en penbeheervaardighede te oefen om sodoende maklik te leer skryf.

December 2012 ❘ Children’s Non-fiction ❘ Full-colour Board Book (250 x 250 mm) ❘ 28 pp ❘ 978-1-92027-198-5 ❘ Rights: Southern Africa

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Doen dit Self Children’s Non-fiction Full-colour Flipchart Book (290 x 245 mm) 978-1-92024-753-9 (Kookkuns) 978-1-92024-752-2 (Wetenskap) Rights: Southern Africa

Draai en Soek

Skattejag Soek en Vind My! Children’s Non-fiction Full-colour Paperback (275 x 275 mm) 978-1-92024-770-6 Rights: Southern Africa

Skattejag vir Seuntjies

Children’s Non-fiction Full-colour Board Book (215 x 215 mm) 978-1-92027-194-7 (Babadiere) 978-1-92027-195-4 (Op die Plaas) Rights: Southern Africa

Children’s Non-fiction Full-colour Paperback (275 x 275 mm) 978-1-92024-771-3 Rights: Southern Africa

Leer is Lekker

Children’s Non-fiction Full-colour Board Book (210 x 210 mm) 978-1-92024-773-7 (Diere) 978-1-92024-774-4 (Groot Wiele) 978-0-98027-435-6 (Kleure) 978-0-98027-436-3 (Woorde) Rights: Southern Africa

Children’s Non-fiction Full-colour Paperback (380 x 290 mm) 978-1-92024-775-1 (Inkleurpret) 978-1-92024-776-8 (Prentjiepret) Rights: Southern Africa

Skuifdeurtjies

Slim Baba Stampvol


Children’s Non-fiction Full-colour Board Book (140 x 140 mm) 978-1-92024-762-1 (Diere) 978-1-92024-764-5 (Hondjies) 978-1-92024-763-8 (Katjies) 978-1-92024-765-2 (Wiele) Rights: Southern Africa

My Dinosourusplakkersoekboek

Slim Baba Vat en Voel

My Bouerplakkersoekboek


My Feetjieplakkersoekboek Children’s Non-fiction Full-colour Paperback (280 x 215 mm) 978-1-92027-184-8 Rights: Southern Africa

My Groot Boek oor Diensvoertuie Children’s Non-fiction Full-colour Board Book (275 x 275 mm) 978-1-92024-751-5 Rights: Southern Africa

My Groot Boek oor Diere Children’s Non-fiction Full-colour Board Book (275 x 275 mm) 978-1-92024-750-8 Rights: Southern Africa

Children’s Non-fiction Full-colour Board Book (150 x 120 mm) 978-1-92024-768-3 (Badtyd) 978-1-92024-766-9 (Etenstyd) 978-1-92024-767-6 (Slapenstyd) 978-1-92024-769-0 (Speeltyd) Rights: Southern Africa

Vee Skoon Children’s Non-fiction Full-colour Board Book (250 x 215 mm) 978-1-92016-264-1 (Diere) 978-0-98027-430-1 (Dinosourusse) 978-1-92016-265-8 (Goeters wat Gaan) 978-1-92016-282-5 (Hoe Laat is Dit?) 978-1-92016-284-9 (Maak Gereed vir Skool) 978-1-92016-283-2 (Maklike Wiskunde) 978-0-98027-431-8 (Plaas) 978-1-92016-263-4 (Syfers) Rights: Southern Africa

Vloer-Uitvouboek Children’s Non-fiction Full-colour Board Book (180 x 180 mm) 978-1-92024-734-8 (Kleure) 978-1-92024-733-1 (Syfers) Rights: Southern Africa

My Legkaartboek van Kleure Children’s Non-fiction Full-colour Board Book (210 x 210 mm) 978-1-92024-735-5 Rights: Southern Africa

My Legkaartboek van Kos Children’s Non-fiction Full-colour Board Book (210 x 210 mm) 978-1-92024-736-2 Rights: Southern Africa

My Plaasplakkersoekboek Children’s Non-fiction Full-colour Paperback (280 x 215 mm) 978-1-92027-189-3 Rights: Southern Africa

My Prinsesplakkersoekboek Children’s Non-fiction Full-colour Paperback (280 x 215 mm) 978-1-92027-187-9 Rights: Southern Africa

My Seerowerplakkersoekboek Children’s Non-fiction Full-colour Paperback (280 x 215 mm) 978-1-92027-188-6 Rights: Southern Africa

My Voorskoolse-plakkersoekboek Children’s Non-fiction Full-colour Paperback (280 x 215 mm) 978-1-92024-754-6 Rights: Southern Africa

Skattejag vir Dogtertjies Children’s Non-fiction Full-colour Paperback (275 x 275 mm) 978-1-92024-772-0 Rights: Southern Africa 112

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