The Keeper of the Kumm by Sylvia Vollenhoven North Africa

The Keeper of the Kumm by Sylvia Vollenhoven North AfricaToo much of South Africa's history has been lost and suppressed, leaving a void for many South Africans. Sylvia Vollenhoven brings together her life and that of a long ago ancestor, Kabbo, a respected Khoisan storyteller. She writes of her experience as being too black for her coloured schoolmates, working as one of the early female journalists in the misogynistic environment of the '70s, and of the constant impact on her life of her background

A Russian epic sure to please readers of Amor Towles’ A Gentleman in Moscow

This is a rich tapestry of stories about the super-wealthy and the wise

rather than history and law

Inscription inside

filming a report on Al-Qaeda when they were confronted by Islamist gunmen

Written by two Harvard-trained doctors

Handsome and ambitious

United Kingdom

firebombed at work

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The Yogi and the Commissar (1945) is a collection of essays of Arthur Koestler