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  • The Tatiana File

    by William Paterson ...
    Everyone likes a good story and this is a fast, romantic and furious one. Set in 1949, the action ranges from a hot Orange Free State veld to a wintry Ireland and back again, with unexpected twists and turns along the way. A startling discovery linked to Tatiana, one of Tsar Nicholas II's assassinated daughters, sets a weary white Bloemfontein detective on a perilous odyssey of discovery. ... Read more

    $6.56 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Glimpses of colonial society and the life at Princeton College 

    by William Paterson ...
    William Paterson is best known to history as the spokesman of "the New Jersey plan" in the Federal Convention, intended to preserve the rights of the smaller States against their larger sisters. His fame rests upon his administration as Governor of New Jersey, and his thirteen years as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. An insight into his earlier years is afforded by the publication of ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Girl in the Summerhouse

    by William Paterson ...
    1929, and Donald Kirkwood's Zululand cotton farm is abandoned. The family moves to Chelmsford, a clifftop house on the northern outskirts of Durban. Afrikaner right-wingers plot pro-Nazi support as Hitler continues his rise to power during the 1930s. In Durban, society is more concerned with horse racing and doing good works among marginalised Zulus and Indians. When war breaks out in Europe and ... Read more

    $6.50 USD

  • What Happened at Yonder

    by William Paterson ...
    Yonder is a farm in Africa. The First World War is over, and parts of Natal are thrown open to white settlers for development; Donald Kirkwood acquires 1500 acres of raw veld to develop a cotton farm. While camping there with little more than a tent, and a post box made from a biscuit tin, he builds a house and prepares the land. The farmers must cope with a fatal cattle disease, catastrophic ... Read more

    $6.50 USD

  • The Federal Republic of Germany and the European Community (RLE: German Politics)

    by Simon Bulmer, William Paterson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: German Politics
    Originally published in 1987, this book examines German governmental policy from 1969-1986 and explains this in terms of the political, economic and administrative dynamics of the (then) Federal Republic. The study includes analysis of the attitudes and the role of West German interest groups, political parties, public opinion, the legislature and the federal states regarding European policy. The ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Snake in the Signal Box

    by William Paterson ...
    ‘He marvelled at their sense of balance, their beautiful dark skin, their erect bodies and their smiles’ ‘We must never forget how our women and children died in the British concentration camps’ ‘Are you aware that in 1913 all Asiatic people were classified as Undesirables?’ ‘Prue turned and kissed him, her mouth soft and warm, saying, “Trams are romantic things, aren’t they.” In 1919, among ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Wild Coast

    by John Gimlette ...
    Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so dense that even today there are virtually no roads through it; a string of rickety coastal towns situated between the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers, where living is so difficult that as many Guianese live abroad as in their homelands; an ... Read more

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  • Mukiwa

    A White Boy in Africa

    by Peter Godwin ...
    Mukiwa opens with Peter Godwin, six years old, describing the murder of his neighbor by African guerillas, in 1964, pre-war Rhodesia. Godwin's parents are liberal whites, his mother a governement-employed doctor, his father an engineer. Through his innocent, young eyes, the story of the beginning of the end of white rule in Africa unfolds. The memoir follows Godwin's personal journey from the eve ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • At the Fireside

    True South African Stories

    Edited by Roger Webster ...
    Roger Webster published his first volume of At the Fireside stories in 2001. It became an overnight bestseller and he went on to write three more books filled with magnificent stories from southern African. Now, more than ten years later, Roger Webster is back with another, all new volume of fireside tales of people and events that have shaped this remarkable country. The author brings to life ... Read more

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  • Rainbow's End

    A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm

    by Lauren St John ...
    This is a story about a paradise lost. . . . About an African dream that began with a murder . . .In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rhodesian civil war, eleven-year-old Lauren St John moves with her family to Rainbow's End, a wild, beautiful farm and game reserve set on the banks of a slowflowing river. The house has been the scene of a horrific attack by guerrillas, and when Lauren's ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Yellow Six

    by James Clarke ...
    What is this book about?I am so glad you asked me that.It is about a band of six Boy Scouts who, during World War 2, collected silver paper from cigarette packets and chocolate wrappers to be recycled into Spitfires and Hurricanes which, smelling faintly of Cadbury's and Virginia leaf, swept the German Luftwaffe from British skies and eventually caused Adolf Hitler to commit suicide.Read about the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Going Back to Say Goodbye

    A Boyhood on the Mine

    by Kenneth de Kok ...
    In Going Back to Say Goodbye: A Boyhood on the Mine Kenneth de Kok describes his childhood in Stilfontein, a small mining town in the Western Transvaal. Set in the late 1950s and seen through the eyes of the young Kenneth, the story immerses the reader in a world of bicycle races down dirt roads, adventures in the veld, kleilat fights, childhood pacts and seaside holidays. It’s a world of Post ... Read more

    $11.99 USD