These Are Not Gentle People
By: Andrew Harding
4.13
Format: 304 pages, ebook
At dusk, on a warm evening in 2016, a group of forty men gathered in the corner of a dusty field on…
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1. The Number: One Man's Search for Identity in the Cape Underworld and Prison Gangs
By: Jonny Steinberg
4.20
Format: 427 pages, Paperback
On 9 June 2003, a 43-year-old coloured man named Magadien Wentzel walked out of Pollsmoor Prison in… read more
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2. Beneath the Lion's Gaze
By: Maaza Mengiste
4.23
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wa… read more
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3. What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]
By: Zoë Heller
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary life until Sheba Hart, the new art teacher at St. G… read more
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4. Disgrace
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more
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5. Crooked Seeds
By: Karen Jennings
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubling past in this taut and darin… read more
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6. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
7. Earth
By: John Boyne
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more
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8. Glory
By: NoViolet Bulawayo
3.70
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, a blockbuster of a no… read more
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"The dead are not dead, glory to the ancestors!"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"And today they'll call the thing all sort of queer names, I've even heard it called a genocide. But I myself call it service."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"If I don't write, then who will I blame when I wake up one day to find myself in the belly of a crocodile that calls itself History, that devours the stories of everyone else and goes on to speak for…"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
9. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
By: Kim Ghattas
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more
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"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
10. Platform Seven
By: Louise Doughty
3.52
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkw… read more
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"The dead don't bother haunting graveyards- they are the last place on earth they need to haunt. The living do that job for them with their messy combination of grief, desire, imagination. There is no…"-Louise Doughty, Platform Seven
"It's a deal we all make, I remember thinking. What kind of life will I live with this person? All relationships are a balancing act, after all, each individual perched on either side of a seesaw. You…"-Louise Doughty, Platform Seven
11. Children of Sugarcane
By: Joanne Joseph
4.49
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
"Shanti is a heroine that the reader will not easily forget. The story that is told here is worth n… read more
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12. American Girls
By: Jessica Roy
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, deeply reported narrative about religious extremism, radicalization, and the bonds of … read more
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13. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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14. Washington Bullets
By: Vijay Prashad
4.40
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It … read more
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15. Leo (Bennie Griessel, #8) (Afrikaans Edition)
By: Deon Meyer
4.41
Format: 552 pages, Kindle Edition
’n Student se dood in die berg by Stellenbosch lyk verdag. ’n Oud-recce vermoor as ’n boodskap. ’n … read more
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16. White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
By: Susan Williams
4.16
Format: 651 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory new history of post-colonial African independence movements shows how they were system… read more
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17. These Are Not Gentle People
By: Andrew Harding
4.13
Format: 304 pages, ebook
At dusk, on a warm evening in 2016, a group of forty men gathered in the corner of a dusty field on… read more
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18. The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning
By: Eve Fairbanks
4.28
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A dozen years in the making, The Inheritors weaves together the stories of three ordinary South Afr… read more
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19. The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City
By: Nicholas Dawidoff
4.45
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a young strange… read more
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20. The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)
By: Peter Papathanasiou
3.88
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
A small town in outback Australia wakes to a crime of medieval savagery. A local schoolteacher i… read more
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21. Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island
By: Ian Cobain
4.21
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a… read more
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