8 Top nonfiction books like Scatterling of Africa: My Early Years by Johnny Clegg

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Scatterling of Africa: My Early Years

By: Johnny Clegg

4.42

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

‘There are moments in life that are pure, and which seem to hang in the air, unhitched from the eve…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Scatterling of Africa: My Early Years by Johnny Clegg , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. A Long Way Home

By: Saroo Brierley

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made gl… read more

Similar categories in Saroo Brierley's A Long Way Home book and Johnny Clegg's Scatterling of Africa: My Early Years

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

2. The Run-Out Groove (Vinyl Detective 2)

By: Andrew Cartmel

4.52

Format: None pages,

His first adventure consisted of the search for a rare record; his second the search for a lost chi… read more

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3. The Power of One (The Power of One, #1)

By: Bryce Courtenay

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

No stranger to the injustice of racial hatred, five-year-old Peekay learns the hard way the first s… read more

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4. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

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"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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5. The Book of Fire

By: Christy Lefteri

3.83

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

In present-day Greece, deep in an ancient forest, lives a family: Irini, a musician, who teaches ch… read more

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6. The Promise

By: Damon Galgut

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more

Similar categories in Damon Galgut's The Promise book and Johnny Clegg's Scatterling of Africa: My Early Years

  • africa
  • south africa
"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

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7. 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

Similar categories in Joanne Joseph's Children of Sugarcane book and Johnny Clegg's Scatterling of Africa: My Early Years

  • africa
  • south africa
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8. Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom

By: André de Ruyter

4.56

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

André de Ruyter’s explosive account of his three years as CEO of Eskom, where he dealt with corrupt… read more

Similar categories in André de Ruyter's Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom book and Johnny Clegg's Scatterling of Africa: My Early Years

  • africa
  • biography
  • memoir
  • south africa
  • nonfiction
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9. A Pocketful of Happiness

By: Richard E. Grant

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Born in Swaziland in 1957, Richard E. Grant moved to the UK to pursue his acting career, and has be… read more

Similar categories in Richard E. Grant's A Pocketful of Happiness book and Johnny Clegg's Scatterling of Africa: My Early Years

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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10. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

By: Joanna Cannon

3.65

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly ch… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Cannon's The Trouble with Goats and Sheep book and Johnny Clegg's Scatterling of Africa: My Early Years

"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

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11. The Dark Flood (Benny Griessel, #7)

By: Deon Meyer

4.39

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From internationally acclaimed crime writer Deon Meyer, a new thriller featuring superstar detectiv… read more

Similar categories in Deon Meyer's The Dark Flood (Benny Griessel, #7) book and Johnny Clegg's Scatterling of Africa: My Early Years

  • africa
  • south africa
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12. Living the Wild Life

By: Ian Whyte

4.47

Format: 721 pages, Kindle Edition

Thoughts and stories from a researcher's life in the Kruger National Park read more

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13. Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End

By: Darrel Bristow-Bovey

4.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The discovery of Endurance briefly swept the anxiety and rancor of 2022 from the headlines of the w… read more

Similar categories in Darrel Bristow-Bovey's Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End book and Johnny Clegg's Scatterling of Africa: My Early Years

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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14. Rise: The Brand New Autobiography

By: Siya Kolisi

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

‘Siya's rise from humble beginnings to lifting that World Cup trophy is the stuff of fairytales.’ M… read more

Similar categories in Siya Kolisi's Rise: The Brand New Autobiography book and Johnny Clegg's Scatterling of Africa: My Early Years

  • africa
  • biography
  • memoir
  • south africa
  • nonfiction
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15. Scatterling of Africa: My Early Years

By: Johnny Clegg

4.42

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

‘There are moments in life that are pure, and which seem to hang in the air, unhitched from the eve… read more

Similar categories in Johnny Clegg's Scatterling of Africa: My Early Years book and Johnny Clegg's Scatterling of Africa: My Early Years

  • music
  • africa
  • biography
  • memoir
  • south africa
  • nonfiction
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16. The Girl from Nowhere

By: Eliska Tanzer

4.10

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

'A remarkable book about the hardest of beginnings written in a voice that is vibrant, sparkling, f… read more

Similar categories in Eliska Tanzer's The Girl from Nowhere book and Johnny Clegg's Scatterling of Africa: My Early Years

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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17. Langbourne's Evolution (Langbourne #4)

By: Alan P. Landau

4.49

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

It is 1898 in Bulawayo, Rhodesia, and the Langbourne brothers’ business is maturing, and so are the… read more

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18. Bassie: My Journey of Hope

By: Basetsana Kumalo

3.81

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Basetsana Kumalo shot to fame as Miss South Africa in 1994 and soon became the face of South Africa… read more

Similar categories in Basetsana Kumalo's Bassie: My Journey of Hope book and Johnny Clegg's Scatterling of Africa: My Early Years

  • nonfiction
"When you know something to be true in your very core, there is no need to shout it from the rooftops."

-Basetsana Kumalo, Bassie: My Journey of Hope

"Hindsight is the best science, and I know now that what I picked up and learnt from my mother was the best informal education and training I could ever have received"

-Basetsana Kumalo, Bassie: My Journey of Hope

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19. Lost Property

By: Megan Choritz

4.36

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

One morning Laine wakes up to discover that the man she's been married to for 15 years has been sec… read more

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20. Miracle Men: How Rassie's Springbok's won the World Cup

By: Lloyd Burnard

4.26

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

When Rassie Erasmus took over as coach of the Springboks in 2018, few thought they had a chance of … read more

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21. Tales from the old Karoo

By: Guy Butler

3.17

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Before the internal combustion engine, when trains were pulled by steam engines, when few roads wer… read more

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Saroo Brierley

3.99

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André de Ruyter

4.56

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Richard E. Grant

4.36

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Rise: The Brand New Autobiography

Siya Kolisi

4.24

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David Perlmutter , Kristin Loberg

3.90

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Irmgard A. Hunt

3.46

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Love as Always, Mum xxx

Mae West

4.17

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Jesse Thistle

4.50

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