Book Catalogue 2012/2013
Forthcoming books
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A selection of the titles still to be published in 2013
Oblique Light David Robbins
bitter winters exile and loss doubt and amorality oblique light Oblique Light - David Robbins
These short stories were conceived in Scotland in the early 1970s and finally completed in Johannesburg forty years later. In his short introduction, the author sets the scene. ‘I lived in a stone-built town huddled on the mainland side of the Firth of Clyde. Here, the landscapes finally began to mean something to me. Far from being picturesque, they struck me as low and potentially hostile. The hills and houses seemed pressed down and overloaded by the weather. At first I thought the landscapes had shaped my general mood. I certainly thought that the temper of the times had brought an austerity to the settings in which I lived. It was only later that I began to understand how much my deepening emptiness and ideas of alienation had shaped the landscapes, bending them to the contours of my eyes.’ David Robbins received a SALA Lifetime Achievement Literary Award in 2010. Oblique Light is his twentieth book and third volume of short stories.
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New Releases Common Acts of Significant Employees Heal the ‘Marikana’ in your workplace
Dr H Leon Klein Published April 2013 ISBN 978-1-920609-11-5 Retail price R200 (incl VAT) Pages 248
Every workplace is a potential ’MARIKANA’ – a place where tension brews and threatens to erupt and disrupt, if ignored. YOU, the employee, can change that. No employee joins the workplace thinking: ‘I can’t wait to one day hate my job, be a demanding, depressed, stressed-out and unproductive employee with a bad and negative attitude towards my work, colleagues, superior and clients.’ Employees are not simply complaining about horrible bosses, irritating colleagues, difficult clients, or suffocating workplaces. They are indirectly asking for truths to be revealed about themselves; truths which will enable them to be and feel SIGNIFICANT.
Why Israel?
The anatomy of Zionist apartheid - a South African perspective
Suraya Dadoo & Firoz Osman Published April 2013 ISBN 978-1-920609-00-9 Retail price R200 (incl VAT) Pages 664
Many people are shocked when Israel is compared to apartheid South Africa. ‘Why Israel?’ they ask. This book answers that question. The authors examine how and why Apartheid applies to the situation in Palestine by using expert academic analysis, commentaries, articles, and blogs of well-known and highly-respected activists and human rights organisations, as well as reports from NGOs with extensive on-the-ground experience in the region. The result is a comprehensive and easy-to-understand investigation into Israel’s colonisation of Palestine, and its corrupting influence on the world. This challenging and controversial book has been endorsed by Ronnie Casrils, ex South African government minister, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. 4
New Releases The Bubbles Float Over the Stars
Grandparents’ views about life, and their hopes for their grandchildren
Jeffrey Kagan Published May 2013 ISBN 978-1-920609-12-2 Retail price R190 (incl VAT) Pages 196
In July 2006 Jeffrey Kagan’s mother died. In December his niece matriculated. Kagan began to wonder what his mother would have wanted to say to her grandchild on such an occasion. These ponderings led to the production of this remarkable book. Kagan, a practising psychologist, converses with forty grandparents and records what they have to say about their relationships with their grandchildren. What can they teach the new generation about living in our troubled world? What, as their own lives draw to a close, do they see as important attributes for fulfilling lives in the 21st century? The answers that emerge are varied, but taken together they provide a remarkably consistent picture of humanity in its most nurturing guise.
Coolie, Come Out and Fight A memoir
Mohamed F (Mac) Carim Published June 2013 ISBN 978-1-920609-13-9 Retail price R195 (incl VAT) Pages 222
Simultaneously a family memoir and a slice of South African history, this book is that rare thing: a beleaguered community in turbulent times seen through a young couple’s struggle for self-realisation and fulfilment. It’s about the particular hurdles that face an Indian/ Coloured family in their search to find a more dignified space in which to live, grow and thrive. Carim’s story offers insights into aspects of the lives of ordinary people during the transition years from colonialism to apartheid. Its title Coolie, Come Out and Fight! is devastatingly honest and redolent of South Africa in the 1950s and 60s. 5
New Releases In the Shadow of Everest High altitude Trekking in the Himalayas
Robert Weiss Published July 2013 ISBN 978-0-920609-07-8 Retail price R395 Pages 128 This is the story of a group of ordinary people trekking in the Himalayas to Everest Base Camp – and a little way beyond. When the author and his family were looking for information about the trek, they wanted a book about how people like themselves would go about undertaking a high-altitude adventure like this. No matter how hard they looked, they couldn’t find a book with a personal touch. So this book aims to fill that gap – and to tell what it’s like in winter, when very few trekkers brave the cold and ice of one of the world’s great wonderlands.’ The author and his two sons took their cameras along. The result is that the book is illustrated with many remarkable photographs of the mountainous terrain through which they trekked.
Over the Moon
A guide to positive ageing
Dr Hannetjie van Zyl-Edeling Published March 2013 ISBN 978-1-920609-14-6 Retail price R230 (incl VAT) Pages 208
Did you know that centenarians are today the fastest growing age group world-wide? After retirement it is quite possible to have 35 more years between the ages of 65 and 100. Behaviour trumps genetics when it comes to influencing how you will age. Over the Moon is about breaking out of old patterns of thinking and being, and taking charge of your life and ageing process. It is never too early or too late to make positive changes. Positive ageing is about maintaining physical, emotional, social and spiritual health as we age. It is about joy, love, learning, adapting, acceptance and continued connectedness. Even it retirement, your future is in your hands. 6
Mahwaqa Revealed A guide to Bulwer Mountain
Esther Alm Published November 2012 ISBN 978-0-987017-88-8 Retail price R250 (incl VAT) Pages 160 When the author and her husband settled in Bulwer in KwaZulu-Natal in 1980, they immediately began to explore their environment. They had spent holidays in the area before, and had already climbed Mahwaqa (Bulwer Mountain) several times. Esther Alm writes: ‘From those early days right up to my last climb in 2010, I kept dated records. When I looked at these again, I could calculate that I had climbed to the summit over 600 times in the nearly 30 years I lived in Bulwer.’ This lengthy relationship, coupled with Esther’s observations as a dedicated amateur naturalist, provides the backbone for this informative book. It is part fieldguide and part personal record, described with both pen and camera, of an extraordinary affiliation between a woman and her beloved mountain.
Know Yourself
KNOW YOURSELF NELENG THOMAS PHELE
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New Releases
A key to achieving your dreams
Neleng Thomas Phele
KNOW YOURSELF The key to achieving your dreams
PublishedJuly 2013 ISBN 978-1-920609-17-7 Retail price R135 (incl VAT) Pages 88
NELENG THOMAS PHELE
This book is for both young and old who have a dream in their hearts and who want to see it happen. No matter your age, your past, your birthplace, your current circumstances, your temporary lack of money, your skin colour, your lack of formal education, your physical features and your past failures, you can achieve your dreams. The author believes there are solutions to the challenges that Africa faces; and he helps inspire Africans to dream again. Phele presents thought-provoking chapters in this book that will set readers on the path towards the fulfilment of their dreams. 7
Recent Releases Grief’s Bounty A novel
Sandy Goulding New edition May 2012, first published 2009 ISBN 978-0-98701789-5 Retail price R185 (incl VAT) Pages 248 ‘I needed to understand that sudden and intense link between grief and passion: the centrality of sexuality to affirming the life of the living.’ A searingly honest account of how, for Sophie, grief becomes a powerful catalyst for healing the past, unleashing the full force of her mid-life female sexuality and directing her to a new life. She emerges from the ashes of her grief with a strengthened identity and deeper understanding of both herself and family. This book will touch the inner core of anyone who has lived through intense grief, while seeking answers and closure.
Live and Lead
Discover your personal and organisational guidance system
Coen Bester Published June 2012 ISBN 978-0-9870346-1-8 Retail price R160 (incl VAT) Pages 208
Please don’t put this book down if you think that it may not be for you because you don’t think of yourself as a leader. The one thing that keeps people from becoming better at leadership is this exact belief. You may simply have not bought into or accepted this idea yet. For some undiscovered reason, we so easily accept the leadership of others, but don’t really buy into our own. Hang on to the book; I will convince you otherwise. On the other hand, if you do see yourself as leader, I invite you to consider an approach that could assist you to develop your own personal philosophy of leadership. Unless your leadership is grounded in your own authentic leadership beliefs, you will remain vulnerable to the curved balls that the world throws at leaders. 8
Recent Releases Gabriel’s Apology A novel
Andrew Herold Published December 2012 ISBN 978-1-920609-08-5 Retail price R160 Pages 190
Gabriel Kutama, an elderly illegal from across the border, is mugged at a Soweto Taxi rank. He ends up at the house of Portia, a single parent who tends to his bruises. He stays. But Gabriel is no ordinary man. He is a former president of a country to the North of South Africa, presumed dead after a military coup. His wife has fled to London with their three children. He contemplates suicide, but then to his amazement he discovers that his life still has meaning. His journey to find his true self includes gardening and begging while he tries to come to terms with homosexuality, blackmail, bigamy, crazy white people, xenophobia and poverty.
Searching Africa
Classic African travel - from Windhoek to Tangier
David Robbins Published October 2011 ISBN 978-0-9869979-1-4 Retail price R250 (incl VAT) Pages 544 including 24 pages of colour photographs
After the return of South Africa to the international family, it became possible for David
Robbins to travel regularly in other parts of Africa. He had at last, he said, been released from the bondage of apartheid into his broader home. The result of this release is Searching Africa, containing over twenty travel narratives that take the reader from the continent’s expiring settler south to the Sahara and beyond. The first half of this enthralling book, written by one of the country’s foremost travel writers, has already been published by Viking Books and Penguin. The second half is new and original - and often heartbreaking as the mother of all continents struggles with its protracted and painful transformation.
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In print The Moral Status and Rights of Animals Kai Horsthemke
Published October 2010 ISBN 978-0-620463-13-3 Retail price R399 (incl VAT) Pages 366
Managing your Body God’s Way Dr H Leon Klein
Published December 2011 ISBN 978-0-987017-83-3 Retail price R160 (incl VAT) Pages 288
Rooted
Stories of Land and Dislocation
David Robbins
Published September 2009 ISBN 978-0-620444-13-2 Retail price R135 (incl VAT) Pages 141
Discovering Fire Short stories
David Robbins
Published October 2005, 2009 ISBN 978-0-620347-27-3 Retail price R155 (incl VAT) Pages 300
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In print Private Excavations Exploring the roots of dogma
David Robbins
Published May 2010 ISBN 978-0-620463-12-6 Retail price R130 (incl VAT) Pages 208
Writing for Salvation Memoir of a manuscript profane
David Robbins
Published August 2010 ISBN 978-0-620468-47-3 Retail price R130 (incl VAT) Pages 183
Superchair and his Many Adventures Legs for Tommy
Vernon Bowers
Published May 2011 ISBN 9780620492157 Retail price R120 (incl VAT) Pages 34
Beyond the Billboards The loveLife story
David Robbins
Published May 2010 ISBN 978-0-620463-11-9 Retail price R250 (incl VAT) Pages 300 including 40 pages of colour
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New distributed books
Janina Pechova
Published December 2012 ISBN 978-0-620540-36-0 Retail price R130 (incl VAT) Pages 64
Neil Gardiner & Nic Lamond
Published January 2013 ISBN 978-0-9802655-2-1 Retail price R490 (incl VAT) Pages 208, including colour photographs
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New distributed books
Doug Leather
Published March 2013 ISBN 978-0-620558-34-1 Retail price R220 (incl VAT) Pages 308
Cristine Phillips
Published December 2012 ISBN 978-0-620491-43-3 Retail price R390 (incl VAT) Pages 194
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Distributed books Boost Your Sales and Attract new Customers Over 50 new ways to improve your marketing and advertising efforts
Justice Mandhla
Published August 2009 ISBN 978-0-620442-01-5 Retail price R170 (incl VAT) Pages 156
eMarketing
The Essential Guide to Digital Marketing 4th Edition
Rob Stokes and Sarah Blake Published November 2011 ISBN 978-0-620502-66-5 Retail price R499 (incl VAT) Pages 576
The Architecture of High-Performance Organisations Building Corporate Capability
Dr Pieter Bronkhorst
Published June 2011 ISBN 978-0-620499-92-7 Retail price R220 (incl VAT) Pages 227
Fundamentals of Security Vetting Handbook for Managers, Practitioners, Students & Users
Adv Buyile D Mdluli
ISBN 978-0-620509-03-9 Published December 2011 Retail price R320 (incl VAT) Pages 289
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Distributed books The Business Prep Guide
Everything the business start-up gurus never tell you ...
Justiice Mandhla
Published July 2009 ISBN 978-0-620441-33-9 Retail price R150 (incl VAT) Pages 90
The Complete Building Blocks Guide to a Successful Business Marathon Justice Mandhla
Published August 2009 ISBN 978-0-620460-42-2 Retail price R250 (incl VAT) Pages 214
Rainbow’s End
a novel of a South African collapse
Jake ven der Wilden
Published July 2012 ISBN 978-0-987034-60-1 R190 (incl VAT) Pages 160
Flight of the Moth an autobiographical novel
Edwin Jackson
Published July 2010 ISBN 978-0-620447-11-9 R199 (incl VAT) Pages 416
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True North
African Roads Less Travelled
Hamilton Wende
Published July 2008 ISBN 978-0-60407-66-3 Retail price R120 (incl VAT) Pages 192
Deadlines from the Edge Images of war - Congo to Afghanistan
Hamilton Wende
Published July 2008 ISBN 978-0-620407-65-6 Retail price R120 (incl VAT) Pages 356
My Gaia
Handbook for Tomorrow’s leaders, healers and teachers
Chantelle Meyburgh
Published December 2012 ISBN 978-1-920609-05-4 Retail price R295 (incl VAT) Pages 189
The Manservant Mysteries Mystery at Mount Mountbatton
Lee Herrmann
Published July 2011 ISBN 978062497206 Retail price R90 (incl VAT) Pages 105
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Chameleon Crime fiction
Barbara Erasmus
Published March 2008 ISBN 9780620403979 Retail price R140 (incl VAT) Pages 206
The Ice on Mars A novel
Sean Badali
Published August 2010 ISBN 9780620465281 Retail price R130 (incl VAT) Pages 250
Geddin the Hole A novel
Frazer Grundy
Published September 2011 ISBN 978-0-620510-65-3 Retail price R160 (incl VAT) Pages 236
Drag 17 A novel
Huw Edwards
Published January 2011 ISBN 978-0-620488-91-4 Retail price R180 (incl VAT) Pages 128
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Bridging the Divide the story of a Boer-British family
Angela Read Lloyd
Published November 2008 ISBN 978-0-620424-33-2. Retail price R250 (incl of VAT) 508 pages.
The Little 5 Janina Pechova
Published December 2010 ISBN 978-0-620483-69-8 Retail price R130 (incl VAT) Pages 64
Talking to a Tree Poems of a fragile world
A E Ballakisten
Published October 2011 ISBN 978-0-620510-66-0 Retail price R150 (incl VAT) Pages 72
Hotspot Pourri
a British South African thriller
Ned Sturgeon
Published May 2010 ISBN 978-0-620467-36-0 R120 (incl VAT) 306 pages
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A Touch of Madness Poetry
Lewis Watling
Published December 2009 ISBN 978-0-620456-26-5 Retail price R120 (incl VAT) Pages 128
Heap of Stones Poetry
A E Ballakisten
Published January 2010 ISBN 978-0-620457-02-6 Retail price R130 (incl VAT) Pages 93
Treacherous
The imperfections of success
Jack Quinton
Published June 2013 ISBN 978-0-620556-40-8 Retail price R190 (incl VAT) Pages 218
So Close
Infertile and addicted to hope
Tertia Albertyn
Published August 2009 ISBN 978-0-620432-30-2 Retail price R170 (incl VAT) Pages 308
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