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  • The God of Small Things

    Winner of the Booker Prize

    by Arundhati Roy ...
    ‘They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.’This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana jam vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother’s factory, and amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. Armed only with the innocence of youth, they fashion a ... Read more

    R147,30

  • Nemesis

    The historical epic from the master of adventure, Wilbur Smith

    by Wilbur Smith, Tom Harper ...
    A FIGHT FOR HONOUR. A QUEST FOR REVENGE.Paris, 1794. Revolutionary fervour has erupted into the Reign of Terror. A young man, Paul Courtney, hides in a crowd watching as the condemned are brought to the guillotine. Among them is Constance Courtney, Paul's mother. As he watches her brutal execution, he knows he must avoid the same fate and fulfil his promise to her - to survive, no matter what. He ... Read more

    R25,40

  • Daughter of Empire

    Life as a Mountbatten

    by Lady Pamela Hicks ...
    A source of inspiration for the film Viceroy's HousePamela Mountbatten was born at the end of the 1920s into one of Britain's grandest families. The daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten and his glamorous wife Edwina Ashley, she was brought up by nannies and governesses as she was often parted from her parents as they dutifully carried out their public roles. A solitary child, she learned to occupy ... Read more

    R178,58

  • East of the Sun

    A Richard and Judy bestseller

    by Julia Gregson ...
    The captivating million copy bestseller of three young women in search of freedom and love in 1920s India.India 1928. A land of heat, dust and dreams, and the promise of love ...Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naïve bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her bridesmaid couldn't ... Read more

    R259,77

  • The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyayana (Mobi Classics)

    by Vatsyayana ...
    The Kama Sutra (alternative spellings: Kamasutram or simply Kamasutra), is an ancient Indian text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by the Indian scholar Vatsyayana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sex. Kama means sensual or sexual pleasure, and sutra are the guidlines of yoga, the word itself means thread in ... Read more

    R18,92 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China

    A History

    by John Keay ...
    Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume.Despite the recent rise of China to a position of dominance on the world economic stage, Chinese history remains an elusive subject. Yet it is this vast narrative of appalling loss, superhuman endeavour and incredible invention that has made China the superpower it is today. From the dawn of legend to the ... Read more

    R153,63

  • Meet Me in Bombay

    All he needs is to find her. First, he must remember who she is.

    by Jenny Ashcroft ...
    'An epic love story full of exotic charm and rich historical detail . . . Meet Me In Bombay will sweep you away to another time and place.' Red Magazine'Powerful and evocative' Woman & HomeAll he needs is to find her. First he must remember who she is**.**An injured soldier has lost everything, even his past. His dreams hint at his old life; flashes of a woman. His only wish is to return to her, ... Read more

    R227,34

  • My Experiments with Truth

    An Autobiography

    by M.K. Gandhi ...
    Series series POPULAR LIFE STORIES
    "It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography."The Story of My Experiments with Truth, the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, is a very popular and influential book. It covers the period from his ... Read more

    R49,20

  • The Indian Mutiny - A Brief History

    A Brief History, #3

    by Andrew Knight ...
    Series Book 3 - A Brief History
    The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to present-day Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, northern Madhya Pradesh, and the Delhi region. The rebellion posed a ... Read more

    R16,45 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Red Fort

    by James Leasor ...
    ‘This is a battle piece of the finest kind, detailed, authentic and largely written from original documents. Mr. Leasor has a formidable gift of narrative. Never has this story of hate, violence, courage and cowardice been better told.’Cecil Woodham-Smith in the New York TimesA year after the Crimean War ended, an uprising broke out in India which was to have equal impact on the balance of world ... Read more

    R57,56

  • Inglorious Empire

    What the British Did to India

    by Shashi Tharoor ...
    The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires ... laying bare the grim, and high, cost of the British Empire for its former subjects. An essential read' Financial TimesIn the eighteenth century, ... Read more

    R189,51

  • The Anarchy

    The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

    by William Dalrymple ...
    THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF ... ... Read more

    R285,99

  • Greek and Roman Accounts of India

    by Herodotus, Pliny the Elder & Strabo ...
    Herodotus, also known as the Father of History, lived in the 5th century B.C. (c.484 BC c.425 BC) and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative. The Histories his masterpiece and the only work he is known to have produced is a record of his investigation of the origins ... Read more

    R18,92

  • Everybody’s Friend

    by Raghu Karnad ...
    Raghu Karnad’s “Everybody’s Friend” is a poignant pilgrimage to the military grave of a great-uncle, fallen defending the obsolescent Raj against the oncoming army of imperial Japan. The most brutal fighting unfolded on the unforgiving northeast Indian border with Burma, and Karnad takes himself and the reader deep into Nagaland to find the war graves of Imphal. There he broods without heavy ... Read more

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  • Code Swaraj

    Field Notes from the Standards Satyagraha

    by Carl Malamud, Sam Pitroda ...
    CODE SWARAJ is the story of a modern-day campaign of civil resistance which takes inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi and his campaigns of satyagraha that changed the nature of how our governments interact with their citizens. In their quest for universal access to knowledge, democratizing information, and decolonizing knowledge, Malamud and Pitroda apply those Gandhian values to our modern times and ... Read more

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  • Pakistan

    A Personal History

    by Imran Khan ...
    "A must-read for anyone interested in the intrigue of politics in the most dangerous country on earth" (The Sunday Times)Read the unique insider's view of a country unfamiliar to a Western audience, seen through the eyes of the man set to become Pakistan's new Prime Minister.Born only five years after Pakistan was created in 1947, Imran Khan has lived his country's history. Undermined by a ruling ... Read more

    R246,43

  • In Xanadu

    A Quest (Text Only)

    by William Dalrymple ...
    One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of ‘Return of a King’, which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize.At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan’s stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. This is an account of a quest which took him and his companions across the ... Read more

    R163,63

  • India

    A History

    by John Keay ...
    The British historian and author of Into India delivers "a history that is intelligent, incisive, and eminently readable" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Fully revised with forty thousand new words that take the reader up to present-day India, John Keay's India: A History spans five millennia in a sweeping narrative that tells the story of the peoples of the subcontinent, from their ancient ... Read more

    R276,22 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Over the Edge of the World

    Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

    by Laurence Bergreen ...
    “A first-rate historical page turner.” —New York Times Book ReviewThe acclaimed and bestselling account of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage.Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe during the Age of Discovery was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World Updated Edition, prize-winning biographer ... Read more

    R219,52

  • La donna in India

    by Lara Marongiu ...
    L’India, lo Stato democratico più popolato al mondo, riguardo lo status e il ruolo sociale della donna vive una situazione di profonda arretratezza. Dall’infanticido, al rito delle Sati, alle uccisioni per la dote, ai matrimoni combinati, agli stupri, questo piccolo e-book racconta una realtà difficile da capire e accettare come tale. ... Read more

    R33,07 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Uncertain Glory

    India and its Contradictions

    by Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen ...
    From two of India's leading economists, Jean Drèze (Hunger and Public Action) and Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen (The Idea of Justice), An Uncertain Glory is a passionate, considered argument for the need for a greater understanding of inequalities in India, despite economic development.When India regained independence from colonial rule in 1947, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic ... Read more

    R208,48

  • Road of Bones

    The Siege of Kohima 1944 – The Epic Story of the Last Great Stand of Empire

    by Fergal Keane ...
    (This ebook contains a limited number of illustrations. Maps are best viewed on a tablet.)The epic story of one of the most savage battles of the Second World War.Kohima. In this remote Indian village near the border with Burma, a tiny force of British and Indian troops faced the might of the Imperial Japanese Army. Outnumbered ten to one, the defenders fought the Japanese hand to hand in a battle ... Read more

    R245,63

  • Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Bhikhu Parekh ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of opposing unjust laws by non-violent protest, which he made the basis of his successful struggle against British rule in India. In this Very Short ... Read more

    R129,82

  • The Hero of Delhi

    A Life of John Nicholson, Saviour of India, and a History of His Wars

    by Hesketh Pearson ...
    An Irishman, like so many other great British generals, John Nicholson received a cadetship in the Bengal Infantry at the age of sixteen. Apart from one short visit to England, the rest of his life was spent in India. The Afghan and Sikh wars of the eighteen-forties brought out the titanic powers of a character that "flowered in action," and before he was thirty, "Nikal Seyn" was a legend ... Read more

    R68,93 or Free with Kobo Plus