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In this shockingly brilliant debut memoir, a young girl grows up in Joburg in a space of pure chaos. With a crack-devouring father and a pot-smoking mother, her childhood is peppered by crack excursions to Hillbrow at 3 am, courtesy of her father, while observing her mother disappear into clouds of smoke. Unleashing a Millennial’s unapologetic take on our world, Chilimigras is a new voice that shakes perspectives and demands to be read.

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In July 2016, Letshego Zulu set off with her husband, SA racing champion Gugulethu Zulu, to conquer Mount Kilimanjaro. She had no idea that she would return to South Africa days later with her husband’s body in a coffin. This is the untold story of what really happened on Kilimanjaro. Told in mesmerising detail, this is a remarkable journey of a wife’s courage and stamina as she tries to find an authentic life after Gugu’s untimely death.

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From Whiskey to Water is the no-holds-barred memoir by one of South Africa's most loved radio talk show hosts, Sam Cowen. Having kept her alcohol addiction well away from the public eye for over 14 years, in this tell-all tale, Sam finds the courage to talk about her struggle with her addiction to whiskey, food and finally to a passion that saved her life – marathon swimming.

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To celebrate her 14 year clean and sober birthday, award winning journo Melinda Ferguson takes a brand new Ferrari out to test drive for the day. Seven hours later the car lies smashed into a million pieces, beyond recognition and repair. The crash sets an epic journey in motion, where Ferguson must navigate her way out of a cul de sac of trauma and scandal.

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Brutal Legacy by former TV and Radio star, Tracy Going is an account of a romantic relationship that quickly turns violent. In mesmerising detail, Going describes her bruises and battered spirit, the harrowing two-and-a-half year court process, the collapse of her career due to the highly public nature of her assault, her decline into depression, and the decades long journey to undo the damage in search of safety and the reclaiming of self.

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When Chris Hani was assassinated in 1993, he left a shocked South Africa, teetering on the precipice of civil war. But to 12-year old Lindiwe Hani, it was her Daddy, who had been brutally taken. Being Chris Hani's daughter became an increasingly heavy burden to bear, propelling Lindiwe into a downward spiral of addiction. Finally Lindiwe confronts her demons, by coming face to face with her father's killers – Janus Walusz and Clive Derby Lewis.

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Koopman brilliantly wades through the flotsam and jetsam of generations, among shipwrecks and sunken treasures in an attempt at familial and collective healing. She faces up against her insecurities as a brown relatively privileged 'elder millennial'. An artist, a daughter, a queer woman in love, she is in pursuit of healing and always and forever trying to lose that last 5kgs to the great disappointment of her feminist self.

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Not Child's Play brilliantly traverses the Muller's nightmare of seven weeks in captivity by Renamo child soldiers, in Mozambique after their yacht runs aground near the Bazaruto Islands. Plagued by intense mental and emotional strain, with the fear of violence and death a constant, as the days drag slowly by, uncannily the hostages and captors begin to bond.

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'I remembered how, when I was a small child supposed to be asleep, my mother would slip into bed behind me and hold me. She would be trembling. She couldn’t hide it no matter how young I was. ‘Go to sleep, go to sleep,’ she’d say, as if that would save us.' Brent Meersman’s poignant memoir of a humble and eccentric upbringing in Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1970s and ’80s reads as a stirring eulogy to his mother, and a vivid snapshot of the times. His adoring mother, a horse-loving artist, received only rudimentary treatment for her schizophrenia; while his father battled a vicious whirlpool of alcohol-fuelled depression. 'A Childhood Made Up' is beautifully observed and filled with wry humour. Delicate yet brutal, this story pays testament to the power of love and the quiet heroism of resilience.

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As a young underground cadre in 1980s Durban, Moe Shaik endured detention, following orders for the good of the organisation. Little did he know that this stint in the police cells would lead to his lifelong relationship with The Nightingale, a Special Branch policeman turned enemy secret agent whose files were so accurate, Oliver Tambo named them The Bible. Shaik morphs from being a timid optometrist to leading a critical, high-tech intelligence operation, supplying information to the ANC top brass in exile and in South Africa. He becomes party to the secrets of both the state and ANC operatives. This thrilling first-person account brings into sharp focus the role of Jacob Zuma, Shaik's brother Schabir and other players, and sheds new light on some of South Africa's most turbulent years.

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