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Jamaica Inn
Little, Brown Book Group 2012; Not AvailableOn a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honour of her mother's dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory, for her aunt Patience cowers before hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn. Terrified of the inn's brooding power, Mary gradually finds herself ensnared... more...
Rebecca
Little, Brown Book Group 2012; US$ 19.92Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . . Working as a lady's companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo... more...
Does the Woman Exist?
Other Press 2013; US$ 16.99This book describes how Freud attempted to chart hysteria, yet came to a standstill at the problem of woman and her desire, and of how Lacan continued along this road by creating new conceptual tools. The difficulties and upsets encountered by both men are examined. This lucid presentation of the dialectical process that carries Lacan through the... more...
The Rough Guide to Nelson Mandela
Rough Guides 2011; US$ 13.99The Rough Guide to Nelson Mandela is a fresh, honest overview of the life story and the impact of one of the world's greatest modern icons. It assesses the influence of his rural, traditional childhood on his later personality, and it tells the stories of his early years as a revolutionary leader and master strategist like no book has done before;... more...
The Rough Guide to Nelson Mandela
Rough Guides Ltd 2011; Not AvailableThe Rough Guide to Nelson Mandela is a fresh, honest overview of the life story and the impact of one of the world's greatest modern icons. It assesses the influence of his rural, traditional childhood on his later personality, and his early years as a revolutionary leader and master strategist; including his private life and troubled marriages.... more...
Dwars
Random House Struik 2010; US$ 10.00Max du Preez het ?n helse storie om te vertel. Tydens sy loopbaan as ?n hardegat-joernalis is hy drie keer afgedank; sewe keer weens laster gedagvaar; dertien keer krimineel aangekla en het hy drie vliegtuigongelukke, twee sluipmoordpogings en ?n bomaanval oorleef. Hy was in Soweto op 16 Junie 1976, hy was ooggetuie van die losbandige partytjies van... more...
Oor krygers, korrelkoppe en konkelaars
Random House Struik 2010; US$ 10.00Moenie verwag dat hierdie stories enigsins gaan wees soos die geskiedenis wat jy op skool of universiteit geleer het nie. Max du Preez sit die mense, die karakters, terug in die geskiedenis. Oor krygers, korrelkoppe en konkelaars bevat ?n keur van die verhale uit die uiters gewilde Of Warriors, Lovers and Prophets van 2004 en Of Tricksters, Tyrants... more...
Of Warriors, Lovers and Prophets
Random House Struik 2010; US$ 10.00South African history will never be the same again ? Shunning the predictable, Max du Preez has put on his investigative journalist?s cap and examined our past from a fresh perspective. The result is a collection of extraordinary and mostly unknown stories, all meticulously researched and written in an engaging and lively style. Instead of regurgitating... more...
Pale Native
Random House Struik 2011; US$ 10.00Max du Preez has one hell of a story to tell. In his career as a renegade reporter, he?s survived three dismissals, seven libel suits, thirteen criminal cases, four aeroplane crashes, a bombing, two assassination attempts and was a regular on right-wing hit lists. He was in Soweto on 16 June 1976, witnessed the debauched parties of apartheid cabinet... more...
Of Tricksters, Tyrants and Turncoats
Random House Struik 2010; US$ 10.00The sequel to the bestselling Of Warriors, Lovers and Prophets, this is a collection of more fascinating, colourful - and mostly unknown - historical tales, all meticulously researched and written in a lively and engaging style. There are stories of Khoikhoi who tried - with mixed fortunes - to integrate into early Cape colonial society, and eccentric... more...









