Clarke's Books

NEW ARRIVALS
September 2007

Altbeker (A.) A COUNTRY AT WAR WITH ITSELF, South Africa's crisis of crime, 189 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

	R110

"Antony Altbeker has spent 13 years working in and around the criminal justice system". He is the author of "The Dirty Work of Democracy: a year on the streets with the SAPS".

Bradlow (E.) & (F.) HERE COMES THE ALABAMA, "Daar kom die Alabama", 162 pp., b/w & colour illus., hardback, Cape Town, (1958) 2007.

	R265
OUT OF PRINT

A history of the Confederate raider, CCS Alabama, and its involvement with South Africa during the American Civil War. In 1863 the ship docked in Saldahna Bay and in August of that year captured a Federal ship, the "Sea-Bride", within sight of Cape Town. The Cape Malay community created the song, "Daar kom die Alabama", around the ship and its exploits.

Coetzee (J.M.) DIARY OF A BAD YEAR, , 231 pp., paperback, London, (2007) 2008.

	R244

J.M.Coetzee's latest novel.

J.M.Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.

Epstein (H.) THE INVISIBLE CURE, Africa, the West, and the fight against AIDS, 324 pp., map, paperback, London, (2007) 2008.

	R230

"In 1993, Helen Epstein, a scientist working with a biotechnology company searching for an AIDS vaccine, moved to Uganda, where she witnessed first-hand the suffering caused by the HIV virus." Her book recounts the struggle of international health experts, governments and ordinary Africans to understand and respond to the spread of HIV in Africa.

Gumede (W.M.) THABO MBEKI AND THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF THE ANC, , 476 pp., paperback, Cape Town, (2005) 2007.

	R200

A revised and updated edition of journalist and academic William Mervyn Gumede's unauthorised biography of Thabo Mbeki. Gumede analyses Mbeki's rise within the ANC, his political career, personality and politics, and examines issues such as the President's controversial position on AIDS and Zimbabwe, the impact of Jacob Zuma, the ANC-SACP-COSATU alliance, and the succession battle within the party.

William Gumede is Senior Associate and Oppenheimer Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford University. Formerly a deputy editor of the Sowetan newspaper, he is on the faculty of the Graduate School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand, is a contributing analyst to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and the BBC World Service, and writes a blog on global politics for the Washington Post.

Joyce (P.) THE MAKING OF A NATION, South Africa's road to freedom, 215 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

	R200

A general history of South Africa, from the Anglo-Boer War at the end of the nineteenth century up to the present.

Khumalo (S.) DARK CONTINENT MY BLACK ARSE, by bus, boksie, matola...from Cape to Cairo, 222 pp., map, paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

	R130

In 2005/6 Sihle Khumalo travelled on public transport from Durban, South Africa, through Namibia, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia and the Sudan to Cairo in Egypt.

Manser (R.) AROUND AFRICA ON MY BICYCLE, , 705 pp., map, paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

	R175

An account of Riaan Manser's circumnavigation of Africa. Riding a bicycle, he set out from Cape Town on 9 September 2003 and travelled through 34 different countries, a journey that took him over two years.

Marsh (B.) ed. THE HUNTING BLACKBEARDS OF BOTSWANA, , 248 pp., 4to., map, b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 2007.

	R495

Three generations of the Blackbeard family of Botswana, all professional hunters, share their hunting stories.

McGregor (L.) & Nuttall (S.) eds. AT RISK, writing on and over the edge of South Africa, 246 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

	R130

A collection of non-fiction pieces by academics and journalists including Deborah Posel, Fred Khumalo, Sarah Nuttall, Liz McGregor, Achille Mbembe, Jonny Steinberg and Njabulo Ndebele.

Nasson (B.) SPRINGBOKS ON THE SOMME, South Africa in the Great War 1914-1918, 257 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

	R180

A general study of how the First World War affected South Africa and its people.

Bill Nasson is Professor of History at the University of Cape Town.

Ngcobo (N.) SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE WHITE, subversive thoughts from an urban Zulu warrior, 168 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

	R130

Foreword by Fred Khumalo.

A selection of humorous essays by Ndumiso Ngcobo, a consultant and writer living on the East Rand.

Oppenheimer (G.M.) & Bayer (R.) SHATTERED DREAMS?, an oral history of the South African AIDS epidemic, 266 pp., hardback, d.w., New York, 2007.

	R280

The story of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa, based on interviews with physicians and nurses working in hospitals and clinics across the country.

Gerald Oppenheimer is a Professor at Brooklyn College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Ronald Bayer is Professor and CoDirector of the Centre for the History and Ethics of Public Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.

Richter (L.) & Morrell (R.) eds. BABA, men and fatherhood in South Africa, 326 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2006.

	R160

Contributions include "On Being a Father and Poor in South Africa Today" by Francis Wilson,
"Migrancy, Family Dissolution and Fatherhood" by Mamphela Ramphele and Linda Richter,
"Fatherhood from an African Cultural Perspective" by Desmond Lesejane,
"HIV/AIDS and the Crisis of Care for Children" by Chris Desmond and Cos Desmond,
Being a Father in a Man's World: the experience of goldmine workers" by Marlize Rabe, and much more.

Roberts (R.S.) FIT TO GOVERN, the native intelligence of Thabo Mbeki, 296 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

	R150

Ronald Suresh Roberts examines the intellectual traditions and central ideas that inform President Thabo Mbeki's actions, including his decisions on Zimbabwe and HIV/AIDS.

Ronald Suresh Roberts is the author of the biography on Nadine Gordimer, "No Cold Kitchen".

Venter (S.) ed. A FREE MIND, Ahmed Kathrada's notebook from Robben Island, 135 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2005.

	R95

A selection of quotations from books, magazines and smuggled newspapers which Ahmed Kathrada transcribed into his private notebooks during his 26 years as a political prisoner.