BEYOND THE MIRACLE: INSIDE THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA by Allister Sparks (Jonathan Ball). From the acclaimed author of The Mind of South Africa and Tomorrow Is Another Country , a look at South Africa and its discontents since the 1994 election. An essential read.
KINGDOM OF FEAR by Hunter S Thompson (Allen Lane). The godfather of Gonzo, high priest of excess and supreme chronicler of the American nightmare takes on the one subject too scary for anyone else to tackle — himself!
KRAKATAO by Simon Winchester (Viking). The author of The Map of the World explores the “day the world exploded” — August 27 1803.
GLORY DAYS by Edward Griffith (Viking). Four decades of one-day international cricket — including the 2003 World Cup.
PORTRAIT OF A KILLER by Patricia Cornwell (Time Warner). The best-selling novelist sets out to crack a true-life case — the famous and horrific 1888 Jack the Ripper murders in London.
IGNITE THE SPAK: 52 CREATIVE WAYS TO BOOST YOUR PRODUCTIVITY by Judi Moreo and Fiona Carmichael (Penguin). This book focuses on tapping into the creative wellspring we all possess, teaching how to raise your team’s creative quotient.
THE BITCH IN THE HOUSE edited by Cathi Hanauer (William Morrow) Women today are supposed to have it all — career, marriage, children, fantastic sex, a beautiful home. Twenty-six women speak out.
LEKGOTLA: THE ART OF LEADERSHIP THROUGH DIALOGUE by Willen HJ de Liefde (Jacana) Shows how companies can use Southern African principles of tribal management to get ahead and keep everyone happy. A dance around the fire, anyone?
JOHANNESBURG PORTRAITS: FROM LIONEL PHILLIPS TO SIBONGILE KHUMALO by Mike Alfred (Jacana) The story of our great city, told though the lives and achievements of its past and present citizens, from Randlord Phillips to MK Gandhi, Phillip Tobias and Bram Fischer.
CHANGE YOUR THINKING, CHANGE YOUR LIFE by Clive Simpkins (CSSC) Founded in psycho-neuro-immunology, self-esteem and emotional intelligence, a book that goes beyond self-help into the hard but necessary business of change.
RICH DAD, POOR DAD by Robert T Kiyosaki (Warner) What the rich teach their kids about money … Go, on, aspire. This book is still selling and selling, as it has since 1997.