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Unstoppable

Us Volume 1

HOW HUMANS TOOK OVER THE WORLD
By Uval Noah Harari
From the author of the multi-million
bestselling Sapiens comes an
incredible new story of the human
race, for younger readers.

We humans aren’t strong like lions,
we don’t swim as well as dolphins,
and we definitely don’t have wings! So
how did we end up ruling the world?
The answer to that is one of the
strangest tales you’ll ever hear. And
it’s a true story...
So, get ready for the most amazing
Have you ever wondered how we got story there ever was – the incredible
here? From hunting mammoths, to true tale of the Unstoppables. Find
flying to the moon? out how fire shrank our stomachs,
how our ancestors spoke to animals, All the Broken Places
It is because we are unstoppable. But what football can tell us about being
what made us so? Well, we have the human, how we used our superpower
most amazing superpower: the ability for good and bad... and how YOU have By John Boyne
to tell stories. Fairy tales have led the superpower to change the world. From the author of the globally
us from imagining ghosts and spirits bestselling, multi-million-copy classic,
to being able to create money (yes, With full-colour illustrations showing the The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and
really!). And this has made us very relentless rise and rise of the human The Heart’s Invisible Furies.
powerful... but very deadly. Nothing race, this is history like you’ve never
stands in our way, and we always experienced it before. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby
want more. Price: R330.00 has lived in the same mansion block
in London for decades. She leads
Koos Bekker's a comfortable, quiet life, despite
her dark and disturbing past. She
Billions doesn’t talk about her escape
from Germany over seventy years
before. She doesn’t talk about the
By TJ Strydom post-war years in France with her
mother. Most of all, she doesn’t talk
With M-Net, Koos Bekker convinced about her father, the commandant
the business world he had the mag- of one of the most notorious Nazi
ic touch. But it was only the start concentration camps.
of an entrepreneurial journey that
would bring him immense wealth. Then, a young family moves into
Bekker swept in at Naspers, trans- the apartment below her. In spite of
forming an Afrikaans printer into herself, Gretel can’t help but begin a
a global technology giant, earning friendship with the little boy, Henry,
investors trillions and himself a though his presence brings back
good few billion. But how? What memories she would rather forget.
were the methods employed by this One night, she witnesses a violent
boere seun from Heidelberg? argument between Henry’s mother
and his domineering father, one that
Financial journalist, TJ Strydom, threatens Gretel’s hard-won, self-
distils it down to 15 steps, each contained existence.
calculated and effective, sketching
out the winning ways of the elusive Gretel is faced with a chance to
media mogul. Bekker often gets expiate her guilt, grief and remorse
the credit for the investment in and act to save a young boy – for the
China’s Tencent, a single punt that second time in her life. But to do so,
rivals South Africa’s entire mining she will be forced to reveal her true
sector in the wealth it created this identity to the world. Will she make a
century. But should he be the one different choice this time, whatever
lauded for this achievement? the cost to herself?
Price R280.00 Price R330.00
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