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Book Reviews

Unstoppable Us – Volume 1
How Humans Took Over the World

YUVAL NOAH HARARI
From the author of the multi-million most amazing superpower: the ability
bestselling Sapiens comes an incredible to tell stories. Fairy tales have led us from
new story of the human race, for younger imagining ghosts and spirits to being able
readers. to create money (yes, really!). And this has
We humans aren’t strong like lions, we made us very powerful... but very deadly.
don’t swim as well as dolphins, and we Nothing stands in our way, and we always
definitely don’t have wings! So how did want more.
we end up ruling the world? The answer to So, get ready for the most amazing
that is one of the strangest tales you’ll ever story there ever was – the incredible superpower to change the world.
hear. And it’s a true story... true tale of the Unstoppables. Find out With full-colour illustrations showing
Have you ever wondered how we got how fire shrank our stomachs, how the relentless rise and rise of the human
here? From hunting mammoths, to flying our ancestors spoke to animals, what race, this is history like you’ve never
to the moon? football can tell us about being human, experienced it before.
It is because we are unstoppable. how we used our superpower for good
But what made us so? Well, we have the and bad... and how YOU have the Price R330.00

Koos Bekker’s Billions

BY T.J. STRYDOM
With M-Net, Koos Bekker convinced Financial journalist, TJ Strydom, distils
the business world he had the magic it down to 15 steps, each calculated and
touch. But it was only the start of an effective, sketching out the winning ways
entrepreneurial journey that would bring of the elusive media mogul. Bekker often
him immense wealth. Bekker swept in gets the credit for the investment in China’s
at Naspers, transforming an Afrikaans Tencent, a single punt that rivals South
printer into a global technology giant, Africa’s entire mining sector in the wealth it
earning investors trillions and himself a created this century. But should he be the
good few billion. But how? What were the one lauded for this achievement?
methods employed by this boere seun
from Heidelberg? Price R280.00

All The Broken Places

BY JOHN BOYNE

From the author of the globally bestselling, but begin a friendship with the little boy, Henry,
multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped though his presence brings back memories she
Pyjamas, and The Heart’s Invisible Furies. would rather forget. One night, she witnesses
Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in a violent argument between Henry’s mother
the same mansion block in London for decades. and his domineering father, one that threatens
She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her Gretel’s hard-won, self-contained existence.
dark and disturbing past. She doesn’t talk about Gretel is faced with a chance to expiate her
her escape from Germany over seventy years guilt, grief and remorse and act to save a young
before. She doesn’t talk about the post-war years boy – for the second time in her life. But to do so,
in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn’t she will be forced to reveal her true identity to
talk about her father, the commandant of one of the world. Will she make a different choice this
the most notorious Nazi concentration camps. time, whatever the cost to herself?
Then, a young family moves into the apartment
below her. In spite of herself, Gretel can’t help Price R330.00

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