When Movie Mayhem Gripped the City of Gold
In 1913, a secretive American millionaire, who lived on the top floor of the famous Carlton Hotel, had a crazy idea: to make movies in Johannesburg. And not just any movies but the biggest in the world, huge spectacles with elaborate sets, thousands of extras and epic story lines.
Read MoreMother. Nurse. Gold-digger. Cause célèbre. When Daisy de Melker stood trial in 1932, accused of poisoning her son and two husbands, the public couldn’t get enough of her. Crowds gathered outside court baying for blood, and she waved to them like a celebrity.
Read MoreA wonderfully quirky tale about the people in New York City whose mission is to find treasure … in what other people throw away.
Read MoreMore than thirty murders, nine fugitives, and one man obsessed by the search for justice. In this thrilling and fascinating true account of Frank Bender and his work, The Girl with the Crooked Nose draws readers into the cases that he has solved, the intricacies of his art, the colourful characters he encounters, and the personal cost of his strange obsession.
Read MoreA dirty, grimy, graffiti-stained tenement popular with a group of local drug dealers is where the author found a cheap apartment when he first moved to New York City. Then things went terribly wrong.
Read MoreReminiscent of Water for Elephants and The Life of Pi, The Animal Lover takes you on a journey through past and present you won’t quickly forget.
Read MoreA story of travel and self-discovery through Africa, Apartheid in my Rucksack unfolds just as apartheid was ending.
Read MoreThe death of a young family in Stellenbosch wasn’t everything that it seemed to be. Until it was.
Read MoreIn a country of exquisite coastlines, the south is hardly known. And this being Africa, maybe it will stay that way.
Read MoreIn the abandoned mines of West Africa, men dig for the gems that might have been left behind.
Read MoreThe longest train ride, and one of the only trains, in West Africa, RAN takes a very market-driven route from Abidjan to Niamey. From fruit to chicken to sheep, you can buy almost anything on board.
Read MoreA trip to a mystical and forgotten world of believers and crusaders, where two worlds collided with bloody consequences in one of the most beautiful parts of France.
Read MoreIn a corner of Africa, hunters from the Middle East run amok with submachine guns, killing and maiming animals, then spirit away their orphaned infants to keep them as pets. Even worse than this massacre is that no one wants to know about it
Read MoreOn countless islands in the Seychelles where man caused species to be wiped out, a new order is bringing birds and insects and creatures back again.
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