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  • Brand: Cath Alexander
  • Brand: Maria (Marijka) Keet
  • Brand: Peter Wilhelm

No Taming of the Enthusiast

From skylarking at school to a professorship at the best university in Africa. It's all here in this collection of loosely related memoir-essays: all twists in the winding road the author travelled to become a female computer science professor at the University of cape Town. Born and schooled in the Netherlands, Ms Keet didn't stay home for long. Her winding road had a distinctly international flavour. She has worked and studied in Ireland and Italy, and briefly in Peru and Cuba, before finding her way back to South Africa. The author herself says of her essays: ' They offer a peek into a kitchen where underway is making of a woman into an academic scientist when the yeast has been gender-spiked against her chances of rising.'

Price R240.00

Timothy’s Tomatoes by Cath...

Timothy’s Tomatoes is a storybook for children about a competition at school to see who will grow the best vegetables.

A few of the key themes in the book deal with:

   feelings of disappointment and failure

   having the courage to believe in yourself when it appears as if the odds are against you

   looking at the small things in life and enjoying them to the maximum

   dishonesty

Price R120.00

Whirlwind in the Thorntree...

The world is ending. People, animals, plants – there is a universal dying-off of the planet. Rumours persist of a reprieve but none appears. Two dogs and their human companions bond, as they trace a vivid circuit in a region not dissimilar to Cape  Town; they encounter the violence and decay as they travel, struggling to survive. It’s a tough passage through societies of degradation and unsettled by a war beyond the mountains that encircle them.

Price R230.00