Tag: Penguin Random House SA

The bestselling historian with the incredible true story of WW2's most infamous Nazi prison. In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors.

Never Waste a Good Crisis was born in the wake of COVID-19. However, the book elaborates on many other challenges that leaders in corporate South Africa have had to deal with – including deeply personal ones. Is leadership an art? Can you learn it? Can anyone be a leader?

In 1909, four women board a ship in Madras to cross the Kala Pani, the ‘black water’, to Natal. On board the ship, the women will form friendships and alliances. They will help each other through trial and trauma, even after they arrive and are separated.

From Enron to the opioid scandal, an explosive, deeply-reported exposé that shows how McKinsey's has made the world more unequal, more corrupt and more dangerous over the last sixty years. McKinsey & Co. earns billions of dollars in fees from major corporations and governments who turn to them to maximise their profits and enhance efficiency.

Koos Bekker has amassed one of the largest fortunes ever by a South African. Just how did he do it? Under Bekker, Naspers made several bad investments, a few mediocre ones, a few good ones … and one that shot the lights out.

What was supposed to be a short business trip to Equatorial Guinea turned into a journey to the depths of hell. Black Beach, located on Bioko island off the mainland of Equatorial Guinea, is one of the world’s most feared prisons, notorious for its brutality and inhumane conditions.

Few athletes hold a record comparable to that of Oscar Chalupsky and he made history at the age of fifteen as the first person to win both the Junior and Senior Ironman titles on the same day at the South African National Lifesaving Championships, he was the country’s spokesman at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics

The stock market is the golden goose that the rich rely on to stay rich. That’s why so many people believe that the stock market is an exclusive club, or that only professionals understand it well enough to succeed. But those days are long gone, and investing is more accessible than ever, as The Wise Investor proves.

Basetsana Kumalo shot to fame as Miss South Africa in 1994 and soon became the face of South Africa’s new democracy. As the first black presenter of the glamorous lifestyle TV show Top Billing, she travelled the world and interviewed legends like Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jackson and Luther Vandross.

In this thought-provoking, sanity-saving book, Thomas Erikson helps you understand what makes narcissists tick and, crucially, how to handle them without wearing yourself out in the process.