Groundbreaking … It will be difficult for anyone to better this book … a work of art, a feast that combines genres skilfully: biography, true-crime, political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full gallop’ Wil Haygood, Washington Post

‘He was a country bumpkin who became a zoot-suited entertainer who became a petty criminal who became a self-taught intellectual … In his revealing and prodigiously researched new biography, Marable vividly chronicles these many incarnations of Malcolm X, describing the “multiple masks” he donned over the years’ Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

‘Explodes the myths that obscure the real man’ Hugh Muir, Guardian

‘By the end of the 1960s, Malcolm’s disciples had elevated him to what Manning Marable calls “secular sainthood” … But Marable resists the temptation of hagiography and fills in the gaps left by previous books. He gives us Malcolm in all his self-contradiction and self-doubt’ Yo Zushi, New Statesman

‘Lucid, hugely researched and surely definitive … an extraordinary story’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times

‘Here at last is the meticulous portrait he deserves’ Andrew Anthony, Observer

Author: Manning Marable

ISBN;9780143120322

Nelson Mandela stands out as one of the most admired political figures of the twentieth century. It was his leadership and moral courage above all that helped to deliver a peaceful end to apartheid in South Africa after years of racial division and violence and to establish a fledgling democracy there.

Martin Meredith’s vivid portrayal of this towering leader was originally acclaimed by the Sunday Timesas ‘a fitting epitaph to an extraordinary career’ and by the Daily Telegraphas ‘a compelling account of the whole of Mandela’s life’. Meredith’s acclaimed biography incorporates a decade of additional perspective and hindsight on the man and his legacy and examines how far his hopes for the new South Africa were realised.

Mandelais the most thorough and up-to-date account available of the life of its most revered hero.

Author: Martin Meredith

ISBN:9781847399328