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You left the doctor's surgery before you could ask the things you really wanted to know. You've googled your question about dementia and had 75 answers, all contradicting each other. You asked your best friend - but they looked at you strangely.

'A powerful, eloquent and deeply affecting book. I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL 'Tender, evocative and deeply moving' JONATHAN FREEDLAND 'Profound, elegiac and fascinating... I zipped through it' PHILIPPE SANDS 'Compelling' DAILY MAIL, BOOK OF T

How did South Africa turn out the way it did? In Moederland - 'Motherland', in Afrikaans - Cato Pedder takes us on an eye-opening journey across four centuries, ...

April 1944. Nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became two of the very first Jews to successfully escape Auschwitz.