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‘When I grow up, I want to be rich!’ – Carla Venter at ten years old.Growing up in Volksrust on a strict family budget, Carla never imagined she would one day be managing investments across the world. Her career as a qualified Chartered Accountant and MBA graduate who has worked in South Africa, London and Zurich, set her well on her path to achieving her childhood goal. It has also taught her some valuable lessons and brought her to the realisation that what most of us have been taught about money is wrong – or, at best, incomplete.Since then, she’s built one of South Africa's most followed money platforms and wrote this book as a wealth-building guide that South Africans actually need. Money with Carla covers everything the financial services industry prefers you did not know: from the silent damage of investment fees and why your advisor's Audi is funded by your portfolio, to why the stock market is less risky than your savings account, and why property is rarely the wealth-building machine people think it is.This book is not about money – it's about what money can do for you. Because money, done right, gives you one thing that nothing else can buy: the freedom to choose how you spend your time.

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Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011 Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2011 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and award-winning science writer, examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with - and perished from - for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience and perseverance, but also of hubris, arrogance and misperception, all leveraged against a disease that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out ‘war against cancer’. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories and deaths, told through the eyes of predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary. From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast, to the nineteeth-century recipient of primitive radiation and chemotherapy and Mukherjee’s own leukemia patient, Carla, The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through toxic, bruising, and draining regimes to survive and to increase the store of human knowledge. Riveting and magesterial, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and a brilliant new perspective on the way doctors, scientists, philosophers and lay people have observed and understood the human body for millennia.

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