Kathy Munro

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"Early One Sunday Morning I decided to Step out and Find South Africa" by Luke Alfred
'The Man behind the Beard' - A sympathetic biography that makes a contribution to the history of South Africa in the 20th century
A book that celebrates the glorious heritage of Paarl
A brilliant and delightful homage to the history of Johannesburg’s Gas Works
A Johannesburg Album Historical Postcards by Oscar I Norwich
A Look at Two Books by Hannes Meiring
A novel about the 'Last Days of Old Parktown'
A Review of John Stewart’s Sir Herbert Baker
A Statement in Stone
A view of Johannesburg through lenses from a different era
Activate / Captivate opens up the entire Wits Art Museum collection
An Australian journalist gives us a glimpse of Johannesburg life, 1895 to 1899
An essential companion when travelling the Barberton Makhonjwa Geotrail
An even-handed biography that adds to the literature on South African educational history
An old guide book is a great source for heritage studies
Architectural Guides Then and Now
Arnold Benjamin's Lost Johannesburg - A must have in a Johannesburg Collection of Books
Art and Aspirations, the Randlords of South Africa and their Collections
Battle of the Books - Memoirs of Early Johannesburg
Battle of the Books - Monuments of South Africa
Battle of the Books - Robben Island
Battle of the Books - South African Church Architecture
Battle of the Books - Treasures of the Africana Museum versus Pictorial History of Johannesburg
Beyond the Randlords - Revisiting J.B. Taylor’s 'A Pioneer Looks Back'
Bird of Paradise - The Story of José Dale Lace
Book Review of 'The 2Summers #Gauteng52 Challenge'
Book Review: Samuel Daniell: A Life of an Artist in Southern Africa and Ceylon, 1799–1811
Both dated and timeless - A review of 'Who Did What in South Africa'
Changing Space, Changing City - A landmark investigation of the modern mixed metropolis that is Johannesburg
Children of Hope - This is the book that I would nominate for the non-fiction prize of the year
Church Tourism in South Africa - A Travel Odyssey
Civilising Grass - Jonathan Cane’s study is thought-provoking, entertaining, interesting and provocative
Collecting with Denis Godfrey
Common Ground - A brilliant and welcome addition to architectural literature
Constance: One Road to Take - This book will become a classic photographic collector’s item
Die NG Kerk - This books fills a gap on church architecture
Diepsloot cannot be ignored if you are a student of Johannesburg
Dorothea Bleek: A Life of Scholarship A biography by Jill Weintroub
Dreaming the Karoo - A new traveller’s insight into our world
Early Johannesburg versus Magnates and Mansions
Emily Hobhouse - Beloved Traitor
Empire, War and Cricket - An immensely readable book that is an impressive addition to South African history
Exploring 'A New History of Photography' through South African Eyes
Fast forward to a new style of Mrs Beeton
Fire Walker - A beautiful book capturing a new bit of city history in the making
First comprehensive review of the architecture of early apartheid in Pretoria
From Jo'burg to Jozi - Stories about Africa's infamous city
From Lithuania to a false start in Johannesburg and settling in Cape Town
From Mining Camp to Metropolis
From Prohibited Immigrants to Citizens - A deep study of a difficult and complex subject
Gandhi's Johannesburg Birthplace of Satyagraha
Get this book if you collect South African maps
Girders on the Veld - All of Rosenthal’s strengths and weaknesses are revealed
Henry Longland's early survey of Johannesburg circa 1893
Here is a fascinating account of what South Africa was like in 1889
Hidden Histories of Gordonia, Land Dispossession and Resistance in the Northern Cape, 1800-1990
Homeless Wanderers - Movement and mental illness in the Cape Colony in the Nineteenth Century
Homes of the Golden City
I am now the delighted owner of the second edition of Early Architects of Cape Town
If you have never savoured the Bosman stories this anthology is a good place to start
In the Footsteps of Gandhi - A Fascinating Work of Local History
Inside Kimberley - Paul Duncan and Alain Proust have done it again!
Inside the Carlton Hotel - Nostalgia overlaid with depression
Insider and Outsider views of Fietas/Pageview
Johannesburg Firemen vs Engineers
Johannesburg Tramways - A rare specialist item of city history
Johannesburg: Images and Continuities - A History of Working Class Life through Pictures 1885 -1935
Journey into Yesterday - South African Milestones in Europe
Learn about hidden vernacular treasures with this book in hand
Living Amongst the Stars at the Johannesburg Observatory
Max du Preez as a storyteller is a taster and teaser
Men of the Times - Pioneers of the Transvaal and Glimpses of South Africa (1905)
Moving migrant men to build the gold mining industry - a cruel system
Nigel Hughes: Two Pioneering Studies of Colonial Natal
One of the Earliest Biographies of Barney Barnato
Parktown 1992 vs Parktown 2012
Picturing Change - Curating visual culture at post-apartheid universities
RAC Route Book 1930 - A travel experience before highways and GPS navigation
Remembering Five Eastern Cape Soldiers lost in World War I
Return to Morogoro - A valuable addition to the literature of soldiers' experiences during the First World War
Review of 'A History of the Iziko South African National Gallery: Reflections on Art and National Identity'
Review of 'A Thousand Tales of Johannesburg: A City Novel'
Review of 'An Unwitting Assassin: The Story of my Father’s Attempted Assassination of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd'
Review of 'Arthur Elliott - A Memoir of the Man and the Story of his Photographic Collection'
Review of 'Barnato's Diamonds'
Review of 'Mlamulankunzi: The Life and Times of Dick King'
Review of 'Plague, Pox and Pandemics'
Review of 'Soulmates - The Story of Mahatma Gandhi and Hermann Kallenbach'
Review of 'South African Odyssey: The Autobiography of Bertha Goudvis'
Review of 'The Magaliesberg Heritage Collection'
Review of 'The Piano War: A true story of love and survival in World War II'
Review of 'Troubling Images - Visual Culture and the Politics of Afrikaner Nationalism'
Review of 20 South African Schools: A Pictorial History
Review of Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City
Review of A Newspaper History of South Africa
Review of Book Collecting in South Africa
Review of Building a Capable State
Review of Building Apartheid on Architecture and Order in Imperial Cape Town
Review of Cape Town: Then and Now
Review of Clément Sénèque 1896-1930:  A Private Collection of his Paintings  
Review of Durban Art Deco
Review of Durban from its Beginnings to its Silver Jubilee of City Status
Review of Durban in the 1920s and 1930s
Review of Eric Rosenthal's Gold, Bricks and Mortar
Review of Falling Monuments Reluctant Ruins
Review of Farmhouses of Old Natal
Review of Gandhi’s Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading
Review of Hidden Cape Town - The book is a visual feast
Review of Hidden Johannesburg
Review of Hidden Pretoria - The best book in this format so far
Review of hostels homes museum | Memorialising migrant labour pasts in Lwandle, South Africa
Review of Howard Timmins and his Protégés
Review of Jackpot Story
Review of Joffe Marks: A Family Memoir
Review of Johannesburg - The Fabulous City
Review of Johannesburg Architecture and Heritage
Review of Johannesburg: Made in China
Review of Jose Dale Lace: A Woman of Some Importance
Review of Meet me at the Carlton
Review of Pilgrim's Rest Who's Who
Review of Secret Johannesburg
Review of Shovel and Sieve - This book has to be read because it captures the voice of Johannesburg's early prospectors
Review of South End Then and Now
Review of Tea at Ansteys
Review of The Anglo-Boer War in 100 Objects
Review of The Historical Karoo and The Historical Overberg
Review of The House of Tshatshu - Power, politics and chiefs north-west of the Great Kei River, c1818-2018
Review of The Johannesburg Saga
Review of The Quest for Frank Wild
Review of The Ridge of the White Waters
Review of Traditional Tswana Housing: A Study in Four Villages in eastern Botswana (2nd edition)
Review of Two Essential Heidelberg Volumes
Review of Urban Film and Everyday Practice - Bridging Divisions in Johannesburg
Review of Yeomen of the Karoo - The Story of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Deelfontein
Review of '120 Years of Caring - The Story of the Johannesburg Children’s Home'
Review: A Brief Look into the History of South African Cycling, and Other Interesting Facts
Review: A Guidebook to Sites of Geological and Mining Interest on the Central Witwatersrand
Review: Deborah Posel’s Darker Shade of Pale: Shtetl to Colony
Review: Halcyon Days: Passenger Liners in the 1940s and 1950s
Rodin's Bust of Eve Fairfax, the Sculptor and his Sitter
RSA 365 - This book makes a contribution to the documentation of South African buildings across the centuries
Sandton versus Johannesburg
Savour this book and take yourself on a journey through South Africa in 1889
Spruit Trail vs Ridge Trail
Termites of the Gods - San Cosmology in Southern African Rock Art
The Barnett Collection Volumes I and II
The Book of Firsts - The stories behind the outstanding breakthroughs of the modern world
The Compassionate Englishwoman, Emily Hobhouse in the Boer War by Robert Eales
The Definitive Biography of H. Rider Haggard
The Early Architects of Cape Town and their buildings (1820-1926)
The Early Architects of Johannesburg and their buildings (1886-1899)
The First Serious Study of the Life and Work of Nita Spilhaus
The Golden Crown versus 100 Years of Mining
The Memoirs of Napier Devitt
The NZASM Footsteps along the Tracks report identifies, documents, records and rescues the heritage of the NZASM
The Old Hotels of Cape Town (1890-1911) by Michael Walker
The Road Through the Grove - Friendship and adventure along Louis Botha Avenue
The Sculpture of Laurence Anthony Chait
The Silver Tea Service - A memoir dipped in mystery
The South African Saturday Book - A Collection of Curiosities
The Union Castle and the War - This book is one of those unrecognized treasures from the First World War
The War Reporter - The Anglo-Boer War through the Eyes of the Burghers
There has to be a strong case for redoing Smuts
This academic study breaks new ground in probing ways to look at photographs
This biography honours and celebrates a pioneering South African woman doctor of the 20th century
This book celebrates the hidden treasures of the Karoo
This book passes Andrew Mlangeni’s personal story to his descendants and a wider readership
This book reveals an archaeological treasure house in Southern Africa
This book will appeal to you if you have an ancestor who arrived in 1820
This book will become the premier guide to the Magaliesberg
This book will make you shed a tear for Walter Hain and his friends lost in battle
This book will surely become a handbook of vernacular architecture
This is a book that will define the Waterberg for decades to come
This is an authoritative book about Johannesburg in the 1930s
This study is about a moment in time in the Yeoville story
Three Histories of The Rand Club
Two books by the man who shaped the collections of the Johannesburg City Library
Two new books from conservation architect and artist Franco Frescura
Ufrieda Ho (1973–2026): Remembering a Life Through Paper Sons and Daughters
Veld: The Gardens and Landscapes of Patrick Watson
Viewpoints - The University of Cape Town and Its Treasures
Western Provincial versus Transvaal Republican
Your Loving Son, Yum - The letters of Grahame Alexander Munro to his family 1915-1916