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Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen by Peter Apps
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $8.60***WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023*** 'Never before, in years of reviewing books about buildings, has one brought me to tears. This one did.' Rowan Moore, Observer Book of... -
When the Dust Settles: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller by Lucy Easthope
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.13When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, Lucy Easthope's phone starts to ring...________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKPROFILED IN... -
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37*WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018**WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2019*'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' Viv Groskop, Observer'A... -
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66'Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell' John le CarreAround the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who... -
The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills 9780195133738
RRP: $22.10Booksplease Price: $17.63C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a... -
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval by Gaia Vince 9780141997681
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Highly Commended for the Wainwright Prize 2023, and shortlisted for the Zocalo Book Prize and the Christopher Moore Prize For Human Rights Writing 'Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by... -
Fire in the Night: The Piper Alpha Disaster by Stephen McGinty
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92The fire was visible from seventy miles away and the heat generated was so intense that a helicopter could only circle the rig at a perimeter of one mile. On the surface of the sea, a converted... -
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier 9780195374636
RRP: $18.08Booksplease Price: $14.02In this elegant and impassioned synthesis from one of the world's leading experts on Africa and poverty, economist Paul Collier writes persuasively that although nearly five billion of the world's... -
A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness by NHK TV
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942993544Author NHK TV CrewFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid reveals why millions are actually poorer because of aid, unable to escape corruption and reduced, in the West's eyes, to a childlike state of beggary. We all want to help... -
I Shall Not Hate by Izzeldin Abuelaish
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05Heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is a Palestinian doctor's inspiring account of his extraordinary life, growing up in poverty but determined to treat his patients in Gaza and... -
102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92________________________________________The only book on 9/11 to focus solely on the remarkable testimony of those inside the Twin Towers during the attacks.At 8.46 am on September 11, 2001, 14,000... -
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the aftermath of the Columbine tragedy by Sue Klebold
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound... -
The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370 by Florence de Changy
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10'People often say that non-fiction books read like fast-moving thrillers, but this one genuinely does... This is a splendid book - and highly recommended.' Daily Mail ... -
Edge of Darkness: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller by Kyla Stone 9781945410512
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $19.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945410512Author Kyla StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint -
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Bracingly apocalyptic stuff: atmospheric, chock-full of information and with a constantly escalating sense of pace and tension' Sunday TelegraphSimon Winchester's brilliant chronicle of the... -
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.54From the international bestselling author of The Post-American World 'An intelligent, learned and judicious guide for a world already in the making' The New York TimesSince the end of the Cold War,... -
A Pocket History of the Irish Famine by Tony Potter 9780717179442
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.61The Great Famine, an Gorta Mor in Irish, was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. Often referred to as the Irish Potato Famine, particularly outside... -
When the Dust Settles: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A marvellous book' -- Rev Richard Coles Lucy Easthope 9781529358247
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.10THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TELEGRAPH AND THE NEW STATESMAN"A marvellous book" Rev Richard Coles"Gripping... filled with compassion."... -
Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature'Desperately important and impossible to put down. It is timeless. . . what shines clear from the testimonies is love - love which can make you do the most... -
The Great Irish Potato Famine by James S. Donnelly 9780750929288
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $30.79In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing... -
At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies by Dougald Hine
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $17.46'One of the most perceptive and thought-provoking books ...Essential reading for these turbulent times.' Amitav Ghosh, author of The Great Derangement 'Dougald Hine's brilliant book demands we... -
The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy by Tim Pat Coogan 9781137278838
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.58During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland's citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the... -
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World by Mike Davis
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.26Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship... -
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham 9781501134630
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $19.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence (Nonfiction) 2020.Book InformationISBN 9781501134630Author Adam Hig -
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 Frank Dikoetter 9781408886366
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.07WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve' Simon Sebag Montefiore ... -
Hillsborough - The Truth by Phil Scraton
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92This is the definitive, unique account of the disaster in which 96 men, women and children were killed, hundreds injured and thousands traumatised. It details the appalling treatment endured by the... -
Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima by Serhii Plokhy 9780141997179
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY SUNDAY TIMES AND HISTORY TODAY'Absolutely stunning. . . a formidable achievement. A six-part historical thriller that is essential reading for both our politicians and... -
Feed the World: Birhan Woldu and Live Aid by Oliver Harvey 9781847738455
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.02Birhan Woldu became one of the most recognized faces and forms of the late 20th century when her skeletal image was used at the end of 'Live Aid' to globally publicize famine in Africa. Although... -
K9 Scent Training: A Manual for Training Your Identification, Tracking and Detection Dog by Resi Gerritsen 9781550595840
RRP: $37.51Booksplease Price: $27.40Whether you re searching for drugs or a missing person, "K9 Scent Training" will improve your K9 team s capabilities in the field. Use proven techniques to train your dog for: Scent identification... -
The Great Irish Famine: A History in Four Lives by Enda Delaney
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.10The Great Irish Famine of 1845-52 was the defining event in the history of modern Ireland. At least one million people died, and double that number fled the country within a decade. The Great... -
The High Girders: The gripping true story of a Victorian dream that ended in tragedy John Prebble 9781474616188
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'A tale of irresponsibility and inexperience' THE TIMES'Graphically written with a sense of dramatic construction' SCOTSMANOn December 28th 1879, the night of the Great Storm, the Tay Bridge... -
Belly Woman: Birth, Blood & Ebola: the Untold Story by Benjamin Oren Black
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.73Courage meets crisis in a doctor's extraordinary true account on the frontlines of maternal healthcare during a deadly epidemic in Sierra Leone. In May 2014, as the country grapples with the... -
Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled the White House and Saved the Economy by Nick Timiraos
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $19.85By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. Unemployment was plumbing half-century lows. Stock markets soared to new highs. One month later, the public health... -
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SAS Urban Survival Handbook: Avoid Crime, Prepare for Terrorism, Stay Safe by John "Lofty" Wiseman 9781510722453
Booksplease Price: $20.46John "Lofty" Wiseman is the author of the bestselling SAS Survival Handbook, the definitive guide to survival in the wild from Britain's Special Air Service. Now he has compiled the complete guide to... -
Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy Charlotte Van den Broeck 9781784743987
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07'Bold Ventures resembles a pop version of Iain Sinclair's psychogeography or Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer's anti-biography of DH Lawrence' Olivia Laing, GUARDIAN'A marvel: a monument to human beings... -
FRONTLINE: Saving Lives in War, Disaster and Disease by Dr Tony Redmond
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22A heroic doctor's unflinchingly honest and visceral tale of impossible choices in emergency medicine. 'A brilliant insight into the forgotten heroes at the sharp end of... -
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Good by William Easterly
RRP: $20.76Booksplease Price: $15.40We are all aware of the extreme hunger and poverty that afflict the world's poor. We hear the facts, see the images on television, buy the T-shirt and are moved as individuals and governments to dig... -
Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew by Michael D. Leinbach 9781948924610
Booksplease Price: $22.16Voted the Best Space Book of 2018 by the Space HipstersThe dramatic inside story of the epic search and recovery operation after the Columbia space shuttle disaster. On February 1, 2003, Columbia... -
Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine by Jisheng Yang
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.66Yang Jisheng's Tombstone is the book that broke the silence on of one of history's most terrible crimesMore people died in Mao's Great Famine than in the entire First World War, yet this story has...