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'Eat the Heart of the Infidel': The Harrowing of Nigeria and the Rise of Boko Haram by 9781849045582
Booksplease Price: $46.77Boko Haram's appetite for exemplary violence and kidnapping women and girls has thrust it to the top of the global news agenda. In a few furious years its cadres have all but severed parts of... -
Drax of Drax Hall: How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery Paul Lashmar 9780745352039
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.91'A damning reminder that the ghosts of empire are not distant - they are living, breathing and, in some cases, still collecting rent' - The Observer 'Eloquently reminds us that history is never... -
Quixote: The Novel and the World by Ilan Stavans 9780393353426
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.182015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha-an ageless masterpiece that is unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flaubert was inspired... -
Flowers for Elephants: How a Conservation Movement in Kenya Offers Lessons for Us All Peter Martell 9781805263128
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $31.21When northern Kenyans find elephant bones, they lay down blossoms and branches as a mark of respect, honouring their crucial connection with the wildlife they live alongside. In our changing world,... -
Blood Will Flow: The murderous business of oil and gas Alex Perry 9781804182703
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $35.85'A magnificent, earth-shaking achievement' -- Andrew Harding, author of A Small Stubborn Town'Vital' -- Sally Hayden, author of My Fourth Time, We Drowned'Powerful, gripping and rigorously... -
Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist by Larry Rohter
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $59.70Candido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked... -
Worlds of Power: Religious Thought and Political Practice in Africa by Stephen Ellis 9780195220162
Booksplease Price: $45.68With Christian revivals (including Evangelicals in the White House), Islamic radicalism and the revitalisation of traditional religions it is clear that the world is not heading towards a community... -
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden 9780008445614
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $22.81WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever... -
Stolen Revolution: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin 9780241744017
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $35.43'Rare and riveting . . . Powerful personal stories are woven together to provide new insight and understanding' LYSE DOUCET'A must-read for anyone seeking an honest appraisal of revolutionary Iran... -
Places and Names: On War, Revolution and Returning by Elliot Ackerman
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ARMY MILITARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020 'A superb, unique, and unforgettable story of war and death, fear and cruelty, above all the horrors and allure of combat' Simon... -
Blood Barrios: Dispatches from the World's Deadliest Streets by Alberto Arce
Booksplease Price: $35.34Winner of the 2018 PEN Translates Award for Non-Fiction Features illustrations by the Honduran artist German Andino Welcome to a country that has a higher casualty rate than Iraq. Wander... -
The New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the 21st Century Jean-Martin Bauer 9781800812161
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.50'A tremendous book that'll linger long after you've turned the last page' Raj Patel, author of Inflamed The face of hunger is changing. Since the Covid pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine,... -
Rebel Reporting: John Ross Speaks to Independent Journalists by Norman Stockwell 9780761866602
Booksplease Price: $57.92John Ross believed that journalism is not a profession, but rather a moral obligation. His bottom up investigative reporting made him an ally to the underrepresented and an enemy to the... -
Blue Power: Cobalt, China and the Scramble to Dominate the New Energy Revolution Nicolas Niarchos 9780008553951
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $29.93'A tale of rapacious colonialism, Cold War spy games, dazzling technical innovation, big business rivalry, big power geopolitics [...] Niarchos has produced an unflinching, landmark... -
In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87The gripping life story of the great war correspondent Marie Colvin told by one of her closest friendsSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDWINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK AWARD Marie Colvin was... -
Flowers for Elephants: How a Conservation Movement in Kenya Offers Lessons for Us All by Peter Martell
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $41.58When northern Kenyans find elephant bones, they lay down blossoms and branches as a mark of respect, honouring their crucial connection with the wildlife they live alongside. In our changing world,... -
The New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the 21st Century Jean-Martin Bauer 9781800812147
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $33.75'A tremendous book that'll linger long after you've turned the last page' Raj Patel, author of Inflamed The face of hunger is changing. Since the Covid pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine,... -
Blue Power: Cobalt, China and the Scramble to Dominate the New Energy Revolution Nicolas Niarchos 9780008553944
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.13'A tale of rapacious colonialism, Cold War spy games, dazzling technical innovation, big business rivalry, big power geopolitics [...] Niarchos has produced an unflinching, landmark... -
Witches Brenda Lozano 9781529412239
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84A bewitching novel by Brenda Lozano, one of the most prominent voices of the new generation of Latin American writers.'You can't really know another woman until you know yourself.'Weaving together... -
Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman by Will Grant
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23'An ambitious, riveting and essential book that has much to teach us about the recent history of this region, and about the human impulse towards populism that continues to shape the world' Ben... -
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson 9781782392026
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.73The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, 'a sideshow of a sideshow'. Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant... -
The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia Tom Gardner 9781911723103
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $51.14In 2018, Ethiopia and the world were in the throes of 'Abiymania', a fervour of popular support for the divided country's young, charismatic new prime minister. Arriving as if from nowhere, Abiy... -
The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key to the Future of Pakistan and Afghanistan by Abubakar Siddique 9781849042925
Booksplease Price: $108.61Most contemporary journalistic and scholarly accounts of the instability gripping Afghanistan and Pakistan have argued that violent Islamic extremism, including support for the Taliban and related... -
Comandante: The Life and Legacy of Hugo Chavez by Rory Carroll
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.57Hugo Chavez was a true phenomenon. On his death in March 2013 tens of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets and honoured a seven-day period of national mourning. Chavez has been compared to... -
Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala by Daniel Wilkinson 9780822333685
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.83new in paperbackSilence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's thirty-six-year internal war, a conflict that claimed... -
Waiting for the Monsoon Rod Nordland 9780063096233
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.12By the New York Times's legendary war correspondent, written while battling terminal brain cancer: a life-affirming memoir of high adventure, deep wisdom, and finding true happiness amid the... -
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis Jonathan Blitzer 9781529039351
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.05A New York Times best book of 2024On Barack Obama's Summer Reading List 2024 'Urgent, extraordinary . . . a tribute to the astonishing indomitability of the human spirit.' - Patrick Radden Keefe,... -
The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom by Joel Simon 9780231160643
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $139.31Journalists are being imprisoned and killed in record numbers. Online surveillance is annihilating privacy, and the Internet can be brought under government control at any time. Joel Simon, the... -
First Raise a Flag: How South Sudan Won the Longest War but Lost the Peace by Peter Martell
RRP: $57.75Booksplease Price: $54.75When South Sudan's war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronaut's dream. Half a century later, with millions massacred in Africa's longest war, the... -
Brazillionaires: The Godfathers of Modern Brazil by Alex Cuadros
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.42Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award Wealth and power on the trail of the super-rich In 2012, Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista was the eighth richest man in the... -
A Rope from the Sky: The Making and Unmaking of the World's Newest State by Zach Vertin
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.56The euphoric birth of South Sudan was celebrated around the world - a triumph for global justice and a sign that one of the world's most devastating wars was finally over. But the party would not... -
The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War by Rohini Mohan 9781781688830
Booksplease Price: $60.02For three decades, Sri Lanka's civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army finally defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers guerrillas in a fierce battle that swept up about 300,000... -
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In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum 9781784740931 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $5.52** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK **** A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ****Marie Colvin is the subject of a major biopic starring Rosamund Pike**'A stunningly good biography' WILLIAM BOYDMarie Colvin... -
Cuba: An American History by Dr. Ada Ferrer
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $45.78WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY "Full of...lively insights and lucid prose" (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba... -
Cuba: An American History by Dr Ada Ferrer
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.08WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY "Full of...lively insights and lucid prose" (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba... -
The Storm is Here: America on the Brink Luke Mogelson 9781529418736
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle a story of mounting civic breakdown and violent disorder, in a vivid eyewitness narrative of revelatory... -
Latin American Guerrilla Movements: Origins, Evolution, Outcomes by Dirk Kruijt
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $102.98Organized around single country studies embedded in key historical moments, this book introduces students to the shifting and varied guerrilla history of Latin America from the late 1950s to the... -
The Big Truck That Went by: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster by Jonathan M. Katz
Booksplease Price: $30.93In the aftermath of the devastating 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010, there was an outpouring of support and aid from countries around the world. Yet, two years after the quake, seemingly little... -
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of...