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Beer in the Snooker Club by Waguih Ghali
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Behind the bar at Jameel's in Cairo hang two mugs engraved with the names of Ram and Font. During their years together in London, they drank many a pint of Bass from these mugs. But there is no... -
Ancient Egyptian Wisdom: Pharaonic Teachings for Modern Living Trevor Naylor 9781838866471
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Every country has its proverbs, sayings passed down from generation to generation that impart wisdom and tell truths, and ancient Egypt is no exception. Beautifully produced in traditional Chinese... -
The Woman Who Fought an Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring by Gregory J. Wallance 9781612349435
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $37.52Though she lived only to twenty-seven, Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman-the daughter of Romanian-born... -
Llama United by Scott Allen 9781509840908 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $2.35It's time to get behind the football team with an impossible dream!What happens when eleven llamas unknowingly eat the ashes of one of the greatest footballers of all time? They become brilliant at... -
The First Century After Beatrice by Amin Maalouf
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.05A French entomologist, attending a symposium in Cairo, finds a cruious kind of bean being on a market stall. It is claimed the beans, derived from the scarab beetle, have magic powers; specifically... -
Thai Visual Dictionary: A photo guide to everyday words and phrases in Thai (Collins Visual Dictionary) by Collins Dictionaries
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.50A photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Thai. This attractive pocket-sized book is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to Thailand and Thai language and culture. ... -
Vietnamese Visual Dictionary: A photo guide to everyday words and phrases in Vietnamese (Collins Visual Dictionary) by Collins Dictionaries
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.50A photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Vietnamese. This attractive pocket-sized book is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to Vietnam and Vietnamese language and... -
The Completely True Tales of Um Mimi and Sharawi the Adulterer Belal Fadl 9781788711142
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $15.54When a seventeen-year-old flees his violent father and heads to Cairo to chase his dream of breaking into the arts, he ends up in a crumbling flat with a mercurial landlady and her volatile son. Set... -
Egyptian Lullaby by Zeena M. Pliska
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.89Every night, my Ametti Fatma sings the sounds of Egypt to me as I fall asleep. This is the Nile, that flows through the city. Swish, swoosh, swish. This is the boat, that glides on the Nile, ... -
Children of Wolves by Lawrence Osborne 9781784746261
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.78'An unsettling, hypnotic meditation on violence and privilege' CHARLES CUMMING 'Osborne is the master of the well-made, high-class thriller' THE TIMES * A CrimeReads and i News Best Thriller Summer... -
In Spite of Myself: From mountains and men to swimming and souks by Mary Fogarty 9781804699034
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92If you have ever felt too shy, too old, or too plain for adventure - In Spite of Myself is for you. Growing up as a painfully timid child in Kenya, Mary Fogarty discovers that independence is not... -
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.14A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and... -
We're Sailing Down the Nile by Laurie Krebs 9781846861949
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.25Set sail along the mighty Nile River to experience the wonders of Egypt. The lilting, rhyming story text is followed by eleven pages full of educational information about ancient Egypt, gods and... -
In Their Father's Country by Anne-Marie Drosso 9781846590597
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.25Claire and Gabrielle Sahli are sisters growing up in 1920s Cairo. Of Levantine descent, they occupy a precarious position in Egypt's increasingly nationalist world. With the early death of their... -
The Law of Inheritance Yasser Abdellatif 9780857425454
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.84This lyrical novel tells the story of a young man living in Egypt in the 1990s, a time of great turmoil. We see student riots at Cairo University, radical politics, and the first steps towards the... -
London Calling: Volume 6 James Ponti 9781665932516
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09In this sixth installment in the New York Times bestselling series from Edgar Award winner James Ponti, the young group of spies stages a rescue in Rome in another international adventure perfect for... -
In Their Father's Country by Anne-Marie Drosso 9781846590597 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $9.74Claire and Gabrielle Sahli are sisters growing up in 1920s Cairo. Of Levantine descent, they occupy a precarious position in Egypt's increasingly nationalist world. With the early death of their... -
To War with Whitaker by Hermione Ranfurly, Countess of Ranfurly
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly, kept a diary all her life. To War with Whitaker is an account of the most adventurous, most defiant and most valiant of those years. Hermione and Dan Ranfurly married... -
A Cast of Falcons by Phillip Parotti
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.78Phillip Parotti's new novel offers fast-paced action in the skies over the Sinai desert in 1916. Lieutenant Devlin Collins, an Irish-American flier in the Royal Flying Corps, expecting to fly on the... -
To War with Whitaker: Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939-45 by Hermione Ranfurly, Countess of Ranfurly 9781447259404
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.78Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly, kept a diary for seventy five years, and To War with Whitaker guides us through the most adventurous, most defiant, and most valiant of those years. Hermione and Dan... -
Seasons in the City by Megan McKean 9780734420442
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.39Do you know springtime in Tokyo is cherry blossom season? Or that on the longest day of summer in Stockholm the sun stays up for 18 hours?Seasons divide the year and bring about changes in the world... -
The Rebecca Code: Rommel's Spy in North Africa and Operation Kondor by Mark Simmons 9780752468709
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48John Eppler thought himself to be the perfect spy. Born to German parents, he grew up in Egypt, adopted by a wealthy family and was educated in Europe. Fluent in German, English and Arabic, he made... -
Street, Palace, Square: The Architecture of Democratic Spaces by Jan-Werner Müller 9780241382035
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.77Can architecture ever be democratic? An elegant, timely new theory of politics and urban design from the acclaimed author of What is Populism? and Democracy RulesBuilding requires power and resources... -
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner 9780008347628
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.45A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and... -
A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVELWINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL 'Clever, wickedly fun . . . with an excellent balance of humour and heart. I loved it' S. A. Chakraborty,... -
Media Arabic: A Coursebook for Reading Arabic News by Alaa Elgibali 9789774166525
Booksplease Price: $43.38In light of the rapidly growing number of people studying Arabic--in academia, governments, NGOs, and business--Media Arabic is a unique and timely learning tool for anyone looking to access news... -
Sugar Street: Nobel Prize Winner by Naguib Mahfouz
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.09THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BY THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR.'A masterpiece' - The Times'The Arab Tolstoy' - Simon Sebag MontefioreSugar Street, the climactic final book in the classic... -
Classic Derbies and Epic Rivalries: A Journey Through the World’s Most Captivating Football Clashes Andy Bollen 9781801507455
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Andy Bollen explores the history, tradition and violent nature of football's biggest clashes.In unravelling the history of these infamous feuds, Bollen gets to the crux of each conflict, exploring... -
If You Were a City by Kyo Maclear
Booksplease Price: $18.08Just like people, there are so many ways a city can be. And this lively picture book explores all of them. From quiet and dreamy to bright and buzzing, the magnificent diversity of our world is... -
21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs by Martin Mosebach 9780874868395
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $20.73Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes.In a carefully choreographed... -
Bluethroat Serenade by Jack Cunningham 9781806343126
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36When Lewis relocates from London to Cairo on a career break, he is disillusioned and aimless. The city is splintered by deep inequality and an air of desperation. His budding connection with Nailah,... -
A Brief History of Ireland Richard Killeen 9781849014397
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41From the dawn of history to the decline of the Celtic Tiger - how Ireland has been shaped over the centuries. Ireland has been shaped by many things over the centuries: geography, war, the fight for... -
Pulling off the Sheets: The Second Ku Klux Klan in Deep Southern Illinois by Darrel Dexter 9780809339426
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.26Unmasking old-time racism in southern IllinoisPulling off the Sheets tells the previously obscured history of the Second Ku Klux Klan which formed in deep southern Illinois in the early 1920s... -
Fodor's Essential Egypt by Fodor’s Travel Guides 9781640973510 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $16.46Whether you want to cruise the Nile, explore the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, or see the Pyramids of Giza, the local Fodor's travel experts in Egypt are here to help! Fodor's Essential Egypt... -
Special Operations Executive: A New Instrument of War by Mark Seaman 9780415384551
RRP: $68.33Booksplease Price: $64.56This unique book presents an accurate and reliable assessment of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). It brings together leading authors to examine the organization from a range of key angles.This... -
The Convert by Stefan Hertmans
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.92A brilliant reconstruction of an incredible journey across medieval Europe to Egypt, and an untold story of forbidden love. 'Enthralling... A spectacular tale told with spectacular accomplishment'... -
Palace Of Desire: Nobel Prize Winner by Naguib Mahfouz
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR.'A masterpiece' - The Times'Shamelessly entertaining' - GuardianThe sensual and provocative second book in the classic Cairo... -
Patterns, Costumes and Stencils by Chant Avedissian 9780863566790
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $12.41"Patterns, Costumes and Stencils" is a reflection of the diverse peoples, cultures and traditions that have influenced Chant Avedissian's work, from the colourful textiles of Rajasthan and the glazed... -
A Brief History of Ireland by Richard Killeen 9781849014397 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $2.95From the dawn of history to the decline of the Celtic Tiger - how Ireland has been shaped over the centuries. Ireland has been shaped by many things over the centuries: geography, war, the fight for... -
Palace Walk: From the Nobel Prizewinning author by Naguib Mahfouz
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BY THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR.'A masterpiece' - The Times'The Arab Tolstoy' - Simon Sebag Montefiore'Shamelessly entertaining' - Guardian'Luminous' - New...