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Jimfish by Christopher Hope
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67In the 1980s, a small man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, SA, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. The Sergeant, whose job it is to sort the local people by colour, and... -
Kruger's Alp by Christopher Hope
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81Theodore Blanchaille is searching for the missing millions of the Boer leader Paul Kruger, and his lost city of gold. As a child he had heard tales of Kruger from a wayward priest; what follows is an... -
White Boy Running by Christopher Hope
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In the run up to the 1987 election Christopher Hope returned to his native South Africa after a twelve-year absence. The nature of that year's whites-only election and the bitter defeat of the... -
Shooting Angels Christopher Hope 9781848873933
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Somehow, Joe Angel, the most famous businessman in the country had found Charlie in the backwater where had been hiding all these years, and arrived unannounced to give him an envelope full of money... -
Brothers Under The Skin: Travels in Tyranny by Christopher Hope 9781447259749
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52A brilliant examination of Robert Mugabe dictatorship and the nature of modern tyranny, written by an award winning novelist and journalist.Christopher Hope met his first dictator when he was 6 years... -
The Cafe de Move-on Blues: In Search of the New South Africa by Christopher Hope
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize,2019In White Boy Running, Christopher Hope explored how it felt and looked to grow up in a country gripped by an 'absurd, racist insanity'. On a road trip thirty... -
Developmentalism, Dependency, and the State: Industrial Development and Economic Change in Namibia since 1900 by Christopher Hope 9783906927213
RRP: £43.66Booksplease Price: £39.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906927213Author Christopher HopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint
Twyford Down: Roads, campaigning and environmental law Barbara Bryant 9780419202707
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84The Twyford Down story is set in a political and historical framework in order to examine the key issues affecting road planning and environmental protection: the system of route selection; Crown...
Satire and the Postcolonial Novel: V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie by John Clement Ball 9780415803496
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Satire plays a prominent and often controversial role in postcolonial fiction. Satire and the Postcolonial Novel offers the first study of this topic, employing the insights of postcolonial...
Literature and The Contemporary: Fictions and Theories of the Present by Roger Luckhurst 9780582312043
Booksplease Price: £57.60At the end of the century, much criticism has become devoted to `last things': the end of history, the end of the subject, the end of the novel, the end, even, of the end. Literature and the...
Writers in Conversation: v. 3 by Christopher Bigsby 9780956422347
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.91WRITERS IN CONVERSATION compiles Christopher Bigsby's interviews with the world's greatest writers from a decade of the Arthur Miller Centre's International Literary Festival at the University of...
Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country Gillian Slovo 9781844085996
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter...
The Shadow of the Sun: A Novel by A. S. Byatt
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16It is the height of summer. After she is expelled from boarding school, Anna Severell returns to the strict, orderly house of her father, a celebrated novelist. The family is soon joined by Oliver...
The Good Doctor: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE by Damon Galgut
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEWinner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship overshadowed by...
The Durian Pact: When Two Worlds Go To War Christopher Howarth 9781916846159
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.89From the halls of Parliament to the depths of South-East Asian jungles, junior British MP Richard Reynolds embarks on a perilous journey that could alter the course of history. As the UK teeters on...
Kingmaker: Secrets, Lies, and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers Sir Graham Brady 9781804188279
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10The last thirteen years of Conservative rule has seen turbulence at the centre of politics that is perhaps unique in British history. From coalition to Brexit, Covid to Partygate, Trussonomics to...
The In-Between World Of Vikram Lall by Moyez Vassanji
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Sweeping in scope, both historically and geographically, Vassanji weaves a rich tapestry of vivid characters (real and imagined) in a Kenya poised between colonialism and independence.Vikram Lall,...
Everything in this Country Must: From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann 9781037204234
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'A powerful and moving collection' Roddy Doyle___________________A group of British soldiers appear to help a farmer and his daughter free their horse from a stream in a flood. A young boy and his...
Human Love by Andrei Makine 9780340936788
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02As a child, Elias Almeida loses both his parents during the Angolan uprising against colonial rule. As an adult and professional revolutionary, he bears witness to mankind at its pitiless worst. Yet...
Royal Mint, National Debt: More Things the Royals Don’t Want You to Know 9781785909924
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62In his irreverent and uncompromising bestseller ... And What Do You Do?, former Minister of State and Privy Counsellor Norman Baker laid bare what the British royal family didn't want us to know,...
Everything in this Country Must by Colum McCann
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'McCann returns to Ireland with this collection, turning his measured gaze and incisive prose to the country's recent history with devastating effect' Maggie O'Farrell 'McCann once again shows why...
Kingmaker: Secrets, Lies, and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers Sir Graham Brady 9781804188262
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.82THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARTHE BESTSELLING INSIDER STORY OF WESTMINSTER'S BLOODIEST POWER BATTLES'Myths are debunked, prime ministers exposed and secrets revealed .....
Beyond the Red Wall: Why Labour Lost, How the Conservatives Won and What Will Happen Next? by Deborah Mattinson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.87How do you start an electoral earthquake? Head to the Red Wall and you might just find out. Covering some sixty seats stretching from the Midlands up to the north of England and across to Wales, the...
On Bended Knees by Martin Goodman 9781909954502
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Though Tomas is half-German, he is taught by English war veterans. He walks the ruins of Coventry with his English Gran, still crumbling from the blitz. Later, when Tomas nears adulthood, he goes to...