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Ladysmith by Giles Foden 9780375708374
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $16.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375708374Author Giles FodenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Zanzibar Giles Foden 9781474624312
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55'A fascinating read: Wilbur Smith meets William Boyd in the warm seas and spice-scented air of Zanzibar' New Statesman'A riveting thriller' ObserverThe year is 1998. Nick, a marine biologist, is... -
Thirst by Giles Foden 9781780221083
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'Every new novel by Giles Foden is something to celebrate - my hand leaps to the shelf' PAUL THEROUX'The most original and interesting novelist of his generation' ALLAN MASSIE, SCOTSMAN2039, the... -
Freight Dogs by Giles Foden
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55'Every new novel by Giles Foden is something to celebrate' Paul Theroux'An amazing and profound work, rich in memorable detail' Jay Parini'Foden has cleverly reworked the grand African adventure... -
The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.45'He is the sickness and you maintain that sickness.' Idi Amin is the self-declared President of Uganda. When Scottish medic Nicholas Garrigan becomes his personal physician, he is catapulted into... -
Freight Dogs by Giles Foden 9780297868019
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $11.221996: in a Ugandan dive bar, the 'freight dogs' gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and Belgium who transport weapons between warring African nations, without... -
Freight Dogs by Giles Foden 9780297609100
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $11.801996: in a Ugandan dive bar, the 'freight dogs' gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and Belgium who transport weapons between warring African nations, without... -
Turbulence: A novel by Giles Foden 9780307476265
Booksplease Price: $21.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307476265Author Giles FodenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
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The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden 9780571195640 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $3.23What would it be like to become Idi Amin's personal physician? Giles Foden's best-selling thriller is the story of a young Scottish doctor drawn into the heart of the Ugandan dictator's surreal and... -
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The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden 9780571232888 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $3.61In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world's most barbaric figures: Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker)... -
The Secret Agent: With an Introduction by Giles Foden Joseph Conrad 9780099511533
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81'Spookily topical' Guardian Read... -
Mimi and Toutou Go Forth: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika by Giles Foden
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09At the start of World War One, German warships controlled Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa. The British had no naval craft at all upon 'Tanganjikasee', as the Germans called it. This mattered: it... -
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The Shadow Girls by Henning Mankell 9780099455486 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $2.54Tea-Bag, a young Nigerian girl, has fled a refugee camp in Spain for the promise of a new life in Sweden. Tania has made a long and dangerous journey to escape themisery of life in a brothel. Leila... -
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Who is Mr Satoshi? by Jonathan Lee 9780099537687 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $7.31On the day his mother dies reclusive photographer Rob Fossick - forty-one and already in the twilight of his career - finds among her belongings an unexplained package addressed to a 'Mr Satoshi'. So... -
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODENQuerry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at... -
The African Queen by C. S. Forester
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.74Central Africa, 1914; Rose Sayer, a thirty-three year-old English woman, is left alone when her missionary brother dies. Her only route out is aboard The African Queen, a steam-powered launch... -
The Red Ribbon: An Irregular Spy Thriller by H.B. Lyle
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $6.48The thrilling follow up to The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy, featuring Wiggins - an ex-soldier who was trained as a child by Sherlock Holmes. Praise for The Irregular 'H.B. Lyle has found the... -
The Devil's Garden by Edward Docx
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55There is only one way in and there is only one way out: the river. One stifling afternoon, a mysterious supply boat docks at a research station deep in the jungle. To Dr Forle and his team of... -
No Place for a Lady by Ann Harries 9780747578963
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.21The Boer War is razing South Africa to the ground. In the midst of these horrors are three women fighting for love, survival and justice: Sarah, an angelically beautiful nurse from England; Louise,... -
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend - and reach, at the end of a perilous journey, an unknown land cut off from the world, where terrible dangers threaten anyone... -
A Matter of Time by Alex Capus 9781907822032
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60In November 1913, three German shipbuilders, led by master shipwright Anton Ru ter, were ordered by Kaiser Wilhelm II to dismantle a steam ship, send the parts to German East Africa, and reassemble... -
An Ocean of Air by Gabrielle Walker 9780747592907
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98We not only live in the air, we live because of it. At ground level air transforms miraculously; it wraps our planet in a blanket of warmth, while the outer layer of our atmosphere soaks up violent... -
Sailing by Starlight: In Search of Treasure Island and Robert Louis Stevenson by Alex Capus 9781907973741
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77Alex Capus follows every step of Robert Louis Stevenson's last years, studying every clue left behind by the Scottish writer and reaching his own conclusion about the most dramatic turn in... -
An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul: City of Remembering and Forgetting by Richard Tillinghast 9781907973215
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $18.29Istanbul, City of Forgetting and Remembering, by Richard Tillinghast, is a travel book in the classic tradition of Robert Byron, Evelyn Waugh, Patrick Leigh Fermor, and Jan Morris. The author is an... -
The New Granta Book of Travel Liz Jobey 9781847083302
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.20Granta has long been known for the quality of its travel writing. The 1980s were the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin, James Hamilton-Paterson and... -
The Other by David Guterson 9780747596202
Booksplease Price: $12.09Seattle, 1972: Neil Countryman and John William Barry, two teenage boys from very different backgrounds, are at the start of an 800m race. Their lives collide for the first time, and so begins an... -
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood by Robyn Scott 9780747596561
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62When Robyn Scott was six years old her parents abruptly exchanged the tranquil pastures of New Zealand for a converted cowshed in the wilds of Botswana. Once there, Robyn and her siblings, mostly... -
Sicily: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Andrew Edwards 9781838601829
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.30This compelling guide uncovers Sicily's multi-faceted personality through famous literary figures. Rising up from the heart of the Mediterranean, Sicily has a rich and ancient history spanning... -
My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOWIn 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of... -
Connemara: Listening to the Wind Tim Robinson 9781844880669
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The first volume in Tim Robinson's phenomenal Connemara Trilogy - which Robert Macfarlane has called 'One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'. In its landscape, history... -
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The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa by Alex Garland 9780091881801 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $2.48What would happen if you took some of Britain's best writing talent, put them on a plane and flew them to one of the most extraordinary and inaccessible places on the planet? What would happen if you... -
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Brazil by Michael Palin 9781780220864 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $2.57Michael Palin, the No.1 bestselling author, explores an exotic country that is now a global superpower. Brazil is one of the four new global super powers with its vast natural resources and... -
Darien Dogs by Henry Shukman 9780099468486
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.11Jim Rogers once had everything: a successful career, the love of a beautiful woman, a Manhattan penthouse and more money than he knew what to do with. Now it had all gone wrong and he was in a seedy... -
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. For more than forty years Achebe was silent on those terrible years, until he produced this... -
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart (Vintage Voyages) by Tim Butcher
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $12.20A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey.When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim... -
Water Sessions by James Lasdun 9780224097093
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $9.68James Lasdun's new book of poems, his first since his acclaimed collection Landscape with Chainsaw, applies his characteristic blend of the celebratory and the elegiac to a rich variety of new themes... -
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Coming soon to Netflix 'Comic, tragic, topical and entertaining in equal measure' - Bernardine Evaristo To the dismay of her ambitious mother, Bolanle marries into a polygamous family, where... -
Snowleg by Nicholas Shakespeare
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98A young Englishman visits Cold War Leipzig with a group of students and falls for an East German girl who is only just beginning to wake up to the way her society is governed. Her situation touches... -
Pandora In The Congo by Albert Sanchez Pinol
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91It is 1914. In the heart of the Belgian Congo, Garvey, a bedraggled British manservant, emerges from the jungle. He is the lone survivor of a mining expedition in which both his masters have died,... -
The Unthinkable by Steve Waters
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.57A hard-hitting play about the collapse of idealism in contemporary politics. The founder members of a radical think-tank meet to toast their success - fifteen years of second-guessing the next big...