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Thirst by Giles Foden 9781780221083
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'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... -
Zanzibar Giles Foden 9781474624312
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'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... -
Ladysmith Giles Foden 9781474624336
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Captivating ... A highly accomplished historical novel' Washington Post 'Superbly described ... achieves a subtle, disconcerting effect' New York Review of BooksIn the dying days of the 19th... -
Ladysmith by Giles Foden 9780375708374
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375708374Author Giles FodenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Freight Dogs by Giles Foden
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'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... -
Turbulence Giles Foden 9781474624299
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Each flick of the page suggests the tick of a countdown' New York Times Books Review'Artfully well-orchestrated' Sunday Times'Splendidly tense' Los Angeles Times The D-day landings - the fate of... -
Thirst by Giles Foden 9780297868224
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23'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 9780297868019
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £8.701996: 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.151996: 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... -
The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10'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... -
Turbulence: A novel by Giles Foden 9780307476265
Booksplease Price: £16.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307476265Author Giles FodenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
The Last King of Scotland Giles Foden 9781474624275
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99'A gripping tale of tropical corruption' Spectator'A genuine imaginative achievement' Daily Telegraph'As convincing and terrifying a portrait of a capricious tyrant as I have ever read' Evening... -
The Secret Agent: With an Introduction by Giles Foden Joseph Conrad 9780099511533
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83'Spookily topical' Guardian Read... -
The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden 9780571195640 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.50What 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... -
The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden 9780571232888 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.80In 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)... -
Body of Work: 40 Years of Creative Writing at UEA by Giles Foden 9780956186980
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.25'A book celebrating a remarkably successful programme and rife with examples of valuable craft and life lessons' - Peter Ho Davies, The GuardianAn essential companion for young writers facing the... -
A Study Guide for Giles Foden's Last King of Scotland by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375383196
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375383196Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 52I -
The Shadow Girls by Henning Mankell 9780099455486 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £1.97Tea-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... -
Who is Mr Satoshi? by Jonathan Lee 9780099537687 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £5.67On 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49WITH 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... -
A Treacherous Paradise by Henning Mankell
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16A Treacherous Paradise sees Henning Mankell turn his talents for writing gripping thrillers to a world where power and powerlessness meet and passion is a dangerous commodity.Hanna Lundmark escapes... -
The African Queen by C. S. Forester
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.23Central 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 Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by G.W. Dahlquist 9780141027302 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £2.32G.W. Dahlquist's The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, the first in the series of adventures of Miss Temple, Cardinal Chang and Dr Svenson and followed by The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage,... -
Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon 9780330393508
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42'His language sings . . . I should not be surprised if Hemon wins the Nobel Prize at some point' - Giles Foden, author of The Last King of ScotlandThrough shifting narration and beautifully original... -
The Red Ribbon: An Irregular Spy Thriller by H.B. Lyle
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.66The 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40There 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: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.14The 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: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Three 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... -
Rising Ground by Philip Marsden
Booksplease Price: £30.94In 2010, Philip Marsden, whom Giles Foden has called "one of our most thoughtful travel writers," moved with his fami -
The Exiled: The incredible story of the Asian exodus from Uganda to Britain in 1972 Lucy Fulford 9781399711210
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A lyrical and penetrating examination of what happened to one family and the Ugandan Asians more broadly' GILES FODEN'Fulford has put in the legwork ... The book is full of the sights, smells and... -
A Matter of Time by Alex Capus 9781907822032
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67In 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... -
Sailing by Starlight: In Search of Treasure Island and Robert Louis Stevenson by Alex Capus 9781907973741
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Alex 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: £19.95Booksplease Price: £13.88Istanbul, 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... -
Now I Am Here by Chidi Ebere 9781035004034
Booksplease Price: £11.29We begin at the end. The armies of the National Defence Movement have been crushed and our unnamed narrator and his unit are surrounded. Prepared for defeat at the hands of the enemy and with only... -
Brazil by Michael Palin 9781474625807
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Once a traveller, always a traveller, and as long as there were maps and guide books and airline schedules I was still fatally susceptible to the lure of the open road . . .'Brazil: a growing global... -
The New Granta Book of Travel Liz Jobey 9781847083302
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Granta 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... -
Africa: A Modern History by Guy Arnold
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.24A magisterial and sweeping history of modern Africa.The end of the Second World War signalled the rapid end of the European African empires. In 1945, only four African countries were independent; by... -
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood by Robyn Scott 9780747596561
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78When 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: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.74This 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... -
The Other by David Guterson 9780747596202
Booksplease Price: £9.37Seattle, 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...