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Thirst by Giles Foden 9781780221083
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81'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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81'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: €18.98Booksplease Price: €14.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375708374Author Giles FodenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Freight Dogs by Giles Foden
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81'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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81'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: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.88'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: €22.60Booksplease Price: €10.351996: 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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €10.891996: 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.39'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... -
The Last King of Scotland Giles Foden 9781474624275
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81'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: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.39'Spookily topical' Guardian Read... -
Mimi and Toutou Go Forth: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika by Giles Foden
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84At 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... -
Body of Work: 40 Years of Creative Writing at UEA by Giles Foden 9780956186980
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €25.29'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: €11.84Booksplease Price: €11.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375383196Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Gale, Study... -
A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20WITH 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: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66A 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: €14.27Booksplease Price: €9.79Central 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... -
Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon 9780330393508
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.40'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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.93The 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... -
A House of Air by Penelope Fitzgerald 9780007136438
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €16.66WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEE The previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer - full of wit, feeling and illumination. Penelope Fitzgerald was a prolific letter writer... -
The Devil's Garden by Edward Docx
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81There 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: €9.51Booksplease Price: €8.16The 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,... -
Granta 85: Hidden Histories by Ian Jack
Booksplease Price: €19.28Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilizations: an issue of Granta that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked war. With Diana Athill on... -
September in the Rain by Peter Robinson 9781910688243
Booksplease Price: €18.06Two young people travelling through Italy are caught in the rain and hitch a lift with chilling consequences. Richard and Mary have been together throughout University, and the trip to Italy had been... -
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.39Three 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: €36.71In 2010, Philip Marsden, whom Giles Foden has called "one of our most thoughtful travel writers," moved with his family to a rundown farmhouse in the countryside in Cornwall. From the moment he... -
A Matter of Time by Alex Capus 9781907822032
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94In 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: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66We 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... -
The Exiled: The incredible story of the Asian exodus from Uganda to Britain in 1972 Lucy Fulford 9781399711210
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02'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... -
Now I Am Here by Chidi Ebere 9781035004034
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91We 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... -
Sailing by Starlight: In Search of Treasure Island and Robert Louis Stevenson by Alex Capus 9781907973741
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.16Alex 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 African Elegy by Ben Okri 9780099736011
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.45Dreams are the currency of Okri's writing, particularly in this first book of poems, An African Elegy, but also in his books of short stories and prize-winning novel The Famished Road. Okri's dreams... -
Brazil by Michael Palin 9781474625807
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'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: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.02Granta 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... -
Lost in Shangri-La: Escape from a Hidden World - A True Story by Mitchell Zuckoff 9780007410958
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.52An utterly gripping nonfiction adventure narrative, Lost in Shangri-La is an untold true story of war, survival, discovery, heroism, and a near-impossible rescue mission. Three months... -
Sicily: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Andrew Edwards 9781838601829
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €18.50This 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... -
Africa: A Modern History by Guy Arnold
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €35.99A 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64When 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... -
My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64WITH 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...