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Our Friends in Beijing by John Simpson
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.86OLD FRIENDS, NEW ENEMIESJon Swift is in trouble again. His journalism career is in freefall. He is too old to be part of the new world order and he has never learned to suck up to those in charge... -
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Twenty Tales from the War Zone: The Best of John Simpson by John Simpson 9780330449991 [USED COPY]
RRP: $2.57Booksplease Price: $2.54In a Quick Read published for World Book Day, bestselling author and internationally renowned BBC journalist John Simpson shares some of his fascinating stories from a life spent reporting around the... -
Our Friends in Beijing by John Simpson 9781473674561
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Jon Swift is in trouble.His journalism career is in freefall.He's too old to be part of the new world order and he's never learned to suck up to those in charge. But experience has taught him to... -
Strange Places, Questionable People by John Simpson 9780330355667
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Moscow, Midnight by John Simpson 9781473674493 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $2.93MP Patrick Macready has been found dead in his flat. The coroner rules it an accident, a sex game gone wrong. Jon Swift is from the old stock of journos - cynical, cantankerous and overweight - and... -
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Moscow, Midnight by John Simpson 9781473674516 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.54Government minister Patrick Macready has been found dead in his flat. The coroner rules it an accident, a sex game gone wrong. Jon Swift is from the old stock of journos - cynical, cantankerous and... -
We Chose to Speak of War and Strife by John Simpson 9781408872246
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.66From distinguished foreign correspondent John Simpson, a fascinating history of what it is to risk life and limb to bring home news of the troubled world 'Great stories, sometimes harrowing,... -
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Strange Places, Questionable People by John Simpson 9780330355667 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $2.98The first volume of autobiography from legendary foreign correspondent, John Simpson.Since the 1970s, John Simpson has travelled the world to report on the most significant events of our time. From... -
The Word Detective: A Life in Words: From Serendipity to Selfie by John Simpson
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $4.00Language is always changing. No one knows where it is going but the best way to future-cast is to look at the past. John Simpson animates for us a tradition of researching and editing, showing us... -
Building Beautiful: Classical Houses by John Simpson Clive Aslet 9780789344380
RRP: $25.77Booksplease Price: $22.92Inviting, perfect in proportion, exquisite in detail such are a few of the ways to describe homes designed by John Simpson. Well known for his work with the British royal family at Buckingham and... -
News from No Man's Land: Reporting the World by John Simpson 9780330487351
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.96Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
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We Chose to Speak of War and Strife by John Simpson 9781408872246 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $3.11From distinguished foreign correspondent John Simpson, a fascinating history of what it is to risk life and limb to bring home news of the troubled world 'Great stories, sometimes harrowing,... -
Finest of the Few: The Story of Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot John Simpson by Hector Bolitho
Booksplease Price: $15.96Written by 43 Squadron's intelligence officer, Hector Bolitho, Finest of the Few is full of John's first-hand accounts of his combat missions against German Me 109s, Heinkel 111s and Dorniers. One of... -
War and Peacekeeping: Personal Reflections on Conflict and Lasting Peace by Martin Bell
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.07There are no winners in war, only losers. We have so far avoided a third world war, but across the globe regional conflicts flare up in a seemingly unstoppable cycle. Who can stand between the armed... -
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The Wars Against Saddam: Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad by John Simpson 9780330418904 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $2.52This riveting account is the summation of more than twenty years covering Saddam Hussein's Iraq: a major work of serious reportage and essential reading for us all. 'By far the most comprehensive and... -
The Sleep Of The Dead by Tom Bradby
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51The brutal murder of Sarah Ford and the disappearance of her six-year-old daughter, Alice, shattered the rural serenity of Julia Havilland's childhood. But these are not the only scars that have... -
No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan by Ben Anderson 9781851689774
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $26.39The war in Afghanistan is over ten years old. It has cost countless lives and hundreds of billions of pounds. Politicians talk of progress, but the violence is worse than ever. In this... -
And Thank You For Watching: Extraordinary Stories from a Veteran News Journalist Mark Austin 9781786494504
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60'This insightful and superb book takes you to World Cups, to conflicts in war-torn countries, to division in Trump's America... A terrific read.' - Gary LinekerFor over thirty years, Mark Austin has... -
And Thank You For Watching: Extraordinary Stories from a Veteran News Journalist by Mark Austin
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $8.33For over thirty years, Mark Austin has covered the biggest stories in the world for ITN and Sky News. As a foreign correspondent and anchorman he has witnessed first-hand some of the most significant... -
War Report: From D-Day to Berlin, as it happened by Desmond Hawkins 9781849907774
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86This is WWII history, as it happened. All the horror and excitement of eleven months that changed the world.On D-Day (6 June 1944) a team of BBC reporters, trained and were embedded with British... -
Emerging Africa: How the Global Economy's 'Last Frontier' Can Prosper and Matter by Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91A rare and timely intervention from Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, on development in Africa.To many, Africa is the new frontier. As the West lies battered... -
The Bookshop, The Gate Of Angels And The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.82Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. The three novels in this volume all display her characteristic wit,... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One: Not For Turning by Charles Moore
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.10Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political... -
Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword by Alan Connor
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91In the century since its birth, the crossword has evolved into the world's most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay, the codes and conventions of which are open to anyone... -
The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State by Adrian Wooldridge
Booksplease Price: $16.98In The Fourth Revolution, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge ask: what is the state actually for? Their remarkable book describes the three great revolutions in its history, and the fourth which... -
Home at Grasmere: Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62A continuous text made up of extracts from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal and a selection of her brother's poems. Dorothy Wordsworth kept her Journal 'because I shall give William pleasure by it'. In... -
The Worst Journey In The World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.11One of the world's greatest works of travel and adventure writing, reissued on its 100th birthday.This is a gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of... -
Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey by Fergal Keane
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.08When President Habyarimana's jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing - which left up to a million dead. Fergal Keane travelled through the country as the... -
Blood and Sand: 10th Anniversary Edition by Frank Gardner
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.20On the June 6, 2004, while on assignment in Riyadh, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed outright. Frank was hit in... -
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Race of a Lifetime: How Obama Won the White House by John Heilemann 9780141040677 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $3.02The runaway number one bestseller. The book that set Washington ablaze. The new non-fiction classic.Forget everything you think you know about the making of the most powerful man on the planet... -
Race of a Lifetime: How Obama Won the White House by John Heilemann 9780141040677
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98The runaway number one bestseller. The book that set Washington ablaze. The new non-fiction classic.Forget everything you think you know about the making of the most powerful man on the planet... -
Far Horizons by Frank Gardner
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.20Lost on a remote Sumatran volcano...pursued through a Tokyo backstreet by a Japanese gangster...picnicking with the French Foreign Legion in the Horn of Africa: Frank Gardner's idea of a holiday is... -
Bullion: The Mystery of Gaddafi's Gold by Oggy Boytchev 9781835744369
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97When Gaddafi's regime begins to crumble, rumours swirl about a hidden cache of gold - billions that could tip the balance of power in the Middle East. Harry Marks, a young, ambitious journalist,... -
Looking for Trouble: 'One of the truly great war correspondents: magnificent.' (Antony Beevor) by Virginia Cowles
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91This sensational 1941 memoir of life on wartime Europe's frontline by a trailblazing female reporter is an 'unforgettable' (The Times) rediscovered classic, introduced by Christina Lamb.Paris as it... -
The Istanbul Connection Oggy Boytchev 9781835743959
Booksplease Price: $21.78A disillusioned young British journalist, Harry Marks, is drawn into a covert intelligence operation in Istanbul by a charismatic agent named James. What begins as a casual friendship spirals into... -
The Granta Book Of Reportage by Ian Jack
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Since its relaunch in 1979, Granta magazine has championed the art and craft of reportage - journalism marked by vivid description, a novelist's eye to form and eyewitness reporting that reveals... -
Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania by Paul Kenyon
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62A vivid, brilliant, darkly humorous and horrifying history of some of the strangest dictators that Europe has ever seen. 'A witty and page-turning narrative full of grotesque characters' Misha... -
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce 9781851245079
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.93DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country In 1881 Ambrose Bierce, journalist and former soldier for the Union army in the Civil War, began writing satirical definitions for the... -
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang by John Ayto 9780199232055
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $14.65Drawing on the unique resources of the Oxford English Dictionary and offering coverage of over 6,000 slang words and expressions from the Cockney 'abaht' to the American term 'zowie', this is the... -
King Rat: The Fourth Novel of the Asian Saga by James Clavell
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Set in Changi, the most notorious prisoner of war camp in Asia, King Rat is an heroic story of survival told by a master story-teller who lived through those years as a young soldier. Only one man in...