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Che Guevara by Jon Lee Anderson
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.87With unprecedented access to the Cuban Government's archives and total co-operation from Che's widow, Aleida March, as well as access to hitherto unpublished documents, including several of Che's... -
Che Guevara by Jon Lee Anderson 9780571331703
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.65Che Guevara's legend is unmatched in the modern world. Since his assassination in 1967 at the age of 39, the Argentine revolutionary has become an internationally famed icon, as revered as he is... -
The Fall of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson 9780143035855
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £20.37Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban by Jon Lee Anderson 9780593493090
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593493090Author Jon Lee AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint -
Night Train to Odesa: Covering the Human Cost of Russia’s War (BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week) Jen Stout 9781846976940
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, millions of lives changed in an instant. Millions of people were suddenly on the move. In this great flow of people was a reporter from the north of Scotland... -
When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon by Alex Cuadros 9781399628914
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG'Reads like a wondrous mixture of Heart of... -
Night Train to Odesa: Covering the Human Cost of Russia’s War by Jen Stout 9781846976476
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.07When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, millions of lives changed in an instant. Millions of people were suddenly on the move. In this great flow of people was a reporter from the north of Scotland... -
Cuba on the Verge: 12 Writers on Continuity and Change in Havana and Across the Country by Leila Guerriero 9780062661074
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062661074Author Leila GuerrieroFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Travelling from village to... -
Brazil: The Passenger 9781787702417
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, and reportage from around the world. Its aim, to break down barriers and introduce the essence of the place. Packed with essays and... -
Fidel Castro by Nick Caistor 9781780230900
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30The Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro is one of the most written-about men in the world today. Most approaches to his life are either glowing hagiographies, or critical rants in which he is portrayed... -
Fear is Just a Word by Azam Ahmed 9780349726915
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71'A work of journalistic brilliance and rare humanity' GEORGE PACKER 'Truly a remarkable achievement' JON LEE ANDERSON'Ahmed writes about Mexico with uncommon authority and a broken heart' GARY... -
Blood Will Flow: The murderous business of oil and gas Alex Perry 9781804182727
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.12'[A] page-turner of a book' -- Financial Times'Breathtaking' -- Jon Lee Anderson'A magnificent, earth-shaking achievement' -- Andrew Harding'Vital' -- Sally Hayden'Powerful, gripping and rigorously... -
The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers by Gordon Weiss 9781934137543
Booksplease Price: £15.39"The Cage is a tightly written and clear-eyed narrative about one of the most disturbing human dramas of recent years. . . . A riveting, cautionary tale about the consequences of unchecked political... -
The Yahoo Boys: Real Life with the Love Scammers of Lagos by Carlos Barragán 9781399632195
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.60A NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 'AFFECTING' TELEGRAPH'ENGROSSING' ECONOMIST'MIRACULOUS' WIRED'MORE THAN CRIME REPORTAGE' WALL STREET JOURNAL When his mother fell for an 'American... -
Stolen Revolution: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin 9780241744048
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.05'Rare and riveting' LYSE DOUCET'A must-read . . . compulsively readable . . . unputdownable' JON LEE ANDERSON'Rarely has a book been so timely . . . Essential reading' LINDSEY HILSUM'Extraordinarily... -
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set them Free Hector Tobar 9781444755411
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.26NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIETTE BINOCHE AND ANTONIO BANDERASTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST'Riveting ...The best book I've... -
The Good War: Why We Couldn't Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan by Jack Fairweather
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.91A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led... -
'Eat the Heart of the Infidel': The Harrowing of Nigeria and the Rise of Boko Haram by 9781849045582
Booksplease Price: £22.73Boko Haram's appetite for exemplary violence and kidnapping women and girls has thrust it to the top of the global news agenda. In a few furious years its cadres have all but severed parts of... -
Drax of Drax Hall: How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery Paul Lashmar 9780745352039
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.86'A damning reminder that the ghosts of empire are not distant - they are living, breathing and, in some cases, still collecting rent' - The Observer 'Eloquently reminds us that history is never... -
Blood Gun Money: Firearms Trafficking Along America's Iron River by Ioan Grillo
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99From the author of El Narco and Gangster Warlords, a searing investigation into the enormous black market for firearms, essential to cartels and gangs in the drug trade. Guns from America reach... -
Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist Larry Rohter 9781324076209
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.11Candido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked... -
Quixote: The Novel and the World by Ilan Stavans 9780393353426
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.302015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha-an ageless masterpiece that is unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flaubert was inspired... -
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden 9780008445614
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.86WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever... -
Flowers for Elephants: How a Conservation Movement in Kenya Offers Lessons for Us All Peter Martell 9781805263128
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.86When northern Kenyans find elephant bones, they lay down blossoms and branches as a mark of respect, honouring their crucial connection with the wildlife they live alongside. In our changing world,... -
Blue Power: Cobalt, China and the Scramble to Dominate the New Energy Revolution Nicolas Niarchos 9780008553951
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.25'A tale of rapacious colonialism, Cold War spy games, dazzling technical innovation, big business rivalry, big power geopolitics [...] Niarchos has produced an unflinching, landmark... -
In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46The gripping life story of the great war correspondent Marie Colvin told by one of her closest friendsSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDWINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK AWARD Marie Colvin was... -
Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman by Will Grant
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'An ambitious, riveting and essential book that has much to teach us about the recent history of this region, and about the human impulse towards populism that continues to shape the world' Ben... -
Blood Barrios: Dispatches from the World's Deadliest Streets by Alberto Arce
Booksplease Price: £16.83Winner of the 2018 PEN Translates Award for Non-Fiction Features illustrations by the Honduran artist German Andino Welcome to a country that has a higher casualty rate than Iraq. Wander... -
Witches Brenda Lozano 9781529412239
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A bewitching novel by Brenda Lozano, one of the most prominent voices of the new generation of Latin American writers.'You can't really know another woman until you know yourself.'Weaving together... -
Comandante: The Life and Legacy of Hugo Chavez by Rory Carroll
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.32Hugo Chavez was a true phenomenon. On his death in March 2013 tens of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets and honoured a seven-day period of national mourning. Chavez has been compared to... -
Waiting for the Monsoon Rod Nordland 9780063096233
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58By the New York Times's legendary war correspondent, written while battling terminal brain cancer: a life-affirming memoir of high adventure, deep wisdom, and finding true happiness amid the... -
First Raise a Flag: How South Sudan Won the Longest War but Lost the Peace by Peter Martell
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £26.07When South Sudan's war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronaut's dream. Half a century later, with millions massacred in Africa's longest war, the... -
Brazillionaires: The Godfathers of Modern Brazil by Alex Cuadros
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award Wealth and power on the trail of the super-rich In 2012, Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista was the eighth richest man in the... -
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson 9781782392026
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, 'a sideshow of a sideshow'. Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant... -
The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key to the Future of Pakistan and Afghanistan by Abubakar Siddique 9781849042925
Booksplease Price: £52.84Most contemporary journalistic and scholarly accounts of the instability gripping Afghanistan and Pakistan have argued that violent Islamic extremism, including support for the Taliban and related... -
A Rope from the Sky: The Making and Unmaking of the World's Newest State by Zach Vertin
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55The euphoric birth of South Sudan was celebrated around the world - a triumph for global justice and a sign that one of the world's most devastating wars was finally over. But the party would not... -
Cuba: An American History by Dr. Ada Ferrer
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £21.80WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY "Full of...lively insights and lucid prose" (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba... -
Cuba: An American History by Dr Ada Ferrer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY "Full of...lively insights and lucid prose" (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba... -
The Storm is Here: America on the Brink Luke Mogelson 9781529418736
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle a story of mounting civic breakdown and violent disorder, in a vivid eyewitness narrative of revelatory...