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Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £12.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812979329Author Katherine BooFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House Trade... -
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo 9781846274510
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A Mumbai slum understood and imagined as never before in language of intense beauty' Salman Rushdie 'If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of The Wire, this would be it' Barbara... -
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo 9781846274510 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.98'A Mumbai slum understood and imagined as never before in language of intense beauty' Salman Rushdie 'If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of The Wire, this would be it' Barbara... -
The Buried: Life, Death and Revolution in Egypt by Peter Hessler 9781788161305
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.84'Tenacious, revelatory, and humane.' - Paul Theroux 'The Buried is the kind of book that you don't want to end and won't forget. With the eye of a great storyteller Peter Hessler weaves together... -
The Buried: Life, Death and Revolution in Egypt by Peter Hessler
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'Tenacious, revelatory, and humane.' - Paul Theroux 'The Buried is the kind of book that you don't want to end and won't forget. With the eye of a great storyteller Peter Hessler weaves together... -
Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings by Saumya Roy 9781788165365
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'Roy has a journalist's unflinching eye, a poet's talent for detail, and a radical sense of empathy ... a stunning achievement.' - Kiran Desai, Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss... -
Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings by Saumya Roy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'If you read one book about India, read this one.' Geeta Anand, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Cure 'Mountain Tales is a remarkable feat of immersive reporting and story-telling, a... -
Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War by Raghu Karnad
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Described as 'a masterpiece' by critics, this remarkable book tells the story of war through the lives and deaths of a single family. Absolutely unforgettable new writing. If you loved The... -
Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City by Samira Shackle 9781783785407
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Pakistan's largest city is a sprawling metropolis of 20 million people. A place of political turbulence, where lavish wealth and absolute poverty sit side by side, and where the lines between... -
The Newlyweds: Young People Fighting for Love in the New India by Mansi Choksi
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43'Staggeringly good... Much like Lisa Taddeo's Three Women, it reads more like a novel than a piece of non-fiction... it does what all great writing should - it puts us into the world of someone... -
Incarnations: A History of India in 50 Lives by Sunil Khilnani
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Incarnations makes the mind fly across time, place and history. You may smile as, mentally, you walk alongside Khilnani up some flinty slope. You will keep thinking about what he said long after'... -
Ideas and the Pace of Change: National Pharmaceutical Insurance in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom by Katherine Boothe 9781442648630
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £38.33Canada is the only OECD country that has universal, comprehensive public hospital and medical insurance but lacks equivalent pharmaceutical coverage. In Ideas and the Pace of Change, Katherine Boothe... -
A People's History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12LONGLISTED FOR A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD, 2020 A dazzling tribute to the resilience and determination of a remarkable community of women In the sprawling Bangalore slum of Heaven, five girls -... -
Nine Paths: A Year in the Life of an Indian Village by Lexi Stadlen
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.58Revelatory, lyrical and immersive, this is an extraordinary book that takes you deep into these ordinary women's worlds... Their stories are urgent and forcefully articulated - and this book gives us... -
Eat the Buddha: The Story of Modern Tibet Through the People of One Town by Barbara Demick
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR IN FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, NEW YORK... -
India's War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939-1945 by Srinath Raghavan 9780241957592
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.85SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016, GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'Authoritative, expansive and incisive...helps restore India to the global twentieth century' Sunil KhilnaniBetween 1939 and 1945... -
Invisible Child: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction 2022 by Andrea Elliott
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless... -
Far Out: The Lives of Former Extremists and What They Teach Us by Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A powerful investigation into the world of extremism and redemption, from TIME journalist and author of Cast Away. "Far Out is an excellent mix of investigative journalism, entertaining... -
Pursuing an Ethic of Empathy in Journalism by Janet Blank-Libra
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book advances a journalistic theory of empathy, challenging long-held notions about how best to do journalism. Because the institution of journalism has typically equated empathy and compassion... -
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City by Andrea Elliott 9781529151169
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.61'A classic to rank with Orwell . . . I didn't want it to end' CHRISTINA PATTERSON, SUNDAY TIMESWinner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for NonfictionA Barack Obama Favourite Book of the YearWinner of the... -
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story Nathan Thrall 9781802060041
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'A deeply immersive portrait of daily life in Israel and the West Bank' The Best Books to... -
A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children by Haley Cohen Gilliland 9781668017142
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £19.60NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 * THE WASHINGTON POST'S 5 BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2025 * THE ATLANTIC'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2025 * THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S BEST BOOKS... -
The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73**Longlisted for the ALCS Gold Non-Fiction Dagger** **Longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2022** 'Haunting ... lingers in the mind long after the final page is turned'... -
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by David Hare
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.14It's not just that rich people don't know what they've got. They don't even know what they throw away. India is beginning to prosper. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport is an... -
The City Since 9/11: Literature, Film, Television by Keith Wilhite 9781611477207
Booksplease Price: £53.55Charting the intersection of aesthetic representation and the material conditions of urban space, The City Since 9/11 posits that the contemporary metropolis provides a significant context for... -
The City Since 9/11: Literature, Film, Television by Keith Wilhite 9781611477184
Booksplease Price: £96.29Charting the intersection of aesthetic representation and the material conditions of urban space, The City Since 9/11 posits that the contemporary metropolis provides a significant context for... -
Postcolonial Lack: Identity, Culture, Surplus by Gautam Basu Thakur 9781438477695
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.61Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference.Postcolonial Lack reconvenes dialogue between Lacanian... -
Strangers Drowning: Voyages to the Brink of Moral Extremity Larissa MacFarquhar 9781846143991
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23SUNDAY TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme... -
Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Profoundly moving. An astonishing book, a true work of art' Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers From the critically acclaimed author of The Vagrants, a devastating and utterly... -
The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline by George Packer 9781529111583
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION*'A Great American Novel in the guise of a Great Nonfiction Epic, The Unwinding asks...do we truly like the world we have made for ourselves?' The... -
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa by Alexis Okeowo
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.26'Absolutely essential reading, period' Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Lets Go to the Dogs TonightWINNER of the 2018 PEN Open Book AwardIn the tradition of Behind the Beautiful... -
The Hollywood Kid: The Violent Life and Violent Death of an Ms-13 Hitman by Oscar Martinez 9781786634931
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32As a boy, Miguel Angel Tobar fled a small town in El Salvador torn apart by warring guerrillas and US-backed death squads. As a teen in Los Angeles, he fought discrimination and beatings by joining a... -
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction 2019 by Eliza Griswold
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction'At heart a David and Goliath story fit for the movies ... [A] valuable, discomforting book' The New York Times Book ReviewSeven years in the... -
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'A GOOD READ' THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'GAWANDE'S MOST POWERFUL, AND MOVING, BOOK' MALCOLM GLADWELL 'BEING MORTAL IS NOT ONLY WISE AND DEEPLY MOVING; IT IS AN... -
A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America by Oscar Martinez
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24El Salvador and Honduras have had the highest homicide rates in the world over the past ten years, with Guatemala close behind. Every day more than 1,000 people-men, women, and children-flee these...