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On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin by Marie Colvin 9780007487967
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Veteran Sunday Times war correspondent, Marie Colvin was killed in February 2012 when covering the uprising in Syria. On the Front Line is an Orwell Special Prize winning journalism... -
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... -
Under the Wire: Marie Colvin's Final Assignment by Paul Conroy 9781602862364
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.13Zero Dark Thirty meets 127 Hours - a riveting war journal from photographer Paul Conroy, who accompanied Marie Colvin (called by her peers &ldquothe greatest war correspondent of her... -
The Herbalist's Guide: How to Build and Use Your Own Apothecary by Mary Colvin 9781510778092
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63Create the home apothecary of your dreams! With a little bit of knowledge, Mary Colvin, RH (AHG) believes that anyone can develop their own homemade remedies and medicines. In The Herbalist's Guide,... -
Under the Wire Paul Conroy 9781787478275
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26NOW A MAJOR FEATURE DOCUMENTARYDetermined to cover the Syrian regime's brutal crackdown on dissent and the devastating impact of the war on Syria's civilians, veteran photographer Paul Conroy and... -
War and Peacekeeping: Personal Reflections on Conflict and Lasting Peace by Martin Bell
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.01There 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... -
Taking Sides: from war reporter to activist — finding my place in the fight against injustice by Sherine Tadros 9781915590633
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95What does it take to report from conflict zones? What good is neutrality in the face of suffering, and how much difference can one person make? From her first journalistic assignment in Gaza to... -
To The Lions by Holly Watt
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95WINNER OF THE 2019 CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE CHOSEN AS A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A dark... -
The Vanishing: The Twilight of Christianity in the Middle East by Janine di Giovanni 9781526625854
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.90**Longlisted Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing** 'A tragic portrait of a disappearing world, created with passion and literary grace' SALMAN RUSHDIE 'Janine di Giovanni is a humane and... -
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To The Lions by Holly Watt 9781526602077 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £3.51WINNER OF THE 2019 CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE CHOSEN AS A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A dark trail of... -
Taking Sides: a memoir about love, war, and changing the world by Sherine Tadros
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73The deeply moving memoir of an award-winning war correspondent turned activist - and her rousing defence of human rights in times of resurgent authoritarianism. As a broadcast journalist for Sky... -
Becoming the Story: War Correspondents since 9/11 by Lindsay Palmer 9780252041563
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14The September 11 attacks produced great changes in journalism and the lives of the people who practiced it. Foreign reporters felt surrounded by the hate of American colleagues for "the enemy."... -
Becoming the Story: War Correspondents since 9/11 by Lindsay Palmer
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24The September 11 attacks produced great changes in journalism and the lives of the people who practiced it. Foreign reporters felt surrounded by the hate of American colleagues for "the enemy."... -
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... -
BBC Women Reporting the World: Conversations with Foreign Correspondents Colleen Murrell 9783031851971
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.76This book explores the changing experiences and roles of the BBC's female journalists. Featuring original interview content, the book focuses on the careers of female foreign correspondents, from... -
Father of Lions: How One Man Defied Isis and Saved Mosul Zoo by Louise Callaghan
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23'Callaghan's portrayal of a city under siege is many-layered and brilliantly told' Sunday Times Iraq, 2014 As ISIS laid terrible siege to Mosul, a zoo on the eastern edge of the Tigris was kept... -
Father of Lions: How One Man Defied Isis and Saved Mosul Zoo by Louise Callaghan 9781789540772
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63'Callaghan's portrayal of a city under siege is many-layered and brilliantly told' Sunday Times Iraq, 2014 As ISIS laid terrible siege to Mosul, a zoo on the eastern edge of the Tigris was kept... -
Love in a Time of War: My Years with Robert Fisk Lara Marlowe 9781801102520
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42The Irish Times bestseller 'A gripping tale of savagery and courage' Noam Chomsky 'Fascinating and captivating' Irish Times 'A beautiful book... Full of pain and longing but also joy,... -
A Private War Marie Brenner 9781471180705
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Now a major motion picture - starring Rosamund Pike, Stanley Tucci and Jamie Dornan.The book that inspired the film A Private War, based on acclaimed journalist Marie Brenner's centrepiece profile of... -
Let It Go: My Extraordinary Story - From Refugee to Entrepreneur to Philanthropist by Dame Stephanie Shirley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A moving memoir from a woman who made a fortune in a man's world and then gave it all away...soon to be turned into a filmIn 1962, Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley created a software company when the... -
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: Radio 4 Book of the Week by Maria Ressa 9780753559215
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021 What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own... -
The Stray Cats of Homs: A powerful, moving novel inspired by a true story Eva Nour 9781784164928
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83'An incredible book. Profoundly affecting and deeply soulful. This book will stay with me forever.' Ruth Jones, No.1 Sunday Times bestselling authorI don't know how you've made it this far . . ... -
In the Wars: From Afghanistan to the UK, a story of conflict, survival and saving lives by Dr Waheed Arian
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15AS HEARD ON DESERT ISLAND DISCSAS SEEN ON THE CHANGEMAKERS, a Paramount+ docuseries profiling activists fighting for changeA WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR'A riveting story of loss, exile, and... -
Looking for Trouble: 'One of the truly great war correspondents: magnificent.' (Antony Beevor) by Virginia Cowles
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This 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 Spymaster of Baghdad: The Untold Story of the Elite Intelligence Cell that Turned the Tide against ISIS by Margaret Coker 9780241987018
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Pulse-pounding' Sinclair McKay | 'Truly masterful' Damien Lewis | 'Who needs spy fiction, when fact can provide as thrilling a story as this?' Lindsey HilsumThe Spymaster of Baghdad is the gripping... -
Conflict Propaganda in Syria: Narrative Battles by Oliver Boyd-Barrett 9780367697488
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.99This book investigates rival narratives about the conflict in Syria from 2011 onwards.It examines the starkly different narratives about the Syrian conflict told by mainly Western mainstream and... -
Blue Eyes and a Wild Spirit: A Life of Dorothy Wellesley by Jane Wellesley 9781914518232
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35Dorothy Wellesley was a poet, gardener, traveller and heiress; she was also bisexual and a rebel. She became the lover of Vita Sackville-West, wrecking her marriage to the Duke of Wellington. She was... -
The Times Great Women's Lives: A Celebration in Obituaries by Sue Corbett 9780750992558
Booksplease Price: £25.01This selection of Times obituaries from 1872 to 2014 revisits the lives of 125 women who have all, in their own way, played an important part in women's educational, professional, social, cultural... -
Last Word's Uncommon Women by Celia Hayley 9781474607643
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71Last Word is the popular BBC Radio 4 series broadcast weekly, featuring the lives of several famous people who have recently died. More than standard obituaries, the lives are summarised with... -
Holy Wars: The Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism by Dilip Hiro 9780415824446
Booksplease Price: £60.08To some, Islamic Fundamentalism means the restoration of a true religion. To others, it is a politics that stands apart from capitalism and socialism. To many Westerners, it has come to constitute a... -
Holy Wars (Routledge Revivals): The Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism Dilip Hiro 9780415835015
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £28.64To some, Islamic Fundamentalism means the restoration of a true religion. To others, it is a politics that stands apart from capitalism and socialism. To many Westerners, particularly in the past... -
Lost Horizons: A Foreign Correspondent's Extraordinary Life Story Denis D. Gray 9780804858595
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25A CIA-orchestrated escape through the Iron Curtain launched Denis D. Gray into a life on the front lines of history.Born Zdenek Mecir in communist Czechoslovakia, Gray's dramatic flight to freedom... -
Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Exploration by Levison Wood 9781801102575
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.13100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood. We are always captivated by tales of courage and bravery, of world-firsts and... -
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Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs: 100 years of the best Journalism by women by Eleanor Mills 9781845291655 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.41Many female journalists came to the fore during the first and second world wars, and their perspective was very different to that of their male peers, who were reporting from the field. Specifically,... -
Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs: 100 years of the best Journalism by women by Eleanor Mills
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56Many female journalists came to the fore during the first and second world wars, and their perspective was very different to that of their male peers, who were reporting from the field. Specifically,... -
Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain's Battle with Coronavirus by Jonathan Calvert
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.83*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* A GUARDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An astonishing book' James O'Brien ... -
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Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain's Battle with Coronavirus by Jonathan Calvert 9780008430528 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.66*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* A GUARDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An astonishing book' James O'Brien ... -
Concussed: Sport’s Uncomfortable Truth by Sam Peters 9781838955779
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.37*WINNER of the Pinsent Masons Best Sports Writing Award at The British Sports Book Awards 2024**SHORTLISTED for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2023**SHORTLISTED for Rugby Book of the... -
Concussed: Sport’s Uncomfortable Truth: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 Sam Peters 9781838955793
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23*WINNER of the Pinsent Masons Best Sports Writing Award at The British Sports Book Awards 2024**SHORTLISTED for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2023**SHORTLISTED for Rugby Book of the... -
We Chose to Speak of War and Strife by John Simpson 9781408872246
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16From 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,...