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Deep Water by Tim Jeal 9780571303991
Booksplease Price: £15.24It is 1941. Only child Leo invites schoolfriend Justin to stay the summer on the western tip of Cornwall. Addicted to adventure tales, one night they swim out to investigate a supposed 'spy ship'... -
For Love or Money by Tim Jeal 9780571303878
Booksplease Price: £13.27For Love or Money was Tim Jeal's first novel, accepted for publication in 1966 while he was still an undergraduate at Oxford. It is the story of temporary gentleman George, who lives as a kept man... -
Cushing's Crusade by Tim Jeal 9780571303915
Booksplease Price: £13.27Derek Cushing - thirtyish, balding, unassuming archivist/researcher into European expansion in East Africa - is also the son of Gilbert, father of Giles, and husband of Diana. On the last count,... -
The Missionary's Wife by Tim Jeal 9780571311750
Booksplease Price: £15.24In The Missionary's Wife (1996) - his return to historical fiction - Tim Jeal expertly evoked Africa in the 1890s: a continent in turmoil as a horde of prospecters, hunters and missionaries scramble... -
A Marriage of Convenience by Tim Jeal 9780571303953
Booksplease Price: £15.24'A majestic Victorian tale... Wealthy lawyer Esmond, discarded illegitimate son of a peer, has pinched his way to the top of his profession, while his handsome, debt-ridden cavalry officer brother... -
Somewhere Beyond Reproach by Tim Jeal 9780571303892
Booksplease Price: £13.27Ten years after Dinah deserted Harry to marry a friend of his, Harry still loves her obsessively, though his image of her has ceased to relate to her independent reality. Unable to shake this... -
Stanley: Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley's life is yet more extraordinary. Few people know of his... -
Until the Colours Fade by Tim Jeal 9780571303939
Booksplease Price: £21.99Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure by Tim Jeal
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing exceptional courage and extraordinary resilience,... -
A Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles through Islamic Africa by Steve Kemper 9780393346237
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30In 1840 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one his companions died, but he carried on alone, eventually reaching the... -
Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes Ferdinand Mount 9780747596479
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Cold Cream is a sparkling autobiography in the great tradition: wonderfully perceptive, exquisitely rendered and bursting with characters and anecdotes of every shade and hue. A tender, moving and...