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Freight Dogs by Giles Foden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is 1996. Manu, a 19-year-old cowherd living on the slopes of Congo's fiercest volcano, must flee from a complex war. Taken to Uganda by a hard-drinking Texan, he is offered a chance to join an anarchic group of mercenary pilots or 'freight dogs'. Soon Manu is seeing his vast country from above and fa ...Show more
Freight Dogs by Giles Foden
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'Every new novel by Giles Foden is something to celebrate' Paul Theroux'An amazing and profound work, rich in memorable detail' Jay Parini'Foden has cleverly reworked the grand African adventure novel' Aminatta Forna, Guardian'A perceptive, compassionate history of an enormously complex conflict' Irish ...Show more
Mimi and Toutou Go Forth by Giles Foden
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika At the start of World War One, German warships controlled Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa. The British had no naval craft at all upon 'Tanganjikasee', as the Germans called it. This mattered: it was the longest lake in the world and of great strategic advantage ...Show more
Mimi and Toutou Go Forth. The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganiyika by Giles Foden
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'It's the duty of the Royal Navy to engage the enemy wherever she is afloat' is the order of the day, but their lordships would never have imagined what they would be letting themselves into when they sent Lt. Spicer Simson and his ragtag expedition to sink three German Steamers on Lake Tanganyika in ce ...Show more
The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
What would it be like to become Idi Amin's personal physician? Giles Foden's best-selling thriller is the story of a young Scottish doctor drawn into the heart of the Ugandan dictator's surreal and brutal regime. Privy to Amin's thoughts and ambitions, he is both fascinated and appalled. As Uganda plung ...Show more
The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
What would it be like to become Idi Amin's personal physician? Giles Foden's best-selling thriller is the story of a young Scottish doctor drawn into the heart of the Ugandan dictator's surreal and brutal regime. Privy to Amin's thoughts and ambitions, he is both fascinated and appalled. As Uganda plung ...Show more
The Last King of Scotland (Revolutionary Writing) by Giles Foden
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world's most barbaric figures: Idi Amin. Impressed by Dr. Garrigan's brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his ...Show more
Turbulence by Giles Foden
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
The D-day landings: the fate of 2.5 million men, 3000 landing craft and the entire future of Europe depends on the right weather conditions on the English Channel on a single day. A team of Allied scientists is charged with agreeing on an accurate forecast five days in advance. But is it even possible t ...Show more
Turbulence by Giles Foden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The D-Day landings: the fate of two and half million men, three thousand landing-craft and the entire future of Europe depends on the right weather conditions in the English Channel on a single day. A team of Allied scientists is charged with agreeing an accurate forecast five days in advance. But is it ...Show more
Zanzibar by Giles Foden
$23.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
The year is 1998. Nick, a marine biologist, is working on coral reef protection off the idyllic island of Zanzibar. While on a trip to nearby Tanzania, he meets Miranda, who works in the US embassy there. They could be forgiven for thinking they are living in paradise - until they find themselves embroi ...Show more
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