Books by Giles Foden

'A gripping tale of tropical corruption' Spectator'A genuine imaginative achievement' Daily Telegraph'As convincing and terrifying a portrait of a capricious tyrant as I have ever read' Evening StandardIn 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 personal physician and closest confidante. Though Garrigan is at first flattered and fascinated by his new position, he soon awakens to Amin's savagery - and his own complicity in it. Horror and betrayal ensue as Garrigan tries to right his wrongs and escape Uganda alive.

From the acclaimed author of THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, TURBULENCE is a gripping blend of fact and fiction about the D-day landings and how human beings deal with uncertainty

A gripping terrorist thriller from the award-winning author of THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND

From the acclaimed author of The Last King Of Scotland, Freight Dogs explores the individual consequences of Africa's 'Great War', distilling a world-shaking conflict into the unputdownable story of one man's life.

Idi Amin is the self-declared President of Uganda. When Scottish medic Nicholas Garrigan becomes his personal physician, he is catapulted into Amin's inner circle. A useful asset for the British Secret Service, is Garrigan the man on the inside, or does he have blood on his hands too? Adapted from Giles Foden's multi-award-winning novel.

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. In June 1915, a force of 28 men was despatched from Britain on a vast journey. Their orders were to take control of the lake. To reach it, they had to haul two motorboats with the unlikely names of Mimi and Toutou through the wilds of the Congo.The 28 were a strange bunch -- one was addicted to Worcester sauce, another was a former racing driver -- but the strangest of all of them was their skirt-wearing, tattoo-covered commander, Geoffrey Spicer-Simson. Whatever it took, even if it meant becoming the god of a local tribe, he was determined to cover himself in glory. But the Germans had a surprise in store for Spicer-Simson, in the shape of their secret 'supership' the Graf von Gotzen . . .Unearthing new German and African records, the prize-winning author of The Last King of Scotland retells this most unlikely of true-life tales with his customary narrative energy and style.Fitzcarraldo meets Heart of Darkness, this is rich, vivid and flashmanesque in its appeal - military history at its most absorbing and entertaining

Gennem den unge Bella Kiernans øjne følger vi slaget ved byen Ladysmith under Boerkrigen i de sidste dage af det 19. århundrede. Under den lange belejring af byen forelsker den unge Bella Kiernan sig og får på trods af den ydre belejring mulighed for at flygte fra familiens snærende bånd og strenge moral. Giles Foden fortæller om slaget ved Ladysmith gennem en række historiske karakterer som den unge Winston Churchill, den indiske bærer Mohandas Gandhi og zulu‘en Muhle Maseku og hans søn Wellington.Romanen er inspireret af breve af forfatterens oldefar, der selv var britisk soldat under Boerkrigen. Foden fortæller historien om den første moderne krig med dens umenneskelige kz-leje, krigs-korrespondenternes og billedreporternes strøm af nyheder - falske som sande - for at tilfredsstille de hjemlige læseres og avisredaktioners glubbende appetit på nyheder."This is never anything less than a fascinating, ambitious novel, and to see a young author taking on the huge question of how to write history is inspiring indeed." -Alan Stewart, AmazonGiles Foden(f. 1967) er en engelsk forfatter og journalist. Giles Forden tilbragte sin ungdom i Afrika og arbejdede mellem 1990 og 2006 som journalist for the Times Literary Supplement og the Guardian. I 1998 udgav han den nu filmatiserede roman The Last King of Scotland med Forest Whitaker i hovedrollen. Bogen indbragte ham Whitbread First Novel Award. I dag bor han i Norfolk og er Professor of Creative Writing ved University of East Anglia.