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Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News by Emily Maitlis
RRP: £12.99£9.09FEATURING EMILY MAITLIS' GROUNDBREAKING INTERVIEW WITH PRINCE ANDREWThe news has never been more prominent - but are we getting the full story? Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis gives us a behind-the-scenes look at some of the biggest news stories and... -
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict 9780593437032
£14.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593437032Author Marie BenedictFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
RRP: £12.99£8.18The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg-"a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fascinating life of one of our generation's most influential voices in both... -
States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons by Joy James 9780312294502
RRP: £44.99£32.51The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rate in the industrialized world. Due to bias in policing and sentencing, seventy percent of the nearly two million people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and immigration detention centers are... -
The Secret Life of John le Carré by Adam Sisman 9781800817784
RRP: £16.99£12.28SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRIMEFEST HRF KEATING AWARD A Times Best Literature Book of the Year 2023 A Financial Times Book of the Year 2023 A Spectator Book of the Year 2023 A Daily Express Best Book of 2023 'A fascinating, revelatory appendix ..... -
Our Island Stories: Country Walks through Colonial Britain by Corinne Fowler 9780241561638
RRP: £25.00£18.02'This is an essential and fascinating book because it brings to light, through conversations and nature walks, some of the buried connections between Britain’s landscape and historic buildings and its complicated hidden histories. Fowler does not judge... -
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato 9781802060263
RRP: £10.99£7.77There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change.Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Boston... -
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Will set your hair on end' Telegraph, Top 50 Books of the Year'I forgot to breathe while reading The Fifth Risk' Michael Hofmann, TLS, Books of the YearThe bestselling, no-holds-barred expose of the people who are wrecking our democracy, by the master... -
The Girls in the Glen: An unputdownable Scottish mystery by Lynne McEwan
RRP: £9.99£6.41'A thrilling new voice in Scottish fiction' Marion ToddIf the dead could speak, what secrets would they tell?With her daughter on an archaeological dig, the only bodies DI Shona Oliver expects to find are long-dead. But when a corpse from the 1980s is... -
Politics: A Survivor’s Guide: How to Stay Engaged without Getting Enraged by Rafael Behr 9781838955069
RRP: £10.99£7.32A WATERSTONES BEST POLITICS BOOK OF 2023 'Passionate, clever, and often very funny' Marina Hyde'A wonderful meditation on populism, nationalism, politics and truth' Rory StewartWe live in an age of fury and confusion. A new crisis erupts before the last... -
The Illustrated Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
RRP: £29.99£20.92"Chivalry is a flower no less indigenous to the soil of Japan than cherry blossom" are the opening words to Inazo Nitobe's Bushido: The Soul of Japan. It was 1900 and Inazo, a Japanese academic living in the USA, had been prompted to write the book after... -
Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine by Owen Matthews 9780008562786
RRP: £10.99£7.25Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 *A Telegraph Book of the Year* A Times Best Book of Summer 2023 *Shortlisted for the... -
Britain's Persuaders: Soft Power in a Hard World by Helen Ramscar
RRP: £21.99£18.10'Soft power' is an oft-used term and commands an instinctive understanding among journalists and casual observers, who mostly interpret it as 'diplomatic' or somehow 'persuasive'. 'Hard power' is seen, by contrast, as something more tangible and usually... -
For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink by Sarah Rose
RRP: £10.99£7.77Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter - and industrial spy. In 1848, the East India Company engaged him to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China - territory forbidden to foreigners - to steal the closely guarded... -
Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East by Warren Dockter 9781788319249
RRP: £24.99£21.78Winston Churchill began his career as a junior officer and war correspondent in the North West borderlands of British India, and this experience was the beginning of his long relationship with the Islamic world. Overturning the widely-accepted consensus... -
Political ideas for A Level: Liberalism, Socialism, Conservatism, Feminism, Anarchism 2nd Edition by Richard Kelly
£18.66These Student's Books will help students understand the core ideas and principles behind the political ideologies, and how they apply in practice to human nature, the state, society and the economy.- Comprehensive coverage of the ideologies of... -
National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy by Roger Eatwell
RRP: £10.99£7.77A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time: the rise of national populismAcross the West, there is a rising tide of people who feel excluded, alienated from mainstream politics, and... -
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg 9781408889282
RRP: £14.99£10.95From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, the first insider expose of the dangers of America's hidden, seventy-year-long nuclear policy. When former presidential advisor Daniel Ellsberg famously took the Pentagon Papers, he... -
My Revision Notes: AQA AS/A-level History: The Cold War, c1945-1991 by Melanie Vance
RRP: £12.50£11.84Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Target success in AQA AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
A Thief's Justice: A completely gripping historical mystery by Douglas Skelton 9781804365472
RRP: £9.99£6.79London, 1716. Revenge is a dish best served ice-cold...'An immersive, action-packed thriller with intrigue in the air and threats around every corner' The Herald'Great fun ... the language is colourful and the action never stops' Laura... -
Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid
RRP: £14.99£10.95We live in an age of subterfuge. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in facts. Thomas Rid, a renowned expert on technology and national... -
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple 9780006547747
RRP: £12.99£8.48A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple's previous work. In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an... -
To a Dark Place: Experiences from Survivors of the Troubles by Ken Wharton
RRP: £20.00£15.44Between 1969 and 1998, over 4,000 people lost their lives in the small country of Northern Ireland. The vast majority of these deaths were sectarian in nature and involved ordinary civilians, killed by the various paramilitary groups. These organisations... -
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Dov Waxman
RRP: £10.99£7.77No conflict in the world has lasted as long, generated as many news headlines, or incited as much controversy as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet, despite, or perhaps because of, the degree of international attention it receives, the conflict is... -
Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979 by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: £20.00£14.69Dominic Sandbrook's magnificent account of the late 1970s in Britain The late 1970s were Britain's years of strife and the good life. They saw inflation, riots, the peak of trade union power - and also the birth of home computers, the rise of the ready... -
Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class by Paul Embery 9781509539994
RRP: £15.99£11.57The typical contemporary Labour MP is almost certain to be a university-educated Europhile who is more comfortable in the leafy enclaves of north London than the party's historic heartlands. As a result, Labour has become radically out of step with the... -
Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country by John Kampfner
RRP: £10.99£7.32***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***BOOK OF THE YEAR IN GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST & NEW STATESMAN'Excellent and provocative... a passionate, timely book.' Sunday Times'A fine new book... thoughtful, deeply reported and impeccably even-handed.' The TimesEmerging... -
PRIVATE EYE Dr Hammond's Covid Casebook: The collected pandemic columns of Private Eye's medical correspondent "MD": 2021 by Phil Hammond 9781901784718
RRP: £9.99£7.11Throughout the coronavirus crisis, the fortnightly columns of Private Eye's Medical Correspondent 'MD', aka NHS doctor Phil Hammond, have been required reading. Astute, compassionate and scientifically literate, 'MD' has guided Eye readers through each... -
The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes
RRP: £12.99£9.09'One of the most compelling stories I've seen about what it's actually like to serve the American people' BARACK OBAMA A revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of the Obama presidency and a political memoir about the power of words to change our world... -
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim Marshall
RRP: £16.99£12.16Ten maps that reveal the future of global power and politics: the much-anticipated sequel to the million-copy bestseller Prisoners of GeographyBook InformationISBN 9781783965373Author Tim MarshallFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Elliott &... -
Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV by Rob Burley 9780008542481
RRP: £16.99£15.51A deliciously irreverent and humorous insider's account of 25 years working at the very top of British political television 'What Rob Burley doesn't know about political interviewing isn't worth knowing'... -
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth
RRP: £10.99£7.51WINNER OF THE FT & McKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021 The instant New York Times bestseller A Financial Times and The Times Book of the Year 'A terrifying expose' The Times 'Part John le Carre . . . Spellbinding' New Yorker We plug... -
How To Be an Antiracist: THE GLOBAL MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER by Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: £10.99£7.77Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. *THE GLOBAL MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER - NOW REVISED AND UPDATED*In HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST Ibram X. Kendi, one of the world's most influential scholars on racism, demolishes the idea of a... -
A Farewell to Calm by John Crace
RRP: £9.99£6.70**JOHN CRACE'S NEW BOOK DEPRAVED NEW WORLD IS AVAILABLE NOW**Infectiously entertaining political satire, from the author of Decline and Fail and I, Maybot.Throughout another year of bluster and bedlam in Westminster, John Crace's brilliantly acerbic... -
The Exhausted of Earth: Politics in a Burning World by Ajay Singh Chaudhary 9781915672117
RRP: £14.99£9.80Marrying the scientific and political sides of the climate crisis issue, this is a hopeful call to arms about how we can overcome climate change. This world is exhausted - capitalism extracts almost everything it can from the oceans, rivers, land and... -
The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers by Richard Aldrich
RRP: £16.99£11.47The Black Door explores the evolving relationship between successive British prime ministers and the intelligence agencies, from Asquith's Secret Service Bureau to Cameron's National Security Council. Intelligence can... -
Killing Kennedy: Exposing the Plot, the Cover-Up, and the Consequences by Jack Roth
RRP: £27.99£22.14Startling new insights into the JFK assassination In Killing Kennedy: Exposing the Plot, the Cover-Up, and the Consequences, author Jack Roth interviews researchers, scholars, eyewitnesses, and family members of those who were part of the tangled web of... -
SuperQuesters: The Case of the Missing Memory by Dr Thomas Bernard 9789082994049
RRP: £7.99£5.23Discover your inner superhero in the further adventures of the intrepid SUPERQUESTERS! Ada Twist, Scientist meets PJ Masks in this unique, interactive series expertly designed to develop children's STEM skills in immersive ways never done before. When... -
Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change by Simon Sharpe
RRP: £20.00£13.98We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. As Greenland melts, Australia burns, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we think we know who the villains are: oil companies, consumerism, weak political leaders. But what if... -
A Dual Perspective: The German in an English Judge by Konrad Schiemann 9781915036667
RRP: £24.99£20.29The inspirational story of a young German orphan who escaped a war-torn Berlin to rise to the highest ranks of the European legal system. When Konrad Schiemann escaped his home in Berlin to begin a new life in England, he didn't know what life...