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Chief of Staff: An Insider's Account of Downing Street's Most Turbulent Years by Gavin Barwell
RRP: £10.99£7.32BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and Prospect'Fascinating and instructive... his decency and pragmatism shine through.' The Times'Candid, valuable and insightful.' ObserverSince the EU referendum of 2016, British politics has witnessed a barrage of... -
A Foreign Field by Ben Macintyre
RRP: £10.99£6.91A wartime romance, survival saga and murder mystery set in rural France during the First World War, from the bestselling author of 'Operation Mincemeat' and 'Agent Zig-Zag'. Four young British soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy... -
Inside the Political Mind: The Human Side of Politics and How It Shapes Development by Greg Power 9781805260516
RRP: £25.00£22.03Drawing on his experience of working with hundreds of politicians in more than sixty countries, Greg Power explores how social norms, public expectations and the personal interests of MPs influence the path of political development. Where states are... -
Auntie's War: The BBC during the Second World War by Edward Stourton
RRP: £9.99£7.11"An engaging, balanced and thoroughly researched history. It is often a moving and amusing tale containing plenty of mavericks and colourful episodes." (Lawrence James, The Times)Auntie's War is a love letter to radio. The British Broadcasting... -
The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-1933 by Zara Steiner
RRP: £53.00£46.03The peace treaties represented an almost impossible attempt to solve the problems caused by a murderous world war. In The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-1933, part of the Oxford History of Modern Europe series, Steiner challenges... -
Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics by Michael G. Long 9781479818495
RRP: £21.99£19.19Celebrates the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom While we can all recall images of Martin Luther King Jr. giving his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of a massive crowd at... -
Under the Gun: Political Parties and Violence in Pakistan by Niloufer A. Siddiqui 9781009242523
RRP: £75.00£67.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009242523Author Niloufer A. SiddiquiFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity by Wang Hui 9781844673797
£19.04Challenging both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm, China's leading critic shatters the myth of progress and reflects upon the inheritance of a revolutionary past. In this original and wide-ranging study, Wang Hui... -
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court by Gareth Russell 9780008436988
RRP: £25.00£16.53'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts' PHILIPPA GREGORY ... -
Chokepoint Capitalism: how big tech and big content captured creative labour markets, and how we'll win them back by Rebecca Giblin
RRP: £10.99£7.32A call to action for the creative class and labour movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media. Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now... -
Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence by Vivek Ramaswamy 9781546002970
RRP: £15.99£10.93Hardship is now equated with victimhood. Outward displays of vulnerability in defeat are celebrated over winning unabashedly. The pursuit of excellence and exceptionalism are at the heart of American identity, and the disappearance of these ideals in our... -
Metropolis: A History of Humankind's Greatest Invention by Ben Wilson
RRP: £12.99£9.09From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city.'Brilliant...enchanting' Evening Standard 'Exhilarating' New York TimesThe story of the city is the story of civilisation. From Uruk... -
Erdogan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East by Soner Cagaptay
RRP: £14.99£11.75Gradually since 2003, Turkey's autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought to make Turkey a great power -- in the tradition of past Turkish leaders from the late Ottoman sultans to Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. Here the leading authority... -
Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction: Twentieth Century Short Fiction by Noriko Mizuta Lippit
RRP: £44.99£39.28This collection includes translated works by Japanese women writers that deal with the experiences of modern women. The work of these women represents current feminist perception, imagination and thought. "Here are Japanese women in infinite and... -
John MacBride: 16Lives by Donal Fallon 9781847172709
RRP: £15.99£12.37Major John MacBride, who was Born in Westport, County Mayo in 1868, was a household name in Ireland when many of the leaders of the Easter Rising were still relatively unknown figures. As part of the 'Irish Brigade', a band of nationalists fighting... -
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars
RRP: £20.00£14.35__________Out now: The most entertaining and fascinating book about architecture and design, from the wildly popular podcast 99% Invisible. __________A New York Times Bestseller'Full of surprises and quirky information . . . a fascinating journey through... -
The Mafia Philosopher: Two Tonys by Shaun Attwood 9780993021596
RRP: £10.00£9.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993021596Author Shaun AttwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Shaun AttwoodPublisher Shaun Attwood -
The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All by Mary Childs
RRP: £21.99£14.56From the host of NPR's Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, dogged investor changed American finance forever. Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King, he was a gambler. In 1966, a fresh college grad,... -
Out Of Place: A Memoir by Edward W. Said
RRP: £10.99£7.32Edward Said experienced both British and American imperialism as the old Arab order crumbled in the late 1940s and early 1950s. This account of his early life reveals how it influenced his books Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism. Edward Said was... -
Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Robin Yassin-Kassab
RRP: £16.99£11.54*Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2017* In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today, much of Syria has become a war zone where foreign journalists find it almost... -
Russian Roulette: How British Spies Defeated Lenin by Giles Milton
RRP: £12.99£8.60'It reads like fiction, but it is, astonishingly, history' THE TIMESIN 1917, AN ECCENTRIC BAND OF BRITISH SPIES IS SMUGGLED INTO NEWLY SOVIET RUSSIA.Their goal is to defeat Lenin's plan to destroy British India and bring down the democracies of the West... -
Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions since World War II by William Blum
RRP: £19.99£15.71In Killing Hope, William Blum, author of the bestselling Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, provides a devastating and comprehensive account of America's covert and overt military actions in the world, all the way from China in the... -
The Death of Consensus: 100 Years of British Political Nightmares by Phil Tinline
RRP: £20.00£18.24From the Great Depression to the pandemic, a new history of British democracy, revealing how politics is transformed through fear. Over Britain's first century of mass democracy, politics has lurched from crisis to crisis. How does this history of... -
Invasion: Russia’s Bloody War and Ukraine’s Fight for Survival by Luke Harding
RRP: £20.00£13.46A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGThe first book of reportage from the front line of the Ukraine war. This is a powerful, moving first draft of history written by the award-winning Guardian journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling... -
The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy by Martin Gilbert
RRP: £19.99£13.73This is a very thorough account of the experience of the Jews of Europe during World War II. It is virtually a day-by-day account, in men and women's own words, of the horrifying events of the Holocaust - the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jewish race... -
Thomas Paine Reader by Thomas Paine
RRP: £12.99£9.09This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical writer of... -
A Practical Guide to Highways Planning & Development by Tom Graham 9780993583698
RRP: £50.00£40.71The only book out there to draw together all the disparate law on highways in development projects Managing and providing highways and highway improvements looms large in many building projects but the law and rules regulating their part in the planning... -
Inside the Room: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Crisis Government by Eamon Gilmore 9781785370342
£16.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785370342Author Eamon GilmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
NYE: The Political Life of Aneurin Bevan by Nick Thomas-Symonds 9781350452046
£19.91Aneurin - Nye - Bevan was one of the pivotal Labour Party figures of the post-war era in Britain. As Minister for Health in Attlee's government, his role in the foundation of the National Health Service, the world's largest publically-funded health... -
Plato: 'The Republic' by Plato
RRP: £14.99£13.85First published in 2000, this translation of one of the great works of Western political thought is based on the assumption that when Plato chose the dialogue form for his writing, he intended these dialogues to sound like conversations - although... -
Defcon-2: Standing on the Brink of Nuclear War During the Cuban Missile Crisis by John D. Gresham 9780471670223
RRP: £25.99£23.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471670223Author John D. GreshamFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
OCR GCSE (9-1) Citizenship Studies by Steve Johnson
£31.89Exam Board: OCRLevel: GCSESubject: Citizenship StudiesFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2018An OCR endorsed textbook.Association for Citizenship Teaching Quality Mark resource. Encourage students of all abilities to develop an enthusiastic... -
Tory Nation: The Dark Legacy of the World's Most Successful Political Party by Samuel Earle 9781398518537
RRP: £10.99£7.00'A witty, lucid investigation into one of the great mysteries of our time' JONATHAN COE'Should be read and enjoyed by readers on the left, right and centre' David Edgerton, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ________________________________________________Why do... -
MI6 Spy Skills for Civilians: A Real-Life Secret Agent Reveals How to Live Safer, Sneakier and Ready for Anything by Red Riley
RRP: £11.99£8.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948174404Author Red RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Topix Media LabPublisher Topix Media LabWeight(grams) 441gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Disproven: My Unbiased Search for Voter Fraud for the Trump Campaign, the Data That Shows Why He Lost, and How We Can Improve Our Elections by Ken Block 9781637632857
RRP: £28.00£16.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637632857Author Ken BlockFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Forefront BooksPublisher Forefront BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 163mm *... -
Nicholas & Alexandra: Nicholas & Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
RRP: £14.99£10.95The tragic, compelling story of the last Tsar and his family Nicholas & Alexandra is the internationally famous biography from Pulitzer prize-winner Robert Massie. Massie shows conclusively how the personal curse of the young heir's haemophilia, and... -
Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control by Vili Lehdonvirta 9780262548380
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548380Author Vili LehdonvirtaFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Free the Press: The Death of American Journalism and How to Revive It by Brian J. Karem
RRP: £25.00£18.54While the phrase "Fake News" may be a recent phenomenon, the relationship between journalists and the politicians they cover has been on a course for disaster for decades. From Richard Nixon's disdain for the press, to Donald Trump's claims that... -
Inside the Kingdom by Robert Lacey
RRP: £11.99£8.43Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. It is a modern state, driven by contemporary technology,... -
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition by Edmund Fawcett 9780691174105
RRP: £30.00£24.29A fresh and sharp-eyed history of political conservatism from its nineteenth-century origins to today's hard RightFor two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity...