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Stalin: A Biography by Robert Service
RRP: £16.99£10.13Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material - available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union - Robert Service's biography of Stalin is the most authoritative yet published. It concentrates not simply on Stalin as dedicated... -
But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It by Alastair Campbell 9781804943137
RRP: £10.99£6.56'Everything a manifesto should be: heartfelt, hectoring, impassioned, rousing.' The i__________________________________________________'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders who can't or shouldn't... -
Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin 9780008661021
RRP: £25.00£16.83THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This will be the most important political book of the year' MATTHEW D'ANCONA, EVENING STANDARD 'The first serious and consistently... -
The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom by Michael Nehls 9781510778368
RRP: £22.00£14.05Global war on the human brain. Throughout the world, mental capacity is declining, especially among young people, while depression rates are rising dramatically. Meanwhile, one in forty men and women suffers from Alzheimer's, and the age of onset is... -
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003 by Steve Coll 9780241686652
RRP: £30.00£21.95From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Ghost Wars, the inside story of America's long and ruinous relationship with Saddam HusseinThe Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's... -
The Wild Men: The Remarkable Story of Britain's First Labour Government by David Torrance 9781399411431
RRP: £20.00£14.69'Thoroughly researched... brings superbly to life figures whom history should not have forgotten.' - Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph 'A highly readable, enjoyable and informative book.' - John McTernan, Financial Times 'A meticulously researched... -
Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change by Tad DeLay 9781839765438
RRP: £20.00£13.34The age of denial is over, we are told. Yet emissions continue to rise while gimmicks, graft, and green- washing distract the public from the climate violence suffered by the vulnerable. This timely, interdisciplinary contribution to the environmental... -
From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want by Rob Hopkins
RRP: £11.99£8.00Big ideas that just might save the world. the Guardian A serious book on an important subject. Without imagination, where are we? Sir Quentin Blake What if we took play seriously? What if we considered imagination vital to our health? What if we... -
White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port by Kate Storey
RRP: £20.00£13.26The intimate, multi-generational story of the Kennedy family as seen through their Hyannis Port compound on Cape Cod-the iconic place where they've celebrated, mourned, and forged the closest of bonds-based on more than a hundred in-depth interviews by a... -
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown 9781849353267
RRP: £14.00£11.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353267Author adrienne maree brownFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution by Andrew Boyd
£18.20"Elegant and incendiary." Naomi Klein. Beautiful Trouble brings together dozens of seasoned artists and activists from around the world to distill their best practices into a toolbox for creative action. Sophisticated enough for veteran activists,... -
Vulture Capitalism: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION by Grace Blakeley 9781526638076
RRP: £20.00£14.29*A FOYLES TOP TEN READ FOR MARCH* 'A galvanising takedown of neoliberalism's "free market" logic, one rooted in as much history as it is in current events' NAOMI KLEIN 'A must-read for anyone keen to put the demos back in democracy' YANIS VAROUFAKIS ... -
Politics On the Edge: From the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics by Rory Stewart 9781787332713
RRP: £22.00£16.02A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of breakout hit podcast The Rest Is Politics'The most exceptional political memoir I've ever read' ALAN JOHNSON'An instant... -
Head North: A Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain by Andy Burnham 9781398719736
RRP: £22.00£14.56Gordon Brown: 'A path-breaking book by two dynamic leaders working to transform the North of England, and whose ideas on the future deserve all our attention.'The Observer: 'Not since Tony Blair 30 years ago have politicians advocated for the north from... -
The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson by Nadine Dorries 9780008623425
RRP: £25.00£16.43The explosive behind-the-scenes account of the plot to bring down Boris Johnson YOU THINK YOU LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE THE ELECTED ARE CHOSEN BY THE PEOPLE. THINK AGAIN. When Boris Johnson came to power in 2019, he did so with the largest Conservative... -
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis 9781847927279
RRP: £22.00£15.62Capitalism is dead. The #1 bestselling economist shows how the owners of big tech have become the world's feudal overlords.'What an amazing piece of work this is. Everyone should read it. 100 out of 100' IRVINE WELSHIn his boldest and most far-reaching... -
How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't by Ian Dunt
RRP: £18.99£13.15THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERBritish politics is broken.Anyone sitting down to watch the news will get the sense that something has gone terribly wrong. We have prime ministers who detonate the economy, secretaries of state who are intellectually... -
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen by Peter Apps
RRP: £10.99£7.12***WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023*** 'Never before, in years of reviewing books about buildings, has one brought me to tears. This one did.' Rowan Moore, Observer Book of the Week On 14 June 2017, a 24-storey block of flats... -
Your Wild and Precious Life: On grief, hope and rebellion by Liz Jensen 9781838859992
RRP: £16.99£11.58My son's death will never make sense to me. But it has taught me that it's possible to find meaning, collectively and individually, in the loss of what we love. And in finding them, transform. Resilience is a seed that we all bear inside us. It... -
Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors: 50 Places That Changed British Politics by Matt Chorley 9780008622060
RRP: £25.00£16.43''F *** ing brilliant. I would describe it as like a bag of political nuts - moreish and fabulously salty' JOE LYCETT A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Forget Westminster bust-ups and PMQs, some of the key events... -
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... -
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis 9780241651117
RRP: £25.00£18.02*INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'Extraordinary' The Observer'A stupefyingly pleasurable book to read' New Yorker'Lewis's storytelling is as good as ever' The EconomistFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and... -
In the Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan
RRP: £25.00£7.72'Sensational ... One of the most explosive political diaries ever to be published ... As candid, caustic and colourful as the sensational Alan Clark Diaries of the 1990s' DAILY MAIL The Sunday Times bestseller As... -
Why We Get the Wrong Politicians by Isabel Hardman
RRP: £10.99£7.32REVISED AND UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE EXPLOSIVE EVENTS OF 2021 and 2022Winner at the Parliamentary Book AwardsShortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the YearLonglisted for the Orwell Prize____________Daily Telegraph's Best Books of the YearGuardian's Best... -
We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People by Eliot Higgins
RRP: £9.99£6.52_____________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION _____________ 'John le Carre demystified the intelligence services; Higgins has demystified intelligence gathering itself' - Financial Times ... -
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
RRP: £9.99£7.11Malcolm X's The Autobiography of Malcolm X was written in collaboration with Alex Haley, author of Roots, and includes an introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic, in Penguin Modern Classics.From hustling, drug addiction and armed... -
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
RRP: £14.99£11.35The bestselling and prize-winning study of one of the most legendary American Presidents in history, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin is the book that inspired Barack Obama in his presidency.When Barack Obama was asked which book he could not live... -
But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It by Alastair Campbell
RRP: £22.00£16.78'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders who can't or shouldn't be allowed to lead. Governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values. Policies that serve the interests of the... -
In the Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan 9780008422295
RRP: £10.99£7.25'Sensational ... One of the most explosive political diaries ever to be published ... As candid, caustic and colourful as the sensational Alan Clark Diaries of the 1990s' DAILY MAIL The Sunday Times bestseller As... -
John Hume by Stephen Walker 9780717196081
RRP: £26.99£18.94Peacemaker, politician, Nobel laureate: John Hume was a titan of Irish political history and a key architect of the Good Friday Agreement, bringing peace to Northern Ireland after decades of conflict. But who was the real John Hume? What... -
The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Full Story by Sebastian Payne 9781035016563
RRP: £10.99£7.51The Fall of Boris Johnson is the explosive inside account of how a prime minister lost his hold on power. From Sebastian Payne, former Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times and author of Broken Heartlands.Winner of the Parlimentary Book AwardsA New... -
Tyrant: Shakespeare On Power by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Brilliant' Sunday TimesHow does a truly disastrous leader - a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant - come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power? And what goes on in the hidden recesses of the tyrant's soul?For help in understanding our most... -
The Path to Power by Margaret Thatcher
RRP: £19.99£13.33The extraordinary account of Margaret Thatcher's life up to her dramatic election as the first woman Prime Minister of England in 1979. Margaret Thatcher was the towering figure of late-twentieth-century British politics. This is the story of... -
The Right to Rule: Thirteen Years, Five Prime Ministers and the Implosion of the Tories by Ben Riley-Smith 9781399810296
RRP: £25.00£16.78A DAILY TELEGRAPH TOP 50 BOOK OF THE YEAR AND POLITICS BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BEST POLITICS BOOK OF THE YEAR'BRILLIANT' ANDREW MARR'HAD ME OPEN-MOUTHED WITH AMAZEMENT' ED BALLS'ESSENTIAL' JON SOPEL'A GRIPPINGLY-WRITTEN, DETAILED BOOK THAT ANSWERS SO... -
Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
RRP: £10.99£7.51Them is an eye-opening, outrageously funny exploration of extremism, which makes both author and reader think twice about the looking-glass world of 'us' and 'them' . . .A Sunday Times bestseller and the book that launched Jon Ronson's inimitable career... -
Unti Nonfiction by Anon9780063061194 9780063061194
RRP: £25.00£16.43AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt's often said that China is in a cold war with America. The reality is far worse: the war is hot, and the body count is one-sided.China is killing Americans and working aggres sively to maximize the carnage while... -
Athens: A History of the World's First Democracy by Thomas N. Mitchell
RRP: £13.99£12.25A history of the world's first democracy from its beginnings in Athens circa fifth century B.C. to its downfall 200 years later The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every... -
Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
RRP: £9.99£4.95In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later in Brave New World Revisited, Huxley checked the... -
The Mongol Empire: Genghis Khan, his heirs and the founding of modern China by John Man
RRP: £10.99£7.77Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals: a leader of genius, driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely protected, Genghis united warring clans to create a nation and then an empire that ran across much of Asia... -
Gimson's Prime Ministers: Brief Lives from Walpole to Johnson by Andrew Gimson
RRP: £14.99£10.95A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA concise, sharp-witted and illuminating account of the lives of Britain's prime ministers from Walpole to May, illustrated by Martin Rowson.For the reader who has heard of such giants as Gladstone and Disraeli, and has drunk...