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How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't by Ian Dunt 9781399602747
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.41THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others miserably fail? What is a 'special adviser' and how did they take over British political life? And why is the House of Lords more functional than most... -
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S Thompson
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $18.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451691573Author Hunter S ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 215mm *... -
How They Broke Britain: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller by James O'Brien 9780753560365
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.90***THE RUNAWAY BESTSELLER, WITH NEW MATERIAL FOR THE PAPERBACK***THE REVEALING, DEFINING ACCOUNT OF THE DARK NETWORK THAT BROKE OUR COUNTRY.Something has gone really wrong in Britain.Our economy has tanked, our freedoms are shrinking, and social... -
How the World Works by Noam Chomsky
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $13.64The essential guide to Chomsky and his brilliant ideas on the global state of affairsAn extraordinary collection of Chomsky's speeches and his interviews with David Barsamian, edited by Arthur Naiman. With exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam... -
Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It Sam Freedman 9781035026593
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.95'Funny, whipsmart and devastating. Sanity on steroids' - EMILY MAITLIS'Fantastic. An exquisite analysis' - THE SECRET BARRISTER'Clear and compelling' - NIGELLA LAWSONWhy does nothing work in Britain?It's harder than ever to get a GP appointment... -
Great Britain?: How We Get Our Future Back by Torsten Bell 9781847928146
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.20*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*An essential blueprint for a better future, from the leading economist & Labour rising star'Stellar: brilliant, incredibly pragmatic' Rory Stewart'Refreshingly optimistic' The Times'No one has done more to re-inject sanity... -
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.90Read the inspiring Sunday Times bestselling memoir from the first woman, and woman of colour, to serve as Vice President of the United States.'A life story that genuinely entrances' Los Angeles TimesThe daughter of immigrants and civil rights activists,... -
What Is Populism? by Jan-Werner Muller
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.90'This lucid guide is essential reading' GuardianFrom Donald Trump to Recep Erdogan, populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is... -
What it Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $25.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679746492Author Richard Ben CramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 1072Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm)... -
How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't by Ian Dunt
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.52THE 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... -
What This Comedian Said Will Shock You by Bill Maher 9781668051351
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $18.87The hilarious and controversial host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, most opinionated, and most necessary book ever-a brilliantly astute and acerbically funny vivisection of American life, politics, and culture. Some of the... -
Rules For Radicals by Saul David Alinsky
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679721130Author Saul AlinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Times Guide to the House of Commons 2024: The definitive record of Britain’s historic 2024 General Election Ian Brunskill 9780008726751
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $70.63The authoritative guide to the 2024 British general election results, charting the campaign, results by constituency, winning majorities, MP biographies, voting patterns and implications for the future. First published in 1880, this is the... -
British General Election Campaigns 1830-2019 by Iain Dale 9781785908118
Booksplease Price: $23.87This remarkable book, edited by one of the UK's leading political commentators, takes us on a deep dive into nearly 200 years of British political history through its most dramatic expression: the general election. The British general election is the... -
Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics by Peter Geoghegan
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.04The Sunday Times bestseller. 'A compulsively readable, carefully researched account of how a malignant combination of rightwing ideology, secretive money (much of it from the US) and weaponisation of social media have shaped contemporary British (and... -
In the Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan
Booksplease Price: $10.98'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... -
The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 US Election and the People Who Stopped It by Mark Bowden 9781611854275
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $9.98In the sixty-four days between November 3 and January 6, President Donald Trump and his allies fought to reverse the outcome of the vote. Focusing on six states - Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - Trump's supporters claimed... -
Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem by Tim Shipman 9780008264420
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.84The unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history and Theresa May's battle for a Brexit deal, the greatest challenge for a prime minister since the Second World War. ... -
Trailblazer: The First Feminist to Change Our World by Jane Robinson 9780857527776
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $19.76'What a lot we have to thank Barbara Bodichon and her circle for. She was a charismatic but self-effacing woman so she would at the very least have been perplexed by the idea of being a role model. But I can't think of a better one for today.' - Literary... -
Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power by Erica Benner 9780241609750
Booksplease Price: $18.94'A sparkling page-turner full of wit, original insight and unassuming erudition.' Katja Hoyer, GuardianDemocracy is a living, breathing thing and Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about the role ordinary citizens play in keeping it alive: from... -
Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right Arlie Russell Hochschild 9781620973493
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.70In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to... -
Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right Arlie Russell Hochschild 9781620976463
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $20.29In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the "pride paradox" that has given the right's appeals such... -
Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart Again by Robert Kagan 9780753560297
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.29'The transformation of the US into an autocracy has advanced. By 2024, it might be irreversible [and] will change almost everything in the world. Nobody has outlined this danger more compellingly than Robert Kagan.' - Martin Wolf, Financial TimesA... -
Trigger Warnings: political correctness and the rise of the right by Jeff Sparrow 9781911617075
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.58A timely examination of progressive politics in the era of radical populism. Since 2016, western democracies have experienced a series of political earthquakes, spectacularly upending conventional political wisdom. Everywhere, outsider politicians... -
The Perfect Weapon: war, sabotage, and fear in the cyber age by David Sanger 9781911617723
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.97From Russia's tampering with the US election to the WannaCry hack that temporarily crippled the NHS, cyber has become the weapon of choice for democracies, dictators, and terrorists. Cheap to acquire, easily deniable, and used for a variety of... -
England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country – and How to Set Them Straight by Tom Baldwin 9781526646231
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $16.37'Challenging, forensic, compelling' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Pure centrist erotica. A myth-busting chronicle of bad-tempered, Brexit-riven England' SUNDAY TIMES 'Wonderfully evocative. Too honest, too nuanced and too deep for any party manifesto' MATTHEW... -
The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea by Namhee Lee 9780801475733
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $28.65In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history of the minjung ("common people's") movement in South Korea, Namhee Lee shows how the movement arose in the 1970s and 1980s in response to the repressive authoritarian regime and grew out of a widespread... -
Taken As Red: How Labour Won Big and the Tories Crashed the Party Anushka Asthana 9780008697907
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $17.11The inside story of the most seismic election in a generation In Taken As Red acclaimed political journalist Anushka Asthana takes readers behind the scenes of the 2024 general election campaign. As the political landscape undergoes a seismic shift,... -
Turning Points: Crisis and Change in Modern Britain Steve Richards 9781035015368
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.66The Times - Best Politics and Current Affairs Books of the YearAn entertaining and revealing history of modern British politics - and the pivotal moments that got us where we are now. From Steve Richards, broadcaster, journalist, and author of The Prime... -
UnPresidented: Politics, pandemics and the race that Trumped all others Jon Sopel 9781785944420
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.31Fear and loathing on the 2020 campaign trail...'26 February, White House Briefing RoomThe coronavirus feels like it is changing everything. Suddenly it's not just a public health emergency; it has the potential to upend this whole election...'In... -
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein 9780743243032
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.49Heralded by stunning reviews, Perlstein's best-selling NIXONLAND begins in the blood and fire of the Watts riots - one week after President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, and nine months after his historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater... -
Why We Get the Wrong Politicians by Isabel Hardman 9781838958473 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $3.28REVISED 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... -
Why We Get the Wrong Politicians by Isabel Hardman 9781838958473
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.57REVISED 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... -
Dark Money: how a secretive group of billionaires is trying to buy political control in the US by Jane Mayer 9781925228847
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for LA Times Book Prize 2017 (United States) and PEN/Jean Stein Book Award 2017 (United States) and J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize 2017 (United States) and... -
All Together Now: The Progressive Alliance and the 2017 General Election Campaign by Barry Langford 9781785902864 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.42In the crucible of the 2017 general election, a small group of progressive activists set about trying to change British political life for the better. Armed with the conviction that the old politics was irretrievably broken, the progressive alliance set... -
All Together Now: The Progressive Alliance and the 2017 General Election Campaign by Barry Langford 9781785902864
Booksplease Price: $10.36In the crucible of the 2017 general election, a small group of progressive activists set about trying to change British political life for the better. Armed with the conviction that the old politics was irretrievably broken, the progressive alliance set... -
Televised Presidential Debates: Advocacy in Contemporary America by Susan A. Hellweg 9780275936211
Booksplease Price: $109.61Televised debates between the nominees of the two major parties have become standard fare in contemporary presidential election campaigns. The authors of this important volume maintain that television has altered the very nature of presidential debates... -
Mindf*ck: Inside Cambridge Analytica's Plot to Break the World by Christopher Wylie
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.40'Please please please read Mindf*ck' - Richard Dawkins What if you could peer into the minds of an entire population? What if you could target the weakest with rumours that only they saw? In 2016, an obscure British military contractor turned the... -
Nature Is A Human Right: Why We're Fighting for Green in a Grey World by Ellen Miles
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.24An inspiring collection of original writing from world-leading 'green' voices on why contact with nature is vital for our mental, physical and social wellbeing Already, concrete outweighs every tree, bush and shrub on Earth. Nature deprivation is a... -
Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump by Michael Cohen
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $17.74A #1 New York Times Bestseller! "I read it cover-to-cover. I did not intend to, but I started at the beginning and didn't put it down until it was over."-Rachel Maddow, MSNBCThis book almost didn't see the light of day as government officials tried to...