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Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries by Gyles Brandreth 9781785908736
Booksplease Price: £11.08In the general election of 1997, the Conservative Party was heading for electoral oblivion, the Prime Minister was competent but unable to connect with voters, the Labour leader was dragging his party back to the centre ground and MPs on all sides were... -
Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class by Paul Embery 9781509539994
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.88The 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... -
Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration Nadine Akkerman 9780300267549
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.59A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies-from ciphers to counterfeiting, invisible inks to assassination Early modern Europe was a hotbed of espionage, where spies, spy-catchers, and conspirators... -
Russia's New Authoritarianism: Putin and the Politics of Order by David G Lewis
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £21.49David G. Lewis explores the transformation of Russian domestic politics and foreign policy under Vladimir Putin. Using contemporary case studies including Russia's legal system, the annexation of Crimea and Russian policy in Syria he critically... -
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia by Peter Pomerantsev
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.51**HOW TO WIN AN INFORMATION WAR: THE PROPAGANDIST WHO OUTWITTED HITLER AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**'Electrifying.' Anne Applebaum'Mesmerising.' Financial Times'Seductive and terrifying in equal measure.' The Times'Required reading.' ObserverA journey... -
Land of Shame and Glory: Britain 2021-22 by Peter Hennessy 9781913368883
Booksplease Price: £15.32Peter Hennessy brings his deep political and historical understanding to this study of two of the most turbulent and disruptive years experienced by Britain in peacetime. As the protracted withdrawal from the EU and the disruption caused by the Covid-19... -
The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07In The Quest, master storyteller, leading energy expert and Pulitzer prize-winner for The Prize, Daniel Yergin shows us how energy is the ultimate engine of global political and economic change, in a gripping story that spans the old energies on which... -
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Liberal-Islamic Alliance by Elizabeth F. Thompson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.90When Europe's Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of an independent Arab state. In October 1918, the Arabs' military leader, Prince Faisal,... -
Sudan: The Failure and Division of an African State by Richard Cockett
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Over the past two decades, the situation in Africa's largest country, Sudan, has progressively deteriorated: the country is in second position on the Failed States Index, a war in Darfur has claimed hundreds of thousands of deaths, President Bashir has... -
Haywire: A Political History of Britain since 2000 by Andrew Hindmoor 9780241651711
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.68'In this fascinating book, Andrew Hindmoor makes sense of the tangled past we have just lived through ... sprinkling wit, insight and analytical verve over his energetic narrative. In contemporary British political history, his will be the distinctive... -
Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappe
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.88In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel.The... -
The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Serhy Yekelchyk 9780190237288
Booksplease Price: £10.99When guns began firing again in Europe, why was it Ukraine that became the battlefield? Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's current crisis can be traced to the linguistic differences and divided political loyalties that have long fractured the... -
A Sunny Place for Shady People: How Malta Became One of the Most Curious and Corrupt Places in the World by Ryan Murdock 9781595342942
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £14.14The car bomb assassination of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017 shocked the European Union and put the world's spotlight on an island so small that few knew it was an independent country and even fewer could find it on the... -
The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen 9781783784028
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.51In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children or grandchildren of the very... -
Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It by Jake Wallis Simons 9781408719275
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.79'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write it than Jake Wallis Simons, both as ground-breaking Middle East security correspondent and Editor of the Jewish Chronicle. It analyses the... -
Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.34Anna Politkovskaya turns her steely gaze on President Putin and his early regime in this explosive book.From Putin's tyrannical grip on ordinary citizens to rampant corruption in highest ranks of the government, as well as Mafia dealings, scandals in the... -
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline Darrell Bricker 9781472142979
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.79**A SUNDAY TIMES MUST-READ**'Riveting and vitally important' - Steven Pinker'A gripping narrative of a world on the cusp of profound change' - Anjana Ahuja, New StatesmanEmpty Planet offers a radical, provocative argument that the global population will... -
The Discourse Trap and the US Military: From the War on Terror to the Surge by J. Michaels 9781349350858
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.05This book proposes the idea of a 'discourse trap' in which the discourses and associated terminology devised for political or military reasons can entrap policymakers by motivating or constraining their actions.Springer Book ArchivesAbout the... -
The Provos: The IRA and Sinn Fein by Peter Taylor 9780747538189
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.08The first part of the landmark trilogy documenting modern-day Northern Ireland, by the author of Loyalists and Brits This work examines the Provos, from 1969, when the IRA was effectively dead and buried, to within a few short years, when it had... -
The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims by Khaled A. Beydoun 9780520402690
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £15.00"The New Crusades is an intersectional milestone. It lucidly illustrates how converging systems of subordination, power, and violence related to Islamophobia are experienced across the globe."-Kimberle Crenshaw, from the foreword "A profound wake-up call... -
Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future Chun Han Wong 9781472158512
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.63'Compelling and informative... a useful gateway into [Xi Jinping's] mind' Rana Mitter, Literary ReviewFrom one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and political vision of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian... -
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.87A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan"Eloquently discusses the making of India and Pakistan after British rule on the subcontinent was dismantled in 1947. . . . A new look at... -
England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country – and How to Set Them Straight by Tom Baldwin 9781526646231
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.57'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... -
Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid reveals why millions are actually poorer because of aid, unable to escape corruption and reduced, in the West's eyes, to a childlike state of beggary. We all want to help. Over the past fifty years $1 trillion of development aid... -
The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon Shuster 9780008599171
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £13.03'This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is the Zelensky book we've been waiting for' CATHERINE BELTON 'An elegant... -
This is Not America: Why We Need a British Conversation About Race by Tomiwa Owolade 9781838956233
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.70*A TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR*'[Owolade's] argument has needed saying for years' Janan Ganesh, Financial Times'Compelling and admirable' Sunday Times'Passionate and timely' Observer'Excellent' Telegraph'Illuminating' The Times'Timely [and]... -
Shake Hands With The Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Romeo Dallaire
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.27THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD'Indisputably the best account of the whole terrible Rwandan genocide.' R. W. Johnson, Sunday Times'Angry, accusatory and extremely moving.' Caroline Moorhead, SpectatorWhen... -
All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin by Mikhail Zygar
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.49All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin's inner circle, this book presents a radically different view of power and politics in... -
Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia’s leader by Philip Short
Booksplease Price: £12.74'A perfect mirror to its subject... should be compulsory reading' ObserverVladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.He has the power to reduce the West to nuclear ashes. He invades his neighbours, meddles in western elections and orders assassinations. His... -
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy Rahul Bhatia 9781408717882
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £14.51The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between modern forces and ancient ideas to shape the young country's destiny. It reveals a picture of a nation on the precipice of dramatic change.'Remarkable... fascinating... brilliant'... -
War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict by Medea Benjamin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.88Russia's brutal February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has attracted widespread condemnation across the West. Government and media circles present the conflict as a simple dichotomy between an evil empire and an innocent victim. In this concise, accessible... -
Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy by Kishore Mahbubani
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.49The twenty-first century's great geopolitical contest has begun. A major trade war has broken out. American and Chinese naval vessels are having close encounters in the South China Sea. American congressmen and businessmen are cheering their government's... -
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko 9781847927699
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £13.43To be a journalist is to tell the truth. I Love Russia is Elena Kostyuchenko's fearless attempt to document Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer... -
Strongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.40'A gripping and illuminating picture of how strongmen have deployed violence, seduction, and corruption' Daniel Ziblatt, co-author of How Democracies Die 'A timely analysis of how a certain kind of charisma delivers political disaster' Timothy Snyder,... -
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39 by Florian Illies
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £11.40A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other concerns. Jean-Paul Sartre waits anxiously in a Parisian cafe for his first date... -
Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Mark Harmon 9781400337019
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.29NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." - Publishers WeeklyA U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the... -
Human Rights, Constitutional Law and the Development of the English Legal System: Selected Essays by Derry Irvine
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £64.76This is a selection of Lord Irvine's major lectures and articles since 1995. It surveys the constitutional revolution that has taken place in Britain since the Labour Government came to power in 1997, taking in devolution and House of Lords reform, but... -
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain by Julian Jackson
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.64Telegraph Book of the YearA Times, Spectator and Prospect Book of the YearOne of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French historyFew images more shocked the French population during... -
The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters by Megan Walsh
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.25What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics? The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you've never seen before: a vast... -
Senior Mind Gym K Mcgowan 9781781454473
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £5.99Senior Mind Gym will give anyone suffering from the memory glitches and fuzzy thinking that comes with age a fun brain-boosting workout. Do you keep forgetting where you put things and, even, what those things are called? Has 'thingy' become one of...