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How to be an MP by Paul Flynn 9781849542203
RRP: £12.99£9.26Not for everyone the title of Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary or other such hallowed callings; the vast majority of the House of Commons is made up of backbenchers - the power behind the constitutionally elected throne. Here is a guide for anyone... -
Origins and Doctrine of Fascism: With Selections from Other Works by Giovanni Gentile
RRP: £44.99£39.28Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944) was the major theorist of Italian fascism, supplying its justifi cation and rationale as a developmental form of dictatorship for status-deprived nations languishing on the margins of the Great Powers. Gentile's "actualism"... -
Hitler's Last Day: Minute by Minute Jonathan Mayo 9781780722771
RRP: £12.99£8.60On 30th April 1945 Germany is in chaos...Russian troops have reached Berlin. All over the country, people are on the move - concentration camp survivors, Allied PoWs, escaping Nazis - and the civilian population is fast running out of food. The man who... -
Orbanland: Why Viktor Orban's Hungary Matters by Lasse Skytt
RRP: £11.99£8.00From Europe to America, political landscapes have shifted in recent years in a way summed up in microcosm no better than by the trajectory of one small country, Hungary--whose leader, Viktor Orban, has gained outsized international notoriety as the bad... -
The Empire's New Clothes: The Myth of the Commonwealth by Philip Murphy 9781787384934
RRP: £14.99£13.64In the wake of Brexit, the Commonwealth has been identified as an important body for future British trade and diplomacy, but few know what it actually does. How is it organised and what has held it together for so long? How important is the monarch's... -
The Good Friday Agreement by Siobhan Fenton
RRP: £12.99£9.26In April 1998, the Good Friday Agreement brought an end to the bloodshed that had engulfed Northern Ireland for thirty years. It was lauded worldwide as an example of an iconic peace process to which other divided societies should aspire. Today, the... -
Interrogation Nation: Refugees and Spies in Cold War Germany by Keith R. Allen 9781538101513
RRP: £99.00£91.14This groundbreaking book explores the treatment of the millions of refugees and tens of thousands of spies that flooded Germany after World War II. Drawing on newly declassified espionage files, Keith R. Allen uncovers long-hidden interrogation systems... -
Little Platoons: How a revived One Nation can empower England's forgotten towns and redraw the political map by David Skelton 9781785905124
RRP: £12.99£9.26Brexit - a revolutionary moment in British politics. Voters in long-forgotten English towns made their disenchantment clear, overwhelmingly voting to `take back control' from a remote and defective economic system. Despite this decisive message in 2016,... -
In The Thick of It: How to be a Parliamentary Staffer by Robert Dale 9781849549301
RRP: £12.99£9.09To some, they are the graduates grasping the first rung on the ladder to power, to others, the unsung heroes of the British parliamentary system. But whether your notion of parliamentary researchers is more The Thick of It than The West Wing, more Yes... -
The German Ideology: Including Thesis on Feuerbach by Karl Marx 9781573922586
RRP: £14.99£11.93Nearly two years before his powerful Communist Manifesto, Marx (1818-1883) co-wrote The German Ideology in 1845 with friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels expounding a new political worldview, including positions on materialism, labor, production,... -
Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century - And After by R. J. Crampton
RRP: £39.99£35.46Covering all key Eastern European states and their history right up to the collapse of communism, this second edition of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century - And After is a comprehensive political history of Eastern Europe taking in the whole of the... -
Someone Else's Empire: British Illusions and American Hegemony by Tom Stevenson 9781804291481
RRP: £20.00£16.43SOMEONE ELSE'S EMPIRE dispels the myth of a 'Global Britain' that punches above its weight in the world. The reality, argues Tom Stevenson, is that Britain lacks even the barest outline of an independent foreign policy. The impetus for so many policy... -
A Short History of Brexit: From Brentry to Backstop by Kevin O'Rourke
RRP: £9.99£7.51'Crisp, clear and quietly devastating' Guardian'Excellent, authoritative, highly readable' Irish TimesA succinct, expert guide to how we got to BrexitAfter all the debates, manoeuvrings, recriminations and exaltations, Brexit is upon us. But, as Kevin... -
A Better Ambition: Confessions of a Faithful Liberal by Tim Farron
RRP: £22.99£16.68'I am passionate about my country and angry at the mendacity that has led to the appalling situation in which the UK and our people are heading for relative poverty and insignificance while our politics is offering bitter, unpalatable extremes. There has... -
My Hair is Pink Under This Veil Rabina Khan 9781785906466
RRP: £16.99£12.28"In 1977, one of the girls at my infant school in Kent asked me if I was a golliwog. I said I wasn't sure. In 2015, when I ran to be mayor in Tower Hamlets, a smartly dressed middle-class man saw me wearing a headscarf and asked me what colour my hair... -
Franco: A Personal and Political Biography by Stanley G. Payne 9780299302108
RRP: £34.95£33.62General Francisco Franco ruled Spain for nearly forty years, as one of the most powerful and controversial leaders in that nation's long history. He has been the subject of many biographies, several of them more than a thousand pages in length, but all... -
Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia by Samuel Charap
RRP: £16.99£15.22Disorder erupted in Ukraine in 2014, involving the overthrow of a sitting government, the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula, and a violent insurrection, supported by Moscow, in the east of the country.This Adelphi book argues that the crisis... -
The Left Case for Brexit: Reflections on the Current Crisis Richard Tuck 9781509542284
RRP: £14.99£13.58Liberal left orthodoxy holds that Brexit is a disastrous coup, orchestrated by the hard right and fuelled by xenophobia, which will break up the Union and turn what's left of Britain into a neoliberal dystopia. Richard Tuck's ongoing commentary on the... -
The Return of the Russian Leviathan Sergei Medvedev (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) 9781509536054
RRP: £17.99£16.04Winner of the 2020 Pushkin House Book Prize Russia's relationship with its neighbours and with the West has worsened dramatically in recent years. Under Vladimir Putin's leadership, the country has annexed Crimea, begun a war in Eastern Ukraine, used... -
Red Tory: How Left and Right have Broken Britain and How we can Fix It by Phillip Blond
RRP: £14.99£9.80Conventional politics is at a crossroads. Amid recession, depression, poverty, increasing violence and rising inequality, our current politics is exhausted and inadequate. In Red Tory, Phillip Blond argues that only a radical new political settlement can... -
From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe by John Connelly
RRP: £22.00£18.36A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to todayIn the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm. His intention was to forge a unified state from his... -
The Capital: A "House of Cards" for the E.U. by Robert Menasse
RRP: £10.99£7.40THE PRIZE-WINNING SATIRICAL BESTSELLER - MORE THAN 500,000 COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE"I enjoyed The Capital so much . . . A major book" New York Times"First-class satire" Guardian"A deliciously vicious and timely satire" Financial Times"Mischievous yet... -
Ambush at Central Park: When the IRA Came to New York by Mark Bulik 9781531502607
RRP: £19.99£15.80A compelling, action-packed account of the only officially sanctioned I.R.A attack ever conducted on American soil. In 1922, three of the Irish Republican Army's top gunmen arrived in New York City seeking vengeance. Their target: "Cruxy" O'Connor, a... -
The New Serfdom by Angela Eagle 9781785903137
RRP: £12.99£9.26Great Britain is one of the wealthiest, most successful nations in the world. Why, then, do so many people feel short-changed? The old assumption that `if you work hard and play by the rules, you can get on in life' looks increasingly like a cruel... -
The Monarchy and the Constitution by Vernon Bogdanor 9780198293347
£67.11In the increasingly questioning world of the 1990s, the role of the monarchy in a democracy is again coming under scrutiny. Its critics argue that the monarchy is a profoundly conservative institution which serves to inhibit social change; that it has... -
Churchill and Ireland by Paul Bew 9780198755210
RRP: £11.99£8.43Winston Churchill spent his early childhood in Ireland, had close Irish relatives, and was himself much involved in Irish political issues for a large part of his career. He took Ireland very seriously - and not only because of its significance in the... -
White But Not Quite: Central Europe's Illiberal Revolt Ivan Kalmar (University of Toronto, Canada) 9781529213607
RRP: £22.99£17.94Since the 'migration crisis' of 2016, long-simmering tensions between the Western members of the European Union and its 'new' Eastern members - Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary - have proven to be fertile ground for rebellion against... -
Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands by Richard Sakwa
RRP: £15.99£12.46The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War. As Russia and Ukraine tussle for Crimea and the eastern regions, relations between Putin and the West have reached an all-time low. How did we get here? Richard Sakwa... -
Metternich: Strategist and Visionary by Wolfram Siemann
RRP: £20.95£17.88"A superb biographical portrait and work of historical analysis...Let us hope that it will serve if not as a manual then at least as an inspiration-good statesmanship is needed more than ever."-Brendan Simms, Wall Street Journal"Brilliantly refreshes our... -
How to Win a Marginal Seat by Gavin Barwell
RRP: £12.99£9.26During the 2015 general election, the contest in Gavin Barwell's constituency of Croydon Central was by any measure - the amount of money spent, the frequency of visits by ministers, the volume of literature delivered or the number of political activists... -
Remaking One Nation: The Future of Conservatism Nick Timothy 9781509539178
RRP: £20.00£13.75In these divided and divisive times, what is the future course for our politics? In this ground-breaking book, Nick Timothy, one of Britain's leading conservative thinkers and commentators, explores the powerful forces driving great changes in our... -
Defying Vichy: Resistance in the Heart of South-West France by Robert Pike 9781803995656
RRP: £15.99£12.25'Defying Vichy takes us into the heart of the French Resistance: the Dordogne region (in) this moving account of the darkest and brightest period in French history.' - Matthew Cobb, author of The ResistanceVichy France under Marshal Petain was an... -
Austria Behind the Mask: Politics of a Nation since 1945 by Paul Lendvai 9781805260592
RRP: £30.00£26.95Austria has long been considered a European success story: a land-locked country on the losing side of World War Two, which emerged from ten years of post-war occupation as one of the EU's richest member-states, a symbol of social consensus and political... -
Kosovo: a Short History by Noel Malcolm 9781509893591
RRP: £20.00£14.69By the early-1980s Kosovo had reached a state of permanent crisis and military occupation, and it became the main focus for the revival of Serbian nationalism. This book traces the history of Kosovo, examining the Yugoslavian conflict, and the part... -
How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche Daniel Tutt 9781914420627
RRP: £12.99£8.60"Beautifully written and bursting with spirit, How to Read Like a Parasite is destined to be vital reading." - Matthew McManus, author of Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction How to Read Like a Parasite overturns the whitewashed and defanged... -
The Labour Government, 1974-79: Political Aims and Economic Reality by Martin Holmes 9780333428207
RRP: £44.99£44.97'...in this clear and informed history of the 1974-79 government, Holmes shows how Labour's aspirations constantly encountered the practical limits of economic management.' Times Higher Education Supplement '...lucid and well-documented account.' British... -
The New Labour Experiment: Change and Reform Under Blair and Brown by Florence Faucher-King 9780804762359
RRP: £19.99£17.54The book provides a clear assessment of the New Labour public policies and their outcomes in Britain under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1997-2009. Authors Florence Faucher-King and Patrick Le Gales argue that New Labour, in contrast... -
The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide by Gerard Prunier
RRP: £19.99£17.82Offering an up-to-date historical perspective which should enable readers to fathom how the brutal massacres of 800,000 Rwandese came to pass in 1994, this volume includes a new chapter that brings the analysis up to the end of 1996. Gerard Prunier... -
The Worm in the Apple: A History of the Conservative Party and Europe from Churchill to Cameron: 2022 by Christopher Tugendhat 9781913368531
RRP: £20.00£14.06The Conservative Party have been in power for 47 of the 65 years since the end of the Second World War. During that time the division within the party over Europe has been the enduring drama of British politics - from Churchill's decision not to join the... -
The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson: 10 Downing Street Edition Harry Mount 9781472975935
RRP: £8.99£6.87A return to the wit and wisdom of Boris Johnson - Brexiteer, Foreign Secretary, Prime Minister. New and updated edition. 2019 - the year that Boris took on the 'lingering gloomadon-poppers', pledged to steer the UK between the 'Scylla and Charybdis of...