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MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 Keith Jeffery 9781408810057
RRP: £20.00£14.69'Reads like the script for a Bond film' Mail on Sunday A groundbreaking book, this unprecedented study is the authoritative account of the best-known intelligence organisation in the world. Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of... -
F**k Business: The Business of Brexit Iain Anderson 9781785905322
RRP: £12.99£9.09When a senior Cabinet minister dismissed corporate fears over a hard Brexit with a curt `F**k business,' it seemed emblematic of a growing distance between the country's politicians and its wealth creators. Recounted by the founder and chairman of the... -
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39 by Florian Illies 9781800811164
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Strikingly original, utterly absorbing' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third Reich A 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... -
The Strange Survival of Liberal Britain: Politics and Power Before the First World War by Vernon Bogdanor 9781785907623
RRP: £35.00£25.54The turbulent years of 1895 to 1914 changed Britain's political landscape for ever. They saw a transition from aristocratic rule to mass politics and heralded a new agenda which still dominates today. The issues of the period - economic modernisation,... -
‘Just Like Us’?: The Politics of Ministerial Promotion in UK Government Bill Jones 9781032520759
RRP: £24.99£21.81Informed by interviews with key political figures and commentators, this entertaining and enlightening book exposes the influences, processes and motivations behind ministerial promotion in British government.It identifies and analyses the political... -
Abolish the Monarchy: Why we should and how we will by Graham Smith
RRP: £16.99£12.28'A crucial, riveting polemic in support of one of the most precious things humanity has built - democracy itself' OWEN JONES'Graham Smith shows what fools our rotten constitution makes of us, with a monarch as emblem of a country beset by nepotism,... -
Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit Philip Cunliffe (University College London) 9781509553204
RRP: £15.99£14.41Taking Control argues that neither side in the Brexit debate really understood the European Union or what was involved in reclaiming Britain's sovereignty. The EU is neither a supranational nanny state, nor an internationalist peace project. It is the... -
Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It by Chris Bryant 9781526663597
RRP: £14.99£9.53THE INSTANT TOP TWO SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS Cronyism, nepotism, conflicts of interest, misconduct, lying. Is this the worst parliament in history? Leading MP Chris Bryant tells the inside story of... -
The president's keepers: Those keeping Zuma in power and out of prison by Jacques Pauw 9780624083030
£14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624083030Author Jacques PauwFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers Ltd -
The Blunders of Our Governments by Anthony King 9781780744056
RRP: £11.99£8.43With unrivalled political savvy and a keen sense of irony, distinguished political scientists Anthony King and Ivor Crewe open our eyes to the worst government horror stories and explain why the British political system is quite so prone to appalling... -
Jones & Sufrin's EU Competition Law: Text, Cases & Materials by Brenda Sufrin 9780192855015
RRP: £52.99£51.95The complete guide to EU competition law, combining key primary sources with expert author commentary. The most comprehensive resource for students on EU competition law; extracts from key cases, academic works, and legislation are paired with... -
The Not Quite Prime Ministers: Leaders of the Opposition 1783–2020 by Nigel Fletcher 9781785908101
RRP: £20.00£14.48History is written by the winners, they say. And more often than not, it is written about them too. A library's worth of books have been published chronicling the UK's Prime Ministers - those individuals who somehow made it to the top of the greasy pole... -
The Balkans by Mark Mazower
RRP: £9.99£6.80A dazzling short history of the Balkans from the Romans to the present, which provides vital historical and cultural background to contemporary Balkan politics.At the end of the twentieth century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe for ever... -
Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume 5: Never Really Left, 2003 - 2005 by Alastair Campbell
RRP: £25.00£18.24THE ALL-NEW DIARIES; "Alastair Campbell's diaries have the quality of Pepys ...people will be looking for insights and finding them in 100 years' time." Lord Alex CarlileLaunched to a blaze of critical acclaim, Alastair Campbell's explosive diaries... -
Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy by Daniel Ziblatt
RRP: £25.99£21.53How do democracies form and what makes them die? Daniel Ziblatt revisits this timely and classic question in a wide-ranging historical narrative that traces the evolution of modern political democracy in Europe from its modest beginnings in 1830s Britain... -
Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn by Gabriel Pogrund
RRP: £9.99£7.11'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Tim ShipmanA blistering narrative expose of infighting, skulduggery and chaos in Corbyn's Labour party, now revised and updated.* A Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times and i Newspaper Book of the Year *Left Out... -
European Politics: A Comparative Introduction Tim Bale 9781137581334
RRP: £37.99£34.73A fully revised fourth edition of a popular introduction to the comparative politics of Europe, written by a highly respected authority on the subject. This lively and thematically organised text provides an accessible guide to the institutions and the... -
The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
RRP: £12.99£9.09Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future... -
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court by Gareth Russell 9780008437015
RRP: £10.99£7.25'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 ... -
The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Inside Story by Sebastian Payne
RRP: £22.00£15.62The Fall of Boris Johnson is the explosive inside account of how a prime minister lost his hold on power. From Sebastian Payne, former Financial Times Whitehall editor and author of Broken Heartlands.Winner - Parliamentary Book Awards, Best Political... -
Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV by Rob Burley 9780008542481
RRP: £16.99£15.51A deliciously irreverent and humorous insider's account of 25 years working at the very top of British political television 'What Rob Burley doesn't know about political interviewing isn't worth knowing'... -
The Small States Club: How Small Smart Powers Can Save the World by Armen Sarkissian 9781787389403
RRP: £25.00£22.03In this book, Armen Sarkissian, former president of Armenia, argues that small states can navigate the complex challenges of the twenty-first century in smarter ways than 'greater' powers. For smallness - often regarded as a weakness - can be a strength... -
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation by Roderick Beaton
RRP: £14.99£10.95SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 AND THE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2021A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best history of Greece around... Beautifully written and packed with insights about the culture and the people. I will be dipping into this... -
The Free Economy and the Strong State: The Politics of Thatcherism by Andrew Gamble 9780333363119
RRP: £44.99£44.97An attempt to provide an account of the genesis of Thatcherism in opposition, its record in government, its relationship to the Conservative tradition and the ideological challenge of the New Right. The manner in which Thatcherism has been analysed by... -
A Life by Simone Veil
RRP: £12.99£8.99Veil, the former French politician who became first President of the European Union, was born Simone Jacob in 1927. In her long-awaited memoir, she describes in vivid detail a time of happiness and innocence spent in Nice where she grew up. This happy... -
Burned: The Inside Story of the `Cash-for-Ash' Scandal and Northern Ireland's Secretive New Elite by Sam McBride
RRP: £14.99£14.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785372698Author Sam McBrideFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
What Happened Hillary Rodham Clinton 9781471166969
RRP: £10.99£7.00The Sunday Times Number One BestsellerComplete with new afterword where she discusses the past eighteen months since President Donald Trump has been serving in office. 'A compelling read' - Financial Times 'A sporadically absorbing, pleasingly vengeful... -
Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country by John Kampfner 9781786499783 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***BOOK OF THE YEAR IN GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST & NEW STATESMAN'Excellent and provocative... a passionate, timely book.' Sunday Times'A fine new book... thoughtful, deeply reported and impeccably even-handed.' The TimesEmerging... -
Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country by John Kampfner
RRP: £10.99£7.32***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***BOOK OF THE YEAR IN GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST & NEW STATESMAN'Excellent and provocative... a passionate, timely book.' Sunday Times'A fine new book... thoughtful, deeply reported and impeccably even-handed.' The TimesEmerging... -
European Union Law by Steve Peers
RRP: £42.99£42.00Edited by Catherine Barnard and Steve Peers, European Union Law draws together a range of perspectives from experienced academics, teachers and practitioners to provide a comprehensive introduction. Each chapter has been written and updated by an expert... -
Social Work in Wales by David Wilkins
RRP: £27.99£21.57With a foreword by First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, this book is the first to offer an in-depth look into what makes the Welsh Social Work context unique. It includes the move towards joint children, families and adult provision and the emphasis... -
Age of Hope: Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain by Richard Toye 9781472992307
RRP: £25.00£18.88"The clue to our future lies in our past and Toye has winkled it out with elegant and devastating precision." Chris Bryant, MP for Rhondda WAS THE ATTLEE GOVERNMENT OF 1945 REALLY THE GOLDEN PERIOD OF LABOUR POWER? 2024 marks the centenary of the... -
Loyalists by Peter Taylor 9780747545194
RRP: £16.99£12.28The second part of the landmark trilogy documenting modern-day Northern Ireland, by the author Provos and Brits Based on a three-part BBC TV series, this is an inside account of the thinking, strategies and ruthless violence of the paramilitaries in... -
Misjustice: How British Law is Failing Women Helena Kennedy 9781784707682
RRP: £10.99£7.77Two women a week are killed by a spouse or partner. Every seven minutes a woman is raped. Now is the time for change.'Fascinating and chilling' Caroline Criado Perez, bestselling author of Invisible Women Helena Kennedy, one of our most eminent lawyers... -
Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine by Aiden Aslin 9781804993194
RRP: £10.99£7.77Brought to you by Penguin.Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Russian invasion. In February 2022, as Russia mounted a full-scale offensive, Aiden and his unit were... -
The State of Us: The good news and the bad news about our society by Jon Snow 9781529176063
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A fascinating call to arms full of insight' IndependentAfter four decades broadcasting to the nation each night, Jon Snow gives vent to his opinions on the state of our nation . . . the good news and the bad newsIt is rare in history that so many... -
Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848 by Katrina Navickas 9781526116703
RRP: £25.00£21.79This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers' rights in northern England from 1789 to 1848. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. It offers historical... -
Land of Shame and Glory: Britain 2021-22 by Peter Hennessy 9781913368883
RRP: £22.00£15.37Peter 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... -
Stories from a Fractured City Tales of Two Londons by Claire Armistead
RRP: £10.99£6.47London today is embattled as rarely before. In a city of enormous wealth, poverty is rampant. The burnt-out hulk of Grenfell Tower stands as an appalling reminder that inequality can be so acute as to be murderous. Here, Claire Armitstead has drawn... -
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev
RRP: £10.99£7.32**HOW TO WIN AN INFORMATION WAR: THE PROPAGANDIST WHO OUTWITTED HITLER AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2020A TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'Quietly frightening.' Guardian'Essential reading.' Irish Times'Consistently...