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Scandal at Dolphin Square: A Notorious History by Simon Danczuk 9781803993607
RRP: £15.99£12.25'Compelling, authoritative and as readable as the best airport thriller. It fizzes with crime, fame, power and illicit sex.' Jeremy Vine'A timely and important book. It's quite remarkable how one building has played host to such debauchery. If only the... -
The British General Election of 2019 by Robert Ford 9783030742560
RRP: £24.99£21.03The British General Election of 2019 is the definitive account of one of the most consequential and controversial general elections in recent times, when Boris Johnson gambled everything calling an early election to 'Get Brexit Done', and emerged... -
The New Cold War: The US, Russia and China - From Kosovo to Ukraine by Gilbert Achcar
RRP: £16.99£11.54With the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, warnings about a 'new Cold War' proliferated. In fact, argues Gilbert Achcar in this timely new study, the Cold War has been ongoing since the turn of the century. Racing to solidify its position in the... -
British Prime Ministers by Robert J. Parker
RRP: £9.99£6.64There is a distinct lack of readily available information about the British prime ministers, especially as a group. There are thick biographies of the big names Pitt, Gladstone, Churchill - but who were the others? There are plenty of short booklets and... -
Blowing up Russia: The Book that Got Litvinenko Assassinated by Alexander Litvinenko
RRP: £10.99£8.94Updated edition of the book that got former FSB Colonel Alexander Litvinenko killed according to MI6. It unveils the first-ever fake news campaign that the FSB created to have former FSB head Vladimir Putin elected as President of Russia.About the... -
World War III?: The Battle for Ukraine by Yuri Felshtinsky 9781783341917
RRP: £20.00£16.43The Ukrainian bestseller that predicted the invasion, revised and updated, now available in the English languageBook InformationISBN 9781783341917Author Yuri FelshtinskyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Gibson Square Books LtdPublisher Gibson Square... -
Chief of Staff: Notes from Downing Street by Gavin Barwell
RRP: £20.00£14.69BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and Prospect'Fascinating and instructive... his decency and pragmatism shine through.' The Times'Candid, valuable and insightful.' ObserverSince the EU referendum of 2016, British politics has witnessed a barrage of... -
The Kit-Cat Club by Ophelia Field 9780007178933 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99£2.65Ophelia Field's 'Kit-Cat Club' is a story of a changing time in 17th-century Britain, during the reigns of Queen Anne and George I, when a group of men and their enterprising initiatives paved the way for new literary and political viewpoints, born out... -
Bad Laws: An explosive analysis of Britain's Petty Rules, Health and Safety Lunacies, Madcap Laws and Nit-Picking Regulations. by Philip Johnston 9781849010108
£12.73Over the past thirteen years, New Labour has made us wade through a quagmire of petty rules, health and safety lunacies, madcap laws and nitpicking regulations. We have been snooped on, hectored and hounded by state nannies from cradle to grave, all... -
Where Grieving Begins: Building Bridges after the Brighton Bomb - A Memoir Patrick Magee 9780745341774
RRP: £20.00£13.35An enduring peace is only possible through a genuine understanding of the past. To understand the Troubles is to set them in the context of the historical root causes of the conflict, in order to grapple with its pain and its horrors; to grieve and then,... -
Franco by Paul Preston
RRP: £25.00£16.83'Magisterial ... As engagingly readable as a good novel' Observer The definitive biography of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, from the acclaimed historian Paul Preston. Francisco Franco was the Caudillo of... -
Unchecked Power?: How Recent Constitutional Reforms Are Threatening UK Democracy Alison L. Young (University of Cambridge, UK) 9781529233001
RRP: £14.99£12.13Is the government really acting for the people? Or does this rhetoric simply justify an executive power-grab? For some, Boris Johnson's premiership epitomised how far the UK's democracy has been captured by populism and the Prime Minister seemed more... -
Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith Simon Danczuk 9781849548755
RRP: £10.99£7.77No politician pandered to the media's appetite for personality more than Liberal MP Cyril Smith. Instantly recognisable for his colossal build, Smith was a larger-than-life character in a world of dull grey men. Yet 'Big Cyril' was anything but the... -
All to Play For: The Advance of Rishi Sunak by Michael Ashcroft 9781785907968
RRP: £16.99£12.47The speed of Rishi Sunak's advance to 10 Downing Street is without precedent in modern British politics. In mid-2019, he was an unknown junior minister; seven months later, he became Chancellor of the Exchequer; and by October 2022, he had secured the... -
Big Boys' Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle Against the IRA by Mark Urban
RRP: £12.99£8.56The SAS describes its attitude to the use of lethal force as 'Big boys' games, big boys' rules'. Anyone caught with a gun or bomb can expect to be shot. In Big Boys' Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle Against the IRA Mark Urban meticulously explores... -
One Man's Terrorist: A Political History of the IRA by Daniel Finn 9781786636881
RRP: £16.99£14.10The conflict in Northern Ireland was one of the most devastating in post-war Europe, claiming the lives of 3,500 people and injuring many more. This book is a riveting new history of the radical politics that drove a unique insurgency that emerged from... -
The Twilight of Unionism: Ulster and the Future of Northern Ireland by Geoffrey Bell
RRP: £14.99£12.55The fissures that have split the United Kingdom in the last decades have run through Northern Ireland. Since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the fragile peace has been threatened by Brexit, the rise and fall of the D U P and the failure of power-sharing... -
Belfast Battalion: a history of the Belfast I.R.A., 1922-1969: 2018 by John O'Neill 9781999300807
£15.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999300807Author John O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Litter PressPublisher Litter PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 14mm -
The Commons and Lords: A Short Anthropology of Parliament by Emma Crewe
RRP: £7.99£5.78The Westminster Parliament is worth closer scrutiny not just for the sake of democracy, but on intellectual grounds because the surprises it contains challenge our understanding of politics. Based on anthropological fieldwork between 1998-2000 in the... -
This is Not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter by Tomiwa Owolade
RRP: £18.99£13.61*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]... -
Policy of Deceit: Britain and Palestine, 1914-1939 by Peter Shambrook 9780861546329
RRP: £35.00£33.09'Policy of Deceit is the work of a lifetime, a forensic, fair-minded examination of the Hussein-McMahon correspondence that exposes how the British government broke its promises to the people of Palestine.' The Times Literary Supplement, Books of the... -
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali
RRP: £25.00£20.70The subject of numerous biographies and history books, Winston Churchill has been repeatedly voted as one of the greatest of Englishmen. Even today, Boris Johnson in his failing attempts to be magisterial, has adopted many of his hero's mannerism! And,... -
Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of it by Bruni De La Motte 9780955822865
RRP: £10.00£8.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955822865Author Bruni De La MotteFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Artery PublicationsPublisher Artery Publications -
The European Union: A Citizen's Guide by Chris Bickerton 9780141983097 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£1.99'An indispensable book for these times' - Big Issue'A lucid, helpful guide to the EU's structures and operating methods' - Financial TimesFor most of us today, 'Europe' refers to the European Union. At the centre of a seemingly never-ending crisis, the... -
The European Union: A Citizen's Guide by Chris Bickerton
RRP: £10.99£7.77'An indispensable book for these times' - Big Issue'A lucid, helpful guide to the EU's structures and operating methods' - Financial TimesFor most of us today, 'Europe' refers to the European Union. At the centre of a seemingly never-ending crisis, the... -
The Chancellors: Steering the British Economy in Crisis Times Howard Davies (LSE) 9781509549542
RRP: £15.99£10.93When the Treasury lost control of interest rates to the Bank of England in 1997, its status looked under threat. However, it quickly reasserted its power by dominating policymaking across Whitehall and diminishing other ministries in the process. It also... -
The Parish Councillor's Guide by Paul Clayden
£38.39Although it is less than three years since the previous edition, some important changes in the law have taken place. These include new provisions relating to reviews of parishes in England in the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act... -
The The Slow Downfall of Margaret Thatcher: The Diaries of Bernard Ingham by Bernard Ingham 9781785904783
RRP: £20.00£12.63Branded `the rough-spoken Yorkshire Rasputin', Bernard Ingham served as Margaret Thatcher's press secretary for virtually all of her eleven-year premiership, adroitly steering the government's relationship with the media - and the Prime Minister's... -
Across an Angry Sea: The SAS in the Falklands War: The SAS in the Falklands War by Cedric Delves
RRP: £13.99£12.78In early summer 1982--winter in the South Atlantic--Argentina's military junta invades the Falklands. Within days, a Royal Navy Task Force is assembled and dispatched. This is the story of D Squadron, 22 SAS, commanded by Cedric Delves. The relentless... -
Spying on the World: The Declassified Documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee, 1936-2013 by Richard J. Aldrich
RRP: £31.00£26.05This is a documentary history of how intelligence influenced Britain's policy response to key 20th century events. For more than 50 years, the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) has been central to the secret machinery of the British Government, acting... -
Rational Choice and British Politics: An Analysis of Rhetoric and Manipulation from Peel to Blair by Iain McLean 9780198295297
£56.29This engaging and original study, by one of Britain's leading scholars of rational choice theory, explores the course of British parliamentary politics over the last 150 years. McLean marries an appealing combination of social science and analytical... -
Our Enemies will Vanish by Yaroslav Trofimov 9780241655443
RRP: £25.00£18.02A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian resistance by Pulitzer Prize finalist Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.'Reads like a great novel' SEBASTIAN... -
The Baader-Meinhof Complex by Stefan Aust
RRP: £20.00£14.69The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof group constitutes one of the most remarkable phenomena of post-war Europe. A group of young people, most of them from solid, middle-class backgrounds, took the law into their own hands, and by means of arson,... -
Chief of Staff: An Insider's Account of Downing Street's Most Turbulent Years by Gavin Barwell
RRP: £10.99£7.32BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and Prospect'Fascinating and instructive... his decency and pragmatism shine through.' The Times'Candid, valuable and insightful.' ObserverSince the EU referendum of 2016, British politics has witnessed a barrage of... -
Lawless World: Making and Breaking Global Rules by Philippe Sands
RRP: £10.99£7.77International lawyer Philippe Sands has a unique insider's view of the elites who govern our lives. His sensational revelations in Lawless World changed the political agenda overnight, forcing Tony Blair to publish damning mterial that he'd tried to... -
Brits: The War Against the IRA by Peter Taylor
RRP: £16.99£12.28The third part of the trilogy documenting modern-day Northern Ireland, by the author of Provos and Loyalists In the final part of his trilogy exploring 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland, Peter Taylor talks to undercover agents of the British state... -
The I.R.A. by Tim Pat Coogan
RRP: £19.99£14.68An updated edition of this unique, bestselling history of the IRA, now including behind-the-scenes information on the recent advances made in the peace process. Tim Pat Coogan's classic The IRA provides the only fair-minded, comprehensive... -
State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda Susan Bachrach 9780896047143
RRP: £35.99£31.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780896047143Author Susan BachrachFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumPublisher United States Holocaust Memorial... -
Balfour's Shadow: A Century of British Support for Zionism and Israel by David Cronin
RRP: £19.99£13.35This is the controversial history of the British government's involvement in the Zionist project, from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to the present day. Written by the British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour, the Declaration stated 'His... -
Politico's Guide to Local Government by Andrew Stevens 9781842751640
RRP: £12.99£11.01This fully updated second edition of the "Politico's Guide to Local Government" is a comprehensive guide to every aspect of British local government. As well as outlining the role of councillors and local government officers, it contains a full history...