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An Accidental Icon: How I dodged a bullet, spoke truth to power and lived to tell the tale Norman Scott 9781529370294
RRP: £22.00£15.18'Compelling' The Daily Mail'So many gripping moments... a real cracker' The Evening StandardThe jaw-dropping and inspiring story of accidental queer icon Norman Scott (the hero of TV drama A Very English Scandal) and the part he played in one of the... -
Nelson Mandela: Portrait of an Extraordinary Man by Richard Stengel
RRP: £14.99£11.11Previously published as Mandela's WayWritten by the co-author of international bestseller Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela: Portrait of an Extraordinary Man presents fifteen powerful lessons on life and leadership based on the life and work of Nelson... -
Disraeli: or, The Two Lives by Rt. Hon Lord Douglas Hurd
RRP: £10.99£7.61Benjamin Disraeli was the most gifted parliamentarian of the nineteenth century and a superb orator, writer and wit - but how much do we really know about the man behind the words?'As Douglas Hurd and Edward Young point out in their splendidly written,... -
One of Us by Hugo Young
£20.40In this acclaimed political biography, Hugo Young traces Thatcher's journey from her apprenticeship under Harold Macmillan and her participation in the government of Edward Heath, to her unquestioning destruction of the Conservatism of the 1950s and... -
The Kennedy Curse: The shocking true story of America’s most famous family by James Patterson
RRP: £10.99£7.99Now with an all-new bonus chapter - in the bestselling The Kennedy Curse, 'James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history . . . re-telling the political clan's rise and fall and rise again (and fall again) with novelistic style'... -
John MacBride: 16Lives Donal Fallon 9781847172709
RRP: £15.99£12.37Major John MacBride, who was Born in Westport, County Mayo in 1868, was a household name in Ireland when many of the leaders of the Easter Rising were still relatively unknown figures. As part of the 'Irish Brigade', a band of nationalists fighting... -
The Younger Pitt Vol 2: The Reluctant Transition by John Ehrman 9780094667501
£26.46The first volume of this biography left Pitt at a peak in both home and foreign affairs. Darker years, however, were to follow. This, the second volume of three, sees Britain and France at war and political and economic unrest at home threatening Pitt's... -
50 People Who Buggered Up Britain Quentin Letts 9781849011273
RRP: £11.99£8.22From the Sunday Times bestselling authorWhich fifty people made Britain the wreck she is? From ludicrous propagandist Alastair Campbell to the Luftwaffe's allies, the modernist architects, it's time to name the guilty.Quentin Letts sharpens his nib and... -
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell 9781529032703
RRP: £10.99£7.73Down and Out in Paris and London was George Orwell's first published book. It is at once a very personal account, and a vivid expose of hard lives weighed down by poverty in France and England between the wars.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a... -
Stalin, Vol. I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin
RRP: £18.99£14.01In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life. He was about to begin uprooting and collectivization of agriculture and... -
Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power - 'Riotously candid' Sunday Times Sasha Swire 9781408713419
RRP: £20.00£13.95Sunday Times Political Book of the YearA Book of the Year pick in the New Statesman, Financial Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Mail on Sunday and The Times'A gossipy, amusing, opinionated account of what it's like to be married to an MP . . . Good fun and... -
The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Full Story by Sebastian Payne 9781035016563
RRP: £10.99£7.73The Fall of Boris Johnson is the explosive inside account of how a prime minister lost his hold on power. From Sebastian Payne, former Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times and author of Broken Heartlands.Winner of the Parlimentary Book AwardsA New... -
Life As We Have Known It: The Voices of Working-Class Women Margaret Llewelyn Davies 9781844088010
RRP: £10.99£7.61'I was born in Bethnal Green ...a tiny scrap of humanity. I was my mother's seventh, and seven more were born after me ...When I was ten years old I began to earn my own living.' Told in the distinctive and memorable voices of working class women, Life... -
William Pitt the Younger: A Biography by William Hague
RRP: £18.99£12.71The award-winning biography of William Pitt the Younger by William Hague, the youngest leader of the Tory Party since Pitt himself. William Pitt the Younger was one of the most extraordinary figures in British history. Prime minister at the... -
A Rose For Winter by Laurie Lee
RRP: £8.99£6.65Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry-the pride in poverty, the... -
The Informer by Sean O'Callaghan
RRP: £12.99£9.34In 1988 IRA terrorist Sean O'Callaghan walked into a Tunbridge Wells police station and gave himself up. Two years later, in a Belfast courtroom, he pleaded guilty to all charges of which he was accused and received a sentence of 539 years. Since being... -
Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency and Trust by James Comey
RRP: £20.00£15.27'The Capitol riot was our Chernobyl.'(Guardian interview, Jan 19th 2021)'An absolutely fascinating read.'Emily MaitlisJames Comey, former FBI Director and Sunday Times number one bestselling author of A Higher Loyalty, uses his long career in federal law... -
The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave by Patrick Bishop 9780008309084 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.65SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN - Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishop's lively, action-packed biography examines the life, heroic war and death of one of... -
The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave by Patrick Bishop 9780008309084
RRP: £10.99£7.99SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN - Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishop's lively, action-packed biography examines the life, heroic war and death of one of... -
Joseph Plunkett: 16Lives Honor O Brolchain 9781847172693
RRP: £15.99£12.37Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887-1916) from Dublin was one of the leaders of the 1916 Rising, the designer of the military plan and the youngest signatory of the Proclamation. A recognised poet, he was already dying of TB when, aged 28, he married Grace... -
Mr Jones: The Man Who Kew Too Much: The Life and Death of Gareth Jones by Martin Shipton
RRP: £19.99£16.82Murdered in Mongolia in 1935 on the orders of Stalin, the Welsh investigative journalist Gareth Jones is a national hero in Ukraine for reporting the truth about the Holodomor (the Soviet Union's politically-driven famine that killed millions) and is... -
Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin
RRP: £18.99£14.01A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard'The second volume of what will surely rank as one of the greatest historical achievements of... -
Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens by David Stuttard 9780674660441
RRP: £24.95£20.60Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled general, and a ruthless politician. He was also a serial... -
The Cecils: Privilege and Power Behind the Throne by David Loades
£14.81For over 50 years one family dominated England's high offices of state. William and Robert Cecil, father and son, held unparalleled power as statesmen, diplomats, counsellors and spymasters throughout Elizabeth's reign and long beyond. From Privy... -
Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World Frank McLynn 9781784703509
RRP: £16.99£12.87Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power,... -
King: The Life of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig
RRP: £25.00£16.24A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. - and the... -
Revenge: How Donald Trump Weaponized the US Department of Justice Against His Critics by Michael Cohen
RRP: £25.00£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890544Author Michael CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Taking Up Space: The Black Girl's Manifesto for Change by Chelsea Kwakye 9781529118544 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.65'Brilliant' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of QUEENIE'Essential' BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER'Hugely important' PAULA AKPAN____________________________As a minority in a predominantly white institution, taking up space is an act of... -
Taking Up Space: The Black Girl's Manifesto for Change Chelsea Kwakye 9781529118544
RRP: £10.99£7.99'Brilliant' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of QUEENIE'Essential' BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER'Hugely important' PAULA AKPAN____________________________As a minority in a predominantly white institution, taking up space is an act of... -
Haldane: The Forgotten Statesman Who Shaped Modern Britain by John Campbell
RRP: £16.99£15.54Can you name the creator of the Territorial Army and the British Expeditionary Force? The man who laid the foundation stones of MI5, MI6, the RAF, the LSE, Imperial College, the 'redbrick' universities and the Medical Research Council? This book... -
Colonel Paddy: The Man Who Dared by Patrick Marrinan
RRP: £9.99£9.00This, the original biography of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair Mayne, DSO (3 Bars), Legion d Honneur, Croix De Guerre and Colonel Paddy to his contemporaries, is a lively account of his life and wartime exploits with the SAS. The classic story of... -
Zhou Enlai: A Life by Jian Chen 9780674659582
RRP: £29.95£24.24The definitive biography of Zhou Enlai, the first premier and preeminent diplomat of the People’s Republic of China, who protected his country against the excesses of his boss—Chairman Mao.Zhou Enlai spent twenty-seven years as premier of the People’s... -
The Flame of Resistance: American Beauty. French Hero. British Spy. by Damien Lewis
RRP: £10.99£6.67'I have always been fascinated by that charismatic hero of the Resistance, Josephine Baker, but it turns out I didn't know the half of it. Lewis' story-telling blew my mind. Again.' - Dan Snow'A story of incredible bravery in the face of tyrants who... -
Against the Tide Noel Browne 9780717142958
RRP: £17.99£13.15Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor, Noel Browne experienced at... -
The Rebellious Life Of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis 9780807076927
RRP: £18.99£12.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807076927Author Jeanne TheoharisFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 533gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
FDR by Jean Edward Smith
RRP: £26.00£18.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Francis Parkman Prize 2008.Book InformationISBN 9780812970494Author Jean Edward SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House... -
Boris Johnson: The Neverending Tory: The Adventure Where You Take Back Control Iain Hollingshead 9781787636927
RRP: £9.99£7.32Now that Boris Johnson has left Downing Street to spend more time with his families, you can celebrate/lament his departure with this multiple-choice adventure where you take back control. Packed with 350 million* endings, this is the perfect stocking... -
Boris Johnson: The Neverending Tory: The Adventure Where You Take Back Control by Iain Hollingshead 9781787636927 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.05Now that Boris Johnson has left Downing Street to spend more time with his families, you can celebrate/lament his departure with this multiple-choice adventure where you take back control. Packed with 350 million* endings, this is the perfect stocking... -
Sh*t Joe Rogan Says: An Unauthorized Collection of Quotes and Common Sense from the Man Who Talks to Everybody by Mary Wood
RRP: £10.99£7.21"The answer is not to silence me. . . . The answer is for you to have better arguments."Go the Joe Rogan way. Sh*t Joe Rogan Says is a book of motivation, inspiration, and reflections from the man who talks to everybody. Not one to back down from a... -
Truman by David McCullough
RRP: £16.99£12.25The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America's beloved and distinguished historian.The life of...