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Promises to Keep: on life and politics by Joe Biden 9781913348823
RRP: £9.99£6.70President Joe Biden tells the story of his extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as Barack Obama's beloved, influential vice president. 'I remain captivated by the possibilities of politics and public service. In fact, I believe that my... -
Alexander Hamilton: The Illustrated Biography by Richard Sylla 9781454922759
RRP: £25.00£17.98Find out who lived and who died in the incredible story of the founding father who made America modern and became the toast of Broadway. This richly illustrated biography portrays Alexander Hamilton's fascinating life alongside his key contributions to... -
Stand Up, Speak Out: My Life Working for Women's Rights, Peace and Equality in Northern Ireland and Beyond by Monica McWilliams
RRP: £19.99£16.82By the age of ten, Monica McWilliams was dispensing payouts in her granny's post office, book-keeping for her cattle-dealer father and leaving no one in any doubt that she could stand up for herself. She went on to break the mould in so many ways, as a... -
Roy Jenkins by John Campbell
RRP: £25.00£18.62Shortlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson PrizeShortlisted for the 2014 Costa Biography AwardLonglisted for the 2015 Orwell PrizeWinner of the 2014 Political Book Awards Political Biography of the YearRoy Jenkins was probably the best Prime Minister... -
Arik by David Landau
RRP: £17.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400076987Author David LandauFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 227mm *... -
Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel by Ilan Pappe 9780745327259
RRP: £24.99£16.38Ilan Pappe has long been a controversial figure in Israel, here; he gives a full account of his break with mainstream Israeli scholarship and its consequences. Growing up in a conventional Israeli community and influenced by the utopian visions of... -
God In Number 10: The Personal Faith of the British Prime Ministers, from Balfour to Blair by Fr Mark Vickers
RRP: £25.00£17.62'Mark Vickers has given us a wonderful new reference book of the beliefs (and non-beliefs) of 20th-century PMs - a meaty volume that can also be consumed as a social history of British religion.' THE TELEGRAPH 'This carefully researched and... -
Interventions: A Life in War and Peace by Kofi Annan
RRP: £12.99£9.09Over forty years of service to the United Nations - the last ten as Secretary-General - Kofi Annan has been at the centre of the major geopolitical events of our time. As much a memoir as a guide to world order, INTERVENTIONS provides a unique,... -
Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£10.95Described by Christopher Marlowe as the 'She-Wolf of France', Isabella was one of the most notorious femme fatales in history. According to popular legend, her angry ghost can be glimpsed among church ruins, clutching the beating heart of her murdered... -
Edward III (Penguin Monarchs): A Heroic Failure by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: £8.99£6.45The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackEdward III ruled England for fifty years. He was a paragon of kingship in the eyes of his contemporaries, the perfect king in those of later... -
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow 9780143034759
RRP: £23.00£15.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Book and George Washington Book Prize and New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year and Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year - Adult and Sons of... -
The Spy Who Painted the Queen: The Secret Case Against Philip de Laszlo by Phil Tomaselli
RRP: £9.99£7.55Was Philip de Laszlo a secret agent and was MI5's source really as they claimed? Did an enemy spy really paint the portrait of the young Princess Elizabeth? In 1917, noted society portrait painter Philip de Laszlo, who painted such luminaries as the... -
Personal Impressions by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £18.99£14.01The third, enlarged edition of Isaiah Berlin's remarkable series of character portraits, Personal ImpressionsWinston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Albert Einstein, Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova: Isaiah Berlin's... -
Vladimir Putin: The World's Most Dangerous Man? by James Greensmith 9781399043120
RRP: £20.00£14.29Following the celebrations of the Millennium and our entry into the 21st century, it was to be hoped that the days when a brutal dictator could bring mindless death and destruction to another country, and even to his own people, were over, and that the... -
The Ticket Collector from Belarus: An Extraordinary True Story of Britain's Only War Crimes Trial by Mike Anderson
RRP: £9.99£6.41'Brilliantly gripping' Sunday Times; 'Compelling' Daily Mail; 'Heart-rending' Sunday Telegraph; 'Excellent' The Times; 'Engrossing' Independent The UK's only war crimes trial took place in 1999 and had its origins in the horrors of the Holocaust, but... -
One of Them by Michael Cashman 9781526612366
RRP: £9.99£7.11'An extraordinary life, depicted with searing honesty ... A colourful journey sprinkled with delicious anecdotes' Daily Express 'Extraordinary ... You'll be ugly-sobbing at the end' Graham Norton 'It tells not just the story of his life, but also the... -
Before the Dawn: An Autobiography by Gerry Adams 9781847179166
RRP: £13.99£10.95Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams offers a unique, intimate account of his childhood in working-class Belfast and the turbulent years of social activism that followed. First published in 1996 - at a time when politics in the North was at an impasse, and the... -
The Duchess Countess by Catherine Ostler
RRP: £25.00£13.75A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A VOGUE BOOK OF THE YEAR'A rollicking read... [Ostler] tells Elizabeth's story with admirable style and gusto' Sunday Times'Terrifically entertaining: if you liked... -
Mao: A Very Short Introduction by Delia Davin 9780199588664
RRP: £8.99£6.45As a giant of 20th century history, Mao Zedong played many roles: peasant revolutionary, patriotic leader against the Japanese occupation, Marxist theoretician, modernizer, and visionary despot. This Very Short Introduction chronicles Mao's journey from... -
Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina
RRP: £10.99£7.77From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in Siberian jail for standing up for what she believed in.'One of the most brilliant and inspiring things... -
Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra by Shareen Blair Brysac 9780195132694
RRP: £81.00£73.68"Resisting Hitler" is a biography of the only American woman to have been executed for treason against Germany during World War II. Mildred Harnack was born in Wiscinsin but moved to Germany with her husband in 1929 where she taught American literature... -
Votes For Women!: The Pioneers and Heroines of Female Suffrage (from the pages of A History of Britain in 21 Women) by Jenni Murray
RRP: £7.99£5.79Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment. They fought for the vote. They pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world. ... -
Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West by John J Sullivan 9780316571098
RRP: £28.00£19.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316571098Author John J SullivanFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and Company -
Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life Of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter And Vietnamese Communist Agent by Larry Berman 9780060888398
RRP: £14.99£11.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060888398Author Larry BermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 262gDimensions(mm)... -
I Have Something to Tell You: A Memoir by Chasten Buttigieg
RRP: £17.00£9.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982138134Author Chasten ButtigiegFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm *... -
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister by Nicholas Shakespeare 9781784701000 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.65A fascinating and dramatic investigation into the events that led to Winston Churchill becoming Prime Minister against the odds.'A gripping story of Churchill's unlikely rise to power' Observer London, May 1940. Britain is under threat of invasion and... -
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister by Nicholas Shakespeare
RRP: £12.99£9.09A fascinating and dramatic investigation into the events that led to Winston Churchill becoming Prime Minister against the odds.'A gripping story of Churchill's unlikely rise to power' Observer London, May 1940. Britain is under threat of invasion and... -
Gurkha: Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas by Colour Sergeant Kailash Limbu 9780349140100 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29In this Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling memoir that 'reads like a thriller', (Joanna Lumley) Colour-Sargent Kailash Limbu shares a riveting account of his life as a Gurkha soldier-marking the first time in its two-hundred-year history that a soldier of... -
Gurkha: Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas by Colour Sergeant Kailash Limbu
RRP: £10.99£6.47In this Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling memoir that 'reads like a thriller', (Joanna Lumley) Colour-Sargent Kailash Limbu shares a riveting account of his life as a Gurkha soldier-marking the first time in its two-hundred-year history that a soldier of... -
Erdogan Rising: A Warning to Europe by Hannah Lucinda Smith
RRP: £9.99£6.64'Essential reading for anyone interested in Turkey and its future' Literary Review 'Essential reading full stop' Peter Frankopan 'It is a must' The Times ... -
Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
RRP: £20.00£12.86An illuminating new biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer at a Washington, DC, newspaper; and her romance with a dashing, charismatic Massachusetts... -
Queen of Spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spy Master by Paddy Hayes
RRP: £12.99£8.63The only biography of Britain's celebrated female spy - now fully updated with previously classified materials. From being raised in a Tanzanian shack, to attaining MI6's most senior operational rank, Daphne Park led a highly unusual life. Drawing on... -
Keir Hardie by Bob Holman
RRP: £11.99£10.95Keir Hardie was a founder and the first parliamentary leader of the Labour Party. At the turn of the 19th century he was Labour's most famous face. But despite being voted Labour's 'Greatest Hero' at the 2008 Party Conference, in recent years his... -
FDR by Jean Edward Smith
RRP: £26.00£17.79Apologies 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... -
The Revolutionary Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff 9780316441117
RRP: £30.00£22.67A Top 10 Best Books of the Year (Wall Street Journal), Top 10 Best Nonfiction (Time), Top 5 Nonfiction (LA Times), Top 10 Books of 2022 (Fresh Air), and One of Oprah Daily's Favourite Books of 2022: A revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize-winner... -
Reynolds Pamphlet by Alexander Hamilton 9781513295619
RRP: £3.99£3.33The Reynolds Pamphlet (1797) is an essay by Alexander Hamilton. Written while Hamilton was serving as Secretary of the Treasury, the Pamphlet was intended as a defense against accusations that Hamilton had conspired with James Reynolds to misuse funds... -
Haldane: The Forgotten Statesmen Who Shaped Modern Britain by John Campbell 9781787383111
RRP: £30.00£26.95Can 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... -
One of Us: The Story of a Massacre and its Aftermath by Asne Seierstad
RRP: £12.99£8.60THE STORY OF ANDERS BREIVIK AND THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX FILM 22 JULY, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOKSELLER OF KABULOn 22 July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 of his fellow Norwegians in a terrorist atrocity that shocked the world... -
My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself by Rian Malan
RRP: £12.99£9.09WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORIn '70s' South Africa, Rian Malan - descendant of the architects of apartheid, middle-class white boy, friend to blacks - went to work as a crime reporter for a local Johannesburg rag. There he encountered first-hand... -
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks
RRP: £12.99£8.63As liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a...