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Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow 9781594200090
RRP: $78.00$53.63The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and... -
Stalin's Russia by Chris Ward 9780340731512
RRP: $107.23$106.72Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Jacinda Ardern: A New Kind of Leader by Madeleine Chapman 9780750996068 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.00$5.17New Zealand's prime minister has been hailed as a leader for a new generation, tired of inaction in the face of issues such as climate change and far-right terrorism. Her grace and compassion following the Christchurch mosque shooting captured the... -
Jacinda Ardern: A New Kind of Leader by Madeleine Chapman 9780750996068
RRP: $39.00$29.33New Zealand's prime minister has been hailed as a leader for a new generation, tired of inaction in the face of issues such as climate change and far-right terrorism. Her grace and compassion following the Christchurch mosque shooting captured the... -
A Radical Romance: A Memoir of Love, Grief and Consolation by Alison Light
RRP: $31.18$22.64WINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE'The greatest memoirs offer all the complex shades and colours that we expect in fiction. A Radical Romance is more than just some summing-up: it is a work of art' GuardianAlison Light met the charismatic social historian,... -
To Live Is to Resist: The Life of Antonio Gramsci by Jean-Yves Frétigné 9780226829388
RRP: $29.25$25.45This in-depth biography of Italian intellectual Antonio Gramsci casts new light on his life and writing, emphasizing his unflagging spirit, even in the many years he spent in prison. One of the most influential political thinkers of the twentieth... -
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service
RRP: $48.75$43.27Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to... -
Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most by Marcel Gauchet
RRP: $74.10$50.60How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracyMaximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other... -
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
RRP: $29.23$21.35'Groundbreaking ... It will be difficult for anyone to better this book ... a work of art, a feast that combines genres skilfully: biography, true-crime, political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full gallop' Wil Haygood, Washington Post'He was a... -
Gordon Brown: Prime Minister by Tom Bower 9780007259625 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.38$4.47The gripping inside story of Gordon Brown's rise to become Prime Minister. Gordon Brown's arrival at the Treasury in May 1997 was greeted with great excitement - not to mention anticipation. Officials of every rank looked on expectantly to see... -
Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life by Peter McPhee
RRP: $27.28$23.89An intimate new portrait of one of history's most controversial figures: heroic revolutionary or the first terrorist? For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the... -
Black Water: By Strength and By Guile by Don Camsell
RRP: $31.18$22.64Don Camsell joined the men in black of the SBS in 1974. From the deserts of Oman to the hills of Port Stanley, from the bottom of Gibraltar harbour to the deep, cold, black waters of Loch Long and from the QE2 to the back alleys of Belfast, his new role... -
No Place Like Home: A New Beginning with the Dogs of Afghanistan by Pen Farthing
RRP: $29.23$21.35'Nowzad was a gentle giant when it came to taking treats. He never, ever snatched. To me it was just further evidence that, deep inside, there was a great dog struggling to find his way out'When Pen Farthing brings stray dogs Nowzad and Tali back from... -
Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny by Con Coughlin
RRP: $48.75$31.45'Important, compelling, and detailed . . . a superb analysis of the West's policy missteps and the tragic consequences of them.' - General David PetraeusIn Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny, Con Coughlin, veteran commentator on war in the Middle East and... -
Agent Twister: The True Story Behind the Scandal that Gripped the Nation by Philip Augar
RRP: $39.00$25.86He lived a double-life in the sixties.Faked his own death in the seventies.And retained his cover in the eighties. 'A case more important than Profumo' Financial Times 'A riveting read' Literary Review A period thriller with powerful political and... -
Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005-2010 by Chris Mullin
RRP: $19.48$13.86On the backbenches but still in the thick of it, Decline and Fall runs from Chris Mullin's sacking as a minister by Tony ('The Man') Blair in 2005 to the fall of New Labour in May 2010. Here is politics as it really is: entertaining encounters with... -
George V (Penguin Monarchs): The Unexpected King by Mr David Cannadine
RRP: $9.73$7.41The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackFor a man with such conventional tastes and views, George V had a revolutionary impact. Almost despite himself he marked a decisive break with his... -
The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family by Helen Rappaport
RRP: $21.43$15.15Shortlisted for the HWA Sharpe Books Non-Fiction Crown AwardA work of investigative history that will completely change the way in which we see the Romanov story. Finally, here is the truth about the secret plans to rescue Russia's last imperial family... -
Undercover Jihadi Bride: Inside Islamic State's Recruitment Networks by Anna Erelle 9780008139582
RRP: $19.48$12.95Previously published as 'In the Skin of a Jihadist' Twenty-year-old 'Melodie', a recent convert to Islam, meets the leader of an ISIS brigade on Facebook. In 48 hours he has 'fallen in love' with her, calls her every hour, urges her to marry... -
Thomas Clarke: 16Lives by Helen Litton
RRP: $31.18$24.12A fascinating examination of the life of Thomas Clarke, a member of the Fenians and a key leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1916. Clarke spent fifteen years in penal labour for his role in a bombing campaign in London between 1883 and... -
Fifty Years On: The Troubles and the Struggle for Change in Northern Ireland by Malachi O'Doherty 9781786496669
RRP: $25.33$16.69In 1969, an eruption of armed violence traumatized Northern Ireland and transformed a period of street protest over civil rights into decades of paramilitary warfare by republicans and loyalists. In this evocative memoir, Malachi O'Doherty not only... -
England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton by Kate Williams
RRP: $25.33$17.73A dramatic, sparkling tale of sex, glamour, intrigue, romance and heartbreak, England's Mistress traces the rise and rise of the gorgeous Emma Hamilton.Born into poverty, she clawed her way up through London's underworlds of sex for sale to become... -
Queen of the World by Robert Hardman
RRP: $21.43$15.15A brilliant portrait of the most famous woman in the world and her place in it, written by the renowned royal biographer and author of Queen of Our Times, Robert Hardman._____________________________'Dazzling, poignant and full of delicious surprises;... -
Lumumba: Africa's Lost Leader by Leo Zeilig
RRP: $25.33$17.53Patrice Lumumba (1925-61) is perhaps the most famous leader of the African independence movement. After his execution in 1961, when he had been prime minister of the newly-liberated Congo for only seven months, he became an icon of anti-imperialist... -
Richard III: The Self-Made King by Michael Hicks
RRP: $25.33$22.35An "excellent new biography" (Keith Thomas, New York Review of Books) of the wily and formidable prince who unexpectedly became monarch-the most infamous king in British history"An intricately detailed account of Richard's every recorded move on his... -
Jeremy Thorpe by Michael Bloch
RRP: $29.23$19.11'A revealing, insightful and gripping biography of one of the most extraordinary people ever to lead a British political party' ObserverThe story of Jeremy Thorpe's rapid rise and spectacular fall from grace is one of the most remarkable in British... -
James Connolly: 16Lives by Lorcan Collins
RRP: $31.18$24.12James Connolly (1868-1916) became a leading Irish socialist and revolutionary, and was one of the leaders of Ireland's rebellion in 1916. As a youth he had served in the British army in Ireland and, seeing how they treated the local population, became... -
The Two Headed Whale by Sandy Winterbottom
RRP: $29.23$19.11Shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award In 2016, Sandy Winterbottom embarked on an epic six-week tall-ship voyage from Uruguay to Antarctica. At the mid-way stop in South Georgia, her pristine image of the Antarctic was... -
Dreams in a Time of War by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
RRP: $19.48$13.86Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born the fifth child of his father's third wife, in a family that includes twenty-four children born to four different mothers. He spent his 1930s childhood as the apple of his mother's eye, before attending school to slake what is... -
Hayek: A Life, 1899-1950 by Bruce Caldwell 9780226816821
RRP: $68.25$57.66The definitive account of the distinguished economist's formative years. Few twentieth-century figures have been lionized and vilified in such equal measure as Friedrich Hayek-economist, social theorist, leader of the Austrian school of economics,... -
Hayek: A Life, 1899-1950 by Bruce Caldwell 9780226816821 [USED COPY]
RRP: $68.25$22.74Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
My Life by Tommie Gorman
RRP: $39.00$28.65The warm, rich and fascinating memoir of beloved broadcaster Tommie Gorman.When Tommie Gorman was growing up in Sligo in the 1960s, struggle was never far away but his household had a surplus of love and warmth. From modest beginnings as a local reporter... -
BOUDICA THE TRUTH by Janet Smart
RRP: $19.48$18.74In the province of Britannia during AD60. the brutality of the Roman Empire forced catastrophic retaliation by the people. Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, rose in rebellion, joined by thousands of her fellow countrymen. Together they engaged in a deadly... -
The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath by Ben S. Bernanke 9780393247213
RRP: $54.58$47.31In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve, capping a meteoric trajectory from a rural South Carolina childhood to professorships at Stanford and Princeton, to public service in Washington's halls of power. There would be no... -
Long Way Home: Love, life, death, and everything in between by Dan Jarvis 9781408710722 [USED COPY]
RRP: $37.03$5.17Winner of Best Memoir at the Parliamentary Book Awards 2020'Dan Jarvis's story is a belter. It's about love, loss, courage and determination told with his customary modesty which fails to disguise the amazing man behind the story' Alan JohnsonDan Jarvis... -
Long Way Home: Love, life, death, and everything in between by Dan Jarvis
RRP: $15.58$11.13Winner of Best Memoir at the Parliamentary Book Awards 2020'Dan Jarvis's story is a belter. It's about love, loss, courage and determination told with his customary modesty which fails to disguise the amazing man behind the story' Alan JohnsonDan Jarvis... -
Boris: The Adventures of Boris Johnson by Andrew Gimson 9781471162343
RRP: $21.43$13.65THE MAKING OF A PRIME MINISTER 'My biography of the year' Michael Crick 'The scariest thing I've read since Silence of the Lambs' Ken Livingstone A brilliant and definitive biography of Boris Johnson, the politician who risked his career to lead the... -
CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries by John L Williams
RRP: $29.23$19.11Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in the final days of the Victorian era, he debated with Trotsky, played cricket with Constantine, was published by... -
RFK: His Words for Our Times by Robert Francis Kennedy 9780062834140
RRP: $23.38$15.33In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Francis Kennedy's death, an inspiring collection of his most famous speeches accompanied by commentary from notable historians and public figures.Twenty-five years after Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, RFK:... -
Thomas MacDonagh: 16Lives by Shane Kenna
RRP: $31.18$24.12Born in Cloughjordan in Co. Tipperary, MacDonagh was a poet and playwright, an educator and political activist. Appointed to the IRB Military Council he became a member of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic and was a signatory of the 1916...