Political

When David Cameron and Nick Clegg stepped out into the rose garden at No. 10 to launch the first coalition government since the Second World War, some doubted whether the coalition could survive a full term - or even a full year. Five years later, this...

From 1999 to 2009, Damian McBride worked at the heart of the Treasury and No. 10. He was a pivotal member of Gordon Brown's inner circle before a notorious scandal propelled him out of Downing Street and onto the front pages. When he released his memoir...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“At a time when the meaning of America is up for grabs, Cody Keenan’s new book chronicles ten days that tested us and ultimately showed us at our best. It’s a captivating story about what’s worth fighting for, an antidote to...

The amazing tale of a resourceful and unscrupulous early-19th-century American adventurer who forges his own kingdom in the wilds of Afghanistan. In the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an elephant,...

General Francisco Franco ruled Spain for nearly forty years, as one of the most powerful and controversial leaders in that nation's long history. He has been the subject of many biographies, several of them more than a thousand pages in length, but all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524745899Author William InbodenFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

For the first time, here is the extraordinary true story of one of the most powerful men, and ruthless dictators, who ever lived. Mao Zedong had control over more people for a longer period than any other leader in history. In this intimate biography we...

Back from the Brink is a gripping and immediate account of the British government's handling of an unprecedented global financial catastrophe. Alistair Darling's knowledge and understanding make this not only a unique perspective on the events that...

'I am passionate about my country and angry at the mendacity that has led to the appalling situation in which the UK and our people are heading for relative poverty and insignificance while our politics is offering bitter, unpalatable extremes. There has...

When Bunny Mellon died at age 103 on March 17th, she was the last embodiment of a Gilded Age lifestyle. Born into money (her grandfather invented Listerine), she married into even more money (the Mellon banking and oil fortune) and went on to build,...

The extraordinary and dramatic biography of the first modern feminist, who spent her entire life fighting for the principle of equality 'Gripping ... Most lives would be overshadowed by such a melodramatic end. But Marx's life was so much more than a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783944203485Author Chris WilliamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Lola BooksPublisher Lola BooksDimensions(mm) 217mm * 130mm * 22mm

An updated edition of Ben Pimlott's classic biography of the Queen: 'There is no better biography of Elizabeth II.' PETER HENNESSY, Independent on Sunday 'A magisterial biography and the only one that seriously deals with her constitutional...

A 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...

For decades now, America's national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only once did someone manage to put a stop to any of it.Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero. He led...

Fifty years after his passing, The Man Within is meant to reinvigorate the spirit of Winston Churchill-approachable rather than academic, lively rather than staid. This collection features exceptional black-and-white photos, many of which are...

The rise of Donald Trump may have shocked Americans, but it should not have surprised them. His anti-democratic movement is the culmination of a decades-long breakdown of U.S. institutions. The same blindness to U.S. decline - particularly the loss of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954417772Author Ian BoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Naked Guides LtdPublisher Tangent BooksDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 10mm

Imran Khan is in the spotlight once more, this time for his defiant presence on the political stage of Pakistan and not on the cricket field. Although not a beginner in politics-for he has been roaring out his public speeches for nearly two decades-but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958682012Author Chadwick MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint All Seasons PressPublisher All Seasons PressWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Discover this lyrical, sweeping and powerful book on the Bhutto family, an extraordinary, Kennedy-esque dynasty that is central to the story of modern Pakistan.In September 1996, a fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless dressing room,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809070947Author Elliott J GornFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 30mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870206785Author Elizabeth AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno LtdWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870206785Author Elizabeth AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno LtdWeight(grams) 181g

He wanted a war. And, for his sins, he got one. James Brabazon was an ambitious young war reporter when he entered the chaos of the Liberian Civil War in 2002. Running with the infamous LURD rebels, he survived numerous deadly ambushes and a dramatic...

One of the most intelligent and influential women in America reflects on her eight years as First Lady of the United States in a revealing book -personal, political and newsmaking. During her husband's two administrations, Hillary Rodham Clinton...

POLITICIAN * PRISONER * PARENTA portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leaders Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and crusader for democracyin Myanmar, is once again behind bars. Her...

Rosa tells the life story of philosopher, economist, publisher, writer, organizer, political leader, and martyr Rosa Luxemburg, in full-color, graphic form. The story follows Rosa from her family life in Jewish Poland, where she became the leader of a...

'An excellent contribution to our knowledge of Iran and Soleimani.' Kim Ghattas, author of Black Wave When the US assassinated Qassem Soleimani, he was one of the most powerful men in Iran. Known as 'the shadow commander', he enacted the wishes of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758959Author Anthony EverittFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758959Author Anthony EverittFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

In 1980, at the age of ten, Loung Ung escaped a devastated Cambodia and flew to the US as a refugee. She and her eldest brother, with whom she escaped, left behind their three surviving siblings, and her book is alternately heart-wrenching and...

Through a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of recent times, Adam Shatz asks: do writers have an ethical imperative to question injustice? How can one remain a dispassionate thinker when involved in the cut and...

'Hilarious, unbelievable' - The Sunday Times Books of the Year**As featured on BBC Newsnight**The blisteringly funny satirical account of Donald Trump's first year as President, as imagined by Alec Baldwin and Kurt Andersen.'I have the best words,...

'Why did you go into politics in the first place?'A question that former Cabinet minister has found himself asked, and indeed asking himself, over the years, Lord Waldegrave's is a life lived through politics.The youngest of seven children, and the son...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400081066Author M. Stanton EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 737gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies 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)...

The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman and twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - with a new foreword by Lord Lexden. Disraeli was one of the least orthodox of Prime Ministers. He was an adventurer who fought his way to 'the...

In the West's collective imagination, Vladimir Putin is a devious cartoon villain, constantly plotting and scheming to destroy his enemies around the globe. But how did an undistinguished mid-level KGB officer become one of the most powerful leaders in...

The Nazi regime was essentially a religious cult, relying on the hypnotic personality of one man, Adolf Hitler, and it was fated to die with him. But while it lasted, his closest lieutenants competed ferociously for power and position as his chosen...