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Order, Order!: The Rise and Fall of Political Drinking by Ben Wright
RRP: £10.99£7.60Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, smuggled wine up the Thames with the help of the Navy. Tony Blair confessed that a stiff drink and half a bottle of wine a night had become a helpful crutch while in office. Joseph Stalin flushed out... -
Unbought and Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm
RRP: £12.99£8.71In this classic work-a blend of memoir, social criticism, and political analysis that remains relevant today-the first Black Congresswoman to serve in American history, New York's dynamic representative Shirley Chisholm, traces her extensive political... -
People Like Me: Winner of the Irish Book Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year by Lynn Ruane 9780717185597
RRP: £11.99£8.66Born into a loving working-class home, Lynn Ruane's early years were idyllic, but all that changed when two shocking incidents in her teenage years shook her to her core. She gradually withdrew from family life and went further into the world of petty... -
My Hair is Pink Under This Veil Rabina Khan 9781785906466
RRP: £16.99£12.47"In 1977, one of the girls at my infant school in Kent asked me if I was a golliwog. I said I wasn't sure. In 2015, when I ran to be mayor in Tower Hamlets, a smartly dressed middle-class man saw me wearing a headscarf and asked me what colour my hair... -
Living with Hitler: Accounts of Hitler's Household Staff by Krause Karl Wilhelm 9781784382971
RRP: £19.99£14.68This collection paints a picture of Hitler from members of his household in the unique position of being seemingly ever-present, yet totally unconnected to events. The reader is introduced to Hitler's Bodyguard Karl Krause (1934-39), his house... -
Dwight D. Eisenhower: The biography of the American president leading the Allied invasions in World War II by United Library 9789464901399
RRP: £9.99£7.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464901399Author United LibraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint United LibraryPublisher United LibraryWeight(grams) 68g -
Chance Witness: An Outsider's Life in Politics by Matthew Parris 9780241968291
RRP: £17.99£12.95Chance Witness by Matthew Parris - a hilarious and fascinating portrait of life in politics, from Thatcher to Blair Winner of the Channel 4 / Politico's Political Book of the Year Award 'Made me laugh out loud. A book full of wisdom' Simon Hoggart,... -
The Nine Lives of Otto Katz by Jonathan Miles 9780553820188 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£16.76'Spies should be glamorous - James Bond in a Savile Row suit rather than Harry Palmer in a grubby mac . . . In those terms, Otto Katz was perfect. He was a Hollywood playboy who hobnobbed with Fritz Lang, he inspired the character of Victor Laszlo in... -
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder
RRP: £19.99£12.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476755748Author Bill BrowderFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow 9781594200090
RRP: £40.00£28.44The #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... -
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951 by Lord John Julius Norwich
RRP: £16.99£9.82The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper)'This is a fabulous, jaw-dropping read' SUNDAY TIMES'Duff Cooper was as close to the action as anyone during the dramatic events of the... -
The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s by William I. Hitchcock
RRP: £21.99£14.73A New York Times bestseller, this is the "outstanding" (The Atlantic), insightful, and authoritative account of Dwight Eisenhower's presidency.Drawing on newly declassified documents and thousands of pages of unpublished material, The Age of Eisenhower... -
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan 9781400069224
RRP: £28.00£16.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400069224Author Reza AslanFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 578gDimensions(mm) 241mm *... -
The Diary Of A Man In Despair by Friedrich Reck
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590175866Author Friedrich ReckFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan by Tobias S. Harris 9781787383104
RRP: £25.00£21.02Shinzo Abe entered politics burdened by high expectations: that he would change Japan. In 2007, seemingly overwhelmed, he resigned after only a year as prime minister. Yet, following five years of reinvention, he masterfully regained the premiership in... -
Brothers in the Beloved Community: The Friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr. Marc Andrus 9781952692451
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952692451Author Marc AndrusFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax PressWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath by Ben S. Bernanke 9780393247213
RRP: £27.99£24.26In 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... -
Dreams in a Time of War by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
RRP: £9.99£7.32Ngugi 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... -
Peter Shore: Labour's Forgotten Patriot - Reappraising Peter Shore by Kevin Hickson 9781785904738
RRP: £25.00£18.51Peter Shore worked under Hugh Gaitskell, serving in successive Labour Cabinets under first Harold Wilson and subsequently James Callaghan. He wrote the 1964, 1966 and 1970 general election manifestos for the party and stood in both the 1980 and the 1983... -
DC Confidential by Christopher Meyer
RRP: £10.99£7.61Riveting and candid memoir of life behind the scenes as US Ambassador and Prime Minister's Press Secretary - a Sunday Times bestsellerChristopher Meyer was Ambassador to the United States from 1997 to 2003, during which time he was an eyewitness to and... -
Woodrow Wilson by John Milton Cooper
RRP: £18.99£13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Pulitzer Prize 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780307277909Author John Milton CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House... -
God and Churchill: How the Great Leader's Sense of Divine Destiny Changed His Troubled World and Offers Hope for Ours by Jonathan Sandys
RRP: £11.99£8.66When Winston Churchill was a boy of sixteen, he already had a vision for his purpose in life. "This country will be subjected somehow to a tremendous invasion . . . I shall be in command of the defences of London . . . it will fall to me to save the... -
Who Was Isambard Kingdom Brunel Amanda Mitchison 9781780726045
RRP: £9.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorAmanda Mitchison is the author of Alexander Selkirk: The Real Robinson Crusoe (Short Books). She is a star interviewer for The Sunday Telegraph. She lives in... -
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin 9780743270755
RRP: £24.00£16.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743270755Author Doris Kearns GoodwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Simon & Schuster AudioPublisher Simon & Schuster Ltd -
Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action by Dennis Dalton
RRP: £28.00£21.80Dennis Dalton's classic account of Gandhi's political and intellectual development focuses on the leader's two signal triumphs: the civil disobedience movement (or salt satyagraha) of 1930 and the Calcutta fast of 1947. Dalton clearly demonstrates how... -
They Call It Diplomacy by Peter Westmacott
RRP: £25.00£22.54The memoirs of senior UK diplomat Sir Peter Westmacott, former ambassador in Turkey, France and the United States during Barack Obama's presidency. 'A highly readable account of a glittering diplomatic career' Tony Blair 'One of the most brilliant... -
Agent Twister: John Stonehouse and the Scandal that Gripped the Nation by Philip Augar 9781398505438
RRP: £10.99£7.21'A case more important than Profumo' Financial Times 'A riveting read' Literary Review He lived a double-life in the sixtiesFaked his own death in the seventiesAnd retained his cover in the eighties A period thriller with powerful political and... -
The Maisky Diaries: The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London by Ivan Maisky
RRP: £14.99£13.43Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries. A... -
Galloper Jack: The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Rode a Real War Horse by Brough Scott 9781908216465 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29This is Brough Scott's moving biography of his grandfather - the author of the best-selling Warrior. 'Galloper' Jack Seely was at the heart of some of the most important events of the first part of the 20th century. His early life was one of adventure,... -
Galloper Jack: The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Rode a Real War Horse Brough Scott 9781908216465
RRP: £12.99£9.34This is Brough Scott's moving biography of his grandfather - the author of the best-selling Warrior. 'Galloper' Jack Seely was at the heart of some of the most important events of the first part of the 20th century. His early life was one of adventure,... -
Street-Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties by Tariq Ali
RRP: £9.99£7.20Tariq Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical. Reissued for the 1968 anniversary, Street-Fighting Years captures the mood and energy of the era of hope and passion as Ali tracks the growing significance of the nascent protest movement.Through... -
The Bad Boys of Brexit: Tales of Mischief, Mayhem & Guerrilla Warfare in the EU Referendum Campaign by Arron Banks 9781785902055
RRP: £9.99£7.48FULLY UPDATED Arron Banks enjoyed a life of happy anonymity flogging car insurance in Bristol until he dipped his toes into the sharkinfested waters of politics and decided to plunge right in. Charging into battle for Brexit, he tore up the political... -
The Politics of James Connolly Kieran Allen 9780745304731
RRP: £18.99£12.94Born in 1868 and executed by the British in 1916 for his role in the Easter Rising, the work of Irish national hero James Connolly has long been misunderstood. From Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein, to conservative Irish nationalists and the Church, many groups... -
Hitler's Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery by Richard Bassett
RRP: £9.99£7.00How Hitler's spy chief sabotaged the German war effort.Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Hitler to head the Abwehr (the German secret service) 18 months after the Nazis came to power. But Canaris turned against the Fuhrer and the Nazi regime, believing... -
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough by Brendan Simms
RRP: £16.99£12.28SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan SimmsAdolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most... -
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey
RRP: £29.99£20.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250192455Author James ComeyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
Ernest Marples: The Shadow Behind Beeching David Brandon 9781526760180
RRP: £25.00£17.90Ernest Marples revolutionised three UK government departments. At Transport (1959-1964) he appointed Dr Beeching chairman of British Railways and commissioned him to produce his infamous report, inaugurated motorways and introduced significant... -
Moshe Dayan: Israel's Controversial Hero by Mordechai Bar-On
RRP: £19.99£16.97From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a vivid portrait of one of the most powerful leaders in Israel's first decades of statehood Instantly recognizable with his iconic eye patch, Moshe Dayan (1915-1981) was one of Israel's most charismatic-and... -
Sean MacDiarmada: 16Lives by Brian Feeney 9781847172631
RRP: £15.99£12.37Sean MacDiarmada moved in the shadows, ultra-cautious about what he committed to paper, aware that his letters could be intercepted by the police. Because of this, history has not allocated MacDiarmada the prominent role he deserves in the organisation... -
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Benvenuto Cellini 9781841593289
RRP: £12.99£9.74Benvenuto Cellini is an artist-craftsman, one of the greatest sculptors in the renaissance, passionately devoted to art, the worshipper and frequenter of the great men of his time, the 'divine' Michelangelo, who came to his studio, the 'marvellous'...