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My Father, the Runaway MP: The Real Story of John Stonehouse by Julia Stonehouse
RRP: £16.99£11.58'Clear, dispassionate and selfless' Spectator'Exhaustive in her research, tenacious in spotting errors, indignant in denouncing lies.' Guardian'A compelling account of an extraordinary political scandal, written from inside the Stonehouse family'. Martin... -
Personal Impressions Isaiah Berlin 9781845952495
RRP: £18.99£14.22The 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... -
Churchill by Ashley Jackson 9780857388346 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Churchill Ashley Jackson 9780857388346
RRP: £12.99£8.83Winston Churchill attracted far more criticism alive than he has since his death. He was, according to Evelyn Waugh, 'always in the wrong, surrounded by crooks, a terrible father, a radio personality'. Whatever one's view of 'the greatest Briton', and... -
Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman by Susanne Schattenberg 9781838606381
RRP: £30.00£23.81"Schattenberg has done a service in rescuing the Brezhnev period from obscurity." The Morning Star "[Offers an] unparalleled examination of the Brezhnev papers." Literary Review Leonid Brezhnev was leader of the Soviet Union for eighteen years, a... -
Women Who Won: 70 extraordinary women who reshaped politics by Ros Ball 9781800182523
RRP: £18.99£12.46Did you know that Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka was the first woman in the world to become a democratically elected prime minister? That Tina Anselmi was a wartime resistance fighter who became the first woman to serve as a cabinet minister in... -
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare 9780099555667
RRP: £18.99£9.34The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France.For Priscilla, pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors, soirees and heartbreak, and eventually a lavish wedding to a... -
Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years by David Litt
£11.78A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn Esquire Best Book of 2017Remember when presidents spoke in complete sentences instead of in unhinged tweets? Former Obama speechwriter David Litt does. In his comic, coming-of-age memoir, he takes us back to the Obama years... -
The Shepherd and the Morning Star: Two Lives Apart by Willie Orr
RRP: £9.99£6.90The Shepherd and the Morning Star is a remarkable double biography and autobiography. In the course of it the life of the son, Willie Orr, gradually emerges from under the shadow of that of his father, Lawrence Orr (PB), leading Ulster Unionist... -
Machiavelli: From Radical to Reactionary by Robert Black 9781789146158
RRP: £17.95£13.12'Machiavellian' can signify duplicity and amorality in politics, but Machiavelli himself is far more complex than this cliche. A high-ranking Florentine government official and prolific writer of hugely influential political, military and historical... -
No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination and the Making of Modern Israel Shimon Peres 9781474604215
RRP: £9.99£7.00'Shimon Peres was a giant of Israel's founding generation, a tireless advocate for peace, and an eternal optimist who lived his life with a sense of hope and possibility. He also became a treasured friend to me and source of wisdom for me. All of us... -
Grey is the Colour of Hope by Irina Ratushinskaya
RRP: £9.99£7.00If it ever falls to you, my reader (though God forbid!) to see your name written on a prison wall and followed by the letters 'LYMTL', that will simply mean 'Love You More Than Life'. These letters are no harder to remember than 'KGB'. GREY IS THE COLOUR... -
Patrick Pearse: 16Lives by Ruan O'Donnell
RRP: £15.99£12.37On 24 April 1916, as President of the Provisional Government, Patrick Pearse appeared under the GPO Grand Portico on Dublin's O'Connell Street and read aloud the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. Nine days later, he was the first of the rebel leaders... -
Inside Trump's White House: The Authorized Inside Story of His First White House Years: 2019 by Doug Wead 9781785905568
RRP: £20.00£14.70After dozens of books and articles by anonymous sources, here, finally, is a history of the Trump White House, with the President and his staff talking openly and on the record. In Inside Trump's White House, Doug Wead offers a sweeping, eloquent history... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Honorary Jew - How Britain's Jews Helped Shape the Iron Lady and Her Beliefs by Robert Philpot 9781785901317
RRP: £20.00£14.48Margaret Thatcher's premiership changed the face of modern Britain. Yet few people know of the critical role played by Jews in sparking and sustaining her revolution. Was this chance, choice, or simply a reflection of the fact that, as the Iron Lady... -
Attlee: A Life in Politics by Nick Thomas-Symonds 9780755636136
RRP: £14.99£11.93A biography of a key figure in British political life, now with a new foreword by Keir Starmer, providing a vivid portrait of the man and his politics. Clement Attlee - the man who created the welfare state and decolonised vast swathes of the British... -
An Irishman Abroad: Growing up with Unity and Division in an Anglo-Irish Family by Tarka King
RRP: £30.00£20.88In An Irishman Abroad, Tarka King recalls his feral youth on the periphery of the Anglo-Irish world, his brief UK public school education and a period of extensive travel, followed by a period of soldiering in the Middle East at the height of the Cold... -
The Borgias and Their Enemies, 1431-1519 by Christopher Hibbert 9780547247816
RRP: £17.99£12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547247816Author Christopher HibbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)... -
The Happy Depressive: In Pursuit of Personal and Political Happiness by Alastair Campbell 9780099579823 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.13Are you happy? Does it matter?Increasingly, governments seem to think so. As the UK government conducts its first happiness survey, Alastair Campbell looks at happiness as a political as well as a personal issue; what it should mean to us, what it means... -
The Happy Depressive: In Pursuit of Personal and Political Happiness by Alastair Campbell
RRP: £7.99£5.98Are you happy? Does it matter?Increasingly, governments seem to think so. As the UK government conducts its first happiness survey, Alastair Campbell looks at happiness as a political as well as a personal issue; what it should mean to us, what it means... -
Nine Lives: The Reflections of a Deliberate Diplomat by Donal Denham
RRP: £17.95£16.75In a career spanning 41 years in the Irish diplomatic service, Ambassador Donal Denham has lived among nine very different societies, spanning three continents. With stops in France, Zambia, the USA, Lithuania, Belarus, Finland and finally the Holy See,... -
Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke by Richard Bourke 9780691175652
RRP: £35.00£28.95Edmund Burke (1730-97) lived during one of the most extraordinary periods of world history. He grappled with the significance of the British Empire in India, fought for reconciliation with the American colonies, and was a vocal critic of national policy... -
Bevan: Creator of the NHS by Francis Beckett 9781913368838
RRP: £10.99£7.92The creation of the National Health Service was the most significant of the many reforms of the post-war Labour government. The man responsible was Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan. The son of a Welsh miner, he became a local trade union leader at only nineteen and... -
Red Ellen: The life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist by Laura Beers
RRP: £35.95£30.19In 1908 Ellen Wilkinson, a fiery adolescent from a working-class family in Manchester, was "the only girl who talks in school debates." By midcentury, Wilkinson had helped found Britain's Communist Party, earned a seat in Parliament, and become a... -
Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World. As Featured in the NETFLIX documentary IN HER HANDS by Zarifa Ghafari 9780349017020
RRP: £10.99£7.61A moving and inspiring memoir by Afghanistan's youngest female mayor and campaigner for human rights, as seen in Netflix's In Her Hands documentary.'Zarifa will break your heart' Christina Lamb, author of Our Bodies, Their Battlefields and I Am... -
Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
RRP: £25.00£21.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards and Pulitzer Prize.Book InformationISBN 9780394720951Author Robert A. CaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 1232Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher... -
Chronicle of the Russian Tsars: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Russia by David Warnes
RRP: £14.95£10.43Now available in paperback, this Chronicle documents the lives of tsars famous and infamous in a lively series of biographical portraits stretching from the late 15th to the early 20th centuries. With its comprehensive timelines, datafiles, quotations... -
Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor by Ronald Drabkin 9780063310070
RRP: £22.00£14.58"A beguiling tale of espionage and double-dealing in the years leading up to World War II. ... Strap in for a narrative that demands a suspension of disbelief-and richly rewards it." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review); Best Books of February SelectionThe... -
Exit Wounds Updated Edition: One Australian's War On Terror by John Cantwell 9780522864670
RRP: £17.95£11.78John Cantwell, Queensland country boy, enlisted in the army as a private and rose to the rank of major general. He was on the front line in 1991 as Coalition forces fitted bulldozer blades to tanks and buried Iraqi troops alive. He served in Baghdad in... -
The Power of the Paddle: One man's mission to inspire hope through the spirit of adventure by Jordan Wylie 9781785907258
RRP: £9.99£7.48'His name was Ibrahim. He was about five years old and the thing he wanted most in the world was to go to school.' In a tiny country on the Horn of Africa, extreme adventurer, former soldier and star of Channel 4's Hunted Jordan Wylie made an... -
Lansdowne: The Last Great Whig by Simon Kerry
RRP: £25.00£17.97A remarkable figure of British politics between the late Victorian and interwar years, Lord Lansdowne was among the last hereditary aristocrats to wield power by birth. Over the course of a distinguished fifty year career he served as Governor-General of... -
Let the Future Begin by Dennis W Archer 9781945875137
RRP: £28.99£21.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945875137Author Dennis W ArcherFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Atkins & Greenspan WritingPublisher Atkins & Greenspan WritingWeight(grams)... -
Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies: A Story of Property, Marriage and Madness by Leo Hollis
RRP: £10.99£7.99'Brilliant' Financial Times 'Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities' Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness,... -
Leading from the Front: An autobiography by General Sir Richard Dannatt
RRP: £18.99£13.61General Sir Richard Dannatt's distinguished career in the army has spanned thirty-eight years and seen him serve in many different theatres of conflict, from Northern Ireland (where he was awarded the Military Cross) to Bosnia and Kosovo, Iraq and... -
We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle for Post War Britain by Daniel Sonabend
RRP: £20.00£14.27In 1946 many Jewish soldiers returned to their homes in England imagining that they had fought and defeated the forces of fascism in Europe. Yet in London they found a revived fascist movement inspired by Sir Oswald Mosley and stirring up agitation... -
Grey Eminence by Aldous Huxley
RRP: £9.99£7.32A gripping biography by the author of Brave New WorldThe life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's aide, was a shocking paradox. After spending his days directing operations on the battlefield, Father Joseph would pass the night in prayer, or in... -
Beyond A Fringe by Andrew Mitchell 9781785907616
RRP: £12.99£9.50A Times Political Book of the Year A Daily Mail Political Book of the Year A Guardian Political Book of the Year An Independent Political Book of the Year Veering from the hilarious to the tragic, Andrew Mitchell's tales from the... -
The Story of Che Guevara by Lucia Alvarez de Toledo 9781849160407 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.65An accessible biography of one of the most influential figures of recent times based on new, original research.Che Guevara is something of a symbol in the West. But for the rest of the world he is different: a charismatic revolutionary who redrew the... -
The Story of Che Guevara Lucia Alvarez de Toledo 9781849160407
RRP: £12.99£8.83An accessible biography of one of the most influential figures of recent times based on new, original research.Che Guevara is something of a symbol in the West. But for the rest of the world he is different: a charismatic revolutionary who redrew the... -
Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend by Meryl Gordon 9781455588749
£33.05A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics,...