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The Republic of Imagination by Azar Nafisi
RRP: £9.99£7.11From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today.Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which... -
Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities by Elizabeth Edwards 9780767931564
RRP: £14.99£12.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767931564Author Elizabeth EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
The Bedbug: Klop Ustinov - Britain's Most Ingenious Spy by Peter Day 9781849549097 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29Klop Ustinov was Britain's most ingenious spy - but he was never licensed to kill. Instead, he was authorised to bemuse and beguile his enemies into revealing their deepest, darkest secrets. From the Russian Revolution to the Cold War, he bluffed and... -
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir by Madeleine Albright 9780062802279
RRP: £10.99£7.25"Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat." -New YorkerNow in paperback with a new epilogueIn this revealing, funny, and inspiring memoir, seven-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright-among... -
My American Life by Congresswoman Lauren Boebert
RRP: £28.00£17.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637582046Author Congresswoman Lauren BoebertFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bombardier BooksPublisher Bombardier BooksWeight(grams)... -
Spies Who Changed History: The Greatest Spies and Agents of the 20th Century by West, Nigel 9781399086325
RRP: £25.00£17.62Spies have made an extraordinary impact on the history of the 20th Century, but fourteen in particular can be said to have been demonstrably important. As one might expect, few are household names, and it is only with the benefit of recently declassified... -
Saddam Hussein: The Politics of Revenge by Said K. Aburish 9780747549031 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.65In "Saddam Hussein: The Politics of Revenge", the author draws on his own knowledge of and extensive contacts within the Arab world to produce both a thorough biography and a penetrating psychological profile of the most powerful and unpredictable man in... -
Bond of Secrecy: My Life with CIA Spy and Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt by Saint John Hunt 9781936296835
RRP: £21.95£15.42A father's last confession to his son about the CIA, Watergate, and the plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy, this is the remarkable true story of St. John Hunt and his father E. Howard Hunt, the infamous Watergate burglar and CIA spymaster. In... -
Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview by Shirely Chisholm
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198972Author Shirely ChisholmFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Chappaquiddick: Power, Privilege, and the Ted Kennedy Cover-Up by Leo Damore 9781621578185
RRP: £16.99£13.54"An achievement of reportorial diligence, this book tells a story that the most imaginative crime novelist would have been hard put to invent. It is a tale of death, intrigue, obstruction of justice, corruption and politics." -People Magazine A young... -
Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin by Roland W. Haas 9781597971874
RRP: £15.99£13.68"Often reads like the latest entry from Ludlum or Le Carre . . . fascinating."-Book News, Inc.A true story that pulls no punches, Enter the Past Tense also chronicles Haas's descent into, and recovery from, alcoholism that resulted from the stress of... -
Full Disclosure by Stormy Daniels
RRP: £10.99£8.94THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Make no mistake, Full Disclosure is a story for our times' - Guardian'Funny, candid, mischievous . . . and unapologetic' - TelegraphOn 6 March 2018 Stormy Daniels filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over a... -
William Godwin: A Political Life by Richard Gough Thomas 9780745338354
RRP: £16.99£11.54'Government by its very nature counteracts the improvement of original mind' - William Godwin William Godwin was the first major anarchist thinker in the Anglophone world, who rocked the establishment at the beginning of the nineteenth century... -
Lord Salisbury by Eric Midwinter 9781904950547
RRP: £9.99£7.06This is a biography of the first Prime Minister of the 20th Century during the height of the British Empire.Book InformationISBN 9781904950547Author Eric MidwinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Haus PublishingPublisher Haus PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Spark that Lit the Revolution: Lenin in London and the Politics that Changed the World by Robert Henderson
RRP: £40.00£30.38Vladimir Ilyich Lenin visited London on six occasions at the beginning of the twentieth century and it was in this city, where Marx wrote Das Kapital, that the roots of Lenin's political thought took shape. This book, from a former curator of the Russian... -
Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America's Mayor by Andrew Kirtzman 9781982153304
RRP: £12.99£8.18A New Yorker Best Book of the Year What happened to Rudy Giuliani? Andrew Kirtzman, who has been following Giuliani since the 1990s, answers that question in this "masterful and engrossing" (The Guardian) biography that "cuts through the myth and... -
Harold Macmillan by Charles Williams
RRP: £14.99£10.20A masterly biography of a great Conservative Prime Minister (and publisher) - Harold Macmillan (1894-1986).Harold Macmillan was a figure of paradox. Outwardly, it was Edwardian elegance and civilised urbanity. Inwardly, it was emotional damage from his... -
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor by Anthony Everitt
RRP: £20.00£13.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812970586Author Anthony EverittFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 234mm... -
Montaigne: A Life by Philippe Desan
RRP: £22.00£18.36A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinkerOne of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But... -
No Harmless Power by Kevin Matthews
RRP: £20.99£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629634715Author Charlie AllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Eoin O'Duffy: A Self-Made Hero by Fearghal McGarry 9780199276554
RRP: £67.00£55.80Eoin O'Duffy was one of the most controversial figures of modern Irish history. A guerrilla leader and protege of Michael Collins, he rose rapidly through the ranks of the republican movement. By 1922 he was chief of staff of the IRA, a member of the... -
Taking Up Space: The Black Girl's Manifesto for Change by Chelsea Kwakye 9781529118537
RRP: £24.95£16.38THE FLAGSHIP 2019 RELEASE OF #MERKY BOOKS____________________________'Brilliant' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS'Hugely important' PAULA AKPAN'Essential' BERNARDINE EVARISTO____________________________As a minority in a predominantly white institution, taking up... -
The Tribe: The Inside Story of Irish Power and Influence in US Politics by Caitríona Perry 9780717184828
RRP: £23.99£16.94In The Tribe, Caitriona Perry is on familiar ground, returning to Washington and the green strongholds of the United States. Irish Americans were once considered kingmakers in local and national elections, but generations of assimilation and rising... -
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare 9780099555667
RRP: £18.99£9.09The 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... -
The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews
£49.50James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies. As both mentor and friend to Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and others, Klugmann was the man who manipulated promising recruits deemed ripe for conversion to the... -
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir by Madeleine Albright
RRP: £25.00£17.15"Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat." -New YorkerFrom the seven-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright-among history's most admired and tireless public servants-a revealing, funny, and... -
The French Exception: Emmanuel Macron - The Extraordinary Rise and Risk by Adam Plowright 9781785783111 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.65'Adam Plowright's excellent book captures the strangeness of Macron's life' Evening StandardTHE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF EMMANUEL MACRON IN ENGLISHFrom total unknown to one of Europe's most powerful men in just a few years, at 39, France's youngest leader... -
The French Exception: Emmanuel Macron - The Extraordinary Rise and Risk by Adam Plowright
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Adam Plowright's excellent book captures the strangeness of Macron's life' Evening StandardTHE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF EMMANUEL MACRON IN ENGLISHFrom total unknown to one of Europe's most powerful men in just a few years, at 39, France's youngest leader... -
Theresa May: The Enigmatic Prime Minister by Rosa Prince 9781785902734
RRP: £10.99£7.93Twenty days after Britain's dramatic vote to leave the European Union, with the government still reeling from the political aftershock, a new Prime Minister captured Downing Street. Few were more surprised by this unexpected turn of events than Theresa... -
Eminent Churchillians by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £12.99£8.60A controversial account of the Churchill years by a bestselling historian.'The best sort of history - revealing, gossipy and acidulous' OBSERVERThis highly praised book by the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of SALISBURY tackles six aspects of... -
Catcher Was a Spy by Nicholas Dawidoff
£12.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679762898Author Nicholas DawidoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm)... -
Churchill, Master and Commander: Winston Churchill at War 1895–1945 by Anthony Tucker-Jones
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Masterful research, impeccable detail, with a beautifully flowing narrative of which Churchill himself would have been proud.' - Professor Peter Caddick-Adams From his earliest days Winston Churchill was an extreme risk taker and he carried this into... -
Life in the Glass House: Tales from the United Nations by Miles Stoby 9781913491833
RRP: £30.00£20.55This book is a personal, humorous and insightful insider's perspective of what goes on a daily basis inside the United Nations. It is incisive, direct and a pleasure to read. There have been other historical accounts and contemporary assessments of the... -
Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia’s leader by Philip Short 9781847923387
£16.70'Magisterial' - Guardian'Outstanding' - Ian KershawVladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his... -
My Country, My Life: Fighting for Israel, Searching for Peace by Ehud Barak
RRP: £25.00£18.02From the former Prime Minister and most decorated solder in Israel's history, this is essential reading to understand today's Israel-Palestine conflict and the precarious path to a two-state solution.'There is scarcely one of Israel's security or... -
The Guy Liddell Diaries, Volume I: 1939-1942: MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II by Nigel West
RRP: £53.99£47.27This is the first volume of Nigel West's acclaimed presentation of these fascinating diaries from the heart of Britain's Second World War intelligence operations.'No intelligence buff can be without this volume and anyone interested in British twentieth... -
Benjamin Franklin by Edmund S. Morgan 9780300101621
RRP: £18.99£18.48A New York Times Bestseller, a 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and a Washington Post Book World, Publisher's Weekly, and Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of the Year "Superb. . . . The best short biography of Franklin ever... -
Profiles in Courage by John F Kennedy 9780062278791
RRP: £22.00£13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062278791Author Lecturer in Chemistry John F KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
James Connolly: Socialist, Nationalist and Internationalist by Liam McNulty
RRP: £25.00£22.03Is the voice of James Connolly, silenced by a British bullet in 1916, coming back? This book offers a measured consideration of Connolly, alive to his continuing political relevance. It seeks to explain Connolly's political development in dialogue... -
Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever by Patrick J. Buchanan
RRP: £12.99£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101902868Author Patrick J. BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...