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Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy by Shibani Mahtani 9780306830365
RRP: £25.00£14.26Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years of British rule, it was meant to be a carve-out between hostile systems: a bridge between communism and capitalism, authoritarianism and liberal democracy. "One... -
Soar: My Journey from Council Estate to House of Lords by Simon Woolley
RRP: £20.00£13.65'Simon Woolley revolutionised British politics' - GuardianCan an outsider ever become a member of the establishment?Simon Woolley is a member of the House of Lords, the first Black man to head an Oxbridge college, and a policy changemaker who has the ear... -
Boris Johnson: The Rise and Fall of a Troublemaker at Number 10 by Andrew Gimson 9781398502819
RRP: £12.99£8.18'Entertaining...essential...peppered with brilliant observations' Tim Shipman, Sunday Times Andrew Gimson, whose previous book Boris is the essential read on Johnson's earlier career, returns with a penetrating and entertaining new account of Boris... -
The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War by Arkady Ostrovsky 9780857891600
RRP: £10.99£7.32The definitive and award-winning history of Vladimir Putin's rise to power following the collapse of the Soviet Union, by The Economist's Russia editor.'Fast-paced and excellently written' New York Times'A real insiders' story of Russia's post-Soviet... -
Michael Foot: A Life by Kenneth O. Morgan 9780007178278 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.15The authorised - but not uncritical - life of one of the great parliamentarians and orators of our times, the former Labour Party leader, now in his nineties, who is also an eminent man of letters. Michael Foot has been a controversial and... -
Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend by Meryl Gordon
RRP: £14.99£9.80When 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,... -
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding
RRP: £12.99£9.09_____________________________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE JQ WINGATE PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD'A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history.' JOHN LE... -
Wellington: The Iron Duke by Richard Holmes 9780007137503
RRP: £14.99£9.70Richard Holmes, highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster, tells the exhilarating story of Britain's greatest-ever soldier, the man who posed the most serious threat to Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington's remarkable life and extraordinary... -
Bobby Kennedy: The Making Of A Liberal Icon by Larry Tye
RRP: £17.50£13.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983500Author Larry TyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
John F. Kennedy: The London Story by Bernard A Marshall 9781803136172
RRP: £30.00£20.95Two months after his twenty-first birthday, a young Harvard student arrived to join his father the American Ambassador in London. Jack, as he was known to family, had no idea how his journey to England on the eve of war would come to change and shape his... -
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman 9780008470227
RRP: £12.99£8.48*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* ‘A political epic’ – Guardian ‘This is the book Trump fears most.’ – Axios Few journalists have covered Donald Trump more extensively than Maggie... -
Saving the State: Fine Gael from Collins to Varadkar by Ciara Meehan
RRP: £26.99£19.34When Fine Gael entered a coalition government with Fianna Fail in 2020 the party did what would have been unthinkable for its forefathers who fought and won a bitter civil war to establish the institutions of an independent Irish state almost a century... -
Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors: 50 Places That Changed British Politics by Matt Chorley 9780008622060
RRP: £25.00£16.83''F *** ing brilliant. I would describe it as like a bag of political nuts - moreish and fabulously salty' JOE LYCETT A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Forget Westminster bust-ups and PMQs, some of the key events... -
And Then What?: Inside Stories of 21st Century Diplomacy by Baroness Catherine Ashton
RRP: £20.00£13.65Financial Times - BEST BOOKS OF 2023 'And Then What? is breathless and conversational - and all the more readable for that. But while her tone is down-to-earth, the events that Ashton played a part in were dramatic and often historic.' Gideon... -
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
RRP: £12.99£9.09They called him the 'angriest black man in America' . . . Celebrated and vilified the world over for his courageous but bitter fight to gain for millions of black men and women the equality and respect denied them by their white neighbours, Malcolm X... -
The Enemy Within: A Tale of Muslim Britain by Sayeeda Warsi
RRP: £12.99£9.09Now with a new paperback introduction'Vital reading' Daily Telegraph'It turns conventional wisdom on its head' Peter Oborne'Uniquely insightful' Sunday Times'Eloquent, calm and clever' Andrew MarrBritain has often found groups within its borders whom it... -
David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider by Roy Hattersley
RRP: £16.99£11.54A Welshman among the English, a nonconformist among Anglicans and a self-made man in the patrician corridors of power, David Lloyd George, the last Liberal Prime Minister of Great Britain, was the founding father of the Welfare State and was as great a... -
Cecil Beaton: The Authorised Biography by Hugo Vickers
RRP: £14.99£10.20Cecil Beaton was one of Britain's greatest cultural icons - not just as a photographer capturing some of the most celebrated portraits of the 20th century but also as designer of the iconic sets and costumes for the films My Fair Lady and Gigi. In 1980,... -
The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel by Kati Marton
RRP: £10.99£7.25'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the People An intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and... -
The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Inside Story by Sebastian Payne
RRP: £22.00£15.62The Fall of Boris Johnson is the explosive inside account of how a prime minister lost his hold on power. From Sebastian Payne, former Financial Times Whitehall editor and author of Broken Heartlands.Winner - Parliamentary Book Awards, Best Political... -
The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions by Arash Azizi
RRP: £10.99£7.00'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... -
Nelson: A Dream of Glory by John Sugden
RRP: £35.00£25.29"Nelson: A Dream of Glory" is the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched account ever written of Horatio Nelson's rise to international fame. Giving us the private as well as the public man, it combines ground-breaking scholarship with a... -
Christine: A Search for Christine Granville by Madeleine Masson
RRP: £10.99£7.40Christine Granville, G.M., O.B.E. and Croix de Guerre, one of the most successful women agents of the Second World War and said to have been Churchill's 'favourite spy', was murdered, aged 37, in a London Hotel in 1952. Her actions as a British secret... -
The Saboteur of Auschwitz: The Inspiring True Story of a British Soldier Held Prisoner in Auschwitz by Colin Rushton
RRP: £8.99£6.20For fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Librarian of Auschwitz and The Choice, this is the incredible true story of a British soldier POW. In 1942, young British soldier Arthur Dodd was taken prisoner by the German Army and transported to Oswiecim... -
Company Commander by Russell Lewis
RRP: £18.99£13.61In 2008 Major Russell Lewis commanded a company of two hundred soldiers from the British Army's legendary Parachute Regiment on a six-month tour in the most dangerous part of Afghanistan.Company Commander is his story, a riveting first-person account of... -
Alan Clark: A Life in his Own Words by Alan Clark
RRP: £16.99£11.94Some of the most talked about books of recent years, Alan Clark's diaries provide a witty and irreverant insider's account of political life in Britain. Now in one volume.'From the moment the first scabrous and brilliant volume was published, people... -
The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future by Franklin Foer 9781101981146
RRP: £30.00£23.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101981146Author Franklin FoerFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
Cameron at 10: The Verdict by Anthony Seldon
RRP: £16.99£11.87The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson. Spanning the early... -
The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr by Martin Luther King, Jr.
RRP: £12.99£8.60With knowledge, spirit, good humour and passion, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr brings to life a remarkable man whose thoughts and actions speak to our most burning contemporary issues and still inspire the desires, hopes and dreams of us... -
Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs Who Tried to Civilise the Nazis by Charles Spicer 9780861546176
RRP: £10.99£7.38How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history's greatest 'what ifs'... A TELEGRAPH AND SPECTATOR HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR Coffee with Hitler tells the astounding true story of a handful of amateur British intelligence... -
What Does Jeremy Think?: Jeremy Heywood and the Making of Modern Britain by Suzanne Heywood 9780008353162 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.53The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Seasoned Whitehall watchers often remark: "It wouldn't have been like this if Jeremy Heywood were still around." ... How could it be that the effectiveness of the once-revered civil service had become... -
What Does Jeremy Think?: Jeremy Heywood and the Making of Modern Britain by Suzanne Heywood
RRP: £10.99£7.25The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Seasoned Whitehall watchers often remark: "It wouldn't have been like this if Jeremy Heywood were still around." ... How could it be that the effectiveness of the once-revered civil service had become... -
Wolf Hall Companion by Lauren Mackay
RRP: £14.99£9.26An accessible and authoritative companion to the bestselling Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Mantel, published after the third and final book, The Mirror and the Light. Wolf Hall Companion gives an historian's view of what we know about Thomas Cromwell, one... -
John Stonehouse, My Father: The True Story of the Runaway MP by Julia Stonehouse
RRP: £10.99£7.32'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... -
An Autobiography by M. K. Gandhi
RRP: £10.99£7.77Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity... -
Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity by Monica Macias 9780715655177
RRP: £10.99£7.38The extraordinary true story of a West African girl's upbringing in North Korea under the guardianship of President Kim Il Sung. In 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was sent from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea by her... -
John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek
RRP: £19.99£14.68Updated edition of the authoritative single-volume biography of John F. Kennedy. Drawing upon first-hand sources and never-before-opened archives, prize-winning historian Robert Dallek reveals more than we ever knew about Jack Kennedy, forever changing... -
The Five Giants [New Edition]: A Biography of the Welfare State by Nicholas Timmins
RRP: £19.99£13.73A TIMES POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR A LONGMAN/HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR The award-winning history of the British Welfare State -now fully revised and updated for the 21st... -
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin 9780393935615
£13.33Written during the most eventful years of Benjamin Franklin's life (1771-90), the Autobiography is one of the most influential memoirs in history. This newly edited Norton Critical Edition includes an introduction that explains the history of the... -
Writings From Prison: Bobby Sands by Bobby Sands
£16.18In this book the author chronicles the abuse by the British state of emergency laws: harassment and intimidation of civilians; injuries and deaths caused by rubber and plastic bullets; collusion between British security forces, British intelligence and...