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An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Riveting; as fresh and relevant today as it was almost 50 years ago. The words fire off the page with humour, anger and eloquence' GuardianA powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela DavisEdited by Toni... -
The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians by Janice Hadlow
RRP: £19.99£14.28An intensely moving account of George III's doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new history writer. George III came to the throne in 1760 as a man with a mission. He was... -
Tory Socialist: Robert Blatchford and Merrie England by Tony Judge 9781482075113
RRP: £8.20£7.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781482075113Author Tony JudgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Backstabbing for Beginners (Media tie-in): My Crash Course in International Diplomacy by Michael Soussan
RRP: £13.99£8.02A Wall Street Journal best book of the year"What made this episode in our collective history possible was not so much the lies we told one another, but the lies we told ourselves."A recent Brown University graduate, Michael Soussan was elated when he... -
Eleanor Of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England by Alison Weir
RRP: £12.99£9.09Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages and also one of the most controversial. She was beautiful, intelligent and wilful, and in her lifetime there were rumours about her that were not without substance. She... -
The Duchess Countess by Catherine Ostler 9781471172588
RRP: £10.99£7.00A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A VOGUE BOOK OF THE YEAR'A rollicking read... [Ostler] tells Elizabeth's story with admirable style and gusto' Sunday Times'Terrifically entertaining: if you liked... -
Targeted: My Inside Story of Cambridge Analytica and How Trump, Brexit and Facebook Broke Democracy by Brittany Kaiser
RRP: £16.99£11.87In this explosive memoir, a political consultant and technology whistleblower reveals the disturbing truth about the multi-billion-dollar data industry, revealing to the public how companies are getting richer using our personal information... -
Unbowed: My Autobiography by Wangari Maathai
RRP: £10.99£7.77Born in a rural Kenyan village in 1940, Wangari Maathai was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most African girls then were uneducated. In her remarkable and inspiring autobiography, she tells of her studies with... -
Memoirs Of A Revolutionary by Victor Serge
RRP: £13.99£9.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174517Author Victor SergeFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster by Lucy Easthope
RRP: £20.00£11.65THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TELEGRAPH AND THE NEW STATESMAN"A marvellous book" Rev Richard Coles"Gripping... filled with compassion." Sunday Times"Remarkable... hopeful and uplifting." Mail on... -
The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer: The Life and Times of an Early German Revolutionary by Andrew Drummond 9781839768941
RRP: £25.00£20.30'The princes are nothing but tyrants who flay the people; they fritter away our blood and sweat on their pomp and whoring and knavery.' These were the words of Thomas Muntzer at the head of the massed ranks of a peasant army in the year 1525. Ranged... -
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A Caro
RRP: £10.99£7.77Robert A. Caro is one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation, whose landmark biographies are widely hailed as masterpieces.This is the captivating account of his life as a writer, describing the sometimes staggering lengths to which he has gone... -
Like No Other Soldier: The Shadowy World of Security, Protection and Surveillance by Rob Lewis
RRP: £8.99£6.20Like No Other Soldier continues the true story told in Fishers of Men of Rob Lewis's life after he leaves the Force Research Unit (FRU). Staying on in Northern Ireland as a civilian after years of working on undercover missions against terrorists, Rob... -
Strictly Ann: The Autobiography by Ann Widdecombe 9781780220925 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29Forthright memoirs of a singular personality - former MP and Strictly Come Dancing star, Ann Widdecombe.In this life story of one of our most outspoken and celebrated politicians, Ann Widdecombe offers a unique insight into her time as a minister in... -
Strictly Ann: The Autobiography by Ann Widdecombe
RRP: £10.99£6.47Forthright memoirs of a singular personality - former MP and Strictly Come Dancing star, Ann Widdecombe.In this life story of one of our most outspoken and celebrated politicians, Ann Widdecombe offers a unique insight into her time as a minister in... -
Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust by James Comey
RRP: £9.99£7.27'An absolutely fascinating read' - newsreader Emily MaitlisJames Comey, former FBI Director and Sunday Times number one bestselling author of A Higher Loyalty, uses his long career in federal law enforcement to explore issues of justice and fairness in... -
The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire by Michael Wolff 9780349128801
RRP: £25.00£14.26THE BOOK THAT BROUGHT DOWN RUPERT MURDOCH - AND A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMeet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empire is... -
The Man With the Iron Heart: The Definitive Biography of Reinhard Heydrich by Nancy Dougherty
RRP: £30.00£19.40A fascinating portrait of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the darkest figures of Hitler's elite, featuring words with those who knew him best, including in-depth and rare interviews with his wife, Lina. He was called the 'Hangman of the Gestapo' and the... -
Necessary Women: The Untold Story of Parliament’s Working Women by Dr Mari Takayanagi
RRP: £22.00£16.84When suffragette Emily Wilding Davison hid overnight in the Houses of Parliament in 1911 to have her name recorded in the census there, she may not have known that there were sixty-seven other women also resident in Parliament that night: housekeepers,... -
Please, Mister Postman by Alan Johnson
RRP: £10.99£7.77In July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert in Hyde Park, Alan Johnson and his young family left West London to start a new life. The Britwell Estate in Slough, apparently notorious among the locals, in fact came as a blessed relief... -
The President And The Provocateur by Alex Cox 9781842439418
RRP: £12.99£8.60The President and the Provocateur explores the parallel lives of John F. Kennedy, born into wealth and celebrity, destined for glory and a violent death, and of Lee Harvey Oswald, born into poverty and obscurity, murdered in police custody and convicted... -
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 3) by Robert A. Caro
RRP: £35.00£25.29'The greatest biography of our era ... Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics' The TimesRobert A. Caro's legendary, multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon Johnson is a uniquely riveting and revelatory account... -
Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff
RRP: £12.99£8.60SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERWith extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time.The first nine months of Donald Trump's term... -
Out of the Blue: The inside story on Liz Truss and her astonishing rise to power by Harry Cole 9780008605780
RRP: £20.00£13.34Liz Truss's journey from schoolgirl revolutionary to Britain's shortest-serving Prime Minister The Sunday Times Politics Book of the Year 'An insightful and at times riotously entertaining account of the lengthy rise... -
Out of the Blue: The inside story on Liz Truss and her astonishing rise to power by Harry Cole 9780008605780 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£4.12Liz Truss's journey from schoolgirl revolutionary to Britain's shortest-serving Prime Minister The Sunday Times Politics Book of the Year 'An insightful and at times riotously entertaining account of the lengthy rise... -
Classified!: The Adventures of a Molehunter by Nigel West 9781785908538
RRP: £25.00£17.84Over the past fifty years, Nigel West has been involved in almost every espionage-related investigation, breakthrough or revelation that you can think of. His molehunts have led to the unmasking of spies within MI5, MI6 and the CIA and the identification... -
Pandemic Diaries: The inside story of Britain's battle against Covid by Matt Hancock
RRP: £25.00£17.84When Covid-19 swept the world, governments scrambled to protect their citizens and chart a course back to normality. As Health Secretary, Matt Hancock was at the forefront of Britain's battle against the virus, trying to steer the country through the... -
The Brothers by Stephen Kinzer 9781250053121
£13.04During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world. John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen... -
Castlereagh by John Bew
RRP: £19.99£13.35The best political biography of the year' Jonathan Sumption, Spectator 'Wonderful . . . A Life so nearly complete it need never be written again' Ferdinand Mount, Times Literary Supplement By the author of the Orwell Prize-winning Citizen Clem Damned in... -
John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman by Robert Skidelsky
RRP: £32.00£22.69THE DEFINITIVE SINGLE-VOLUME BIOGRAPHYRobert Skidelsky's three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes has been acclaimed as the authoritative account of the great economist-statesman's life. Here, Skidelsky has revised and abridged his magnum opus into... -
Madam Secretary: A Memoir by Madeleine Albright
RRP: £12.99£8.88A national bestseller on its first publication in 2003, "Madam Secretary" is the riveting personal story of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. For eight years, during Bill Clinton's two presidential terms, Albright was an active participant in... -
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump 9781471190162
RRP: £9.99£6.41* THE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER *'Even in the darkest of Dickens novels, no family comes across quite as mendacious, grasping and avaricious as the Trumps' Financial Times A REVELATORY PORTRAIT OF DONALD J. TRUMP AND THE TOXIC... -
Kicks, Spits, And Headers: The Autobiographical Reflections of an Accidental Footballer by Paolo Sollier 9781570273933
RRP: £16.00£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570273933Author Paolo SollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Minor CompositionsPublisher Autonomedia -
Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I by Stephen Alford
RRP: £19.99£17.37The first modern biography of the most powerful politician in late Tudor England William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598), was the closest adviser to England's Queen Elizabeth I and-as this revealing and provocative biography shows-he was the driving... -
Portrait Of A Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson by Nigel Nicolson
RRP: £9.99£7.11The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group.'A brilliantly structured account of the dramas, infidelities and deep emotional attachments' GUARDIAN'An intimate and... -
Priests de la Resistance!: The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century by The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie
RRP: £9.99£6.52'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times 'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... -
Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend by Christina De Stefano
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635420531Author Christina De StefanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC -
Haldane: The Forgotten Statesman Who Shaped Modern Britain by John Campbell
RRP: £16.99£15.31Can you name the creator of the Territorial Army and the British Expeditionary Force? The man who laid the foundation stones of MI5, MI6, the RAF, the LSE, Imperial College, the 'redbrick' universities and the Medical Research Council? This book... -
Ernest Bevin: Labour's Churchill by Andrew Adonis
RRP: £9.99£7.27Statesman, pre-eminent leader and founder of the free world's then largest and most formidable trade union, Ernest Bevin was one of the most rousing figures of the twentieth century. Minister of Labour in the wartime coalition during the Second World... -
Napoleon Volume 2: The Spirit of the Age by Michael Broers
RRP: £16.99£11.58'Masterly.' Daily Mail 'Stunning.' History Today'Magnificent.' Literary ReviewNapoleon's life reached its most extraordinary stage between 1805 and 1810. At war with Britain, Russia, and Austria, he unleashed his magnificent Grande Armee. The first...