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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
RRP: £10.99£8.15This is the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk - the only person born in a North Korean gulag ever to escape. A gripping, terrifying biography, Escape from Camp 14 by journalist Blaine Harden uncovers a dark and secret nation.Now a major documentary film... -
A Very English Scandal: Now a Major BBC Series Starring Hugh Grant by John Preston
RRP: £10.99£7.99The bestselling book that inspired the Bafta-winning BBC dramaCorruption. Blackmail. Conspiracy to murder. A Very English Scandal has all the hallmarks of a classic thriller with one difference. It's all true.In the late 1960s Jeremy Thorp, the... -
Pandemic Diaries: The inside story of Britain's battle against Covid by Matt Hancock
RRP: £25.00£18.11When 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... -
King: The Life of Martin Luther King Jonathan Eig 9781471181030
RRP: £14.99£9.61A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. - and the... -
A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945 by Vasily Grossman
RRP: £12.99£9.34In the summer of 1941, as the Germans invade Russia, newspaper reporter Vasily Grossman is swept to the frontlines, witnessing some of the most savage atrocities in Russian history. As Grossman follows the Red Army from the defence of Moscow, to the... -
My Life, Our Times Gordon Brown 9781784707460
RRP: £14.99£11.11Former Prime Minister and the country's longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decades. This is his candid, poignant and deeply relevant story.In describing his upbringing in Scotland as the... -
Haughey by Gary Murphy
RRP: £27.99£21.52With exclusive access to the Haughey archives, Gary Murphy presents a reassessment of Charles Haughey's life and legacy. Saint or sinner? He was the most talented and influential politician of his generation, and his presence still looms over the... -
You May Never See Us Again: The Barclay Dynasty: A Story of Survival, Secrecy and Succession by Jane Martinson 9780241660690
RRP: £25.00£18.02'A tour de force' - Guardian'Forensic ... Strong on financial detail' - Financial TimesA Financial Times Book of the Year 2023The untold story of post-war Britain. Told through the lives of the two men who helped shape it: Sir David Barclay and Sir... -
John Hume by Stephen Walker 9780717196081
RRP: £26.99£19.25Peacemaker, politician, Nobel laureate: John Hume was a titan of Irish political history and a key architect of the Good Friday Agreement, bringing peace to Northern Ireland after decades of conflict. But who was the real John Hume? What... -
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... -
Portrait Of A Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson by Nigel Nicolson
RRP: £9.99£9.00The 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... -
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,... -
My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy Kim Philby 9781787461284
RRP: £10.99£7.99In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H. A. R. "Kim" Philby, the ringleader of the legendary Cambridge spies. A member of the British establishment, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the head... -
The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq by Rory Stewart 9780156032797
RRP: £16.99£11.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156032797Author Rory StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 136mm *... -
Everybody Matters: A Memoir by Mary Robinson 9781444723335 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.65Shortlisted for the Political Book Awards 2013 Political Book of the YearThe first woman President of Ireland, who became UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson has spent her life in pursuit of a fairer world.Now, for the first time, she... -
Everybody Matters: A Memoir Mary Robinson 9781444723335
RRP: £12.99£8.83Shortlisted for the Political Book Awards 2013 Political Book of the YearThe first woman President of Ireland, who became UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson has spent her life in pursuit of a fairer world.Now, for the first time, she... -
First They Killed My Father: Film tie-in by Loung Ung
RRP: £10.99£7.99A major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried crickets, chicken... -
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa 9781542047197
RRP: £6.99£5.05An Amazon Charts Most Read and Most Sold book. The harrowing true story of one man's life in-and subsequent escape from-North Korea, one of the world's most brutal totalitarian regimes. Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his... -
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... -
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
RRP: £12.99£9.34They 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... -
Holocaust Child: Lalechka - An Inspirational Story of Survival by Amira Keidar 9781913543075
RRP: £8.99£3.05A little girl is smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto. Two courageous women. And an inspirational story of survival. In 1941 at the height of World War II, in a Polish ghetto, a baby girl named Rachel is born. Her parents, Jacob and Zippa, are willing to... -
It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership by Colin Powell
RRP: £10.99£7.46Colin Powell, one of America's most admired public figures, reveals the principles that have shaped his life and career in this inspiring and engrossing memoir. A beautiful companion to his previous memoir, the #1 New York Times bestseller My American... -
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome Harry Sidebottom 9780861546855
RRP: £10.99£7.21What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? Discover the scandalous life and times of Rome's worst emperor. 'Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' David Aaronovitch, The Times On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old... -
Madam Secretary: A Memoir by Madeleine Albright
RRP: £12.99£9.11A 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... -
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... -
Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I Stephen Alford 9780300170887
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... -
Adenauer: The Father of the New Germany by Charles Williams 9780349113692
£27.41After the Second World War Germany lay in ruins. To Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) belongs much of the credit for raising West Germany to a position of economic prosperity and making it a respected free-world ally. Adenauer was born in 1876, in Cologne,... -
When the Dust Settles: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A marvellous book' -- Rev Richard Coles Lucy Easthope 9781529358247
RRP: £20.00£13.55THE 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 Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave by Patrick Bishop 9780008309046 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.29SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN - Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishop's lively, action-packed biography examines the life, heroic war and death of one of... -
The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave by Patrick Bishop 9780008309046
RRP: £10.99£6.67SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN - Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishop's lively, action-packed biography examines the life, heroic war and death of one of... -
Michael Collins: A Biography by Tim Pat Coogan
RRP: £10.99£7.99'The unofficial voice of modern Irish history' EconomistWhen President of the Irish Republic Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he remarked to Lord Birkenhead, 'I may have signed my actual death warrant.' In August 1922 at... -
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... -
A Scandalous Life: The Biography of Jane Digby Mary S. Lovell 9781857024692
RRP: £14.99£9.96The biography of Jane Digby, an 'enthralling tale of a nineteenth-century beauty whose heart - and hormones - ruled her head.' Harpers and Queen A celebrated aristocratic beauty, Jane Digby married Lord Ellenborough at seventeen. Their divorce... -
Classified!: The Adventures of a Molehunter by Nigel West 9781785908538
RRP: £25.00£18.11Over 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... -
Politics: Between the Extremes by Nick Clegg
RRP: £10.99£7.99'Compelling' Ian McEwan 'Engrossing' Alan Johnson 'Essential' Robert Peston *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Politics has changed. For decades Britain was divided between Left and Right but united in its belief in a two-party state. Now, with... -
Scotland: The Autobiography: 2,000 Years of Scottish History by Those Who Saw it Happen by Rosemary Goring
RRP: £12.99£9.34DISCOVER 2,000 YEARS OF SCOTTISH HISTORY TOLD BY THOSE WHO LIVED IT - FROM THE ROMAN INVASION TO THE SNP PARLIAMENTARY VICTORY IN 2007.Featuring writing from Tacitus, Mary Queen of Scots, Oliver Cromwell, David Livingston and Billy Connolly... -
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 3) Robert A Caro 9781847926135
RRP: £35.00£25.68'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... -
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures Of Stanley And Livingstone by Martin Dugard
RRP: £12.99£9.34In 1866 Britain's foremost explorer, Dr David Livingstone, went in search of the answer to an age-old geographical riddle: where was the source of the Nile? Livingstone set out with a large team, on a course that would lead through unmapped, seemingly... -
Sir Francis Drake by John Sugden
RRP: £12.99£9.34How well do you know the life of one of Britain's great maritime heroes? Discover the truth behind a man who remains a legendary figure of history more than four hundred years after his death.Sir Francis Drake's career is one of the most colourful on...