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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro 9780394720241
£20.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Francis Parkman Prize 1975 and Pulitzer Prize 1975.Book InformationISBN 9780394720241Author Robert A. CaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 1344Imprint Random House USA... -
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
RRP: £35.00£25.29THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.'Gorgeously written, humorous, compelling, life affirming' Justin Webb, Mail on SundayIn... -
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West by Catherine Belton
RRP: £10.99£7.50THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'An outstanding expose of Putin and his criminal pals ... [A] long-awaited, must read book' SUNDAY TIMES 'Books about modern Russia abound ... Belton has surpassed them all. Her much-awaited book is the... -
The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon Shuster 9780008599171
RRP: £22.00£14.31'This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is the Zelensky book we've been waiting for' CATHERINE BELTON 'An elegant... -
White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port by Kate Storey
RRP: £20.00£13.26The intimate, multi-generational story of the Kennedy family as seen through their Hyannis Port compound on Cape Cod-the iconic place where they've celebrated, mourned, and forged the closest of bonds-based on more than a hundred in-depth interviews by a... -
The Prime Ministers: Winner of the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2020 by Iain Dale
RRP: £14.99£9.57**Winner of the 2020 PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS for Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian**A Times Political Book of the Year'An entertaining, thorough and informative canter through the characters and stories of prime ministers past.' - New... -
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 4) by Robert A. Caro
RRP: £30.00£21.35Hailed as 'the greatest biography of our era' (The Times) this is the fourth part of Robert Caro's multi-award-winning best-selling work on American President Lyndon Johnson.The Passage of Power, 'the series' crowning volume' (Economist), spans the years... -
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman 9780008470180
RRP: £25.00£17.43*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* 'A political epic' - Guardian ... -
There Once is a Queen by Michael Morpurgo
RRP: £12.99£8.73"There once is a Queen ever constant to her people..." From the Nation's Favourite Storyteller Sir Michael Morpurgo comes a poetic celebration of our Queen and longest... -
The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan by Owen Bennett-Jones
RRP: £11.99£10.87A major new investigation into the Bhutto family, examining their influence in Pakistan from the colonial era to the present day "Students of geopolitics and South Asia will find this a valuable book."-Kirkus Reviews "Fluently written, impeccably... -
Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump: The brilliant New York Times bestseller by Rick Reilly
RRP: £12.99£8.43SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR. FROM THE JUDGES:'Rick Reilly lets Donald's Trump relationship with his favourite sport speak for itself. Commander in Cheat is full of astonishing 'you could not make it up' detail delivered... -
Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny by Con Coughlin
RRP: £25.00£16.13'Important, compelling, and detailed . . . a superb analysis of the West's policy missteps and the tragic consequences of them.' - General David PetraeusIn Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny, Con Coughlin, veteran commentator on war in the Middle East and... -
Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump
RRP: £12.99£9.34______________________________THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER FROM THE 45th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES'I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: If you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.' - Donald J. TrumpHere is... -
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
RRP: £14.99£11.35The bestselling and prize-winning study of one of the most legendary American Presidents in history, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin is the book that inspired Barack Obama in his presidency.When Barack Obama was asked which book he could not live... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Three: Herself Alone by Charles Moore
RRP: £18.99£14.01The final part of Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister, 'One of the great biographical achievements of our times' (Sunday Times)A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, IRISH TIMES, NEW... -
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
RRP: £10.99£7.57An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young man asking big questions about identity and belonging. The son of a Black African father and a white American... -
The Twelve Caesars by Robert Graves
RRP: £10.99£8.02'Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tempted creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within' GORE VIDALAs private secretary to the... -
The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast by Goalhanger Podcasts 9781526667694
RRP: £18.99£12.48Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys - there's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past - from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to... -
Pine Forest by Author to be revealed
RRP: £20.00£14.69THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Landslide cuts deeper than any previous book about this president, indeed about any president' The Times'First there was Fire and Fury, then there was Siege, now there is Landslide. The third is the best of the three ... -
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
RRP: £15.99£12.01You've seen the show, you've sung the songs, now read the full story of America's most misunderstood founding father. 'I was swept up by the story. I thought it 'out-Dickens' Dickens in the unlikeliness of this man's rise from his humble beginnings in... -
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
RRP: £10.99£7.50THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were injecting adrenaline-soaked courage directly into the British people ... Larson tells the story of how that feat was accomplished ..... -
Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw
RRP: £19.99£16.68Ian Kershaw's Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris charts the rise of Adolf Hitler, from a bizarre misfit in a Viennese dosshouse, to dictatorial leadership.With extraordinary skill and vividness, drawing on a huge range of sources, Kershaw recreates the world which... -
Obama: An Intimate Portrait: The Historic Presidency in Photographs by Pete Souza
RRP: £40.00£30.79'Precious historical documents . . . vividly human and often funny . . . these images tell the true story of a presidency that words have failed' Jonathan Jones, Guardian The definitive visual biography of Barack Obama's historic presidency, captured in... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Three: Herself Alone by Charles Moore 9780241324745
RRP: £35.00£25.89Shortlisted for the 2020 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGThe final part of Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister, 'One of the great biographical achievements of our times' (Sunday Times)A TIMES,... -
Out of the Blue: The inside story on Liz Truss and her astonishing rise to power by Harry Cole
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... -
Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee: Winner of the Orwell Prize by John Bew
RRP: £14.99£9.97**WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING****WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY***Book of the year: The Times, Sunday Times, New Statesman, Spectator, Evening Standard*'Outstanding . . . We still live in the society... -
My Husband and I: The Inside Story of the Royal Marriage by Ingrid Seward
RRP: £9.99£6.66For more than 70 years, the marriage of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip was at the centre of the nation's life. Now, in My Husband and I, Ingrid Seward reveals the real story of their loving and enduring relationship. When a young Princess Elizabeth... -
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 Path to Power by Margaret Thatcher
RRP: £19.99£13.33The extraordinary account of Margaret Thatcher's life up to her dramatic election as the first woman Prime Minister of England in 1979. Margaret Thatcher was the towering figure of late-twentieth-century British politics. This is the story of... -
A Journey by Tony Blair
RRP: £16.99£12.28In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end eighteen years of Conservative government. He remains the only living Labour leader to have won a general election.He has been one of the most dynamic... -
Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump by Michael Cohen
RRP: £22.00£14.45A #1 New York Times Bestseller! "I read it cover-to-cover. I did not intend to, but I started at the beginning and didn't put it down until it was over."-Rachel Maddow, MSNBCThis book almost didn't see the light of day as government officials tried to... -
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... -
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman by Ben Hubbard
RRP: £12.99£9.34A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020 The gripping, untold story of how Saudi Arabia's secretive and... -
Hitler by Ian Kershaw
RRP: £18.99£14.01Now available in a single, abridged paperback, Ian Kershaw's Hitler is the definitive biography of the Nazi leader. Ian Kershaw's two volume biography, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis, was greeted with universal acclaim as the... -
Lunch with the FT: 52 Classic Interviews by Lionel Barber
RRP: £14.99£10.95From the very first mouthful, 'Lunch with the FT' was destined to become a permanent fixture in the Financial Times.One thousand lunches later, the FT's weekly interview has become an institution. From film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers,... -
Putin by Philip Short
RRP: £30.00£20.77**A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**'Anyone wanting to learn more about Putin's personality, ideas, power...should read this outstanding biography' Ian Kershaw, author of Personality and PowerThis book is essential reading for anyone who wants to... -
Churchill: An Extraordinary Life by Sarah Gristwood
RRP: £16.99£11.87A short illustrated life of one of Britain's most revered people of all time, covering all periods of his life but always returning to his literal and spiritual home, Chartwell. Winston Churchill is one of the best-known and most revered... -
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump
RRP: £20.00£12.86In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how... -
A Ladybird Book About Donald Trump by Jason Hazeley
RRP: £7.99£6.04As we prepare to wave the President out of the White House, commemorate the past four years with this charming introduction to his very important life and his many, many friends - the perfect stocking filler this Christmas._________'When Donald won the... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One: Not For Turning by Charles Moore
RRP: £18.99£14.01Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era. Charles Moore's biography...