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England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country – and How to Set Them Straight by Tom Baldwin 9781526646231
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $34.90'Challenging, forensic, compelling' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Pure centrist erotica. A myth-busting chronicle of bad-tempered, Brexit-riven England' SUNDAY TIMES 'Wonderfully evocative. Too honest, too... -
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In the Midst of Life by Jennifer Worth 9780753827529 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $6.30The last collection of true-life nursing stories from the No.1 bestselling author of the CALL THE MIDWIFE series, soon to be a major BBC TV series.Jennifer Worth's bestselling memoirs of her time as... -
Sweet and Bitter Island: A History of the British in Cyprus by Tabitha Morgan 9781784533052
Booksplease Price: $55.86On a sweltering day in July, 1878 the men of the 42nd Royal Highlanders - the Black Watch - waded ashore at Larnaca Bay to begin the British occupation of Cyprus. Today, Britons on sunbeds colonise... -
The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour by Peter Mandelson 9780007395309
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $25.66The number one bestselling memoir of one of New Labour's three founding architects, now with a revealing new chapter updating this paperback edition. Peter Mandelson is one of the most... -
Credible and True: The Political and Personal Memoir of K. Harvey Proctor by Harvey Proctor 9781785900013
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $33.43Early in the morning of 4 March 2015, a fierce knock at the door heralded the start of a new chapter in Harvey Proctor's almost continuous relationship with the police and media, when officers from... -
Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK by Simon Kuper
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $12.94Now with a new chapter on the end of the chumocracy era - and Oxford's upcoming elite for 2050. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 Power. Privilege. Parties. It's a very... -
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Chums: How a tiny group of Oxford Tories took over Britain by Simon Kuper 9781788167383 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $21.92THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 Power. Privilege. Parties. It's a very small world at the top. 'Brilliant ... traces Brexit back to the debating chambers of the Oxford... -
Disraeli: or, The Two Lives by Rt. Hon Lord Douglas Hurd
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Benjamin Disraeli was the most gifted parliamentarian of the nineteenth century and a superb orator, writer and wit - but how much do we really know about the man behind the words?'As Douglas Hurd... -
Old Testament Stories with a Freudian Twist Leo Abse 9781855758322
RRP: $79.78Booksplease Price: $76.19This collection of Leo Abse's last essays are writings that he was working on from 2006 up to and during his final illness. They take as their starting point stories from the Old Testament. For Abse,... -
Beta Male by Iain Hollingshead
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.64Sam Hunt is a confused modern male in his very late twenties. A work-shy, commitment-phobic would-be actor, he is beginning to worry that turning thirty might just be the last straw. Flatmate Alan,... -
The Victorians: Twelve Titans who Forged Britain by Jacob Rees-Mogg
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $31.98They built a nation. Now it's our turn.Many associate the Victorian era with austere social attitudes and filthy factories. But in this bold and provocative book, Jacob Rees-Mogg -- leading Tory MP... -
Hen, Mistress of Mayhem: A Portrait of Henrietta Moraes Darren Coffield 9781837051090
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.30Henrietta Moraes first discovered Soho when she was eighteen - or so she tells us. Her favourite sport was social climbing (heaven knows she enjoyed the exercise) and she was good at it, going to all... -
Misc Delayed Gratification 9781526675231
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54Misc. will spark a million spirited pub and dinner table conversations, as well as prompting overly long stays and irrepressible guffaws in toilets across the globe. Designed to be dipped into and... -
Live From Downing Street by Nick Robinson 9780857500007
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12The relationship between politicians and broadcasters has always been fraught with tension. Today, every word and act of those who wield power is instantly broadcast and dissected on 24-hour rolling... -
Land Healer: How Farming Can Save Britain's Countryside Jake Fiennes 9781785947315
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.48'Jake Fiennes is changing the face of farming in Britain... a revolutionising force' Isabella TreeOur relationship with our land is broken: we must heal it.Jake Fiennes is on a mission to change the... -
Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $18.12Beautifully produced, with a Foreword by Dame Ellen MacArthur, specially commissioned maps and atmospheric line drawings, this is a classic edition of one of the greatest sea adventures of all time. ... -
Haywire: A Political History of Britain since 2000 by Andrew Hindmoor 9780241651711
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $55.48'In this fascinating book, Andrew Hindmoor makes sense of the tangled past we have just lived through ... sprinkling wit, insight and analytical verve over his energetic narrative. In contemporary... -
Belle Nash and the Bath Circus by William Keeling
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $26.21At the end of his last adventure (Belle Nash and the Bath Souffle), Belle Nash was banished for four years to the island of Grenada. It is now 1835, and Belle has returned to Bath, glad to be back... -
Whitaker's 2017 by 9781472909336
Booksplease Price: $17.05First published in 1868, Whitaker's is the ultimate single-volume reference source - packed with thousands of facts, figures, overviews and statistics relating to the UK and the world. Whitaker's... -
Don’t Ask Me About My Dad: An Inspiring True Story of a Scared Little Boy with a Dark Secret by Tom Mitchelson
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01Growing up with him was like being in my own war zone, living in perpetual fear of when the bombs would fall. I was terrified of becoming him, and... -
Boris Johnson: The Neverending Tory: The Adventure Where You Take Back Control Iain Hollingshead 9781787636927
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73Now that Boris Johnson has left Downing Street to spend more time with his families, you can celebrate/lament his departure with this multiple-choice adventure where you take back control. Packed... -
Gay Shame: The Rise of Gender Ideology and the New Homophobia by Gareth Roberts 9781800752832
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.31'Boisterous and uncompromising ... An important argument' The Times Only a few years ago, it seemed that the fight for gay rights was won in the UK: legal equality was achieved, prejudice rapidly... -
Living and Loving in the Age of AIDS: A memoir Derek Frost 9781786784964
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54This is the tale of a devastating pandemic, of lives cut painfully short - it's also a love story. Derek, a distinguished designer, and J, a pioneering entrepreneur and creator of Heaven, the... -
The Bi-sexuality of Daniel Defoe: A Psychoanalytic Survey of the Man and His Works Leo Abse 9781855754560
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $104.77Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) is known to many only by his first novel, "Robinson Crusoe", astonishingly written as he approached his sixtieth year. Acknowledged as the first of English novelists, he has... -
The Light of Day: The first man to come out at the dawn of gay liberation by Christopher Stephens 9781035421534
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $34.19In June 1960, several British newspapers received a letter so shocking some thought it was a hoax. Beginning 'Sir, we are homosexuals . . ', it was signed by Roger Butler and two others. Publishing... -
True Blue: Strange Tales from a Tory Nation by Chris Horrie 9780007293704
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $18.23Whatever happened to middle England? Two of our funniest writers set out on a journey through conservative country - with hilarious results. The Women's Institute. Polo matches. The Duke... -
Gay Shame: The Rise of Gender Ideology and the New Homophobia Gareth Roberts 9781800752856
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'Boisterous and uncompromising ... An important argument' The Times Only a few years ago, it seemed that the fight for gay rights was won in the UK: legal equality was achieved, prejudice rapidly... -
The Last Slave Market: Dr John Kirk and the Struggle to End the East African Slave Trade Alastair Hazell 9781780336572
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45John Kirk was the only companion of explorer David Livingstone to emerge untainted from the disastrous, tragic expedition up the Zambezi river between 1859 and 1863. Three years later, Kirk returned... -
Good Chaps: How Corrupt Politicians Broke Our Law and Institutions - And What We Can Do About It by Simon Kuper 9781805221227
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73'At a time when democracy feels threatened, Simon Kuper is fighting hard for a better vision of politics - he is brutally honest about our problems but never loses hope that we can build a better... -
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century Simon Kuper 9781800816503
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12'Kuper is a shrewd observer in this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a... -
Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 by Sir Rodric Braithwaite
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87Russia's invasion of Afghanistan, told by a former British Ambassador Twenty-five years ago, when the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan after a gruelling nine-year occupation, they left a legacy... -
Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations by Antony Jay
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.51The power of words in politics is well known and the fourth edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations brings together both words of wisdom and things that might have been better left... -
Westminster: A Biography: From Earliest Times to the Present by Robert Shepherd
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $90.26This is the remarkable story of Westminster, a royal capital that became the birthplace of parliamentary government and the centre of a world power. It is about the place, its people and their close... -
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Don't Ask Me About My Dad by Tom Mitchelson 9780008491413 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $9.70Growing up with him was like being in my own war zone, living in perpetual fear of when the bombs would fall. I was terrified of becoming him, and in moments I... -
Queens of Bohemia: And Other Miss-Fits by Darren Coffield 9781837050031
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.68Our story begins in 1920s London, at a time when women's rights were surging after the long battle for suffrage and nightclubs emerged as spaces where single women could socialise unchaperoned. This... -
The End of the World Is Flat by Simon Edge
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.81Mel Winterbourne's modest map-making charity, the Orange Peel Foundation, has achieved all its aims and she's ready to shut it down. But glamorous tech billionaire Joey Talavera has other ideas. He... -
Wild Peaks: A Journey on Foot Through England’s First National Park Tom Chesshyre 9780008733469
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.98A journey through Britain's first National Park on its 75th anniversary On a spring day in 1932, 400 disgruntled ramblers embarked on a 'mass trespass' of Kinder... -
Closet Queens: Some 20th Century British Politicians by Michael Bloch
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Closet Queens is a fascinating study of gay men in twentieth century British politics, from Lord Rosebery and Lord Beauchamp in Edwardian times to Michael Portillo and Peter Mandelson in our own era... -
Spain: The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country by Michael Reid 9780300278682
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $22.81An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond "Comprehensive and engaging."-Gideon Rachman, Financial Times Spain's transition to democracy... -
A Road to Extinction: Can Palaeolithic Africans survive in the Andaman Islands? by Jonathan Lawley 9781838172015
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $26.27The Jarawa, one of the oldest tribes of human beings in the world, may go extinct because of a road that runs through pristine forests in the Indian-administered Andaman Islands, in the Bay of...