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For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink by Sarah Rose
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter - and industrial spy. In 1848, the East India Company engaged him to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China - territory... -
Gorgias by Plato 9780140449044
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.63Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates perennial questions about the nature of government and those who aspire to public office. Are high moral... -
The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle 9780140444315
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis of Athens' political machinery between the seventh and fourth centuries BC, which stands as a... -
Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now?: A Quick Guide to Britain's Biggest Issue by Ian Dunt 9780995497825
Booksplease Price: €10.36'Admirably brief and necessarily brutal... Highly recommended.' - NICK COHEN, THE SPECTATOR 'Compact and easily digestible. I'd encourage anyone who is confused, fascinated or frustrated by Brexit... -
Selected Political Speeches by Cicero
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Amid the corruption and power struggles of the collapse of the Roman Republic, Cicero (106-43BC) produced some of the most stirring and eloquent speeches in history. A statesman and lawyer, he was... -
The Federalist Papers by James Madison
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.51Written at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, The Federalist Papers had the immediate pratical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted... -
Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil... -
Memoirs of My Life by Edward Gibbon
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64Edward Gibbon was one of the world's greatest historians and a towering figure of his age. When he died in 1794 he left behind the unfinished drafts of his Memoirs, which were posthumously edited by... -
Decision Points George W. Bush 9780753539965
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.53Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America's 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining... -
Lawless World: Making and Breaking Global Rules by Philippe Sands
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46International lawyer Philippe Sands has a unique insider's view of the elites who govern our lives. His sensational revelations in Lawless World changed the political agenda overnight, forcing Tony... -
Family and Kinship in East London by Michael Young
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Although housing in Bethnal Green was often appalling, a complex network of relatives - families of three generations held together by the powerful mother-daughter bond at the centre - was always... -
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent by Jason Wilson 9780140445534
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.24One of the greatest nineteenth-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won... -
Greenmantle by John Buchan 9780141035840
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan's heroes:... -
1776: America and Britain at War by David McCullough
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79America's most acclaimed historian presents the intricate story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. 1776 tells two gripping stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate... -
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by Jonah Goldberg
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Today the word 'fascist' is usually an insult aimed at those on the right, from neocons to big business. But what does it really mean? What if the true heirs to fascism were actually those who... -
Irish: The Remarkable Saga of a Nation and a City by John Burrowes
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.48Irish is the story of the mass migration from Ireland to Glasgow that took place in the wake of the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century. It is an epic account of the coming together of a... -
Diaries Volume Two: Power and the People by Alastair Campbell
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.54Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997. This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details... -
The German Trauma: Experiences and Reflections 1938-2001 by Gitta Sereny
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51Gitta Sereny is one of the world's most respected journalists and historians. This book gathers together the best of her writing on Germany from over sixty years. It amounts to an extraordinary... -
The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography by Gregor von Rezzori 9780141192734
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64The Snows of Yesteryear (1989) is Gregor von Rezzori's haunting evocation of his childhood in Czernowitz, in present-day Ukraine. Growing up after the First World War, Rezzori portrays a twilit world... -
Carrington: An Honourable Man by Christopher Lee
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.31"One of the country's greatest post-war statesmen" Sir John MajorLord Carrington was Margaret Thatcher's Foreign Secretary when the Argentinians invaded the Falklands in 1982. Absent in Israel on the... -
Wagner and Philosophy by Bryan Magee
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Wagner was one of the few major composers who studied philosophy seriously. Bryan Magee places the composer's artistic development in the context of the philosophy of his age, and gives us the first... -
Stalin and His Hangmen: An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him by Donald Rayfield
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €16.48Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released archival material, Donald Rayfield gives us a fuller and more colourful... -
Brexit Without The Bullshit: The Facts on Food, Jobs, Schools, and the NHS by Gavin Esler 9781912454389
Booksplease Price: €25.79'Punchy, pithy and short.' - POLLY TOYNBEE, GUARDIAN COLUMNIST 'In an ideal world every citizen would read this essential book, and think hard.' - PROFESSOR AC GRAYLING, ACADEMIC The... -
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Winston Churchill's Famous Speeches by Winston Churchill
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time - phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business as usual', 'the few', and 'summit meeting' passed quickly into everyday use - Winston Churchill used... -
Guys and Dolls: and Other Stories by Damon Runyon
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.46Slick, upbeat and funny, these stories inspired the popular musical and film Guys and Dolls.'Of all the high players this country ever sees, there is no doubt but that the guy they call the Sky is... -
Walk the Lines: The London Underground, Overground by Mark Mason
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.48The only way to truly discover a city, they say, is on foot. Taking this to extremes, Mark Mason sets out to walk the entire length of the London Underground - overground - passing every station on... -
No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70*Ten years on from 9/11, much of the Muslim faith remains largely unknown and misunderstood in the West. *While there have been a number of successful books on the topic of Islamic history - from... -
The Presidents: The Transformation of the American Presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama by Stephen R. Graubard
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.46In this magisterial examination of the Presidency over the course of the 20th Century, the author explores the history of the world's greatest elective office and the role each incumbent has played... -
Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now?: A Quick Guide to Britain's Biggest Issue by Ian Dunt 9780995497856
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €3.99'Admirably brief and necessarily brutal... Highly recommended.' - NICK COHEN, THE SPECTATOR 'Compact and easily digestible. I'd encourage anyone who is confused, fascinated or frustrated by Brexit... -
The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples by David Gilmour
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.20The book that explains the whole extraordinary course of Italian history like no other in English The Pursuit of Italy traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable... -
The War Against the BBC: How an Unprecedented Combination of Hostile Forces Is Destroying Britain's Greatest Cultural Institution... And Why You Should Care by Patrick Barwise
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98There's a war on against the BBC. It is under threat as never before. And if we lose it, we won't get it back.The BBC is our most important cultural institution, our best-value entertainment... -
The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91 by Anton Chekhov
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98The Steppe and Other Stories 1887-91 is a collection that reveals Anton Chekhov's evolution from a novice writer to a master of short narrative form. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by... -
How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide by George Mikes 9780140081794
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70George Mikes has written many successful books on a variety of interesting subjects, but one so successful as those on the subject most central to his own experience: his adopted country. The first... -
How They Broke Britain by James O'Brien 9780753560341
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €15.20THE REVEALING, DEFINING ACCOUNT OF THE DARK NETWORK THAT BROKE OUR COUNTRY.'An exceptional broadcaster' - Guardian | 'Consistently, forensically, brilliant' - Emily MaitlisSomething has gone really... -
A Journey by Tony Blair
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.52In 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... -
Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power by Anna Merlan
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70_______'Timely and troubling' Evening Standard'A necessary book' David Aaronovitch'Frequently jaw-dropping' Huffington PostFrom UFOs to the New World Order, the inside story of how conspiracy... -
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II by Keith Lowe
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51Keith Lowe's Savage Continent is an awe-inspiring portrait of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII.The end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners... -
Brexit and Ireland: The Dangers, the Opportunities, and the Inside Story of the Irish Response by Tony Connelly
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66Brexit represents potentially the single greatest economic and foreign-policy challenge to the Irish state since the Second World War. There is hardly any area of Irish life that won't be affected... -
The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict by Mark Leonard
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26A FINANCIAL TIMES ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Compulsively readable... An essential course in geopolitical self-help' - Adam Tooze'Full of fresh - and often surprising - ideas' - Niall Ferguson... -
Your Call: What My Listeners Say and Why We Should Take Note by Jeremy Vine
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81'Full of glorious examples of caller wisdom [with] laugh-out-loud anecdotes' Allison Pearson, Sunday TelegraphJeremy Vine has been presenting his BBC Radio 2 show since 2003 - it now attracts more...