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My Hair is Pink Under this Veil by Rabina Khan
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97"In 2015, when I ran to be mayor in Tower Hamlets, a smartly dressed middle-class man saw me wearing a headscarf and asked me what colour my hair was underneath it. I gave him a big smile. 'Pink,' I... -
The Winding Stair by Jesse Norman
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.14Of all revenge, the greatest is this: that which cometh suddenly, without expectation. AMBITION REVENGE Power is shifting. Queen Elizabeth I is dying, James waiting to become King. Everywhere,... -
Bluffocracy by James Ball
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $10.45Britain is run by people who are bluffing. At the top of our government, our media, the civil service and business sit men - it's usually men - whose core skill is talking fast, writing well, and... -
Nearly Reach the Sky: A Farwell to Upton Park by Brian Williams 9781849548052
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.12Success, failure, heroism, stupidity, talent, skulduggery - Upton Park has seen it all. If supporting his club for fifty years has taught Brian Williams one thing it's that football fans defi nitely... -
Call Me Dave: The Unauthorised Biography of David Cameron by Isabel Oakeshott 9781785900228
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.25After a decade as Conservative Party leader and six years as Prime Minister, he remains an enigma to those outside his exclusive inner circle.Now, in the wake of his dramatic resignation following... -
Last Trains: Dr Beeching and the Death of Rural England by Charles Loft 9781785908064
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20During the course of the 1950s England lost confidence in its rulers and convinced itself it must modernise. The failing steam-powered local railways, run by Colonel Blimp, symbolised everything that... -
Massive: The Miracle of Prague - The story of West Ham's Europa Conference League winning season by Pete May 9781785908521
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Charting West Ham's tumultuous 2022-23 season and epic triumph in the Europa Conference League final, this is the story of how the Hammers defied the odds to win their first trophy in forty-three... -
Vince: The Autobiography of Vince Hilaire by Vince Hilaire 9781785903625
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.12A cult football figure, Vince Hilaire's career spanned over 600 games and took in spells at Crystal Palace, Portsmouth, Leeds United and Stoke City, playing in every professional division as well as... -
Half In, Half Out: Prime Ministers on Europe by Andrew Adonis 9781785904349
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $18.36The decades since the end of the Second World War have seen massive change sweep across Britain's social, cultural and political landscape. Yet throughout this period, one thing has remained constant... -
Outside In by Peter Hain 9781849544108
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.12Peter Hain has lived an extraordinary life. Formerly an 'outsider' he became an 'insider', one of the last Labour government's most effective ministers. He held an array of glittering posts in the... -
The Politicos Guide to the New House of Commons 2015: Profiles of the New MPS and Analysis of the 2015 General Election by Tim Carr 9781849549233
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $20.15In the wake of the most unprecedented election result in recent memory, the question on everyone's lips is: what just happened to the UK's political landscape - and why? And who are the 182 new faces... -
Resistance: European Resistance to the Nazis, 1940-1945 by M. R. D. Foot 9781785900464
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.12"If you who read this can say, I am not under fire; I am not under torture; I am not on the run; if I hear a noise at six in the morning, I know it is a neighbour or a milkman, not the secret police;... -
Alternative: Towards a New Progressive Politics by Lisa Nandy 9781785900495
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.12The 2015 election result was a disaster for progressives in British politics, delivering a majority Conservative government at Westminster. And the outlook for the next election is not auspicious... -
Baggage of Empire: Reporting Politics and Industry in the Shadow of Imperial Decline Martin Adeney 9781785900839
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.12Born just as the British Empire was taking its last breaths, Martin Adeney was part of the 'twilight generation' caught between the imperial and postimperial ages, forced to navigate the insecurities... -
Home From Home: A West Ham Supporter's Struggle to Reach the Next Level by Brian Williams 9781785902871
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.12West Ham United, the object of an irrational affection that has dominated the life of journalist and writer Brian Williams, has moved from its old home to what was the Olympic Stadium in Stratford... -
The Lost Majority by Michael Ashcroft 9781785903335
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $10.45The 2017 general election was supposed to be a walkover for the Conservative Party - but the voters had other ideas. In The Lost Majority, Lord Ashcroft draws on his unique research to explain... -
Romanifesto: Modern Lessons from Classical Politics by Asa Bennett 9781785905193
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.74Despite the last days of Rome being around 1,500 years ago, the shadow of its empire - and what those who lived in it had to say - still looms large over modern politics. Indeed, we would not... -
Newbon, Bloody Hell: A Life in Sports Broadcasting by Gary Newbon 9781785908163
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.66Over the past fifty years, Gary Newbon has established himself as an icon of sports broadcasting. He interviewed Sir Alex Ferguson after Manchester United clinched a historic treble in 1999. He was... -
Red Dusk and the Morrow: Adventures and Investigation in Soviet Russia Paul Dukes 9781849542180
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.45Paul Dukes was sent into Russia in 1918, shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution. His role was to keep the British spy networks in place during the "Red Terror", when the Cheka secret police were... -
Equal Ever After: The fight for same-sex marriage - and how I made it happen by Lynne Featherstone 9781849549745
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.07"My story starts at the very end of the journey to equal marriage rights. I stand on the shoulders of giants..."In the future, people will find it difficult to believe that until 2014, somewhere... -
Lessons From History 2 by Alex Deane 9781785907807
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Welcome to another round of history's most absurd stories and the timeless lessons that come with them. In More Lessons from History, Alex Deane has unearthed yet more bizarre tales that you... -
Greater: Rethinking the British Idea by Penny Mordaunt 9781785906091
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.05We're used to hearing that we live in an age of unprecedented division, that the great storms that have engulfed British politics over the past ten years have driven us further apart than ever, with... -
Ernest Bevin: Labour's Churchill by Andrew Adonis 9781785905988
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.45As a statesman, Ernest Bevin is second only to Churchill in impact and legacy. Born in abject poverty to a single mother, and with virtually no formal education, Bevin went on to become the founder... -
Two Minutes to Midnight: 1953 - The Year of Living Dangerously Roger Hermiston 9781785906541
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.05January, 1953. It is eight years on from the most destructive conflict in human history and the Cold War has entered its most deadly phase. An Iron Curtain has descended across Europe, and... -
101 Ways to Win An Election by Edward Maxfield 9781785906893
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $7.12In politics, there are no prizes for second place. Luckily, seasoned campaign professionals Mark Pack and Edward Maxfield have distilled successful electoral tactics from around the globe into 101... -
The Men from Miami: American Rebels and Patriots on Both Sides of Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution by Christopher Othen 9781785906862
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.05The Men from Miami is a real-life Cold War thriller about the Americans who fought for Fidel Castro in the Cuban revolution - then switched sides to try to bring him down. This larger-than-life... -
Exceeding My Brief by Barbara Hosking 9781785904622
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97From the tragic massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, to signing the Treaty of Rome when Britain entered the Common Market, Barbara Hosking was there. This is the story of a Cornish... -
Sacre Bleu: Zidane to Mbappe - A football journey Matthew Spiro 9781785905544
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.76Remember when Zinedine Zidane lifted the World Cup in 1998? Kylian Mbappe doesn't. The gifted young forward wasn't born when the French team became world champions for the first time. But it was... -
The Corruption of Capitalism: Why rentiers thrive and work does not pay by Guy Standing 9781785906817
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Politicians, financiers and bureaucrats claim to believe in free competitive markets, yet they have built the most unfree market system ever created. In this Gilded Age, income is funnelled to the... -
Dirty Politics, Dirty Times by Michael A. Ashcroft 9781849540094
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.57This is a newly revised and updated paperback edition of the former Conservative Party Treasurer's personal account of his battle over unsubstantiated claims concerning his business affairs which... -
The Winding Stair by Jesse Norman 9781785908606
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.71WINNER OF THE 2023 PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEK Power is shifting. Queen Elizabeth I is dying, James waiting to become King. Everywhere,... -
Get It On: How the '70s Rocked Football by Jon Spurling 9781785907869
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62"Sheer joy" - Patrick Barclay "Exhilarating" - When Saturday Comes "Perfect" - Josh Widdicombe Four years after the crowning glory of 1966, and a decade after the abolition of the maximum... -
Go To War: Football on the Brink in the ’80s Jon Spurling 9781837360536
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62In the 1980s, politicians declared war on football; football supporters declared war on each other inside crumbling stadiums that resembled bomb sites and the '82 and '86 World Cups were played... -
The Bad Boys of Brexit: Tales of Mischief, Mayhem & Guerrilla Warfare in the EU Referendum Campaign by Arron Banks 9781785901829 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $3.15Arron Banks enjoyed a life of happy anonymity flogging car insurance in Bristol until he dipped his toes into the shark-infested waters of politics - and decided to plunge right in. Charging into... -
Didn't You Use to Be Chris Mullin?: Diaries 2010-2022 by Chris Mullin
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $13.98'The Queen was at the next table. I caught her staring at me during the national anthem and half-wondered whether someone had pointed me out as the author of that incident which the Mail on Sunday... -
Populism On Trial: What Happens When Trust in Law Breaks Down by Inigo Bing
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.66In recent years a new form of populism has taken hold of our politics, turning Britain into an increasingly intolerant and fractious country. As our society grapples with the threat posed by... -
Bloody Southerners: Clough and Taylor at Brighton by Spencer Vignes
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Imagine Pep Guardiola quitting Manchester City to take over at Rochdale. Or Jose Mourinho walking out on United to join Southend. That sort of thing just wouldn't happen, would it? Except that in... -
67 People I'd Like To Slap by Ian Collins
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.4567 People I'd Like to Slap is one man's journey through the labyrinthine world of human angst and annoyance. The comedy writer, broadcaster and journalist Ian Collins lists, exposes and mocks that... -
Radio Moments: 50 Years of Radio - Life on the Inside David Lloyd 9781785902727
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.69In the 1970s, '80s and '90s Britain witnessed what many in the business saw as the second great age of radio. It was a period when FM radio blossomed and local stations opened and broadcast across... -
No One Got Cracked Over the Head for No Reason: Dispatches from a Crime Reporter by Martin Brunt 9781785907784
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.66What is it about crime that we find so fascinating, even if at the same time the details are repugnant? Why exactly do we immerse ourselves in true crime podcasts and TV shows? Has this appetite for...