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First Confession: A Sort of Memoir by Chris Patten
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Most politicians write autobiographies to 'set the record straight'. This is a different sort of memoir. Following his life as a self-confessed 'wet European' from parliament to Hong Kong and beyond,... -
Black Hat Go: Go Programming For Hackers and Pentesters by Chris Patten
RRP: $60.29Booksplease Price: $38.44In Black Hat Go, you'll learn how to write powerful and effective penetration testing tools in Go, a language revered for its speed and scalability. Start off with an introduction to Go fundamentals... -
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The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong by Jonathan Dimbleby 9780316640183 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.15Booksplease Price: $3.46In July 1997, Hong Kong will ceased to be a British colony and reverted to the People's Republic of China. Five million people lost their status as British subjects and became citizens of a Special... -
East and West by Christopher Patten 9780330373081
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63In June of 1997, over a century and a half of British rule in Hong Kong came to an end. Chris Patten writes about his experiences as the last governor of the colony of Hong Kong. He explains why he... -
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.92After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris. Norris is a man of contradictions; lavish but heavily in... -
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Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties by Peter Hennessy 9780141004099 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $3.15Winner of the Orwell Prize The second part of Peter Hennessy's celebrated Post-War Trilogy, Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties captures Britain in an extraordinary decade, emerging from the... -
Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.66Winner of the Orwell Prize The second part of Peter Hennessy's celebrated Post-War Trilogy, Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties captures Britain in an extraordinary decade, emerging from the... -
Bomber County by Daniel Swift 9780141036991
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71One night in June 1943 James Swift, along with the Lancaster bomber he piloted, vanished. In Bomber County, his grandson Daniel seeks to discover what happened. At the same time he tries to... -
Life and Afterlife in Ancient China by Jessica Rawson
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $37.39A Prospect Book of the YearAn epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombsThe three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in... -
Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food by Fuchsia Dunlop 9780141997216
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08WINNER OF THE FORTNUM AND MASON FOOD BOOK AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE ANDRE SIMON AWARD'A brilliant, passionate and spellbinding tour de force' Claudia RodenThe epic tale of the world's most... -
Hong Kong Then and Now (R) by Vaughan Grylls 9781910904084
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.09Hong Kong was first captured on camera when the British arrived to lay claim to its 'fragrant harbour' in 1841. Its fascinating history has been documented through photography ever since - from its... -
Mao Jonathan Spence 9780753810712
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75'One of the greatest historians of China' Chris Patten'Balanced, reliable and drawing on the most up-to-date research ... Spence eschews any overall judgement. He lets the facts speak for themselves... -
Legionnaire by Simon Murray
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'One of the greatest adventure stories in years.' - Chris Patten 'The drama, excitement and colour of a good guts-and-glory thriller.' - Dr. Henry Kissinger The French Foreign Legion - mysterious,... -
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, Third Edition by Jonathan Fenby
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.27In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern China shows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years... -
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jon Halliday
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.47The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, historian Jon Halliday.Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many... -
The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914 by Robert Bickers
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the... -
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Peacemakers Six Months that Changed The World by Margaret MacMillan 9780719562372 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $5.09Between January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the leaders of the three great... -
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Company Commander by Russell Lewis 9780753540312 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $3.23In 2008 Major Russell Lewis commanded a company of two hundred soldiers from the British Army's legendary Parachute Regiment on a six-month tour in the most dangerous part of Afghanistan.Company... -
The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China by Michael Sheridan 9781035413515
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China' - Chris Patten, last governor of Hong KongThe Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi Jinping, the man who... -
Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.39NEW AND UPDATED EDITIONA magisterial and profoundly perceptive survey of Britain's post-war role on the global stage, from Suez to Brexit. 'The fullest long-run political and diplomatic narrative... -
Mr. China Tim Clissold 9781849013079
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The incredible story of a Wall Street banker who went to China with $400,000,000 and learned the hard way how (not) to do business there . . . In the early nineties, China finally opened for business... -
The Economist: Megachange: The world in 2050 Daniel Franklin 9781846685859
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.59In 2050 there will be 9.3 billion people alive - compared with 7 billion today - and the number will still be rising. The population aged over sixty-five will have more than doubled, to more than 16... -
Vampire State: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy Ian Williams 9781780278377
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.67This is the terrifying story of China's vampire economy. State capitalism. Socialism with Chinese characteristics. A socialist market economy. There have been numerous descriptions of the Chinese... -
Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won The War Jonathan Dimbleby 9780241993712
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJonathan Dimbleby's previous books include the highly acclaimed Second World War histories The Battle of... -
Megatech: Technology in 2050 by Daniel Franklin
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Technology moves fast - so where will it have taken us by 2050? How will it affect the way we live? And how far are we willing to let it go? In Megatech, distinguished scientists, industry leaders,... -
Pinkoes and Traitors: The BBC and the nation, 1974-1987 by Jean Seaton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41This compelling account of a turbulent period in the history of the BBC opens at a time of national decline under the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, and ends during Margaret... -
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth 9780141393421
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 'Sublime ... it inspires a kind of evangelical cult passion among its devotees' Simon Schama'Roth is Austria's Chekhov' William Boyd Strauss's Radetzky March,... -
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.86Richard McGregor's The Party has been established as the book on China and its political leadership. It is indispensable to understanding what may soon become the most powerful country on earth, and... -
Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip by Peter Hessler
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08After living in China for five years, and learning the language, Peter Hessler decided to undertake an even more complicated endeavor: he acquired his Chinese driving licence. An eye-opening... -
What are Universities For? by Stefan Collini
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpose and scepticism about their value. What Are... -
The New English Table: 200 recipes from the queen of thrifty, inventive cooking by Rose Prince
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.21Building upon the ever-more-popular principles of The New English Kitchen and The Savvy Shopper, Rose Prince's new book celebrates good British food and shows how to make the most of ingredients and... -
Vampire State: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy Ian Williams 9781780279633
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37This is the terrifying story of China's vampire economy. State capitalism. Socialism with Chinese characteristics. A socialist market economy. There have been numerous descriptions of the Chinese... -
Auntie's War: The BBC during the Second World War by Edward Stourton
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29"An engaging, balanced and thoroughly researched history. It is often a moving and amusing tale containing plenty of mavericks and colourful episodes." (Lawrence James, The Times)Auntie's War is a... -
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER - REISSUED WITH A NEW FOREWORD FOR THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY 'Magnificent, vivid, moving, superb' Max Hastings, Sunday Times ______________This is the closest you will ever get... -
Beijing Coma Ma Jian 9780099481348
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11REPUBLISHED ON THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF THE TIANANMEN MASSACRE, WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR AND A NEW COVER BY AI WEIWEIBeijing Coma is Ma Jian's masterpiece. Spiked with dark wit, poetic... -
Every Breath You Take: China's New Tyranny by Ian Williams
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $15.65'one of the year's most exciting releases' - The Herald China is building the world's first digital totalitarian state, a system of hitherto unimaginable social and political control. Internet... -
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West by Catherine Belton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84THE 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... -
Prime Movers: The real stories of twelve great thinkers from Pericles to Gandhi by Ferdinand Mount 9781471156014
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Ferdinand Mount has been fascinated by the great thinkers and politicians who have shaped human history over the past two millennia In this fascinating, and provocative book, he examines the... -
Divided Nations: Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it by Ian Goldin 9780199689033
RRP: $16.74Booksplease Price: $13.44With rapid globalization, the world is more deeply interconnected than ever before. While this has its advantages, it also brings with it systemic risks that are only just being identified and... -
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Auntie's War: The BBC during the Second World War by Edward Stourton 9781784160791 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.28"An engaging, balanced and thoroughly researched history. It is often a moving and amusing tale containing plenty of mavericks and colourful episodes." (Lawrence James, The Times)Auntie's War is a...