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Talleyrand by Duff Cooper
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Duff Cooper's classic biography charts the remarkable progress of Talleyrand; a silver-tongued master diplomat, infamous turncoat, peacekeeper and libertine. Talleyrand held high office in five... -
Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63Revolutionary practitioner, theorist, factional chief, sparkling writer, 'ladies' man' (e.g., his affair with Frieda Kahlo), icon of the Revolution, anti-Jewish Jew, philosopher of everyday life,... -
Operation Heartbreak by Duff Cooper 9781961341029
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £12.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781961341029Author Duff CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint McNally EditionsPublisher McNally... -
Operation Heartbreak by Duff Cooper 9780241799918
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A moving reimagining of the man at the heart of Operation Mincemeat‘It is a story of why men go to war, it is also a heart-wrenching love story’ Nina BawdenWilliam Maryngton has just one dream: to... -
Operation Heartbreak by Duff Cooper 9781903155417
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £15.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155417Author Duff CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher... -
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951 by Lord John Julius Norwich
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper)'This is a fabulous, jaw-dropping read' SUNDAY TIMES'Duff Cooper was as close to... -
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The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951 by John Julius Norwich 9780753821053 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £4.32The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper)'This is a fabulous, jaw-dropping read' SUNDAY TIMES'Duff Cooper was as close to... -
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa Adam Hochschild 9781035038817
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. In the late nineteenth... -
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Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca by Ferdinand Mount 9781472991980 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.21'Grimly funny and superbly written, with a twist on every page' - Hilary Mantel'Delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original' - Hadley Freeman'Wonderful, funny and wise' - Kate... -
Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca by Ferdinand Mount 9781472991980
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.70'Grimly funny and superbly written, with a twist on every page' - Hilary Mantel 'Delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original' - Hadley Freeman 'Wonderful, funny and wise' - Kate... -
Prisms of British Appeasement (HB@PB PRICE): Revisionist Reputations of John Simon, Samuel Hoare, Anthony Eden, Lord Halifax & Alfred Duff Cooper by Terrance L. Lewis
Booksplease Price: £109.14Of these five major political figures from the National Governments of the 1930s, three were condemned in a famous 1940 pamphlet as major 'Guilty Men' -- appeasers responsible for Britain's failure... -
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2022 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022 _______________ 'Rigorous, deft and entertaining ... a sparkling read' - The Spectator 'The ride is... -
Secrets of the Human Body by Dr. Chris van Tulleken
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28206 bones. One heart. Two eyes. Ten fingers. You may think you know what makes up a human. But it turns out our bodies are full of surprises. What makes tears of... -
Charlotte Bronte: A Fiery Heart by Claire Harman 9780345803412
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £19.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Duff Cooper Prize 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780345803412Author Claire HarmanFormat PaperbackPage... -
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple 9781400078332
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Duff Cooper Prize 2007.Book InformationISBN 9781400078332Author William DalrympleFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
A History of Warfare by John Keegan 9780679730828
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £13.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Duff Cooper Prize 1993.Book InformationISBN 9780679730828Author John KeeganFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 by Assistant Professor of History Mark Mazower
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £15.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Duff Cooper Prize 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780375727382Author Mark MazowerFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 by Maya Jasanoff 9781400075461
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £17.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Duff Cooper Prize 2005.Book InformationISBN 9781400075461Author Maya JasanoffFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
The Fatal Shore: The epic of Australia's founding by Robert Hughes 9780394753669
Booksplease Price: £18.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Duff Cooper Prize 1987.Book InformationISBN 9780394753669Author Robert HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Gulag: A History by Ms Anne Applebaum
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £16.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Duff Cooper Prize 2003 and Pulitzer Prize 2004. Short-listed for Mark Lynton History Prize 2004 and... -
Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps by Anne Applebaum
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless... -
British Rearmament in the Thirties: Politics and Profits by Robert Paul Shay 9780691605142
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43Here is a comprehensive analysis of rearmament under the Baldwin and Chamberlain governments. It reveals the primary determinants of events and provides important new information regarding the... -
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The Discovery of France by Graham Robb 9780330427616 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.54Illuminating, engrossing and full of surprises, The Discovery of France is a literary exploration of a country few will recognize; from maps and migration to magic, language and landscape, it's a... -
Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin Bell
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05As the nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell enjoyed an initimacy with his subject granted to few biographers. Originally published in two volumes in 1972, his acclaimed biography describes Virginia... -
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann 9780195031034
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £55.95'A truly masterful biography, wise in its completeness. If Joyce be a great writer, then this is a great book.' Sunday Times 'The greatest literary biography of the century.' Anthony Burgess, The... -
Other People's Countries: A Journey into Memory by Patrick McGuinness 9780099587033
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Winner of the 2014 Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the 2015 Welsh Book of the Year AwardShortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial PrizeShortlisted for the 2015 PEN Ackerley prize Longlisted for... -
System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life by Robert Jervis
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.96Based on more than three decades of observation, Robert Jervis concludes in this provocative book that the very foundations of many social science theories--especially those in political science--are... -
Churchill and Roosevelt, Volume 3: The Complete Correspondence - Three Volumes by Warren F. Kimball 9780691628226
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £86.93The complete correspondence of Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Including every written communication that passed between Churchill and Roosevelt during the five and a half years of their... -
The Discovery of France Graham Robb 9781035039197
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'An extraordinary journey of discovery' - Daily Telegraph'Pedals along with never a dull paragraph . . . dazzling' - The Sunday TimesIlluminating, engrossing and full of surprises, The Discovery of... -
Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life by Ian Gibson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73Known primarily as a poet and dramatist, Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca published four books before his early death in the Spanish Civil War. This biography gives an account of his family, his... -
Churchill and Roosevelt, Volume 3: The Complete Correspondence - Three Volumes by Warren F. Kimball 9780691628233
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £83.12The complete correspondence of Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Including every written communication that passed between Churchill and Roosevelt during the five and a half years of their... -
The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman by Warren F. Kimball 9780691037301
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43Here Warren Kimball explores Roosevelt's vision of the postwar world by laying out the nature and development of FDR's "war aims"--his long-range political goals. As the face of eastern Europe and... -
Palestine and the Great Powers, 1945-1948 by Michael J. Cohen 9780691610696
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £52.17Cohen examines the struggle leading to the creation of the state of Israel, placing British evacuation of Palestine in the context of Britain's postwar weakness. The author describes the policies and... -
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: Patterns, Proteins and Peace: A Life in Science by Georgina Ferry
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.64*Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Marsh Biography Award* The definitive biography of chemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, the only British woman to win a Nobel prize in the sciences to... -
The Secret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945 - 2010 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Peter Hennessy's The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst 1945-2010 is the story of secret government plans for combatting attacks on Britain, from the Cold War to modern counter-terrorism. Now... -
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68Diarmaid MacCulloch's epic, acclaimed history A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years follows the story of Christianity around the globe, from ancient Palestine to contemporary... -
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin Sue Prideaux 9780571365944
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2025SHORTLISTED... -
The Authentic Adam Smith: His Life and Ideas by James Buchan 9780393329940
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £15.30Adam Smith (1723-1790) has been adopted by neoconservatives as the ideological father of unregulated business and small government. His "invisible hand" has become a commanding shorthand for... -
Never Again: Britain 1945-1951 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Winner of the Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the NCR Award for Non-Fiction From the high politics of Court and Cabinet room to the kitchen or the queue, Peter Hennessy's Never Again: Britain 1945-51, the... -
The Prime Minister: The Office And Its Holders Since 1945 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38In The Prime Minister: the Office and its Holders since 1945, Peter Hennessy explores the formal powers of the Prime Minister and how each incumbent has made the job his or her own. Drawing on...