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The Course of My Life: The Autobiography of Edward Heath by Edward Heath 9780340708521 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $4.18Since joining the House of Commons in 1950, Edward Heath has been at the centre of British political life and was Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974. In this autobiography, he writes with candour,... -
Harold Wilson by Ben Pimlott 9780008182618
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.75Reissued with a new foreword to mark the centenary of Harold Wilson's birth, Ben Pimlott's classic biography combines scholarship and observation to illuminate the life and career of one of Britain's... -
A Different Kind Of Weather: A Memoir William Waldegrave 9781472119773
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Why did you go into politics in the first place?'A question that former Cabinet minister has found himself asked, and indeed asking himself, over the years, Lord Waldegrave's is a life lived through... -
My Revision Notes: OCR AS/A-level History: Britain 1930-1997 Mike Wells 9781471875946
RRP: $15.41Booksplease Price: $13.39Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-LevelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: Summer 2016Target success in OCR AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision;... -
False Prophets: British Leaders' Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria by Professor Nigel Ashton 9781786493286
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Fascinating' Guardian, 'Book of the Day''A truly masterly book... A tour de force that will be read for a very long time.' Peter HennessySelected by the New Statesman as an essential read for... -
Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979 Kenneth Rose 9781474601559
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.23'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph'Extremely entertaining' Jane Ridley, Literary... -
Heath by Denis MacShane
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A passionate European, Edward Heath succeeded in taking Britain into the European Community. He was latter challenged for the leadership of the party by Margaret Thatcher who sidelined him during her... -
1974: Scenes from a Year of Crisis by Nick Rennison 9780857305824
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.151974 WAS A YEAR OF MAJOR CHANGE AROUND THE WORLD. Presidents resigned, emperors were deposed, and new governments came to power. On both sides of the Atlantic, major political figures left the scene,... -
Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume Two 1979-2014 Kenneth Rose 9781474610599
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.23Kenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the post-war Establishment. The wry and amusing journals of the royal biographer and historian made objective observation a sculpted craft. His... -
Without Benefit of Laundry: The Autobiography of John Peyton (Lord Peyton of Yeovil) by Lord Peyton 9780747533313
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $21.09This is an autobiography of an insider in Edward Heath's cabinet and Margaret Thatcher's shadow cabinet, outside, but observant of Thatcher's and Major's cabinets. John Peyton was born in 1919 and... -
Exceeding My Brief by Barbara Hosking 9781785904622
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36From 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... -
Pistols at Dawn: Two Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt and Fox to Blair and Brown by John Campbell
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone. Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher. Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. Personal rivalry is the very stuff of politics. The causes and controversies, the parties and... -
Rover P5 and P5B James Taylor 9781398123236
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65The Rover P5 and P5B were the flagship Rover models throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. These cars were the official transport for prime ministers from Edward Heath to Margaret Thatcher and also... -
Margaret Thatcher: Volume One: The Grocer's Daughter by John Campbell 9780099516767
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63'A fascinating account... Campbell's research is as exhaustive as it is meticulous' ObserverWhen Margaret Thatcher unexpectedly emerged to challenge Edward Heath for the Conservative Party leadership... -
George VI (Penguin Monarchs): The Dutiful King by Philip Ziegler
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.51The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackIf Ethelred was notoriously 'Unready' and Alfred 'Great', King George VI should bear the... -
White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.99Harold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed... -
King Edward VIII by Philip Ziegler 9780007481019
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.88The authorised life story of the king who gave up his throne for love, by one of our most distinguished biographers. In this masterly authorized biography, Philip Ziegler reveals the... -
Seventy-Seven Clocks: (Bryant & May Book 3) by Christopher Fowler
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.81'The newspapers referred to it as the case of the seventy-seven clocks. There was quite a fuss at the time. We got into terrible trouble. Dear fellow, it was one of our most truly peculiar cases. I... -
Pistols at Dawn by John Campbell 9780224080668 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $3.52Personal rivalry is the very stuff of politics. The causes and controversies, the parties and the technology have changed, but political conflict is still dramatised by the competition of ambitious... -
Seventy-Seven Clocks: (Bryant & May Book 3) by Christopher Fowler 9780553817195 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $4.85'The newspapers referred to it as the case of the seventy-seven clocks. There was quite a fuss at the time. We got into terrible trouble. Dear fellow, it was one of our most truly peculiar cases. I... -
One on One by Craig Brown 9780007360642
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, told by Britain's funniest writer. ... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Honorary Jew - How Britain's Jews Helped Shape the Iron Lady and Her Beliefs by Robert Philpot 9781785901317
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.93Margaret Thatcher's premiership changed the face of modern Britain. Yet few people know of the critical role played by Jews in sparking and sustaining her revolution. Was this chance, choice, or... -
Close the Coalhouse Door: from stories by Sid Chaplin: a stage play in three acts with music by Alex Glasgow by Alan Plater 9781852244897
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Close the Coalhouse Door is a living pageant of the North-East's mining communities, and also a key work in the development of British political drama. Triumphantly revived by Live Theatre, this... -
One on One by Craig Brown 9780007360642 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $2.64101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, told by Britain's funniest writer. ... -
State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.27State of Emergency : Britain 1970-74 is a brilliant history of the gaudy, schizophrenic atmosphere of the early Seventies. The early 1970s were the age of gloom and glam. Under Edward Heath, the... -
Cameron at 10: The Verdict by Anthony Seldon 9780007575534
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.54The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George... -
Superstar: York Courses by The Rt Revd David Wilbourne
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.76'It's 1970,' author David Wilbourne writes, ''Edward Heath becomes PM, Apollo 13 limps back to earth, and Jesus Christ Superstar takes the West End by storm, asking daring questions that gave colour... -
Superstar: York Courses by The Rt Revd David Wilbourne 9781909107274
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.59'It's 1970,' author David Wilbourne writes, ''Edward Heath becomes PM, Apollo 13 limps back to earth, and Jesus Christ Superstar takes the West End by storm, asking daring questions that gave colour... -
Disraeli: or, The Two Lives by Rt. Hon Lord Douglas Hurd
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Benjamin 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... -
The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy that Never Dies by Gill Bennett 9780198860280
RRP: $20.76Booksplease Price: $16.71This is the story of one of the most enduring conspiracy theories in British politics, an intrigue that still has resonance almost a century later: the Zinoviev Letter of 1924. Almost certainly a... -
Tenement Kid: Rough Trade Book of the Year Bobby Gillespie 9781474622080
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.72'Gillespie is rock and roll's Oliver Twist. A punk rock fairytale, razor sharp on class struggle, music, style, and a singular view of the world resulting in one of the world's great bands. Couldn't...