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Umbrella by Ferdinand Mount 9780749395438
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47George Gordon, cousin to Byron, heir to a desolate Scottish estate, superficially enjoys a brilliant career: he dines at Malmaison with Napoleon and Josephine, excavates the Acropolis, shares a night... -
Mind the Gap Ferdinand Mount 9781906021955
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Through acute observation and vivid illustration - drawing on every aspect of life from soap operas, speech patterns and gardening to education and the distribution of wealth - he demolishes the... -
Making Nice by Ferdinand Mount 9781472992895
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.04The deliciously sharp new novel from Ferdinand Mount, author of the Sunday Times Book of the Year Kiss Myself Goodbye Ferdinand Mount's stinging satire plunges into the dubious world of London PR... -
Very Like a Whale by Ferdinand Mount 9780571259106
Booksplease Price: £13.27Pheasant-shooting on the Wiltshire downs; East-West conflict in a Berlin night club; infighting in city boardrooms; and sexual skirmishing in the Kensington outback, on the fringes of Winkhill golf... -
Soft: A Brief History of Sentimentality Ferdinand Mount 9781399421874
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'[An] erudite, immensely entertaining book...Mount makes for a delightful guide' -- Literary ReviewFrom troubadours to Twitter: a thousand years of feelings, fads and furious sentiment, from renowned... -
The New Few: Or a Very British Oligarchy by Ferdinand Mount 9781847399359
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78This was supposed to be the era when democracy came into its own, but instead power and wealth in Britain have slowly been consolidated the hands of a small elite, while the rest of the country... -
Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes Ferdinand Mount 9780747596479
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Cold Cream is a sparkling autobiography in the great tradition: wonderfully perceptive, exquisitely rendered and bursting with characters and anecdotes of every shade and hue. A tender, moving and... -
Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca by Ferdinand Mount 9781472991980
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'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... -
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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... -
Prime Movers: The real stories of twelve great thinkers from Pericles to Gandhi by Ferdinand Mount 9781471156014
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Ferdinand 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... -
Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson by Ferdinand Mount 9781399409728
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond by William Dalrymple
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.00'Riveting. This highly readable and entertaining book ... finally sets the record straight on the history of the Koh-i-Noor' Tarquin Hall, Sunday Times 'Dynamic, original and supremely readable'... -
God's War: A New History of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.97The story of how a group of warriors, driven by faith, greed and wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle East is one of the most extraordinary of all epics. The crusaders'... -
Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope 9780140430868
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The first novel in Anthony Trollope's 'Palliser' series, Can You Forgive Her? traces the fortunes of three very different women in an exploration of whether social obligations and personal happiness... -
The Bookshop, The Gate Of Angels And The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. The three novels in this volume all display her characteristic wit,... -
Castlereagh John Bew 9780857388407
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25The best political biography of the year' Jonathan Sumption, Spectator 'Wonderful . . . A Life so nearly complete it need never be written again' Ferdinand Mount, Times Literary Supplement By the... -
Magna Carta by David Carpenter
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'David Carpenter deserves to replace Sir James Holt as the standard authority, and an unfailingly readable one too.' Ferdinand Mount, TLS 'An invaluable new commentary' Jill Leopore, New Yorker With... -
The Heath: My Year on Hampstead Heath by Hunter Davies
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15An engaging portrait of Hampstead Heath - a place rich not just in natural wonders but in history and monuments, emotions and memories, people and places. 'I enjoyed every inch of the way, from... -
How to be a conservative by Roger Scruton
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.60Roger Scruton's How to be a Conservative presents the case for modern conservatism not in the terms of an elegy but rather as a practical example of how to live as a conservative despite the... -
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World by Ramachandra Guha
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.97'Essential reading ... will not be bettered' Ferdinand Mount, Wall Street Journal'Gandhi's finest biographer' David Kynaston, GuardianThe magnificent new biography of Gandhi by India's leading... -
What If Reform Wins Peter Chappell 9781399433723
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'Farage is Britain's new prime minister. Nirvana or nightmare? Whatever our reaction, we all need to take this scenario very seriously, as Peter Chappell's invigorating book does' Anthony Seldon'a... -
Morbid Symptoms: An Anatomy of a World in Crisis by Donald Sassoon
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25The deadly coronavirus spread across societies already riddled with political ills: rampant xenophobia and corruption, privatisation run amok, Brexiteer vainglory of 'a global Britain', a Euroland... -
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How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions by Francis Wheen 9780007140978 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £1.97An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen's Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004's most talked about books... -
Empress: Queen Victoria and India by Miles Taylor 9780300118094
Booksplease Price: £29.37An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837"A widely and deeply researched, elegantly... -
The Chancellors: Steering the British Economy in Crisis Times Howard Davies (LSE) 9781509549542
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £8.74When the Treasury lost control of interest rates to the Bank of England in 1997, its status looked under threat. However, it quickly reasserted its power by dominating policymaking across Whitehall... -
A Town Called Solace: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 by Mary Lawson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO FOUR**Set in the frozen north of Canada in 1972, this is a novel of painful histories and the moments in life when we can change for the better.Clara's rebellious older sister... -
Not for Turning: The Complete Life of Margaret Thatcher by Robin Harris
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Margaret Thatcher is one of the most iconic politicians of the twentieth century. With the possible exception of Winston Churchill, no other Prime Minister has had such an impact on modern British... -
Henry III: Reform, Rebellion, Civil War, Settlement, 1258-1272 David Carpenter 9780300279337
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.19"There are few historians working today who know so much and write so well. Taken together, the two volumes of Henry III . . . set a gold standard for medieval royal biography."-Dan Jones, Times (UK)... -
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Not for Turning: The Life of Margaret Thatcher by Robin Harris 9780593058916 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £3.00Margaret Thatcher is one of the most iconic politicians of the twentieth century. With the possible exception of Winston Churchill, no other Prime Minister has had such an impact on modern British... -
Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence by Karen Armstrong
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41It is the most persistent myth of our time: religion is the cause of all violence. But history suggests otherwise. Karen Armstrong, former Roman Catholic nun and one of our foremost scholars of... -
Travels with Margaret Thatcher by Robin Renwick 9781849545334
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.92A Journey with Margaret Thatcher is an extraordinary insider's account of British foreign policy under Margaret Thatcher by one of her key advisers. Providing a closeup view of the Iron Lady in... -
Love Child by Allegra Huston 9781408803066
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.89When Allegra Huston was four years old, her mother was killed in a car crash. Soon afterwards, she was introduced to an intimidating man wreathed in cigar smoke - the legendary film director John... -
War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France by Patrick Marnham
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'One of our very best writers on France.' Antony Beevor After publishing an acclaimed biography of Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance, Patrick Marnham received an anonymous letter from a... -
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature by Dinah Birch
RRP: £18.49Booksplease Price: £13.49Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Over 5,500 new and revised A to Z entries give... -
Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership Andro Linklater 9781408855430
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.99Barely two centuries ago, most of the world's productive land still belonged either communally to traditional societies or to the higher powers of monarch or church. But that pattern, and the ways of... -
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.79A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and... -
A Guest at the Feast by Colm Tóibín 9780241970614
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.From the melancholy and amusement... -
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner 9780008347628
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.05A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and... -
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard 9781631492228
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron Age village" rose to become the... -
In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History by Dominic Lieven 9780141984452
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51From the acclaimed Wolfson Prize-winning author, a dazzling history of the world's emperors For millennia much of the world was ruled by emperors: a handful of individuals claimed no limit to the...