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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... -
The Pentecost Papers Ferdinand Mount 9781526682727
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Financial corruption, environmental destruction, danger and murder: the irresistible new novel by bestselling author and sharp social satirist Ferdinand Mount dissects the murky world of the... -
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... -
The Pentecost Papers Ferdinand Mount 9781526682772
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.99The sharply satirical new novel from bestselling author Ferdinand Mount which dissects the murky world of the super-rich. -
Subversive Family by Ferdinand Mount 9780684863856
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.26British politician and writer, Ferdinand Mount, challenges contemporary beliefs about society and family-including the history of divorce, childcare, and the concept of the nuclear family.In... -
Very Like a Whale by Ferdinand Mount 9780571259106
Booksplease Price: £14.75Pheasant-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... -
Communism: a TLS Companion by Ferdinand Mount 9780226543246
Booksplease Price: £30.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226543246Author Ferdinand MountFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint University of Chicago... -
Communism: A TLS Companion by Ferdinand Mount 9780226543239
Booksplease Price: £92.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226543239Author Ferdinand MountFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint University of Chicago... -
Soft: A Brief History of Sentimentality Ferdinand Mount 9781399421874
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.69A sweeping history of emotion and culture that spans centuries, from renowned author and essayist Ferdinand Mount. -
The New Few: Or a Very British Oligarchy by Ferdinand Mount 9781847399359
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.40This 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: £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... -
Soft: A History of Sentimentality From the Medieval Era to the Present Day Ferdinand Mount 9781399421881
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24A sweeping history of emotion that spans the decades, from renowned author Ferdinand Mount.In this day and age, whatever we think we feel, you can be sure that the past has had a part to play in it... -
The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905 Ferdinand Mount 9781471129469
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.14The Tears of the Rajasis a sweeping history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family. For a century the Lows of Clatto survived mutiny, siege, debt and... -
Prime Movers: The real stories of twelve great thinkers from Pericles to Gandhi by Ferdinand Mount 9781471156014
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62Ferdinand 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: £9.78A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARWho said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it's become a strangely... -
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'... -
Into the Melée: Culture/Politics/Intellectuals by Francis Mulhern 9781804293348
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.45Into the Melee probes the mercurial relationship between culture and politics through versatile critical writing on Conrad, Orwell, Sartre, Raymond Williams and Roberto Schwarz, among others. The... -
Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London by Caroline Knowles
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A latter-day Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times'Eye-opening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap' Misha Glenny, Financial TimesLondon is a... -
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,... -
Miss Dior: A Wartime Story of Courage and Couture by Justine Picardie
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.18Miss Dior is a wartime story of freedom and fascism, beauty and betrayal and 'a gripping story' (Antonia Fraser).*The New Look, a new Apple TV drama series starring Maisie Williams as Catherine Dior... -
A Passion for Books by Dale Salwak 9780333714485
Booksplease Price: £46.28Leading writers and critics, including Margaret Drabble, Alan Sillitoe and Ferdinand Mount, share their passion for books and the joys of reading in an inspiring collection of essays and writings. A... -
Castlereagh John Bew 9780857388407
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.45The 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: £9.23'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 Memoirs of Walter Bagehot by Frank Prochaska 9780300195545
Booksplease Price: £25.74The spirited and measured memoir of Walter Bagehot, had he left one Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) was a prominent English journalist, banker, and man of letters. For many years he was editor of The... -
A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich by Christopher B. Krebs 9780393342925
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £15.89When the Roman historian Tacitus wrote the Germania, a none-too-flattering little book about the ancient Germans, he could not have foreseen that centuries later the Nazis would extol it as "a bible"... -
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
Booksplease Price: £16.35'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... -
Palmerston: A Biography by David Brown
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.99A grand and fascinating figure in Victorian politics, the charismatic Lord Palmerston (1784-1865) served as foreign secretary for fifteen years and prime minister for nine, engaged in struggles with... -
The British Constitution in the Twentieth Century by Vernon Bogdanor 9780197263198
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £46.85This is the first scholarly survey of the British constitution in the twentieth century. Indeed, it fills a very real gap in the history of Britain during the last hundred years. The book is a... -
Methodism: Empire of the Spirit by David Hempton 9780300119763
Booksplease Price: £18.61"Brilliantly provocative. . . . [A] masterful account."-Grant Wacker, Christian Century The emergence of Methodism was arguably the most significant transformation of Protestant Christianity since... -
The Elopement by Gill Hornby 9781804942802
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.01Three women, two families, one forbidden marriage. Get ready to fall in love with the brand-new regency romance from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Godmersham Park and Miss Austen, now a... -
Empress: Queen Victoria and India by Miles Taylor
Booksplease Price: £23.70An 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... -
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions by Francis Wheen
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68An 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...