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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... -
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... -
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... -
Communism: A TLS Companion by Ferdinand Mount 9780226543239
Booksplease Price: £94.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226543239Author Ferdinand MountFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint -
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... -
Communism: a TLS Companion by Ferdinand Mount 9780226543246
Booksplease Price: £30.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226543246Author Ferdinand MountFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint -
Soft: A Brief History of Sentimentality Ferdinand Mount 9781399421874
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86'[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... -
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... -
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... -
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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'... -
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... -
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... -
The British Constitution in the Twentieth Century by Vernon Bogdanor 9780197262719
Booksplease Price: £57.30This 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... -
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 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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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... -
Ardkinglas: The Biography of a Highland Estate by Christina Noble
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.81Ardkinglas is a 45,000-acre estate in Cairndow, a beautiful area of the Highlands at the head of Loch Fyne. Sir Andrew Noble, the author's great-grandfather, bought the estate in 1905 and his family... -
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... -
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A Town Called Solace: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 by Mary Lawson 9781529113433 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £3.05**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... -
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... -
Revolutions: A New History by Donald Sassoon 9781804299920
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.50Revolutions is a sparkling account of political upheaval and the power of history. We think of revolutions in terms of fleeting events, such as the Fall of the Bastille or the Storming of the Winter... -
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)... -
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...