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An Extraordinary Scandal: The Westminster Expenses Crisis and Why it Still Matters by Emma Crewe
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Featuring interviews with the MPs, journalists and officials close to the centre of Britain's biggest political crisis since the Profumo Affair, this is the story of what really happened during the... -
Kathmandu by Tomas Bell
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51One of the greatest cities of the Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, is a unique blend of thousand-year-old cultural practices and accelerated urban development. In this book, Thomas Bell recounts his... -
China Rediscovered: The Benaki Museum Collection of Chinese Ceramics by George Manginis
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91This richly illustrated book showcases a previously unseen and virtually unknown historical collection of Chinese ceramics, formed in the early twentieth century by George Eumorfopoulos, a pivotal... -
The Vitality of Democracy Gisela Stuart 9781913368517
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31There is no such thing as the perfect society. There are no hard and fast rules on how to make it work for everyone. If we don't want to have things imposed upon us, then government by the people and... -
Bealport: A Novel of a Town Jeffrey Lewis 9781912208791
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05An old shoe factory in a costal New England town is up for sale again. When a private equity mogul with a fondness for the factory's shoes buys it, he sets in motion a story with profound... -
A Love Affair with Europe: The Case for a European Future by Giles Radice
Booksplease Price: £18.73From his earliest childhood, Europe has been close to Giles Radice's heart. His paternal great-great grandfather, an Italian nationalist, was fortunate enough to come to Britain in 1821 as a... -
Drawing the Line: The Irish Border in British Politics by Ivan Gibbons
Booksplease Price: £18.01Although it is approaching a century in existence, the Irish border is currently one of the most topical issues in British politics. For most of its existence, the border rarely impinged on the... -
Churchill's Britain: From the Antrim Coast to the Isle of Wight by Peter Clark
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £8.32More than half a century after his death, Winston Churchill, the most significant British statesman of the twentieth century, continues to intrigue us. Peter Clark's book, however, is not merely... -
No 10: The Geography of Power at Downing Street by Jack Brown
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Behind the world's most iconic front door lies the core of British political power: the Prime Minister's home and office. Designed over three centuries ago as an ordinary residence, 10 Downing... -
The Responsibilities of Democracy by Nick Clegg
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Democracy operates on consent. That means politicians have to argue their causes and win consensus. But democracy has its flaws, not least in the lack of efficiency in the decision-making process... -
Major by Robert Taylor
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31John Major succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister, but his initial popularity soon faded with the devaluation of the sterling, his achievement at Maastricht which brought division to his party... -
Establishment and Meritocracy by Peter Hennessy
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Like so many of the postwar generation in Britain, Peter Hennessy climbed the ladders of opportunity set up by the 1944 Education Act designed to encourage a more meritocratic society. In this highly... -
Heath by Denis MacShane
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A 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... -
A Portrait of the Gulf Stream by Erik Orsenna 9781906598747
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02The long term future of the Gulf Stream is now under threat; the Arctic ice is melting and the fear among oceanographers is that the cold water will not sink in the Norwegian Sea, thus switching off... -
Land of Shame and Glory: Britain 2021-22 by Peter Hennessy 9781913368883
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.67Peter Hennessy brings his deep political and historical understanding to this study of two of the most turbulent and disruptive years experienced by Britain in peacetime. As the protracted withdrawal... -
Wilson by Paul Routledge 9781904950684
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.73Harold Wilson held out the promise of technology and of 'the Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution'. A balance of payment crisis, leading to devaluation in 1967,... -
Karoli and Bethlen: Hungary - The Peace Conferences of 1919-23 and Their Aftermath by Bryan Cartledge 9781905791736
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23White aster flowers, on sale on the streets of Budapest on the eve of All Souls' Day, are made the symbol of a revolution which brings Mihaly Karolyi (1875-1955) to power at the head of a National... -
Chaim Weizmann - The Zionist Dream by Tom Fraser 9781905791675
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Arab-Israeli conflict has been one of the most defining features of recent world history, flaring up into open war fare yet again in Gaza at the end of 2008 and provoking large-scale... -
The Men of 1924: Britain's First Labour Government by Peter Clark 9781913368814
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £11.98The new Cabinet in January 1924 consisted, as governments had for generations, of twenty white, middle-aged men. But that is where the similarities with previous governments ended, for the election... -
Neville Chamberlain by Graham Macklin 9781904950622
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23With the agreement at Munich in 1938 he effectively abandoned Czechoslovakia, but immediately accelerated Britain's rearmament programme and the following year declared that Britain would defend... -
Perla by Carolina De Robertis 9781908323217
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.99This is a coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic house... -
The Back of an Envelope: A Life in Writing Peter Hennessy 9781913368852
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.38As one of Britain's foremost constitutional experts and contemporary historians, Peter Hennessy has spent his professional life unpicking the arcane world of Whitehall and Westminster. He began his... -
A Matter of Time by Alex Capus 9781907822032
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67In November 1913, three German shipbuilders, led by master shipwright Anton Ru ter, were ordered by Kaiser Wilhelm II to dismantle a steam ship, send the parts to German East Africa, and reassemble... -
Macmillan by Francis Beckett 9781904950660
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Paradoxically his success with the USA jeopardised his efforts to get Britain into the European Economic Community, for it was one of the reasons why the French President Charles de Gaulle vetoed... -
On the Back of and Envelope: A Life in Writing Peter Hennessy 9781914979323
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51As one of Britain's foremost constitutional experts and contemporary historians, Peter Hennessy has spent his professional life unpicking the arcane world of Whitehall and Westminster. He began his... -
Asquith by Stephen Bates 9781904950578
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Asquith's administration laid the foundation of Britain's welfare state, but he was plunged into a major power struggle with the House of Lords. The budget of 1909 was vetoed by the hereditary upper... -
Admiral Togo: Nelson of the East by Jonathan Clements 9781906598624
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.99Togo Heihachiro (1848-1934) was born into a feudal society that had lived in seclusion for 250 years. As a teenage samurai, he witnessed the destruction wrought upon his native land by British... -
Cabinet's Finest Hour: The Hidden Agenda of May 1940 by David Owen
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.81Using the Cabinet papers from the National Archives, former Foreign Secretary David Owen has written a new history of the pivotal British War Cabinet meetings of May 1940. Eight months into the war... -
The Power of Judges by David Neuberger
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.37The role of the Supreme Court has often been considered out of reach and incomprehensible to the vast majority of the public, while judges might be seen as a caste apart from society, remote to most... -
Truth in Public Life by Claire Foster-Gilbert
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Truth in Public Life explores the difficulty in defining truth, its critical importance in civilised society and the challenges and threats to telling the truth in different public service settings. ... -
The Peace That Never Was: A History of the League of Nations by Ruth Henig
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.25Ninety years ago the League of Nations convened for the first time hoping to settle disputes by diplomacy not war. This book looks at how the League was shaped and the multifaceted body that emerged,... -
Leon and Louise by Alex Capus
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Summer 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close when Leon Le Gall, a French teenager from Cherbourg who has dropped out of school and left home, falls in love with Louise Janvier. Both are... -
Clem Attlee: Labour's Great Reformer by Francis Beckett
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Far from Winston Churchill's jibe that he was a "modest little man with plenty to be modest about," in this acclaimed biography, comprehensively revised in this new edition, Francis Beckett makes the... -
These Islands: A Letter To Britain by Ali M. Ansari
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Visiting Italy in the months preceding the Scottish referendum of 2014, Ali Ansari was struck by the admiration of Italian colleagues for the liberalism of a state that would allow, and even... -
28 June by Alan Sharp
Booksplease Price: £37.19On June 28, 1919, the Peace Treaty was signed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, five years to the day after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo triggered Europe's... -
Ionel Bratianu: Romania by Keith Hitchins 9781905791767
Booksplease Price: £19.84At the beginning of 1918 the British War Cabinet endorsed the view of the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, that after the war Austria-Hungary should be in a position to exercise a powerful... -
Goethe by Peter Boerner 9781908323514
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.60Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is recognised as a giant of world literature; an exceptionally prolific and versatile writer. As a student, he composed pastoral plays in the style of the waning Rococo... -
The Hidden Perspective: The Military Conversations 1906-1914 by David Owen 9781908323989
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23December 1905: Foreign Minister Edward Grey enters into secret talks with the French about sending British forces to their aid in the event of a German attack. The details were only revealed to the... -
In Search of Ancient North Africa: A History in Six Lives by Barnaby Rogerson 9781912208784
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.99For 40 years, Barnaby Rogerson has travelled across North Africa, making sense of the region's complex and fascinating history as both a writer and a guide. Throughout that time, there have always... -
The Words of My Father by Yousef Bashir 9781912208173
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £9.99In the Gaza Strip, growing up on land owned by his family for centuries, eleven-year-old Yousef is preoccupied by video games, school pranks, and meeting his father's impossibly high standards...