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An Extraordinary Scandal: The Westminster Expenses Crisis and Why it Still Matters by Emma Crewe
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $28.04Featuring 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: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49One 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: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.92This 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25There 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: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75An 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: $36.45From 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: $35.04Although 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: $39.00Booksplease Price: $11.27More 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Behind 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $12.42Democracy 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25John 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: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74Like 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50A 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: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74The 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: $42.90Booksplease Price: $23.38Peter 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Harold 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00White 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00The 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: $39.00Booksplease Price: $22.66The 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00With 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: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.01This 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: $58.50Booksplease Price: $41.69As 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: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.01In 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Paradoxically 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: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49As 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Asquith'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: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.24Togo 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... -
Blair by Mick Temple 9781904950738
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $18.00As part of the series The 20 PM of the 20th Century this biography concentrates on Tony Blair's first three years in office.Book InformationISBN 9781904950738Author Mick TempleFormat PaperbackPage... -
Integrity in Public Life by Vernon White
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $12.42Good governance is one of the UK's fundamental values, and citizens are entitled to expect that public officials, both elected and non-elected, behave according to the highest standards of ethical... -
Life is Good by Alex Capus
Booksplease Price: $27.81Max has been married to Tina for twenty-five years. She is the love of his life but now he must come to terms with the fact she is to spend weeks away on a work assignment; away, for the first time,... -
The Power of Civil Servants by Claire Foster-Gilbert
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25The Power of Whitehall provides rich and informative observations about the nature of the Civil Service, its values and effectiveness, what threatens it and how it should continue to adapt to a... -
Fiction, Fact and Future: The Essence of EU Democracy by James Elles
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $12.42Since its' inception, the European Union has developed to become an open and transparent system which is democratically accountable to more than five hundred million European citizens. James Elles... -
European Identity by Stephen Green
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $12.42Is there any such thing as a European identity? Amidst all the kaleidoscopic variety what - if anything - do 28 members of the European Union have in common? The facts of history have created shared... -
We Have Buried the Past by Abdelkrim Ghallab
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Abd Al-Karim Ghallab s postcolonial "We Buried the Past," originally published in 1966, was the first breakthrough Moroccan novel written in Arabic instead of French. Newly translated into English,... -
Breaking Point: The UK Referendum on the EU and its Aftermath by Gary Gibbon
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74As the aftermath of Brexit continues to unfold, people around the world are wondering just how Brexit happened, where post-referendum Britain is heading, and what lessons might be learned by the... -
Lion and Lamb: A Portrait of British Moral Duality by Mihir Bose
Booksplease Price: $36.08The British like to see themselves as tolerant and believers in fair play. Yet, often in thought and deed, they behave in a fashion that could not remotely be considered moral. This is the great... -
Turkey Rediscovered: A Land Between Tradition and Modernity by Klaus Reichert
Booksplease Price: $29.15This book, available for the first time in English, is an exhilarating journey through Turkey s history and a perceptive look at the interactions between secularism, religion, and multiethnicity. ... -
Gutenberg by Stephan Fussel
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Named "Man of the Millennium" in 1999, Johannes Gutenberg was the creator of one of the most influential and revolutionary inventions in Europe's history: a printing press with mechanical movable... -
The Complete Reflections: Conversations with Politicians by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00On the BBC radio show Reflections with Peter Hennessy, the preeminent historian of British political life interviewed leading figures from the UK's governing parties during the late twentieth and... -
Douglas Home by David Dutton
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Douglas-Home had a complex career between the two Houses of Parliament, disclaiming his peerage to become Prime Minister. His term in office was short elected in 1963 he lost the election of 1964...