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Parting Shots by Matthew Parris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Matthew Parris's Parting Shots is a treasure trove of wit, venom and serious analysis.Up till 2006 a British Ambassador leaving his post was encouraged to write what was known as a valedictory... -
Inca Kola Matthew Parris 9781857990768
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A modern classic of travel and adventure.INCA KOLA is the funny, absorbing account of Matthew Parris's fourth trip to Peru, on a bizarre holiday which takes him among bandits, prostitutes, peasants... -
A Castle in Spain by Matthew Parris 9780241961780
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.82Matthew Parris's A Castle in Spain is one man's attempt to transform a magnificent forgotten ruin into his own castle.Walking in the Pyrenees one spring morning Matthew Parris stumbled upon a... -
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Inca Kola by Matthew Parris 9781857990768 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.97A modern classic of travel and adventure.INCA KOLA is the funny, absorbing account of Matthew Parris's fourth trip to Peru, on a bizarre holiday which takes him among bandits, prostitutes, peasants... -
Scorn: The Wittiest and Wickedest Insults in Human History by Matthew Parris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.25'He's 100% political herpes. Back in six months whatever you do. Or three days, like last time.' Camilla Long on Nigel Farage 'You're as ugly as a salad.' Bulgarian insult 'I'm going to beat him so... -
The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase: Stories from the Diplomatic Bag by Matthew Parris
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase is a hilarious new collection of diplomatic tales by Matthew Parris and Andrew BrysonHeard the one about the Spanish Ambassador who arrived in the scorching Saharan... -
Fracture: Stories of How Great Lives Take Root in Trauma by Matthew Parris
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12A Times Biography of the Year 'I learned a lot reading this ... the strength of Fracture is that it is very much like a cracking radio script: entertaining and easy to digest' Spectator Ada... -
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Scorn: The Wittiest and Wickedest Insults in Human History by Matthew Parris 9781781257296 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.40'He's 100% political herpes. Back in six months whatever you do. Or three days, like last time.' Camilla Long on Nigel Farage 'You're as ugly as a salad.' Bulgarian insult 'I'm going to beat him so... -
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Scorn: The Wittiest and Wickedest Insults in Human History by Matthew Parris 9781781257302 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.40'He's 100% political herpes. Back in six months whatever you do' Camilla Long on Nigel Farage 'It's not enough to succeed. Friends must fail' Gore Vidal Nothing cuts deeper, or provides... -
![Great Parliamentary Scandals: Five Centuries of Calumny, Smear and Innuendo by Matthew Parris 9781861057365 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/4839859/4839089/9781861057365__52743.1721879970.jpg?c=1 "Great Parliamentary Scandals: Five Centuries of Calumny, Smear and Innuendo by Matthew Parris 9781861057365 [USED COPY]")
Great Parliamentary Scandals: Five Centuries of Calumny, Smear and Innuendo by Matthew Parris 9781861057365 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.99Scandalously it's been business as usual in parliament despite Tony Blair's promise of a new dawn over Britain in 1997. Conmen, secret home loans, walks on the wild side, liars, ridiculously... -
Ever the Diplomat: Confessions of a Foreign Office Mandarin by Sherard Cowper-Coles 9780007436019
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58In this entertaining and engaging memoir, former ambassador Sherard Cowper-Coles lifts the lid on embassy life throughout the world. In 1977 fresh-faced Oxford graduate Sherard... -
![Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Best Left on the Drawing Board by Vince Houghton 9781788163309 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6002693/6079705/9781788163309__83459.1731556702.jpg?c=1 "Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Best Left on the Drawing Board by Vince Houghton 9781788163309 [USED COPY]")
Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Best Left on the Drawing Board by Vince Houghton 9781788163309 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.29"Compulsively readable laugh out loud history." Mary Roach Bomb-carrying bats. Poisoned flower arrangements. Cigars laced with mind-altering drugs. Listening devices implanted into... -
Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Best Left on the Drawing Board by Vince Houghton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15"Compulsively readable laugh out loud history." Mary Roach Bomb-carrying bats. Poisoned flower arrangements. Cigars laced with mind-altering drugs. Listening devices implanted into... -
Revise SQE Oral Skills in Client Interviewing and Negotiation: Legal Skills for SQE2 Amanda Rees 9781917183079
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917183079Author Matthew ParryFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
![The Bible for Grown-Ups: A New Look at the Good Book by Simon Loveday 9781785782633 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9690601/10707317/9781785782633__14686.1781311850.jpg?c=1 "The Bible for Grown-Ups: A New Look at the Good Book by Simon Loveday 9781785782633 [USED COPY]")
The Bible for Grown-Ups: A New Look at the Good Book by Simon Loveday 9781785782633 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £1.97'Loveday's case is that the mantle of historical truth and divine authority has placed upon the Bible an intolerable weight, crushing it as a creative work of immense imaginative and inspirational... -
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Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin 9780141040226 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.41Raised in a desperately poor village during the height of China's Cultural Revolution, Li Cunxin's childhood revolved around the commune, his family and Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. Until, that... -
The Bible for Grown-Ups: A New Look at the Good Book Simon Loveday 9781785782633
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59'Loveday's case is that the mantle of historical truth and divine authority has placed upon the Bible an intolerable weight, crushing it as a creative work of immense imaginative and inspirational... -
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Raised in a desperately poor village during the height of China's Cultural Revolution, Li Cunxin's childhood revolved around the commune, his family and Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. Until, that... -
It Never Rains by Roger McGough
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67It Never Rains by Roger McGough - an expanded edition of comic verse and free line drawings, from the nation's favourite poetWhile up at MagdalenSpent the time dagdalen.Moved on to CaiusBecame the... -
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Angry People in Local Newspapers by Alistair Coleman 9780241356623 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.97'A charming collection of stories that reminds you life could be so much worse' - Sunday Times, Best Stocking Fillers of 2018The ultimate toilet book' - Observer___________ The news can be... -
Home at Grasmere: Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A continuous text made up of extracts from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal and a selection of her brother's poems. Dorothy Wordsworth kept her Journal 'because I shall give William pleasure by it'. In... -
Henry III (Penguin Monarchs): A Simple and God-Fearing King by Stephen Church
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02'Most contemporaries would have argued that it was a king's job to put in peril his soul for the good of his Church and of his people. But Henry was too determined to live a life of a saint'Henry ... -
The Tower: Tales from a Lost Country by Uwe Tellkamp
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.68In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a... -
Said And Done Roger McGough 9780099478751
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Roger McGough is one of Britain's best-loved poets, and something of a national institution. His name is ubiquitous with matter-of-fact Scouse humour, easy-going charm, and perfect observations of... -
Brideshead Abbreviated: The Digested Read of the Twentieth Century by John Crace
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15John Crace's 'Digested Read' column in the Guardian has rightly acquired a cult following. Each week fans avidly devour his latest razor-sharp literary assassination, while authors turn tremblingly... -
Women of the Foreign Office: Britain's First Female Ambassadors by Elizabeth Warburton
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.65Since the suffrage campaigns in the early twentieth century, the advancement of women's rights in the UK has been nonstop. Proponents of the cause have aimed for equality across all sectors: personal... -
The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91 by Anton Chekhov
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Steppe and Other Stories 1887-91 is a collection that reveals Anton Chekhov's evolution from a novice writer to a master of short narrative form. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by... -
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A Long Walk in the High Hills: The Story of a House, a Dog and a Spanish Island by Selina Scott 9780091914462 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.53At the peak of her fast-paced career as a news presenter and interviewer Selina Scott bought a house in the Tramuntana hills of Mallorca. It was a ramshackle old farmhouse without even mains... -
A Problem Like Maria: A Woman's Eye View of Life as an MP by Maria Fyfe 9781910021040
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32A Labour Whip once revealed that in their office they sang songs about certain backbenchers. In the case of the Member for Maryhill, their choice was 'How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?'A frank... -
The Little Book of Brexit Bollocks by Alistair Beaton 9781471189166
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.30'Truly brilliant' - Matthew Parris, Times columnist'Weepingly funny and painfully accurate' - Rachel Johnson'Lethally witty' - Tim Walker, New European If any event in recent British history has... -
The Political Animal by Jeremy Paxman
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Jeremy Paxman knows every maneouvre a politician will make to avoid answering a difficult question, but in The Political Animal he seeks an answer to just one: What makes politicians tick? Embarking... -
Twenty Something: The Quarter-life Crisis of Jack Lancaster by Iain Hollingshead 9780715636565
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02'Twenty Something' introduces us to Jack Lancaster, who, at only 25 is far too young to be having a mid-life crisis, but who's going to have a pretty good shot at it anyway.About the AuthorIain... -
Hilke's Diary: Germany, July 1940 - August 1945 Geseke Clark 9781803997414
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31'You cannot but enter this child's world. Filled with all the usual joys and anxieties of childhood, and a self-possessed determination to behave in a practical and helpful way, it is a world in... -
Belle Nash and the Bath Soufflee by William Keeling 9781915023025
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £9.99When a souffle fails to rise, friends try to find out why and uncover a web of corruption that spreads throughout Bath's legal system. Set in the early 1830s, this comic gay historical novel exposes... -
A Christmas Cornucopia: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Yuletide Traditions by Mark Forsyth
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23BY THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHORThe perfect gift for anyone who has ever wondered about the unpredictable origins and etymologies of our Christmas customs! For something that happens every... -
Missing Member by Rodney Deitch 9781853981616
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.04Dr Leo Springfield is a disillusioned Labour MP facing a world of trouble both personally and professionally. With his seat (and the government itself) under threat in a looming election, he faces... -
Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1945-1959 by Peter Parker 9780241370605
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.68Quite simply, this book is a work of genius - Matthew Parris, The SpectatorAn essential study of post-war gay London life... one of the best anthologies I have ever read - John Self, The ObserverWith... -
Queer and Catholic: A life of contradiction by Mark Dowd 9780232533095
Booksplease Price: £15.49This superb memoir of a gay, working class boy from Manchester exploring how to reconcile his sexuality with his Catholicism is all the more powerful because of his deep knowledge of and commitment... -
Memories of Margaret Thatcher: A portrait, by those who knew her best Iain Dale 9781785909764
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Margaret Thatcher is a British icon. There is no denying her place in history as Britain's greatest peacetime Prime Minister. In this centenary year of her birth she still bestrides the... -
Gordon Brown: Power with Purpose James Macintyre 9781526673411
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53'A serious and consequential analysis of a serious and consequential politician' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL'Fascinating and well written' MATTHEW PARRIS'Tells us more than we have ever known about this highly...