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Parting Shots by Matthew Parris
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Matthew 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.02A 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: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84Matthew 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €2.34A 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02'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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.98The 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... -
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Scorn: The Wittiest and Wickedest Insults in Human History by Matthew Parris 9781781257296 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €2.86'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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €2.86'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... -
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Great Parliamentary Scandals: Five Centuries of Calumny, Smear and Innuendo by Matthew Parris 9781861057365 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €3.13Scandalously 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.40In 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... -
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Raised 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: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.70It 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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Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin 9780141040226 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €2.87Raised 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: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.22'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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The Bible for Grown-Ups: A New Look at the Good Book by Simon Loveday 9781785782633 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €2.34'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... -
Home at Grasmere: Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64A 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... -
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Telling Tales by Alan Bennett 9781846072604 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €3.76"To be brought up in Leeds in the forties was to learn early on the quite useful lesson that life is generally something that happens elsewhere." In this delightful collection of reminiscences... -
Said And Done Roger McGough 9780099478751
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.48Roger 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... -
The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91 by Anton Chekhov
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98The 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... -
The Tower: Tales from a Lost Country by Uwe Tellkamp
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.47In 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... -
Henry III (Penguin Monarchs): A Simple and God-Fearing King by Stephen Church
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.16'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 ... -
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Angry People in Local Newspapers by Alistair Coleman 9780241356623 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €2.34'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... -
Women of the Foreign Office: Britain's First Female Ambassadors by Elizabeth Warburton
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €15.70Since 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... -
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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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €3.01At 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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.28A 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 Political Animal by Jeremy Paxman
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84Jeremy 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... -
The Little Book of Brexit Bollocks by Alistair Beaton 9781471189166
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.12'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... -
Hilke's Diary: Germany, July 1940 - August 1945 Geseke Clark 9781803997414
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.08'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... -
A Christmas Cornucopia: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Yuletide Traditions by Mark Forsyth
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98BY 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: €10.70Booksplease Price: €9.57Dr 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: €35.70Booksplease Price: €25.80Quite 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: €18.43This 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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02Margaret 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... -
Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1960-1967 Peter Parker 9780241683705
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €25.80'Quite simply, this book is a work of genius' Matthew Parris, SpectatorThe second in a major two-part anthology uncovering the rich reality of life for queer men in London, from the end of the Second... -
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In the Midst of Life by Jennifer Worth 9780753827529 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €3.28The last collection of true-life nursing stories from the No.1 bestselling author of the CALL THE MIDWIFE series, soon to be a major BBC TV series.Jennifer Worth's bestselling memoirs of her time as... -
Credible and True: The Political and Personal Memoir of K. Harvey Proctor by Harvey Proctor 9781785900013
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.94Early in the morning of 4 March 2015, a fierce knock at the door heralded the start of a new chapter in Harvey Proctor's almost continuous relationship with the police and media, when officers from... -
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Chums: How a tiny group of Oxford Tories took over Britain by Simon Kuper 9781788167383 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.42THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 Power. Privilege. Parties. It's a very small world at the top. 'Brilliant ... traces Brexit back to the debating chambers of the Oxford... -
Sweet and Bitter Island: A History of the British in Cyprus by Tabitha Morgan 9781784533052
Booksplease Price: €31.65On a sweltering day in July, 1878 the men of the 42nd Royal Highlanders - the Black Watch - waded ashore at Larnaca Bay to begin the British occupation of Cyprus. Today, Britons on sunbeds colonise... -
The Victorians: Twelve Titans who Forged Britain by Jacob Rees-Mogg
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €18.12They built a nation. Now it's our turn.Many associate the Victorian era with austere social attitudes and filthy factories. But in this bold and provocative book, Jacob Rees-Mogg -- leading Tory MP... -
Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK by Simon Kuper
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.32Now with a new chapter on the end of the chumocracy era - and Oxford's upcoming elite for 2050. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 Power. Privilege. Parties. It's a very...