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Flying Boats of the Solent and Poole by Mike Phipp
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.80Flying boats have been a familiar sight in the Solent since the dawn of aviation. Two of Britain's major manufactures, Saunders-Roe and Supermarine, were based in Cowes and Woolston respectively. The... -
Dorset Aviation Through Time by Mike Phipp
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Often regarded as a quiet holiday county, in fact Dorset has many aviation connections. As early as 1908 Bleriots were being built by Bournemouth businessmen, the Royal Navy undertook first landing... -
Bournemouth Airport Through Time by Mike Phipp
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Bournemouth Airport was first opened as RAF Hurn on 1 August 1941, one of the bases established by the RAF to counter the Luftwaffe presence across the Channel in northern France. RAF Hurn would go... -
Dorset Railways Through Time by Mike Phipp 9781398108547
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.49Dorset has always been an important railway county, catering for holidaymakers heading to the resorts of Bournemouth, Swanage and Weymouth. As part of the mid-nineteenth-century desire for railways... -
George Errington: A Test Pilot's Story by Mike Phipp 9781445695228
Booksplease Price: £17.96George Errington was a well-known and popular test pilot from 1935 to 1955. His name appeared frequently in aviation magazines of the time and he ranks with the likes of Cunningham, Duke, Falk and... -
BAE Hawk: Fifty Years of Service Mike Phipp 9781398125193
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68The BAE Hawk jet trainer was first delivered to the RAF in November 1976 - fifty years ago. Since then, the aircraft has been extensively used by the RAF (and Royal Navy), still seeing service with... -
21 Dirty Tricks at Work: How to Beat the Game of Office Politics Mike Phipps (Politics at Work Ltd, UK) 9781841126579
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.9021 Dirty Tricks at Work is about lies. The type of underhand, pernicious and downright Machiavellian scheming that goes on in business every day. An estimated GBP7.8bn is lost each year in the UK... -
George Orwell Illustrated by Mike Mosher 9781608467839
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50With 'alternative facts' and newspeak the order of the political day, a growing audience for George Orwell's work has emerged. Orwell is one of the most celebrated twentieth-century literary figures,... -
Labour's Antisemitism Crisis: What the Left Got Wrong and How to Learn From It by David Renton
Booksplease Price: £26.09Between 2015 and 2020 the Labour Party was riven by allegations that the party had tolerated antisemitism.For the Labour right, and some in the media, the fact that such allegations could be made was... -
No Free Speech for Fascists: Exploring 'No Platform' in History, Law and Politics by David Renton
Booksplease Price: £26.09No Free Speech for Fascists explores the choice of anti-fascist protesters to demand that the opportunities for fascists to speak in public places are rescinded, as a question of history, law, and... -
Searching for Socialism: The Project of the Labour New Left from Benn to Corbyn by Leo, Colin Panitch, Leys
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Jeremy Corbyn's rapid ascent to the leadership of the Labour Party, driven by a groundswell of popular support particularly among the young, was met at the time by a baffled media. Just where did... -
The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine by Andrew Cockburn 9781839763687
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Fully updated from the original edition. As the retreat from Kabul shows, America goes to war not to bring democracy, or glory, but in the pursuit of profit. In The Spoils of War, leading Washington... -
The Shadow of the Mine: Coal and the End of Industrial Britain by Ray Hudson
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.35No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday - and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed... -
The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies Andy Beckett 9780141990552
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In the great revolutionary year of 1968, Tony Benn was a respectable Labour minister in his forties, and he was restless. While new social movements were shaking up Britain and much of the world,... -
Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care by Lynne Segal 9781804292945
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.96Have you ever relied on the kindness of strangers? What brings people together to find hope and solidarity? What do we owe each other as citizens and comrades?Questions of care, intimacy, education,... -
August in Kabul: America's Last Days in Afghanistan by Mr Andrew Quilty
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.21Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut book offers a remarkable record of this historic moment. As night fell on 15 August... -
Act Now: A Vision for a Better Future and a New Social Contract Common Sense Policy Group 9781526180759
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £73.69An inspiring manifesto offering a radical vision for our political future.We live in an age of crisis and decline. The right presents 'solutions' that only worsen the situation, driving a downward... -
Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK by Simon Kuper
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Now 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... -
Chums: How a tiny group of Oxford Tories took over Britain by Simon Kuper 9781788167383 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.44THE 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... -
The Shadow of the Mine: Coal and the End of Industrial Britain by Ray Hudson 9781839767982
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.66The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday, the heroics and betrayals of the Miners' Strike, and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed.No one... -
Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present by Nadje Sadig Al-Ali 9781842777459
Booksplease Price: £37.42The war in Iraq has put the condition of Iraqi women firmly on the global agenda. For years, their lives have been framed by state oppression, economic sanctions and three wars. Now they must play...