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Gladstone by Roy Jenkins
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.39Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year.William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three of... -
Churchill by Roy Jenkins
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €17.46From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to eventual victory over Nazi Germany, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever seen. Winning the... -
Churchill by Roy Jenkins 9780330488051 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €3.01From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to the Nobel Prize, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the World has ever seen. Roy Jenkins faithfully presents... -
The New Labour Experiment: Change and Reform Under Blair and Brown by Florence Faucher-King 9780804762359
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €20.02The book provides a clear assessment of the New Labour public policies and their outcomes in Britain under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1997-2009. Authors Florence Faucher-King... -
Never Shaken, Never Stirred: The Story of Ann Fleming and Laura, Duchess of Marlborough by Christopher Reindorp
RRP: €27.59Booksplease Price: €16.79Glamorous, fun and packed with scandalous anecdotes and exclusive interviews, Never Shaken, Never Stirred tells the story of two extraordinary sisters, Ann and Laura Charteris, who made marrying well... -
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900 by Andrew Roberts 9781474614184 [USED COPY]
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €4.51'Roberts boldly dons Churchill's own mantle, setting out to continue where Churchill's four volumes left off, which was in 1901. The mantle fits ... an advocate of Churchillian eloquence' Mail on... -
Eminent Churchillians Andrew Roberts 9781857992137
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.07A controversial account of the Churchill years by a bestselling historian.'The best sort of history - revealing, gossipy and acidulous' OBSERVERThis highly praised book by the Wolfson History... -
Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership by Andrew Roberts
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60'His book is timely and a triumph. Roberts manages to convey all the reader needs to know about two men to whom battalions of biographies have been devoted' EVENING STANDARDAdolf Hitler and Winston... -
His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill by Christopher Catherwood
Booksplease Price: €21.82'A gem. Brief, authoritative and fair in its judgements - an intensely readable introduction to this most complex and fascinating man' - Graham Farmelo, award-winning author of The Strangest ManA new... -
Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61'Thrilling, tremendously enjoyable' The New York Times'A nail-biting escape story' Financial TimesAt the age of twenty-four, Winston Churchill already believed he was destined for greatness. This is... -
The Prime Ministers We Never Had: Success and Failure from Butler to Corbyn by Steve Richards
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and ProspectWas Harold Wilson a bigger figure than Denis Healey? Was John Major more 'prime ministerial' than Michael Heseltine? Would David Miliband have become... -
Never Shaken, Never Stirred: The Story of Ann Fleming and Laura, Duchess of Marlborough Christopher Reindorp 9781837051229
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.72'Reindorp has done a stellar job of balancing their privilege and pathos.' - The Lady'Everyone in this book seems to be awash with booze.' - The TelegraphGlamorous, fun and packed with scandalous... -
Churchill: A Life by Martin Gilbert 9780712667258 [USED COPY]
RRP: €48.00Booksplease Price: €3.76This edition of the highly acclaimed one-volume Churchill: A Life, is the story of adventure. It follows Winston Churchill from his earliest days to his moments of triumph. Here, the drama and... -
Harold Wilson: The Prime Ministers Series Alan Johnson 9781800753327
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.92'The finest prose stylist in the House of Commons since Roy Jenkins' Mark Lawson WINNER OF A WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARD Harold Wilson was one of the most successful politicians of the twentieth... -
Harold Wilson: The Winner by Nick Thomas-Symonds 9781474611961
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.73Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In total he won four General Elections, spending nearly eight years in Downing... -
Pistols at Dawn: Two Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt and Fox to Blair and Brown by John Campbell
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.79Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone. Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher. Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. Personal rivalry is the very stuff of politics. The causes and controversies, the parties and... -
Pistols at Dawn by John Campbell 9780224080668 [USED COPY]
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €3.16Personal rivalry is the very stuff of politics. The causes and controversies, the parties and the technology have changed, but political conflict is still dramatised by the competition of ambitious... -
Margaret Thatcher: Volume One: The Grocer's Daughter by John Campbell 9780099516767
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.79'A fascinating account... Campbell's research is as exhaustive as it is meticulous' ObserverWhen Margaret Thatcher unexpectedly emerged to challenge Edward Heath for the Conservative Party leadership... -
Operation Morthor: The Last Great Mystery of the Cold War by Ravi Somaiya 9780241975022 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €6.40LONGLISTED FOR THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'One of the mysteries I've long been fascinated by, and I am so grateful that Ravi Somaiya has cracked it open so brilliantly' David Grann, author... -
Suez: Britain's End of Empire in the Middle East Keith Kyle 9781848855335
Booksplease Price: €34.36This title includes a new Foreword by WM. Roger Louis. On 26 July 1956, the British Empire received a blow from which it would never recover. On this day, Egypt's President Gamal Abdul Nasser... -
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There by Sinclair McKay 9781845136338 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €1.78Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched... -
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There Sinclair McKay 9781845136338
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched... -
Making the Weather: Six Politicians Who Changed Modern Britain: 2024 Vernon Bogdanor 9781914979088
RRP: €26.40Booksplease Price: €18.80Making the Weather is the story of six post-war politicians, all of whom exerted an outsized influence on the political life of the UK: an influence greater than that of most prime ministers. Vernon... -
John Major: The Autobiography by John Major 9780006530749 [USED COPY]
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €3.31'The best memoir by a senior politician for years.' Simon Jenkins, Sunday Times John Major's autobiography is one of the most personal and revealing ever written by a former British Prime... -
Tony Benn: A Biography Jad Adams 9781785909498
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.14For half a century, Tony Benn was Britain's leading radical, defying the leadership of the Labour Party and staking out the moral high ground. This comprehensively revised edition of Jad... -
Never Again: Britain 1945-1951 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.92Winner of the Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the NCR Award for Non-Fiction From the high politics of Court and Cabinet room to the kitchen or the queue, Peter Hennessy's Never Again: Britain 1945-51, the... -
Autobiography by Betty Boothroyd 9780712679480 [USED COPY]
RRP: €21.59Booksplease Price: €3.01The enormous respect and affection of the British public for Betty Boothroyd has its roots in a strong belief in what she stands for: fair play, an unshakeable sense of honour and a passionate belief... -
Limehouse by Steve Waters
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.72A divisive left-wing leader at the helm of the Labour Party. A Conservative prime minister battling with her cabinet. An identity crisis on a national scale. This is Britain 1981. One Sunday... -
William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner by William Hague
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.35William Hague has written the life of William Wilberforce who was both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the slave trade. Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his... -
Betty Boothroyd Autobiography by Betty Boothroyd
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.35The enormous respect and affection of the British public for Betty Boothroyd has its roots in a strong belief in what she stands for: fair play, an unshakeable sense of honour and a passionate belief... -
Betty Boothroyd Autobiography by Betty Boothroyd 9780099427049 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €2.89The enormous respect and affection of the British public for Betty Boothroyd has its roots in a strong belief in what she stands for: fair play, an unshakeable sense of honour and a passionate belief... -
God's Biker: Motorcycles and Misfits by 9780281079438
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €10.37Zac's Place is a church in Swansea. It is a small chaotic community of Jesus followers where the most fragile of life's walking wounded try to work out their faith, because they quite simply wouldn't... -
God's Biker: Motorcycles and Misfits by Sean Stillman
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.86Zac's Place is a church in Swansea. It is a small chaotic community of Jesus followers where the most fragile of life's walking wounded try to work out their faith, because they quite simply wouldn't...