The Prime Ministers: Reflections on Leadership from Wilson to May
By: Steve Richards
4.05
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
A landmark history of the men and women who have defined the UK's role in the modern world - and wh…
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1. Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags
By: Tim Marshall
4.03
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
When you see your nation's flag fluttering in the breeze, what do you feel? For thousands of years … read more
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2. The Places in Between
By: Rory Stewart
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Pers… read more
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3. Black and British: A Forgotten History
By: David Olusoga
3.98
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
A vital re-examination of a shared history, published to accompany the landmark BBC Two series. In … read more
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4. A Journey: My Political Life
By: Tony Blair
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
In 1997, the biggest Labour victory in history swept England, ending eighteen years of Conservative… read more
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5. All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class
By: Tim Shipman
3.00
Format: 146 pages,
'Tim Shipman's dispatches from the political front line are a must read' NICK ROBINSON Politics was… read more
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6. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
7. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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8. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
9. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more
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10. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
11. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't
By: Ian Dunt
4.45
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more
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12. Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
By: Oliver Bullough
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In his punchy follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World unravels the dark secre… read more
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13. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History
By: Jeremy Bowen
4.38
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more
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14. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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15. Why is this Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV
By: Rob Burley
4.23
Format: 446 pages, Kindle Edition
A deliciously irreverent and humorous insider account of 25 years working at the very top of Britis… read more
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16. But What Can I Do?
By: Alastair Campbell
3.87
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders wh… read more
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17. Johnson at 10: The Inside Story
By: Anthony Seldon
4.22
Format: 662 pages, Hardcover
***Chosen as a non-fiction highlight of 2023 in The Times and the Observer *** After his dramatic … read more
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18. The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
By: Andrew Doyle
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
'A sober but devastating skewering of cancel culture and the moral certainties it shares with relig… read more
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"Where the New Left promoted the politics of unity, today’s intersectional reactionaries promote the politics of division."-Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
"Theres no harm un recognizing the more vindictive side of human nature, so long as we do not allow our reason to be dominated by our passion."-Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
"The belief of the apparatchiks of Critical Social Justice - that all our problems will magically disappear once we outlaw certain points of view or words that cause 'harm' - is a utopian delusion."-Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
"Just as the symbol of Christ's crucifix encapsulates the triumph of the victim and has been exploited historically as a means to exert power over others, the rainbow Pride flag now serves a similar f…"-Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
19. Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War
By: Tim Marshall
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular wr… read more
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20. The Prime Ministers: 55 Leaders, 55 Authors, 300 Years of History
By: Iain Dale
3.91
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
'Many of my predecessors were giants, some had feet of clay, all possessed human foibles.' - From t… read more
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21. Haven’t You Heard?: Gossip, Power, and How Politics Really Works
By: Marie Le Conte
3.84
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In Haven't You Heard...? , Marie Le Conte looks at the role gossip plays in all areas of politics -… read more
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22. Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn
By: Gabriel Pogrund
4.01
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
The 2017 parliament began with Labour on the precipice of power, and its left-most fringe - for so … read more
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23. The Prime Ministers: Reflections on Leadership from Wilson to May
By: Steve Richards
4.05
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
A landmark history of the men and women who have defined the UK's role in the modern world - and wh… read more
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24. The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Full Story
By: Sebastian Payne
3.72
Format: 282 pages, ebook
Boris Johnson was touted as the saviour of the country and the Conservative Party, obtaining a huge… read more
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25. What Does Jeremy Think? Jeremy Heywood and the Making of Modern Britain
By: Suzanne Heywood
4.31
Format: 556 pages, Hardcover
As a young civil servant, Jeremy Heywood’s insightful questioning of the status quo pushed him to t… read more
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26. The Prime Ministers We Never Had: Success and Failure from Butler to Corbyn
By: Steve Richards
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and ProspectWas Harold Wilson a bigger figure than Denis Heal… read more
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27. Banking On It
By: Anne Boden
4.21
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
'I surprised myself the first time I fully articulated the words "I'm starting a bank"'Banking On I… read more
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"The thing that all these businesses [Amazon, Facebook and Google] have in common is they are disruptors. The foundations of their businesses are not unique. They have identified a problem that a larg…"-Anne Boden, Banking On It
28. Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
By: Otto English
3.96
Format: 495 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the gr… read more
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29. Turning Points: Crisis and Change in Modern Britain, from 1945 to Truss
By: Steve Richards
4.10
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of the most consequential events in post-war British politics from Steve R… read more
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30. Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power
By: Sasha Swire
3.47
Format: 591 pages, Kindle Edition
What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the l… read more
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31. How Britain Really Works: Understanding the Ideas and Institutions of a Nation
By: Stig Abell
3.82
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Getting to grips with Great Britain is harder than ever. We are a nation that chose Brexit, rejects… read more
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