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“tom pendry”

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  • Taking It On the Chin

    Memoirs of a Parliamentary Bruiser

    by Tom Pendry ...
    Surely one of the most colourful characters ever to have graced the Palace of Westminster, Tom Pendry has been a boxer, a bruiser and a scholar, whose political career as an agent, candidate, Labour MP and peer has spanned over sixty years.As well as introducing key legislation, his time in Parliament saw him famously kick-start Tony Blair's political career, lead the first antiapartheid ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Seasons in the Sun

    The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979

    by Dominic Sandbrook ...
    Dominic Sandbrook's magnificent account of the late 1970s in Britain - the book behind the major BB2 series The SeventiesIn this gloriously colourful book, Dominic Sandbrook recreates the extraordinary period of the late 1970s in all its chaos and contradiction, revealing it as a decisive point in our recent history. Across the country, a profound argument about the future of the nation was being ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Live From Downing Street

    by Nick Robinson ...
    The relationship between politicians and broadcasters has always been fraught with tension. Today, every word and act of those who wield power is instantly broadcast and dissected on 24-hour rolling news channels, blogs and Twitter. But in the past, broadcasters were banned by law from debating anything newsworthy and Parliament imprisoned those who dared to report what MPs had said. Since that ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Just Mary: A Political Memoir From Mary O'Rourke

    by Mary O'Rourke ...
    In this memoir Mary O' Rourke writes, with remarkable candidness and humour, of personal and political events; of the many senior political figures with whom she worked, including Charles Haughey and Bertie Ahern; of her life with her beloved husband Enda; of her two dear Brians, both of whom died before their time; of her successes and disappointments. She does all this with honesty, energy and ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Political Animal

    by Jeremy Paxman ...
    Jeremy Paxman knows every maneouvre a politician will make to avoid answering a difficult question, but here he seeks an answer to just one: What makes politicians tick?Embarking on a journey in which he encounters movers and shakers past and present, he discovers:• that Prime Ministers have often lost a parent in childhood• why Trollope is the politician’s novelist of choice• that Lloyd George ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Who Dares Wins

    Britain, 1979-1982

    by Dominic Sandbrook ...
    SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 BY THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, LONDON EVENING STANDARD, DAILY MAIL AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'Magisterial ... If anyone wants to know what has been happening to Britain since the 1950s, it is difficult to imagine a more informative, or better-humoured guide ... a Thucydidean coolness, balance and wisdom that is superb.' - AN Wilson, The Times'Who Dares Wins</e... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Prisoner 1082: Escape from Crumlin Road Prison, Europe's Alcatraz

    by Donal Donnelly ...
    On St Stephen's Day 1960 Dónal Donnelly made his dramatic escape from the prison known as 'Europe's Alcatraz'. Three years earlier, the teenage Dónal had been convicted of membership of the IRA in the first year of 'Operation Harvest'. He was sentenced to ten years. Here he reflects on why he came to be on top of a prison wall risking his life. This is the story of a man who overcame the hurdles ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Prime Ministers We Never Had

    Success and Failure from Butler to Corbyn

    by Steve Richards ...
    BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and Prospect Was Harold Wilson a bigger figure than Denis Healey? Was John Major more 'prime ministerial' than Michael Heseltine? Would David Miliband have become prime minister if it were not for his brother Ed? Would Ed have become prime minister if it were not for David? How close did Jeremy Corbyn come to being prime minister? In this piercing and original ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Game for Hooligans

    The History of Rugby Union

    by Huw Richards ...
    Rugby union has undergone immense change in the past two decades - introducing a World Cup, accepting professionalism and creating a global market in players - yet no authoritative English-language general history of the game has been published in that time. Until now.A Game for Hooligans brings the game's colourful story up to date to include the 2007 World Cup. It covers all of the great matches ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Free At Last

    Diaries 1991 - 2001

    by Tony Benn ...
    Tony Benn is the longest serving MP in the history of the Labour Party. He left Parliament in 2001, after more than half a century in the House of Commons, to devote more time to politics. This volume of his Diaries describes and comments, in a refreshing and honest way, upon the events of a momentous decade including two world wars, a change of government in Britain and the emergence of New ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Celtic FC

    The Ireland Connection

    by Brian McGuirk ...
    Celtic Football Club has a huge support in Ireland, many of whom regularly travel to watch their team in Glasgow or follow them on TV. Now, "Celtic FC - The Ireland Connection" explores the deep-rooted links between Celtic Football Club, Ireland and the 90 million supporters of Irish descent throughout the world - links which include the club's founder Brother Walfrid from Sligo; the first sod of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Servants of the People

    The Inside Story of New Labour

    by Andrew Rawnsley ...
    'Downing Street is said to be 'furious' at this book - and it is easy to understand why. It is the first meticulous chronicle of all that has happened since that bright May Day three years ago which first brought the Blair government to office' Anthony Howard, Sunday Times ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD