The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides
$37.00 AUD
Category: British
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, the epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, culminating in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and a complex and controversial legacy debated to this day. On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the ...Show more
Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State by Caroline Burt
$55.00 AUD
Category: British
A lively, new and sweeping history of the rise of the state in Plantagenet England. A lively, new and sweeping history of the rise of the state in Plantagenet England.Between 1199 and 1399, English politics was high drama. These two centuries witnessed savage political blood-letting - including civil wa ...Show more
Power and Glory: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty by Alexander Larman
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
Power and Glory brings us to the dramatic conclusion of Larman's 'Windsors trilogy'. It begins with the fallout from the revelation of the Duke of Windsor's wartime treachery, and ends with the Coronation of Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. In between, it depicts a monarchy - and a country - struggling to c ...Show more
Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before there was any possibility of 'a room of one's own'. In an innovative and engaging narrative of eve ...Show more
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
$27.00 AUD
Category: British
"This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all names, dates or ungraspable historical headwinds, but instead show how it's really just a bunch of random stuff that happened with a fe ...Show more
The Game of Hearts - The Lives and Loves of Regency Women by Felicity Day
$33.00 AUD
Category: British
From glossy costume dramas to gripping reads, the glamorous world of Regency London's Bon Ton is synonymous with romance - a place where dashing heroes and independently minded heroines flirt, fight and side-step scandal, all while in pursuit of the perfect match. But who were the real women who went lo ...Show more
Churchill's Wit: The Definitive Collection by Richard M. Langworth
$30.00 AUD
Category: British
The ultimate guide to the wonderful wit of our nation's greatest leader Charismatic, erudite and often controversial Winton Churchill was one of the most inspiring leaders of the 20th century, and one of its greatest wits. His much-celebrated sense of fun and mischief has led to many of his jokes and ri ...Show more
The Rising Down by Alexandra Harris
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
An ancient church sheltering a medieval anchorite who chose to be buried alive. The country estate parading a menagerie of exotic animals. The cottage where William Blake received the poetic spirit of Milton. A safe house harbouring secret agents from wartime French resistance networks. When the celebr ...Show more
Thorns, Lust and Glory: The betrayal of Anne Boleyn by Estelle Paranque
$37.00 AUD
Category: British
An exciting new telling of the life of Anne Boleyn, using new archival research to reveal the woman behind the myth, from the acclaimed historian Dr Estelle Paranque. A queen on the edge. Anne Boleyn has mesmerised the English public for centuries. Her tragic execution, orchestrated by her own husband, ...Show more
How They Broke Britain by James O'Brien
$37.00 AUD
Category: British
THE REVEALING, DEFINING ACCOUNT OF THE DARK NETWORK THAT BROKE OUR COUNTRY.'An exceptional broadcaster' - Guardian 'Consistently, forensically, brilliant' - Emily Maitlis Something has gone really wrong in Britain. Our economy has tanked, our freedoms are shrinking, and social divisions are grow ...Show more
The Britannias: An Island Quest by Alice Albinia
$55.00 AUD
Category: British
The story of Britain told through its islands - a personal journey through an ancient landscape The Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are woven into its collective cultural psyche. From Neolithic Orkney to modern-day Thanet, Alice Albinia explores the furthest reaches of Brita ...Show more
Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe by Julia John; Fox Guy
$40.00 AUD
Category: British
A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and changed England forever. The story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn is one of the most remarkable in history: a long courtship followed by a shotgun wedding and then a coronation, ending j ...Show more