The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of A Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies by Andy Beckett
$75.00 AUD
Category: British
From the acclaimed author of Promised You a Miracle and When the Lights Went Out, the untold story of British politics in modern times, through the triumphs and disasters of its five most radical figures In the great revolutionary year of 1968, Tony Benn was a respectable Labour minister in his forties, ...Show more
The Lost Queen: The Surprising Life of Catherine of Braganza, Britain's Forgotten Monarch by Sophie Shorland
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
An enthralling portrait of Queen Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II, which brings her struggles vividly to life and reveals her forgotten place in British history.
Elusive by Frank Close
$27.00 AUD
Category: British
The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of it In the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers which have come to change our understanding of the most fundamental building blocks of matter and the ...Show more
Belfast - The Story of a City and Its People by Feargal Cochrane
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
A lively and inviting history of Belfast--exploring the highs and lows of a resilient city Modern Belfast is a beautiful city with a vibrant tradition of radicalism, industry, architectural innovation, and cultural achievement. But the city's many qualities are all too frequently overlooked, its ima ...Show more
Warriors in Scarlet: The Life and Times of the Last Redcoats by Ian Knight
$65.00 AUD
Category: British
Ian Knight's Warriors in Scarlet is a comprehensive and stirring history of the Victorian army between 1837 to 1860, from the Battle of Bossendon Wood to the Crimean War, a period of seismic change. An acclaimed military historian, Knight draws on first-hand accounts to show us the reality of life for ...Show more
Haywire - A Political History of Britain in the Twenty-First Century by Andrew Hindmoor
$70.00 AUD
Category: British
Vladimir Lenin, an occasional resident of North London who went on to other things, has been credited with once saying that there are decades where nothing happens but weeks when decades happen. The first two and a half decades of this century in Britain have had plenty of those weeks. Indeed, our recen ...Show more
The Royal Palaces: Secrets and Scandals by Kate Williams
$60.00 AUD
Category: British
Royal expert and TV historian Kate Williams lets you in on the secrets of The Royal Palaces in this exploration of regal residences, past and present.
Masters of the Air: How the Bomber Boys Broke Down the Nazi War Machine by Donald L. Miller
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
Soon to be a major television event from Apple TV and Steven Spielberg, and companion to Band of Brothers and The Pacific. 'Seconds after Brady's plane was hit, the Hundredth's entire formation was broken up and scattered by swarms of single-engine planes, and by rockets launched by twin-engine planes t ...Show more
The English Soul: Faith of a Nation by Peter Ackroyd
$40.00 AUD
Category: British
From celebrated historian and writer Peter Ackroyd, a magisterial portrayal of English Christianity over the centuries. This book portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity, as it has developed over the last fourteen hundred years. During this time, Christianity has been the predominant ...Show more
Keir Starmer - The Biography by Tom Baldwin
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
KEIR STARMER: The Biography is an authoritative study of a man who now stands on the brink of becoming Britain's next Prime Minister. If he succeeds, Starmer will be the first Labour leader in a generation to win power, even though most voters still say they don't know much about him. It not only tells ...Show more
The Blazing World - A New History of Revolutionary England by Jonathan Healey
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
A WATERSTONES, TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST AND NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEARA major new history of England's turbulent seventeenth century and how it marked the birth of a new world'This is a wonderful book, exhaustively researched, vigorously argued and teeming with the furious joy of seventeenth-century life' ...Show more
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE A SPECTATOR, WATERSTONES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, PROSPECT AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism- the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth cen ...Show more