Haywire - A Political History of Britain in the Twenty-First Century by Andrew Hindmoor
$55.00 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
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 r ...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
The Rising Down by Alexandra Harris
$50.00 AUD
$75.00 (33% off)
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
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
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 Irish: Tales of Emigration, Exile and Imperialism by Turtle Bunbury
$30.00 AUD
Category: British
Explore the lives of over forty men and women - great and otherwise - whose pioneering journeys beyond the Irish shore played a profound role in world history.The Irish have always been a travelling people. Since 1800 an estimated 10 million people have left the Irish shores, and today more than 80 mill ...Show more