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Remember, Remember
Gunpowder, treason and a plot like no other...**AN OBSERVER TOP 10 DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2024****LONGLISTED FOR SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - FIRST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024**'This story ignites a...
The Duchess: The Scandalous Ladies of London
The thrilling second book in New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan's amazing new high concept series, The Scandalous Ladies of London, which chronicles the lives of a group of...
Remember, Remember
Gunpowder, treason and a plot like no other...**AN OBSERVER TOP 10 DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2024****LONGLISTED FOR SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - FIRST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024**'This story ignites a...
With Napoleon's Guns: The Military Memoirs of an Officer of the First Empire
In 1795 the year Napoleon Bonaparte was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French army in Italy the seventeen-year-old Jean-Nicolas-Auguste Noel entered the Artillery School at Chalons. A year later, with Napoleon...
British Battles of the Crimean Wars 1854-1856: Despatches from the Front
Author: John GrehanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 208 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014The Crimean War was the most destructive armed conflict of the Victorian era. It...
The Long Road To Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution
Author: Richard SlotkinFormat: Hardback, 168mm x 244mm, 873g, 512 pagesPublished: WW Norton & Co, United States, 2012In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted fighting, Abraham Lincoln decided...
The United States Navy in the Pacific, 1897-1909
Author: William R. BraistedFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 295 pagesPublished: Naval Institute Press, United States, 2008Professor William R. Braisted tells the story of the twelve important years during which the...
The Sultan's Yemen: 19th Century Challenges to Ottoman Rule
Author: Caesar E. FarahFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 384 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2002In the 19th century, when the Ottoman Empire restored direct rule over Yemen, the resulting...
Clive: Founder of British India
Author: C. Brad FaughtFormat: Hardback, 263g, 140 pagesPublished: Potomac Books Inc, United States, 2013Robert Clive (1725-1774), later 1st Baron Clive, is widely considered the founder of British India. He arrived...
A Kiss in the Moonlight: A Gambler's Daughters Novel
Author: Cathy MaxwellFormat: Paperback, 106mm x 168mm, 454g, 368 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell begins a spectacular new series, the Gambler's...
The Sultan's Yemen: 19th Century Challenges to Ottoman Rule
Author: Caesar E. FarahFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 384 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2002In the 19th century, when the Ottoman Empire restored direct rule over Yemen, the resulting...
Indigenous Art in the Collection of the Australian National University
Author: Mick DodsonFormat: Hardback, 208 pagesPublished: Macmillan Art Publishing, Australia, 2009With essays by Mick Dodson, Mary Eagle, Howard Morphy, Jon Altman, Luke Taylor, Nicholas Peterson, Alison French and Melinda Hinkson...
Defiance: The Life and Choices of Lady Anne Barnard
Author: Stephen TaylorFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 340g, 400 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2017Lady Anne Barnard lived at the heart of Georgian society, yet was never fully part...
A Nest of Vipers
Author: Catherine JohnsonFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 174g, 256 pagesPublished: Penguin Random House Children's UK, United Kingdom, 2021A gripping tale of a group of larger-than-life con artists who roam the...
Fusiliers
Author: Mark UrbanFormat: Paperback, 127mm x 198mm, 323g, 416 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2008From Lexington Green in 1775 to Yorktown in 1781, one regiment marched thousands of miles...
A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind
Author: Rachel HewittFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 414g, 560 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2018In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke called 'the most important of all...
In Her Own Words: The Writings of Elizabeth Macquarie
Author: Robin WalshFormat: Leather / fine binding, 250mm x 270mm, 264 pagesPublished: Exisle Publishing, Australia, 2011'In Her Own Words: The writings of Elizabeth Macquarie' is a beautifully presented volume containing...
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels
Author: Adam NicolsonFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 410g, 400 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019'This is a book of wonders' Sunday Times'Spellbinding and intelligent'...
Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon
Author: John HemmingFormat: Hardback, 172mm x 235mm, 1000g, 368 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Richard Spruce were English naturalists who went...
Russia of the Tsars
Author: Peter WaldronFormat: Paperback, 170mm x 210mm, 480g, 144 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2011Between the 17th century and the 1917 revolution, the Russian Tsars became absolute rulers...
The Water Child
Author: Mathew WestFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 216mm, 320g, 304 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023What the sea takes for its own can never return... Portugal, 1754. Cecilia Lamb knew being...
Caspar Wolf: and the Aesthetic Conquest of Nature
Author: Kunstmuseum BaselFormat: Hardback, 220mm x 250mm, 1170g, 232 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2014The notion of the Alps as a magnificent natural spec tacle is surprisingly recent. It was not...
Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon
Author: John HemmingFormat: Hardback, 172mm x 235mm, 1000g, 368 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Richard Spruce were English naturalists who went...
The Print Before Photography: An introduction to European Printmaking 1550 - 1820
Author: Antony GriffithsFormat: Hardback, 245mm x 288mm, 2970g, 560 pagesPublished: British Museum Press, United Kingdom, 2016Winner of the 2017 IFPDA Book Award, honouring excellence in research, scholarship, and the discussion...
Truxtun of the "Constellation": The Life of Commodore Thomas Truxtun, U.S.Navy, 1755-1822
Thomas Truxtun was one of the first six captains President Washington appointed to the United States Navy in 1794. Truxtun therefore ranks with men like John Paul Jones in the...