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To Woo and to Wed: A smart and swoony Regency rom-com of second [...]
'[E]ffervescent... Sophie is a refreshingly candid protagonist, whose ability to stand up to the duke is evenly matched with the care and concern she has for her sisters. Waters's fans...
Scarlet Town
'A wonderful and compelling murder mystery' - LOUISE FEIN'A brilliantly entertaining historical crime' - PHILIPPA EAST'An elegant, richly detailed, historical joy' - KATE GRIFFIN1796. A rigged election. A town at...
The Winter List: Gripping historical thriller explores Charles [...]
Summer, 1660. Cromwell is dead and Charles Stuart has been restored to the throne. Men who supported the Protectorate are being hunted down as traitors. 'S. G. MacLean can make...
The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It
A panoramic new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in...
Nicholas & Alexandra: Nicholas & Alexandra
Nicholas & Alexandra is the internationally famous biography from Pulitzer prize-winner Robert Massie. Massie shows conclusively how the personal curse of the young heir's haemophilia, and the decisive influence it...
Blenheim: Battle for Europe
By the summer of 1704 Louis XIV's vast armies dominated Europe. France defeated every alliance formed against her and Louis was poised to extend his frontier to the Rhine and...
How to Create the Perfect Wife: The True Story of One Gentleman, [...]
This is the story of how Thomas Day, a young man of means, decided he could never marry a woman with brains, spirit or fortune. Instead, he adopted two orphan...
A Chalice Argent: A swashbuckling, epic tale of adventure: [...]
'Delightful ... William Neilson continues to exhibit basically all of the virtues. He's brave, stoical, generous, truthful, constant, protective towards the weak and honourable to a fault. Yet entirely likeable....
To Catch a Raven: Women Who Dare
"A living legend." -- Julia QuinnThe newest novel in USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins's compelling Women Who Dare series features a fearless grifter who goes undercover to reclaim the...
The Great Race: The Race Between the English and the French to [...]
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On the afternoon of 8 April 1802, in the remote southern ocean, two explorers had a remarkable chance encounter. Englishman Matthew Flinders and Frenchman Nicolas Baudin had been sent by...
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, [...]
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years reconstructs the life of Emma Goldman through significant texts and documents. These two volumes - part of a projected four-volume series...
Crisis Among the Great Powers: The Concert of Europe and the [...]
In 1840, conflict within the Ottoman Empire gave rise to a serious all-European crisis which led to a diplomatic rupture between France and other Great Powers. The crisis was given...
1815: Regency Britain in the Year of Waterloo
1815 was the year of Waterloo, the British victory that ended Napoleon's European ambitions and ushered in a century of peace for Britain. But what sort of country were Wellington's...
Battle of Plassey 1757
Britain was rapidly emerging as the most powerful European nation, a position France long believed to be her own. Yet with France still commanding the largest continental army, Britain saw...
Jonathan Swift: The Irish Identity
Jonathan Swift was internationally acclaimed in his own time for "Gulliver's Travels" and other satires in verse and prose. In his native Ireland, however, he was most fervently admired as...
Gettysburg Requiem: The Life of Colonel William C. Oates
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William C. Oates is best remembered as the Confederate officer defeated at Gettysburg's Little Round Top, losing a golden opportunity to turn the Union's flank and win the battle -...
A Tour in Scotland, 1772: And Voyage to the Hebrides
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In the summer of 1772, Thomas Pennant, together with three travelling companions, set out on a five month journey through the north of England, mainland Scotland and the Western Isles....
Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill
The award-winning, new definitive history of Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders"Thrilling. ... A CLASSIC." -True WestWINNER: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award; New Mexico-Arizona Book Award; and Colorado Book...
The High Road to China
_______________ 'Splendid and fascinating ... Teltscher has made remarkable use of her source material, aided by the constantly perceptive and witty tone of Bogle's own writings' - Patrick French, Sunday...
Reflections on the Revolution in France
As eighteenth-century Europe sizzled with revolutionary fervor fanned by the flames of the newly won freedom of the British colonies in America, one of the few lone voices of conservative...
Moses Mendelssohn's Hebrew Writings
German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was one of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment. Until now, attention was focused on Mendelssohn's German works-such as his groundbreaking Jerusalem-which have...
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
'To say that Atkinson can tell a story is like saying Sinatra can sing ... A powerful new voice has been added to the dialogue about [America's] origins as a...
The Scandal of George III's Court
From Windsor to Weymouth, the shadow of scandal was never too far from the walls of the House of Hanover. Did a fearsome duke really commit murder or a royal...
Waterloo Archive, Volume 1: British Sources
In the first ground breaking volume of a new series, acclaimed Napoleonic scholar Gareth Glover, brings together previously unpublished material relating to the Battle of Waterloo. The hitherto unseen material...
Lincoln and New York
Abraham Lincoln is, by tradition, one of American history's quintessential westerners. But Lincoln owed much of his national political success, not to mention his enshrinement in public memory, to his...
The Radicalism of the American Revolution: Pulitzer Prize Winner
In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a...
A PALMETTO BOY: Civil War-era Diaries and Letters of James Adams Tillman
This title offers an insightful view of major Civil War battles from a representation of one of South Carolina's most influential families. The Tillman family of Edgefield, South Carolina, is...
Inside the Regiment: The Officers and Men of the 30th Regiment During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
In this companion volume to her pioneering study Redcoats Against Napoleon, Carole Divall tells the fascinating inside story of a typical infantry regiment during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Rather...
Stephen Douglas: The Last Years, 1857-1861
Stephen Douglas and the old Union lived out their last years together. It was the most critical time in the life of both the Illinois senator and his country. During...
Queen Victoria's Skull: George Combe and the Mid-Victorian Mind
Queen Victoria's Skull explores the life and thinking of the Edinburgh phrenologist George Combe. Phrenology is a theory which claims to be able to detect personality traits, character and predisposition...
A PALMETTO BOY: Civil War-era Diaries and Letters of James Adams Tillman
This title offers an insightful view of major Civil War battles from a representation of one of South Carolina's most influential families. The Tillman family of Edgefield, South Carolina, is...
Civil War Dynasty: The Ewing Family of Ohio
For years the Ewing family of Ohio has been lost in the historical shadow cast by their in-law, General William T. Sherman. In the era of the Civil War, it...
Imagining the Arctic: Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration
Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to...
Dreams of a More Perfect Union
In a brilliantly conceived and elegantly written book, Rogan Kersh investigates the idea of national union in the United States. For much of the period between the colonial era and...
American Government in Ireland, 1790-1913: A History of the Us Consular Service
This book reconstructs American consular activity in Ireland from 1790 to 1913 and elucidates the interconnectedness of America's foreign interests, Irish nationalism and British imperialism. Its originality lies in that...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...