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Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all' Thomas Hardy is one of...
Following in the Footsteps of Edward II: A Historical Guide to the Medieval King
Edward II is famously one of England s most unsuccessful kings, as utterly different from his war-like father Edward I as any man possibly could be, and the first English...
The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England
For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising...
Keir Starmer: The Biography
THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER'Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs Britain' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL'This will be the most important political book of...
Everything the Light Touches
'A novel like none other' AMITAV GHOSH'A masterpiece' AVNI DOSHI'Wise, funny, touching' ROBERT MACFARLANE Winner, Sushila Devi 2023Winner, Atta Galatta 2023 for Best FictionWinner, AutHer Award 2023 for FictionFinalist, Tata...
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 Midnight Feast
WELCOME TO THE MANOR THE PARTY'S ON FIRE Readers are devouring it:'Delicious and darkly glamorous' LISA JEWELL'Totally gripping and a perfect page-turner' 'Midsommar meets The White Lotus' TOM HINDLE'Twisty from...
We Made a Garden
An elegant reissue of a classic book from one of the twentieth century's greatest garden writers.This landmark work on creating a garden was first published in 1956 and has rarely...
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...
By Fire and Sword: The Rise and Fall of English Supremacy at Arms: 1314-1485
Author: Peter ReidFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 975g, 416 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2007This is a re-evaluation of the rise and fall of English military supremacy. For...
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory
Author: Lisa JardineFormat: Hardback, 161mm x 239mm, 1118g, 400 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2008A fascinating exploration of the relationship of competition and assimilation between England and the Netherlands during...
Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire c.1300-1520
Author: P. J. P. Goldberg (Lecturer in History, Lecturer in History, University of York)Format: Hardback, 147mm x 225mm, 680g, 420 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 1992This is an innovative...
The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle
Author: Geoff AndrewsFormat: Hardback, 155mm x 226mm, 553g, 288 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2015James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies....
Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England: Working-Class Dress and Rural Life
Author: Rachel WorthFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2018In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the...
Little Darlings
Author: Melanie GoldingFormat: Hardback, 159mm x 240mm, 540g, 336 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2019'Atmospheric and very creepy' The Guardian 'Goosebump-inducing...Unforgettable' Woman & Home'Unforgettable...there is something of Sylvia Plath in...
Holy Grail and Holy Thorn: Glastonbury in the English Imagination
Author: Richard HaymanFormat: Paperback, 160 pagesPublished: Fonthill Media Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014The Holy Grail and Holy Thorn explores the legends of King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury and...
Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire c.1300-1520
Author: P. J. P. Goldberg (Lecturer in History, Lecturer in History, University of York)Format: Hardback, 147mm x 225mm, 680g, 420 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 1992This is an innovative...
Among the Wolves of Court: The Untold Story of Thomas and George Boleyn
Author: Lauren Mackay (Independent Historian, UK)Format: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 696g, 312 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2020The tragic story of Anne Boleyn has been retold over the centuries,...
The English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution
Author: Alice DaileyFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 514g, 350 pagesPublished: University of Notre Dame Press, United States, 2012Traditionally, Christian martyrdom is a repetition of the story of Christ's suffering and...
The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle
Author: Geoff AndrewsFormat: Hardback, 155mm x 226mm, 553g, 288 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2015James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies....
Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle
Author: Juliet BarkerFormat: Paperback, 126mm x 196mm, 370g, 528 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2006Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in...
The World According to Harry
Author: Harry RedknappFormat: Paperback, 126mm x 198mm, 200g, 256 pagesPublished: Ebury Publishing, United Kingdom, 2020The hilarious and revealing new book that finally gives us all of Harry - on the...
Three Lions: Football's Coming Home: Based on original song by Baddiel, Skinner, Lightning Seeds
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Author: ScholasticFormat: Paperback, 212mm x 251mm, 180g, 32 pagesPublished: Scholastic, United Kingdom, 2022"It's coming home, it's coming home, it's coming, football's coming home!" Sing along to the ultimate football anthem...
The Faber Book of London
Author: A.N. WilsonFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 217mm, 540g, 512 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2002From the Great Fire of 1666 to the Blitz of the Second World War, from...
The Royal Librarian
Author: Daisy WoodFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 270g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024A royal palace. A closed book. A betrayal that will echo through generations... Windsor, 1940: Secretly...
Everything the Light Touches
Author: Janice PariatFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 340g, 512 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023'A novel like none other' AMITAV GHOSH'A masterpiece' AVNI DOSHI'Wise, funny, touching' ROBERT MACFARLANE Winner, Sushila...
Imagining England's Past: Inspiration, Enchantment, Obsession
Author: Susan OwensFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 860g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023Imagining England's Past takes a long look at the country's invented histories, from the...
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
Author: Alexandra HarrisFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 450g, 416 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the...
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
Author: Alexandra HarrisFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 450g, 416 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the...
Laying Out the Bones
A TERRIBLE CRIME WAITS TO BE UNEARTHED.The second twisty and atmospheric Wiltshire-set crime novel in the DI Lockyer Series. Perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves and Val McDermid.A long, hot...
An Orphan's Wish
Will she be able to keep her family together? 'A novel that reminds us that there is always hope in the face of darkness' Katie Fforde After their parents die...
The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time
No life exists outside the times.This is a story about one young woman coming of age, and about the place and time that shaped her: the North of England in...
The Bone Hunters: A spellbinding historical novel about fossil hunting, ambition and betrayal
'An engrossing tale of a woman striving for the recognition she deserves in the face of male indifference and betrayal' SUNDAY TIMES 'Best historical fiction for February 2024'THE ESSEX SERPENT...
The Little Penguin Bookshop
Author: Joanna ToyeFormat: Paperback, 130mm x 198mm, 247g, 352 pagesPublished: Cornerstone, United Kingdom, 2024A captivating story about the power of Penguin books and how they brought people together during World...
A Place Called Home: (The Cliffehaven Series Book 19)
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THE NINETEENTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEANCliffehaven, 1946. The war is over and those who have spent years fighting behind enemy lines are finally coming home.Peggy...