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A Year in the Life of Windsor and Eton
The Royal Borough of Windsor is home to two of the UK's Top 20 Visitor Attractions (Windsor Castle and Legoland) but also boasts Eton College, The Changing of the Guard,...
Peterborough Cathedral 2001-2006: From Devastation to Restoration
The first part of this book is a personal account of the process of restoring the cathedral after a devastating fire in November 2001, illustrated with color photographs. The second...
Pier Review: A Road Trip in Search of the Great British Seaside
Fifty-five piers. Two weeks. One eccentric road trip. Before the seaside of their youth disappears forever, two friends from the landlocked Midlands embark on a peculiar journey to see all...
Moorlands of England
The book titled Moorlands of England by the author Adam Hopkins. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
A thrilling joint biography of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, uncovering how their complex 30-year relationship shaped their dynasties, perfect for fans of Alison Weir and Tracy Borman. 'A...
London at Home
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This photographic book records a cross-section of Londoners in their home environment, ranging from a single man living in a tent with two dogs to a family of 17 Lubavitch...
Fields in the English Landscape
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The book titled Fields in the English Landscape by the author Christopher Taylor. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Wetland: Life in the Somerset Levels
Patrick Sutherland's photographs and Adam Nicolson's prose capture the existences of the men and women for whom this part of England forms the background and substance of their lives. As...
The Prisoner of Measham Hall: The highly praised and brilliantly
The third gripping novel in this highly acclaimed and brilliantly realised seriesFor readers who loved Andrew Miller's historical novels, Francis Spufford's Golden Hill or Leonora Nattrass's Lawrence Jago seriesNominee for...
Bedford Square: An Architectural Study
The book titled Bedford Square: An Architectural Study by the author Andrew Byrne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display
This illustrated account reveals how the exhibition was conceived and planned, why it was a success, what it meant to the millions of visitors, challenges the common view that it...
George IV
This biography of King George IV provides a reassessment of the monarch's character, reputation and achievement. It examines his important contributions to the cultural enhancement of his capital and his...
Londoners
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The book titled Londoners by the author Nicholas Shakespeare. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape
From the author of Cider With Rosie, this is a moving, lyrical portrait of the landscape of Laurie Lee's world. 'Living in our valley was like broad beans in a...
The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
From the author of She-Wolves, the epic story of a rivalry that brought the nation to the brink of disaster - and back again Richard of Bordeaux and Henry Bolingbroke...
Six Weeks by the Sea
From the bestselling biographer and author of the book that inspired the BBC TV series - Jane Austen Rise of a Genius - comes a gorgeously escapist novel about the...
The Lost Girl from Far Away: an emotional and heartwarming saga from
The heartbreaking new novel from the author of An Orphan's Wish . Newly arrived in England, Isabella finds herself all alone after the tragic death of her mother. Desperate for...
Arundel Castle
Arundel Castle is a great Norman and medieval fortification, built after 1067 on the same plan and at the same time as Windsor. Its revival as a country house in...
London Architecture: Features and Facades
The buildings of London are its glory and its character. Matthew Weinreb, a native Londoner and architectural photographer, has devoted much of his career to chronicling the architecture of the...
Imagination Headquarters, London 1990, Herron Associates
Part of a series of technically informative monographs embracing a broad spectrum of internationally renowned buildings. This work deals with the Imagination headquarters in London, and includes a comprehensive set...
Oxford College Gardens
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The gardens of Oxford's thirty or so colleges are surprisingly varied in style, age and size, ranging from the ancient mound in the middle of New College to the fine...
Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South
This authoritative guide, the companion to Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North , covers a vast area marked by tremendous diversity of both landscape and buildings. The territory...
Hardwick Hall: A Great Old Castle of Romance
Originally constructed in the late 16th century for the notorious Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury, Hardwick Hall is now among the National Trust's greatest architectural landmarks, with much of...
Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North
Covering the northern half of Yorkshire, this volume is full of contrasts, from urbanized Leeds to the tight-knit mill towns and villages pushing into the Pennines.
Newcastle and Gateshead: Pevsner City Guide
A lively and authoritative survey of the buildings of Tyneside, from the medieval castle and cathedral at Newcastle to the spectacular buildings spearheading the renaissance of Gateshead on the river's...
Brighton and Hove: Pevsner City Guide
This book is the first comprehensive guide to the historic heart of Brighton and Hove, the greatest of England's seaside resorts. A series of walks trace its development from late...
Leeds: Pevsner City Guide
Leeds has a rich commercial tradition and fine buildings to match. This absorbing book provides the first authoritative and detailed guide to that architecture. The city's prosperity, founded on the...
Birmingham: Pevsner City Guide
This is a detailed, authoritative, and easy-to-use guide to the architectural wealth of England's second city, the "workshop of the world." Birmingham's major buildings include its splendid English Baroque cathedral,...
Bristol: Pevsner City Guide
This comprehensive guide to the architecture of the center of the City of Bristol encompasses all the significant buildings of the area: the cathedrals; key civic buildings; medieval, Georgian, and...
Bath: Pevsner City Guide
This delightful book is the first comprehensive architectural guide to Bath, England's finest Georgian city. Full of new discoveries and lively descriptions of the city's notable buildings, the book follows...
Manchester: Pevsner City Guide
This guide examines the full range and variety of Manchester's buildings old and new, from the medieval buildings of the cathedral and Cheetham's School to the architecture of the city's...
Imperial London: Civil Government Building in London 1851-1915
This important book tells the story of the public buildings erected in London during the period when that city served as the capital of a worldwide empire. Examining a wide...
English Houses, 1200-1800: The Hertfordshire Evidence
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English Houses details over six centuries of architectural history. Country houses, modest town houses and great halls are examined providing insights into the minds of the great builders from the...
Courage for the Cabinet Girl
If you love the bestselling historical fiction author Molly Green, her newest heartfelt, engrossing World War Two saga is out now: make sure you read The Wartime Librarian's Secret !...
We Must Be Brave
We can't choose who we love. We can choose who we fight for. 'A powerful story that proves how love itself requires courage' Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads...
Three Things About Elsie
The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Lovely, lovely, lovely... Sue Townsend meets Kate Atkinson meets Nina Stibbe' MARIAN KEYES 'Powerful and profound' Guardian 'Another sure-fire hit' Daily Mail 'Funny, melancholy, acutely observant'...
Persons Unknown (Manon Bradshaw, Book 2)
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A brutal murder. A detective with no one left to trust. '[Steiner] solidified the promise of last year's debut, Missing, Presumed , with another hyper-realistic police...
A History of England in 100 Places: From Stonehenge to the Gherkin
From battlefield to sacred building, from castle to cottage, from the Bridgwater Canal to Blackpool Pier, historian John Julius Norwich tells the political, cultural, social, religious and economic story of...
Epilogue: A Memoir
When Will Boast's father dies he is alone in the world: an American with distant English roots, orphaned, and derailed by grief. Everything he thought he knew about his parents...
The First Day of Spring: Discover the year's most page-turning
A gripping and dark book club debut with a compelling voice at its centre. 'So that was all it took,' I thought. 'That was all it took for me to...
Discovering Windmills
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The book titled Discovering Windmills by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Religion and the Book in Early Modern England: The Making of John
John Foxe's Acts and Monuments - popularly known as the 'Book of Martyrs' - is a milestone in the history of the English book. An essential history of the English...
England and the Aeroplane: Militarism, Modernity and Machines
The story of the strange mixture of romanticism, militarism and technology that has made planes so important to England The history of England and the aeroplane is one tangled with...
The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill 1650-1744
This is a dual biography, exploring the lives of John and Sarah Churchill, first Duke and Duchess of Marlborough. Perhaps the greatest British general of all time and the most...
The Quality Street Wedding (Quality Street, Book 3)
The plucky heroines at the Quality Street factory must be ready for anything as war looms. Rumours about a war with Germany have been whispered around the Quality Street factory...
The Cornish Cream Tea Bus (The Cornish Cream Tea series, Book 1)
Next stop, Cornwall! Hop on The Cornish Cream Tea Bus for a delicious, romantic adventure... 'Captivating' Heat Magazine 'Beautiful... heartwarming' Zara Stoneley 'A wonderful ray of reading sunshine' Heidi Swain...
The Beast, the Queen, and the Lost Knight
Knights in training Ellie and Caedmon must complete three quests that put them on opposing sides or risk losing their Knighthood and magic forever -- now in paperback. Best friends...
Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier - his great-uncle Harry. From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard...