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"In policy and prospect, Britain has reached a crossroads. She may go forward, she may go back, or she may simply go sideways. Political, economic and business leaders face a...

A nostalgic exploration of Britain's distinctive and architecturally significant seafront buildings from the 1920s to the new millennium. British seaside resorts enjoyed phenomenal popularity for much of the twentieth century....

The book titled The Beauty of Britain and Ireland by the author Joyce Robins. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

- Firm Sale - A celebration of the British countryside and how it has changed over the last 140 years using photography from the Francis Frith Collection - the world's...

The laugh-out-loud story of a boy who needs a new bike for Christmas, the rabbit who might help him get it, and a lot of bad luck... From the one...

In 1375, Sir William Cantilupe was found murdered in a field outside of a village in Lincolnshire. As the case progressed, fifteen members of his household were indicted for murder,...

'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph 'Extremely entertaining' Jane Ridley, Literary Review Kenneth Rose was one...

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 BBC History magazine, Esquire, Historia magazine and Waterstones History Book of the Year 'James comes alive in full flamboyance ... Russell expertly weaves the bedchamber gossip into the tapestry...

The gripping new action thriller novel from the million-copy bestselling author of the Matt Drake series At the root of all riches lies evil... Ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason is on...

** SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** ** SUNDAY TIMES FAVOURITE PAPERBACKS OF 2020** 'The best royal book by miles . . . funny, gossipy and riveting' JANE RIDLEY, SPECTATOR...

UPDATED WITH A NEW CHAPTER ON THE 2024 ELECTION A GUARDIAN AND DAILY TELEGRAPH POLITICS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'BRILLIANT' ANDREW MARR 'MAJESTIC' GUARDIAN 'ESSENTIAL' JON SOPEL 'A CRACKING READ'...

Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? In A HISTORY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very beginnings of the...

There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles', so said Gladstone. From the First Duke of Marlborough - soldier of genius, restless...

Every new government promises to represent a new dawn, but for New Labour it was the Covenant that Tony Blair made with Britain. The party that won a landslide victory...

World War II stung Britain like a wasp. It was a stimulus and an endurance. The Blitz concentrated the mind wonderfully. The arts flowered - poetry and painting, cinema and...

WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2025 A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024 'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER 'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES ________________________________ The lie...

The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller It's time we get back to common sense. It's time to cancel the cancel culture. It's time to Wake Up. If, like me, you're...

A magisterial new history of the British soldier - a man famously described by the Duke of Wellington as 'the scum of the earth'. From battlefield to barrack-room, this book...

A history of Chartwell, Kent

On 3 September 1650 Oliver Cromwell won a decisive victory over the Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Dunbar - a victory that is often regarded as his finest hour...

Supported by the National Trust Quirky and fascinating facts about Britain's favourite subject - the weather. Includes all sorts of weird and wonderful weather words from around the country. Supercharge...

'Important, comprehensive, and superbly researched. All the more urgent at the present time' BART VAN ES 'A terrific, clear-eyed and balanced history that cuts through today's toxic debates' DAILY TELEGRAPH...

Bestselling author Christopher Winn takes a closer look at our Roads, Avenues, Groves, Gardens, Hills and Lanes. There are around 800,000 streets in the UK and the name of each...

Few relationships fire our imagination like that of Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley?the love affair immortalized in Philippa Gregory's "The Virgin's Lover"?but nearly fifty years have...

'A master of world cinema.' Cililan Murphy Since the original publication of Loach on Loach in 1998, Ken Loach has completed fourteen full-length feature films. This substantial body of work...

Born in rural Worcestershire in 1950, David Harwood learnt about keeping animals from an early age, before going on to study veterinary medicine at London's Royal Veterinary College. Once qualified,...

This generously illustrated book is a comprehensive survey of the arts in Britain from 1945. Uniquely, it also reveals the cultural and social setting in which the writers, musicians, architects...

The definitive history of modern newspaper journalism by the highly regarded Guardian columnist Tracing the changing face of British newspapers, Roy Greenslade shows how the way we live has been...

Go behind the scenes of generations of the British royal family, exploring both the glamour and domestic life inside the spectacular 300-year-old Kensington Palace Kensington Palace is renowned for its...

D.J.Enright's highly personal book surveys TV's treatment of the classics, the pains and pleasures of soap opera - "Coronation Street" and "Eastenders" - AIDS programmes and condom advertising, chat shows...

In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria , A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince Albert, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of...

The definitive guide to the band offering song-by-song analysis, full chronology and gig guide, full bootleg guide, and exclusive interviews with surviving members. Pink Floyd formed in London in 1965,...

Captain Bligh and the mutiny on the Bounty have become proverbial in their capacity to evoke the extravagant and violent abuse of power. But William Bligh was one of the...

Alan Sorrell's archaeological reconstruction drawings and paintings remain some of the best, most accurate and most accomplished paintings of their genre that continue to inform our understanding and appreciation of...

The book titled Age of Exuberance, 1550-1700 by the author Michael Reed. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This book is full of stories written and reported about the kings and queens of England from Boedicca to Elizabeth II. Royal anecdotes differ in one important respect from anecdotes...

This volume traces the development of the British architectural practice ABK (Ahrends, Burton and Koralek), from early landmark projects like the Berkeley Library at Trinity College, Dublin to the British...

Gathered over the centuries by successive British monarchs, the Royal Collection contains some 7000 paintings. This book describes the formation of the collection by three successive connoisseur sovereigns, Charles I,...

For Terry Farrell urban design should be based on a number of principles: a notion of continuum with the history and traditions of a specific area, a priority given to...

H.J. Hewitt's classic study looks beyond the succession of campaigns, marches, raids, sieges and pitched battles that punctuated the long reign of Edward III. He focuses instead on the organization...

The first and greatest of the English Renaissance architects, Inigo Jones was an unlikely candidate to change the landscape of British style and design. Yet this self-taught son of a...

This is an outline of the history of the Macmillan family, its rise, triumphs and misfortunes. The core of the book is the personality and career of Harold Macmillan, but...

Nicholas Grimshaw is ranked alongside Sir Norman Foster and Sir Richard Rogers as a leading figure of the high-tech movement in British architecture in the last decade. The period 1965-1988...

How do countries acquire their distinctive features and appearance, their look or style? In this stimulating book, Jules Lubbock answers this question by focusing on Britain, with its characteristic terraced...

This is the history of Britain's munitions industry in the First World War. It begins with the shortages caused by an expanding army required to fight in trenches, then shows...