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Voices in Flight: RAF Fighter Pilots in WWII
Author: Martin W BowmanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015This is a pulsating account of the young RAF fighter boys who flew...
'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass: An American Slave in Victorian Britain
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Author: Laurence FentonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 560g, 288 pagesPublished: Amberley Publishing, United Kingdom, 2018In the summer of 1845, Frederick Douglass, the young runaway slave catapulted to fame by his...
'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass: An American Slave in Victorian Britain
Author: Laurence FentonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 560g, 288 pagesPublished: Amberley Publishing, United Kingdom, 2018In the summer of 1845, Frederick Douglass, the young runaway slave catapulted to fame by his...
Churchill, Kitchener and Lloyd George: First World Warlords
Author: Steve CliffeFormat: Paperback, 192 pagesPublished: Fonthill Media Ltd, United Kingdom, 2013Do I think the Great War could have been avoided? My answer categorically is yes. So David Lloyd George,...
Death on the Victorian Beat: The Shocking Story of Police Deaths
Author: Martin BaggoleyFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 190 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Death on the Victorian Beat is the first book dedicated solely to the murders...
Voices in Flight: RAF Fighter Pilots in WWII
Author: Martin W BowmanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015This is a pulsating account of the young RAF fighter boys who flew...
Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015
Author: Ian HallFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 304 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Number 31 Squadron RAF will celebrate its centenary in 2015; a pivotal milestone for...
Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914
Author: Peter ReeseFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 272 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far...
So Great a Prince
Author: Lauren JohnsonFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 221mm, 363g, 336 pagesPublished: Pegasus Books, United States, 2018England, 1509. Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch, is dead; his successor, the seventeen-year-old Henry VIII,...
Fifteen Rounds a Minute: The Grenadiers at War, August to December 1914
Author: Michael CrasterFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2012This book, originally published in 1976, is an account of the first five months...
The Butterfly Isles: A Summer In Search Of Our Emperors And Admirals
Author: Patrick Barkham (Y)Format: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 296g, 304 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2018Butterflies animate our summers but the fifty-nine species found in the British Isles can be...
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...
Black and British: A short, essential history
Author: David OlusogaFormat: Paperback, 130mm x 196mm, 162g, 176 pagesPublished: Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom, 2020Winner of the Book of the Year, Children's Illustrated and Non-Fiction at The British Book Awards,...
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller
Author: AkalaFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 249g, 352 pagesPublished: John Murray Press, United Kingdom, 2019'My book of the year. It's personal, historical, political, and it speaks to where we are...
The Butterfly Isles: A Summer In Search Of Our Emperors And Admirals
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Author: Patrick Barkham (Y)Format: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 296g, 304 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2018Butterflies animate our summers but the fifty-nine species found in the British Isles can be...
Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar
Author: Max HastingsFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 280g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER'Reads like a thriller... I couldn't put Max Hastings's new book down'...
All In: How we build a country that works
Author: Lisa NandyFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 150g, 224 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023'A persuasive manifesto for a better Britain.' Observer Book of the DayBritain needs a fresh start....
Later ... With Jools Holland: 30 Years of Music, Magic and Mayhem
Author: Mark CooperFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 400g, 448 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023'You never knew what you were going to be confronted with when you went on Later...'...
William Shakespeare x Rose Wylie: The Tempest
Author: William ShakespeareFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 420g, 144 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2022Likely the last play written entirely by Shakespeare, The Tempest brings together various themes the bard...
Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Author: Gareth RussellFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 230g, 240 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022This is a biography of...
Handmade in Britain
Author: Joanna NormanFormat: Hardback, 222mm x 279mm, 1179g, 203 pagesPublished: V & A Publishing, United Kingdom, 2012This important book forms part of the Handmade in Britain partnership between the V&A...
Artrage!: The Story of the BritArt Revolution
Author: Elizabeth FullertonFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 240g, 224 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021The Young British Artists (YBAs) stormed on to the contemporary art scene in 1988...
The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics)
Author: Virginia WoolfFormat: Paperback, 111mm x 178mm, 160g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed,...
Red Sauce Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey
Author: Felicity CloakeFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 260g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023The charming and joyful follow-up book from 'the nation's taster in chief,' Felicity Cloake. If there's...
Just Between Us
Author: Adele ParksFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 480g, 432 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024 An unmissable thriller that readers are calling 'the best book ever' from the Sunday Times...
Rose Wylie: Which One
Author: Rose WylieFormat: Hardback, 248mm x 330mm, 1830g, 196 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2023"Wylie fearlessly tackles the thorniest topics head-on, committing her thoughts and questions about politics, religion, fame,...
Art Without Frontiers: The Story of the British Council, Visual Arts, and a Changing World
Author: Annebella PollenFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 230mm, 1260g, 408 pagesPublished: Art / Books, United Kingdom, 2024An accessible, lively and timely history of the collection and presentation of visual art by...
Sean Scully (Bilingual edition): Material World
Author: Per Haubro JensenFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 290mm, 900g, 120 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Creating works with a fascinating range of tone and expression, Sean Scully's oeuvre is a continuous...
Masterpieces: An Art Lover's Guide to Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Christopher LloydFormat: Paperback, 160mm x 210mm, 870g, 496 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022An expert guide to the highlights and unexpected treasures of British collections. If you...
Humankind: Ruskin Spear: Class, culture and art in 20th-century Britain
Author: Tanya HarrodFormat: Hardback, 185mm x 245mm, 1340g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022Humankind: Ruskin Spear is the first book on the painter Ruskin Spear RA (1911-1990)...
Katherine Preston: Inn of the Few
Author: Katherine PrestonFormat: Hardback, 250mm x 190mm, 720g, 154 pagesPublished: Hurtwood Press, United Kingdom, 2023Inn of the Few is a tale of the White Hart inn, which became a home...
The Tale of the Axe: How the Neolithic Revolution Transformed Britain
Author: David MilesFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 400g, 448 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021Focusing on the British Isles, the author explores a period of huge societal change...
This is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its Artists
Author: Michael BirdFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 980g, 352 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022A compelling and lively history that examines the lives of British artists from the...
Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside
Author: Dieter HelmFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 260g, 336 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2020'One of the most important books of the decade' Country LifeFinally, a practical, realistic plan to...
Breaking the Maafa Chain
Breaking the Maafa Chain chronicles two sisters' struggle for true freedom in the mid-nineteenth century, when transporting slaves from Africa to America was an illegal but lucrative business.Nineteenth century-Two sisters,...
The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown
Author: Alexander LarmanFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 320g, 432 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2024'This riotous and engaging biography has it all'GUARDIAN'As much fun to read as a good...
Free For All: Why The NHS Is Worth Saving
Britain's health service is dying. Gavin Francis shows us why we should fight for it. Since its birth in 1948, the powers that be have chipped away at the NHS....
Teddy Boys: Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution: A Sunday Times Book of the Week
Author: Max DecharneFormat: Hardback, 160mm x 236mm, 554g, 336 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024With their draped suits, suede creepers and immaculately greased hair, the Teddy Boys defined a...
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III
Author: Jeremy BlackFormat: Paperback, 124mm x 196mm, 200g, 256 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2024The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts...
Common or Garden: Encounters with Britain's 50 Most Successful Wild Plants
It's often imagined that rarity is special. We seek out uncommon plants or birds to tick them off our lists, but most of us overlook the extraordinary splendour of the...
Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain
A striking expose of the insidious business practices that have generatedenormous profits for the companies operating within the UK's gamblingindustry.'A methodical, sensitive and occasionally harrowing polemic about the gamblingindustry ....
All In: How we build a country that works
'A persuasive manifesto for a better Britain.' Observer Book of the DayBritain needs a fresh start. This timely book by one of the stars of the new government shows how...