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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...
Bomber Command 1939-1940: The War Before the War
Author: Gordon ThorburnFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 180 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014For Bomber Command, the term 'Phoney War' never really meant much. Five Blenheims of...
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...
The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ codebreakers who fought the Cold War
Author: Sinclair McKayFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 352 pagesPublished: Quarto Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2017Once victory was declared, many of the individuals who had achieved the seemingly impossible at Bletchley...
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...
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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...
All Aboard!: Remembering Britain's Railways
Author: Julian HollandFormat: Paperback, 148mm x 210mm, 540g, 256 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023From best-selling railway expert, Julian Holland, explore Britain's historical railways in All Aboard.The history of Britain's...
Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers and the British Landscape
Author: Susan OwensFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 580g, 352 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021When we look at the landscape, what do we see? Do we experience the...
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...'...
100 Curiosities & Inventions from the Collections of the National Trust
Author: Katie KnowlesFormat: Hardback, 186mm x 156mm, 580g, 224 pagesPublished: National Trust, United Kingdom, 2022The National Trust looks after one of the largest and most significant holdings of fine-art and...
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...
FOOTBALL: Designing the Beautiful Game
Author: Eleanor WatsonFormat: Hardback, 205mm x 270mm, 1340g, 304 pagesPublished: Design Museum, United Kingdom, 2022This book - the first of its kind - explores the design story behind football, diving...
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,...
A Secret Garden Affair
Author: Erica JamesFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 260g, 416 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023Recapture the summer sunshine this autumn with the Sunday Times bestseller that readers are calling 'captivating'...
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...
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,...
British Interior Design
Author: Michelle GalindoFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 315mm, 1880g, 208 pagesPublished: Braun Publishing AG, Switzerland, 2010This volume which is part of the Interior Design series crosses the threshold to reveal an...
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...
Modern World: The Art of Richard Hamilton
Author: Michael BracewellFormat: Hardback, 200mm x 260mm, 1140g, 224 pagesPublished: Art / Books, United Kingdom, 2021Richard Hamilton was the most influential British artist of his generation. Often described as 'the...
Surrealism and Design Now: From Dali to AI
Surrealism was one of the most influential cultural movements of the twentieth century. Subverting the dogmas of modernism and rationalism in art and literature, it also had a profound impact...
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)...
Facing Britain: British Documentary Photography since the 1960s
Author: Ralph GoertzFormat: Paperback, 220mm x 230mm, 1020g, 220 pagesPublished: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Germany, 2021Facing Britain brings together for the first time almost all important representatives* of British...
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
Author: Craig BrownFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 460g, 656 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2021SHORTLISTED for the Baillie Gifford Prize's 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners awardWINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD...
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)...
National Portrait Gallery: The Collection
Author: Rab MacGibbonFormat: Paperback, 190mm x 220mm, 480g, 120 pagesPublished: National Portrait Gallery Publications, United Kingdom, 2023National Portrait Gallery: The Collection introduces the key people who have shaped the history...
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...
Five Centuries of British Painting: From Holbein to Hodgkin
Author: Andrew WiltonFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 210mm, 500g, 256 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2002Britain has played a key part in the history of the last five centuries,...
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...
Weatherland: Writers and Artists under English Skies
Author: Alexandra HarrisFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 410g, 432 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2016The story of English culture over a thousand years can be told as the...
Bridget Riley: Past into Present
Author: Bridget RileyFormat: Hardback, 244mm x 305mm, 860g, 80 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2023"I am sometimes asked 'What is your objective' and this I cannot truthfully answer. I work...
Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship
Author: Andy FriendFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 240mm, 1100g, 336 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2017In recent years Eric Ravilious has become recognized as one of the most important...
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...
You Can't Say That: Memoirs
Author: Ken LivingstoneFormat: Paperback, 126mm x 196mm, 563g, 720 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2012A frank, gripping, moving - and controversial - autobiography from one of the most idiosyncratic...