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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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...