British & Irish History

A Daily Mail Best History Book of the Year; A Spectator Best Book of the Year It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn't...

#1 New York Times bestselling biographer Andrew Morton provides the definitive, most comprehensive account of Queen Elizabeth II's legendary reign. Painfully shy, Elizabeth Windsor's personality was well suited to her...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2024 ... 'GENIUS' A BOOK OF THE YEAR for the SPECTATOR , MAIL ON SUNDAY , NEW STATESMAN...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingStanding as one of the finest examples of Gothic architecture in the world, Lincoln Cathedral...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the rain-soaked streets of Glasgow, Detective Jack Laidlaw is drawn into a labyrinthine investigation when a dying tramp whispers a cryptic message that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingWhen a eccentric and financially ruined English aristocratic family becomes entangled in a shocking murder...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFor aviation historians, aircraft enthusiasts, and military researchers alike, British Military Aircraft Serials: 1911-1979 stands as one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the cockpit of a biplane to the highest echelons of Allied command, These Remain is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the shimmering, perilous world of Arthurian legend, the Knights of the Round Table embark on the most sacred and impossible of missions — the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the skies above wartime Britain, a young RAF pilot composed what would become one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the close of the First World War, the boundaries of a shattered Europe hung in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of Victorian literary culture lies a dark and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFrom the fog-shrouded newsrooms of Fleet Street to the sun-scorched front lines of global conflicts, Deadline & Dateline...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn The World in Ripeness, the celebrated English writer H.E. Bates chronicles the mature years of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the height of the Second World War, when the fate of Western civilization hung in the balance,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingJohn Pudney — poet, novelist, and RAF veteran — presents one of the most disarmingly candid self-portraits in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedWhen a mystery unfolds in the very birthplace of the world's greatest playwright, the stakes are as high as the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the shadow of the Second World War, few organisations demonstrated greater resilience and moral courage than the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFrom the pioneering days of aviation to the jet age, The History of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators 1929–1964 chronicles the...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedThe Terrible Rain: The War Poets 1939–1945 stands as one of the most powerful and enduring collections of Second...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the crossroads of military strategy and national identity, Roots of British Air Policy presents a rigorous and authoritative examination...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Dj - chipped and worn with some loss price clipped. Binding slightly shaky -...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew novels in the canon of Australian literature carry the raw moral weight of For the Term of His Natural Life, Marcus Clarke's monumental chronicle of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn 1796, a battered convict transport ship named the Marquis Cornwallis set sail from Ireland, its hold crammed...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew novels in the English literary canon match the audacious vitality of The History of Tom Jones: A...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAgainst the brooding, untamed expanse of Egdon Heath — a landscape so vivid it becomes a character unto...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew works in the English language have endured as magnificently as Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales — a dazzling...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodIn the glittering, corrupt drawing rooms of Regency England, two women from Miss Pinkerton's Academy chart wildly...

Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew novels in the English literary canon match the emotional depth and moral complexity of The Mill on the...

Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew novels in the English literary canon have captured the turbulent journey from poverty to privilege — and back...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, Britain stood on the cusp of a transformation so profound it would reshape...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew characters in English literature are as quietly unforgettable as the gentle, dedicated schoolmaster at the heart of James Hilton's beloved novella — a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew characters in literary history have seized the imagination quite like Sherlock Holmes — the brilliant, pipe-smoking detective of 221B Baker Street — and The Further...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew men straddled the worlds of science and power with such...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the two decades that separated the guns of the Great War from the gathering storm of the Second, the Royal Air...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedIn the treacherous, waterlogged streets of a city teetering on the brink of catastrophe, The Drowned City plunges the reader into a...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageEngland is a land where...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Price clipped, light wear from age. Very good copy.In the winter of 1928–29, as civil war engulfed Afghanistan and the royal family faced...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFrom the annals of Britain's darkest courtrooms and most notorious crimes comes Cavalcade of Murder, a gripping chronicle of homicide that marches through history with the...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the darkest days of 1940, with France fallen and Britain standing alone against the Nazi...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodA treasury of the English literary tradition, Selected English Essays gathers the finest prose compositions from Britain's most celebrated writers, spanning centuries of intellectual and aesthetic...

Edition: 2nd impressionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhen a body is discovered along an ancient, isolated track in the rugged British countryside, seasoned mountaineer and amateur sleuth Melinda Pink...

Edition: First UKL ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingWhen a body washes ashore in the quiet waters of a seemingly peaceful English sailing community, the stage is...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStep into the glittering, often overlooked corridors of eighteenth-century English verse with Silver Poets of the Eighteenth Century,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodA treasure trove of the English lyrical tradition, The English Galaxy of Shorter Poems presents a masterfully curated collection of verse drawn from centuries of British...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the spare medieval lyrics of the thirteenth century to the charged modernist voices of the twentieth, The Albatross Book of Living Verse presents...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the windswept moors of the British Isles to the rugged frontiers of the American West, The Penguin...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA landmark of twentieth-century literary curation, Collins Albatross Book of Longer Poems presents a sweeping panorama of English...