British & Irish History

A shocking expose- the inside story behind the fall of the most powerful man in Irish sport Over the course of fifteen years, John Delaney ran the Football Association of...

This guide to mythologoical and legendary sites around Britain and Ireland is designed and illustrated throughout with photographs, maps and extracts from original documents.

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the haunting words of those who lived through it, Forgotten Voices of the Great War resurrects the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the heart of one of the world's most enduring institutions lies a paradox: a hereditary monarchy navigating the turbulent currents of a modern...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the remote shores of Guernsey emerges one of the most singular and unforgettable voices in twentieth-century English literature — that of Ebenezer Le Page,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFrom the Tudor age to the modern era, The Observers presents a rich tapestry of primary sources, readings, and structured exercises that chronicle British history from...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the annals of medical history, few stories are as transformative — or as overlooked — as that of Howard Walter Florey, the Australian-born scientist...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind the grand doors of Whitehall, where ambition and incompetence collide in perfect harmony, The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodStep back into the bustling, vivid world of Regency England — a world of smoky taverns, muddy roads, and drawing-room intrigues — as Roy and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the fog-laden alleys of Roman Londinium to the neon-lit nights of the Swinging Sixties, The Sexual History...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the sweeping backdrop of Revolutionary France, The Glass-Blowers chronicles the turbulent lives of the Busson family...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat does it really mean to be British — and does the class you were born into still define who you are? Jilly Cooper's Class:...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCornwall in the early nineteenth century is a land of raw coastlines, industrial ambition, and simmering social tensions — and it is into this...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind the prim façade of Victorian respectability lay a world of hidden desires, clandestine publications, and cultural contradictions that A...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the young and turbulent colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, the years between 1822 and 1838 crackle with...

Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj with price sticker. A window into one of Victorian literature's most brilliant and tormented minds,...

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Edition: 1st aus edCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: DJ: chipped and worn, with moderate loss; clipped. In the steaming jungles of wartime Borneo, ace RAF pilot James...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the intersection of literary history and social transformation, Clifford Siskin's The Work of Writing presents a bold and provocative argument: that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in Victorian cultural life were as richly contradictory as Edward Lear — celebrated painter, tireless traveller, and the genius behind some of...

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Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedP.G. Wodehouse's Uncle Fred in the Springtime is a masterpiece of comic invention, plunging readers headlong into the gloriously absurd world of Blandings Castle,...

Edition: 7th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingWhen the supremely unflappable Jeeves is once again called upon to rescue his well-meaning but catastrophically inept employer, Bertie Wooster, from a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedFrom the master of English comic fiction comes Summer Moonshine, a gloriously farcical novel set against the backdrop of a crumbling English country house and the...

Edition: 5th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew comic partnerships in English literature have endured quite like that of Bertie Wooster and his unflappable manservant Jeeves, and Right Ho,...

Edition: 6th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedWhat happens when an amiable, silver-tongued young man of leisure is blackmailed into stealing a policeman's helmet, outwitting a proto-fascist country squire, and navigating...

Here is an in-depth exploration of Robert Forster's debut solo album, Danger in the Past (1990). Dublin, Ireland. That World Cup summer of 1990. A 21-year-old poet listens entranced when...

'An atmospheric story, sweeping across 80 years' Sunday Independent Donegal, Ireland, 1939 As the world teeters on the brink of WWII, Eliza Lavery is alone in the world after her...

ORDER A.M. SHINE'S CHILLING NEW NOVEL GRACE - OUT NOW! The sequel to THE WATCHERS , now adapted into a major motion picture, from critically acclaimed Irish horror writer A.M....

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BEST NOVEL IN THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE By the author of Four Letters of Love , the international bestseller now...

A beautifully written and illustrated account of the threatened plant species that inhabit the British Isles. Britain and Ireland are home to around 300 species of rare flowering plants, and...

JACK TAYLOR WOKE UP. HE WISHED HE HADN'T. In the private-detective business, you get on the wrong side of some dangerous people. For Galway investigator Jack Taylor, that meant a...

For fans of Sebastian Faulks, Donal Ryan and Anne Tyler comes this beautiful novel following two troubled men, separated by nearly a century, bound by the ghosts that haunt a...

The definitive anthology of Ireland's astonishing 1500-year poetic legacy, now published in paperback The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry features the work of the greatest Irish poets, from the monks...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersAt the turbulent dawn of European settlement in the Pacific, one man's ambition, tenacity,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the fateful year of 1788, eleven ships carrying over a thousand souls — convicts, marines, and officials alike — crossed the vast, unforgiving...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFor eighty years, the British Empire cast its unwanted across the seas to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Vols 3, 5 & 7 missing. Vol 6 is missing the front cover. Good for age -...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the sixteenth century, England was a second-rate maritime power — yet within decades, Henry...