British & Irish History

The first book to reveal the full extent of King Edward VIII's looting. The Duchess of Windsor's notorious jewellery collection was, and still is, the subject of intense speculation regarding...

'What a wonderful book! The storytelling, the research, the deep love of her subject -- this must be the climax of Rappaport's long and illustrious career' Lucy Worsley To Queen...

The SUNDAY TIMES bestselling inside story of the real relationship between King Charles III and his mother, our late Queen, by the acclaimed royal biographer, Ingrid Seward. 'Incisive, emotive and...

Published to celebrate Prince Charles' 40th birthday, this is a pictorial biography of him as created by several cartoonists including contributions form Trog, Griffin, Giles and Marc. 11 sections cover...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA gripping work of historical fiction, The Boleyn Inheritance chronicles the treacherous lives of...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Light Foxing on top of blockThe historical narrative The Lords Of The...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThe scholarly work The Late Augustans by Donald Davie chronicles a pivotal era in English poetry, analyzing the...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: Remainder markTo Brooklyn With Love chronicles the vibrant lives of a community nestled within the iconic New...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerClaire Rayner’s Soho Square transports readers to the vibrant, tumultuous heart of London’s Soho district, chronicling the intertwined lives of...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of historical scholarship, Dictionary of Labour Biography: Volume II presents meticulously researched biographical entries on the men...

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Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of historical scholarship, Dictionary of Labour Biography: Volume I presents meticulously researched biographical entries on...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly intimate biographical portrait, Stranger and Brother: A Portrait of C.P. Snow chronicles the life and legacy of the celebrated...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Light fading on spine. Large chip at bottom right corner of jacket and some...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA landmark work of wartime social history, Nella Last's War: A Mother's Diary 1939-45 chronicles the daily life of an...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Chipping around edges of jacket with one...

Edition: First US EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Usual aging - otherwise in good condition. Pages bright and clean. Tape residue on inside...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Usual aging - otherwise in good conditionA richly detailed literary biography, The Case of Walter Pater presents a penetrating...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: FEP missing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded spine - otherwise jacket is structural. A richly detailed political biography, this work chronicles the intertwined...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: usual aging - in good condition. Pages bright and clean. A masterwork of biographical history, Eminent Elizabethans presents vivid...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA landmark work of literary biography, Richard Aldington's Portrait of a Genius, But... chronicles...

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Edition: later reprintCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA sweeping work of historical scholarship, Medieval Panorama presents a...

Roland Dallas''s biography of King Hussein of Jordan is the story of an extraordinary man, the survivor o f several assassination attempts and a man equally at home a t...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA sweeping work of political biography and twentieth-century history, The History Makers: Leaders and Statesmen of the 20th Century presents...

Edition: 1st ed., 1st impr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Yellowed Markings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Signed ephemera laid in. Set against the harrowing backdrop of...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsThis authoritative biography chronicles the remarkable life of Sir Joseph Banks, the celebrated eighteenth-century naturalist, explorer, and president of...

Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedA bold and inventive work of postcolonial literary fiction, Jack Maggs reimagines the world of Charles Dickens's Great...

Condition remarks:Book: New Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slipcases - very good. This landmark three-volume set presents the complete Sherlock Holmes canon — all four novels and...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsThe Exiles, The Settlers, The Traitors, The Explorers, The Adventurers, The Colonists, The Goldseekers, The Patriots, The Empire...

Edition: revised editions. Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous owner The three volumes are The Tyranny of Distance (1982, rev ed), Triumph of the Nomads (1982,...

Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsA History of Australia I: From the earliest times to the age of Macquarie (1992 repr., yellowed pages). -A History...

Edition: First Editions, First ImpressionsCondition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsThomas Keneally's "Australians" trilogy stands as one of the most ambitious works of narrative history ever...

Alfred is the only English king ever to be called 'Great'. It was not a title given by political supporters, not the sycophantic gift of an official biographer, nor a...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Usual wear on jacket from aging, slightly faded spine. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight.A landmark work of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA masterful work of royal biography, this richly researched narrative chronicles the life of one of Britain's most complex and...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsA compelling work of historical biography, Peter Earle's The Life and Times of Henry V chronicles the dramatic...

Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of sixteen. Widowed less than two years later, she...

A Waterstones Best History Book 2025 A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 2025 'Learned, entertaining and highly approachable' BOB MORTIMER 'A treat' ALICE LOXTON 'Five stars from me...'...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA meticulously researched work of Australian colonial history, this volume chronicles the rise and...

Since the announcement from Kensington Palace that Harry and Meghan had chosen St George's Chapel on 19 May, 2018 as their wedding venue, the world has been gripped by wedding...

Eleanor of Aquitaine is intelligent and beautiful, her immense wealth desired by kings. Her fathers dying wish places the young heiress under the guardianship of King Louis VI of France,...