British & Irish History

St Patrick catching sight of Ireland for the first time as he is taken there as a prisoner; Joyce and Yeats eating sticky buns in a Dublincaf . There has...

Reports and dispatches from Ireland's finest writers: the first-ever anthology of Irish reportage. Alongside its world-famous tradition of great fiction, Ireland has a less well known but thrilling tradition of...

SHORTLISTED FOR AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2020 Nessa Crowley's murderer has been protected by silence for ten years. Until a team of documentary makers decide to find out the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the heart of one of England's most turbulent political eras stands Samuel Pepys — naval administrator, diarist, and unlikely survivor — and Arthur Bryant's Samuel...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingBehind every pulpit lies a treasure trove of comedy, and Merriment of Parsons by Trevor Byard mines this rich seam with wit,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the centre of the most watched and scrutinised institution in the modern world stands one woman whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the edge of the world, where ancient standing stones rise from a wind-lashed Scottish isle, a lone golden eagle named Creggan is destined for...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedLong before the age of blockbusters and streaming giants, one fictional detective had already conquered every medium imaginable — and The Public Life of Sherlock...

Edition: bceCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn the dark heart of World War II, a handful of British commandos embarked on one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedFew literary figures have captured the rugged beauty of the Yorkshire Dales and the warmth of its people quite like James Herriot,...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the heat of the Second World War's most daring amphibious operations, a breed of elite fighters emerged whose courage and ingenuity would prove...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the smoke-filled skies above war-torn Europe, a handful of extraordinary men commanded the mighty bomber fleets that would help decide the fate of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the shadowy raids of the Long Range Desert Group to the legendary operations of the SAS, British Special Forces chronicles the dramatic history...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhen the roar of the bouncing bombs faded over the shattered Ruhr dams in May 1943, the legend of 617 Squadron was only just...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the desperate summer of 1940, with Nazi forces sweeping across France, one man's extraordinary will...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFrom the pen of one of history's most formidable statesmen comes a masterwork of biographical portraiture — Great...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew works of English literature capture the quiet rhythms of rural life with such warmth and precision as Our Village, Mary Russell Mitford's celebrated...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodSet against the idyllic backdrop of a country estate on the eve of World War II, Between the Acts is Virginia Woolf's final and perhaps...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew biographical portraits carry the intimacy and authority of one written by family, and A Memoir of Jane Austen by Her Nephew stands as...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew writers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras captured the absurdity and warmth of everyday English life with quite the same charm as Jerome...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodBehind every great civilization lurks a magnificent cast of misfits, dreamers, and gloriously unhinged individuals — and Britain has produced more than its fair...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWickedness, wit, and whispered scandal define the late eighteenth century, and no one chronicles its glittering excesses with more relish than T. H. White in The...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew historical documents offer as intimate and vivid a window into medieval English life as the Paston Letters — and The Pastons: A Family...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew documents offer as intimate and unguarded a window into Georgian England as The Diary of a Country Parson, the remarkable journals of the...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodWhat happens when an ordinary man decides his life is worth recording for posterity? The Diary of a Nobody answers that question with magnificent...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew works in the English language have so quietly and profoundly shaped the course of natural science as Gilbert White's The Natural History...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: Good"1066 And All That" delivers a comic masterpiece of historical satire, gleefully mangling England's kings, wars, and dates into a string of absurd howlers...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew novels in the English literary canon have provoked as much controversy or carried as much emotional devastation as Thomas Hardy's final and most searing...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the shadow of World War II's most volatile theatre of war, a small, elite unit of British commandos waged a campaign of audacious...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew military commanders of the Second World War inspired as much admiration across enemy lines as Harold Alexander — a...

Edition: 7th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: dj with some moisture damage. Few stories of the Second World War...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Binding: remains tight; boards - slightly faded. At the height of British imperial dominance, the doctrine of liberalism and the...

Edition: 5th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the twentieth century's most formidable literary critics turns his unflinching gaze upon the English poetic tradition...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: pages can have notes/underlining.At the crossroads of modernism and tradition, New Bearings in English Poetry stands as one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Few works in the English biographical tradition carry the quiet authority and intimate grace of Izaak Walton's collected Lives....

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew literary forms carry the raw, narrative power of the traditional ballad — and The Oxford Book of...

Edition: The Travellers' Library - repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt twenty-five, most young men are still finding their footing in the world...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the bitter winter of 1982, Britain dispatched a naval task force 8,000 miles to the South Atlantic to reclaim the Falkland Islands from...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj; slightly discoloured boards; At the intersection of labour politics and international power,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew literary figures have inspired as much admiration and controversy as Rudyard Kipling, and Philip Mason's Kipling: The Glass, the Shadow and...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadowy corridors of wartime Britain, a secret organisation was forged to set Europe ablaze — SOE: An Outline History of...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the blood-soaked fields of the Western Front, one young British officer captured the raw, unfiltered truth of the First World War...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century theatre command the reverence accorded to Sir John Gielgud, and this celebratory anthology — assembled to mark the great actor's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingScotland — ancient, wild, and magnificent — has long stirred the souls of poets, wanderers,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in modern history command the stage with such towering presence as Winston Churchill, and Churchill: A...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew catastrophes in modern history reshaped a nation's destiny as profoundly as the...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsAt the twilight of the medieval world, English literature stood on the precipice of transformation —...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew Scottish clans carry a legacy as rich, turbulent, and enduring...