British & Irish History

Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markBehind the austere, imperious gaze that defined one of Britain's most singular literary minds lies a life as dramatic...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingAcross centuries of upheaval, persecution, and war, countless thousands have washed upon Britain's shores seeking sanctuary — and...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the intellectual ferment of nineteenth-century Britain, few movements captured the popular imagination quite so dramatically as phrenology — the...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedSpanning nearly four decades of intimate correspondence, Letters 1895-1933 to Lady Cunard presents a vivid and deeply personal window into...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the heart of one of England's most turbulent centuries stands Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon — statesman, historian, and royal counsellor...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. At the turbulent heart of seventeenth-century English political thought stands Thomas Hobbes — a figure so radical,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the bloody crossroads of faith and political revolution, seventeenth-century England tore itself apart — and from the chaos emerged a radical faction whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the early 1930s, Evelyn Waugh embarked on a journey through East Africa and the Horn of Africa, and Remote People chronicles that extraordinary adventure...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodThe final curtain falls on one of English literature's most celebrated family sagas in End of the Chapter, John Galsworthy's triumphant conclusion to his...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodThe definitive reference work for anyone who loves the English literary tradition, The Oxford Companion to English Literature stands as an authoritative and comprehensive...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew windows into the soul of a great artist are as intimate and illuminating as his private correspondence, and the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Behind the razor-sharp wit and darkly comic tales of Edwardian England stood a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor a quarter of a century, the sleepy village of Ambridge has captivated British radio audiences with its rich tapestry of rural life, family...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Mylar sleeve on jacketFew characters in the history of popular entertainment are as enduring — or...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the volatile heart of sixteenth-century France, one woman wielded more power than any crown could confer — Catherine de Medici, the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerDuty, loyalty, and the unbreakable bonds forged in conflict take centre stage in The Old Brigade, a spirited...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat does it mean to write history — and who were the men who shaped that very question in England? The History Men chronicles...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSet against the windswept coasts and political intrigues of early nineteenth-century Scotland, The Free Fishers is a gripping tale of loyalty, danger, and the...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels have launched a literary career with such explosive joy as Charles Dickens's first, The Pickwick Papers — a...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind every great spy thriller lies a real-world figure more fascinating than fiction — and Maxwell Knight, the enigmatic MI5 spymaster who inspired Ian...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. A window into the brilliant, restless mind of one of English literature's most...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: dj: worn edges with small chip and sticker residue. Binding - remains tight. Clean and bright...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA landmark in twentieth-century literary curation, The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse stands as one of the most celebrated and debated...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the Flight of the Earls in 1603 to the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922, The Making of Modern Ireland...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsLondon, 1942: bombs fall nightly, and in the smouldering ruins of a city at war, a...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: FEP missingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn the glittering yet hollow world of 1920s London, Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies chronicles the frenetic misadventures...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew voices in the English literary canon cut as sharply or as wittily as that of Jonathan Swift, and the Collected Poems of Jonathan...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the intersection of Victorian imagination and imperial anxiety lies The Savage in Literature, a rigorous critical study that examines how English...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the gilded drawing rooms of Eton to the literary salons of 1930s Vienna and London, The Whispering Gallery is the first volume of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOne of the most singular and intellectually formidable voices of twentieth-century British literature, Rose Macaulay led a life as rich in complexity and contradiction...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the intersection of broadcasting, literature, and public intellectual life, A Listener Anthology: August 1967–June 1970 stands as a remarkable time capsule of late...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.At the heart of British political life for nearly half...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat happens when Britain's wittiest, most opinionated, and most delightfully eccentric minds put pen to paper? The Second Cuckoo answers that question with irresistible...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew poets have shaped the English literary tradition as profoundly as John Milton, and The Poetical Works of John Milton...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodShe mapped deserts, shaped nations, and moved through the corridors of imperial power at a time when women were barely permitted to enter them...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: price clipped dj. First published in 1957, The Uses of Literacy stands as one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt the twilight of the British Empire, one man embodied its grandeur, its arrogance, and its inevitable decline —...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedWhat happens when a life lived quietly and observantly finally speaks? I Forgot to Tell You is the memoir of L. E....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew dramatists captured the glittering hypocrisy of Georgian society with the razor-sharp wit of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and this authoritative collection brings...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt a moment when the moral architecture of the modern world lay in ruins, Christopher Sykes turned his...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodShe was a figure of towering eccentricity and volcanic talent — a poet who declared war on mediocrity and made herself into a living...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most celebrated works in the English literary canon, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales presents a vivid...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBehind every great literary dynasty lies a story waiting to be told on its own terms — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFor anyone seeking to understand the richness and complexity of the English artistic tradition, An Introduction to English Painting by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: dj warped within mylar. From the sharp, observant pen of one of Scotland's most underrated literary voices comes A Diver in China...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the aftermath of World War II, one of the last surviving members of the Bloomsbury Group picked up her pen and began recording...