British & Irish History

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew writers captured the boisterous, mud-spattered world of Victorian English hunting society with the same razor-sharp wit and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of memory and elegy, Closing Times by Dan Davin presents a luminous collection of reminiscences centred on the legendary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the windswept shores of the Scottish Highlands to the untamed wilderness of the Western Isles, The Rocks Remain is Gavin Maxwell's...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA luminous window into one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary minds, Memories gathers the recollections and reflections...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMaurice Collis spent a lifetime at the intersection of art, literature, and empire, and The Journey Up: Reminiscences 1934–1968 stands as his vivid, deeply...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in Victorian literature are as maddeningly elusive as George Borrow — traveller, linguist, adventurer, and writer — a man who constructed his...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: review copyFew figures of the early twentieth century captured the imagination of the literary world quite like Helen Waddell —...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the dawn of Britain's most audacious imperial undertaking, a handful of ambitious, conflicted, and often brilliant men...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of Edwardian literary London stood South Lodge — the Campden Hill home of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the century between David Hume's later writings and John Stuart Mill's mature works, British philosophy...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFor seven decades, the men and women who served Britain through the skies have never truly been left behind — The Debt We Owe chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBefore the legend, there was the man — and Ted Morgan's Churchill: 1874-1915 chronicles the remarkable and turbulent first four decades of Winston...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew stretches of sea have claimed as many ships — and as many lives — as the treacherous Goodwin Sands, a ten-mile...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodA literary memoir as intimate as it is illuminating, My Brother Evelyn & Other Profiles offers a rare, first-hand window into the life of one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew novels in the English language have seared the conscience of a nation quite like Oliver Twist. Charles Dickens' second novel follows the orphaned Oliver —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodSince 1954, some of the finest minds in British intellectual and cultural life have gathered under the banner of the Crabtree Foundation to deliver a series...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the centre of Britain's most turbulent post-war decade stood one man — statesman, diplomat, and ultimately embattled Prime Minister — whose memoirs illuminate...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew novels have captured the brutal machinery of colonial injustice with such devastating power as Marcus Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life. Set against...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the grand tradition of the English novel, The Sleep of Reason chronicles the moral and psychological unraveling...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingThe final curtain falls on one of twentieth-century British fiction's most ambitious sagas as Last Things...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodOne of the most daring and passionately argued novels of the twentieth century, The Rainbow charts the lives and loves of three generations of the Brangwen...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFrom the bustling market squares and travelling fairgrounds of interwar England emerges Cheapjack, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Ex-library with usual markingsFrom the lyrical devotions of the thirteenth century to the bold modernism of the twentieth, Collins Albatross Book of Verse presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew writers of the twentieth century possessed the elegant wit and unerring eye for human folly that Noël Coward brought to every page he...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew figures in mid-twentieth-century Britain captured the public imagination quite like Group Captain Peter Townsend — war hero, RAF ace,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Light foxing on blockAt the darkest hour of the Second World War, when Britain stood virtually alone against the Nazi onslaught, the...

Edition: Third ImpressionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew stories in the annals of wartime Britain burn as brightly as that of Douglas Bader, the indomitable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the smouldering embers of the 1848 Young Ireland rebellion to the sectarian bloodshed of the twentieth century, Political Violence in Ireland: Government and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Tape around edges of jacket. At twenty years old, Miles Tripp climbed aboard a Lancaster...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA landmark in travel writing and regional scholarship, The Shell Guide to England is the definitive companion for anyone seeking to understand the rich,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew names in the history of literature command as much reverence and recognition as Sherlock Holmes — and The Complete...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingStanding as a solemn tribute to the fallen of two World Wars, Courage Remembered is the definitive account of the Commonwealth War...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century British culture burned as brightly as Noël Coward — playwright, actor, composer, and wit — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingA life lived at the epicentre of the twentieth century's most turbulent moments, In Time of Trouble is the autobiography of Claud...

Edition: First Edition.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the intersection of industry, politics, and military strategy stands William Weir, the First Viscount Weir...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingSet against the sun-drenched landscapes of rural England and the Continent, A Crown of Wild Myrtle is a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingWhen the bombs fell on British cities and the nation braced itself for an uncertain future, cinema became one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn The Vanished World, one of England's most beloved storytellers turns the lens upon himself, conjuring with extraordinary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCollar the Lot! is a damning indictment of one of Britain's most shameful wartime secrets — the mass internment and forced deportation...

Edition: First Edition.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingA legend of the skies puts pen to paper in Never Look Back, Cecil Lewis's sweeping memoir that charts an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew families have left as indelible a mark on cinema history as the Korda brothers — Alexander, Zoltan, and Vincent — whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century culture possessed the singular eye and social access of Cecil Beaton — photographer to royalty, designer...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedSet against the turbulent backdrop of 18th-century Scotland in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, Kidnapped chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedOne of the twentieth century's most scandalous royal sagas unfolds in The Windsor Story, a sweeping and authoritative account of Edward VIII's abdication and the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind every great playwright stands a constellation of women who shaped his genius — and in George Bernard...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingOne of Britain's most celebrated theatrical knights tells his own story in In My Mind's Eye, a candid and richly detailed memoir that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels in the English literary canon have matched the raw ambition of D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow — a sweeping, multi-generational saga that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind the ancient stone walls of Windsor Castle lies a thousand years of intimacy, intrigue, and power —...