British & Irish History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the sunbaked villages and dreaming spires of Victorian England, Jude Fawley — a stonemason of fierce intellect and crushing ambition — reaches desperately toward...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the desperate spring of 1940, with the German war machine closing in on the beaches of northern France, nearly...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings,Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew names in the history of espionage carry...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the intersection of morality, medicine, and politics in nineteenth-century Britain stands one of the era's most contentious battles: the campaign to repeal the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the dramatic elopement, the passionate verse, and the towering reputation of Victorian poetry's most restless genius lies a far more complex human story...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to belong to England's elite — and what separates the merely privileged from the genuinely uncommon? Paul Bloomfield's Uncommon...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Book launch ephemera laid-in. At the heart of Britain's Age of Reason lurks a profound and startling paradox: the...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn an age when industrialisation was reshaping the fabric of English society, The Idea of Poverty confronts one of the most urgent and...

Edition: bomcCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the height of the Cold War, a shadowy network of intelligence operatives — British spycatchers and their CIA allies — set their...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA life devoted to the pages of Shakespeare yields a memoir unlike any other — Milestones on the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew books have shaken the foundations of Western religious belief quite like The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail — a landmark...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the gaslit backstreets and workhouses of Victorian York, a hidden world of female desperation and survival played out far from polite...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat if Shakespeare's most enigmatic problem play was never meant for the public stage at all, but was instead a lavish gift crafted for...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crumbling heart of a fading Irish estate, a young man of impeccable breeding and catastrophically dwindling fortune stumbles headlong into a world...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the turbulent years spanning 1939 to 1965, few figures occupied a more singular vantage point in the British art world than...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFor any lover of literature who has ever stood on a rain-swept moor and felt the ghost of Heathcliff at their shoulder, or walked the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew cities have inspired as much devotion, reverence, and literary attention as Oxford, and Jan Morris's portrait of this ancient English city stands as one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedThe Eyes of the Navy stands as a compelling portrait of one of the most formidable intelligence minds of the...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Binding remains tight. Clean copy. At the close of the First World War, the sunken...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingOn the 10th of December 1941, just three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Royal Navy suffered one of its...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against the full might of Nazi Germany, and the fate of the free world hinged on...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the turbulent heart of eighteenth-century Edinburgh, a young woman's fate hangs on the thinnest thread of justice. The Heart of Midlothian chronicles the gripping...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of philosophy, aesthetics, and poetry, English Romantic Irony presents a rigorous and illuminating study of one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedByron's Don Juan is one of the most audacious and virtuosic poems in the English language, and Jerome J. McGann's Don Juan in Context is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the heart of English literature lies a tension so deeply embedded in the culture it is rarely questioned —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of literary history and critical thought, L. G. Knights' Explorations stands as one of the twentieth century's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew pursuits are as captivating — or as surprisingly complex — as the search for one's own ancestors, and Your Family History by C.M....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the treacherous courts and battlefields of medieval England, loyalty is the most dangerous currency of all — and Queen's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century Oxford cut as distinctive a silhouette as Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra — classicist, wit, Warden of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingSet against the rugged, windswept landscapes of late 18th-century Cornwall, Jeremy Poldark is the third instalment in Winston Graham's celebrated Poldark saga —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA cornerstone of architectural scholarship, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire stands as an indispensable guide to one of England's most historically layered counties, chronicling...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingStep off the beaten path and into one of England's most storied counties — Companion into Hampshire is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Binding loose with some wear at FEP.With the wry eye of a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew maritime legends captivate the imagination quite like the fatal final journey of Captain James Cook, and Hammond Innes brings that treacherous Pacific odyssey...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew voices in English literature possess the warmth, wit, and tender eccentricity of Charles Lamb, and The Essays of Elia stands as the supreme...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingThere are books that make you laugh, and then there are the Dornford Yates Berry novels — gloriously witty, warmly nostalgic, and utterly irresistible...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the turn of the twentieth century, England basked in the last golden glow of imperial confidence — a world...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew literary figures of the twentieth century lived as boldly and wrote as brilliantly as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the tumultuous theatre of the Hundred Years' War, one man rose to such legendary heights that his very name struck terror into the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt just twenty-four years of age, William Pitt the Younger became Britain's youngest Prime Minister, and Robin Reilly's authoritative biography chronicles the extraordinary life of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA celebration of lives richly lived, Three Score and Ten brings together the voices of two formidable British women of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOne of the most infamous episodes in naval history roars back to life in Mutiny!!: Aboard H.M. Armed Transport 'Bounty' in 1789, a gripping...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedIn the frozen grip of the Arctic, an entire Royal Navy expedition vanished without trace — and the desperate quest to find it became one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew literary figures cast as long a shadow over the twentieth century as William Butler Yeats, and Memoirs offers an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBefore the age of the computer, there was Ada — a woman of breathtaking intellect born into the shadow of literary legend, whose genius would...