British & Irish History

* Strategic advice from Rick Steves on what's worth your time and money * Two-day itineraries covering Dublin, Kilkenny, Kinsale, Kenmare and the Ring of Kerry, Dingle Town and Peninsula,...

THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER When death is a way of life . . . In A Life Among the Dead , David McGowan, Ireland's best known Funeral Director, and subject...

9 miles to 1 inch 1:570,240. Handy format route planning atlas in full colour complete with information on places of tourist interest. There are also fully indexed town centre plans...

The Top Ten Bestseller inspired by the life of the Guinness family. Perfect for fans of the House of Guinness TV series 'Fans of Downton Abbey will adore this' Sunday...

A TLS , TIMES, PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and...

The book titled Sinead: Life of Sinead O'Connor by the author Jimmy Guterman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Mountbatten: The Official Biography by the author Philip Ziegler. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

An essential collection of the very best Ross O'Carroll-Kelly columns from the Irish Times Back in the day, if you'd mentioned the Grey Lady of D'Olier Street to me, I...

A major new biography of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a unique figure in British history, a great writer as well as an imperial icon whose life trajectory matched...

'A riveting take on an extraordinary relationship' - Richard Eden, Daily Mail 'A fresh and original approach' - Hugo Vickers, Royal Biographer She was 'sugar pink' innocence; he was a...

From about 1970, Irish history moved into a fast-forward phase. Roy Foster's new book looks at the roots of the changes which came with an almost completely unexpected wave of...

Roy Foster is one of the leaders of the iconoclastic generation of Irish historians. In this opinionated, entertaining book he examines how the Irish have written, understood, used, and misused...

For the first time, Ben Pimlott ('the best writer of political biography new writing', Andrew Marr, Independent) treats the Queen seriously as the subject of historical biography. Using a wide...

Featuring exquisite photography from throughout the royal couple's lives and the wedding itself, this high-end coffee table book will be the publication to mark the wedding of Prince Harry and...

The First Emperor gave us the name by which China is known in the West and, by his unification or elimination of six states, created imperial China. He stressed the...

Mary was crowned queen in 1553. In the space of just five years, her brutal methods earned her the macabre nickname she has carried ever since. Men such as Nicholas...

This highly illustrated, detailed account of Harry and Meghan's relationship celebrates the announcement of their wedding and tells the story of a thoroughly modern royal romance. The book charts their...

A revised edition of a compelling photographic history of Queen Elizabeth II's life and reign This book is a photographic portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, from her first official photograph...

Some of the most famous names in the history of literature written in English were born and lived in Dublin or had close connections with the city, from Jonathan Swift...

One was stabbed to death in an attempted coup. Another was portrayed as a villain in one of Shakespeare's plays. They are among the kings and queens who ruled Scotland...

A delightful autobiographical novel from one of Ireland's best-loved writers My part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person whom no...

Gerald of Wales was among the most dynamic and fascinating churchmen of the twelfth century. A member of one of the leading Norman families involved in the invasion of Ireland,...

A revised edition of a compelling photographic history of Queen Elizabeth II's life and reign This book is a photographic portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, from her first official photograph...

The book titled Princess Remembers: Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur by the author Gayatri Devi. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Three years in the troubled British Isles, leading up to the election of Boris Johnson. Three years in the troubled British Isles from the bestselling author of Heroic Failure ....

This is the story of Messalina - third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world. According to the Roman historians...

The #1 Irish Times bestseller WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards 'A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes 'Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent' Colm Toibin, Guardian 'With the pace...

A beautifully illustrated reference to Shakespeare and his time. Four centuries after he penned them, Shakespeare's plays continue to delight audiences and readers worldwide. Shakespeare: The Essential Guide to the...

The Top Ten Bestseller inspired by the life of the Guinness family. Perfect for fans of the House of Guinness TV series 'Fans of Downton Abbey will adore this' Sunday...

Christmas With You was previously published as A Season to Remember . Now with two poignant new stories added. Sheila O'Flanagan's romantic and heart-warming Christmas With You is perfect festive...

'A good story, embracing character, emotion and drama... refreshing.' THE TIMES'A splendidly sympathetic and sparky portrait... Wittily written and rich in detail' Miranda SeymourDespite Catherine of Braganza's crucial place in...

The first biography of the enigmatic Robert Barton, a central figure in the Irish Revolution. The enigmatic Robert Barton was a central figure in Irish Revolution. From an Anglo-Irish ascendancy...

A MUST-READ BIOGRAPHY OF WINSTON CHURCHILL, BRINGING HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE WINDSOR FAMILY UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME. 'Highly readable' - Daily Mail Winston and the Windsors is...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BEST NOVEL IN THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE By the author of Four Letters of Love , the international bestseller now...

THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER 'A glitzy, glamorous rollercoaster of a romance - hugely entertaining and so satisfying . . . Sheila O'Flanagan at her sparkling best' Veronica Henry The irresistible,...

The definitive study, in words and pictures, of the Queen Mother. From her happy childhood, through her marriage to the Duke of York and his accession as King George VI,...

Dr Victoria Stewart considers the social and political situation into which O'Casey was born and traces the path which led him to an association with theatre in the early 1920s...

The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for the present, from internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson "The author succeeds in bringing this...

The first full-scale history of Theoderic and the Goths in more than seventy-five years, tracing the transformation of a divided kingdom into a great power "A monumental exploration. . ....

A thrilling exploration of what Romans thought about their emperors, and how rumors and gossip-ranging from new taxes to rulers' sex lives-shaped leadership Traversing more than seven hundred years of...

The first in a ground-breaking two-volume history of Henry III's rule "Professor Carpenter is one of Britain's foremost medievalists...No one knows more about Henry, and a lifetime of scholarship is...

An engaging biography that offers a new perspective on one of the most influential figures of the Crusades In 1187, Saladin marched triumphantly into Jerusalem, ending decades of struggle against...

The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperback The formation of England happened against the odds - the division of the country...

Into the world of 1950s Ireland - a lushly green, windswept landscape studded with holy wells and the decaying country houses of a vanished ruling class - arrives Ithell Colquhoun....

The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry features the work of three Nobel laureates - W. B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney - as well as Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde,...

The collection includes famous poems such as Yeats's "The Fisherman" and Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" alongside new work from Ireland's finest living writers. As well as forming a...

Finfarran Book 5 'I was utterly charmed - a pitch-perfect delight' Marian Keyes 'A sparkling, life-affirming novel' Cathy Kelly Eager to cheer up her recently-widowed gran, Cassie Fitzgerald persuades Lissbeg...