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...

A hugely entertaining exploration of Ireland's historical sites with a dark side. Fizzing with curiosity and humour and revealing fascinating and unearthed stories from our past The Darkness Echoing will...

This biography won the James Tait Black Prize. It provides an enlightening, scholarly yet moving account of the life and death of one of the most romantic figures in British...

This sharp and stylish biography redefines the woman George Bernard Shaw once described as 'the greatest living Irishwoman'-Augusta Gregory. A remarkable figure in Celtic history, she was married to an...

An Introduction to Contemporary Irish Literature provides a thorough initiation into the works of a broad selection of living Irish writers. The collection treats the writings of a range of...

This edition make the popular and best selling biography available in paperback for the first time.

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: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most shattering and enduring memoirs to emerge from the First World War, Testament of Youth...

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: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA rare and captivating piece of military history, Acorns: A Great Bunch of Nuts is a compiled...

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: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew subjects captivate the imagination quite like the pageant of England's monarchy — a thousand years of ambition,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageShipwrecked, alone, and thousands of miles from civilisation, Robinson Crusoe refuses to surrender to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew lives in modern history burn with as much contradictory brilliance as that of Roger Casement...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the darkest hours of World War II, a remarkable brotherhood was forged in fire, pain, and the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the bustling, wig-wearing world of the Old Bailey, Horace Rumpole — barrister, claret enthusiast, and devoted reader...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew poets have shaped the English literary imagination as profoundly as William Wordsworth, and this volume...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of Edwardian England, where class distinctions cut as sharply as a winter frost,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the breathtaking sweep of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageRooted in the timeless beauty of an English country house and the unshakeable bonds of family...

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...