British & Irish History

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of history and legend stands one of Britain's most enduring mysteries — the question of...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the arrival of the first European navigators to the forging of a modern democratic nation, The Story...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew literary forms capture the raw pulse of human experience quite like the ballad — and The Oxford Book...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew voices in the English literary canon carry the raw, sensory power of D. H. Lawrence, and Selected...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew biographies of an artist carry the intimacy and authority of a memoir written by a close personal friend, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the shadow of the Western Front, George Sherston — shell-shocked, morally fractured, and haunted by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew eras in English history burn as brightly — or as violently — as the age...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew artifacts in the Western world command the reverence and artistic awe inspired by the illuminated manuscript known as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the treacherous corridors of medieval London, where ambition and survival are inextricably entwined, The Invention of Fire...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the cold stone halls of Canterbury Cathedral, a man of God prepares to meet his...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn the quiet aftermath of World War II, Elizabeth Goudge's The Herb of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew conflicts have so profoundly shaped the course of British democracy as the English Civil War,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the span of just six decades, Britain underwent one of the most dramatic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the tremors of the Reformation to the cataclysm of the English Civil War, The Crisis...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of empire and identity, Separate and Unequal: India and the Indians in the British Commonwealth 1920-1950 presents a meticulously...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedFew names in the literary canon carry the weight of Sherlock Holmes — the razor-sharp, pipe-smoking detective of 221B Baker Street whose...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingSet against the brooding, mist-laden highlands of Scotland, A Falcon for a Queen draws readers into a world of mystery,...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedLife on the remote Scottish island of the Hebrides is not for the faint-hearted, and Lillian Beckwith's The Sea for Breakfast captures...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodA cornerstone of secondary education anthologies, England in Literature — part of the acclaimed America Reads series in its Medallion Edition — presents a sweeping survey...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; part 51, May 30, 1917 - part 60, August 1, 1917Few historical artefacts capture the raw, unfolding...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; part 61, August 8, 1917 - part 70, October 10, 1917. At the height of the First...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; part 71, October 17, 1917 - part 80, December 19, 1917. At the height of the First...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; part 81, December 26, 1917 - part 90, February 27, 1918A gripping frontline chronicle frozen in print,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; part 31, January 10, 1917 - part 40, March 14, 1917When the Great War erupted across Europe...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; Part 1, June 14, 1916 - Part 10, August 16, 1916; part 1 and 2 in fair/poor...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; part 11, August 23, 1916 - part 20, October 25, 1916. At the dawn of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Faded slipcase and boards; Few authors have shaped the English-speaking world quite like Charles Dickens, and The Annotated Dickens presents his most celebrated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedFew literary collections have achieved the canonical sweep and intellectual ambition of Poets of the English Language, the landmark...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingThis Heron Books set collects the major fiction and travel writing of Aldous Huxley, anchored...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingA titan of twentieth-century British letters, J. B. Priestley produced a body of work so vast and...

'Bridget Jones meets menopause...sharp, funny and real' Cecelia Ahern Lay on the couch for a brief nap. Woke up an hour later, the witch trials book I'm reading stuck to...

Biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson, whose most recent work on the life of Queen Victoria was an enormous critical and commercial success, turns his clear eye to our own...

An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard's inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing-not resolving-the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicality A genius and...

A new paperback edition of this popular children's book. We are going on a long mysterious journey to find out what we can about the Island of Ireland... The Story...

You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window- COMPASSIONATE & TOLERANT OWNER. A PERSON WITHOUT OTHER...

The book version of the thrilling and innovative second Skulduggery Pleasant podcast In 1962, three sorcerers converged to do battle in a hidden chamber near a disused platform in the...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2024 ... 'GENIUS' A BOOK OF THE YEAR for the SPECTATOR , MAIL ON SUNDAY , NEW STATESMAN...

The riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial--and a reign as triumphant as any in the Middle A ges. On March 15, 1348, Joanna I,...

*PLUTARCH AWARD FOR THE BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2024* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE* ' SUBLIME ' A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ' STUNNINGLY GOOD ' THE...

Published to mark the 40th anniversary of her accession to the throne, this biography of Queen Elizabeth II is based on research in the Royal Archives at Windsor and interviews...

THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER A Book of the Year in The Times and Financial Times 'The biographer who brought down Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor' THE OBSERVER 'This isn't a book; it's...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedWinding through the storied landscape of Ayrshire in southwest Scotland, the River Doon has inspired poets, shaped communities, and carved...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century British letters cast as long and varied a shadow as J.B. Priestley — playwright, novelist, essayist, and broadcaster — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStep back in time to the charming Yorkshire spa town of Ilkley, immortalised in the beloved folk song...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn the rugged pastoral landscapes of Victoria's Western District, a compelling saga of ambition, hardship, and social transformation unfolded...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the restless years between the two World Wars, three very different souls — a wandering...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe great novels of the early Victorian era — the sweeping moors of Brontë, the fog-laden streets of...