British & Irish History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the annals of British criminal history, few cases have captivated the public imagination quite like the Wallace murder mystery — a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Tear along jacket fold and back. A sharp and witty foreigner's lens is trained on Victorian England in Hippolyte Taine's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor a quarter of a century, the sleepy village of Ambridge has captivated British radio audiences with its rich tapestry of rural life, family...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the volatile heart of sixteenth-century France, one woman wielded more power than any crown could confer — Catherine de Medici, the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerDuty, loyalty, and the unbreakable bonds forged in conflict take centre stage in The Old Brigade, a spirited...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat does it mean to write history — and who were the men who shaped that very question in England? The History Men chronicles...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSet against the windswept coasts and political intrigues of early nineteenth-century Scotland, The Free Fishers is a gripping tale of loyalty, danger, and the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat did it truly mean to be a woman in Victorian England — and what did marriage demand...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the grand tradition of British political satire, The Other Half: Further Letters of Denis Thatcher presents...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind every great spy thriller lies a real-world figure more fascinating than fiction — and Maxwell Knight, the enigmatic MI5 spymaster who inspired Ian...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. A window into the brilliant, restless mind of one of English literature's most...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: dj: worn edges with small chip and sticker residue. Binding - remains tight. Clean and bright...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA landmark in twentieth-century literary curation, The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse stands as one of the most celebrated and debated...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the Flight of the Earls in 1603 to the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922, The Making of Modern Ireland...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsLondon, 1942: bombs fall nightly, and in the smouldering ruins of a city at war, a...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: FEP missingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn the glittering yet hollow world of 1920s London, Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies chronicles the frenetic misadventures...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the backdrop of bohemian London in the 1930s, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant is the fifth volume in...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, the British Empire stood as the most powerful...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageHeaven's Command: An Imperial Progress is a sweeping, magisterial chronicle of the British Empire at its zenith, tracing...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA mind as penetrating and graceful as E.M. Forster's was never content to be confined to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of The Crystal Garden lies a beautifully observed portrait of suburban English life, where the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the smoke-shrouded industrial cities of Edwardian England to the social upheaval of the Swinging Sixties, Britain in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most candid and psychologically penetrating memoirs in the English language, Father and Son chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA collision of cultures, class, and catastrophic misunderstanding — E. M. Forster's debut novel, Where Angels Fear to...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the ancient traditions of the world's oldest living cultures to the turbulent birth of a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew voices in the English literary canon cut as sharply or as wittily as that of Jonathan Swift, and the Collected Poems of Jonathan...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to think seriously about society — and can earnestness itself be a radical act?...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSet against the smouldering backdrop of post-World War One Ireland, Troubles follows Major Brendan Archer, a shell-shocked British officer who travels to the crumbling...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the intersection of Victorian imagination and imperial anxiety lies The Savage in Literature, a rigorous critical study that examines how English...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the gilded drawing rooms of Eton to the literary salons of 1930s Vienna and London, The Whispering Gallery is the first volume of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOne of the most singular and intellectually formidable voices of twentieth-century British literature, Rose Macaulay led a life as rich in complexity and contradiction...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the intersection of broadcasting, literature, and public intellectual life, A Listener Anthology: August 1967–June 1970 stands as a remarkable time capsule of late...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.At the heart of British political life for nearly half...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the hagiographies of medieval saints to the polished literary portraits of the Victorian age, The Development of English Biography presents a masterful survey...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Behind the gilded doors of Buckingham Palace and the grand estates of the British Royal...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat happens when Britain's wittiest, most opinionated, and most delightfully eccentric minds put pen to paper? The Second Cuckoo answers that question with irresistible...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: price clipped dj. First published in 1957, The Uses of Literacy stands as one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt the twilight of the British Empire, one man embodied its grandeur, its arrogance, and its inevitable decline —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the mid-nineteenth century, a band of young, idealistic English painters ignited one of the most passionate and...