British & Irish History

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedWhat happens when a life lived quietly and observantly finally speaks? I Forgot to Tell You is the memoir of L. E....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew dramatists captured the glittering hypocrisy of Georgian society with the razor-sharp wit of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and this authoritative collection brings...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt a moment when the moral architecture of the modern world lay in ruins, Christopher Sykes turned his...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodShe was a figure of towering eccentricity and volcanic talent — a poet who declared war on mediocrity and made herself into a living...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most celebrated works in the English literary canon, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales presents a vivid...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of history's most celebrated minds turns his formidable intellectual gaze upon himself in Memoirs of My Life,...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBehind every great literary dynasty lies a story waiting to be told on its own terms — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFor anyone seeking to understand the richness and complexity of the English artistic tradition, An Introduction to English Painting by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: dj warped within mylar. From the sharp, observant pen of one of Scotland's most underrated literary voices comes A Diver in China...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat happens when a scholar with a razor-sharp wit decides to throw decorum out the window and drag the entire canon of English literature...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the aftermath of World War II, one of the last surviving members of the Bloomsbury Group picked up her pen and began recording...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew writers captured the boisterous, mud-spattered world of Victorian English hunting society with the same razor-sharp wit and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn a dacha somewhere deep in the Soviet countryside, an Englishman named Hilary lives out his days in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of one of the most dramatic political upheavals of the twentieth century stands a question...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turbulent crossroads of industrial progress and human creativity, Art and the Industrial Revolution stands as one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of memory and elegy, Closing Times by Dan Davin presents a luminous collection of reminiscences centred on the legendary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the windswept shores of the Scottish Highlands to the untamed wilderness of the Western Isles, The Rocks Remain is Gavin Maxwell's...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA luminous window into one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary minds, Memories gathers the recollections and reflections...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMaurice Collis spent a lifetime at the intersection of art, literature, and empire, and The Journey Up: Reminiscences 1934–1968 stands as his vivid, deeply...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in Victorian literature are as maddeningly elusive as George Borrow — traveller, linguist, adventurer, and writer — a man who constructed his...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedFrom the battlefields of North Africa to the absurd theatre of military bureaucracy, Spike Milligan's Monty: His Part in My Victory chronicles...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: review copyFew figures of the early twentieth century captured the imagination of the literary world quite like Helen Waddell —...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the dawn of Britain's most audacious imperial undertaking, a handful of ambitious, conflicted, and often brilliant men...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of Edwardian literary London stood South Lodge — the Campden Hill home of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the annals of modern warfare commanded the stage with the same magnetic authority as Lord...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the turbulent skies of post-war British commerce, few stories are as electrifying as that of Sir Freddie...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the twentieth century, the British Empire launched what its commanders promised would...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings,Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the summer of 1588, the fate of Protestant Europe hung by a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore the world knew Ulysses or Dubliners, there was a restless, ambitious young Irishman forging himself...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the century between David Hume's later writings and John Stuart Mill's mature works, British philosophy...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFor seven decades, the men and women who served Britain through the skies have never truly been left behind — The Debt We Owe chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBefore the legend, there was the man — and Ted Morgan's Churchill: 1874-1915 chronicles the remarkable and turbulent first four decades of Winston...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the earliest mythological verses to the towering figures of the twentieth century, A Short History...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew stretches of sea have claimed as many ships — and as many lives — as the treacherous Goodwin Sands, a ten-mile...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn a landmark work of British social history, Harold Perkin's The Origins of Modern English Society:...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodA literary memoir as intimate as it is illuminating, My Brother Evelyn & Other Profiles offers a rare, first-hand window into the life of one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew novels in the English language have seared the conscience of a nation quite like Oliver Twist. Charles Dickens' second novel follows the orphaned Oliver —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodSince 1954, some of the finest minds in British intellectual and cultural life have gathered under the banner of the Crabtree Foundation to deliver a series...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the centre of Britain's most turbulent post-war decade stood one man — statesman, diplomat, and ultimately embattled Prime Minister — whose memoirs illuminate...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew novels have captured the brutal machinery of colonial injustice with such devastating power as Marcus Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life. Set against...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the grand tradition of the English novel, The Sleep of Reason chronicles the moral and psychological unraveling...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingThe final curtain falls on one of twentieth-century British fiction's most ambitious sagas as Last Things...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodOne of the most daring and passionately argued novels of the twentieth century, The Rainbow charts the lives and loves of three generations of the Brangwen...