British & Irish History

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:...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFrom the sharp and polemical pen of Russian literary critic and Marxist intellectual Dmitri...

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...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Ex-library with usual markingsFrom the lyrical devotions of the thirteenth century to the bold modernism of the twentieth, Collins Albatross Book of Verse presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersW. B. Yeats — Nobel laureate, visionary poet, and one of the twentieth century's...

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Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew figures in mid-twentieth-century Britain captured the public imagination quite like Group Captain Peter Townsend — war hero, RAF ace,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Light foxing on blockAt the darkest hour of the Second World War, when Britain stood virtually alone against the Nazi onslaught, the...

Edition: Third ImpressionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew stories in the annals of wartime Britain burn as brightly as that of Douglas Bader, the indomitable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the smouldering embers of the 1848 Young Ireland rebellion to the sectarian bloodshed of the twentieth century, Political Violence in Ireland: Government and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadows of the Second World War, a clandestine organisation operated beyond the reach of conventional warfare — SOE: An Outline History of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Tape around edges of jacket. At twenty years old, Miles Tripp climbed aboard a Lancaster...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA landmark in travel writing and regional scholarship, The Shell Guide to England is the definitive companion for anyone seeking to understand the rich,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew names in the history of literature command as much reverence and recognition as Sherlock Holmes — and The Complete...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingStanding as a solemn tribute to the fallen of two World Wars, Courage Remembered is the definitive account of the Commonwealth War...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century British culture burned as brightly as Noël Coward — playwright, actor, composer, and wit — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingA life lived at the epicentre of the twentieth century's most turbulent moments, In Time of Trouble is the autobiography of Claud...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew stories in the annals of British wartime heroism burn as brightly as that of Douglas Bader —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSteeped in the quiet devotion of community and faith, St. Mark's in Time by Rosemary Kerr chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the turbulent summer of 1940, Winston Churchill issued a sweeping order that would upend the lives of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in twentieth-century cultural life commanded as much influence, elegance, and controversy as Kenneth Clark — the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the very edge of England, where ancient granite cliffs plunge into the churning Atlantic and windswept moorlands...

Edition: First Edition.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the intersection of industry, politics, and military strategy stands William Weir, the First Viscount Weir...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingSet against the sun-drenched landscapes of rural England and the Continent, A Crown of Wild Myrtle is a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingWhen the bombs fell on British cities and the nation braced itself for an uncertain future, cinema became one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn The Vanished World, one of England's most beloved storytellers turns the lens upon himself, conjuring with extraordinary...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCollar the Lot! is a damning indictment of one of Britain's most shameful wartime secrets — the mass internment and forced deportation...

Edition: First Edition.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingA legend of the skies puts pen to paper in Never Look Back, Cecil Lewis's sweeping memoir that charts an...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the fog-shrouded marshes of Kent to the glittering drawing rooms of Victorian London, Great Expectations chronicles...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century culture possessed the singular eye and social access of Cecil Beaton — photographer to royalty, designer...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedSet against the turbulent backdrop of 18th-century Scotland in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, Kidnapped chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedOne of the twentieth century's most scandalous royal sagas unfolds in The Windsor Story, a sweeping and authoritative account of Edward VIII's abdication and the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind every great playwright stands a constellation of women who shaped his genius — and in George Bernard...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingOne of Britain's most celebrated theatrical knights tells his own story in In My Mind's Eye, a candid and richly detailed memoir that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels in the English literary canon have matched the raw ambition of D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow — a sweeping, multi-generational saga that...