Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars by Simon Heffer
$95.00 AUD
Category: British
'An epic new history . . . a work of epic scholarship, breathtaking range, and piercing originality' Daily Express 'An astonishing achievement of narrative history . . . I think the word is "magisterial".' Spectator 'Excellent, thorough, detailed and combatively argued.' Sunday Times _________________ ...Show more
Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House by Adrian Tinniswood
$30.00 AUD
Category: British
From the bestselling author of The Long Weekend- a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the English country house after the Second World War, when Swinging London collided with aristocratic values. From the bestselling author of The Long Weekend- a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the Engl ...Show more
The English and their History by Robert Tombs
$40.00 AUD
Category: British
The first full-length history of England in one volume for many decades - now in paperback The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever since, and their defining natio ...Show more
The Georgians - The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain by Penelope J. Corfield
$26.95 AUD
Category: British
What did the Georgians think of themselves, and of their exciting, turbulent, and controversial times? The Georgian era (1714-1830) was a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, the world's first industrial revolution, and deep transformations in religious and cultural life. Brita ...Show more
The Palace by Gareth Russell
$53.00 AUD
Category: British
'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts' PHILIPPA GREGORYFor centuries, Hampton Court has been a place of power, scandal and in ...Show more
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men; its longest-serving editor, James Murray, devoted 36 years to the ...Show more
Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London by Caroline Knowles
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
'A latter-day Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times'Eye-opening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap' Misha Glenny, Financial TimesLondon is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling dow ...Show more
The Irish Difference - The Story of Ireland's 400-Year Journey to Independence by Fergal Tobin
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
A fascinating and entertaining investigation into what makes Ireland so different from its neighbors, by a respected Irish historian. For hundreds of years, the islands and their constituent tribes that make up the British Isles have lived next door to each other in a manner that, over time, sugges ...Show more
The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England by Joanne Paul
$27.00 AUD
Category: British
In the shadow of every Tudor monarch there was a family who were the kingmakers but were never the kings, told for the very first time, this is the true story of the family behind the throne, the Dudley familyWas the House of Dudley out to steal the throne?This was the question on the mind of Elizabeth ...Show more
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History by Tracy Borman
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
'(A)sensational book by one of our greatest and best-loved historians... Astoundingly good.' - Alison Weir 'Masterful, captivating, page-turning, this is solid gold history at its best.' - Nicola Tallis '(A) thought-provoking, impeccably researched, and moving account uncovering how Anne's family, intel ...Show more
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022 by Katherine Rundell
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
‘Masterly.’ Observer ‘Wonderful, joyous.’ Maggie O'Farrell‘Frankly brilliant.’ Sunday Times‘Unmissable.’ Simon Jenkins ‘Every page sparkles.’ Claire Tomalin ‘A triumph.’ Matt Haig ‘Stylish, scholarly and gripping.’ Rose Tremain John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disas ...Show more
The Restless Republic Britain without a Crown by Anna Keay
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
‘A dazzling achievement … I loved every page’ Dominic Sandbrook,Sunday Times ‘An entrancing achievement … Never have the kingless years been made so vivid, and never has vividness contributed so much to the understanding of them’ Blair Worden, Times Literary Supplement In 1649 Britain was engulfed by re ...Show more