Royal Mistresses of the House of Hanover-Windsor: Secrets, Scandals and Betrayals by Susanna De Vries
$34.95 AUD
Category: British
Secrets, Scandals and Betrayals. The genuine love match between Prince William and Kate Middleton has rekindled enthusiasm for the British monarchy. In the past, young princes reluctantly entered into arranged marriages and took mistresses. Perdita Robinson, a famous actress, was enticed from the stage ...Show more
Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979 by Dominic Sandbrook
$45.00 AUD
Category: British
This is the book behind the major new BBC2 series "The Seventies". "If I were a younger man I would emigrate". (James Callaghan)...In the mid-1970s, Britain's fortunes seemed to have reached their lowest point since the Blitz. As inflation rocketed, the pound collapsed and car bombs exploded across Lond ...Show more
London: The Concise Biography by Peter Ackroyd
$43.00 AUD
Category: British
"An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd s magisterial biography of the city of London Prize-winning historian, novelist and broadcast, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey historical, geographical and imaginative through the city of London. Moving back and forth through time, Ackroyd is an effortless, exub ...Show more
Mary Boleyn: The Great and Infamous Whore by Alison Weir
$19.95 AUD
Category: British
"* Mary Boleyn is remembered by posterity as a great and infamous whore . * She was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII s second wife. She may secretly have borne Henry a child and it was because of his adultery with Mary that ...Show more
Castles of Britain and Ireland by Rodney Castleden
$30.00 AUD
Category: British
To many, medieval castles are the essence of Britain and Ireland's fascinating past. Immersed in history and centuries old, each one tells a story of Kings, Queens and feuding lords; war and bloody conflict; treason, revenge and murder. In Castles of Britain and Ireland, Rodney Castleden weaves a fascin ...Show more
The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels by Matthew Sweet
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
Spies: Meet Marie-Jacqueline Lancaster, the woman from M15 who has the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan Thomas. Royals: Meet Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, born in a suite at Claridge's that was declared Yugoslav territory for the night. Players: Meet Joyce Stone, whose husband leads ...Show more
This Sceptred Isle by Christopher Lee
$29.95 AUD
Category: British
What is Britishness? What allowed one small island group to rule a quarter of the world and, even today, to have the most spoken language after Chinese? What makes Americans admire the guts, traditions and loyalties of these island Anglo-Saxon and Celtic people? What is it that makes cynical Europeans a ...Show more
Winter King - The Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
"He were a dark prince, and infinitely suspicious, and his times full of secret conspiracies and troubles". (Sir Francis Bacon). In his remarkable debut, Penn vividly recreates the dark and turbulent reign of Henry VII. He traces the transformation of a young, vulnerable boy, Prince Henry, into the aggr ...Show more
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer
$49.95 AUD
Category: British
We think of Queen Elizabeth I as 'Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes, like Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Francis Drake, and of great writers, such as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe and Willi ...Show more
London in the Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing by Jerry White
$55.00 AUD
Category: British
London in the eighteenth century was very much a new city, risen from the ashes of the Great Fire. With thousands of homes and many landmark buildings destroyed, it had been brought to the brink. But the following century was a period of vigorous expansion, of scientific and artistic genius, of blossomi ...Show more
A History of England in 100 Places: From Stonehenge to the Gherkin by John Julius Norwich
$27.00 AUD
Category: British
From battlefield to sacred building, from castle to cottage, from the Bridgwater Canal to Blackpool Pier, historian John Julius Norwich tells the political, cultural, social, religious and economic story of England through one hundred key places you can still visit today. Part narrative history, part ex ...Show more
I May be Some Time : Ice and the English Imagination by Francis Spufford
$24.95 AUD
Category: British
When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the English imagination. Despite wars and social change, despite recent debunking, it is still there. Conventional histories of polar exploration tend to trace the laborious expeditions across the ma ...Show more