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
Londongrad : From Russia with Cash by Mark Hollingsworth
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
The amazing true story of how London became home to the Russian super-rich. A dazzling tale of incredible wealth, ferocious disputes, beautiful women, private jets, mega-yachts, the world's best footballers -- and chauffeur-driven Range Rovers with tinted windows. A group of buccaneering Russian oligarc ...Show more
Johnson's Life of London: The People Who Made the City That Made the World by Boris Johnson
$45.00 AUD
Category: British
London is special. For centuries, it has been amongst the greatest cities of the world. But a city is nothing without its people. This sparkling new history of London, told through a relay-race of great Londoners shows in one, personality-packed book that the ingenuity, diversity, creativity and enterpr ...Show more
A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3000BC-AD1603 by Simon Schama
$39.95 AUD
Category: British
'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of this, the first book in his three-volume journey into Britain's past. 'Disruption as much as persistence is its proper subject. So although the great theme of British history seen from the twentieth century is endurance ...Show more
The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I by John Cooper
$40.00 AUD
Category: British
Elizabeth I came to the throne at a time of insecurity and unrest. Rivals threatened her reign; England was a Protestant island, isolated in a sea of Catholic countries. Spain plotted an invasion, but Elizabeth's Secretary, Francis Walsingham, was prepared to do whatever it took to protect her. He ran a ...Show more
A History of England in 100 Places : From Stonehenge to the Gherkin by John Julius Norwich
$35.00 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
MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 by Keith Jeffery
$30.00 AUD
Category: British
A groundbreaking book, this unprecedented study is the authoritative account of the best-known intelligence organisation in the world. Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of espionage, the two world wars, modern British government and the conduct of international relations in the fi ...Show more
Art of Betrayal: Life and Death in the British Secret Service by Gordon Corera
$55.00 AUD
Category: British
The British Secret Service has been cloaked in secrecy and shrouded in myth since it was created a hundred years ago. Our understanding of what it is to be a spy has been largely defined by the fictional worlds of James Bond and John le Carre. THE ART OF BETRAYAL provides a unique and unprecedented insi ...Show more