Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs by Seth Alexander Thevoz
$35.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
With a keen eye for the juicy anecdote, Thevoz tells the fascinating and entertaining story of the rise, decline and resurgence of London's private members' clubs, from the late-eighteenth century to the present day. In doing so he looks at cultural and political developments beyond the clubs, revealin ...Show more
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
Templars: The Knights of Britain by Steve Tibble
$51.95 AUD
Category: British
A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played a profound role in making modern Britain The Knights Templar have an enduring reputation--but not one they would recognize. Originally established in the twelfth century to protect ...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
Shakespeare's Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio by Chris Laoutaris
$55.00 AUD
Category: British
The true story of how the First Folio creators made ‘Shakespeare’ The year 2023 marks the 400th anniversary of Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, known today simply as the First Folio. It is difficult to imagine a world without The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra ...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
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