Cultural Region/British
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Nobody Walks
$19.95 Read moreIn this standalone spy thriller, Mick Herron, creator of Slough House, introduced Tom Bettany, a man with a violent past and only one thing to live for: Avenging his son’s death.
Tom Bettany is worki- Author: Herron, Mick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1616956194
- Language: English
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How to Be a Tudor: A Dawn-To-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
$18.99 Read moreOn the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to t
- Author: Goodman, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492535
- Language: English
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Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts
$19.99 Read moreWilliam Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions – shock, sadness, fear – that they did more than 400 years ago when th
- Author: Harkup, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1472958209
- Language: English
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The Traitor’s Blade
$18.99 Read moreChristopher’s homecoming takes a sinister turn when a murderous conspiracy is uncovered in this fifth novel of the award-winning Blackthorn Key series.
Christopher, Tom, and Sally are back in London a- Series: Blackthorn Key #5
- Author: Sands, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1534484566
- Language: English
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Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
$32.00 Read moreOn the eve of Queen Elizabeth II’s historic 70th anniversary on the throne, Tracy Borman’s sweeping narrative of the British monarchy illuminates one of history’s most iconic and enduring legacies
Sinc
- Author: Borman, Tracy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0802159109
- Language: English
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Royal Trivia: Your Guide to the Modern British Royal Family
$19.95 Read moreTest your knowledge of Kate, William, Meghan, Harry, Diana, Charles and Elizabeth II!
This collection of fascinating facts and anecdotes about the British monarchy will keep you in the know and ready- Author: Bowie, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1646042603
- Language: English
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Bryant & May: Peculiar London
$28.99 Read moreThinking of a jaunt to England? Let Arthur Bryant and John May, London’s oldest police detectives, show you the oddities behind the city’s fa軋des in this tongue-in-cheek travel guide.
“The best fun- Series: Peculiar Crimes Unit
- Author: Fowler, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0593356241
- Language: English
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Operation Black Buck 1982: The Vulcans’ Extraordinary Falklands War Raids
$25.00 Read more‘The definitive account of the Vulcan raids… taught me something new on every page’
– Rowland White, author of the bestselling Vulcan 607
A newly researched, fully illustrated account of how RAF Vulca- Series: Air Campaign #37
- Author: Bird, Andrew D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 147285666X
- Language: English
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Desperate Duchesses
$9.99 Add to cartWelcome to a world of reckless sensuality and glittering sophistication . . . of dangerously handsome gentlemen and young ladies longing to gain a title . . . of games played for high stakes, includin
- Series: Desperate Duchesses #1
- Author: James, Eloisa
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0060781939
- Language: English
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Sir Philip Sidney: The Major Works
$18.95 Add to cartThis authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Sidney’s poetry and prose–all the major writing, complemented by letters and elegies–that reveals the essence of his work and think… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sidney, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538417
- Language: English
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Eliot: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington
$20.00 Read moreFrom the Nobel Prize winning author—and the most influential poet of the twentieth century—comes a beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets edition that includes the masterpieces “The Love Song of J. Alfred… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 26 1998
- ISBN10: 0375401857
- Language: English
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The Letter of Marque
$15.95 Read moreCaptain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old friend Stephen Maturin, usually cast as a ship’s surgeon
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #12
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 17 1992
- ISBN10: 0393309053
- Language: English
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Whose Body?: The First Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery
$9.95 Add to cartThe first novel by one of the greatest mystery writers of the twentieth century, in which she introduced her popular amateur detective, Lord Peter Wimsey.
“[A] pure pleasure to read.” —The New York T… [more below]- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Sayers, Dorothy L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0525565116
- Language: English
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Mythologies
$22.00 Read moreMythologies is the definitive edition of W.B. Yeats’s folklore & early prose fiction, edited according to Yeats’s final textual instructions.
Its extensive annotation makes luminous Yeats’s ‘fibrous d- Author: Yeats, William Butler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 26 1998
- ISBN10: 0684826216
- Language: English
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Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time
$21.00 Read moreFrom Jenny Uglow, one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a love affair and a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars.
In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old archite- Author: Uglow, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872561
- Language: English
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Snobs
$18.00 Add to cartJulian Fellowes, creator of the Emmy-Award winning TV series Downton Abbey, established himself as an irresistible storyteller and a deliciously witty chronicler of modern manners in his first novel
- Author: Fellowes, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 1250020360
- Language: English
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Rainy Day London: A Practical Guide: 100 Places to Keep Dry
$18.00 Read moreCozy pubs, vibrant restaurants, world-class galleries and everything in between – London is full of incredible things to do, whatever the weather.
From iconic institutions to local, under-the-radar s- Author: Aron, Isabelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 178713895X
- Language: English
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The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
$20.00 Add to cartPreeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America, shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year… [more below]
- Author: Shapiro, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 1416541659
- Language: English
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys Into the Medieval World
$45.00 Read moreAn extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world’s leading experts.
Winner of The Wolfson History Prize and The Duff Coo- Author: de Hamel, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1594206112
- Language: English
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The Secret Commonwealth: Of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies
$14.95 Add to cartA classic, enchanting document of Scottish folklore about fairies, elves, and other supernatural creatures.
Late in the seventeenth century, Robert Kirk, an Episcopalian minister in the Scottish Highl- Author: Kirk, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1681373564
- Language: English
