Cultural Region/British
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The Peculiar
$11.99 Add to cartThe international bestseller and debut novel by teenage author and classical musician Stefan Bachmann is part murder mystery, part gothic fantasy, part clockwork adventure. Best-selling author Rick Ri
- Series: Peculiar #1
- Author: Bachmann, Stefan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0062195190
- Language: English
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A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist
$24.95 Read moreCompleting Juliette Wells’ groundbreaking trio of books on Austen’s readers, this latest volume revolutionizes our understanding of how Austen came to be viewed as the world’s greatest novelist. Wells
- Author: Wells, Juliette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1350365505
- Language: English
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Return to My Trees: Notes from the Welsh Woodlands
$24.00 Read moreWalking through ancient Welsh forests, Yeomans reflects on our relationship to the woods.
When and how did humans lose their connection with nature–and how do we find it again? In Return to My Trees- Author: Yeomans, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1915279143
- Language: English
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Kings and Queens of England and Scotland
$14.99 Read moreDiscover the vivid stories of Britain’s iconic rulers, from 600 CE to the present day.
From the Saxons to the Windsors, Britain’s royal lineage is brought to life in the pages of this visual guide. Co- Author: Fry, Plantagenet Somerset
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0744086981
- Language: English
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The Bride Wore Black
$15.95 Add to cartWhen the wealthy ladies’ man fell from his balcony in the midst of his engagement party, the police dismissed the death as the result of a freak accident. There was nothing to connect it with the pois
- Series: An American Mystery Classic
- Author: Woolrich, Cornell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1613162006
- Language: English
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The Little Book of London: The Greatest City in the World
$8.95 Read moreA little book about the Big Smoke.
London is one of the most visited cities in the world, attracting around 30 million visitors every year. But why is it that the UK’s capital city has such pulling pow
- Series: Little Book Of… #1
- Author: Hippo, Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1800690266
- Language: English
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Microadventures: Local Discoveries for Great Escapes
$28.99 Add to cart‘Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap’ Geographical
Adventure – something that’s new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need is an ope
- Author: Humphreys, Alastair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0007548036
- Language: English
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When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance
$21.95 Read moreWinner of the Society for Military History’s Distinguished Book Award
“Deeply researched and forcefully written . . . deftly explains the confused politics and diplomacy that bedeviled the war against- Author: Neiberg, Michael S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0674293886
- Language: English
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The History of the English People 1000-1154
$14.95 Read moreHenry of Huntingdon’s narrative covers one of the most exciting and bloody periods in English history: the Norman Conquest and its aftermath. He tells of the decline of the Old English kingdom, the vi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Henry of Huntingdon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554803
- Language: English
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
$4.95 Add to cartThis prose rendering of a poem from the late fourteenth century (or earlier) recounts an adventure undertaken by King Arthur’s famous nephew, Sir Gawain. Brave and chivalrous, faithful to his word and… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama
- Author: Weston, Jessie L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 53
- Publish Date: August 22 2003
- ISBN10: 0486431916
- Language: English
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The Waste Land
$18.00 Read moreThe Waste Land is arguably the most important poem of the twentieth century. First published in the United States by Boni & Liveright in 1922, this landmark reissue of the first edition, now back with… [more below]
- Series: Liveright Classics #0
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 16 2013
- ISBN10: 0871407175
- Language: English
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Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape
$18.00 Read moreNow in paperback, an exploration of the myths of England’s deceptively bucolic rolling hills and country lanes believed to be created and shaped by the Dark Lord himself.
According to legend, the Eng- Author: Harte, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1789148332
- Language: English
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Hamlet
$12.99 Read moreShakespeare’s combination of violence, introspection, dark humour and rich language in Hamlet is intoxicating. It remains the world’s most widely studied and performed play, and is a cornerstone of wo
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 23 2016
- ISBN10: 1909621862
- Language: English
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Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict – Catholic against Protesta… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Mulholland, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198825005
- Language: English
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The British Empire: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom the eighteenth century until the 1950s, the British Empire was the largest and most far-flung political entity in the world, holding sway at one time over one fifth of the world’s population. The… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Jackson, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0199605416
- Language: English
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.
$20.00 Add to cartFirst discovered and then painstakingly edited and annotated by Nicholas Meyer, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution related the astounding and previously unknown collaboration of Sigmund Freud with Sherlock H
- Series: The Journals of John H. Watson, M.D. #0
- Author: Meyer, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0393311198
- Language: English
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The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall
$9.99 Read moreIn this chilling Gothic tale from ghost story master Mary Downing Hahn, an orphan girl sent to live in Crutchfield Hall finds the place haunted by the ghost of her cousin Sophia, who is bent on reveng
- Author: Hahn, Mary Downing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 054757715X
- Language: English
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One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander
$26.95 Add to cartWritten by the man who masterminded the British victory in the Falklands, this engrossing memoir chronicles events in the spring of 1982 following Argentina’s takeover of the South Atlantic islands. A… [more below]
- Series: Bluejacket Books
- Author: Woodward, Estate Of Sandy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 30 1997
- ISBN10: 1557506523
- Language: English
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A Traveller’s History of Scotland
$14.95 Read moreThe broad sweep of Scotland’s story, both past and present, is chronicled by one of the country’s best historians. Andrew Fisher begins with Scotland’s first people and their culture and ends with Dev… [more below]
- Series: Interlink Traveller’s Histories
- Author: Fisher, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1566567564
- Language: English
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A Killing of Innocents
$34.00 Read moreNew York Times bestseller Deborah Crombie returns with a “gripping police procedural” (Washington Post) featuring Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James as they race to solve the shoc
- Series: Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Novels #19
- Author: Crombie, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0063117754
- Language: English
