Cultural Region/British
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Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs
$27.00 Add to cart“Nancy Greenspan dives into the mysteries of the Klaus Fuchs espionage case and emerges with a classic Cold War biography of intrigue and torn loyalties. Atomic Spy is a mesmerizing morality tale, tol… [more below]
- Author: Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0593083407
- Language: English
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English Romantic Poets
$18.00 Read moreA greatest-hits selection from some of the most popular poets in the English language, in a gorgeously-jacketed small hardcover.
William Wordsworth defined good poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
- Author: Bate, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0593535529
- Language: English
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Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
$25.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – In this “beautifully written and superbly researched dual biography” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham “paints a powerful portr… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 0812972821
- Language: English
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Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year
$30.00 Read moreInterweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seasons in medieval England–now in paperback.
Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey thro- Author: Parker, Eleanor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: September 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1789146720
- Language: English
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Small Island
$20.00 Read moreAn international bestseller. Andrea Levy’s Small Island won the Orange Prize for Fiction, The Orange Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best, The Whitbread Novel Award, The Whitbread Book of the Year Awar
- Author: Levy, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0312429525
- Language: English
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Crown, Cloak, and Dagger: The British Monarchy and Secret Intelligence from Victoria to Elizabeth II
$32.95 Read moreSurprising revelations about the active role of the monarch in British intelligence
The British Royal Family and the intelligence community are two of the most mysterious and mythologized actors of the
- Series: Georgetown Studies in Intelligence History
- Author: Aldrich, Richard J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1647123712
- Language: English
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Sense and Sensibility
$14.99 Read moreTwo sisters of opposing temperament but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1909621692
- Language: English
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Lucky Jim
$16.95 Add to cartA hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, this is a classic of postwar English literature.
Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky- Author: Amis, Kingsley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 1590175751
- Language: English
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Beautiful Useful Things: What William Morris Made
$18.99 Read moreAward-winning author Beth Kephart and illustrator Melodie Stacey’s poetic picture book, Beautiful Useful Things, is about the life and work of William Morris, maker of beautiful, useful things, sure t… [more below]
- Author: Kephart, Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1951836332
- Language: English
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Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History
$19.95 Read more‘A love letter to queer London which reminds us that although we’re not always in the mainstream telling of history, we have always been here’–Nathaniel Hall, playwright, and actor in It’s A Sin
‘Dan- Author: Glass, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0745346219
- Language: English
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The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
$19.99 Read moreTHE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE
Eleven years when Britain had no king.
In 1649 Britai
- Author: Keay, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0008282056
- Language: English
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Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650
$35.00 Read moreThe unlikely beginnings of the East India Company–from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch–to laying the groundwork for future British expansion
The East India Company was the largest- Author: Howarth, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 030025072X
- Language: English
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The Well of Loneliness: The Classic of Lesbian Fiction
$25.00 Add to cartOriginally published in 1928, Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness is the timeless story of a lesbian couple’s struggle to be accepted by “polite” society. Shockingly candid for its time, this nove… [more below]
- Author: Hall, Radclyffe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 18 1990
- ISBN10: 0385416091
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)
$7.99 Read moreIndulge in the captivating world of Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece The Picture of Dorian Gray. This exquisite edition presents Wilde’s iconic novel in a visually stunning format, offering readers a luxuri
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 08 2015
- ISBN10: 8175993081
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
$9.99 Add to cartCrack the case with Sherlock Holmes in three familiar tales, now written with young readers in mind: “The Red-Headed League,” “The Speckled Band,” and “The Hound of the Baskervilles.”
It’s always an a
- Series: Classic Adventures
- Author: Conan Doyle, Arthur
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1946260215
- Language: English
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Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel
$16.95 Read moreIt is now more than seventy years since the creation of the state of Israel, yet its origins and the British Empire’s historic responsibility for Palestine remain little known. Confusion persists too
- Author: Thompson, Gardner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0863564828
- Language: English
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The Island Villa
$30.00 Read more“Readers will be swept up by well-drawn characters, each with her own romantic predicament, in this deft fictional examination of fragile and frayed familial bonds.”–Shelf Awareness on The Island Vi… [more below]
- Author: Morgan, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1335006338
- Language: English
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Lost in London
$8.99 Read moreA tween’s foreign exchange experience lands her in London luxury–and some hot water as well
Twelve-year-old Jordan isn’t unhappy, but she’s definitely bored. So when she gets the chance to take part- Series: Mix
- Author: Callaghan, Cindy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1442466537
- Language: English
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Yours Truly, the Duke: Say I Do
$8.99 Read moreYours Truly, The Duke is the first novel in the historical romance Say I Do trilogy about dukes needing to wed to tap into their wealth by New York Times bestselling author Amelia Grey.
Fredericka Hal- Series: Say I Do #1
- Author: Grey, Amelia
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 125085041X
- Language: English
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Nicholas Nickleby
$7.95 Add to cartOur hero confronts a large and varied cast, including Wackford Squeers, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster, and Vincent Crummles, the grandiloquent ham actor, on his comic and satirical adventures u… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538220
- Language: English
