Great Britain
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Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
$29.99 Add to cartIn 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch,
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 393881164
- Language: English
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Moon Scotland: Highland Road Trips, Outdoor Adventures, Pubs & Castles
$24.99 Add to cartDramatic landscapes, hauntingly beautiful ruins, and stirring myths and legends: See for yourself why this evocative country has inspired art and folklore for centuries with Moon Scotland. Inside you’… [more below]
- Series: Moon Europe Travel Guide
- Author: Coffey, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers: How Early Modern Playwrights Shaped the World’s Greatest Writer
$36.95 Add to cartThis book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights on the celebrated works of William Shakespeare.
- Author: Freebury-Jones, Darren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1526177323
- Language: English
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Moon London Walks: See the City Like a Local
$14.99 Add to cartWhether you’re shopping on the high street, strolling lively street markets, or admiring renowned modern art, experience London like a local: on foot!
- Walk through the city’s coolest neighborhoods like
- Series: Moon City Walks Travel Guide
- Author: Moon Travel Guides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798886470888
- Language: English
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Buckingham Palace: Official Souvenir
$7.95 Read moreA richly illustrated guide to Buckingham Palace, and its role as a symbol, a royal residence, a working palace and an exceptional art collection. Buckingham Palace is instantly recognisable as a symbo… [more below]
- Author: Hartshorne, Pamela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: July 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1785511343
- Language: English
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Jane Austen’s Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England
$21.99 Add to cartEssential reading for anyone interested in this period, or simply curious as to how Christmas was celebrated in the past, this is a wonderful piece of indulgent nostalgia.
Christmas comes up time and- Author: Hubert, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1803993871
- Language: English
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National Geographic Traveler Scotland 4th Edition
$24.99 Add to cartNational Geographic Traveler guidebooks contain must-know travel information, inspiring photography, insider tips, and expert advice you won’t find on the internet for bucket-list destinations around … [more below]
- Series: National Geographic Traveler
- Author: National Geographic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 8854420662
- Language: English
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Victorian Christmas: Traditional Recipes, Decorations, Activities, and Carols
$19.99 Add to cartLucinda Dickens Hawksley, a descendant of Charles Dickens, reveals the fascinating tale of Christmas traditions during Queen Victoria’s reign. In 1843, while Dickens was inventing the Christmas ghost
- Author: Hawksley, Lucinda Dickens
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1682688631
- Language: English
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Churchill’s Great Escapes: Seven Incredible Escapes Made by WWII Heroes
$18.95 Add to cartFrom #1 internationally bestselling author, war reporter, and award-winning historian Damien Lewis, the thrillingly-told stories of the seven most daring WWII escapes executed by the legendary British… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Damien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0806542101
- Language: English
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Forged in Hell: The Gripping True Story of the Special Forces Heroes Who Broke the Nazi Stranglehold
$28.00 Add to cartWith riveting combat writing and masterful research, award-winning historian and #1 internationally bestselling author Damien Lewis delivers the remarkable true story of Britain’s infamous Special Air… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Damien
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0806542705
- Language: English
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Hollywood Dream, the Thunderclap Newman Story: Pete Townshend, a Band of Outsiders, and the Birth of British Indie Music
$22.95 Add to cart“We were the best worst band. We died but we died in style.” – Speedy Keen
Thunderclap Newman stunned the music world in the summer of 1969 with the success of their wonderfully odd debut single ‘Somet
- Author: Wilkerson, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989908912
- Language: English
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DK Road Trips Great Britain
$24.99 Read moreHistoric market towns, rolling green hills, and hidden sandy beaches: Great Britain is the perfect destination for a road trip to remember. With Road Trips Great Britain, it’s yours to explore.
Featur- Series: Travel Guide
- Author: Dk Travel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0241670519
- Language: English
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The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
$19.00 Add to cartA WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by wo… [more below]
- Author: Ogilvie, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0593469984
- Language: English
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The Wars of the Roses: The Medieval Art of Graham Turner
$50.00 Add to cartA highly illustrated history of the Wars of the Roses based on the medieval art of Graham Turner.
The period of civil strife in the second half of the 15th century now known as the Wars of the Roses w- Author: Turner, Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1472847288
- Language: English
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The Journals of Captain Cook
$18.00 Add to cartThe writings of a first-rate scientist and daring adventurer–the subject of New York Times bestselling historian Hampton Sides’s The Wide Wide Sea
John Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacif… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Cook, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140436472
- Language: English
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Stormbreaker: The Graphic Novel
$15.99 Add to cartAlex Rider is now an IMDb TV/Amazon Original Series!
The mission that started it all—now in a graphic novel format! The first in the # 1 New York Times bestselling Alex Rider series, Stormbreaker,- Series: Alex Rider
- Author: Horowitz, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0399246339
- Language: English
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Braddock’s Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
$21.99 Add to cartOn July 9, 1755, British regulars and American colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock, commander in chief of the British Army in North America, were attacked by French and Native… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: Preston, David L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190658517
- Language: English
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First Among Equals
$23.99 Add to cartCharles Seymour, second-born son, will never be the earl like his father, but he did inherit his mother’s strength-and the will to realize his destiny…Simon Kerslake’s father sacrificed everything t
- Author: Archer, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1250101999
- Language: English
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
$25.00 Add to cartA Best Book of the Year: The Economist, Slate, Kirkus Reviews
In 1839, nearly 20,000 British troops poured through the mountain passes into Afghanistan and installed the exiled Shah Shuja on the thron- Author: Dalrymple, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0307948536
- Language: English
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Paper Bullets: Two Women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
$16.95 Add to cart“A Nazi resistance story like none you’ve ever heard or read.” –Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground
“Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing shor- Author: Jackson, Jeffrey H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1643752057
- Language: English
