Great Britain
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Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007
$32.95 Read moreJ. G. Ballard’s collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation.
J. G. Ballard was a colossal fig- Author: Ballard, J. G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048329
- Language: English
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The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
$40.00 Add to cartFrom the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary history of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham.
As King James I’s favourite, Buckingham was also h
- Author: Hughes-Hallett, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0062940139
- Language: English
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Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson
$30.00 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author Paul French examines a controversial and revealing period in the early life of the legendary Wallis, Duchess of Windsor-her one year in China.
Before she was the Duche- Author: French, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1250287472
- Language: English
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Thorns, Lust, and Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn
$32.50 Add to cartIn this groundbreaking biography of Queen Anne Boleyn, learn how the ill-fated second wife of Renaissance England’s Henry XVIII met her downfall-and how she came to be so vilified and misunderstood.
- Author: Paranque, Estelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0306835932
- Language: English
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Hadrian’s Wall Path: British Walking Guide: Two-Way: Bowness-Newcastle-Bowness – 64 Large-Scale Walking Maps (1:20,000) & Guides to 30 Town
$19.95 Read moreAll-in-one guide to walking Hadrian’s Wall Path National Trail. Hadrian’s Wall Path, 84 miles from end to end, follows the course of northern Europe’s largest surviving Roman monument, a 2nd-century f
- Series: British Walking Guides
- Author: Stedman, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1912716372
- Language: English
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The Art of Naval Portraiture
$45.00 Read morePortraiture has long been an important tool for creating, supporting and challenging notions of identity. This book will explore individual and collective identities within naval portraiture and how t… [more below]
- Author: Gazzard, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1739154207
- Language: English
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The Castle: A History
$26.00 Read moreA vibrant history of the castle in Britain, from the early Middle Ages to the present day
The castle has long had a pivotal place in British life, associated with lordship, landholding, and military- Author: Goodall, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0300251904
- Language: English
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The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
$28.00 Read more“This is rich, florid, funny history, with undertones of human grief . . . Knight is shrewd and perceptive . . . [he] pushes his material into neurobiology, into the nature of placebos and expectation… [more below]
- Author: Knight, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1984879596
- Language: English
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British Aircraft Carriers 1945-2010
$20.00 Read moreThe history of the Royal Navy flagships that led the fleet through the Cold War, ensured victory in the Falklands War, and saw action in Iraq and the Balkans.
In 1945, at the end of World War II, the- Series: New Vanguard #317
- Author: Konstam, Angus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1472856872
- Language: English
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Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London
$28.00 Read moreThe intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years
“Jackson paints a vivid and detailed picture of the ci- Author: Jackson, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266200
- Language: English
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Henry VIII: The King and His Court
$31.00 Add to cartFor fans of Wolf Hall, Alison Weir’s New York Times bestselling biography of Henry VIII brilliantly brings to life the king, the court, and the fascinating men and women who vied for its pleasures an… [more below]
- Author: Weir, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 29 2002
- ISBN10: 034543708X
- Language: English
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London’s Underground, Updated Edition: The Story of the Tube
$45.00 Read moreIt is impossible to imagine London without the Tube: the beating heart of the city, the Underground shuttles over a billion passengers each year below its busy streets and across its leafy suburbs. T
- Author: Green, Oliver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0711289050
- Language: English
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Rigged: The Incredible True Story of the Whistleblowers Jailed After Exposing the Rotten Heart of the Financial System
$39.99 Read moreCorruption, collusion and a miscarriage of justice on both sides of the Atlantic, where whistleblowers were wrongly jailed for crimes they didn’t commit: this is the shocking true story of the Libor s
- Author: Verity, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0750998857
- Language: English
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Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977-1984)
$19.99 Read moreHungry Beat is the story of an all-too-brief era where the short-circuiting of that industry seemed viable. But hell, the times were luminous as was the music these artists made. The songs and many of… [more below]
- Author: MacIntyre, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1399600257
- Language: English
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Workshop of the World: Essays in People’s History
$34.95 Read moreA new collection of essays from one of the most influential historians of the twentieth century
‘ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING, ORIGINAL INTELLECTUALS OF HIS GENERATION’, Stuart Hall, author of The Hard- Author: Samuel, Raphael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 180429280X
- Language: English
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2sas: Bill Stirling and the Forgotten Special Forces Unit of World War II
$35.00 Read moreDrawing on recently declassified files and interviews with veterans, this is a fascinating history of Bill Stirling and 2SAS – pioneering founders of modern special forces.
David Stirling is the name- Author: Mortimer, Gavin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1472856732
- Language: English
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King Charles III
$17.95 Read moreA sumptuous celebration of the life of His Majesty King Charles III, published to coincide with the festivities, traditions, and pageantry of his coronation in May 2023.
On September 8, 2022, His Maje- Author: Knappett, Gill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1841659665
- Language: English
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The Story of the Country House: A History of Places and People
$25.00 Read moreThe fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present
“An eclectic scholarly account, tracing the evolution of the country house from the hun- Author: Aslet, Clive
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0300255055
- Language: English
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Black and Great: The Careers Manifesto
$24.99 Read more“An inspiring read from start to finish. It is not often you get to read a compilation of experiences and insight from such a diverse variety of Black British talent, who have all excelled in their ch
- Author: Germain, Rene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1529377633
- Language: English
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Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
$27.95 Read moreDrowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain’s eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life. P
- Author: Green, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0393635341
- Language: English
