Great Britain
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Iona: The Other Island
$23.99 Add to cartIn this exciting and beautiful spiritual evocation of Iona, we find inspiring photography, brand new poems, tales recounting legends, local stories and Celtic passages from Adamnan – but there is much
- Author: Steven, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0861538307
- Language: English
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The Hundred Years War, Volume 4: Cursed Kings
$89.95 Add to cartJonathan Sumption’s Cursed Kings is the eagerly anticipated fourth volume in what Allan Massie has called “one of the great historical works of our time.”
Cursed Kings tells the story of the destructi- Series: Middle Ages
- Author: Sumption, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0812223888
- Language: English
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Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire
$28.99 Add to cartIn a gripping narrative that is all but impossible to put down (Joseph C. Miller), Histories of the Hanged exposes the long-hidden colonial crimes of the British in Kenya. This groundbreaking work tel… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: December 18 2012
- ISBN10: 039332754X
- Language: English
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Victorians
$40.99 Add to cartAs one of our most accomplished biographers and novelists, A. N. Wilson has a keen eye for a good story, and in this spectacular work he singles out those writers, statesmen, scientists, philosophers,
- Author: Wilson, A. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 738
- Publish Date: February 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0393325431
- Language: English
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Mary Queen of Scots
$20.00 Add to cart“A book that will leave few readers unmoved.”-San Francisco Chronicle
She was the quintessential queen: statuesque, regal, dazzlingly beautiful. Her royal birth gave her claim to the thrones of two nat… [more below]- Author: Fraser, Antonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 038531129X
- Language: English
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Eminent Victorians
$12.95 Read moreEminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with skepticism and Strachey’s wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liber… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Strachey, Lytton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019955501X
- Language: English
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Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now–As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It
$19.99 Add to cart“A rich and exuberant kaleidoscopic portrait of a great, messy, noisy, daunting, inspiring, maddening, enthralling, constantly shifting Rorschach test of a place. . . . Delightful. . . . In Taylor’s p
- Author: Taylor, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0062005863
- Language: English
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Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age
$75.00 Add to cartA fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller–from William Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft to Benjamin Franklin
Once a week, in late- Author: Hay, Daisy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0691243964
- Language: English
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Journal of the American Revolution 2022: Annual Volume
$40.00 Read moreThe year’s best articles from the leading on-line source of new research on the Revolution and Founding eras
The Journal of the American Revolution, Annual Volume 2022, presents the journal’s best hi- Author: Hagist, Don N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1594163855
- Language: English
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Goin’ Home with the Rolling Stones ’66: Photographs by Gered Mankowitz
$35.00 Add to cartThe Stones at home and unplugged by official Stones photographer Gered Mankowitz
By the start of 1966, the Rolling Stones’ position as rock gods was established. They were making serious money and spla
- Author: Mankowitz, Gered
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1909526746
- Language: English
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We Were Rich and We Didn’t Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood
$17.99 Add to cart“You don’t have to be Irish to cherish this literary gift–just being human and curious and from a family will suffice.” –Malachy McCourt, New York Times bestselling author of A Monk Swimming
In the- Author: Phelan, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 150119710X
- Language: English
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Victorian City
$39.00 Add to cartThe nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London, which, in only a few decades, grew from a compact Regency town into the largest city the worl
- Author: Flanders, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 1250068266
- Language: English
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
$37.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a compl… [more below]
- Author: Sides, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0593863186
- Language: English
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Verse, Chorus, Monster!
$29.95 Add to cartA long-awaited memoir of Blur co-founder, guitar legend and visual artist Graham Coxon.
Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era, Blur co-founder Graham Coxon managed to carve out a niche to be- Author: Coxon, Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0571322131
- Language: English
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The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
$16.95 Read moreChurchill’s first major historical work is still considered one of his most riveting. — Library Journal
It’s a great read. — The Washington Examiner
A story of heroism and glory that rivals any work o… [more below]- Author: Churchill, Winston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0486447855
- Language: English
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Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age
$24.99 Add to cart“A dual life story that reads as pleasurably as the best fiction but with all the intelligence of a first-rate biography. . . . completely absorbing.”–Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of
- Series: P.S.
- Author: MacKenzie Stuart, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0060938250
- Language: English
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The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship’s Battle Against the Slave Trade
$29.00 Read moreA groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy’s anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade.
The most feared ship in B- Author: Rooks, A. E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1982128267
- Language: English
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The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher’s Britain in 21 Mixtapes
$22.95 Add to cartThis is the late 1970s and ’80s as explained through the urgent and still-relevant songs of the Clash, the Specials, the Au Pairs, the Style Council, the Pet Shop Boys, and nearly four hundred other b
- Author: Hodges, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1629638846
- Language: English
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The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain
$15.95 Add to cartAfter eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great Britain to find out what the British were really like.
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618658955
- Language: English
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The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Industrial Revolution was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the adve… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Allen, Robert C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198706782
- Language: English
