Great Britain
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
$10.99 Add to cartGladys Malvern uses her celebrated talent for prose to share the stories of Henry VIII’s wives with immense personality and captivating drama.
Henry VIII was married to six women during his reign as- Author: Malvern, Gladys
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: January 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1504030214
- Language: English
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Churchill’s Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill
$22.00 Read moreChurchill is generally considered one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, if not the greatest of all, revered for his opposition to appeasement, his defiance in the face of German bombin
- Author: Wheatcroft, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050381
- Language: English
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Rude Girls: Women in 2 Tone and One Step Beyond
$25.00 Add to cartThe ska revival in the UK and the 2 Tone label represented unity of black and white in both the content of the songs, and appearance of the bands. While race may have been central to this declaration,
- Author: Augustyn, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: March 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1088122922
- Language: English
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Futurliberty: Liberty Fabrics and the Avant-Garde
$65.00 Add to cartLiberty is renowned internationally for its fabrics, especially its floral patterns, but it also has a long history of developing bold, geometric designs. Many of these were inspired by early twentiet
- Author: Coen, Ester
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0500026718
- Language: English
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The Last Lion Box Set
$150.00 Add to cartUniversally acclaimed for their compelling narrative, their fresh insights, and their objective renderings of Winston Churchill’s life, The Last Lion trilogy presents a revelatory and unparalleled por… [more below]
- Author: Reid, Paul
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 3008
- Publish Date: November 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0316227781
- Language: English
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Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary
$38.99 Read more‘[Somerville’s] infectious enthusiasm and wry humour infuse his journey from the Isle of Lewis to southern England, revealing our rich geological history with vibrant local and natural history.’ Obse… [more below]
- Author: Somerville, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0857527118
- Language: English
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The Great Fire of London: In That Apocalyptic Year, 1666
$19.95 Add to cartThe tragic story of the disastrous London fire is told here from both a human and architectural point of view, as the fire destroyed lives along with buildings such as the original St. Paul’s cathedra… [more below]
- Author: Hanson, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: August 15 2002
- ISBN10: 1620458381
- Language: English
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BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s BBC Radiophonic Workshop – A Retrospective
$14.95 Read moreIn 1958, an anonymous group of overworked and under-budgeted BBC employees set out to make some new sounds for radio and TV. They ended up changing the course of 20th-century music. For millions of pe
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Weir, William L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1501389157
- Language: English
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The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War
$14.00 Add to cartAn incisive demonstration of how Orwell’s body of work was defined by the four major conflicts that punctuated his life: World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Cold War.
Few English
- Author: Stansky, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 150363549X
- Language: English
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Tour Du Mont Blanc: Trail Guide with 50 Large-Scale Maps and Guides to 12 Towns and Villages Including Chamonix, Courmayeur and Argentière
$21.95 Add to cartAt 4810m (15,781ft), Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in western Europe, and one of the most famous mountains in the world. The trail (105 miles, 168km) that circumnavigates the massif, passing thro
- Author: Manthorpe, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: December 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1912716364
- Language: English
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Scotland: The Story of a Nation
$24.00 Add to cartThe definitive history of Scotland, “told as a tale from its beginnings up to now” (The Observer).
Hailed as a “vast, superb history [that] relates Scotland’s past over a dozen millennia” (Kirkus Rev
- Author: Magnusson, Magnus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: January 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0802139329
- Language: English
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Setting the Desert on Fire: T.E. Lawrence and Britain’s Secret War in Arabia, 1916-1918
$27.99 Add to cartT. E. Lawrence’s classic Seven Pillars of Wisdom made the Arab revolt a legend and helped turn him into the mythical “Lawrence of Arabia.” Setting the Desert on Fire is both a masterly account of the
- Author: Barr, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: July 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0393335275
- Language: English
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Rick Steves Snapshot Edinburgh
$11.99 Read moreWith Rick Steves, Edinburgh is yours to discover! This slim guide excerpted from Rick Steves Scotland includes:
- Rick’s firsthand, up-to-date advice on Edinburgh’s best sights, restaurants, hotels, and
- Author: Steves, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1641715332
- Language: English
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How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-To-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
$19.95 Add to cartLauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the “the cheapest time-travel machine you’ll find” (NPR). Readers have fallen in love with Ruth Goodman, an… [more below]
- Author: Goodman, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 21 2015
- ISBN10: 163149113X
- Language: English
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In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
$19.99 Add to cart“FASCINATING . . . Dramatic and timely.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice
In this grand and thrilling narrative, the author of the 200,000-copy paperback bestseller Over the Edge of the Wo
- Author: Bergreen, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0062875361
- Language: English
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Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn
$21.95 Add to cartMeticulously researched while reading like a fast-paced thriller, this explosive new book details the way the Israel lobby deployed charges of anti-Semitism to destroy Jeremy Corbyn’s bid for power as
- Author: Winstanley, Asa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1682193810
- Language: English
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The Boleyns of Hever Castle
$27.99 Add to cartHever Castle is a picture-postcard fortified manor house nestled in the Kent countryside. It is famous for its links with the Boleyns, an East Anglian gentry family who rose and fell dramatically at t
- Author: Emmerson, Owen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 8412232569
- Language: English
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Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
$29.99 Add to cartIn Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolin–“one of today’s finest writers about ships and the sea” (American Heritage)–tells the true story of a wild and fateful encounter between an American sealing vessel,
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1324093080
- Language: English
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A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader and the World of English Peasants Before the Plague
$29.95 Add to cartA Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an introduction to historical method.
A Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an in- Series: Middle Ages
- Author: Bennett, Judith M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0812224698
- Language: English
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Not for Tourists Guide to London 2024
$19.99 Read moreWith details on everything from Big Ben to Brick Lane, this is the only guide a native or traveler needs.
Whether you’ve called London your home for decades or just arrived last night, there’s inform- Series: Not for Tourists Guides
- Author: Not for Tourists
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 151077744X
- Language: English
