The Fishing Fleet: Husband-hunting in the Raj by Anne De Courcy
$23.00 AUD
Category: British
From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and businessmen. With the advent of steam travel and the opening of the Suez Canal, countless young women, suffering at the lack of eligible me ...Show more
Churchill's Wit: The Definitive Collection by Richard M. Langworth
$30.00 AUD
Category: British
The ultimate guide to the wonderful wit of our nation's greatest leader Charismatic, erudite and often controversial Winton Churchill was one of the most inspiring leaders of the 20th century, and one of its greatest wits. His much-celebrated sense of fun and mischief has led to many of his jokes and r ...Show more
The English Soul: Faith of a Nation by Peter Ackroyd
$40.00 AUD
Category: British
From celebrated historian and writer Peter Ackroyd, a magisterial portrayal of English Christianity over the centuries. This book portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity, as it has developed over the last fourteen hundred years. During this time, Christianity has been the predominant fai ...Show more
Keir Starmer - The Biography by Tom Baldwin
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
KEIR STARMER: The Biography is an authoritative study of a man who now stands on the brink of becoming Britain's next Prime Minister. If he succeeds, Starmer will be the first Labour leader in a generation to win power, even though most voters still say they don't know much about him. It not only tells ...Show more
The Blazing World - A New History of Revolutionary England by Jonathan Healey
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
A WATERSTONES, TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST AND NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEARA major new history of England's turbulent seventeenth century and how it marked the birth of a new world'This is a wonderful book, exhaustively researched, vigorously argued and teeming with the furious joy of seventeenth-century life' ...Show more
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE A SPECTATOR, WATERSTONES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, PROSPECT AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism- the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth cen ...Show more
The Rising Down by Alexandra Harris
$50.00 AUD
$75.00 (33% off)
Category: British
An ancient church sheltering a medieval anchorite who chose to be buried alive. The country estate parading a menagerie of exotic animals. The cottage where William Blake received the poetic spirit of Milton. A safe house harbouring secret agents from wartime French resistance networks. When the celebr ...Show more
Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State by Caroline Burt
$55.00 AUD
Category: British
A lively, new and sweeping history of the rise of the state in Plantagenet England. A lively, new and sweeping history of the rise of the state in Plantagenet England.Between 1199 and 1399, English politics was high drama. These two centuries witnessed savage political blood-letting - including civil wa ...Show more
Thorns, Lust and Glory: The betrayal of Anne Boleyn by Estelle Paranque
$37.00 AUD
Category: British
An exciting new telling of the life of Anne Boleyn, using new archival research to reveal the woman behind the myth, from the acclaimed historian Dr Estelle Paranque. A queen on the edge. Anne Boleyn has mesmerised the English public for centuries. Her tragic execution, orchestrated by her own husband, ...Show more
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
$27.00 AUD
Category: British
"This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all names, dates or ungraspable historical headwinds, but instead show how it's really just a bunch of random stuff that happened with a fe ...Show more
The Irish: Tales of Emigration, Exile and Imperialism by Turtle Bunbury
$30.00 AUD
Category: British
Explore the lives of over forty men and women - great and otherwise - whose pioneering journeys beyond the Irish shore played a profound role in world history.The Irish have always been a travelling people. Since 1800 an estimated 10 million people have left the Irish shores, and today more than 80 mill ...Show more
Empireworld - How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe by Sathnam Sanghera
$45.00 AUD
Category: British
2.6 billion people are inhabitants of former British colonies. The empire's influence upon the quarter of the planet it occupied, and its gravitational influence upon the world outside it, has been profound- from the spread of Christianity by missionaries to nearly 1 in 3 driving on the left side of the ...Show more