The English and their History by Robert Tombs
$40.00 AUD
Category: British
The first full-length history of England in one volume for many decades - now in paperback The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever since, and their defining natio ...Show more
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022**'This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the MindA searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century.Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and cl ...Show more
Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII by Jane Marguerite Tippett
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
The real story of Edward VIII - the King who abdicated the throne in 1936 - told in his own words, using an unpublished memoir and other never seen sources.
Twenty-First-Century Gothic - An Edinburgh Companion by Maisha Wester (Editor); Xavier Aldana Reyes (Editor)
$120.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic Ser.
A transnational and transmedia companion to the post-millennial Gothic Key Features Covers key areas and themes of the post-millennial Gothic as well as developments in the field and revisions of the Gothic tradition Consitutes the first thematic compendium to this area with a transmedia (literature, f ...Show more
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink by Matthew Parker
$37.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: Dilly's Story Ser.
'Marvellous...escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full complexity' Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling author of EmpirelandThe story of the British Empire at its maximum territorial extent, including a wider range of voices of the colonised than have ever been recorded before29th Sept ...Show more
Courtiers: The Sunday Times bestselling inside story of the power behind the crown by Valentine Low
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years watching the public face the Royal family chooses to present to the world in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, with Charles ...Show more
Scoops by Sam McAlister
$23.00 AUD
Category: British
The secrets of a former Newsnight producer who found her way to Buckingham Palace 'A cracking read' Lorraine Kelly 'Riveting' Sunday Telegraph 'Behind every great interview is a great booker - Sam McAlister is one of the unsung heroes of television news' Piers Morgan She is the woman who ...Show more
Imperial Island - A History of Empire in Modern Britain by Charlotte Lydia Riley
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
'Incisive, important, and incredibly timely' CAROLINE ELKINS, author of Legacy of ViolenceThis riveting new history tells the story of Britain's journey from imperial power to a nation divided.After the Second World War, Britain's overseas empire disintegrated. But over the next seventy years, empire ca ...Show more
Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland by Peter Taylor
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
'What an extraordinary asset Peter Taylor is for the BBC and for British journalism' - Jonathan Freedland, bestselling author of The Escape Artist_______________On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, MI5's top- ...Show more
The Eagle in the Mirror by Jesse Fink
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the astonishing untold story of an Australian-born intelligence officer accused by some espionage experts of being the traitor of the century- Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis. The longest serving ...Show more
Small Island: 12 Maps That Explain the History of Britain by Philip Parker
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
Discover the 12 crucial moments in Britain's past that will answer the greatest questions for our future in this richly insightful and fascinating history'A richly entertaining canter through the country's past. Engrossing' INDEPENDENT___________In 878 the borders of Alfred the Great's Wessex were confi ...Show more
Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain by Stuart Ward
$56.95 AUD
Category: British
How did Britain cease to be global? In Untied Kingdom, Stuart Ward tells the panoramic history of the end of Britain, tracing the ways in which Britishness has been imagined, experienced, disputed and ultimately discarded across the globe since the end of the Second World War. From Indian independence, ...Show more