Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 by Clare Jackson
$75.00 AUD
Category: British
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'A big historical advance. Ours, it turns out, is a very un-insular "Island Story". And its 17th-century chapter will never look quite the same again' John Adamson, Sunday TimesA ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English historyAmong foreign observ ...Show more
The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans - A Story of Love and War by Catherine Katz
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World War II. With victory close at hand, the Yalta confer ...Show more
The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy And The Wrecking Of Henry I's Dream by Charles Spencer
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
‘As gripping as any thriller. History doesn't get any better than this' BILL BRYSON 'A brilliant read … Spencer has a real facility for getting these characters to leap fully formed from the page … Game of Thrones but in the real world' ANTHONY HOROWITZ 'The medieval Titanic … Charles Spencer explores ...Show more
The Story of the Country House - A History of Places and People by Clive Aslet
$39.95 AUD
Category: British
The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present
The Tudors in Love by Sarah Gristwood
$40.00 AUD
Category: British
'One of the most important books to be written about the Tudors in a generation.' Tracy Borman 'A riveting, pacy page-turner... the Tudors as you've never seen them before.' Alison Weir Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Anne Boleyn have to die? Why did Elizabeth I's courtiers hail her as a g ...Show more
The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu - Scientist and Feminist by Jo Willett
$75.00 AUD
Category: British
300 years ago, in April 1721, a smallpox epidemic was raging in England. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu knew that she could save her 3-year-old daughter using the process of inoculation. She had witnessed this at first hand in Turkey, while she was living there as the wife of the British ambassador. She also ...Show more
The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War by David Nasaw
$30.00 AUD
Category: British
From bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWII In May 1945, after German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, millions of concentration camp survivors, POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and Nazi collaborators were le ...Show more
The Glamour Boys: Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler by Chris Bryant
$23.00 AUD
Category: British
A STORY OF UNSUNG BRAVERY AT A DEFINING MOMENT IN BRITAIN'S HISTORY'Superb' Stephen Fry'Thrillingly told' Dan Jones'Fascinating' Neil MacGregor'Astonishing' Peter FrankopanWe like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with Germany in 1939, but there is one chapter that has never been tol ...Show more
The Secret Royals: Spying and the Crown, from Victoria to Diana by Richard Aldrich, Rory Cormac
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
'Outstanding... This is the royals as we have never seen them before' Kate Vigurs, author of Mission FranceFor the first time, The Secret Royals uncovers the remarkable relationship between the Royal Family and the intelligence community, from the reign of Queen Victoria to the death of Princess Diana.I ...Show more
The Duty of Care - Britain Before and after Corona by Peter Hennessy
$45.00 AUD
Category: British
The 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically? And what should it mean in the future, once the immediate Covid crisis has passed? In A Duty of Care, Peter Hennessy divides post-war British history into BC (before cor ...Show more
The Churchill Complex: The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit by Ian Buruma
$23.00 AUD
Category: British
A brilliant and insightful history of the special relationship between the UK and the USA, which Ian Buruma argues is now under threat with the election of Donald Trump and Brexit.