Agent Sonya - Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben MacIntyre
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944, a thin, and unusually elegant, housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted mother-of-three, attentive wife and friendly neighbour, Sonya Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity. However, rather than pe ...Show more
This Land - The Story of a Movement by Owen Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
We live in an age of upheaval. The global crisis of Covid-19 has laid bare the deep social and economic inequalities which were the toxic legacy of austerity. These revolutionary times are an opportunity for a radical rethink of Britain as we know it, as the politically impossible suddenly becomes imagi ...Show more
A New History of England A New History of England by Jeremy Black
$33.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: Classic Histories Ser.
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.' Cecil Rhodes's characteristically nineteenth-century confidence rings rather hollow as England enters the twenty-first century in somewhat reduced circumstances. Jeremy Black steers his way through the l ...Show more
The Crown in Crisis - Countdown to the Abdication by Alexander Larman
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
In December 1936, Britain faced a constitutional crisis that was the gravest threat to the institution of the monarchy since the execution of Charles I. The ruling monarch, Edward VIII, wished to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson and crown her as his Queen. His actions scandalised the establish ...Show more
Ladies in Waiting by Anne Somerset
$23.00 AUD
Category: British
'Provides a wealth of juicy anecdotal material about five centuries of court life' New York Times'Naughty Knickers version of our island story' Daily Mail ---------------------------------------------Ladies in Waiting chronicles the lives of famous and infamous ladies who served royalty, casting a fres ...Show more
The Season - A History of the Debutante by Kristen Richardson
$41.95 AUD
Category: British
Kristen Richardson, from a family of debutantes, chose not to debut. But as her curiosity drove her to research this enduring custom, she learned that it, and debutantes, are not as simple as they seem.The story begins in England six hundred years ago when wealthy fathers needed an efficient way to find ...Show more
The Splendid and the Vile - A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Bombing of London by Erik Larson
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
The #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers a startlingly fresh portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz. On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two ...Show more
The Shortest History of England by James Hawes
$28.00 AUD
Category: British
In the internationally acclaimed Shortest History of Germany, James Hawes showed that the whole sweep of a national story can be captured in a short book packed with maps and graphics, throwing striking new light on the present day. Now he does the same for his own country. From the Roman invasion thro ...Show more
Till Time's Last Sand - A History of the Bank of England 1694-2013 by David Kynaston
$30.00 AUD
Category: British
The authorised history of the Bank of England by the bestselling David Kynaston, 'the most entertaining historian alive' (Spectator). 'Not an ordinary bank, but a great engine of state,' Adam Smith declared of the Bank of England as long ago as 1776. The Bank is now over 320 years old, and throughout al ...Show more
The Stonemason: An Insider's History of Britain's Buildings by Andrew Ziminski
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
Andrew Ziminski is a stonemason living and working in what was ancient Wessex. He has three decades of hands-on experience with the tangible history of this country, including raising stones at Stonehenge, the restoration of roman ruins in the City of Bath and work to save some of our most important med ...Show more
The Holy Fox - The Life of Lord Halifax by Andrew Roberts
$28.00 AUD
Category: British
A fox-hunting Anglo-Catholic aristocrat, nicknamed "The Holy Fox" by Churchill for his political guile, Halifax was one of the most prominent Tory politicians of the interwar period. As Viceroy of India, he struck a deal with Gandhi that ended the Civil Disobedience campaign. His meeting with Hitler in ...Show more
Nairn's London by Ian Nairn
$23.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'This book is a record of what has moved me between Uxbridge and Dagenham. My hope is that it moves you, too.' Nairn's London is an idiosyncratic, poetic and intensely subjective meditation on a city and its buildings. Including railway stations, synagogues, abandoned gasworks, dock cranes, suburban gar ...Show more