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
The Infinite City - Utopian Dreams on the Streets of London by Niall Kishtainy
$33.00 AUD
Category: British
In a brilliant and original new history of London, Niall Kishtainy weaves together visions of utopia through the ages to offer a unique history of ideas and introduce London as the capital of utopian thought.The Infinite City combines narrative history, biography and philosophy to show how London has be ...Show more
Butler to the World: How Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals by Oliver Bullough
$23.00 AUD
Category: British
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION ON BRITAIN’S RESPONSE TO THE UKRAINE CRISIS ‘Shockingly timely’ Mail on Sunday ‘A savage analysis of Britain’s soul. As essential as Orwell at his best’ Peter Pomerantsev ‘Horribly brilliant’ James O'Brien How did Britain become the servant of the ...Show more
How Westminster Works ...and Why It Doesn't (HB) by Ian Dunt
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
British politics is broken.Anyone sitting down to watch the news will get the sense that something has gone terribly wrong. We have prime ministers who detonate the economy, secretaries of state who are intellectually incapable of doing the job and MPs who seem temperamentally unsuited to the role. Expe ...Show more
Country Church Monuments by C. B. Newham
$80.00 AUD
Category: British
A landmark illustrated history of rural church monuments - the forgotten national treasures of England and WalesDeep in the countryside, away from metropolitan abbeys and cathedrals, thousands of funerary monuments are hidden in parish churches. These artworks - medieval brasses and elegant marble effig ...Show more
The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern by Peter Ackroyd
$40.00 AUD
Category: British
From a leading historian and writer, a delightful exploration of the great English tradition of treading the boards. The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft, from the medieval period to the present day. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative s ...Show more
The Private Lives of the Saints: Power, Passion and Politics in Anglo-Saxon England by Janina Ramirez
$30.00 AUD
Category: British
Skulduggery, power struggles and politics. A fascinating re-examination of Anglo-Saxon England told through the secret lives of the saints.From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Femina'Ramirez blasts a powerful spotlight into the so-called Dark Ages' - Dan SnowSkulduggery, power struggles and polit ...Show more
George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch by Andrew Roberts
$37.00 AUD
Category: British
Andrew Roberts's magnificent new biography portrays George as intelligent, benevolent, scrupulously devoted to the constitution of his country and (as head of government as well as head of state) navigating the turbulence of eighteenth-century politics with a strong sense of honour and duty. He was a de ...Show more
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors by Alison Weir
$25.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: England's Medieval Queens Ser.
The next volume in Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of Medieval England - including the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, the subject of Alison's most successful book. The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens ...Show more
Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK by Simon Kuper
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Power. Privilege. Parties. It’s a very small world at the top. ‘Brilliant … traces Brexit back to the debating chambers of the Oxford Union in the 1980s’ James O'Brien ‘Incisive, insightful and timely’ Richard Beard, New Statesman ‘Fascinating … impossible to disagree with’ H ...Show more
The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England by Jonathan Healey
$60.00 AUD
Category: British
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, English politics centred on the king and the royal court. Ninety per cent of the population lived in the countryside, the vast majority was illiterate and famine and plague were regular scourges. However, by the turn of the eighteenth century, a new world had ...Show more
Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 by Clare Jackson
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history. Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land'- a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse. Clare Jackson's dazzling, origin ...Show more