Protest!: Stories of Resistance by Sara Maitland
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
When does a riot become a revolution? When does a demonstration of dissent tip over into a moment of unstoppable political change? This book asks 20 authors and 20 historians to bring crucial moments of British protest to life. Following fictional characters, caught up in the momentum of nonfictional mo ...Show more
White King: Charles I - Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda de Lisle
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
Less than forty years after the golden age of Elizabeth I, England was at war with itself. The Civil Wars set family against family, friend against friend, and its casualties were immense iiii-- a greater proportion of the population than in World War I. At the head of this disintegrating kingdom was Ch ...Show more
Unnatural Murder: Poison in the Court of James I : The Overbury Murder by Anne Somerset
$23.00 AUD
Category: British
Richard III - Brother, Protector, King by Chris Skidmore
$55.00 AUD
Category: British
The last Plantagenet king remains one of England's most famous and controversial monarchs. There are few parallels in English history that can match the drama of Richard III's reign, witnessed in its full bloody intensity. A dedicated brother and loyal stalwart to the Yorkist dynasty for most of his ear ...Show more
Brothers York: An English Tragedy by Thomas Penn
$60.00 AUD
Category: British
In early 1461, a seventeen-year-old boy won a battle on a freezing morning in the Welsh marches, and claimed the crown of England as Edward IV, first king of the usurping house of York. The country was in need of a new hero. Magnetic, narcissistic, Edward found himself on the throne, and alongside him h ...Show more
Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn
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Category: British
In his remarkable debut, Penn vividly recreates the dark and turbulent reign of Henry VII. He traces the transformation of a young, vulnerable boy, Prince Henry, into the aggressive teenager who would become Henry VIII, and of Catherine of Aragon, his future queen. And at the book's heart is the tragic, ...Show more
Gef ! - The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose by Christopher Josiffe
$47.00 AUD
Category: British
"I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!" During the mid-1930s, British and overseas newspapers were full of incredible stories about Gef, a "talking mongoose" or "man-weasel" who had allegedly appeared in the home of the Irvings, a farming family in a remote district of the Isle ...Show more
The Crown: The Inside Story by Robert Lacey
$40.00 AUD
Category: British
'The things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep. So help me God.'Netflix's original series The Crown painted a unique and intimate portrait of Britain's longest-reigning monarch. This official companion to the show is an in-depth exploration of the early years of Elizabeth II's ti ...Show more
Till Time's Last Sand: A History of the Bank of England 1694-2013 by David Kynaston
$60.00 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
Hamlet, Globe to Globe : Taking Shakespeare to Every Country in the World by Dominic Dromgoole
$33.00 AUD
Category: British
In the middle of the sprawling Zaatari refugee camp, Dominic Dromgoole watches from the makeshift wings as Hamlet delivers one of his celebrated soliloquies. Four years earlier, Dromgoole, the Artistic Director of the Globe, had come up with a wildly ambitious idea . . . to mark the 400th anniversary of ...Show more
Chaucer's People by Liza Picard
$33.00 AUD
Category: British
In CHAUCER'S PEOPLE, Liza Picard guides us through the tumultuous world of the late fourteenth century in an ingenious, informative and entertaining way. Through the assorted cast of pilgrims Chaucer selected for THE CANTERBURY TALES, Picard brings medieval social history to life and uncovers the detail ...Show more
Revolution - The History of England: Volume IV by Peter Ackroyd
$23.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: The History of England
Revolution, the fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales r ...Show more