Churchill's Legacy: Two Speeches to Save the World by Alan. Watson
$31.00 AUD
Category: British
Churchill's Legacy describes how Churchill wielded his influence in post-war politics to enable the restoration of Europe through two key speeches in 1946. Having first helped bring victory to the Allies in 1945, Churchill went on to preserve the freedom of the world by gaining the support of the United ...Show more
Game of Crowns: Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the Throne by Christopher Andersen
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
A moving and compulsively readable look into the lives, loves, relationships, and rivalries among the three women at the heart of the British royal family today: Queen Elizabeth II, Camilla Parker-Bowles, and Kate Middleton from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Good Son, These Few Preciou ...Show more
A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment by John Preston
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
The shocking true story of the first British politician to stand trial for murder Behind oak-panelled doors in the House of Commons, men with cut-glass accents and gold signet rings are conspiring to murder. It's the late 1960s and homosexuality has only just been legalised, and Jeremy Thorpe, the leade ...Show more
The King is Dead - The last will and testament of Henry VIII by Suzannah Lipscomb
$32.99 AUD
Category: British
On 28 January 1547, the sickly and obese King Henry VIII died at Whitehall. Just hours before his passing, his last will and testament had been read, stamped and sealed. The will confirmed the line of succession as Edward, Mary and Elizabeth; and, following them, the Grey and Suffolk families. It also l ...Show more
Johnson's Life of London: The People Who Made the City That Made the World by Boris Johnson
$30.00 AUD
Category: British
The exhilarating story of how London came to be one of the most exciting and influential places on earth--from the city's colorful, witty, and well-known mayor. Once a swampland that the Romans could hardly be bothered to conquer, over the centuries London became an incomparably vibrant metropolis that ...Show more
Crash Bang Wallop: The Inside Story of London's Big Bang and a Financial Revolution That Changed the World by Iain Martin
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
The gripping story of the most daring financial experiment in modern history. Big Bang was the dramatic moment in October 1986 when London became a testing ground for a new type of global finance. It embodied a wider revolution and the birth of a new age of fully electronic trading, transcontinental co ...Show more
Hubris by Alistair Horne
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than fifty years. In this wise and masterly work, he revisits six battles that changed the course of the twentieth century and reveals the one trait that links them all: hubris. From the Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War of ...Show more
Providence Lost - The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate by Paul Lay
$49.99 AUD
Category: British
Paul Lay explores a year that fell within one of the least understood periods in British history - the Interregnum between the execution of Charles I and the restoration of Charles II - and reclaims it as one of the most politically exciting and culturally creative eras of European history. In 1657 popu ...Show more
Victoria: The Woman Who Made the Modern World (HB) by Julia Baird
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen--a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of d ...Show more
The English and Their History by Robert Tombs
$33.00 AUD
Category: British
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book Robert Tombs's momentous The English and Their History is both a startlingly fresh and a uniquely inclusive account of the people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler ...Show more
Rival Queens: Catherine De' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite De Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom by Nancy Goldstone
$23.00 AUD
Category: British
'A gripping tale of royal feuds and divided kingdoms' - AMANDA FOREMAN Set in Renaissance France at the magnificent court of the Valois kings, THE RIVAL QUEENS is the history of two remarkable women, a mother and daughter driven into opposition by a terrible betrayal that threatened to destroy the realm ...Show more
Britain's Europe A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation by Brendan Simms
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
Britain has always had a tangled, complex, paradoxical role in Europe's history. It has invaded and been invaded, changed sides, stood aloof, acted with both brazen cynicism and the cloudiest idealism. Every century troops from the British isles have marched across the mainland in pursuit of a great com ...Show more