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
The Secrets of Rosslyn by Roddy Martine
$21.99 AUD
Category: British
Nestling in an exquisite glen just seven miles from the centre of Edinburgh, Rosslyn Chapel is one of the world's most extraordinary places. Ever since it was built in the mid fifteenth century it has cast a mesmerising spell over all who have visited it, exuding an aura of profound mystery, as if it ho ...Show more
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years by John Guy
$55.00 AUD
Category: British
An ageing queen, an heirless state, conspiracy all round: here is the court of Elizabeth I as never known before History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon of strength and power. But the reality, especially during her later years, was not so simple. In 1583 Elizabeth is fifty years old, past ...Show more
Lost Prince by David Baldwin
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
The solution to one of the most enduring mysteries in English history -and a final exoneration for Richard III.
English Country House in Literature: A Critical Selection by Geoff Hiller
$59.95 AUD
Category: British
This anthology brings together some of the finest writing in English on the subject of the English country house, a topic currently enjoying a renascence of academic and general interest. The houses represented are for the most part fictional, and the extracts illustrate the various ways in which such d ...Show more
No More Champagne Churchill and His Money by David Lough
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
Named a Best Biography of the Year by The Wall Street Journal and The Times of LondonThe fascinating story of Winston Churchill's lifetime of tangled personal financesMeticulously researched by a senior private banker now turned historian, No More Champagne reveals for the first time the full extent of ...Show more
This is London: Life and Death in the World City by Ben Judah
$32.99 AUD
Category: British
London is a global city. More than half of those who live in the UK's capital came from somewhere else - and most arrived in the last ten years. Migration is transforming London, for better and for worse. Ben Judah is an acclaimed foreign correspondent. In This Is London, he turns his keen reporter's ey ...Show more
The Lost Imperialist Lord Dufferin Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity by Andrew Gailey
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering career which few could equal. As Viceroy of India and Governor-General of Canada, he held the two most exalted positions available under the Crown, but prior to this his achievements as a British ambassador includ ...Show more
Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen by Josephine Wilkinson
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
'An impressive revisionist biography' The Times Looming out of the encroaching darkness of the February evening was London Bridge, still ornamented with the severed heads of Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham; the terrible price they had paid for suspected intimacy with the queen. Katherine now reached ...Show more
No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money by David Lough
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
The untold story of Winston Churchill's precarious finances - and the most original and surprising book about Churchill to emerge for many years. The popular image of Churchill - grandson of a duke, drinking champagne and smoking a cigar - conjures up a man of wealth and substance. The reality is that B ...Show more
Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916 by Anne de Courcy
$23.00 AUD
Category: British
Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. Yet her last four years at Number 10 were a period of intens ...Show more