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A Brief History of the English Civil Wars by John Miller
RRP: $14.18$4.28Miller provides a clear and comprehensible narrative, a coherent and accurate synthesis, intended as a guide for students and the general reader to an extremely complex period in British history. His aim is to help readers avoid getting lost in a maze of... -
Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation by Andrew D. Lambert
RRP: $19.34$7.73In 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin led a large, well equipped expedition to complete the conquest of the Canadian Arctic, to find the fabled North West Passage connecting the North Atlantic to the North Pacific. Yet Franklin, his ships and his men were... -
A Brief History of the Dynasties of China by Bamber Gascoigne
RRP: $16.76$3.60Although China's great empire lasted for longer than any other, no country has suffered so great an imbalance between the fame of its art and obscurity of its history. The names of the great dynasties are familiar, yet who can actually locate a T'ang... -
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense by Jenny Uglow 9780571269549
RRP: $32.25$8.14Acclaimed historian Jenny Uglow brings us a fascinating and beautifully illustrated biography of Edward Lear, full of the colour of the age.Edward Lear lived a vivid, fascinating, energetic life, but confessed, 'I hardly enjoy any one thing on earth... -
Lucky Johnny: The Footballer who Survived the River Kwai Death Camps by Johnny Sherwood 9781444790337
RRP: $16.76$2.92In 1938 Johnny Sherwood was a young professional footballer on the brink of an England career, touring the world with the all-star British team the Islington Corinthians. By 1942 he was a soldier surrendering to the Japanese at the siege of Singapore. ... -
Emigrants: Why the English Sailed to the New World by James Evans
RRP: $14.18$4.98'Marvellously engaging' The Times'Brisk, informative and eye-opening' Daily TelegraphIn the 1600s, vast numbers of people left England for the Americas. Crossing the Atlantic was a major undertaking, the voyage long and treacherous. Why did they... -
RHS A Nation in Bloom: Celebrating the People, Plants and Places of the Royal Horticultural Society by Jason Ingram
RRP: $38.70$13.92With a foreword by Alan Titchmarsh, this beautifully illustrated book tells the story of the Royal Horticultural Society, the perhaps the foremost gardening institution in the world. The RHS is the world's largest gardening charity but what it does and... -
Queen Victoria by Elizabeth Longford
RRP: $19.34$7.04'The truth was stranger than any of the fictions that have since been offered to explain her away'Drawing upon Queen Victoria's previously unpublished journals, Elizabeth Longford's classic biography recalls the contrasts and curiosities of an earlier... -
A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021: From World Power to ? by Jeremy Black
RRP: $16.76$4.98From the Great Exhibition's showcasing of British national achievement in 1851 to the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Stratford in 2012 and on to Brexit, an insightful exploration of the transformation of modern BritainThis revised and updated... -
A Brief History of the Tudor Age by Jasper Ridley
RRP: $15.47$4.28From the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford in 1485, to the death of the great Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, this was an astonishingly eventful and contradictory age. All the strands of Tudor life are gathered in a rich tapestry - London and... -
The Slaughterman's Daughter: The Avenging of Mende Speismann by the Hand of her Sister Fanny by Yaniv Iczkovits
RRP: $16.76$3.60WINNER OF THE WINGATE PRIZE 2021SUNDAY TIMES "MUST READS" PICKECONOMIST "BEST BOOKS OF 2020" PICKKIRKUS REVIEWS "10 BOOKS TO LOOK FOR IN 2021" PICK"Boundless imagination and a vibrant style . . . a heroine of unforgettable grit" DAVID GROSSMAN"A story of... -
All the King's Men: The Truth Behind SOE's Greatest Wartime Disaster by Robert Marshall
RRP: $14.18$6.08The story of one of the most astonishing episodes of espionage and deception of World War Two.This is the tale of two men: Claude Dansey, deputy head of MI6, and double agent Henri Dericourt, who was planted with the rival wartime secret service - SOE -...