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John (Penguin Monarchs): An Evil King? by Nicholas Vincent
RRP: $9.02$6.84King John ruled England for seventeen and a half years, yet his entire reign is usually reduced to one image: of the villainous monarch outmanoeuvred by rebellious barons into agreeing to Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215. Ever since, John has come to be... -
The Welsh Kings: Warriors, Warlords and Princes by Kari Maund 9780752429731
RRP: $16.76$14.41When Edward I's troops forced the destruction of Dafydd ap Gruffudd in 1283 they brought to an end the line of truly independent native rulers in Wales that had endured throughout recorded history. In the early middle ages Wales was composed of a variety... -
The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England. A TIMES Book of the Year 2022 by Dr Joanne Paul
RRP: $16.76$12.05Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving and manipulative Tudor family you've never heard of . . . The perfect gift for every history lover this Christmas'A tour-de-force of Tudor history... -
The Mountbattens: Their Lives & Loves: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Andrew Lownie 9781788702980 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$3.42'Richly entertaining... impressively well-researched' Daily Mail, Biography of the YearThe Sunday Times bestselling biography of the glamorous couple behind the modern royal family, the aunt and uncle of Prince Philip.DICKIE MOUNTBATTEN: A major figure... -
The Mountbattens: Their Lives & Loves: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Andrew Lownie
RRP: $16.76$11.56'Richly entertaining... impressively well-researched' Daily Mail, Biography of the YearThe Sunday Times bestselling biography of the glamorous couple behind the modern royal family, the aunt and uncle of Prince Philip.DICKIE MOUNTBATTEN: A major figure... -
Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 by Dan Jones
RRP: $16.76$11.24Revolt and upheaval in medieval Britain by a brilliant new narrative historian, 'Summer of Blood' breaks new ground in its portrayal of the personalities and politics of the bloody days of June 1381. The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 is one of the... -
The Lady In The Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn (Queen of England Series) by Alison Weir
RRP: $19.34$14.33Never before has there been a book devoted entirely to Anne Boleyn's fall. Now, Alison Weir's richly researched and impressively detailed portrait gives us the compelling story of the last days of history's most charismatic, controversial and tragic... -
King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta by Marc Morris
RRP: $19.34$14.13The brilliantly compelling new biography of the treacherous and tyrannical King John, published to coincide with the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.King John is familiar to everyone as the villain from the tales of Robin Hood - greedy, cowardly,... -
King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne by Janet L. Nelson
RRP: $21.92$15.84A DAILY TELEGRAPH AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'A remarkable book: the dramatic story of a truly extraordinary man ... brilliant' Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves A major new biography of one of the most extraordinary of all rulers,... -
Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Andrew Lownie
RRP: $14.18$9.92THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERUPDATED PAPERBACK FEATURING NEW CONTENTA Daily Mail Royal Book of the Year, 2021A Spectator Book of the Year, 2021'Briskly written and compulsively readable' - A.N. Wilson, TLS'Meticulously researched' - Spectator'Entertaining,... -
Elizabeth, the Queen by Alison Weir
RRP: $19.34$14.13Elizabeth the Queen begins as the young Elizabeth ascends the throne in the wake of her sister Mary's disastrous reign - both a woman and a queen, Elizabeth's story is an extraordinary phenomenon in a patriarchal age.From Elizabeth's intriguing,... -
Meghan and Harry: The Real Story: Persecutors or Victims (Updated edition) by Lady Colin Campbell 9781916131781
RRP: $38.69$28.74Meghan and Harry The Real Story: Persecutors or Victims presents the reader with a strikingly forthright analysis of what happens when a vulnerable male, raised in the traditions of the Old World and protected by a lifetime of privilege, falls head over... -
Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch by Nicola Tallis
RRP: $12.89$8.6728 January 1457. England is in the grip of the Wars of the Roses. Inside the walls of Pembroke Castle a thirteen-year-old girl gives birth to a boy. The ordeal nearly kills them both, forging a powerful bond that will see mother and son work together to... -
The Unlikely Duke: Memoirs of an eclectic life - from rock 'n' roll to Badminton House Harry Beaufort 9781399725194
RRP: $32.25$21.45'Beaufort chronicles his unusual and rarified world with flashes of Wodehousian genius'. --- Jools Holland'So funny ... bristling with glamorous but eccentric characters'. --- Jilly Cooper'Very funny and touching, gentle, wise and unpretentious. This is... -
A Three Dog Problem: The Queen investigates a murder at Buckingham Palace by SJ Bennett
RRP: $12.89$9.09The delightfully clever mystery in which Queen Elizabeth II secretly solves a murder at Buckingham Palace - perfect for fans of The Crown and The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman.'A witty whodunit starring our very own HM The Queen as an amateur... -
AEthelstan: The First King of England by Sarah Foot
RRP: $24.50$20.87"AEthelstan was perhaps the most important king of tenth-century England, but we know very little about him, and he has no modern biography. Sarah Foot triumphantly fills this gap, and adds to the richness of our understanding of the period in a way that... -
Queens of the Conquest: The extraordinary women who changed the course of English history 1066 - 1167 by Alison Weir
RRP: $19.34$14.33Full of passion and betrayal, murder and war, the first volume of an epic new series from bestselling historian Alison Weir, bringing five of England's medieval queens to life.A Daily Telegraph Book of the YearLove, murder, war, betrayalThis is the story... -
To Catch A King: Charles II's Great Escape by Charles Spencer
RRP: $12.89$8.82How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history? In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles,... -
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor
RRP: $16.76$11.35In medieval England, man was the ruler of woman, and the King was the ruler of all. How, then, could royal power lie in female hands?In She-Wolves, celebrated historian, Helen Castor, tells the dramatic and fascinating stories of four exceptional women... -
Cnut the Great by Timothy Bolton
RRP: $16.76$14.78A seminal biography of Cnut, the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire "A gripping and revelatory biography of Britain's Danish conqueror."-... -
Lancaster And York: The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir
RRP: $19.34$12.62A lucid, gripping account of the human side of one of the bloodiest chapters of British history. The war between the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England was characterised by treachery, deceit and - at St Albans, Blore Hill and Towton,... -
Henry VIII’s True Daughter: Catherine Carey, A Tudor Life by Wendy J Dunn 9781399012249
RRP: $28.38$20.47The lives of Tudor women often offer faint but fascinating footnotes on the pages of history. The life of Catherine – or Katryn as her husband would one day pen her name – Carey, the daughter of Mary Boleyn and, as the weight of evidence suggests, Henry... -
The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey Monmouth
RRP: $16.76$11.04Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear,... -
Elizabeth's Rival: The Tumultuous Tale of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester by Nicola Tallis
RRP: $14.18$9.92'Nicola Tallis, one of our great popular historians.' Alison WeirThe first biography of Lettice Knollys, one of the most prominent women of the Elizabethan era.Cousin to Elizabeth I - and very likely also Henry VIII's illegitimate granddaughter - Lettice... -
Anne Boleyn: 500 Years of Lies by Hayley Nolan
RRP: $11.60$8.15A bold new analysis of one of history's most misrepresented women. History has lied. Anne Boleyn has been sold to us as a dark figure, a scheming seductress who bewitched Henry VIII into divorcing his queen and his church in an unprecedented... -
Henry VIII: King and Court by Alison Weir
RRP: $19.34$14.13Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent-and dangerous-courts in Renaissance Europe. Never before has a detailed, personal biography of this charismatic monarch been set... -
Tales from the Long Twelfth Century: The Rise and Fall of the Angevin Empire by Richard Huscroft
RRP: $16.76$15.30This intriguing book tells the story of England's great medieval Angevin dynasty in an entirely new way. Departing from the usual king-centric narrative, Richard Huscroft instead centers each of his chapters on the experiences of a particular man or... -
Traitor King: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Exile by Andrew Lownie
RRP: $32.25$22.18THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Daily Mail Royal Book of the Year, 2021'Darkly compelling...hundreds of eye-popping details...Gripping ... damning portrait of the Windsors' Daily Mail 'Book of the Week''Briskly written and compulsively readable...' - A.N... -
The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England Elizabeth Cleland 9781588396921
RRP: $64.50$57.25A fascinating new look at the artistic legacy of the Tudors, revealing the dynasty's influence on the arts in Renaissance England and beyond Ruling successively from 1485 through 1603, the five Tudor monarchs changed England indelibly, using the visual... -
Harry: Conversations with the Prince - INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE ACCESS & INTERVIEWS WITH PRINCE HARRY by Angela Levin 9781786068965 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.50$2.95PRINCE HARRY, AUTHOR OF SPARE, IN HIS OWN WORDS - INCLUDING EXCLUSIVE ACCESS AND INTERVIEWSOnce a reckless rebel, now a respected role model, Prince Harry is one of the world's most popular royals and the force behind giving the British royal family a... -
Edward II: The Unconventional King by Kathryn Warner 9781445666723
RRP: $14.18$9.62He is one of the most reviled English kings in history. He drove his kingdom to the brink of civil war a dozen times in less than twenty years. He allowed his male lovers to rule the kingdom. He led a great army to the most ignominious military defeat in... -
Queen Victoria by Elizabeth Longford
RRP: $19.34$8.67'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... -
Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici by Estelle Paranque
RRP: $16.76$12.05'A story told with verve and passion' The Times, Book of the Week'An alternative and engaging biography...accessible and unpretentious' The Telegraph'A stunning portrayal of two of the most powerful women in European history' Tracy Borman'Exciting and... -
Edward VI: The Lost King of England Chris Skidmore 9780753823514
RRP: $14.18$9.82The struggle for the soul of England after the death of Henry VIIIIn the death of Henry VIII, the crown passed to his nine-year-old son, Edward. However, real power went to the Protector, Edward's uncle, the Duke of Somerset. The court had been a hotbed... -
The Times British Royal Fashion by Anna Murphy 9780008651084
RRP: $38.70$25.19A beautiful gift for those with a fashionable eye Long before Diana's revenge dress took the world by storm or Princess Anne's sunglasses went viral, there has always been a fascination with members of the Royal Family and the significance... -
The Little Princesses: The Story Of The Queen's Childhood By Her Nanny Crawfie by Marion Crawford
RRP: $12.89$9.03'A unique insight into the isolated childhood of the future queen and her sister' YOU MAGAZINE, THE DAILY MAIL~The touching and ground-breaking stories of the Queen and Princess Margaret's childhoods told by their nanny, Marion Crawford. With a foreword... -
Nicholas & Alexandra: Nicholas & Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
RRP: $19.34$12.96The tragic, compelling story of the last Tsar and his family Nicholas & Alexandra is the internationally famous biography from Pulitzer prize-winner Robert Massie. Massie shows conclusively how the personal curse of the young heir's haemophilia, and... -
Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family by Omid Scobie 9780008424145 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89$3.42INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * ONE OF THE TOP 10 BEST-SELLING ROYAL BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME When news of the budding romance between a beloved English... -
Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family by Omid Scobie
RRP: $12.89$7.75INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * ONE OF THE TOP 10 BEST-SELLING ROYAL BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME When news of the budding romance between a beloved English... -
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court by Gareth Russell 9780008437015
RRP: $14.18$9.62'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts' PHILIPPA GREGORY ...