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Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder
RRP: $25.80$18.95THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE'A marvellous book . . . I just loved it all, and have a permanently marked-up, dog-eared copy on my shelf for the next generation'... -
The Mirror and the Light (The Wolf Hall Trilogy) by Hilary Mantel
RRP: $32.25$16.19The Sunday Times bestseller Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the Booker Prize 'It is a book not read, but lived' Telegraph 'Her Cromwell... -
Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country by John Kampfner
RRP: $14.18$9.44***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***BOOK OF THE YEAR IN GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST & NEW STATESMAN'Excellent and provocative... a passionate, timely book.' Sunday Times'A fine new book... thoughtful, deeply reported and impeccably even-handed.' The TimesEmerging... -
A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000 by John Gibney
RRP: $16.76$14.78A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first century Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. John Gibney proceeds from the... -
If Walls Could Talk: An intimate history of the home by Lucy Worsley
RRP: $16.76$11.04Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two 'dirty centuries'? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint?... -
Bloody British History: Lincoln by Douglas Wynn 9780752462899
RRP: $19.34$14.90Built by the Romans, looted by the Danes and conquered by King William I (who devastated the town to build a castle and a cathedral), the city of Lincoln has had a long and most dreadful history. Containing medieval child murder, vile sieges of (and... -
Snowdonia National Park Pocket Map: The perfect guide to explore this area of outstanding natural beauty by National Parks UK
RRP: $5.15$3.81Handy little full colour map and guide of Snowdonia National Park. Detailed mapping and visitor information to the National Park along with a selection of photographs. Map at a scale of 1:119 000 (1.2cm to 1km, 1.9 miles to 1 inch). ... -
The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers by Richard Aldrich
RRP: $21.92$14.80The Black Door explores the evolving relationship between successive British prime ministers and the intelligence agencies, from Asquith's Secret Service Bureau to Cameron's National Security Council. Intelligence can... -
Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story by Rob Dinnis 9780565093372
RRP: $19.34$12.64When did the first humans arrive in Britain? Where did they come from? And what did they look like? This is the amazing story of human life in Britain. It begins nearly one million years ago, during the earliest known human occupation, and reveals how... -
Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi
RRP: $12.89$9.17'We're not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.' Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi entered a world cut off from history and the state, hedged in by custom and sorrow, without comfort... -
The Last Mughal by William Dalrymple
RRP: $19.34$14.13On a dark evening in November 1862, a cheap coffin is buried in eerie silence. There are no lamentations or panegyrics, for the British Commissioner in charge has insisted, 'No vesting will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Mughals rests... -
Slaves and Highlanders: Hearing Silenced Histories by David Alston
RRP: $20.63$17.20Shortlisted for the 2021 Highland Book Prize Explores the prominent role of Highland Scots in the slavery industry of the cotton, sugar and coffee plantations of the 18th and 19th centuries Scots were involved in every stage of the slave trade:... -
A House Through Time by David Olusoga
RRP: $14.18$10.23'A very readable history of the British way of life viewed through its homes' Choice MagazineIn recent years house histories have become the new frontier of popular, participatory history. People, many of whom have already embarked upon that great... -
The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War by Philip Oltermann
RRP: $14.18$9.44The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry club: Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society.'Engrossing.' Observer'Remarkable.' The Times'Magnificent.' Phillipe Sands'Gripping.' Literary Review'A history so outlandish and... -
The Age of Athelstan: Britain's Forgotten History by Paul Hill 9780752425665
RRP: $23.21$17.60In an age of evocative names like Eric Bloodaxe and Egil Skallagrimson, one name has been lost in the mists of time: that of Athelstan, ruler of all Britain. From the first raids of the Vikings on the shores of Britain and Ireland, the book traces the... -
A Dual Perspective: The German in an English Judge by Konrad Schiemann 9781915036667
RRP: $32.24$26.17The inspirational story of a young German orphan who escaped a war-torn Berlin to rise to the highest ranks of the European legal system. When Konrad Schiemann escaped his home in Berlin to begin a new life in England, he didn't know what life... -
Wolf Hall (The Wolf Hall Trilogy) by Hilary Mantel 9780008381691
RRP: $14.18$10.18Winner of the Man Booker Prize The first book in Hilary Mantel's award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is... -
Devon and Cornwall's Oddest Historical Tales by John Fisher
RRP: $16.76$12.41The West Country's colourful past encompasses a pageant of historical figures and peculiar stories - from Lawrence of Arabia's flamboyant motorbike forays across Dartmoor and the terrifying account of a lion attack on the Exeter mail coach, to Devonian... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: $12.89$9.21This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour. It features a beautifully decorated text... -
Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown by Rory Carroll
RRP: $32.25$21.19A Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2023 A Spectator Book of the Year 2023 The Irish Times No.1 Bestseller 'As taut as a... -
Wales: England's Colony? by Martin Johnes 9781912681419
RRP: $12.89$9.17From the very beginnings of Wales, its people have defined themselves against their large neighbour. Wales: England's Colony? shows, that relationship has not only defined what it has meant to be Welsh, it has also been central to making and defining... -
Wake Up: Why the world has gone nuts by Piers Morgan
RRP: $12.89$8.57The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller It's time we get back to common sense. It's time to cancel the cancel culture. ... -
The Warrior Queen: The Life and Legend of Aethelflaed, Daughter of Alfred the Great by Joanna Arman
RRP: $15.47$10.14AEthelflaed, eldest daughter of Alfred the Great, has gone down in history as an enigmatic and almost legendary figure. To the popular imagination, she is the archetypal warrior queen, a Medieval Boudicca, renowned for her heroic struggle against the... -
Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent - A Fourteenth-Century Princess and her World by Anthony Goodman
RRP: $38.70$32.57A new account of the life and turbulent times of Joan, the wife of the Black Prince and mother of Richard II. Anthony Goodman's brilliant yet accessible scholarship draws in the reader in the most entertaining and vibrant way. He was one of our... -
Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain by Peter Fryer
RRP: $21.92$15.40Staying Power is a panoramic history of black Britons. Stretching back to the Roman conquest, encompassing the court of Henry VIII, and following a host of characters from Mary Seacole to the abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, Peter Fryer paints a picture of... -
How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide by George Mikes
RRP: $14.18$10.02A complete guide to the British Way of Life. If you're British, you'll love it. If you're not, you'll recognise it._______Born in Hungary, George Mikes spent more than forty years in the Britain observing behaviours and misbehaviours of local and foreign... -
David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS by Gavin Mortimer 9781472134578
RRP: $16.76$9.69Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special Air Service in the summer of 1941 led to a new form of warfare and Stirling is remembered as the father of special... -
Behind the Thistle: Playing Rugby for Scotland by David Barnes
RRP: $16.76$11.04Featuring the thoughts of more than 180 players who have represented Scotland since the very first Test match in 1871 all the way through to the present day, Behind the Thistle gives a unique insight into the drama and emotion of playing for Scotland in... -
D-Day in Photographs by Andrew Whitmarsh 9780752474793
RRP: $25.80$19.40The Allied landings in France on 6 June 1944 were a turning point in world history. This book is a compilation of 200 images relating to all aspects of D-Day and the Normandy landings, beginning with the years of planning and preparations, all conducted... -
The Prime Ministers: Winner of the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2020 by Iain Dale
RRP: $19.34$12.64**Winner of the 2020 PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS for Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian**A Times Political Book of the Year'An entertaining, thorough and informative canter through the characters and stories of prime ministers past.' - New... -
The GAA and the War of Independence by Tim Pat Coogan
RRP: $12.89$9.17Founded in 1884 to promote Irish identity and revive the traditional sports of hurling, football and handball, the GAA enjoyed an intimate relationship with the nationalist movement from the turn of the twentieth century onwards. In 1914, the Irish... -
Nottingham in the 1960s & 70s: Britain in Old Photographs by Douglas Whitworth 9780752448879
RRP: $20.63$15.80In the 1960s the citizens of Nottingham saw the greatest change in the city in the twentieth century. In the previous decade, the city planners envisaged a dual carriageway which would encircle the centre of Nottingham and they began by building a new... -
The Labyrinth of the Spirits: From the bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
RRP: $12.89$9.29THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Magnificent: a dizzying tale of drama, intrigue and passion' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A colossal, genre-crossing achievement' GUARDIANAs a child, Daniel Sempere discovered among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books an... -
British Cruisers: Two World Wars and After by Friedman, Norman 9781399097918
RRP: $32.25$24.79For most of the twentieth century Britain possessed both the worlds largest merchant fleet and its most extensive overseas territories. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Royal Navy always showed a particular interest in the cruiser a... -
Escaping Hitler: A Jewish Boy's Quest for Freedom and His Future by Phyllida Scrivens 9781473843646
RRP: $32.25$23.25Escaping Hitler is the true story, covering ninety years, of a fourteen-year-old boy Gunter Stern who, when Adolf Hitler threatened hisfamily, education and future, resolved to escape from his rural village of Nickenich in the German Rhineland. In July... -
Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights by Helen Lewis
RRP: $14.18$10.02Well-behaved women don't make history: difficult women do. 'This is the antidote to saccharine you-go-girl fluff. Effortlessly erudite and funny' Caroline Criado-Perez Strikers in saris. Bomb-throwing suffragettes. The pioneer of the refuge movement who... -
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey
RRP: $14.18$9.69In The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey tells the little-known - and deeply shocking - story of how a militant religion deliberately tried to extinguish the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in unquestioning adherence to the 'one true faith'.The... -
Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match by Wendy Moore
RRP: $16.76$11.09WEDLOCK is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of Britain's richest young heiresses. She married the Count of Strathmore who died young, and pregnant with her lover's... -
The Northumbrians: North-East England and Its People: A New History by Dan Jackson 9781787386006
RRP: $16.76$15.42The Northumbrians have been overlooked by British and global history, but they've made astonishing contributions to both. Dan Jackson sets out to recover this lost history, exploring the deep roots of Northumbrian culture-hard work and heavy drinking,... -
Kings and Queens (Collins Gem) by Neil Grant
RRP: $9.02$6.19A copiously illustrated guide to the monarchs of the British Isles and Ireland from pre-Saxon times to the present, complete with concise genealogical charts and details of key historical events. The book is divided into five sections,...