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To Catch A King: Charles II's Great Escape
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Author: Charles Spencer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history? In January 1649, King Charles...
The Times Queen Elizabeth II: A portrait of her 70-year reign
Author: James Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The ideal gift for royal fans. This is the story of a life dedicated to public service, reported by The Times...
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy
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Author: A N Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince...
The Queen
Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In this entertaining and insightful biography of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana,...
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters
Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate,...
Devices and Desires Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England
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Author: Kate Hubbard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The critically acclaimed author of Serving Victoria brilliantly illuminates the life of the little-known Bess of Hardwick--next to Queen Elizabeth I,...
Young Prince Philip, His Turbulent Early Life
Author, Philip Eade Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 384 'The narrative is as suspenseful as any thriller. Truly, an excellent read' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times Married for almost...
Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler: How a British Civil Servant Helped Cause the Second World War
Author: Adrian Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 No one doubts that appeasement failed, but Phillips shows that it caused active harm - even sabotaging Britain's preparations for war....
The Crown (The Selection, Book 5)
Author: Kiera Cass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 35 suitors entered the Selection. Only 1 will win her heart. The fifth and final captivating novel in Kiera...
The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past
Author: Christopher Hadley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday...
Queen Elizabeth II: A Lifetime Dressing for the World Stage
Author: Jane Eastoe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Exquisite and sumptuous, immaculately tailored, dignified and, above all, practical. The wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth II was as distinctive in style...
Behind the Crown: My Life Photographing the Royal Family
Author: Arthur Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 For 45 years I've chronicled the Royal Family for the Sun newspaper with my camera. I've witnessed their triumphs and disasters,...
Paper Bullets: Two Women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
Author: Jeffrey H. Jackson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Paper Bullets is the first book to tell the history of an audacious anti-Nazi campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair:...
Time Song: Journeys in Search of a Submerged Land
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Author: Julia Blackburn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells...
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War
Author: Tim Bouverie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 This thrilling Sunday Times bestseller is the first major account of the disastrous years of British indecision and infighting...
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
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Author: David Cannadine (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 A sweeping history of nineteenth-century Britain by one of the world's most respected historians. "An evocative account ....
Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Britain's foremost female historian reveals the true story of this key figure in the Wars of the Roses and...
Queens of the Conquest: The extraordinary women who changed the course of English history 1066 - 1167
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Full of passion and betrayal, murder and war, the first volume of an epic new series from bestselling historian...
The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown
Author: Anna Keay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR...
Elizabeth: Queen and Crown
Author: Sarah Gristwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Reissued to coincide with her Platinum Jubilee, Sarah Gristwood celebrates Queen Elizabeth II, the most high-profile monarch in the world, and...
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 Thoroughly researched and with a real understanding of the times these six fascinating women lived through, Alison Weir's book...
King Charles III
Author: Gill Knappett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 An illustrated celebration of the new King of the United Kingdom, His Royal Highness King Charles III This is the story...
Hitler's Girl: The British Aristocracy and the Third Reich on the Eve of WWII
Author: Lauren Young Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A timely, riveting book that presents for the first time an alternative history of 1930s Britain, revealing how prominent fascist sympathizers...
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women
Author: Lady Antonia Fraser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian 'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals'...
The Platinum Queen: Over 75 Speeches Given by Britain's Longest-Reigning Monarch
Author: Jennie Bond Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 For the first time, all 70 of the Queen's Christmas speeches are published together in full, along with six additional feature...
King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne
Author: Janet L. Nelson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The acclaimed biography of one of the most extraordinary of all European rulers Charles, King of the Franks,...
A Brief History of Ireland
Author: Richard Killeen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 From the dawn of history to the decline of the Celtic Tiger - how Ireland has been shaped over...
The Brothers York: An English Tragedy
Author: Thomas Penn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The gripping new history of a dynasty that seized the English throne - then tore itself apart It is...
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters
Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 From the internationally renowned bestselling author ofDiana: Her True Story and Meghan: A Hollywood Princess, comes the sensational and captivating biography...
Diana: In Pursuit of Love
Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 When Andrew Morton's world-famous biography, "Diana: Her True Story," was first published, it caused a media frenzy, and shook...
Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged
Author: Andrew Marr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The Sunday Times bestseller Now a major BBC TV series presented by Andrew Marr David Attenborough. Marcus Rashford. Jan...
An Economic History of the English Garden
Author: Roderick Floud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The first and only in-depth economic history of England's gardens, from 1660 to today At least since the seventeenth...
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History
Author: David Edgerton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 A revolutionary economic and political history of 20th century Britain Out of a liberal, capitalist, genuinely global power of...
On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World
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Author: Sean Connolly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 A sweeping history of Irish emigration, arguing that the Irish exodus helped make the modern world When people think of Irish...
Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet
Author: Tom Nancollas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The enthralling history of Britain's historic rock lighthouses, exploring the enduring appeal of these magnificent, isolated sentinels, now in...
The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five...
Coronation: A History of the British Monarchy
Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong. 'What is the finest sight in the...
Queens of Georgian Britian
Author: Catherine Curzon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 220 Once upon a time there were four kings called George who, thanks to a quirk of fate, ruled Great Britain for...
The King's War: The Friendship of George VI and Lionel Logue During World War II
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Author: Peter Conradi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Following the New York Times bestselling The King's Speech, this eagerly anticipated sequel takes King George VI and his confidant and...
1942: Britain at the Brink
Author: Taylor Downing Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'Taylor Downing vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a...
A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind
Author: Rachel Hewitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke called 'the most important of all revolutions...a revolution in sentiments'. Inspired...
Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of THE BROKEN ROAD. Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick...
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The next volume in Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of Medieval England - including the life of...
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Author: Lindsey Fitzharris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The spellbinding story of a visionary British surgeon who changed medicine forever In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris...
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians Winston Churchill towers over every other...
London: A Travel Guide Through Time
Author: Dr Matthew Green Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Step back in time and discover the sights, sounds and smells of London through the ages in this...
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures
Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...
Histories of the Unexpected: The Tudors
Author: Dr Sam Willis (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 At Histories of the Unexpected, we believe that everything has a history - even the most unexpected of subjects...