The Story of England by Michael Wood
$49.95 AUD
Category: British
The village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very centre of England. It has a church, some pubs, the Grand Union Canal, a First World War Memorial - and many centuries of recorded history. In the thirteenth century the village was bought by William de Merton, who later founded Merton College, O ...Show more
Unsuitable For Publication: Editing Queen Victoria by Yvonne M. Ward
$29.99 AUD
Category: British
When Queen Victoria died in 1901, two literary gentlemen took on a monumental task: selecting and editing her vast correspondence. The book they produced would influence perceptions of Victoria for generations to come - but it was not the full story. The Queen's two editors, Viscount Esher and Arthur B ...Show more
Agincourt: My Family, the Battle and the Fight for France by Ranulph Fiennes
$32.99 AUD
Category: British
25 October 2015 is the 600th anniversary of the battle of Agincourt - a hugely resonant event in English (and French) history. Sir Ranulph Fiennes casts new light on this epic event, revealing that three of his own ancestors fought in the battle for Henry V, and at least one for the French. This is a un ...Show more
Monash : The Soldier Who Shaped Australia by Grantlee Kieza
$39.99 AUD
Category: British
The amazing life story of the general who shaped Australia - the first major biography of Monash in over a decade John Monash's life is emblematic of Australia's much heralded egalitarian spirit - here is the ultimate outsider, poor, Jewish in an era which still practiced anti-Semitism, bookish at a ti ...Show more
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
$24.99 AUD
Category: British
How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? Here at last is an intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature. First published 2005.
The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic by Ruth Dudley Edwards
$32.99 AUD
Category: British
On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council put their names to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, declaring that they were the provisional government of an Ireland free from British rule. In effect, each man had knowingly signed his own death ...Show more
Lost Tommies by Ross Coulthart
$70.00 AUD
Category: British
Lost Tommies brings together stunning never-before-seen images of Western Front tommies and their amazing stories in a beautiful collection that is part thriller, part family history and part national archive. For much of the First World War, the small French village of Vignacourt was always behind the ...Show more
Young & Damned & Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII by Gareth Russell
$32.99 AUD
Category: British | Reading Level: good
Based on fascinating new material, a riveting account of Catherine Howard's tragic marriage to one of history's most powerful and endlessly fascinating rulers - Henry VIII. In its sixteen month existence between her marriage to Henry VIII in July 1540 and her arrest in November 1541, Catherine Howard's ...Show more
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume II: The New World: The New World by Sir Winston S. Churchill
$32.99 AUD
Category: British | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire tho ...Show more
Victoria & Abdul The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant by Shrabani Basu
$29.99 AUD
Category: British
Now a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears.History's most unlikely friendship--this is the astonishing story of Queen Victoria and her dearest companion, the young Indian Munshi Abdul Karim.In the twilight years of her reign, after the devastating deaths of hertwo g ...Show more
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister by Nicholas Shakespeare
$29.99 AUD
Category: British | Reading Level: very good
London, early May 1940- Britain is on the brink of war and Neville Chamberlain's government is about to fall. It is hard for us to imagine the Second World War without Winston Churchill taking over at the helm, but in SIX MINUTES IN MAY Nicholas Shakespeare shows how easily events could have gone in a d ...Show more
The King's War - A Commoner, the Crown and Britain's Greatest Struggle by Mark Logue; Peter Conradi
$32.99 AUD
Category: British | Reading Level: very good
The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning film The King's Speech - was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic Australian-born speech therapist. Yet the relationship between ...Show more