England
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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
- £20.00
- From the acclaimed author of Charles Dickens: A Life comes a celebrated biography that casts new light on the remarkable diaries of Samuel Pepys. Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he…
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The English Public School: An Irreverent and Personal History
- £13.00
- Until his retirement in 2011, Dr Martin Stephen was High Master of St Paul's School, and before that of Manchester Grammar School, two of the most academically successful independent schools in the world, bar none. As such, he is uniquely placed to write a study of that extraordinary phenomenon, the…
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The English: a portrait of a people (SIGNED)
- £24.00
- In The English Jeremy Paxman sets out to find about the English. Not the British overall, not the Scots, not the Irish or Welsh, but the English. Why do they seem so unsure of who they are? Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even he is…
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The History Of England From The Accession Of James II (2 volumes)
- £80.00
- Macaulay's History was originally published in 1848 in 5 volumes, but this edition reduced that to two, without a reduction in text. The History is famous for its brilliant ringing prose and for its confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history. According to this view, England…
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The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
- £250.00
- The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton. The Standard Edition by E. T. Bennett. Thoroughly revised, with additional Notes, by James Edmund Harting. Stereotyped Edition. With Ten Letters not included in any other Edition. Illustrated with Engravings by Thomas Bewick and Others.
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The Old Ways
- £10.00
- The original bestseller from the beloved author of UNDERLAND, LANDMARKS and THE LOST WORDS - Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, underappreciated landscape. The Old Ways confirms Macfarlane's reputation as one of the most eloquent and observant of contemporary writers about nature' Scotland…
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The Sot-Weed factor
- £150.00
- This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting . . . to roam the world since Candide." "A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long-winded) this…
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The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-century England
- £25.00
- The remarkable story of one English family during the tumultuous seventeenth century, as revealed through their original letters and documents, which paint an extraordinarily accurate and detailed picture of life in England, Europe, and even the American colonies."To know the Verneys is to know the seventeenth century," Adrian Tinniswood writes…
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The Waters under the Earth
- £22.00
- John Cecil Moore (1907-1967) was a best-selling British writer and pioneer conservationist. He was described by Sir Compton Mackenzie as the most talented writer about the countryside of his generation. His best-selling trilogy, published in the years immediately after the Second World War (Portrait of Elmbury, Brensham Village and The…
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The Winding Stair
- £13.00
- Power is shifting. Queen Elizabeth I is dying, James waiting to become King. Everywhere, there is opportunity to ascend. But who will thrive, and who will fail, under the new King? Will it be the scholar Francis Bacon, whose brilliant mind is the envy of the royal court? Or his…
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Unruly (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- Think you know your kings and queens? Think again. In UNRULY, David Mitchell explores how England's monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects' destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in…
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William III (Brief Lives)
- £22.00
- In Collins' Brief Lives series, Oxford historian succinctly accounts for the life of William III, who reigned with his wife Mary from 1689-1702.
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Wyntertide (Rotherweird 2) (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Welcome back to Rotherweird. The town of Rotherweird has been independent from the rest of England for four hundred years, to protect a deadly secret. Sir Veronal Slickstone is dead, his bid to exploit that secret consigned to dust, leaving Rotherweird to resume its abnormal normality after the travails of…
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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
- £20.00
- From the acclaimed author of Charles Dickens: A Life comes a celebrated biography that casts new light on the remarkable diaries of Samuel Pepys. Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he…
- Add to basket
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The English Public School: An Irreverent and Personal History
- £13.00
- Until his retirement in 2011, Dr Martin Stephen was High Master of St Paul's School, and before that of Manchester Grammar School, two of the most academically successful independent schools in the world, bar none. As such, he is uniquely placed to write a study of that extraordinary phenomenon, the…
- Add to basket
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The English: a portrait of a people (SIGNED)
- £24.00
- In The English Jeremy Paxman sets out to find about the English. Not the British overall, not the Scots, not the Irish or Welsh, but the English. Why do they seem so unsure of who they are? Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even he is…
- Add to basket
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The History Of England From The Accession Of James II (2 volumes)
- £80.00
- Macaulay's History was originally published in 1848 in 5 volumes, but this edition reduced that to two, without a reduction in text. The History is famous for its brilliant ringing prose and for its confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history. According to this view, England…
- Add to basket
-
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
- £250.00
- The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton. The Standard Edition by E. T. Bennett. Thoroughly revised, with additional Notes, by James Edmund Harting. Stereotyped Edition. With Ten Letters not included in any other Edition. Illustrated with Engravings by Thomas Bewick and Others.
- Add to basket
-
The Old Ways
- £10.00
- The original bestseller from the beloved author of UNDERLAND, LANDMARKS and THE LOST WORDS - Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, underappreciated landscape. The Old Ways confirms Macfarlane's reputation as one of the most eloquent and observant of contemporary writers about nature' Scotland…
- Add to basket
-
The Sot-Weed factor
- £150.00
- This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting . . . to roam the world since Candide." "A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long-winded) this…
- Add to basket
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The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-century England
- £25.00
- The remarkable story of one English family during the tumultuous seventeenth century, as revealed through their original letters and documents, which paint an extraordinarily accurate and detailed picture of life in England, Europe, and even the American colonies."To know the Verneys is to know the seventeenth century," Adrian Tinniswood writes…
- Add to basket
-
The Waters under the Earth
- £22.00
- John Cecil Moore (1907-1967) was a best-selling British writer and pioneer conservationist. He was described by Sir Compton Mackenzie as the most talented writer about the countryside of his generation. His best-selling trilogy, published in the years immediately after the Second World War (Portrait of Elmbury, Brensham Village and The…
- Add to basket
-
The Winding Stair
- £13.00
- Power is shifting. Queen Elizabeth I is dying, James waiting to become King. Everywhere, there is opportunity to ascend. But who will thrive, and who will fail, under the new King? Will it be the scholar Francis Bacon, whose brilliant mind is the envy of the royal court? Or his…
- Add to basket
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Unruly (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- Think you know your kings and queens? Think again. In UNRULY, David Mitchell explores how England's monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects' destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in…
- Add to basket
-
William III (Brief Lives)
- £22.00
- In Collins' Brief Lives series, Oxford historian succinctly accounts for the life of William III, who reigned with his wife Mary from 1689-1702.
- Add to basket
-
Wyntertide (Rotherweird 2) (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- Welcome back to Rotherweird. The town of Rotherweird has been independent from the rest of England for four hundred years, to protect a deadly secret. Sir Veronal Slickstone is dead, his bid to exploit that secret consigned to dust, leaving Rotherweird to resume its abnormal normality after the travails of…
- Add to basket