Never Had It So Good - A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles (Sandbrook Dominic)(Paperback / softback)

Never Had It So Good - A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles (Sandbrook Dominic)(Paperback / softback)

A fresh, enlightening and comprehensive history of Britain in the early 1960s by a supremely talented young

Winds of Change - Britain in the Early Sixties (Hennessy Peter)(Paperback / softback)

From the celebrated author of Never Again and Having It So Good, a wonderfully vivid new history of Britain in the early 1960sHarold Macmillan famously said in 1960 that the wind of change was blowing over Africa and the remaining British Empire. But it was blowing over Britain too - its society;

Great British Dream Factory - The Strange History of Our National Imagination (Sandbrook Dominic)(Paperback / softback)

Suez - Britain's End of Empire in the Middle East (Kyle Keith)(Paperback / softback)

On July 26, 1956, the British Empire received a blow from which it would never recover. On this day, Egypt's President Gamal Abdul Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal Company, one of the gems of Britain's imperial portfolio. It was to be a fateful day for Britain as a world power. Britain, France

Soft Summer Blood (Helton Peter)(Paperback)

It seemed so simple: a murder; an obvious suspect; a shaky alibi. DI McLusky never had it so good. Until a second killing challenges his earlier assumptions. With every new piece of evidence he brings to light, the case becomes more complicated. Does it have its roots in a disappearance eighteen

Girl, Woman, Other - WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 (Evaristo Bernardine)(Paperback / softback)

This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl Woman Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last

Story of Britain - From the Romans to the Present (Strong Sir Roy)(Paperback / softback)

A fully updated, authoritative and exceptionally readable history of Britain from the Romans to the

History of Britain - From Neolithic times to the 21st Century (Dargie Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Early Tudors: England 1485-1558 (Hudson David)(Paperback / softback)

This title investigates the history of Britain under the early Tudors from Henry VII to Mary. It gives students an insight into the nature, achievements and failures of the governments of the Tudor dynasty; the changing nature of English society at this time; and the ongoing historiographical

Death of Yesterday (Beaton M.C.)(Paperback / softback)

A dead witness. A forgotten crime. Hamish Macbeth never had it so hard as in this newest Highlands

Cut from the Same Cloth? - Muslim Women on Life in Britain(Paperback / softback)

From the publisher of The Good Immigrant: a groundbreaking collection of essays written by British

We Had It So Good (Grant Linda)(Paperback / softback)

* Linda Grant's 'best novel yet' (Financial Times) is a thoughtful and engaging story of a London family from the late sixties to the

The Man from Taured (Bates Jeremy)(Paperback)

Ever been to Taured before? No? In fact, you've never heard of it? Well, neither had the rest of the world when in July of 2020 a European businessman shows up at Tokyo International Airport claiming to not only hail from the non-existent country but produces a legitimate passport.What follows is a

The Cambridge History of Russia (Lieven Dominic)(Paperback)

The second volume of The Cambridge History of Russia covers the imperial period (1689-1917). It encompasses political, economic, social, cultural, diplomatic, and military history. All the major Russian social groups have separate chapters and the volume also includes surveys on the non-Russian

A Brief History of Britain 1851-2010: A Nation Transformed (Black Jeremy)(Paperback)

From the Great Exhibition to the Credit Crunch -- the transformation of Britain from the world's greatest nation to the present day. In 1851 Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, it was the high water mark of English achievement -- the nation at the forefront of the Industrial

Life of Elves (Barbery Muriel)(Paperback / softback)

The villagers had never seen anything like it: dense white curtains of snow that instantly transformed the landscape. Not in autumn, not here in Burgundy. And on the same night a baby was discovered, dark-eyed little Maria, who would transform all their

The Oxford History of Britain: 2021 Edition (Morgan Kenneth O.)(Paperback)

A new edition of this best-selling history of Britain, from Roman times, now updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century. The Oxford History of Britain tells the story of Britain and its people over two thousand years, from the coming of the Roman legions to the present day. Encompassing

Stonemason - A History of Building Britain (Ziminski Andrew)(Paperback / softback)

A stonemason's story of the building of Britain: part archaeological history, part deeply personal insight into an ancient

Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain (Paterson Michael)(Paperback / softback)

From the Great Exhibition to Dickensian slums, the triumph of empire to the anxiety of revolt - Victorian Britain was an age of

Portillo's Hidden History of Britain (Portillo Michael)(Paperback / softback)

A compelling and evocative history of Britain through the stories of its `lost' or abandoned buildings; a companion to Channel 5's series of the same

Wolves Of Willoughby Chase (Aiken Joan)(Paperback / softback)

1832 - a period of English History that never happened. Good King James III is on the throne and the country is ravaged by wolves which have migrated through the newly-opened Channel Tunnel. When Sylvia and Bonnie (both orphans) fall into the hands of evil Miss Slighcarp, they must use all their

Good Day, Good Night (Wise Brown Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

A never-before-published picture book from Margaret Wise Brown, the bestselling author of Goodnight Moon, brought to life by Loren Long, #1 New York Times bestselling

Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan (Ferguson Will)(Paperback)

It had never been done before. Not in 4000 years of Japanese recorded history had anyone followed the Cherry Blossom Front from one end of the country to the other. Nor had anyone hitchhiked the length of Japan. But, heady on sakura and sake, Will Ferguson bet he could do both.The resulting

Scoff - A History of Food and Class in Britain (Vogler Pen)(Paperback / softback)

The entertaining story of British cuisine and the hidden role it plays in all our