The Village That Died for England: Tyneham and the Legend of Churchill's Pledge (Wright Patrick)(Paperback)

The Village That Died for England: Tyneham and the Legend of Churchill's Pledge (Wright Patrick)(Paperback)

Most Beautiful Villages of England (Bentley James)(Paperback / softback)

Villages are the very embodiment of Englishness. The village inn and the local farm, great houses, humble cottages and beautiful country gardens speak of a way of life that has developed peacefully since Anglo-Saxon times. This book records the beauty and diversity of the English village in

Feel-Good Movie of the Year (Wright Luke)(Paperback / softback)

Divorced, and perhaps a little bruised, Luke Wright journeys off the sunken roads of southern England and into himself, pursued by murderous swans, empty car seats, and his father's skeleton

Strange Laws Of Old England (Cawthorne Nigel)(Paperback / softback)

Did you know that: It's against the law to check into a hotel in London under assumed names for the purpose of lovemaking? Under a statute of Edwards II all whales washed up on the shore belong to the monarch? Under a Tudor law Welshmen are not allowed into the city of Chester after dark? In THE

The Wright Sister (Dann Patty)(Paperback)

An epistolary novel of historical fiction that imagines the life of Katharine Wright and her relationship with her famous brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright.On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the world's first airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, establishing the Wright

The Flood That Did Come (Wray Patrick)(Paperback)

In the year 2036, the whole of Kingsby county has been flooded after several weeks of torrential rain. Only a few villages have escaped the flood. One of these is the village of Pennyworth, where Tom and Jenny live. When the inhabitants of nearby Brook Falls arrive and attempt to lay claim to

Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England (Parker Eleanor)(Paperback)

Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical one, might have it so. But locked away in the buried history of the British Isles are other, far richer and more nuanced, stories; and these hidden

Full Sight Of Her (Wright Patrick)(Paperback)

Poetry. Charting a steady encroachment of shadows over a relationship, Wright engages with the most profound subjects--love and loss, madness, grief, illness--and attends to them with a finely-wrought poetic sensibility, producing a soundscape of nervous, almost fractious energy. A play of light

Catalans (O'Brian Patrick)(Paperback / softback)

Set amongst the rolling vineyards and gentle courtyards of a small seaside village in Catalonia, Patrick O'Brian's second novel is a poignant story of tumultuous love, complex faith and one man's desperate bid to reclaim his humanity. Summoned from his medical practice in China by a bevy of anxious

The Time of My Life (Swayze Patrick)(Paperback)

Now in paperback, the internationally bestselling heartfelt memoir from movie legend Patrick Swayze and his wife of over thirty years, Lisa Niemi, about Patrick's remarkable career and brave battle against pancreatic cancer. An entertaining and inspiring behind-the-scenes look at a Hollywood life

Triumph and Tragedy - The Second World War (Churchill Winston)(Paperback / softback)

Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World

Bomber Boys - Fighting Back 1940-1945 (Bishop Patrick)(Paperback / softback)

Patrick Bishop looks at the lives and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the BBC 1 documentary BOMBER BOYS, presented by Ewan

Children of Noisy Village (Lindgren Astrid)(Paperback / softback)

Join the children of Noisy Village as they rescue a lonely dog, search for a secret treasure map, and get caught in a snow

The Village That Vanished (Nelson Kadir)(Paperback)

Young Abikanile and all of the villagers of Yao feel safe hidden deep within the African jungle. But word has come that the slavers are on their way Abikanile looks to her mother and her grandmother for strength and guidance. These two brave women come up with a plan to fool the slavers and

Edward VI - The Lost King of England (Skidmore Chris)(Paperback / softback)

The struggle for the soul of England after the death of Henry

The Kings & Queens of England: The Biography (Loades David)(Paperback)

An authoritative and accessible history of the lives of the kings and queens of England by a renowned

The Evolution of God (Wright Robert)(Paperback)

In this sweeping narrative that takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils an astonishing discovery: there is a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved. Through the prisms of archaeology, theology, and evolutionary

Lancaster And York - The Wars of the Roses (Weir Alison)(Paperback / softback)

The war between the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England was characterised by treachery, deceit and - at St Albans, Blore Hill and Towton, - some of the bloodiest and most dramatic battles on England's

Churchill's Grandmama - Frances 7th Duchess of Marlborough (Forster Margaret Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Sir Winston Churchill's paternal grandmother and the mother of Randolph Churchill, the 7th Duchess of Marlborough, has been a minor figure in many works, yet hers is a fascinating story. Frances Anne Emily Vane-Tempest-Stewart's family background, as well as her own life, is steeped in great

Lost Villages of Sussex (Vincent Alex)(Paperback / softback)

Throughout England there are thousands of lost or deserted villages, most were abandoned after the Black Death or other plague epidemics, but some were lost to coastal erosion or the encroaching sea, others were resettled elsewhere when the livelihood upon which the village relied disappeared and

I Used to Know That: English (Scrivenor Patrick)(Paperback)

Relearn the essential rules of the English language, from grammar and punctuation to sentence construction, parts of speech and how to improve your spelling and

The Cockatoos (White Patrick)(Paperback)

These six short novels and stories achieve the majesty and power of the best of Patrick White's great novels. They probe beneath the surface of events - a sexual lapse, the unaccustomed climate of a foreign country, interruptions in a cherished routine, a death, a toothache - to expose a deeper,

Happy Times in Noisy Village (Lindgren Astrid)(Paperback / softback)

For the children of Noisy Village fun and adventure is just around the corner-Lisa and her friends race their sledges on the slopes, hunt for treasure, and keep a watch for pirate ships from their robber's

The South of France for Art Lovers (Rinckhout Eric)(Paperback)

A cultural exploration of the South of France, from Nice and Montpellier to the tiniest villages, part of Luster's Hidden guides