Britain

Synopsis Full Title : Ruth Janette Ruck - Along Came A Llama - Tales from a Welsh Hill Farm. Foreword by John Lewis-Stempel. My Family and Other ...

Synopsis The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England. The Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist bet...

Synopsis Subtitled : Painters, Ploughmen & Places. A ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort, ...

Synopsis Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? In A History of Ancient Britain Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the...

Synopsis Waterstones Non Fiction Book of the Month for October 2017. Longlisted for The Orwell Prize 2017. From the best-selling author of The Pl...

Synopsis Subtitled : Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain. Britain's rise to global dominance from the 16th century onwards owed as much to the vi...

Synopsis A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned...

Synopsis Subtitled : A Tale of The Lake District. A Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller. "Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival...

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

Synopsis Delve into this eye-opening companion to Netflix's acclaimed series The Crown as renowned biographer and the show's historical consultan...

Synopsis Subtitled : A History of The British Isles. A magisterial new one-volume history of the British Isles from the Romans to the present day...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Rise & Fall of the Victorian City. Victorian cities, so long the object of derision as a byword for deprivation, are...

Synopsis By two Acts of Union, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland - which at the time were separate states with separate legislat...

Synopsis From the invaders of the dark ages to the aftermath of the coalition, one of Britain's most respected journalists, Simon Jenkins, weaves t...

Synopsis The Times Memoir of The Year. The remarkable life of Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret who was also a Maid of Honour at the Queen's Cor...

Synopsis Tells of the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana and other events which led the Queen to observe that the royal family had under...

Synopsis Subtitled : 'or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge'. Many of us were put off history by the dry and dreary way it was taught at sc...

Synopsis A Daily Mail Book of The Year. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain, Quentin Letts, comes his bli...

Synopsis The tall, handsome Abdul Karim was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables during Queen Victoria...

Synopsis This is a superb collection of the 120 best walks in Britain. A very nicely illustrated full colour, glossy collection of themed walks wit...

Synopsis Landmarks is Robert MacFarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two. Words are grained into our la...

Synopsis Author : Hugh Clout. This edition is as vibrant, compelling and diverse as the infamous city itself. An established authority on London pa...

Synopsis A fascinating portrait of St. Albans in years gone by. Ch 1. Romans & Relics. Ch 2. From Pilgrims to Coaches. Ch 3. The Railway comes ...

Synopsis In 1995 Bill Bryson got into his car and took a weeks-long farewell motoring trip about England before moving his family back to the Unite...