Britain

Synopsis Subtitled : The Truth Behind England's Rural Idyll. We have lived in villages a long time.  The village was the first model for communal l...

Synopsis / AI Summary Subtitled : The Story of a Place & Its Buildings. Glorious Gloucester: A Most Lovable City by John R. Hume is a warm and ...

Synopsis Subtitled : Adventures Around The Edge of Britain's Hidden Islands. Islandeering is making a circular journey around the outer edge of an ...

Synopsis Subtitled : The forgotten evacuees of the Second World War. In June 1940, 17,000 people fled Guernsey to England, including 5,000 school c...

Synopsis The Times Top 10 Bestseller. Shortlisted for The Wainwright Prize. Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This...

Synopsis Full Title : The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom: History, Art, Architecture. In 2009 the new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom was ...

Synopsis Intrepid presenter Nicholas Crane investigates eight epic journeys, following in the footsteps of our greatest indigenous explorers. Nick ...

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 An...

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

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

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

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 n...

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 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...

Synopsis A Daily Mail Book of The Year. Subtitled : How the elites betrayed Britain. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of 50 People Who Bugg...

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

Synopsis What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred) of Marmite - or is it something less ...

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...

Synopsis Villages of Britain is the history of the countryside, told through five hundred of its most noteworthy settlements. Many of Britain's vil...

Synopsis Author : John Barton A travel guide describing 16 individual itineraries of Britain for the traveller concerned more with wandering into l...

Synopsis National Benzole (A Petrol Company) then ran a series of books from 1954 to 1962 entitled Our National Heritage. (Published with The Natio...