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Synopsis Subtitled : A History of England's Kings & Queens. The Sunday Times Bestseller. A seriously funny, seriously clever history of our e...

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

Synopsis Britain's pagan past, with its mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artefacts, bloodthirsty legends, and cryptic inscripti...

Synopsis Written five years after capitalism's deepest crisis (2008-2009) which led to cuts and economic pain for millions across the world. Stil...

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

Synopsis A Times and Telegraph Book of the Year. A Sunday Times Bestseller. Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Where is it easier to ...

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

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

Synopsis Subtitled : Brexit & The Politics of Pain. With a New Afterword : Amity Island: The Unsettling of a Nation. A fierce, mordantly funn...

Synopsis Notes from a Small Island & Notes from a Big Country. Notes from a Small Island. In 1995 Bill Bryson got into his car and took a weeks...

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 Subtitled : Selected Journalism & Other Writings. First collected in this volume 2014. Edited with an introduction by Peter Davison. G...

Synopsis In the summer of 1940, the future of Britain and the free world depended on the morale and skill of the young men of Fighter Command. Th...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Extraordinary Birth & Troubled Life of The BBC. Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian's chief culture writer, steps behind...

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

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 'As one of the last remaining survivors of the Great Depression and the Second World War, I will not go gently into that good night. I wan...

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 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 Winner - The Orwell Prize 2018. People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey aka Lo...

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