Second Hand Books

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 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 From Cape Wrath to Finisterre is a travelogue and an homage to Celtic lands and waters, from their northern to their south-western landf...

Synopsis Subtitled : A Celebration of People & Trees. Beech, birch, ash, sycamore, oak. Maple, mango, hawthorn, cherry. Scots pine and Japane...

Synopsis A Sunday Times Book of the Year. A Times Book of the Year.A Guardian Book of the Year. A Telegraph Book of the Year. Hero or villain?Gen...

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 Subtitled : The History of Christianity in Britain & Ireland through Twenty Buildings. Christianity has been central to the lives of...

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 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 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 As a society, we are captivated by policing; we watch police procedurals and fly-on-the-wall documentaries and absorb the headlines on t...

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