Second Hand Books (Condition - Very Good)

Synopsis Subtitled : The Life of a Roman Town. Winner of The Wolfson History Prize 2008. The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius...

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

Synopsis In this magnificent vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Ita...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Left Bank World of Shakespeare & Co. 'Shakespeare and Company' in Paris is one of the world's most famous bookshops....

Synopsis Subtitled : The Vikings From Scandinavia to The Silk Roads. A Sunday Times Bestseller & The Times History Book of The Year 2021. Fol...

Synopsis Istanbul is a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan P...

Synopsis What is Europe? Firstly, of course, it is a continent made up of countless disparate peoples, races and nations, and governed by different...

Synopsis Subtitled : Venice in The 19th Century. An obligatory stop on the Grand Tour for any cultured Englishman (and, later, Americans), Venice l...

Synopsis Subtitled : A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People. Winston Churchill famously described Russia as 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery...

Synopsis Italian Hours is a book of travel writing by Henry James first published in 1909. The book collected essays that James had written over ne...

Synopsis Stephen Clarke takes a penetrating look into those murky depths, guiding us through all the times when Britain and France have been at war...

Synopsis The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the ...

Synopsis For two and half thousand years the ancient Celts have continued to fascinate all who have come into contact with them. The archetypal `b...

Synopsis Costa Book of The Year 2018. A Sunday Times Paperback of The Year 2019. The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland dur...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Great War & The Twentieth Century. The First World War shaped the 20th Century at home and abroad, through the widenin...

Synopsis At Waterloo, some 70,000 men under Napoleon and an equal number under Wellington faced one another in a titanic battle. Alessandro Barbero...

Synopsis Chapters : Cosmogony, The Gods, Religious Customs, The Heroes. 250 glossy full colour pages with many illustrations and pictures. Very inf...