The Journal of George Fox - A Revised Edition by george Fox; John L Nickalls (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Reading Level: good-very good
Britannia's Empire by Bill Nasson
$10.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good-very good
More than Shakespeare, more than the invention of the railway, more than fair play, it was Empire which made Britain into Great Britain. By the early twentieth century, that Empire covered around a quarter of the earth's surface, and embraced more than a quarter of its inhabitants, a mass of over five h ...Show more
Dirty Bertie - An English King Made in France by Stephen Clarke
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
This is the entertaining biography of Edward VII and his playboy lifestyle, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. Despite fierce opposition from his mother, Queen Victoria, Edward VII was always passionately in love with France. He had affairs with the m ...Show more
Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Virago Classic Non-Fiction Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the ...Show more
The Yorkshire Coiners - The True Story of the Cragg Vale Gang by Steve Hartley
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
In late eighteenth-century Yorkshire a powerful gang of counterfeiters held the local community in its spell. In a remote valley near Halifax called Cragg Vale, gold coins of the realm were clipped and filed, then returned to circulation, while the extra metal collected was melted down to produce new co ...Show more
Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire by James Morris
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Series: Pax Britannica Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
Roosevelt & Churchill - Men of Secrets by David Stafford
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good-very good
The King's Arcadia - Inigo Jones and the Stuart Court by John Harris; Stephen Orgel; Roy Strong
$15.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
Clarendon's Four Portraits by Edward Hyde Clarendon; Richard Ollard (Editor)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Circus of Dreams - Adventures in the 1980s Literary World
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literature
Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms of setting, subject matter and style, challenging - and almost eclipsing - the Establishment writers of the 1950s. It began w ...Show more
The Royal Marines Barracks and Eastney - A Pictorial History by Andrew Lane
$15.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good