Browse by category
Boudica: Dreaming the Hound by Manda Scott; Philip Stevens (Read by); Jerome Flynn (Read by); Liza Goddard (Read by)
$49.95 AUD
Category: British | Series: Boudica Ser.
AD 57: much of Britannia has been under Roman occupation for over ten years and tribes pay costly tithes to the Emperor in return for the right to continue living on their own lands.On the sacred isle of Mona, the Boudica or 'Bringer of Victory' as Breaca has long been hailed, now knows for certain that ...Show more
Partition Voices - Untold British Stories by Kavita Puri
$22.99 AUD
Category: British
'The most humane account of partition I've read ... We need a candid conversation about our past and this is an essential starting point' Nikesh Shukla, Observer'The book of 2019 that opened my eyes more than anything else. Seminal work, beautifully told' Emily MaitlisThe division of the Indian subconti ...Show more
When Britain Saved the West: The Story of 1940 by Robin Prior
$52.95 AUD
Category: British
From the comfortable distance of seven decades, it is quite easy to view the victory of the Allies over Hitler's Germany as inevitable. But in 1940 Great Britain's defeat loomed perilously close, and no other nation stepped up to confront the Nazi threat. In this cogently argued book, Robin Prior delves ...Show more
Viceroys: The Creation of the British by Christopher Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: British
Viceroys is the story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs. It is also the story of how the modern British identity was established. British history from the Hundred Years War onwards gives an impression of how the British were seen. It is a misconce ...Show more
Mary, Queen of Scots: A Study in Failure by Jenny Wormald; Anna Groundwater (Foreword by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: British | Series: The\Stewart Dynasty in Scotland Ser.
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history's romantically tragic figures. Devious, naïve, beautiful and sexually voracious, often highly principled, she secured the Scottish throne and bolstered the position of the Catholic Church in Scotland. Her plotting, including probable ...Show more
Histories of the Unexpected: The Tudors by Sam Willis; James Daybell
$19.99 AUD
Category: British | Series: Histories of the Unexpected Ser.
In this new series of short books under the Histories of the Unexpected brand, Sam Willis and James Daybell take on some of greatest historical subjects but in an entirely unexpected way.
A History of Britain - Volume 1 (At the Edge of the World, 3000 BC-AD 1603) by Simon Schama
$49.95 AUD
Category: British
At the Edge of the World: 3000BC-AD1603 In the first of SchamaÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs epic trilogy, he takes us back to the beginnings of British history and the creation of a national identity. The great and wicked are all he ...Show more
A People's History of Scotland by Chris Bambery
$22.99 AUD
Category: British
Should the people of Scotland end 411 years of British rule and become an independent country? Chris Bambery, a leading figure in the Scottish Independence campaign, seizes the opportunity to delve into the real and oft-forgotten history of Scotland. A People's History of Scotland is a corrective to the ...Show more
A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3000BC-AD1603 by Simon Schama
$39.95 AUD
Category: British | Reading Level: very good
'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of this, the first book in his three-volume journey into Britain's past. 'Disruption as much as persistence is its proper subject. So although the great theme of British history seen from the twentieth century is endurance ...Show more
The Favourite FTI by Ophelia Field
$22.99 AUD
Category: British
The scandalous true history of the duchess who became her beloved queen's blackmailer, published in a new and updated edition to coincide with the major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz with Olivia Colman and Emma Stone. Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, was as glamorous as she was controver ...Show more
Oh Happy Day by Carmen Callil
$32.99 AUD
Category: British
Carmen Callil explores her roots in a book that is a miracle of research and whose writing is fuelled by righteous anger - a story of Empire, migration and the poverty and injustice of nineteenth-century England In this remarkable book, Carmen Callil discovers the story of her British ancestors, beginn ...Show more
The Tudors by Richard Rex
$49.95 AUD
Category: British
An intimate history of England's most infamous royal family. The Tudor Age began in August 1485 when Henry Tudor landed with 2000 men at Milford Haven intent on snatching the English throne from Richard III. For more than a hundred years England was to be dominated by the personalities of the five Tudor ...Show more
