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Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy by Paul Thomas Murphy
$20.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
During her long reign, Queen Victoria was the target of no fewer than eight assassination attempts. In seven of these cases her life was saved by poor marksmanship or misfiring weaponry, but one assailant managed to strike her with a finely wrought cane. Remarkably, all eight of her attackers lived to t ...Show more
Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Happened by Andrew Marr
$20.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE covers the history of British expansion overseas from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Narrative and analysis are interwoven with revealing eyewitness quotation to provide keen insight into the minds of those involved in conquering, settling and ruling th ...Show more
Lights Out for the Territory - 9 Excursions in the Secret History of London by Ian Sinclair; Marc Atkins (Illustrator)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
This is a record of long journeys on foot, from Hackney to Chingford and down to the river, around the City in its ring of steel, and through the heart of Westminster, Lambeth and Millbank.
Noblesse Obilge - An enquiry into the identifiable characteristics of the English aristocracy by Nancy Mitford
$6.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good
Night Haunts - A journey through the London night by Sukhdev Sandhu
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
London at night, from Shakespeare's time to Dickens to Jack the Ripper, was always seen as a lawless orgy of depravity and pestilence, teeming with rogues and bandits. But is it now as bland and unthreatening as any new town? Sukhdev Sandhu journeys across London to find out whether the London night rea ...Show more
The Pax Britannica Trilogy by James Morris
$25.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good
A sharp focus snapshot of Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo Affair. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social rev ...Show more
The King's Speech by Mark Logue
$10.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed 'The Quack who saved a King'. Logue ...Show more
Blair's Wars by John Kampfner
$10.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
Through first-hand interviews with the main players, Blair's Wars describes how the Prime Minister took Britain to war five times in six years. When first published, it created a sensation across government and around the world. Now updated with new revelations, it is the dispassionate yet devastating s ...Show more
George VI by Sarah Bradford
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
The definitive biography of George VI, the hero of The King's Speech George VI reigned through taxing times. Acceding to the throne upon his brother's abdication, he was immediately confronted with the turmoil in European politics leading up to the Second World War, then the War itself, followed by a pe ...Show more
Scotland's Empire 1600-1815 by T.M. Devine
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
A dazzling account of Scotland's role in the world by Scotland's bestselling historian. The Scots had an enormous impact on the global development of the British Empire as emigrants, soldiers, merchants and colonial administrators. Scotland's Empire provides a comprehensive examination of their cru ...Show more