Barraud - The Story of a Family by E. M. Barraud

$60.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

Bede's Ecclesiastical History and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by J. A. Giles (ed.)

$65.00 NZD

Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good-very good

History of the English Church and People by Bede

$35.00 NZD

Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good

Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson

$40.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine

Folk-Tales of the British Isles by Kevin Crossley-Holland

$25.00 NZD

Category: Mythology | Reading Level: very good

City of Sin: London and Its Vices by Catharine Arnold

$12.00 NZD

Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good

1914: Fight the Good Fight: Britain, the Army and the Coming of the First World War by Allan Mallinson

$25.00 NZD

Category: World War I | Reading Level: very good

'No part of the Great War compares in interest with its opening', wrote Churchill. 'The measured, silent drawing together of gigantic forces, the uncertainty of their movements and positions, the number of unknown and unknowable facts made the first collision a drama never surpassed...In fact the War wa s decided in the first twenty days of fighting, and all that happened afterwards consisted in battles which, however formidable and devastating, were but desperate and vain appeals against the decision of fate. 'One of Britain's foremost military historians has written a significant new history of the origins - and the opening first few weeks fighting - of what would become known as 'the war to end all wars'. Intensely researched and convincingly argued, Allan Mallinson explores and explains the grand strategic shift that occurred in the century before the war, the British Army's regeneration after its drubbings in its fight against the Boer, its almost calamitous experience of the first twenty days' fighting in Flanders, and the point at which the British Expeditionary Force - the 'Old Contemptibles' - took up the pick and the spade in the middle of September 1914, changing the war from one of movement into the now familiar image of the trenches and the coming of the Territorials, Kitchener's 'Pals', and ultimately the conscripts - and of course the poets. And with them, at sense of pity and of futility. An ex-infantry and -cavalry officer, Mallinson brings his experience as a professional soldier to bear on the individuals, circumstances and events and the result is a vivid, compelling new history of the beginnings of the conflict - and one that speculates - tantalizingly - on what might have been... ...Show more

Bertie: A Life of Edward VII by Jane Ridley

$12.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: good

This is the Sunday Times bestseller shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize. Edward VII, who gave his name to the Edwardian era but was always known as Bertie, was fifty-nine when he finally came to power and ushered out the Victorian age. The eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Bertie was bul lied by both his parents. Denied any proper responsibilities, the heir to the throne spent his time eating (which earned him the nickname 'Tum Tum'), pursuing women (which Queen Victoria held to be the reason for Albert's early demise), gambling, going to house parties and race meetings, and shooting pheasants. His arranged marriage to the stunning Danish princess Alexandra gave him access to the European dynastic network; but his name was linked with many beauties, including Lillie Langtry and Winston Churchill's mother. This magnificent new biography provides new insight into the playboy prince while painting a vivid portrait of the age in all its excess and eccentricity. ...Show more

Thomas Cranmer A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch

$18.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

Dominions Diary - The Letters of E.J. Harding 1913-1916 by E. J. Harding; Stephen Constantine (Commentaries by)

$25.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Series: Ryburn Archive Editions Ser. | Reading Level: very good

Select Views of Glasgow and its Environs engraved by Joseph Swan from drawings by Mr. J Fleming and Mr. J. Knox with historical & descriptive illustrations and an introductory sketch of the progress of the city by J. M. Leighton by Joseph Swan and J. M. Leighton

$240.00 NZD

Category: rare & collectable | Reading Level: good-very good

de Maisse: A Journal of all that was accomplished by Monsieur de Maisse Ambassador in England from King Henri IV to Queen Elizabeth Anno Domini 1597 by Andre Hurault Sieur de Maisse

$45.00 NZD

Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good

Translated by G. B. Harrison and R. A. Jones