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
The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution by Christopher Hill
$16.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good-very good
The translation of the Bible into English in the 16th century was one of the most important events in English history. Previously, the sacred text had been accessible only to a tiny minority, now anybody could read or listen to it.
The Virgin Queen - Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age by Christopher Hibbert
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
An intimate portrait of history's most fascinating monarchA genius, a beauty, a leader, and a manipulator. Elizabeth I has fascinated and enthralled history buffs and Anglophiles for centuries. The era that bears her name was one of the most exciting and dazzling in England's history. Christopher Hibber ...Show more
Earls Of Paradise - England & the Dream of Perfection by Adam Nicolson
$25.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: near fine
A fascinating portrait from award-winning author, Adam Nicolson, of a family, a portrait, and a quarrel with a king that would tear that family apart. 'Et in Arcadia Ego--I too am in Arcadia' Was our country once a better place? Has modernisation destroyed as much as it has improved? And can we see in ...Show more