Greenwich - The Place Where Days Begin & End by Charles Jennings
$10.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
St Kilda - Church, Visitors and 'natives' by Michael Robson
$35.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Dulwich College - A History, 1616-2008 by Jan Piggott; Graham Able; Allan Ronald; Terry Walsh
$35.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Domesday - A Search for the Roots of England by Michael Wood
$14.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) In dramatic and narrative power, Virgil's "Aeneid" is the equal of its great Homeric predecessors, "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." It surpasses them, however, in the intense sympathy it displays for its human actors-a sympathy that makes events such as Aeneas's escape from ...Show more
Begat - The King James Bible & the English Language by David Crystal
$16.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: near fine
What do the following have in common? Let there be light - A fly in the ointment - A rod of iron - New wine in old bottles Lick the dust - How are the mighty fallen - Kick against the pricks - Wheels within wheels They are all in the King James Bible. This astonishing book "has contributed far more to E ...Show more
Victoria & Abdul - The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant by Shrabani Basu
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Operation Trojan Horse: The true story behind the most shocking government cover-up of the last thirty years by DAVIS, STEPHEN
$16.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: near fine
**Soon to be a major TV drama** The true story behind the secret of Flight 149 and the most shocking government cover-up of the last thirty years. On 1 August, 1990, British Airways Flight 149 departed from Heathrow airport, destined for Kuala Lumpur. It never made it there, and neither did its nearly 4 ...Show more
The Criminal Conversation of Mrs. Norton Victorian Englands scandal of the Century and the Fallen Socialite Who Changed Womens Lives Forever by Diane Atkinson
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Westminster, London, June 22, 1836. Crowds are gathering at the Court of Common Pleas. On trial is Caroline Sheridan Norton, a beautiful and clever young woman who had been maneuvered into marrying the Honorable George Norton when she was just nineteen. Ten years older, he is a dull, violent, and contro ...Show more
The Fearless Benjamin Lay - The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist by Marcus Rediker
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular man-Benjamin Lay (1682-1759)-a Quaker dwarf who demanded the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. Mocked by his contemporaries, Lay was a visionary who practiced the ideals ...Show more
Power and Glory - Jacobean England and the Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson
$20.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
The Shadow of the Guillotine - Britain and the French Revolution by David Bindman
$16.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good