Great Britain
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Shakespeare’s Book: The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare
$35.00 Read moreThe never-before-told story of how the makers of The First Folio created Shakespeare as we know him today.
2023 marks the 400-year anniversary of the publication of Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies,- Author: Laoutaris, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363262
- Language: English
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The Road to Wigan Pier
$18.99 Add to cartBefore he authored the dystopian 1984 and the allegorical Animal Farm, George Orwell was a journalist, reporting on England’s working class — an investigation that led him to examine democratic soci… [more below]
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 18 1972
- ISBN10: 0156767503
- Language: English
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Landmarks
$19.00 Add to cartFrom Robert Macfarlane, the acclaimed author of The Old Ways and Underland–a celebration of the language of landscape and the power of words to shape our sense of place
For years now, the British wr- Series: Landscapes #4
- Author: MacFarlane, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0241967872
- Language: English
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Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilism
Derek Parfit (1942-2017) is the- Author: Edmonds, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691225230
- Language: English
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Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year
$18.00 Read moreInterweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seasons in medieval England–now in paperback.
Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey thro- Author: Parker, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147735
- Language: English
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All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia
$29.99 Read moreFrom the “deliriously clever” (Boston Globe) Simon Garfield, New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type, comes the wild and fascinating story of the encyclopedia, from Ancient Greece to the pre
- Author: Garfield, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063292270
- Language: English
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DK Eyewitness Top 10 London
$14.99 Read moreOne of the world’s most captivating metropolises, London is a cultural colossus-renowned for its pulsating theater district, museums, monuments, and fabulous array of restaurants and bars. Your DK Eye
- Series: Pocket Travel Guide
- Author: Dk Eyewitness
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 0241621054
- Language: English
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
$25.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
One of The Wall Street Journal‘s Ten Best Books of 2018
One of The Economist‘s Best Books of 2018
One of The New York Times‘s Notable Books of 2018 “Unarguably the best single-- Author: Roberts, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1152
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1101981008
- Language: English
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League of Dragons: Book Nine of Temeraire
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education comes the ninth and final volume of the Temeraire series, as the Napoleonic Wars draw to a close and the final battles play out.
“An ex- Series: Temeraire
- Author: Novik, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0593359623
- Language: English
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The British Cookbook: Authentic Home Cooking Recipes from England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland
$54.95 Add to cart‘Oh what a perfect book. It makes me want to take a year off and stand in a kitchen, all day every day trying to bring these wonderful dishes to life… without a hint of jingoistic grandstanding it r
- Author: Mervis, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1838665285
- Language: English
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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
$20.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of The Wild Places and Underland examines the subtle ways we are shaped by the landscapes through which we move
Chosen by Slate as one of the 50 best nonfiction books of the past- Series: Landscapes #3
- Author: MacFarlane, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0147509793
- Language: English
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Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire
$35.00 Add to cartA profound and ground-breaking approach to one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century.
Traditional interpretation- Author: Das, Nandini
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 4, 2023
- ISBN10: 163936322X
- Language: English
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Assembly
$15.99 Add to cartA NATALIE PORTMAN BOOK CLUB PICK
FINALIST FOR THE 2022 LA TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION. “The electrifying fiction debut that has been called ‘a modern Mrs. Dalloway.'”–THE ATLANTIC- Author: Brown, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0316268364
- Language: English
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Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
$40.00 Add to cartDiscover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England–perfect for re
- Author: Thomson, Keith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 10, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316703613
- Language: English
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The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
$17.00 Read moreIn this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shoc
- Series: Canons #6
- Author: Shepherd, Nan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 18, 2011
- ISBN10: 0857861832
- Language: English
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Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
$35.00 Add to cart“A landmark book…[a] bold reframing of the history of the British Empire.”
An award-winning historian places the corporation–more than the Crown–at the heart of B
–Caroline Elkins, Foreign Affairs- Author: Stern, Philip J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0674988124
- Language: English
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RMS Queen Mary: The World’s Favourite Liner
$75.00 Read moreProbably the most famous, and certainly one of the best-loved ships in the world, the Cunard transatlantic liner RMS Queen Mary has now been preserved at Long Beach, California as a floating hotel and
- Author: Ellery, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1399053051
- Language: English
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The Royal Wardrobe
$28.99 Add to cart‘I loved this book!’ – Alison Weir
‘[A] lively, gossipy forage through royal wardrobes’ – Daily Mail
‘A sparkling history’ – Dr Kate Strasdin Peek into the wardrobes of history’s most fashionable royal- Author: Harte, Rosie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1472297466
- Language: English
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A Fine Romance: Falling in Love with the English Countryside
$28.95 Add to cartA thrilling ocean voyage on the Queen Mary 2 from New York City to Southampton culminating in a two-month ramble through the charming backroads and small villages of the pastoral English countryside i… [more below]
- Author: Branch, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 30 2017
- ISBN10: 0996044043
- Language: English
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Maureen: A Harold Fry Novel
$17.00 Add to cart“A touching tale about heartbreak and healing . . . If you loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fryand The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, make time to read this finale to the trilogy.”–Good … [more below]
- Author: Joyce, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 7, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593446429
- Language: English
