History & Historical Biography

J. M. Golby / Culture and Society in Britain 1850-1890 (Large Paperback)

 In 1850 Britain was the most prosperous and industrially advanced country in the wolrd. There were those, including the organizers of the Great Exhibition, who saw no reason why Britain should not maintain her dominance as long as the new advances...

Alastair Campbell / The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume Two: Power and the People

 Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they...

Alison Weir / Mary Boleyn : 'The Great and Infamous Whore'

 Sister to Anne Boleyn and seduced by two kings, Mary Boleyn has long been the subject of scandal and myth. Her affair with Henry VIII fuelled the shocking annulment of his marriage to Anne, and Mary is rumoured to have borne his child in secret.In...

Colm McNamee / Robert Bruce : Our Most Valiant Prince, King and Lord

 The life of Robert Bruce is one of the greatest comeback stories in history. Heir and magnate, shrewd politician, briefly 'king of summer' and then a desperate fugitive who nevertheless returned from exile to recover the kingdom he claimed, Bruce...

Hong Ying / Daughter of the River (Hardback)

  A portrait of a young girl growing up in Mao's China. Born into a slum in 1962 during the Great Famine, Hong Ying describes her life, including the mystery which surrounded her early life, her parents, the death of her lover and child and her...

Michael Smith / Station X - The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park

 In 1939, several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, junior military officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley Park. This was to be 'Station X', the Allies'...

Jeremy Seabrook / The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty

  This guide questions conventional thinking about wealth and poverty - is the opposite of poverty really wealth, or is it safety and sufficiency? Drawing on experience of poor people all over the world, the author gives voice to those whose...

Tony Blair / A Journey (Large Paperback)

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Elizabeth Grant / A Highland Lady in France (Large Paperback)

  The early life of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, recorded in her "Memoirs of a Highland Lady", has had an avid readership since the book's first publication in 1898. Less well known, but equally interesting, is this journal describing the...

Mary McAleese / Here's the Story : A Memoir (Hardback)

 The groundbreaking two-term President of Ireland tells the stories of her lifeWhen a young Mary McAleese told a priest that she planned to become a lawyer, the priest dismissed the idea: she knew no one in the law, and she was female. The reality...

Michael Moore / Will They Ever Trust Us Again? : Letters from the War Zone

 Will They Ever Trust Us Again? brings together hundreds of the letters that sent to Michael Moore - author of the international bestseller Stupid White Men - to show the reality beneath the propaganda.He's sparked a furore and turned up the heat by...

Tom Abraham / The Cage

 Tom 'Bud' Abraham was one of the very few Englishmen to serve in Vietnam. As an officer in the 1st Cavalry Division during 1967/8, he saw combat in some of the fiercest encounters of the war. His gallantry earned him a chestful of medals, including...

Molly Ivins / Shrub

 When it comes to reporting on politics, nobody does it smarter or funnier than bestselling author Molly Ivins. In Shrub, Ivins focuses her Texas-size smarts on the biggest politician in her home state: George Walker Bush, or "Shrub," as Ivins has...

Paul Bruce / The Nemesis File

  Paul Bruce was a tough, idealistic young trooper in the SAS when he was dispatched to Northern Ireland. His squad's top-secret mission, code sign "Nemesis" - to execute unarmed IRA suspects in cold blood. Bruce and his squad shot down one...

Wherever You Are: The Military Wives

 From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Two's The Choir, their lives changed forever. Their journey entranced the nation, and their story moved millions.Here the wives tell their individual stories in full for the first time - true...

Antonia Fraser / King Charles II

  A popular biography of the "Merry Monarch" by the author of "Mary Queen of Scots", "The Weaker Vessel" and "Cromwell, Our Chief of Men". Fraser sees Charles as the epitome of the Restoration era, and captures all the vitality of the man and the...

Julia Boyd / Travellers in the Third Reich

 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLERWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret...

Richard Pipes / Russia Under the Old Regime

  This study analyzes the evolution of the Russian state from the 9th century to the 1880s, and its unique role in managing Russian society. The development of Russia was different from that of the rest of Europe. The natural poverty of...

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan / The Glitter and the Gold

 Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in...

Jack Holland / Phoenix: Policing the Shadows (Hardback)

  The revealing story of Ian Phoenix who was head of Northern Ireland's police counter-surveillance unit. His position was so secret that most of his family were unaware of it until after his death.       All of our books are...

Michael Lillis / The Lives of Eliza Lynch (Hardback)

 Her notorious reputation was invented by Paraguay's enemies in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay (who wiped out over ninety per cent of the male population of Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864-70), and by Paraguay's tiny Spanish elite...

Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin

 Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Remarkable and brilliantly researched non-fiction thriller...focussing on...

Robert Baer / See No Evil

 See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of...

Pat Barker / Toby's Room

 From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsThe second novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - a dark and compelling examination of desire, friendship and the horror of war, from one...

Paul OBrien / Shadow Warriors

 In the spring of 1980, the Irish Department of Defence sanctioned the establishment of a new unit within the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) came into being. In the decades that followed, its soldiers have been deployed on...

Colm Toibin / Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know (Hardback)

 'There is something interesting and intriguing to be found on almost every page' Guardian'A father . . . is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses____________________________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his...

David Rooney / GUERRILLA (Hardback)

  Since Man's earliest days there has been conflict and, also from that point, unconventional forms of action where the norm was abandoned and the unorthodox employed. Here, David Rooney selects examples of the men who, for personal or national...

H. Norman Schwarzkopf / It Doesn't Take A Hero (Hardback)

 In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank...

W. B. Marsh / 365 : Your Date with History (Hardback)

  Whether it is major political events like the USA's annexation of Texas (1 March) or incredible discoveries like that of Tutankhamun's tomb (26 November), every event in history happened - of course - on one of 365 days. Pore through history...

Eamonn O'Hara / A French Renaissance? (Large Paperback)

  Seeking a more natural and balanced life for their two young children, in 2010 Eamon and Tanya O'Hara set out on a journey to begin a new life. Rural France seemed to be the answer to all their dreams. However, starting a new life in rural...

Philip Ryan / Leo Varadkar - A Very Modern Taoiseach (Large Paperback)

 The emergence of Leo Varadkar in Irish politics and his election to the post of Taoiseach is a remarkable tale from any perspective. Journalists Philip Ryan and Niall O'Connor tell the inside story of how the son of an Indian immigrant battled...

Robert Fisk / The Age of the Warrior (Large Paperback)

  A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's...

Doris Mary Stenton - English Society in the Early Middle Ages 1066-1307 - Vintage Pelican PB - 1959

A vintage Penguin Pelican , issued as part of the Pelican History of England ( which was an 8 volume chronological set when completed) This is Volume 3 - English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 -1307)  by Doris Mary Stenton.    In...

Eva Schloss / After Auschwitz

 Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her.When Auschwitz was...

Tom Bower / Dangerous Hero (Large Paperback)

 'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph'The most compelling in-depth study so far' GuardianA gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing...

Charles C. Mann / 1491 New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Large Paperback)

  In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian...

Peadar O'Donnell - Salud ! An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068

First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,...

Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East

Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a...

Charles Higham / Howard Hughes

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Roman Krznaric / The Wonderbox

 There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be...

Jared Diamond / Collapse

 From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the...

T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy

  Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane...

Simon Sinek / Start With Why

 Why are some people and organizations more inventive, pioneering and successful than others? And why are they able to repeat their success again and again?Because in business it doesn't matter what you do, it matters why you do it.Steve Jobs, the...

Christopher Andrew / The Defence of the Realm

 'Sensationally good ... A riveting story, the real-life spooks and spies far more compelling than anything you will see on the screen ... history doesn't come more fascinating than this' Evening StandardFor over 100 years, the agents of MI5 have...

Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall

 China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The...

Dale Brown / Silver Tower

  It is 1992 and Silver Tower is America's first permanent space station, used in defence against intercontinental ballistic missiles. As the Middle East war between Iran and Iraq escalates, the Russians and American's are drawn into the first...

Mary O'Rourke / Just Mary (Hardback)

 Although they have become more frequent in recent years, Irish political memoirs are still relatively rare. Even rarer still are political memoirs that still are frank, newsworthy and fun, like this one from Mary O'Rourke.She writes of personal and...

Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback)

 The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,...

Jason O'Toole / Brian Cowen (Large Paperback)

  Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. Despite a high profile at the center of Irish political life for more than twenty years, relatively little is known about our new leader. Just who is Brian Cowen? The story begins in the village of...

Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin (Large Paperback)

 'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Remarkable and brilliantly researched non-fiction thriller...focussing on...

Seamus Mallon / Seamus Mallon (Large Paperback)

  This timely memoir by one of the most prominent Catholic nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland is a primary source for the social and political history of the province, from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s to the 1990s peace...

Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback)

 Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics...