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Diana: 1961-1997 Her True Story by Andrew Morton Publisher Comments The sudden and tragic death of Princess Diana has caused the entire world to reflect on how much this singular woman meant to us all. From her fairy-tale courtship, her wedding to Prince Charles, and the birth of her two wonderful boys to the stunning... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nelson: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert Publisher Comments In this coloful, absorbing tale of Nelson’s life on and off the high seas, Hibbert illuminates the admiral’s personality, his personal and political friendships, his relationship with Sir William Hamilton, and his passionate love affair with... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Court Lady and Country Wife: Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England by Lita Ros Betcherman Publisher Comments The lives of two dazzling aristocratic sisters, Lucy and Dorothy Percy, present a perfect window into the world of political unrest and social intrigue in seventeenth-century English society. The sisters' breeding, beauty, and cunning made them among the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization by Jill H Casid Publisher Comments Planting and transplanting, seeding and reshaping--the landscaping practices that emerged in the eighteenth century--are inextricable from the contested terrain of empire within which they operated. From the plantations of the "nabobs" to the island... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor by Penny Junor Publisher Comments The House of Windsor is a big business, though one with more ups and downs than the stock market. Prince Philip calls it "The Firm," and all the royal executives and their powerful associates are supposed to make every effort to avoid even a hint of... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Elizabeth the Great by Elizabeth Jenkins Synopsis This biography illuminates in great detail the personal and private life of Elizabeth I, placing the lives of the Queen and her court within the historical context of 16th-century Britain.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Diana :the secret years by Simone Simmons Publisher Comments Diana met Simone Simmons in 1993 at the Hale Clinic, where Simone worked as a healer. Their relationship blossomed into a close friendship as Simone encouraged Diana to live "a normal life". They spent long evenings at Kensington Palace talking, walked... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fragile Land: The State of the Scottish Environment by Auslan Cramb Synopsis Fragile Land describes the challenges facing Scotland's decision-makers -- and every individual. The book is a mini-encyclopedia of environmental facts and figures with case studies and back-up material from leading scientists and academics, describing... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $5.83 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Thames by Jonathan Schneer Publisher Comments England's great river through the ages.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Stand Before Your God: An American Schoolboy in England by Paul Watkins Publisher Comments At the age of seven, Paul Watkins was roughly transplanted from his home in Rhode Island to England's Dragon School. He was greeted by a delegation of bullies who, in time, would become his friends and whose rules would become his own. For at Dragon, and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Great Britain on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   After Diana: Irreverent Elegies by Mandy Merck Publisher Comments Leading cultural critics dissect the enormous welter of words and images to determine what can be made of this extraordinary response to the princess's death. For those perplexed by the events surrounding Diana's death, this book seeks to provide some... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $3.53 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Power & Place the Political Consequences by Simon Heffer Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 310-312) and index.... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Poverty in Britain, 1900-1965 by Ian Gazeley Publisher Comments Ian Gazeley's comprehensive study examines changes in the definition and measurement of poverty in Britain during the first 60 years of the 20th century. Commencing with Rowntree's social survey of York in 1899 and ending with Abel-Smith and Townsend's... (read more) List Price $99.95 Your price $44.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Duke Hamilton is Dead!: A Story of Aristocratic Life and Death in Stuart Britain by Victor Stater Publisher Comments On the morning of November 15, 1712, the fourth Baron Mohun and the fourth Duke of Hamilton met in Hyde Park. In a flurry of brutal swordplay both fell mortally wounded. Mohun and Hamilton had argued over money and stood at opposite ends of a bitterly... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Evil Empire: 101 Ways That Britain Ruined the World by Steven A Grasse Publisher Comments They invented slums. They invented child labor. They put Saddam Hussein in power. They burned Joan of Arc at the stake, and they enslaved the globe to get their tea fix. We're talking about England, of course, and the terrible evils they've set loose on... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Scotland's Parliament: Triumph and Disaster by Brian Taylor Publisher Comments Taylor has spoken--on and off the record--to all the key players in Scotland's developing political drama. He tells the inside story of Scotland's Parliament--the drama, the horse-trading and the gossip--as well as offering cool, dispassionate analysis.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $17.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Social History of the Domestic Chaplain by William Gibson Book News Annotation A reconstruction of the secular and religious duties of domestic chaplains ministering to the nobility and gentry from 1530 to 1840. The historical study describes the status of chaplains in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, their rise in status after... (read more) Your price $23.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list James Herriot's Yorkshire: A Guided Tour with the Beloved Veterinarian Through the Land of All Creatures Great and Small and Every Living Thing, by James Herriot Publisher Comments Here is James Herriot's best-selling personal tour through the beautiful, almost magical land of All Creatures Great and Small and his new volume of memoirs, Every Living Thing. The gorgeous northern English countryside, depicted so memorably in James... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Charleston: Past & Present by Quentin Bell Publisher Comments An illustrated guide to Charleston, the Sussex farmhouse where Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant provided a gathering place for the Bloomsbury group, which included such literary and artistic luminaries as E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, and Virginia Woolf.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The English Experience: A Survey of English History from Earliest Times to the End of Empire by John Bowle Synopsis In this book, John Bowle considers that the undoubted historical success of England has been a triumph, not of any commitment to abstract political principles, but rather to the absence of it; to a pragmatism maintained through the centuries within and... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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