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Jacobite Spy Wars by Hugh Douglas Publisher Comments The Jacobite story was one of history's longest-running spy sagas. Adherents of the exiled branch of the house of Stuart after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the Jacobites sought the restoration of James II. In Jacobite Spy Wars, Douglas untangles the... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $14.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list World of Samuel Pepys Passages From The by Samuel Pepys Synopsis This anthology provides extracts from Samuel Pepys' "Diary", with passages collected by subject and presented as continuous narrative, thus rendering the stories themselves readable without interruption. The book should prove a useful introduction or... (read more) Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Disraeli: A Picture of the Victorian Age by Andre Maurois Publisher Comments A vivid, fascinating biography of the former British prime minister and Victorian England, written by the celebrated French author.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $5.13 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson by Paula Byrne Publisher Comments This thoroughly engaging and richly researched book presents a compelling portrait of Mary Robinson–darling of the London stage, mistress to the most powerful men in England, feminist thinker, and bestselling author, described by Samuel Taylor... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Permanent Londoners: An Illustrated, Biographical Guide To the Cemeteries of London by Judi Culbertson and Tom Randall Publisher Comments A fascinating study of the cathedrals, churchyards and cemeteries of London, and the most famous characters who rest therein.... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire by Susan Ronald Publisher Comments Extravagant, whimsical, and hot-tempered, Elizabeth was the epitome of power, both feared and admired by her enemies. Dubbed the "pirate queen" by the Vatican and Spain's Philip II, she employed a network of daring merchants, brazen adventurers... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bad Blood: A Memoir by Lorna Sage Publisher Comments Blood trickles down through every generation, seeps into every marriage. An international bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Biography Award, Bad Blood is a tragicomic memoir of one woman's escape from a claustrophobic childhood in post-World War II... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Royal Duty: Updated with New Material by Paul Burrell Publisher Comments The #1 "New York Times" bestselling portrait of Princess Diana by her trusted butler, who reveals intimate details of a life spent among the royal family, arrives in this paperback edition that features previously unseen photographs.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $3.25 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Patriotism, Power, and Print: National Consciousness in Tudor England by Gillian E Brennan Book News Annotation The nature of English patriotism during the 16th century, its modes of cultural expression, and its use in political and religious propaganda are here investigated by Brennan (history, St. Helens College, Merseyside). She considers such aspects as... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Royal Survivor: The Life of Charles II by Stephen Coote Synopsis Biographer Stephen Coote profiles England's Charles II, an extraordinarily shrewd man who outlasted his enemies to save the monarchy, even as forces were forming that would make England a democracy. 16-page photo insert.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $4.24 (Used - Hardcover) 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   The Longest Night: The Bombing of London on May 10, 1941 by Gavin Mortimer Publisher Comments Drawing upon eyewitness accounts, Mortimer delivers the first in-depth account of the World War II air raid--London, May 10, 1941--that almost defeated England.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Captives: The Story of Britain's Pursuit of Empire and How Its Soldiers and Civilians Were Held Captive by the Dream of Global S by Linda Colley Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-424) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bad Blood a Memoir by Lorna Sage Publisher Comments Lorna Sage's adventure in autobiography is a searing and funny anatomy of three marriages that brings to life her girlhood in postwar provincial Britain. Her early childhood was dominated by her brilliant, bitter grandfather, a drinker, a womanizer, a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list J. Anthony Froude: The Last Undiscovered Great Victorian by Julia Markus Publisher Comments An acclaimed biographer delivers an illuminating portrait of the brilliant, tortured, and controversial James Anthony Froude, the quintessential Victorian, father of modern biography, historian, diplomat, and prodigal son.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Groovy Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Fraser by Harriet Vyner Synopsis Arrested for possession of drugs with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in the infamous 1967 Redlands bust, Robert Fraser embodied many of the elements that made up Swinging London in the 1960s: pop music, fashion, drugs, art, and cinema. A trendsetter... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Politics and Power in the UK by Richard Heffernan Publisher Comments This book critically examines the key practices of politics and power in the UK today. The focus is on continuity and change in the dynamics of power, participation and accountability.... (read more) List Price $89.00 Your price $44.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage by Stephen Budiansky Publisher Comments How an ingenious Elizabethan courtier invented modern espionage. Sir Francis Walsingham's official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was England's first spymaster. A ruthless, fiercely... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ladies in Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day by Anne Somerset Publisher Comments Far from just being servants or decorative accessories in court, ladies-in-waiting competed for real positions of power. Many achieved both great success and great notoriety. Lucy, Countess of Carlisle, for instance, succeeded in acquiring the confidence... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Great, Silly Grin by Humphrey Carpenter Publisher Comments A vibrant history of the British satire explosion of the early 1960s and its lasting influence on comedy.. A Great, Silly Grin opens at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival, where a staggeringly inspired satirical revue called Beyond the Fringe startled a public... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Splendid Splendid :Willie Whitelaw by Mark Garnett Publisher Comments The first - and authorised - biography of Willie Whitelaw, one of Britain's most popular post-War politicians. During a career lasting half a century, he left friends everywhere - among allies as well as opponents, officials who worked with him, and the... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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