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  • The Real Bridgerton

    by Catherine Curzon ...
    As millions of viewers across the globe thrill to the assembly room exploits of the Bridgerton family and wait with bated breath for Lady Whistledown’s latest dispatch from Almack’s, scandal has never been so delicious. In a world where appearances were everything and gossip was currency, everyone had their price. From a divorce case that hinged on a public demonstration of masturbation to the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Serpent Sword

    the first thrilling adventure in the Bernicia Chronicles featuring an Anglo-Saxon warrior seeking vengeance for his murdered kin

    by Matthew Harffy ...
    Series Book 1 - The Bernicia Chronicles
    THE NEW BERNICIA CHRONICLES NOVEL FROM MATTHEW HARFFY, SHADOWS OF THE SLAIN, AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW!The first thrilling instalment in the Bernicia Chronicles. Adventure and agony, bloodshed and burning hatreds collide in the story of mighty young Anglo-Saxon warrior Beobrand of Ubbanford.'HISTORICAL FICTION DOESN'T GET MUCH BETTER THAN THIS' ANGUS DONALDAD 633. Beobrand is a young man wi... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Born Fighting

    How the Scots-Irish Shaped America

    by Jim Webb ...
    In his first work of nonfiction, bestselling novelist James Webb tells the epic story of the Scots-Irish, a people whose lives and worldview were dictated by resistance, conflict, and struggle, and who, in turn, profoundly influenced the social, political, and cultural landscape of America from its beginnings through the present day.More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Military Low-Level Flying From F-4 Phantom to F-35 Lightning II

    A Pictorial Display of Low Flying in Cumbria and Beyond

    by Scott Rathbone ...
    "The author and his friends have been able to capture some truly remarkable images of modern military aircraft engaged in this activity - everything from a glider, to the massive and strange A400 Atlas, to Lockheed Martin F-35s." — Air ClassicsThe United Kingdom has some of the most dramatic landscapes that can be used by pilots to train in the vital skill of low flying. Aircrew preparing for ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wolf of Wessex

    a pulse-pounding Anglo-Saxon historical adventure thriller

    by Matthew Harffy ...
    THE THRILLING NEW BERNICIA CHRONICLES NOVEL FROM MATTHEW HARFFY, SHADOWS OF THE SLAIN, AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW!'Harffy's Dunston is a fantastic creation – old, creaking and misanthropic. The forest is beautifully evoked. A treat of a book' The TimesAD 838. Deep in the forests of Wessex, Dunston's solitary existence is shattered when he stumbles on a mutilated corpse.Accused of the murder, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $3.99 USD

  • London

    A Biography

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKHere are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire, the Blitz. London at all ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Assassin in the Greenwood (Hugh Corbett Mysteries, Book 7)

    A medieval mystery of intrigue, murder and treachery

    by Paul Doherty ...
    Robin Hood and French spies prompt fresh dangers for Hugh Corbett to face...In The Assassin in the Greenwood, the seventh action-packed novel of Paul Doherty's mystery series, medieval sleuth Hugh Corbett is despatched to investigate murder and mystery in Nottingham. Perfect for fans of Ellis Peters and Susanna Gregory.In the summer of 1302 the famous Robin of Locksley, popularly known as Robin ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Secret Agent 666

    Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult

    by Richard B. Spence ...
    Aleister Crowley is best known today as a founding father of modern occultism. His wide, hypnotic eyes peer at us from the cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and his influence can be found everywhere in popular culture.Crowley, also known as the Great Beast, has been the subject of several biographies, some painting him as a misunderstood genius, others as a manipulative ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Graves Are Walking

    The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People

    by John Kelly ...
    “Though the story of the potato famine has been told before, it’s never been as thoroughly reported or as hauntingly told.” —New York PostIt started in 1845 and before it was over more than one million men, women, and children would die and another two million would flee the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was the worst disaster in the nineteenth century—it ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Lady Queen

    The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily

    by Nancy Goldstone ...
    The riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial -- and a reign as triumphant as any in the Middle Ages.On March 15, 1348, twenty-two-year-old Joanna I, Queen of Naples, stood trial for the murder of her husband before the Pope and his court in Avignon. Determined to defend herself, Joanna won her acquittal against overwhelming odds. Victorious, she returned to Naples ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • The Wager

    A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

    by David Grann ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.A Best Book of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Imperial Wine

    How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World

    by Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre ...
    A fascinating and approachable deep dive into the colonial roots of the global wine industry.Imperial Wine is a bold, rigorous history of Britain’s surprising role in creating the wine industries of Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand. Here, historian Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre bridges the genres of global commodity history and imperial history, presenting provocative new research in an ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Wide Wide Sea

    Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

    by Hampton Sides ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “thrilling and superbly crafted” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year“In this masterly history, Sides tracks the 18th ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sex and Sexuality in Victorian Britain

    by Violet Fenn ...
    “Dull this book is not, and it gives an insight into the many scandals not spoken about in polite Victorian drawing rooms.” —Glasgow **& West of Scotland Family History S**ocietyPeek beneath the bedsheets of nineteenth-century Britain in this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality during the reign of Queen Victoria. It examines the prevailing attitudes towards male and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Adrift

    A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Who Lived to Tell about It

    by Brian Murphy ...
    A story of tragedy at sea where every desperate act meant life or deathThe small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered. As four lifeboats drifted into the fog and icy water, never to be heard from ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • A Little History of Dublin

    by Trevor White ...
    Irish village. Viking town. English city. Proud European capital.A Little History of Dublin is a high-speed history of life in the Irish capital. The key events are explained in short, digestible chapters, and the reader can expect to discover the complete history of Dublin in the time it takes to walk from Dollymount to Dalkey.Incident, humour and humanity are privileged throughout this history ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Those Wild Wyndhams

    Three Sisters at the Heart of Power

    by Claudia Renton ...
    The three dazzlingly beautiful, wildly rich Wyndham sisters, part of the four hundred families that made up Britain's ruling class, at the center of cultural and political life in late-Victorian/Edwardian Britain. Here are their complex, idiosyncratic lives; their opulent, privileged world; their romantic, roiling age.They were confidantes to British prime ministers, poets, writers, and artists, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • London Lives

    Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690–1800

    by Tim Hitchcock, Robert Shoemaker ...
    London Lives is a fascinating new study which exposes, for the first time, the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-century thieves, paupers, prostitutes and highwaymen. It charts the experiences of hundreds of thousands of Londoners who found themselves submerged in poverty or prosecuted for crime, and surveys their responses to illustrate the extent to which plebeian Londoners influenced the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Dirty Old London

    The Victorian Fight Against Filth

    by Lee Jackson ...
    In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • A History of Wales

    by John Davies ...
    Stretching from the Ice Ages to the present day, this masterful account traces the political, social and cultural history of the land that has come to be called Wales.Spanning prehistoric hill forts and Roman ruins to the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution and the series of strikes by Welsh miners in the late twentieth century, this is the definitive history of an enduring people: a unique and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Gentleman Jack (Movie Tie-In)

    The Real Anne Lister

    by Anne Choma ...
    In 1834, Anne Lister made history by celebrating and recording the first ever known marriage to another woman. Now the basis for the HBO series Gentleman Jack, this is her remarkable, true story.Anne Lister was extraordinary. Fearless, charismatic and determined to explore her lesbian sexuality, she forged her own path in a society that had no language to define her. She was a landowner, an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Celts

    by Alice Roberts ...
    'Informed, impeccably researched and written' Neil OliverThe Celts are one of the world's most mysterious ancient people. In this compelling account, Alice Roberts takes us on a journey across Europe, uncovering the truth about this engimatic tribe: their origins, their treasure and their enduring legacy today. What emerges is not a wild people, but a highly sophisticated tribal culture that ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Hundred Years War

    The English in France 1337-1453

    by Desmond Seward ...
    From 1337 to 1453 England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. Though it was a small, poor country, England for most of those "hundred years" won the battles, sacked the towns and castles, and dominated the war. The protagonists of the Hundred Years War are among the most colorful in European history: Edward III, the Black Prince; Henry V, who ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Pandaemonium 1660–1886

    The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers

    by Humphrey Jennings ...
    Collecting texts taken from letters, diaries, literature, scientific journals and reports, Pandæmonium gathers a beguiling narrative as it traces the development of the machine age in Britain.Covering the years between 1660 and 1886, it offers a rich tapestry of human experience, from eyewitness reports of the Luddite Riots and the Peterloo Massacre to more intimate accounts of child labour, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus