Abbotsford to Zion: The Story of Scottish Place-Names Around the World by Elspeth Wills
$14.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Over the centuries countless Scots have travelled to every conceivable corner of the globe - some to start a new life, others asentrepreneurs, explorers, missionaries, colonial administrators, soldiers and in a multitude of other contexts. This book takes the reader on a journey from the wastes of Antar ...Show more
Ready, Steady, Go! The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London by Shawn Levy
$10.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
It's the summer of 1966... The fundamental old ways: chastity, rationality, harmony, sobriety, even democracy: blasted to nothing or crumbling under siege. The city glows. It echoes. It pulses. It bleeds pastel and fuzzy, spicy, paisley and soft. This is how it's always going to be: smashing clothes, br ...Show more
Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World by Giles Milton
$10.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good
Bestselling author of NATHANIEL'S NUTMEG, Giles Milton takes us on another fascinating and extraordinary historical adventure.
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat Volume 3 by Jan Morris
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. With characteristic balance, this masterpiece of narrative history describes the long retreat and final dissoluti ...Show more
The Double Life of Doctor Lopez: Spies, Shakespeare and the plot to poison Elizabeth I by Dominic Green
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
"It's wonderfully robust, double-dealing stuff, tricked out from original research and coloured by fascinating period detail" The Times
Magna Brittania being A Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain, Volume the Third containing Cornwall by Daniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons
$300.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Series: Magna Brittania | Reading Level: very good
The Queen's Conjuror: The Life and Magic of Dr Dee by Benjamin Woolley
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Based on Dee\\\'s secret diaries which record his experiments with the occult, Woolley\\\'s book tells the story of one man\\\'s struggle to come to terms with the fundamental dichotomy of the scientific age at the point it arose: the choice between ancient wisdom and modern science as the path to truth ...Show more