Our Favourite Books
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Femina : The instant Sunday Times bestseller - A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
By: Janina RamirezBinding: Paperback / softbackTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'Revelatory' GUARDIAN'A firecracker somehow captured between two covers' LUCY WORSLEYAn instant bestseller and one of the most celebrated history books of the year, Femina reveals the power and influence of...- £10.99
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Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
By Victoria Finlay (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 528 pages, 16pp colour plus integrated B&W throughoutPublisher: Profile Books LtdISBN: 9781781257074Published: 3 Nov 2022Weight: 418gDimensions: 128 x 199 x 34 (mm) Bestselling author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe in a vibrant exploration of cloth...- £12.99
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How To Read A Church
By Dr Richard Taylor (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 272 pagesPublisher: Ebury PublishingImprint: Rider & CoISBN: 9781846047770Published: 25 Jan 2024Classifications: Architectural structure & design, Religious buildings, Christianity, Christian spirituality & religious experience, Information architectureWeight: 188gDimensions: 197 x 127 x 18 (mm) Churches and cathedrals were...- £10.99
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Hollow Places : An Unusual History of Land and Legend
By: Christopher HadleyBinding: Paperback / softback'Impossible to summarise and delightfully absorbing, Hadley's book is comfortably the most unexpected history book of the year' Sunday Times A luminous journey through a thousand years of folklore and English history. Once upon a time in a Hertfordshire...- £10.99
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Hamnet
By Maggie O'Farrell (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 384 pagesPublisher: Headline Publishing GroupImprint: Tinder PressISBN: 9781472223821Published: 1 Apr 2021Weight: 334gDimensions: 129 x 197 x 37 (mm)- £9.99
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Ravilious & Co : The Pattern of Friendship
By: Alan PowersBinding: Paperback / softbackThe acclaimed biography detailing the lives of the British inter-war artists and designers centred on Ravilious - an enthralling narrative of creative achievement, joy and tragedy. In recent years Eric Ravilious has become recognized as one of the most...- £20.00
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On This Holy Island: A Modern Pilgrimage Across Britain
By Oliver Smith (Author)Format: Hardback 256 pages, 10 black and white interior photosPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCImprint: Bloomsbury ContinuumISBN: 9781399409032Published: 28 Mar 2024Weight: 446gDimensions: 242 x 162 x 29 (mm) Acclaimed travel writer Oliver Smith sets out to radically reframe our idea of ‘pilgrimage’ in...- £20.00
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Nomad Century : How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
By: Gaia VinceBinding: Paperback / softbackHighly Commended for the Wainwright Prize 2023, and shortlisted for the Zocalo Book Prize and the Christopher Moore Prize For Human Rights Writing 'Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person...- £10.99
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Rice's Church Primer
By Matthew Rice (Author)Format: Hardback 224 pages, ColourPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCImprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781408807521Published: 4 Jul 2013Weight: 500gDimensions: 198 x 150 x 22 (mm) The countryside, towns and cities of Britain are full of churches. They represent some of the most iconic, beautiful...- £18.99
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Split Tooth
By: Tanya TagaqBinding: Paperback / softbackLonglisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller PrizeWinner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in EnglishFact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous. In the end, there may...- £14.99
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Soundings : Journeying North in the Company of Whales - the award-winning memoir
By: Doreen CunninghamBinding: Paperback / softback'Beautiful . . . Justifies its place alongside nature writing classics such as H is for Hawk' NEW STATESMAN'Wonderful ... both frank and fearless' TELEGRAPH BEST TRAVEL BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Fascinating' GUARDIAN TOP TEN NATURE MEMOIRSFrom Mexico to the...- £10.99
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Rebel Folklore : Empowering Tales of Spirits, Witches and Other Misfits from Anansi to Baba Yaga
By: Icy SedgwickBinding: Rebel Folklore gathers 50 of the darkest and most complicated folktale characters from around the world, showing readers why we should care about the rebels and misfits of ancient stories. Folktales were humble stories, passed down generations by those on the...- £19.99
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Stargazing : Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper
By: Peter HillBinding: Paperback / softbackWhen Peter Hill, a student at Dundee College of Art, answered an advert in The Scotsman seeking lighthouse keepers, little did he imagine that within a month he would be living with three men he didn't know in a...- £10.99
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Storyland : Discover the magical myths and lost legends of Britain - Children's Edition
By: Amy JeffsBinding: "Enchanting, breathtaking and beautiful... If you need me, I'll be in Storyland" - Ben Miller IMMERSE YOURSELF IN MIST AND MAGIC THIS CHRISTMAS AND DISCOVER HEROES AND MONSTERS RIGHT ON YOUR DOORSTEP . . . You will have heard of Thor,...- £14.99
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Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
By Peter Ross (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 432 pagesPublisher: Headline Publishing GroupImprint: Headline Book PublishingISBN: 9781472281951Published: 1 Feb 2024Weight: 384g Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in our towns, villages and cities, even as their influence and authority has waned.They contain...- £10.99
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Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
By: Amy JeffsBinding: Paperback / softbackA TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARA BBC HISTORY MAG BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Expressive, bold and quite beautiful' The Lady'[a] delight of...- £12.99
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The Blazing World : A New History of Revolutionary England
Format: Paperback / softback 512 pagesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCImprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781526621696Published: 11 Apr 2024Classifications: History, British & Irish historyWeight: 386g The seventeenth century began as the English found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and ended in the shadow of a Dutch invasion....- £12.99
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The Anglo-Saxons : A History of the Beginnings of England
By: Marc MorrisBinding: Paperback / softbackTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'[A] clever, lively ... splendid new book'DAN JONES, SUNDAY TIMES'A big gold bar of delight'SPECTATORSixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign...- £10.99
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The Anarchy : The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
By William Dalrymple (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 576 pagesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCImprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781408864395Published: 3 Sep 2020Weight: 534gDimensions: 130 x 197 x 42 (mm) In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a...- £12.99
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The Anthology of Scottish Folk Tales
Format: Hardback 176 pagesPublisher: The History Press LtdImprint: The History Press LtdISBN: 9780750992039Published: 2 Sep 2019Classifications: Scotland, Anthologies (non-poetry), Folklore, myths & legends, Local historyWeight: 286gDimensions: 205 x 137 x 13 (mm) This enchanting collection of stories gathers together legends from across Scotland in...- £12.99
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