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The Old Ways : A Journey on Foot
By: Robert MacfarlaneBinding: Paperback / softbackTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZEThe original bestseller from the beloved author of UNDERLAND, LANDMARKS and THE LOST WORDS - Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, underappreciated landscape'The Old...- £10.99
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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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Winters in the World : A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
By: Eleanor ParkerBinding: Now available in paperback, Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs and traditions linked to the different seasons. Drawing on a wide variety of source material,...- £10.99
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A Tomb With a View - The Stories & Glories of Graveyards : Scottish Non-fiction Book of the Year 2021
By: Peter RossBinding: **WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021****A FINANCIAL TIMES, I PAPER AND STYLIST BOOK OF THE YEAR**'In his absorbing book about the lost and the gone, Peter Ross takes us from Flanders Fields to Milltown to Kensal...- £10.99
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Wild Atlantic Women : Walking Ireland's West Coast
By Grainne Lyons (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 248 pagesPublisher: New Island BooksImprint: New Island BooksISBN: 9781848409286Published: 9 Feb 2024Classifications: Western Continental Europe, Biography: literary, Memoirs, Natural history, Walking, hiking, trekking, Travel writingWeight: 236gDimensions: 129 x 198 x 20 (mm) At a crossroads in her life,...- £10.99
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The Stripping of the Altars : Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580
By: Eamon DuffyBinding: Paperback / softbackThis prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people's experience of religion, showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but a strong and vigorous tradition. For this edition, Duffy has written a new introduction reflecting on...- £16.99
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Wild : Tales from Early Medieval Britain
By: Amy JeffsBinding: Paperback / softbackBy the bestselling author of Storyland. Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous clouds, icy waves, whales with mountains on their backs, sleet, bitter winds, bleak, impenetrable marshes, howling wolves, forests, the unceasing cries of birds and the...- £12.99
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The History of Magic : From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present
By: Chris GosdenBinding: Paperback / softbackA Telegraph Book of the Year A remarkable, unprecedented account of the role of magic in cultures both ancient and modern -- from the first known horoscope to the power of tattoos. 'Fascinating, original, excellent' Simon Sebag Montefiore______________________Three great...- £12.99
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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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La Serenissima : The Story of Venice
Format :Paperback / softback 448 pages, 3x8pp colPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCImprint: ApolloISBN:9781789545067Published: 9 Nov 2023Weight:336gDimensions:215 x 356 x 35 (mm) Everything about Venice, observed Lord Byron, is, or was, extraordinary. Her aspect is like a dream, and her history is like a romance. Dream and...- £14.99
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Going to Church in Medieval England
By: Nicholas OrmeBinding: Paperback / softbackAn engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century Parish churches were at the heart of English religious and social life in the Middle Ages and the sixteenth century....- £12.99
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England's Thousand Best Churches
By: Simon JenkinsBinding: HardbackSimon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of England to select his thousand best churches. Organised by county, each church is described - often with delightful asides - and given a star-rating from one to five. All of the county...- £40.00
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A Treasury of British Folklore : Maypoles, Mandrakes and Mistletoe
By: Dee Dee ChaineyBinding: HardbackAn entertaining and engrossing collection of British customs, superstitions and legends from past and present. Did you know, in Cumbria it was believed a person lying on a pillow stuffed with pigeon's feathers could not die? Or that green is...- £12.99
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The Restless Republic : Britain without a Crown
By: Anna KeayBinding: Paperback / softbackTHE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Eleven years when Britain had no king. In 1649 Britain was engulfed by revolution....- £10.99
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A Home for All Seasons
By: Gavin (author) PlumleyBinding: Paperback / softback'Charming - a love-letter to home, history, and nature.'LEAH BROAD, Author of Quartet'A tender and illuminating history of an overlooked world.'HORATIO CLARE'Truly a revelation on every page.'PETROC TRELAWNY'A richly textured book, replete with illuminating discoveries and observations.' COUNTRY...- £10.99
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The Path of Peace : Walking the Western Front Way
By: Anthony SeldonBinding: Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month'A formidable achievement... a moving enactment of a modern pilgrimage' Rory Stewart'Thoughtful [and] heartfelt' Observer'Profound [and] compelling' Spectator'A noble endeavour' New Statesman***A WATERSTONES BEST BOOKS OF 2022 PICK***Without a permanent home, a wife or a job,...- £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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Weird Walk : Wanderings and Wonderings through the British Ritual Year
By: Weird WalkBinding: In this book is a radical idea. By walking the ancient landscape of Britain and following the wheel of the year, we can reconnect to our shared folklore, to the seasons and to nature. Let this hauntological gazetteer guide you through...- £19.99
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The Fens : Discovering England's Ancient Depths
By: Francis PryorBinding: Paperback / softbackA BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. 'Francis Pryor brings the magic of the Fens to life in a deeply personal and utterly enthralling way' TONY ROBINSON. 'Pryor feels the land rather than simply knowing it' GUARDIAN. Inland...- £9.99
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