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  • Henry VIII and his Six Wives

    A Guide to Historic Tudor Sites

    by Peter Bramley ...
    In his hunt for a male heir Henry VIII broke with Rome, instigated the Reformation and the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and acquired six wives successively. Of these, two were executed, a chilling first in English history. From these tumultuous events a surprising number of historic sites linked to the Tudors survive, accessible now through this beautifully illustrated book. The guidebook is ... Read more

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  • A Companion and Guide to the Wars of the Roses

    by Peter Bramley ...
    The Wars of the Roses (1455-85) saw the end of Plantagenet rule in England and Wales, and the accession of the Tudor dynasty to the throne. It is sometimes seen as the end of the Middle Ages in England, and the start of the modern era, and it paved the way for the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. A surprising number of historic sites from this turbulent period survive: battlefields, castles, ... Read more

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  • The Woodvilles

    The Wars of the Roses and England's Most Infamous Family

    In 1464, the most eligible bachelor in England, Edward IV, stunned the nation by revealing his secret marriage to Elizabeth Woodville, a beautiful, impoverished widow whose father and brother Edward himself had once ridiculed as upstarts. Edward's controversial match brought his queen's large family to court and into the thick of the Wars of the Roses. This is the story of the family whose fates ... Read more

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  • The War That Ended Peace

    The Road to 1914

    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe New York Times Book Review • The Economist • The Christian Science Monitor • Bloomberg Businessweek • The Globe and MailFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I.The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The American Heiress

    A Novel

    by Daisy Goodwin ...
    Now including an excerpt from VICTORIA: A Novel, by Daisy Goodwin, the Creator/Writer of the Masterpiece Presentation on PBS."Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms (who isn't?) will find an instant tonic in Daisy Goodwin's The American Heiress. The story of Cora Cash, an American heiress in the 1890s who bags an English duke, this is a deliciously evocative first novel that lingers in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Paris, France Travel Guide - What To See & Do

      Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Paris, France.   Paris, the cosmopolitan capital of France, is - with 2.2 million people living in the dense (105 km²) central city and almost 12 million people living in the whole metropolitan area - one of the largest agglomerations in Europe. Located in the north of the country on the river Seine, Paris has the reputation of being the ... Read more

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  • Family Guide London

    by DK Travel ...
    Series series Travel Guide
    Discover how the whole family-especially the kids-can enjoy London: from scaling the ramparts of the Tower of London or clambering aboard a vintage tram at the Transport Museum, to visiting dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum or floating above the city in the London Eye.This child-oriented guide is organized around "hubs"-major sights around which to plan your day-and gives child-friendly ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Walking Jane Austen’s London

    by Louise Allen ...
    From prize-winning historical novelist Louise Allen, this book presents nine walks through both the London Jane Austen knew and the London of her novels! Follow in Jane's footsteps to her publisher's doorstep and the Prince Regent's vanished palace, see where she stayed when she was correcting proofs of Sense and Sensibility and accompany her on a shopping expedition – and afterwards to the ... Read more

    $11.29 USD

  • Edinburgh

    Classic travelogue. According to Wikipedia: "Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson ( 1850 - 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins", as G. K. Chesterton put it. He was also greatly admired by many authors, ... Read more

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  • Sixty Degrees North

    The sixtieth parallel marks a borderland between the northern and southern worlds. Wrapping itself around the lower reaches of Finland, Sweden, and Norway, it crosses the tip of Greenland and the southern coast of Alaska, and slices the great expanses of Russia and Canada in half. The parallel also passes through Shetland, where Malachy Tallack has spent most of his life.In Sixty Degrees North, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Britain & Ireland: Charming Small Hotel Guide

    Chic, stylish city hotels, contemporary inns, outstanding B&Bs, captivating country houses & other places to stay

    Edited by Fiona Duncan ...
    Series series Charming Small Hotel Guides
    Travel guides are perfect for ebook readers because they're light and portable. Charming Small Hotel Guides are the only accommodation guides that combine these five essential qualities: places with character and charm, from budget to luxury; highly selective - every place worth a journey; fussy about size - smaller places with a personal welcome are favoured; two colour photos for every entry and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Harrogate At A Glance

    by John Brown ...
    The splendid cast iron, glass-canopied, Victorian walkways still feature along the impressively wide streets that roll gently down to the centre of this well heeled Yorkshire Town. The heady Spa-days of Harrogate  are long since gone, but the town has re-invented itself as a thriving conference centre. It's not unusual to drive through the centre of Harrogate on a bright day in July and hear the ... Read more

    $2.03 USD