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1	The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World more books like this by Steven Johnson add to wishlist Bestselling author Johnson illuminates the intertwined histories of the spread of cholera in 19th-century London, the rise of cities, and the nature of scientific inquiry, offering both a riveting history and a powerful explanation of how it has shaped the world of today. see all copies from $2.88! new only from $5.31! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Angela's Ashes: A Memoir more books like this by Frank McCourt (Read by) add to wishlist After years of teaching creative writing, Frank McCourt published his first book, thus obliging his many friends who had been urging him to write about his childhood--a subject they knew from the many uproarious and affecting stories he told about it. ANGELA'S ASHES traces the tortuous path of his life from his days in abysmal poverty in Limerick ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Rick Steves' London more books like this by Rick Steves, Gene Openshaw add to wishlist Who but Rick Steves can tell travelers the best way to visit Lisbon, The Algarve, Salema, Evora, Coimbra, Nazare, and Obidos? With "Rick Steves' Portugal 2006", travelers can experience the best of everything Portugal has to offer - economically and hassle-free. Completely revised and updated, "Rick Steves' Portugal 2006" includes opinionated ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain more books like this by Michael Korda add to wishlist The bestselling author of "Ike" returns with the first complete history of one of the most significant conflicts of World War II--the Battle of Britain. see all copies from $2.29! new only from $10.35! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Children of Henry VIII more books like this by B Alison Weir, Alison Weir add to wishlist At his death in 1547, King Henry VIII left four heirs to the English throne: his only son, Prince Edward; his two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth; and his great-niece, Lady Jane Grey. In this riveting account, Alison Weir paints a unique portrait of these extraordinary rulers, examining their intricate relationships to each other and to history. of ... see all copies from $4.79! new only from $9.44! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Henry VIII: The King and His Court more books like this by Alison Weir add to wishlist Weir's popular biography of the most famous king in English history deals with his life and life in the court--and conveys a prodigious amount of historical research. see all copies from $2.35! new only from $8.43! \| first editions \| SVS
7	London: The Biography more books like this by Peter Ackroyd add to wishlist Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change, so London is a biography rather than a history. It differs from other histories, too, in the range and diversity of its contents ... see all copies from $3.14! new only from $11.73! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire more books like this by Amanda Foreman add to wishlist Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was one of the most flamboyant and influential women of the eighteenth century. The great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, she was variously a compulsive gambler, a political savante and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.42! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Thunderstruck more books like this by Erik Larson add to wishlist The bestselling author of "The Devil in the White City" tells the amazing, interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a doctor and an unlikely murderer, and Gugliemo Marconi, the obsessive genius who invented the wireless--whose stories converge during the greatest criminal chase of all time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Princes in the Tower more books like this by B Alison Weir, Alison Weir add to wishlist Despite five centuries of investigation by historians, the sinister deaths of the boy king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, remain one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. Did Richard III really kill "the Princes in the Tower", as is commonly believed, or was the murderer someone else entirely? In ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	History of the English-Speaking Peoples more books like this by Sir Winston Churchill add to wishlist 2000 years of British history told by one of the greatest figures of that history. New one volume abridgement, now at an unbeatable price. From Boadicea to Victoria. see all copies from $2.49! new only from $16.27! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Road to Wigan Pier more books like this by George Orwell add to wishlist A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, "The Road to Wigan Pier" is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession more books like this by Andrea Wulf add to wishlist One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram, his new contact in the American colonies. But it was not reels of wool or bales of cotton that awaited him, but plants and seeds...Over the next forty years, Bartram would send hundreds of ... see all copies from $11.40! new only from $11.40! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley more books like this by Alison Weir add to wishlist Historian Alison Weir investigates a true crime from 1567 involving Mary, Queen of Scots. After Mary's second husband, Lord Darnley, is killed in an explosion at his residence, it is discovered that he had actually died by suffocation. Darnley was thought to have been an opportunist who only married Mary in order to gain the crown. Weir sifts ... see all copies from $2.07! new only from $3.09! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Armada more books like this by Garrett Mattingly add to wishlist Pulitzer prize-winning historian Garrett Mattingly's bestselling classic is now, on the 400th anniversary of the defeat of the Spanish Armada, available in a new deluxe hardcover edition. Three 8-page photo inserts. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.10! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The lives of the Kings & Queens of England more books like this by Antonia Fraser (Editor) add to wishlist The lives of England's Kings and Queens, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II. This painstakingly illustrated book celebrates the Great Dynasties of English Royalty, from the establishment of the monarchical power base by the early Norman Kings through to the present Queen. The stories of the many monarchs and their colourful lives - some ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $10.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective more books like this by Kate Summerscale add to wishlist The national bestseller, now in paperback. In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land. see all copies from $6.00! new only from $9.59! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Last Lion, The: Volume 1: Winston Churchill Visions of Glory 1874 - 1932 more books like this by William Manchester add to wishlist In "The Last Lion," the first volume of Manchester's two-volume biography, the Winston Spencer Churchill story is one of high adventure, bitter defeats, and the inner strength of the towering Englishman whose watchword was: "Never give in. Never, never, never, never give in." In historical crises his soaring prose and histrionic manner made superb ... see all copies from $2.88! new only from $25.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Mister God, This is Anna more books like this by Anna Fynn add to wishlist From the moment Anna and Fynn locked eyes, their times together were filled with delight and discovery. In her completely frank and honest way, Anna had an astonishing ability to ask--and answer--life's largest questions, and to feel the purpose of being. You see, Anna had a very special friendship with Mister God. "Extraordinarily moving!"-- ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	1066, the year of the conquest more books like this by David Howarth add to wishlist Everyone knows 1066 as the date of the Norman invasion and conquest of England. But how many of us can place that event in the context of the entire dramatic year in which it took place? From the death of Edward the Confessor in early January to the Christmas coronation of Duke William of Normandy, there is an almost uncanny symmetry, as well as a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.29! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Mary Queen of Scots more books like this by Antonia Fraser add to wishlist More than four hundred years after her death, Mary Queen of Scots remains one of the most romantic and controversial figures in British history. Antonia Fraser's classic biography of her won the James Tait Prize when it was first published in 1969, became an international bestseller and was translated into nine languages. Mary passed her ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England more books like this by Daniel Pool add to wishlist Essays provide a view of British life during the nineteenth century. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Cider with Rosie more books like this by Laurie Lee add to wishlist 'I remember, too, the light on the slopes, long shadows in tufts and hollows, with cattle, brilliant as painted china, treading their echoing shapes' Cider With Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of Laurie Lee's childhood and youth in a remote Cotswold village. From the moment he is set down in the long grass, 'thick as a forest and alive with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington more books like this by Jennet Conant add to wishlist During the desperate winter of 1940, as the threat of German invasion hung over England, the British government mounted a massive, secret campaign of propaganda to weaken the isolationist sentiment in America and manipulate the country into entering the war on England's behalf. Under the command of the now legendary INTREPID, the British planted ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Le Morte Darthur more books like this by Sir Thomas Malory add to wishlist Based on the Winchester Manuscript, this edition of the famous mediaeval romance offers substantial critical and contextual support for the student. Using the original spelling, the editor has restored the paragraphing and the narrative structure of the romance. Four chronologies, including one of the Wars of the Roses, contemporary accounts of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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