Nicola Griffith

Book was purchased new, read once and being sold by original owner. Book is clean and unmarked. Paperback cover has normal amount of wear from single use. Superb historical fiction read for lovers of medieval England or stories of female leaders.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

'You are a prophet and seer with the brightest mind in an age. Your blood is that of the man who should have been king ...That's what the king and his lords see. And they will kill you, one day' Britain in the seventh century - and the world is changing. Small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. Edwin, King of Northumbria, plots his rise to overking of all the Angles. Ruthless and unforgiving, he is prepared to use every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. Into this brutal, vibrant court steps Hild - Edwin's youngest niece. With her glittering mind and powerful curiosity, Hild has a unique way of reading the world. By studying nature, observing human behavior and matching cause with effect, she has developed the ability to make startlingly accurate predictions. It is a gift that can seem uncanny, even supernatural, to those around her. It is also a valuable weapon. Hild is indispensable to Edwin - unless she should ever lead him astray. The stakes are life and death: for Hild, for her family, for her loved ones, and for the increasing numbers who seek the protection of the strange girl who can see the future and lead men like a warrior. In this vivid, utterly compelling novel, Nicola Griffith has brought the Early Middle Ages to life in an extraordinary act of alchemy. Drawn from the story of St Hilda of Whitby - one of the most fascinating and pivotal figures of the age - Hild transports the reader into a mesmerising, unforgettable world.

Hild

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Philippa Gregory

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Novel

The White Queen

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Published 1965, 1st Edition/Dust Jacket. Ex-library copy with some NYPL markers evident. Dust jacket is price-clipped. Oxford University Press. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

A Guide to English Manners and Deportment from the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century

The Polite World 

Jane Eyre 

Second Impression (revised) 1946. First published in 1944.  Part of the Britain in Pictures series. Both color and B&W photos and illustrations. 

Dustcover has several issues and has bookplates of 2 previous owners on cover-side endpapers (see photos).

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Arizona

The English Ballet 

Susanna Clarke

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory. But at Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire, the rich, reclusive Mr Norrell has assembled a wonderful library of lost and forgotten books from England's magical past and regained some of the powers of England's magicians. He goes to London and raises a beautiful young woman from the dead. Soon he is lending his help to the government in the war against Napoleon Bonaparte, creating ghostly fleets of rain-ships to confuse and alarm the French. All goes well until a rival magician appears. Jonathan Strange is handsome, charming, and talkative-the very opposite of Mr Norrell. Strange thinks nothing of enduring the rigors of campaigning with Wellington's army and doing magic on battlefields. Astonished to find another practicing magician, Mr Norrell accepts Strange as a pupil. But it soon becomes clear that their ideas of what English magic ought to be are very different. For Mr Norrell, their power is something to be cautiously controlled, while Jonathan Strange will always be attracted to the wildest, most perilous forms of magic. He becomes fascinated by the ancient, shadowy figure of the Raven King, a child taken by fairies who became king of both England and Faerie, and the most legendary magician of all. Eventually Strange's heedless pursuit of long-forgotten magic threatens to destroy not only his partnership with Norrell, but everything that he holds dear. Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic into a flawlessly detailed vision of historical England. She has created a world so thoroughly enchanting that eight hundred pages leave readers longing for more.

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

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Experience the culture like a local, spend less money, have more fun

Washington

Rick Steve’s Great Britain 2008

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Donald Olson

Down to earth trip planning advice.  Friendly guide.  3rd Edition

For Dummies

Whether you like taking in historic sites and cathedrals or great shopping and nightlife, quiet, quaint villages or swinging seaside resorts, the cosmopolitan aura of London or the spectacular beauty of the Lake District, you'll find plenty to see and do in England. This friendly guide doesn't solve the mystery of prehistoric Stonehenge, but it helps you solve the mystery of how to make the most of your time and your money, with:
 * Five great one- or two-week itineraries to help you hit the high points on your list
 * Suggestions for day-trips from London
 * The low-down on the high-brow castles
 * Information on areas from the Yorkshire moors to the cliffs of Cornwall to Stratford-upon-Avon
 * Tips for getting around in London via Underground, bus, or taxi
 * A tear-out cheat sheet to help you with unfamiliar British words so you can understand the blokes

Like every For Dummies travel guide, England For Dummies, 3rd Edition includes:

 * Down-to-earth trip-planning advice
 * What you shouldn't miss-and what you can skip
 * The best hotels and restaurants for every budget
 * Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages

England

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Britain’s best loved B&B guide, 18th edition 

Staying off the Beaten Track

Fodor’s New Edition Cottages, B&Bs and Country Inns of England and Wales

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Penny Junor

The Duchess by Penny Junor Camilla Parker Bowles biography , UK ROYALTY Royals
2018 American release of Penny Junors biography of Camilla Parker Bowles. Very good shape. Sticker on back cover.

Michigan

Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown

In the first in-depth biography of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall—the infamous other woman who made the marriage of Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana "a bit crowded"—esteemed royal biographer Penny Junor tells the unlikely and extraordinary story of the woman reviled as a pariah who, thanks to numerous twists of fate, became the popular princess consort. Few know the Windsor family as well as veteran royal biographer and journalist Penny Junor. In The Duchess, she casts her insightful, sensitive eye on the intriguing, once widely despised, and little-known Camilla Parker Bowles, revealing in full, for the first time, the remarkable rise of a woman who was the most notorious mistress in the world. As Camilla’s marriage to Charles approached in 2005, the British public were upset at the prospect that this woman, universally reviled for wrecking the royal marriage, would one day become queen. Sensitive to public opinion, the palace announced that this would never happen; when Charles eventually acceded to the throne, Camilla would be known as the princess consort. Yet a decade later British public sentiment had changed, with a majority believing that Camilla should become queen. Junor argues that although Camilla played a central role in the darkest days of the modern monarchy—Charles and Diana’s acrimonious and scandalous split—she also played a central role in restoring the royal family’s reputation, especially that of Prince Charles. A woman with no ambition to be a princess, a duchess, or a queen, Camilla simply wanted to be with, and support, the man who has always been the love of her life. Junor contends that their marriage has reinvigorated Charles, allowing him to finally become comfortable as the heir to the British throne.

The Duchess

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Caroline Graham

Camilla Parker Bowles Her Story hardcover biography book Catherine Graham
Hardcover book 
An updated UK IMPORT edition of Catherine Grahams earlier book ,'The Kings Mistress ' 
This is from the early 2000's. Good shape

Her True Story

Few individuals have had as profound an effect upon the British monarchy as Camilla Parker Bowles. The mere mention of her name elicits strong opinions. To some, she is a person of immense honor and dignity, a loyal consort who has risen above the jibes and accusations that have been directed at her. To others, she is a destroyer, whose position as the third member of a royal marriage led to the break-up of Charles and Diana, and to the tragic events that followed. The truth, as this book reveals, lies somewhere in between. Charles and Camilla have so far remained silent, keeping the details of their abiding relationship a secret. Caroline Graham, who has spoken to sources close to the couple, here reveals a story of grand passion, cynical betrayal, and sexual subterfuge. Caroline Graham is highly regarded as a royal commentator. Now living in America, she is the U.S. correspondent for theMail on Sunday.

Camilla

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The Survivors' Club: Six men and one woman, injured in the Napoleonic Wars, their friendships forged in steel and loyalty. But for one, her trials are not over....

Since witnessing the death of her husband during the wars, Imogen, Lady Barclay, has secluded herself in the confines of Hardford Hall, their home in Cornwall. The new owner has failed to take up his inheritance, and Imogen desperately hopes he will never come to disturb her fragile peace.

Percival Hayes, Earl of Hardford, has no interest in the wilds of Cornwall, but when he impulsively decides to pay a visit to his estate there, he is shocked to discover that it is not the ruined heap he had expected. He is equally shocked to find the beautiful widow of his predecessor's son living there.

Soon Imogen awakens in Percy a passion he has never thought himself capable of feeling. But can he save her from her misery and reawaken her soul? And what will it mean for him if he succeeds?

Only a Kiss

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Janice Y. K. Lee

California

In the sweeping tradition of The English Patient, a gripping tale of love and betrayal set in war-torn Hong Kong. In 1942, Will Truesdale, an Englishman newly arrived in Hong Kong, falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite. But their love affair is soon threatened by the invasion of the Japanese as World War II overwhelms their part of the world. Will is sent to an internment camp, where he and other foreigners struggle daily for survival. Meanwhile, Trudy remains outside, forced to form dangerous alliances with the Japanese --- in particular, the malevolent head of the gendarmerie, whose desperate attempts to locate a priceless collection of Chinese art lead to a chain of terrible betrayals. Ten years later, Claire Pendleton comes to Hong Kong and is hired by the wealthy Chen family as their daughter's piano teacher. A provincial English newlywed, Claire is seduced by the heady social life of the expatriate community. At one of its elegant cocktail parties, she meets Will, to whom she is instantly attracted, but as their affair intensifies, Claire discovers that Will's enigmatic persona hides a devastating past. As she begins to understand the true nature of the world she has entered, and long-buried secrets start to emerge, Claire learns that sometimes the price of survival is love.

The Piano Teacher

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The cloth hardcover has heavy wear to the cover, corners and edges. The binding is weak especially on the front and back cover hinges. The pages have some foxing and yellowing but otherwise clean, no underlining, highlighting, or writing. This is an ex-library copy with all the usual markings (stamps, stickers, card pocket, etc.)

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Synopsis | By May of 1940, in every British home people listed with sober faces to the evening radio news. The Nazi Juggernaut was rolling ever closer to British shores. But to Cicely and Alan Lyons, World War II was just a great big nuisance. 

Trenches had been dug across the town park, spoiling the cricket field. Hallways were littered with sand pails for putting out fires from bomb strikes. In fact, the only exciting thing that had happened, Alan and Cicely thought, was the coming of the dog Sireen. Before the month was out, both children changed their minds about the war – particularly Alan, who was caught up in the great adventure of Dunkirk.

From then on, each day held danger. Alan and Cicely showed the same unconscious courage that all the British people displayed throughout the long, savage bombing of England. And when the older Lyons boy, Peter, and all the other young fliers of the RAF proved they could take whatever the Nazis had to throw at them, and give it right back twofold, the terrible Battle of Britain finally came to an end. 

From this truly thrilling accounts of what life was like in those stirring days, young readers will realize that they could have been Alan and Cicely Lyons, had they happened to be British children in 1940.
—From dust jacket


ABOUT THE SERIES | Are easy to read and provide exciting, entertaining stories, based upon true historic events. Each book tells the exciting story of two young persons' adventures during some of history's most dramatic events written by top authors and illustrated by top artists. Each story is checked for factual accuracy by an outstanding authority on this particular phase of our history. Though written simply enough for young readers, they make interesting reading for boys and girls well into their teens.

We Were There at the Battle of Britain 1959 (We Were There, book 24)

Glynis Peters

Keep her secret Keep her safe On the 14th November 1940, Hitler's bombs rain down on Coventry. From the rubble of a bombed-out family home, a young girl is saved... This is a stunning and memorable page-turner of love, loss and resilience for fans of The Secret Wife by Gill Paul As the Nazis' relentless bombs fall during the Blitz of Coventry, six-year-old Rose Sherbourne finds herself orphaned and under the guardianship of a Cornish farmer's daughter, Elenor Cardew. Elenor knows that the only way to protect spirited Rose is to leave the city and make a new life for themselves away from harm. But soon Elenor discovers that Hitler's firestorm is not the only thing she must fear when she learns a devastating secret about Rose... With Rose's life in imminent danger, Elenor turns to the only person she can trust to keep the deadly secret, heroic Canadian pilot, Jackson St John. And amidst the destruction of war, an unlikely romance blossoms as they find a way to protect the child they have both grown to love...and each other.

The Secret Orphan

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This is the 1953 edition of Dunstable’s anthology of scores from Musica Brittanica. See contents in pictures above. The book cover and binding is in poorer condition with rips and fraying, but the scores are intact and still bound together. The contents of the book are complete. There are also some small annotations on the cover and title page. Otherwise, no other markings exist. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

New Mexico

A National Collection of Music VII

Musica Britannica: John Dunstable Complete Works (1953)

David Starkey

The Struggle for the Throne

An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual--though, as she maintained, a virgin--Elizabeth I is famed as England's most successful ruler. David Starkey's brilliant new biography concentrates on Elizabeth's formative years--from her birth in 1533 to her accession in 1558--and shows how the experiences of danger and adventure formed her remarkable character and shaped her opinions and beliefs.

From princess and heir-apparent to bastardized and disinherited royal, accused traitor to head of the princely household, Elizabeth experienced every vicissitude of fortune and extreme of condition--and rose above it all to reign during a watershed moment in history. A uniquely absorbing tale of one young woman's turbulent, courageous, and seemingly impossible journey toward the throne, Elizabeth is the exhilarating story of the making of a queen.

Elizabeth

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Paperback edition. In excellent condition. There is some light wear on the cover. Pages are perfectly clean with no markings.

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Indiana

The Queen’s Silver Jubilee by Owen Hedley - A pictorial souvenir to commemorate the 25th anniversary of The Queen’s Accession to the Throne. Published by Pitkin. Vintage, 1977. In excellent pre-owned condition. 

New York

The Queen’s Silver Jubilee

Nancy Springer

Books 1, 2 and 3 included as shown. 
Please see the red book’s back cover…there is a small tear. 

Books 1, 2 & 3

"First published in the United States by Philomel Books, 2006."--Title page verso.

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#paperback #fiction #summer #historical #newyorktimeabestseller #england #nytimesbestseller #lovestory 

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal . . . a delightful story about nontraditional romantic relationships, class snobbery and the everybody-knows-everybody complications of living in a small community.”—The Washington Post The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World War I that reaches far beyond the small English town in which it is set. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND NPR East Sussex, 1914. It is the end of England’s brief Edwardian summer, and everyone agrees that the weather has never been so beautiful. Hugh Grange, down from his medical studies, is visiting his Aunt Agatha, who lives with her husband in the small, idyllic coastal town of Rye. Agatha’s husband works in the Foreign Office, and she is certain he will ensure that the recent saber rattling over the Balkans won’t come to anything. And Agatha has more immediate concerns; she has just risked her carefully built reputation by pushing for the appointment of a woman to replace the Latin master. When Beatrice Nash arrives with one trunk and several large crates of books, it is clear she is significantly more freethinking—and attractive—than anyone believes a Latin teacher should be. For her part, mourning the death of her beloved father, who has left her penniless, Beatrice simply wants to be left alone to pursue her teaching and writing. But just as Beatrice comes alive to the beauty of the Sussex landscape and the colorful characters who populate Rye, the perfect summer is about to end. For despite Agatha’s reassurances, the unimaginable is coming. Soon the limits of progress, and the old ways, will be tested as this small Sussex town and its inhabitants go to war. Praise for The Summer Before the War “What begins as a study of a small-town society becomes a compelling account of war and its aftermath.”—Woman’s Day “This witty character study of how a small English town reacts to the 1914 arrival of its first female teacher offers gentle humor wrapped in a hauntingly detailed story.”—Good Housekeeping “Perfect for readers in a post–Downton Abbey slump . . . The gently teasing banter between two kindred spirits edging slowly into love is as delicately crafted as a bone-china teacup. . . . More than a high-toned romantic reverie for Anglophiles—though it serves the latter purpose, too.”—The Seattle Times

The Summer Before the War

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"Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy, and the color hit of pop art, Autumn is [an] ... excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture and a meditation--in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive--on what richness and worth are, what harvest means"--

Autumn

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Richard Osman

Small imperfection on the top of the spine, but otherwise this is a book in new condition, never opened.

Maryland

A Thursday Murder Club Mystery

An instant New York Times bestseller!

The second gripping novel in the New York Times bestselling Thursday Murder Club series, soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg at Amblin Entertainment

"It's taken a mere two books for Richard Osman to vault into the upper leagues of crime writers. . . The Man Who Died Twice. . . dives right into joyous fun."
--The New York Times Book Review

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim--the Thursday Murder Club--are still riding high off their recent real-life murder case and are looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet at Cooper's Chase, their posh retirement village.
 
But they are out of luck.
 
An unexpected visitor--an old pal of Elizabeth's (or perhaps more than just a pal?)--arrives, desperate for her help. He has been accused of stealing diamonds worth millions from the wrong men and he's seriously on the lam.
 
Then, as night follows day, the first body is found. But not the last. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim are up against a ruthless murderer who wouldn't bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians. Can our four friends catch the killer before the killer catches them?  And if they find the diamonds, too? Well, wouldn't that be a bonus?  You should never put anything beyond the Thursday Murder Club.
 
Richard Osman is back with everyone's favorite mystery-solving quartet, and the second installment of the Thursday Murder Club series is just as clever and warm as the first--an unputdownable, laugh-out-loud pleasure of a read.

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