Æthelred: The Unready
By: Levi Roach
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
An imaginative reassessment of AEthelred "the Unready," one of medieval England's most maligned kin…
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1. Æthelstan: The Making of England
By: Tom Holland
4.03
Format: 116 pages, Hardcover
The formation of England occurred against the odds: an island divided into rival kingdoms, under sa… read more
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2. The History Of The English People, 1000 1154
By: Henry of Huntingdon , Diana Greenway
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Henry of Huntingdon's narrative covers one of the most exciting and bloody periods in English histo… read more
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3. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
By: Mick Herron
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more
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4. The Norman Conquest
By: Marc Morris
4.62
Format: None pages,
An epic tale, with violence at its heart, and a triumph of narrative history. The Norman Conquestst… read more
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- british literature
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5. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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6. Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
By: Mick Herron
5.00
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
London's Slough House is where disgraced MI5 operatives are reassigned to spend the rest of their s… read more
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7. Childhood’s End
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily sup… read more
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"...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"...no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
8. Æthelred: The Unready
By: Levi Roach
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
An imaginative reassessment of AEthelred "the Unready," one of medieval England's most maligned kin… read more
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- biography
- british literature
- medieval history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- medieval
9. In Search of the Dark Ages
By: Michael Wood
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This edition of Michael Wood's groundbreaking first book explores the fascinating and mysterious ce… read more
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10. Æthelstan: The First King of England
By: Sarah Foot
4.08
Format: 581 pages, Hardcover
The powerful and innovative King AEthelstan reigned only briefly (924-939), yet his achievements du… read more
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11. Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources
By: Asser , Alfred the Great , Michael Lapidge , Simon Keynes
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
As King of Wessex, Alfred strove to emulate those kings of the past who, in his own words, had 'suc… read more
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12. The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria
By: Max Adams
3.68
Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition
Oswald Whiteblade lived one of the most influential and colourful lives in early English history. B… read more
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13. The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Stories, #2)
By: Bernard Cornwell
3.90
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
The second installment of Bernard Cornwell's New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic… read more
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14. The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)
By: Bernard Cornwell
3.90
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
This is the story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King A… read more
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15. Ecclesiastical History of the English People
By: Bede , Ronald E. Latham , None , Leo Sherley-Price
3.95
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and hist… read more
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16. New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603
By: Susan Brigden
3.79
Format: 223 pages,
No period in British history today retains more resonance and mystery than the sixteenth century. T… read more
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17. The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
By: Joel F. Harrington
4.34
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary story of a Renaissance-era executioner and his world, based on a rare and overloo… read more
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18. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
19. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
By: Marc Morris
4.34
Format: 508 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more
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20. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
By: Charles Spencer
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more
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21. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more
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22. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
By: Claire Keegan
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more
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"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
23. The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Mma Ramotswe is te… read more
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"Never try to reach a conclusion before you reach the conclusion."-Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
"There were times, she thought, when 'ah' said everything that needed to be said"-Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
"We have always asked too much of women in this country. They hold up the sky on their shoulders."-Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
"People had to be left to make their own mistakes, even if the rest of us could see quite clearly the dangers that lay ahead."-Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
24. Cnut the Great
By: Timothy Bolton
3.76
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxo… read more
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25. Edward the Confessor: Last of the Royal Blood (The English Monarchs Series)
By: Tom Licence
3.89
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative life of Edward the Confessor, the monarch whose death sparked the invasion of 1066… read more
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26. Henry III: The Rise to Power and Personal Rule, 1207-1258
By: David Arscott Carpenter
4.46
Format: 765 pages, Hardcover
The first in a ground-breaking two-volume history of Henry III’s rule, from when he first assumed t… read more
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27. Henry III: Reform, Rebellion, Civil War, Settlement, 1259-1272 (Volume 2) (The English Monarchs Series)
By: David Carpenter
4.44
Format: 728 pages, Hardcover
The second volume in the definitive history of Henry III’s rule, covering the revolutionary events … read more
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28. Ordinary Monsters (The Talents Trilogy, #1)
By: J.M. Miro
3.79
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
Charlie Ovid, despite surviving a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn't have a scar on him. His … read more
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"Every light creates a shadow. You can not have one without the other."-J.M. Miro, Ordinary Monsters (The Talents Trilogy, #1)
29. The Making of Oliver Cromwell
By: Ronald Hutton
3.77
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
The first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell—providing a major new interpretation of… read more
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