Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past

7 best books like Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past (John Higgs): The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London, If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America, I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary, Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet, The Fire Court, Erebus: The Story of a Ship

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

Author	Alan Garner
ISBN	0152017666

When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wizard. He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where he watches over the enchanted sleep of one hundred and forty knights. But the heart of the magic that binds them - Firefrost, also known as the Weirdstone...

Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London

Author	Liza Picard
ISBN	0312325665

This picture of the London of Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603) is the result of Liza Picard's curiosity about the practical details of daily life that almost every history book ignores. As seen in her two previous, highly acclaimed books-Restoration London and Dr. Johnson's London-she has immersed herself...

If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America

Author

Jon Sopel

'You see, if only they didn’t speak English in America, then we’d treat it as a foreign country – and probably understand it a lot better’ ‘the sanest man in America’ – Bill Bryson
‘Jon Sopel nails it’ – Emily Maitlis

**With a brand new chapter, charting Trump's...

I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary

Author	J.M.R. Higgs
ISBN	1569803153

President Nixon called him the most dangerous man in America, while Terence McKenna believed he made more people happy than anyone else in history. Few People have divided opinion as strongly as Dr. Timothy Leary. Leary, a brilliant behavioral psychologist, persuaded millions to tune in, turn on,...

Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet

Author	Tom Nancollas
ISBN	1846149371

'A thrilling celebration of lighthouses' i newspaper

An enthralling history of Britain's rock lighthouses, and the people who built and inhabited them

Lighthouses are enduring monuments to our relationship with the sea. They encapsulate a romantic vision of solitary homes amongst...

The Fire Court

Author

Andrew Taylor

From No.1 bestselling author Andrew Taylor comes the sequel to the phenomenally successful The Ashes of London

Somewhere in the soot-stained ruins of Restoration London, a killer has gone to ground ...

The Great Fire has ravaged London, wreaking destruction and devastation wherever...

Erebus: The Story of a Ship

Author

Michael Palin

In his major new work, Michael Palin – former Monty Python stalwart and much-loved television globe-trotter – brings to life the world and voyages of HMS Erebus, from its construction in the naval dockyards of Pembroke, to the part it played in Ross’s Antarctic expedition of 1839–43, to its...