1965: The Year Modern Britain Was Born by Christopher Bray
May 1st, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: There is Britain before 1965 and Britain
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The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor by Jonathan Rose
April 30th, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: This strikingly original book introduces a Winston
The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Mining Family by Richard Benson
April 29th, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: The close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley
The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class 1910–2010 by Selina Todd
April 14th, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: What was it really like to live through
Franco’s Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936 by Jeremy Treglown
April 2nd, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: History is written by the victors. It’s a
The Gardens of the British Working Class by Margaret Willes
April 2nd, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: This magnificently illustrated people’s history celebrates the extraordinary
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
March 20th, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector
God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England by Jessie Childs
March 19th, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: The Catholics of Elizabethan England did not witness
Rasputin: A Short Life by Frances Welch
March 19th, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Grigory Rasputin, Siberian peasant-turned-mystic, was both fascinating and
The Northmen’s Fury: A History of the Viking World by Philip Parker
March 4th, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: The Northmen’s Fury tells the Viking story, from the
Jumbo: the Unauthorised Biography of a Victorian Sensation by John Sutherland
February 19th, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: The first comprehensive ‘biography’ of one of the
The Ark Before Noah Decoding the Story of the Flood by Irving Finkel
February 17th, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: In THE ARK BEFORE NOAH, British Museum
Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power by Claudia Renton
January 27th, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Three sisters – beautiful, cultured and aristocratic, born
The Great Indoors: At Home in the Modern British House by Ben Highmore
January 12th, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: ‘House’ has long been synonymous with ‘home’:
The Building of England: How the History of England Has Shaped Our Buildings by Simon Thurley
January 11th, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: From awe-inspiring Norman castles, to the homes we
The Fateful Year: England 1914 by Mark Bostridge
January 11th, 2014 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: The Fateful Year by Mark Bostridge is the
The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria’s Rebellious Daughter by Lucinda Hawksley
December 17th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: The secrets of Queen Victoria’s sixth child, Princess
The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester
December 13th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story
Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon by Kate Williams
December 13th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: This is the incredible rise and unbelievable fall
Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen
November 19th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Elizabeth of York would have ruled England, but
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