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  I Never Knew That About England I Never Knew That About England

  Christopher Winn 

  This is the ultimate journey around England. Christopher Winn takes us to each county, to see where history happened, where people and ideas were born, where dreams took flight and where men and women now rest from their labours. To tread in their footsteps, to touch and experience some of what inspired and moved them is to capture some of the flavour of...

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  I Never Knew That About Ireland I Never Knew That About Ireland

  Christopher Winn 

  Bestselling author Christopher Winn takes us on a fascinating journey around Ireland, to discover the tales buried deep in the country's history. Packed full of legends, firsts, birthplaces, inventions and adventures, this book visits each of the four provinces - Ulster, Leinster, Munster and Connaught - and unearths the hidden gems that each county in...

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  London's Strangest Tales London's Strangest Tales

  Tom Quinn 

  Following in the bestselling footsteps of the Strangest series, London is now available in a beautiful gift format - the perfect present for the London obsessive in the family! This fascinating volume is packed with amazing things you didn't know about the capital, such as the fact that it's still forbidden to run, carry an umbrella or whistle in...

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  Brit-think, Ameri-think: A... Brit-think, Ameri-think: A Transatlantic...

  Jane Walmsley 

  Jane Walmsley shares George Bernard Shaw's belief that America and Britain are two nations divided by a common language. In this title she looks beyond this shared facade to see the great gulfs that separate us in such areas as tastes in food, dress, home decoration, the way we conduct business, vacation, engage in sex and even die. Her prototype American...

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  Spilling the Beans on the... Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas

  Judy Parkinson 

  How on earth did 'with bells on' come to express enthusiasm? Why is good health compared to a small stringed instrument? ('As fit as a fiddle.') And what do pickles have to do with quandaries? Let's not beat about the bush: despite the fact that we have all used these phrases at one time or another, and even enjoyed expressing them, they are in truth -...

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  The Time Traveller's Guide to... The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

  Ian Mortimer 

  The past is a foreign country - this is your guide. We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it...

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  The Time Traveller's Guide to... The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

  Ian Mortimer 

  The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there...Imagine you could travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see, and hear, and smell? Where would you stay? What are you going to eat? And how are you going to test to see if you are going down with the plague? In The Time Traveller's Guide...Ian Mortimer's radical new approach...

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  I Never Knew That About... I Never Knew That About Britain: The Quiz Book

  Christopher Winn 

  Bestselling author and quiz master Christopher Winn is here to test your general knowledge of Britain with over 1000 quiz questions to perplex and puzzle about our glorious islands. Covering a myriad of subjects including history, cathedrals, sports, records, modern Britain, royalty, people, places, deeds, discoveries and disasters, there is something to...

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  Tequila Mockingbird Tequila Mockingbird

  Tim Federle 

  2013 Goodreads Choice Award in the category of Food & Cookbooks. You fought through "War and Peace," burned through "Fahrenheit 451," and sailed through "Moby-Dick." All right, you nearly drowned in "Moby-Dick," but you made it to shore and you deserve a drink! A fun gift for barflies and a terrific treat for book clubs, "Tequila Mockingbird" is the...

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  How to be a Victorian How to be a Victorian

  Ruth Goodman 

  How to be a Victorian - a time traveller's guide to Victorian Britain by the BBC's Ruth Goodman. We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Dress in whalebone and feed opium...

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  Sorry!: The English and Their... Sorry!: The English and Their Manners

  Henry Hitchings 

  Most of us know a bit about what passes for good manners - holding doors open, sending thank-you notes, no elbows on the table. We certainly know bad manners when we see them. But where has this patchwork of beliefs and behaviours come from? How did manners develop? How do they change? And why do they matter so much to us? In examining our manners, Henry...

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  Very British Problems Very British Problems

  Rob Temple 

  There's an epidemic sweeping the nation Symptoms include: *Acute embarrassment at the mere notion of 'making a fuss' *Extreme awkwardness when faced with any social greeting beyond a brisk handshake *An unhealthy preoccupation with meteorology Doctors have also reported several cases of unnecessary apologising, an obsessive interest in correct queuing...

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  The English and Their History The English and Their History

  Robert Tombs 

  In The English and their History, the first full-length account to appear in one volume for many decades, Robert Tombs gives us the history of the English people, and of how the stories they have told about themselves have shaped them, from the prehistoric 'dreamtime' through to the present day. If a nation is a group of people with a sense of kinship, a...

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  The Road to Little Dribbling The Road to Little Dribbling

  Bill Bryson 

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  Eavesdropping on Jane... Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England

  Roy A. Adkins 

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  Stuff Brits Like : A Guide to... Stuff Brits Like : A Guide to What's Great...

  Fraser Mcalpine 

  As the lead writer for BBC Anglophenia, Fraser McAlpine (a man assembled from almost every region of the UK*) spends his life explaining Brits to foreigners. Now he lifts the lid on our Marmite pot of nations and takes you on a journey from the Isle of Wight to Inverness, Belfast to Bangor, exploring the joyful enthusiasms (and pet hates) of an endlessly...

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