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A Realm Divided: A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England by Dan Jones
$49.99 NZD
Category: History
A vivid, in-the-round portrait of English society in the year of Magna Carta, from the best-selling author of The Plantagenets England in 1215. This was not just the year of Magna Carta and King John's war with his barons, but a year of crusading and church reform, of foreign wars and dramatic sieges, ...Show more
A Woman's World, 1850-1960 by Marina Dan; Amaral Jones
$64.99 NZD
Category: History
The third volume in Marina Amaral and Dan Jones's bestselling Histories in Colour series. Women's Work explores the many roles - domestic, social, cultural and professional - played by women across the world from 1850-1960, before second-wave feminism took hold. Using Marina's colorized images and Dan J ...Show more
Cats Who Changed the World: 50 Cats Who Altered History, Inspired Literature… or Ruined Everything by Dan Jones
$27.99 NZD
Category: Pets & Animals
50 stories of cats that have altered history, inspired art and literature, reunited lost lovers, saved lives, or just ruined everything.
Crusaders by Dan Jones
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of The Templars. 'Voyages, battles, sieges and slaughter: Dan Jones's tumultuous and thrilling history of the crusades is one of the best'SUNDAY TIMES. 'A powerful story brilliantly told. Dan Jones writes with pace, wit and insight'HELEN CASTOR. 'A fresh and vibrant accoun ...Show more
Crusaders: An Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands (HB) by Dan Jones
$49.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Dan Jones, best-selling chronicler of the Middle Ages, turns his attention to the history of the Crusades - the sequence of religious wars fought between the late eleventh century and late medieval periods, in which armies from European Christian states attempted to wrest the Holy Land from Islamic rule ...Show more
Dogs Who Changed the World: 50 dogs who altered history, inspired literature... or ruined everything by Dan Jones
$27.99 NZD
Category: Pets & Animals
Dogs Who Changed the World is a beautifully illustrated, heart-warming book that celebrates all dogs and proves that every single one of them is absolute magic. Dogs have trotted at our collective side for tens of thousands of years, bound up in the story of humanity. They have inspired great works of ...Show more
Essex Dogs by Dan Jones
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Essex Dogs Trilogy Ser.
The sensational historical fiction debut from Sunday Times bestseller Dan Jones. A BBC History 2022 Book of the Year! July 1346. The Hundred Years' War has begun, and King Edward and his lords are on the march through France. But this war belongs to the men on the ground.Swept up in the bloody chaos, a ...Show more
Essex Dogs by Dan Jones
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Essex Dogs Trilogy Ser.
Globally bestselling historian Dan Jones makes his historical fiction debut with Essex Dogs, the explosive first instalment in an epic new trilogy set during the Hundred Years War. July 1346. The Hundred Years' War has begun, and King Edward and his lords are on the march through France. But this war b ...Show more
Frederick the Second 1194-1250 by Ernst Kantorowicz; Dan Jones (Introduction by)
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
Known as the 'stupor mundi' - the wonder of the world - Holy Roman Emperor Frederick the Second led one of those extraordinary lives that was full of unimaginable drama and achievement. Born in 1194, Frederick was the son of emperor Henry II and Constance, Queen of Sicily, who, at the age of forty, alle ...Show more
In the Reign of King John - A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England by Dan Jones
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
A vivid and richly illustrated portrait of English society in the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history. 1215 is chiefly remembered for King John attaching his seal to Magna Carta in a quiet Thames-side water-meadow - a milestone in the history of libert ...Show more
Magna Carta - The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter by Dan Jones
$32.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: fine
On a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgruntled barons in a meadow by the river Thames named Runnymede. Beset by foreign crisis and domestic rebellion, King John was fast running out of options. On 15 June he reluctantly agreed to fix his regal seal to a document that ...Show more
Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter by Dan Jones
$22.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Plantagenets comes a beautifully produced account of the signing, impact, and legacy of a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracyOn a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgru ...Show more