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	1066, The Year of the Conquest • David Howarth • HISTORY • A crack medievalist and storyteller, Howarth brings to life the momentous events of 1066 in rich, anecdotal history -- a classic portrait of the Norman invasion and conquest of England. (GBR115, $14.00)
	After You With The Pistol • Kyril Bonfiglioli • MYSTERY • Another installment in the British Charlie Mortdecai series, starring a whiskey-swilling man-about-town. (GBR590, $13.95)
	Agatha Christie A to Z: The Essential Reference to Her Life and Writings • Dawn B. Sova • MYSTERY • A scholarly compendium of everything Christie. (GBR48, $55.00)
	Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death • M.C. Beaton • MYSTERY • In this installment of the Agatha Raisin series, our heroine has moved to a not-quite-so-quiet village in the Cotswolds, and of course finds her self in the middle of a puzzling murder. (GBR212, $6.99)
	The Age of Bede • J.F. Webb • D.H. Farmer • HISTORY • (GBR552, $13.00)
	The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848 • Eric J. Hobsbawm • HISTORY • A trenchant account of society's vast transformation wrought by the French Revolution and Britain's Industrial Revolution. (GBR418, $15.95)
	The Age of Shakespeare • Francois Laroque • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A volume in the outstanding "Discoveries" series, this pocket-size encyclopedia is an excellent introduction to Elizabethan England. It presents Shakespeare, his life, times and legacy in concise essays and hundreds of well chosen illustrations. (GBR11, $12.95)
	The Agricola and the Germania • Tacitus • Harold Mattingly • S.A. Handford • HISTORY • Two texts of classical antiquity by Tacitus. Agricola is a eulogy for his father-in-law, the governor of Roman Britain. Germania is one of the earliest and most extensive account of the early Germanic World (EUR182, $14.00)
	Albion, The History of the British Imagination • Peter Ackroyd • HISTORY • In this extended essay novelist and historian Peter Ackroyd meditates on English identity and its meaning for English writers, painters and composers. (GBR543, $16.95)
	All Things Bright and Beautiful • James Herriot • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • (GBR554, $7.99)
	All Things Wise and Wonderful • James Herriot • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • (GBR553, $7.99)
	The Anatomy of Melancholy • Robert Burton • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • The 17th-century examination of melancholy. (GBR447, $24.95)
	Anglo-Saxon England • Frank M. Stenton • HISTORY • A standard history, first published in 1943. (GBR542, $29.95)
	The Aran Islands • J.M. Synge • Tim Robinson • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A much-loved turn-of-the-century account of the islands (as contrasted with mainland Ireland), drenched in the Celtic soul of the Irish. (IRE26, $14.00)
	The Art and Architecture of London, An Illustrated Guide • Ann Saunders • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An illustrated guide to the architectural treasures of London. (GBR97, $24.95)
	Art and Society in the Middle Ages • Georges Duby • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A study of the relationship between the production of art and the nature of Medieval society. (EUR85, $30.55)
	Art of the Celts • Lloyd Robert Laing • Jennifer Laing • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A volume in the acclaimed "World of Art" series, this is a broad introduction to Celtic art, from the 5th century B.C. to 1200 A.D. (CLT02, $14.95)
	The Arts and Crafts Movement • Wendy Kaplan • Elizabeth Cumming • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A survey of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain, America and Europe, looking at the work of several important designers of furniture, glass, ceramics, metalwork, textiles and architecture. (GBR120, $16.95)
	As You Like It • Paul Werstine • Barbara Mowat • William Shakespeare • LITERATURE • Part of the New Folger Library Shakespeare Series, Shakespeare's full text with a scene by scene prose summary and critical analysis. (TTR06, $3.99)
	Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying the Works of Shakespeare • Isaac Asimov • LITERATURE • A useful companion to the Bard's plays. (GBR434, $24.99)
	At Home with Beatrix Potter, The Creator of Peter Rabbit • Susan Denyer • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • OUT OF PRINT • A photographic tour through Hill Top, Beatrix Potter's beautiful home in England's Lake District. (GBR159, $17.95)
	Atonement • Ian McEwan • LITERATURE • A deeply engrossing family saga, evocatively set in Britain. (GBR370, $14.95)
	The Authentic Shakespeare: And other Problems of the Early Modern Stage • Stephen Orgel • HISTORY • A collection of fifteen essays on the Renaissance stage. (GBR616, $29.95)
	Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope • LITERATURE • Trollope's1857 sequel to The Warden. (GBR440, $10.00)
	Bath City Map • Geographers' A-Z • A street plan of Bath at a scale of 1:12,000. (GBR317, $9.95)
	The Battle of Britain, The Myth and Reality • Richard Overy • HISTORY • Renowned war historian Richard Overy's reassessment of the Battle of Britain. (WAR28, $13.95)
	The Beggar's Opera • John Gay • T.O. Treadwell • LITERATURE • Written in 1728, Gay's ballad opera is satirical look at 18th-century London. (GBR460, $10.00)
	Beowulf • Seamus Heaney • LITERATURE • A best-selling, critically acclaimed verse translation of the seminal Anglo-Saxon epic, which tells of a Scandinavian hero's bravery in defending Denmark from the monster Grendel. Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney translated. (SCN27, $13.95)
	Beside the Ocean of Time • George M. Brown • LITERATURE • OUT OF PRINT • A gentle coming-of-age tale by the Bard of Orkney George Mackay Brown. His short novel invokes the prehistoric ruins, Norse history and long traditions of rural Orkney in graceful prose with lovely attention to detail and rich insight into place. (SCT14, $19.95)
	Bess of Hardwick, Emprie Builder • Mary S. Lovell • HISTORY • (GBR679, $18.95)
	Beth Chatto's Gravel Garden, Drought-Resistant Planting Through the Year • Steven Wooster • Beth Chatto • NATURAL HISTORY • British horticulturist Beth Chatto shows fellow green-thumbs how to get their flowers to bloom in gravelly, sandy soil. (GRD01, $35.00)
	A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury • Edith Pargeter • LITERATURE • A historical novel full of medieval battles and disputes over feudal succession. (GBR169, $13.50)
	Blue Guide Channel Islands • Peter McGregor Eadie • GUIDEBOOK • A compact guide to the Channel Islands with a focus on history, culture and architecture. It includes 8 maps and site plans, and travel information. (GBR148, $19.95)
	Blue Guide England • Ian Ousby • GUIDEBOOK • COMING IN MAY • In its inimitable style, this comprehensive guide is the best overview for travelers with an interest in archaeology, architecture, art and culture of London and England. (GBR149, $34.95)
	Blue Guide Museums and Galleries of London • Malcolm Rogers • GUIDEBOOK • A practical, comprehensive guide for the diehard arthound. (GBR524, $27.95)
	Blue Guide Oxford & Cambridge • Geoffrey Tyack • GUIDEBOOK • This guide in the British series covers in detail the art, history and architecture of Oxford and Cambridge. With maps, site plans and line drawings. (GBR470, $21.95)
	The Bodleian Library and its Treasures, 1320-1700. • David Rogers • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A colorful, fully illustrated introduction to the famous library at Oxford. (GBR220, $50.00)
	The Body in the Library • Agatha Christie • MYSTERY • A classic Miss Marple mystery, set in London. (GBR186, $5.99)
	A Bone of Contention • Susanna Gregory • LITERATURE • The second chronicle in Susanna Gregory's series featuring medieval detective Matthew Bartholomew. (GBR628, $7.99)
	Kingdom by the Sea • Paul Theroux • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Theroux details his coastal journey around the British Isles in 1982 in this insightful book, which displays his occasional ill temper alongside his celebrated ability to combine social history with a good old-fashioned traveler's tale. (GBR09, $14.95)
	Bradt Guide Eccentric Britain • Benedict le Vay • GUIDEBOOK • A characteristically informative guide in the Bradt style and a rollicking tour through some of Britain's more bizarre oddities, including, yes, the World Black Pudding Throwing Championships. (GBR586, $22.95)
	Bradt Guide Eccentric Britain • Benedict le Vay • GUIDEBOOK • A characteristically informative guide in the Bradt style and a rollicking tour through some of Britain's more bizarre oddities, including, yes, the World Black Pudding Throwing Championships. (GBR586, $22.95)
	Brick Lane, A Novel • Monica Ali • LITERATURE • A richly imagined Booker-Prize nominated novel set in London's South Asian community. (GBR505, $15.00)
	Brideshead Revisited • Evelyn Waugh • LITERATURE • A compact hardcover edition of Waugh's illuminating and entertaining portrait of England's aristocracy and, especially, of life in a country estate. (GBR106, $18.00)
	Britain Since 1945, The People's Peace • Kenneth O. Morgan • HISTORY • A modern history by the prolific author. (GBR551, $29.95)
	British Isles Map, Great Britain and Ireland • Michelin Travel Publications • A colorful and accurate map of both Great Britain and Ireland, at a scale of 1:1,000,000. (GBR07, $11.95)
	The British Isles, A History of Four Nations • Hugh Kearney • HISTORY • The Celts, Romans, Vikings, Normans and modern immigrants all make an appearance in Kearney's elegant and revisionist history, the tale of not just the English but also of the Scots, Welsh and Irish. (GBR88, $33.99)
	British Isles, Great Britain & Ireland Map • Hammond Maps • A colorful shaded relief map produced in the UK showing both Great Britain and Ireland. (GBR29, $11.95)
	British Isles, Wildlife of Coastal Waters • Tony Soper • Dan Powell • FIELD GUIDE • A compact, informative and well-illstrated guide to the birds, whales and other creatures of the islands and inshore waters of the British Isles. (GBR371, $19.95)
	The British Museum is Falling Down • David Lodge • LITERATURE • This funny novella pierces the facade of genteel academia. (GBR36, $14.00)
	Britons: Forging the Nations, 1707-1837 • Linda Colley • HISTORY • An interesting study of national British identity and the joining of England, Scotland and Wales. (GBR81, $21.00)
	Cadogan Guide England • Guy McDonald • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive guide to England by Guy McDonald with plenty of practical information. (GBR477, $22.95)
	The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre • Simon Trussler • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A comprehensive history, profusely illustrated. (GBR234, $44.99)
	The Canterbury Tales (In Modern English) • Geoffrey Chaucer • Nevill Coghill • LITERATURE • A "Penguin Classics" edition of the cornerstone of medieval English literature, Chaucer's unfinished tales of pilgrims en route to Canterbury. (GBR250, $10.00)
	Castles of England, Scotland and Wales • Paul Johnson • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A history and photographic tour of the castles of Britain. (GBR305, $16.95)
	Cathedrals and Castles, Building in the Middle Ages • Alain Erlande-Brandenburg • ART & ARCHITECTURE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE • A pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages. It features hundreds of drawings and color illustrations, a brief chronology and plenty more information. (MED07, $12.95)
	Celtic Prayers from Iona • J. Philip Newell • RELIGION • Inspired by the gaelic prayers and poems of the 19th-century Scotsman Alexander Carmichael, Philip Newell and his wife developed this handsome hard cover book while wardens on the island. (SCT21, $14.95)
	The Celts, Conquerors of Ancient Europe • Chriatiane Eluere • ARCHAEOLOGY • A colorful pocket-size encyclopedia documenting the art and archaeology of the Celts. With 100 maps and illustrations. (CLT01, $12.95)
	The Celts: A Very Short Introduction • Barry W Cunliffe • HISTORY • A concise, revealing social history of the Celts, by a reigning authority and popular writer. (CLT03, $11.95)
	Central Cambridge: A Guide to the University and Colleges • Kevin Taylor • GUIDEBOOK • An introduction to Cambridge University, its history and architecture, with helpful maps and illustrations, perfect for the visitor or prospective student. Published by (naturally) Cambridge University Press. (GBR468, $15.99)
	A Certain Justice • P.D. James • MYSTERY • A terrific mystery set in London, starring the redoubtable Adam Dagliesh. (GBR185, $7.99)
	Charles Darwin, The Power of Place • Janet Browne • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The second half of Browne's magisterial history, full of insight into Victorian science. In this big, engrossing volume she follows the fate of Darwin, and his ideas, from the return of the voyage of the Beagle until his death. (GBR375, $25.95)
	Charles Rennie Mackintosh • Alan Crawford • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A heavily illustrated, compact survey of the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. (SCT24, $18.95)
	Charming Small Hotel Guides Britain & Ireland • Tamara Grosvenor • GUIDEBOOK • A full page with a color photograph is dedicated to each entry in this guide focused on hotels with 20 bedrooms or less. (GBR674, $19.95)
	The Children of Henry VIII • Alison Weir • HISTORY • (GBR74, $16.00)
	A Christmas Carol • Charles Dickens • LITERATURE • The famous tale by the Victorian master, here with watercolor and colored-pencil illustrations. (GBR235, $3.95)
	Churchill, The Unexpected Hero • Paul Addison • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A biography of Churchill focusing on his personal traits and reputation. (GBR579, $31.50)
	City Secrets London • Robert Kahn • GUIDEBOOK • A connoisseur's guide to the city and its attractions, with personal recommendations by artists, designers, architects and personalities who have made their home in London. (GBR327, $19.95)
	Civil Wars, A Military History of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1638-1660 • John P. Kenyon • Jane H. Ohlmeyer • J.S. Morrill • HISTORY • A nicely illustrated military history of the British and Irish Civil Wars by a team of noted specialists. (GBR549, $19.95)
	Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe • Glynis Ridley • HISTORY • The entertaining history of an Indian rhinoceros named Clara, who was brought to Europe in 1741 by a Dutch sea captain and toured for seventeen years, to the delight of several heads of state. (FRN536, $12.00)
	A Coast to Coast Walk, St. Bees Head to Robin Hood's Bay: A Pictorial Guide • A. Wainwright • GUIDEBOOK • A facsimile edition of Wainwright's beloved 1973 account of a cross-country walk from the Irish Sea to the North Sea with his original sketches, drawings and commentary. (GBR626, $24.95)
	Coast to Coast, St. Bees to Robin Hood's Bay • Henry Stedman • GUIDEBOOK • This compact guide covers in detail the popular walk from the Irish Sea to the North Sea. (GBR672, $17.95)
	Coast, A Celebration of Britain's Coastal Heritage • Christopher Somerville • NATURAL HISTORY • (GBR610, $29.95)
	Codebreakers, the Inside Story of Bletchley Park • Alan Stripp • F.H. Hinsley • HISTORY • Memoirs of life in the British code-cracking department during World War II. (WAR46, $19.95)
	The Collected Stories • Dylan Thomas • LITERATURE • A wonderful collection of short stories by the celebrated Welsh author and poet. These imaginative stories are well worth re-reading for their vivid characters, sense of place and, especially, Thomas's elegant prose. (GBR134, $17.95)
	The Collects of Thomas Cramner • Frederick C. Barbee • Paul F. Zahl • RELIGION • (GBR448, $17.00)
	Color for Adventurous Gardeners • Jonathan Buckley • Christopher Lloyd • NATURAL HISTORY • Practical advice on how to maximize the impact of color in your garden. (GRD08, $19.95)
	The Comedy of Errors • William Shakespeare • LITERATURE • Part of the New Folger Library Shakespeare Series. (GBR431, $4.99)
	Companion Guide Edinburgh and the Borders Country • A.J. Youngson • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive introduction to the history, culture and architecture of Edinburgh. (SCT19, $27.95)
	The Complete Angler, A Connecticut Yankee Follows in the Footsteps of Walton • James Prosek • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Young angler, painter and writer James Prosek retraces the steps of the legendary fly fisherman Izaak Walton. (FSH02, $30.00)
	The Complete Angler, Or the Contemplative Man's Recreation • Izaak Walton • Charles Cotton • NATURAL HISTORY • A classic of fly fishing literature, in print for nearly 350 years. (FSH01, $15.00)
	The Complete Pelican Shakespeare • Stephen Orgel • William Shakespeare • LITERATURE • (GBR618, $65.00)
	The Complete Poems • John Keats • John Barnard • LITERATURE • A portable, paperback edition of all the poems of John Keats. (GBR162, $16.00)
	The Complete Sherlock Holmes, All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories • Arthur Conan Doyle • LITERATURE • This paperback volume manages to collect every Sherlock Holmes story that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ever wrote, including "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and his three other short novels concerning the legendary detective. (GBR157, $13.90)
	A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court • Mark Twain • LITERATURE • Twain's comic 1889 novel contains some discussion of the merits of monarchy. (GBR326, $9.00)
	Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Landmark Visitor's Guide • Rita Tregellen Pope • GUIDEBOOK • A practical, illustrated touring guide to Cornwall and its offshore islands with good maps, including information on walking and weather (notably notations for "what to do if it rains"). (GBR362, $17.99)
	Cotswold Cycling Map • • A detailed map with a focus on cycling routes. (GBR491, $10.95)
	The Cotswold Way • Kev Reynolds • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide in the British series. (GBR588, $19.95)
	Cotswolds Map • Ordnance Survey • A terrific, colorful, and very detailed topographic map of the Cotswolds, at a scale of 1:25,000. (GBR124, $19.95)
	The Crafts of Britain in the Twentieth Century • Tanya Harrod • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An illustrated survey of the British Arts and Crafts movement. (GBR119, $95.00)
	Crisis of Parliaments: English History, 1509-1660 • Conrad Russell • HISTORY • An in-depth, scholarly account of parliamentary politics during a crucial period. A volume in the Short Oxford History of the Modern World. (GBR550, $44.95)
	Crofter and the Laird • John McPhee • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • FAVORITE • McPhee packs up his family and returns to his ancestral land on the Isle of Colonsay for a year in this lyrical, appreciative portrait of place and traditional ways of life in the Hebrides. (SCT23, $15.00)
	Cross Channel • Julian Barnes • LITERATURE • Each linked in some way with cross channel experiences, these ten short stories range in time from the late 17th century to the year 2015. Comic, complex and intellectual. (GBR56, $13.00)
	The Crown Jewels, The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB's Archives • Nigel West • Oleg Tsarev • HISTORY • A lively account of Soviet intelligence in Britain from the end of World War I to the late 1950s. West is a prolific British military historian specializing in espionage. (SPY21, $50.00)
	Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress • Nina Auerbach • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A powerful psychological profile of the novelist. (GBR117, $39.95)
	Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution • Randal Keynes • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A portrait of Darwin as a family man by a great-great grandson. (GBR516, $15.00)
	Daughter of Time • Josephine Tey • MYSTERY • An engrossing mystery that finds a modern detective digging into England's past to see if Richard III was truly the villain history, and Shakespeare, made him out to be. (GBR558, $14.00)
	David Copperfield • Charles Dickens • LITERATURE • Perhaps Dickens most famous novel, and certainly his most autobiographical, this classic is noteworthy for its vivid and painful descriptions of orphan life in Victorian London. (GBR381, $8.00)
	Dead Cert • Dick Francis • MYSTERY • A murder mystery set in the world of horse racing. (GBR408, $6.99)
	The Dead of Jericho • Colin Dexter • LITERATURE • An Inspector Morse mystery. (GBR452, $6.99)
	The Death of Comedy • Erich Segal • LITERATURE • A scholarly discussion of the rise and fall of staged comedies. (TTR10, $27.00)
	The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys • Richard Le Gallienne • Robert Louis Stevenson • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The famous portrait of 1660s London. (GBR459, $15.95)
	Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550-1860 • Roy Porter • HISTORY • A history of England that examines the repercussions of disease before public health care. (GBR112, $24.99)
	Dracula • Bram Stoker • LITERATURE • The vampire novel that started it all, based on the legend of "Vlad the Impaler." The gothic shocker is set within the dank castles and misty forests of Transylvania, and the foggy streets and staid country houses of Victorian England. (EUR125, $11.00)
	The Eagle of the Ninth • Rosemary Sutcliff • LITERATURE • (GBR556, $7.95)
	Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe • Henri Pirenne • HISTORY • OUT OF PRINT • Pirenne, an important economic historian, traces the economic and social development of Western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the middle of the 15th century in this classic book, first published in 1936. (EUR18, $15.00)
	Eleanor of Aquitaine, A Life • Alison Weir • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • An extremely well-researched, enjoyable biography of the woman who was both queen of France (married to Louis VII) and queen of England (married to Henry II). Eleanor became a political and artistic powerbroker in an age when most women were seen but not heard. (FRN287, $17.00)
	Ellis Peters' Shropshire • Ellis Peters • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A personal tour of Shropshire by the prolific historical novelist Edith Pargeter (aka Ellis Peters). (GBR171, $15.95)
	Empire, The British Imperial Experience from 1765 to the Present • Denis Judd • HISTORY • How the empire affected rulers and the ruled from the American Revolution to the present. (GBR80, $28.50)
	Empires of the Atlantic World, Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 • J. H. Elliott • HISTORY • A masterful synthesis of English and Spanish colonies in the New World. (ATL24, $50.00)
	England As You Like It, An Independent Traveler's Companion • Susan Allen Toth • GUIDEBOOK • A charming, digressive guide to navigating England and Scotland on your own. (GBR395, $12.95)
	England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings, 1075-1225 • Robert Bartlett • HISTORY • A lively and far-reaching account of the politics, religion, and culture of England in the century and a half after the Norman Conquest. Robert Bartlett is Wardlaw Professor of Medieval History at the University of St Andrews. (GBR627, $49.95)
	England Under the Tudors • G.R. Elton • HISTORY • A well-regarded history of the period by a scholar of Tudor administrative history. (GBR546, $34.95)
	England's Thousand Best Houses • Simon Jenkins • ART & ARCHITECTURE • (GBR678, $65.00)
	English History 1914-1945 • Alan Taylor • HISTORY • A volume in the monumental 15-volume Oxford History of England. (GBR219, $170.00)
	English Watercolors, An Introduction • Graham Reynolds • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A discussion of the English watercolor movement, complemented by illustrations. (GBR182, $35.00)
	The Enigma of Arrival, A Novel • V.S. Naipaul • LITERATURE • (GBR456, $15.95)
	The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett • LITERATURE • A comic romp through the English and Scottish countryside, first published in 1771. (GBR437, $13.00)
	Eyewitness Guide London • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • This superb guide to London features color photography, dozens of excellent neighborhood maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the city's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (GBR34, $25.00)
	Eyewitness London Pocket Map & Guide • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • This superb guide to London features color photography, easy-to-use foldout maps and top attractions. Convenient and up-to-date with an unbeatable price, this is the guide to carry. (GBR685, $6.99)
	Eyewitness Real City London • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • With up-to-date information on what's hot in London, this chic guide lists the trendiest local spots to eat, shop, party and relax. Supported by a website so you'll always be on the inside track. (GBR686, $15.00)
	Fallen into the Pit • Ellis Peters • MYSTERY • The first entry in the "Inspector Felse" series of mysteries. (GBR167, $6.99)
	Far Afield • Susanna Kaysen • LITERATURE • This charming novel about a social anthropologist off on a grant to study the residents of the Faroes wonderfully evokes the people, culture and windswept landscapes of the islands. (ICL08, $14.00)
	The Far Islands and Other Cold Places, Travel Essays of A Victorian Lady • Elizabeth Taylor • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • OUT OF PRINT • Here are the tales of a no-nonsense "Victorian lady," featuring her great love for remote islands with bad weather. She writes of the people, culture, traditions and natural history of Iceland, Norway, Scotland, and the Faroe Islands with grace and insight. (ARC32, $16.95)
	A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe • Guy Mountfort • FIELD GUIDE • A classic field guide in the Peterson series. (EUR15, $22.00)
	The Fighting Kings of Wessex • G.P. Baker • HISTORY • The story of the attempt of the Saxon kings to build their own nation in southwest England. (GBR77, $14.95)
	Final Rounds, A Father, a Son, the Golf Journey of a Lifetime • James Dodson • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • The author's trip with his father to the great courses of Scotland and England. (GOL02, $16.00)
	Five Days in London, May 1940 • John Lukacs • HISTORY • A fly-on-the-wall account of a long weekend in 1940, capturing all the uncertainty, drama and suspense surrounding Churchill's affirmation that Britain would continue the war with Germany. (WAR47, $11.95)
	Flashman and the Tiger • George MacDonald Fraser • LITERATURE • This 11th installment in The Flashman Papers (purportedly retrieved and not written by George Macdonald Fraser, a nice conceit), consists of three short adventures, which find our hero cavorting with Bismarck and Emperor Franz-Josef and the future Edward VI. (WAF58, $14.95)
	Flora Britannica, The Concise Edition • Richard Mabey • NATURAL HISTORY • A brief survey of habitats, landscapes, and plants throughout Britain. (GBR207, $29.99)
	Fodor's Exploring Scotland • Gilbert Summers • GUIDEBOOK • With its many photographs, detailed descriptions and practical information, this compact guide covers Scotland in style. (SCT09, $22.00)
	Fodor's Great Britain • Linda Cabasin • GUIDEBOOK • COMING IN NOVEMBER • This comprehensive guide features solid practical information on sights, excursions, restaurants, hotels and nightlife. (GBR596, $23.95)
	Fodor's London's 25 Best • Fodor's • GUIDEBOOK • This slim guide to London (with handy full-color maps) has everything you need to know for a short visit to the city, including recommended sightseeing, restaurants, hotels and shops. (GBR08, $11.95)
	Fodor's See It Britain • Fodors • GUIDEBOOK • Fodor's vibrant and informative guide to touring Great Britain. (GBR503, $24.95)
	For the Beauty of the Earth: Birding, Opera, and Other Journeys • Thomas Urquhart • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Urquhart chronicles a lifelong affair with nature, combined with a passion for music, as he travels-- and bird watches-- through pastoral England, Italy, the Camargue in Provence, and the villages of Mali. (BRD35, $15.00)
	The French Lieutenant's Woman • John Fowles • LITERATURE • This Victorian love story, set in Lyme Regis of 1867, tells the tale of an obscure relationship between Charles Smithson and a mysterious, enigmatic woman. (GBR209, $14.99)
	The Friendly Shakespeare, A Thoroughly Painless Guide to the Best of the Bard • Norrie Epstein • LITERATURE • An informative, entertaining guide to Shakespeare. (GBR435, $18.00)
	Garden Masterclass • John Brookes • NATURAL HISTORY • A visually striking, definitive book of garden design. (GRD07, $40.00)
	Garden Open Tomorrow • Beverley Nichols • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • In this last book of his long gardening and writing career, Nichols reflects on nature's role as the ultimate gardener. Nichols' writing is full of wit, charm and many digressions including his thoughts on cats and plants as murder weapons. (GRD03, $24.95)
	The Garden Through the Year • Fred Whitsey • Graham Stuart Thomas • NATURAL HISTORY • A month-by-month guide to gardening that weaves practical advice on plant introduction with Thomas' own thoughts on the craft. (GRD06, $49.95)
	The Gate of Angels • Penelope Fitzgerald • LITERATURE • Fitzgerald's seriocomic novel, set in 1912, finds a young scientist from Cambridge and a nurse from London embroiled in a romance that challenges them both emotionally and intellectually. (GBR469, $12.00)
	Gaudy Night • Dorothy L. Sayers • MYSTERY • A great Sayles mystery, set at Oxford, featuring the inimitable Lord Peter Wimsey. (GBR187, $7.99)
	A Ghost of a Chance • Peter Guttridge • MYSTERY • Black magic, pagans and Satanists befall Nick Madrid in the second book of the series. (GBR648, $14.00)
	Good Gardens Guide • Katherine Lambert • Peter King • GUIDEBOOK • A thorough guide to Britain's historic gardens, complete with tourist information and photographs. (GBR632, $24.95)
	The Gothic Cathedral • Christopher Wilson • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An illustrated overview of gothic cathedrals, their history, design and construction, covering the masterpieces built from the 12th to the 16th century. With photographs and diagrams. (EUR80, $34.95)
	Great Britain and Ireland Map • Freytag & Berndt • A nicely detailed map showing both Great Britain and Ireland at a scale of 1:700,000. (GBR31, $12.95)
	Great Britain Map • Ordnance Survey • A homegrown, excellent map of Great Britain at a scale of 1:650,000. (GBR06, $12.95)
	Great Expectations • Charles Dickens • LITERATURE • Dickens at the top of his form. It follows Pip, from a boy orphan taken in by the eccentric Miss Havisham to a young man who finds himself benefactor to a small fortune. (GBR380, $7.95)
	A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany • Aubrey Burl • GUIDEBOOK • An excellent guide to finding -- and understanding -- all the major sites, plus a few not-so-well known ones. It includes maps, black-and-white photographs, site diagrams, and a bibliography. (GBR102, $35.00)
	Hadrian's Wall Map • Ordnance Survey • A detailed, comprhensive map of hadrian;s Wall and surrounding lands at a scale of 1:25,000. (GBR304, $19.95)
	Hadrian, The Restless Emperor • Anthony Birley • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • An up-to-date, scholarly biography. (ITL260, $40.95)
	The Hand of Justice • Susanna Gregory • LITERATURE • In fractious 14th century Cambridge, physician and forensic specialist Matthew Bartholomew's work is never done. Two aristocratic prisoners have returned to Cambridge to face those that helped convict them. When two corpses are discovered at the local mill, Bartholomew is sent to investigate. Fourth in the series. (GBR629, $7.99)
	A Handful of Dust • Evelyn Waugh • LITERATURE • Satirical novel of Britain between the wars. (GBR190, $14.99)
	The Heart of England, The Amateur Historians Guide • Sarah Valente Kettler • Carole Trimble • GUIDEBOOK • A helpful guide to touring 200 historic sites in England, including Windsor Castle, Eton College, Oxford, and Shakespeare's hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon. (GBR652, $22.95)
	Hemingway's Chair • Michael Palin • LITERATURE • The story of a disgruntled postal worked in East Anglia. (GBR111, $14.95)
	Hengeworld • Michael Pitts • ARCHAEOLOGY • (GBR540, $16.99)
	Henry Esmond • Wiliam Makepeace Thackeray • LITERATURE • Thackeray's classic novel is excellent on the history and warfare of 18th-century England. (GBR85, $7.95)
	Henry IV, Part I • William Shakespeare • LITERATURE • Part of the New Folger Library Shakespeare Series. (GBR432, $4.99)
	Henry IV, Part II • William Shakespeare • LITERATURE • Part of the New Folger Library Shakespeare Series. (GBR433, $4.99)
	Henry V, The Oxford Shakespeare • William Shakespeare • Stanley Wells • Gary Taylor • LITERATURE • A volume in the Oxford Shakespeare series. (GBR476, $10.95)
	Henry VI, Part II • William Shakespeare • LITERATURE • The struggle for the crown continues between the Lancaster and York families in the second volume of Shakespeare's two part dramatization of the War of The Roses. (GBR643, $10.95)
	Here Is Where We Meet • John Berger • LITERATURE • This novel weaves a portrait of several European countries through encounters with the dead, from the narrator's mother, whom he discovers on a park bench in Lisbon, to a childhood friend wandering a market in Krakow. (EUR189, $14.00)
	The Hidden Places of Dorset, Hampshire and Isle of Wight • David Gerrard • GUIDEBOOK • With an attractive new design, this seventh edition of the popular guidebook highlights secluded and less well-known areas of Dorset, Hampshire and Isle of Wight, pointing to locations of interest, accommodations, dining and specialist shops. (GBR675, $29.95)
	Hijacking Enigma, The Insider's Tale • Christine Large • HISTORY • A superbly told, gripping tale of Enigma machine, its role in WWI-era code breaking and bizarre theft from the Bletchley Park in 2003. (SPY22, $14.95)
	A History of Britain, The Complete Collection • Simon Schama • HISTORY • The History Channel/BBC co-production of Schama's colorful history of Britain, its personages, personality and culture. 15 episodes. (GBR506, $59.95)
	A History of Britain, The Wars of the British 1603-1776 • Simon Schama • HISTORY • The second volume in Schama's popular history of Britain. (GBR504, $40.00)
	A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World, 3500 B.C.-1603 A.D. • Simon Schama • HISTORY • An old-fashioned entertaining history of Britain, the first of several companion volumes to the television documentary. (GBR203, $40.00)
	The History of English Interiors • Peter Aprahamian • &n