Nazis of Copley Square - The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front by Charles Gallagher
$34.95 AUD
Category: History
Winner of a Catholic Media Association Book Award"A great, but deeply unsettling, revelation This book is more than an account of Boston in wartime. It is a warning."-Boston Globe"The rare book by a scholar that is such a page-turner it is hard to put down A potent brew of spy story, detective story, an ...Show more
Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great by Paul Strathern
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and economics. However, all this was achieved against a background of extreme ...Show more
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all n ...Show more
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms: Winner Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year. The thrilling story of an empire's rise & fall from the best-selling author of GOLDEN MAZE & GHOST EMPIRE. by Richard Fidler
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. Winner of the Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for the BookPeople Non Fic ...Show more
Napoleon and the Rebel by Marcello Simonetta; Noga Arikha
$15.00 AUD
Category: History
Lucien was the most talented of the Bonaparte brothers, who not only can be credited for helping Napoleon seize power, but who also had a promising political career of his own. He was a romantic, an idealist, and an anti-monarchist whose love for Alexandrine, the woman he married in spite of Napoleon's ...Show more
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A Sunday Times, Observer and Waterstones Best Book of 2024 This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures. It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the fact ...Show more
Unfortunate Ends On Murder and Misadventure in Medieval England by Soren Lily
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
From the author of Twitter’s Medieval Death Bot comes Unfortunate Ends: On Murder and Misadventure in Medieval England, an illuminating collection of in-depth looks at the most interesting cases from medieval coroners’ rolls Thomas, son of Henry Robekyn, died 1286 after cutting off his left foot and the ...Show more
Young Elizabeth Princess Prisoner Queen by Nicola Tallis
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Elizabeth I is renowned for the hugely successful reign that has led her to be considered one of the most celebrated monarchs in English history. But what of the trials she faced in her tumultuous early life? Her status as a princess didn’t last long – when she was less than three years old, her mother, ...Show more
The Rest is History (The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast) by Tom Holland; Dominic Sandbrook
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys . . . There's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past from Alexander the Great to Tolkein, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland ...Show more