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
Demetrius: Sacker of Cities by James Romm
$22.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
A portrait of one of the ancient world's first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory
$37.99 AUD
Category: History
One of our foremost historical novelists, Philippa Gregory, makes history. We have fallen into the belief that women were absent from great events, and ineffectual in normal times. Through a radical reframing of the conventional eras of our history, Normal Women tells the story of our nation - not ...Show more
All the Knowledge in the World - The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by Simon Garfield
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, adults cleared their shelves in the belief that wisdom was now effortlessly accessible in their living rooms. Contributions from Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Orville Wright, Alfred Hitchcock, Marie Curie and Indira Gandhi helped mill ...Show more
Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons by Charlotte Gray
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A captivating biography of two famous women whose sons, Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt, would change the course of the 20th century--by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray.Born into upper class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano and Jennie Jerome refused to settle into predictabl ...Show more
Hitler and Stalin - The Tyrants and the Second World War by Laurence Rees
$20.00 AUD
Category: History
Two twentieth-century tyrants stand apart from all the rest, Laurence Rees has met more people with direct experience working for Hitler and Stalin than any other historian. Using their evidence, he has pieced together a compelling, comparative portrait of evil in which idealism is polluted by bloody pr ...Show more
The Stasi Poetry Circle by Philip Oltermann
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry club: The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society. 'Liebe Mitstreiter', he says. Dear comrades in arms. Today we are going to learn about the sonnet. Berlin, 1962. Morale is at rock bottom in East Germany, thrown into chaos by the new Berlin Wa ...Show more
A House in the Mountains - The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
$15.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Resistance Quartet Ser.
NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe extraordinary story of four courageous women who helped form the Italian Resistance against the Nazis and the Fascists during the Second World War.In the late summer of 1943, when Italy changed sides in WWII and the Germans, now their enemies, occupied the north of the country, an ...Show more
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation by Roger Moorhouse
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
This is the untold story of The Lados Group, a group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists based in Switzerland during the Second World War who conceived an extraordinary operation to produce false identity documents and passports, often to Latin American countries. These were smuggled into occupied ...Show more
Piccadilly: The Circus at the Heart of London by Midge Gillies
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
There's nowhere quite like Piccadilly Circus.From the moment they emerge, blinking from the underground station, visitors to Piccadilly Circus face a sensory onslaught. Its streets and alleyways merge into an intoxicating thoroughfare, with the power to propel an individual onwards to adventure, romance ...Show more
In Search of the Red Slave - Shipwreck and Captivity in Madagascar by Mike Parker Pearson; Karen Godden
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Pirates, shipwreck and slavery - these are the key themes in this story of a young Englishman who spent 14 years of his life in captivity in Madagascar. This tale has been more or less lost to sight for centuries, for, although the shipwrecked sailor in question, Robert Drury, wrote a book about his adv ...Show more
Two Houses, Two Kingdoms: A History of France and England, 1100–1300 by Catherine Hanley
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
An exhilarating, accessible chronicle of the ruling families of France and England, showing how two dynasties formed one extraordinary story The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time of personal monarchy, when the close friendship or petty feuding between kings and queens could determine the ...Show more