The Graves are Walking by John Kelly
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
The Irish famine that began in 1845 was one of the nineteenth century's greatest disasters. By its end, the island's population of eight million had shrunk by a third through starvation, disease and emigration. This is a brilliant, compassionate retelling of that awful story for a new generation - the f ...Show more
The Highland Clans by Alistair Moffat
$19.99 AUD
Category: European
The story of the Highland clans is a gripping one, full of celebrated names and heroic deeds. It is also, as Alistair Moffat reveals, the story of a fearless people, shaped by the unique traditions and landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Here, he traces the history of the clans from their Celtic origin ...Show more
A House in the Mountains: the Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
The extraordinary story of four courageous women who helped form the Italian Resistance during the Second World WarIn the late summer of 1943, when Italy changed sides in the War and the Germans, now their enemies, occupied the north of the country, an Italian Resistance was born. Ada, Frida, Silvia and ...Show more
The Borgias - Power and Fortune by Paul Strathern
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history, by the author of The Medici. The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. But the story of t ...Show more
Glasshouse by Charles Stross
$19.99 AUD
Category: European
When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn't take him long to discover that someone is trying to kill him. It's the twenty-seventh century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees' personalities and targ ...Show more
Violencia - A New History of Spain: Past, Present and the Future of the West by Jason Webster
$34.99 AUD
Category: European
Spain has never worked as a democracy. Throughout the country's history only one system of government has ever enjoyed any real success: dictatorship and the use of violence. Violence, in fact, is what Spain is made of, lying at the heart of its culture and identity, far more so than any other western ...Show more
A Tudor Christmas by Alison Weir; Siobhan Clarke
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
Christmas in Tudor times was a period of feasting, revelry and merrymaking 'to drive the cold winter away?. A carnival atmosphere presided at court, with a twelve-day-long festival of entertainments, pageants, theatre productions and 'disguisings?, when even the king and queen dressed up in costume to f ...Show more
The Wonders - Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age by John Woolf
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
'A promising young historian with a taste for the exotic.' Stephen FryThe Wonders is a radical new history of the Victorian age: meet the forgotten and extraordinary freak performers whose talents and disabilities helped define an era.On 23 March, 1844, General Tom Thumb, at 25 inches tall, entered the ...Show more
The Lost King of France : The Tragic Story of Marie-Antoinette's Favourite Son by Deborah Cadbury
$24.95 AUD
Category: European
The fascinating, moving story of the brief life and many possible deaths of Louis XVII, son of Marie Antoinette.Louis-Charles Bourbon enjoyed a charmed early childhood in the gilded palace of Versailles. At the age of four, he became the Dauphin, heir to the most powerful throne in Europe. Yet within fi ...Show more
Legions of Rome: The Definitive History of Every Roman Legion by Stephen Dando-Collins
$69.95 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: good-very good
No book on Roman history has attempted to do what Stephen Dando-Collins does in Legions of Rome: to provide a complete history of every Imperial Roman legion and what it achieved as a fighting force. The author has spent the last thirty years collecting every scrap of available evidence from numerous so ...Show more
Map of a Nation : A Biography of the Ordnance Survey by Rachel Hewitt
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
Map of a Nation tells the story of the creation of the Ordnance Survey map - the first complete, accurate, affordable map of the British Isles. The Ordnance Survey is a much beloved British institution, and Map of a Nation is, amazingly, the first popular history to tell the story of the map and the men ...Show more
Sicily: A Short History, from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra by John Julius Norwich
$22.99 AUD
Category: European
'Sicily is the key to everything' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The author of the classic book on Venice turns his sights to Sicily in this beautiful book full of maps and colour photographs. 'I discovered Sicily almost by mistake ...We drove as far as Naples, then put the car on the night ferry to Palermo ...Show more