A Dirty, Filthy Book: Sex, Scandal, and One Woman's Fight in the Victorian Trial of the Century by Michael Meyer
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
An empowering and gripping story of a pioneer of women's rights written by a critically-acclaimed writer and historian, for fans of Hallie Rubenhold, Hermione Lee and prize-winning Victorian histories. London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes ...Show more
Mythos: The stunningly iIllustrated story by Stephen Fry
$80.00 AUD
Category: History
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld ...Show more
A History of Ideas: The most intriguing, relevant and helpful concepts from the story of humanity by The School of Life
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
"This is an unusual sort of history book: a history of ideas - and not just any old ideas, ideas from across time and space that are best suited to healing, enchanting and reviving us. It's a collection of humanity's very best thoughts on how to approach the challenges and joys of being alive. Along the ...Show more
War Paths - Walking in the Shadows of the Clans by Alistair Moffat
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
"Taking the reader through key historical moments of battles that would alter the country forever, [Moffat] also offers fascinating insight into the language, culture and lives of the clans." -- The Bookseller Acclaimed historian Alistair Moffat sets off in the footsteps of the Highland clans. In twelv ...Show more
The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men; its longest-serving editor, James Murray, devoted 36 years to the ...Show more
Desert Diggers Writings From a War Zone 'Somewhere in the Middle East' 1940-1942 by David Mitchelhill-Green
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
"Desert Diggers: Writings from a War Zone ‘Somewhere in the Middle East’ 1940-1942 draws upon hundreds of soldiers’ letters in a fresh and captivating narrative of the war in North Africa. Desert Diggers follows the first men to volunteer after the outbreak of war in 1939, tracing their adventures in ex ...Show more
The Kelly Hunters by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
When Ned Kelly and his band of young tearaways ambushed and killed three brave policemen in a remote mountain camp in 1878, they sparked the biggest and most expensive manhunt Australia had seen. The desperate search would end when Kelly and his gang, wearing suits of armour, tried to derail a train bef ...Show more
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha
$21.99 AUD
Category: General History | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history.Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, Nur Masalha explores how Pales ...Show more
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: General History | Reading Level: good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The best true spy story I have ever read."--JOHN LE CARR The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. I ...Show more
Sailing Alone: A History by Richard J. King
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
What compels a person to set out to sea? A solo sailor explores the exhilarating and frightening world of the wide ocean Sailing on a boat by yourself out at sea and out of sight of land can be exhilarating or terrifying, compelling or tedious - sometimes it can be all of these things just in one morn ...Show more
Dethroned: The Downfall of India's Princely States by John Zubrzycki
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The dramatic true story of the betrayal of hundreds of Indian princely states by both the departing British and the new Congress government. The dramatic true story of the betrayal of hundreds of Indian princely states by both the departing British and the new Congress government. In July 1947, India’s ...Show more
SAS: Rogue Heroes - Now a major TV drama by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
From the secret SAS archives, and acclaimed author Ben Macintyre- the first ever authorized history of the SAS'Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II' - Antony BeevorIn the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentr ...Show more