The Secret Royals: Spying and the Crown, from Victoria to Diana by Richard Aldrich, Rory Cormac
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
'Outstanding... This is the royals as we have never seen them before' Kate Vigurs, author of Mission FranceFor the first time, The Secret Royals uncovers the remarkable relationship between the Royal Family and the intelligence community, from the reign of Queen Victoria to the death of Princess Diana.I ...Show more
Iron Curtain - A Love Story by Vesna Goldsworthy
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
'A book so full of steel and compassion that it stands glitteringly apart' Rachel Cusk'A piercingly evocative East-West love story' The Times____________________Two worlds on the brink of change in a love story doomed to disasterMilena is a Red Princess living in a Soviet Satellite state in the 1980s. S ...Show more
Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know (HB) by Greg Jenner
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
'Jenner uses all the questions you never dared to ask about history as an excellent excuse to rummage around in some funny, fascinating, and downright peculiar corners of the past. Every page contains delights, and you will be illuminated and entertained in equal measure.' Lindsey Fitzharris, author of ...Show more
Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore by Bettany Hughes
$75.00 AUD
Category: History
As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for close on three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to the Greek King Menelaus and the Trojan Prince P ...Show more
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
"Helen Castor has an exhilarating narrative gift. . . . Readers will love this book, finding it wholly absorbing and rewarding." --Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall In the tradition of Antonia Fraser, David Starkey, and Alison Weir, prize-winning historian Helen Castor delivers a ...Show more
Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance by Giles Milton
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
On Saturday 9th September, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. What happened over the next two weeks must rank as one of the most compelling human dramas of the twentieth century. Almost two million people were caught up in ...Show more
Finding Endurance - Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End by Darrel Bristow-Bovey
$25.99 AUD
Category: History
'Engaging, absorbing and crammed with marvellous stories, Finding Endurance is a tale about exploring the cold, told with much warmth.' MICK HERRON 'Beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn' CLAIRE ROBERTSON, AUTHOR OF THE SPIRAL HOUSE 'Tender, heartfelt and lyrical' PETINA GAPPAH, AUTHOR ...Show more
The King's Assassin : The Fatal Affair of George Villiers and James I by Benjamin Woolley
$19.98 AUD
Category: History
The rise of George Villiers from minor gentry to royal power seemed to defy gravity. Becoming gentleman of the royal bedchamber in 1615, the young gallant enraptured James, Britain's first Stuart king, royal adoration reaching such an intensity that the king declared he wanted the courtier to become his ...Show more
The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
'Stunningly written' Sunday Times ... 'Richly absorbing' Guardian... 'Hooks you in from the start' Times... 'Masterful' Independent... 'Hugely compelling' Observer... 'Wonderful' Financial Times Siberia's story is traditionally one of exiles, bitter cold and suffering. Yet there is another tale to tell. ...Show more
Sundowner of the Skies - Oscar Garden, The Forgotten Aviator by Mary Garden
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
In the early morning of 16 October 1930, Oscar Garden taxied his tiny open-cockpit Gipsy Moth across London's Croydon aerodrome and, with a wave of his hand to the only person there to farewell him, took off. He had carpet slippers on his feet and a packet of sandwiches on his lap. His plan was to fly t ...Show more
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms (HB) by Richard Fidler
$45.00 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. When Richard Fidler came across the account of Ibn Fadlan - a tenth-century Arab diplomat who travelled a ...Show more
Macquarie by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping Australia's destiny, transforming a harsh, foreboding penal colony into an agricultural powerhouse and ultimately a prosperous society.He also helped shape Australia's national character. An egalitarian at heart, Macquarie saw boundless potential in Britain's r ...Show more