Delizia: The Epic History of Italians and Their Food by John Dickie
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Category: History
'If only we could all write as brilliantly on Italy and its food as John Dickie does. He may well know Italy and Italians better than they know themselves' Stanley Tucci The new edition of the much-loved classic, with a fresh chapter that brings the surprising and moreish tale of the Italian way of eat ...Show more
The Walnut Tree: Untold Histories Of Violence, Women And The Law by Kate Morgan
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Category: History
A devastating work of non-fiction that reveals a hidden history of women, violence and the law. ' A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more they are beaten, the better they'll be.' So went the proverb quoted by a prominent MP in the Houses of Parliament in 1853. His words - intended ironically in a deb ...Show more
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History by Otto English
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Category: History
From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from our past, examining these previously unquestioned idols and exposing what they were trying to hide. Was Che Guevara really a revolutionary hero? Should Mother Teresa be honoured as a sai ...Show more
The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I by Douglas Brunt
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Category: History
September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between Belgium and England. On board is one of the most famous men in the world, Rudolf Diesel, whose new internal combustion engine is on the verge of revolutionizing global industry forever. But Diesel never arrives at his destination. He vanishes ...Show more
The Rest is History (The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast) by Tom Holland; Dominic Sandbrook
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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
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World: 'Monumental' Daily Telegraph by Islam Issa
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Category: History
A city drawn in sand. Inspired by the tales of Homer and his own ambitions of empire, Alexander the Great sketched the idea of a city onto the sparsely populated Egyptian coastline. He did not live to see Alexandria built, but his vision of a sparkling metropolis that celebrated learning and diversity w ...Show more
Fear An Alternate History by Robert Peckham
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Category: History
A ground-breaking examination of the societal impact of fear that gives us a thrilling new insight on world history. It's been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid-19 pandemic, we're a more fearful society than ever before. Yet fear, and the panic it produces, have long been dr ...Show more
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones
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Category: History
Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built. The instant Sunday Times bestseller 'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages there is'Sunday Times 'An audacious, entertaining page-turner. Dan Jones covers a thousand years of hist ...Show more
The Race to the Future by Kassia St Clair
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Category: History
An Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a conman and various journalists battle over steep mountain ranges and across the arid vastness of the Gobi Desert. The contestants need teams of helpers to drag their primitive cars up narrow gorges, lift them over rough terrain and float th ...Show more
The English and their History by Robert Tombs
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Category: History
The first full-length history of England in one volume for many decades - now in paperback The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever since, and their defining natio ...Show more
The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons by Catrine Jarman
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Category: History
From the brilliant bioarchaeologist and bestselling author of River Kings, a gripping new history of the Anglo-Saxons told through six bone chests, stored for over a thousand years in Winchester Cathedral. A book that unlocks the secrets of the pre-Norman past. In 1642, William Waller and his Parliamen ...Show more
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink by Matthew Parker
$36.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Dilly's Story Ser.
'Marvellous...escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full complexity' Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling author of EmpirelandThe story of the British Empire at its maximum territorial extent, including a wider range of voices of the colonised than have ever been recorded before29th Sept ...Show more