The Palace Papers: The Sunday Times bestseller by Tina Brown
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
William, Harry, Kate, Meghan, Andrew, Charles, Camilla, Diana … and the Queen. Based on unprecedented sources and research, bestselling author Tina Brown takes readers behind the palace walls to tell the real story of the Windsors over the last twenty years since the death of Diana. Full of powerful rev ...Show more
Daughters of Yalta by Catherine Grace Katz
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World War II. In Daughters of Yalta, Catherine Katz uncov ...Show more
Viking Women: Life and Lore by Lisa Hannett
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Let's travel in time together, a thousand or so years back, and meet Viking women in their hearth-lit world.How did these medieval viragoes live, love and die? How can we encounter them as flesh-and-blood beings with fears and feelings - not just as names in sagas or runes carved into stone? In this gro ...Show more
Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin by Ben Judah
$20.95 AUD
Category: History
From Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Russian Far East, journalist Ben Judah has travelled throughout Russia and the former Soviet republics, conducting extensive interviews with President Vladimir Putin's friends, foes and colleagues, government officials, business tycoons, mobsters, and ordinary Russi ...Show more
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
New York Times Bestseller - National Book Critics Circle Finalist - Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2015 - Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 - Economist Books of the Year 2015 - New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2015 A sweeping, "magisterial" history of the Roman Empire from one of our f ...Show more
Framed by John M. Green
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The world's most notorious art heist. Where did all the loot go?Art conservator JJ Jego is housesitting an apartment for her museum director boss in an exclusive part of Sydney's Woolloomooloo. JJ's hobby is photography and when an incident involving the police unfolds on the pier she starts clicking aw ...Show more
Two Houses, Two Kingdoms - A History of France and England, 1100-1300 by Catherine Hanley
$51.95 AUD
Category: History
An exhilarating, accessible chronicle of the ruling families of France and England, showing how two dynasties formed one extraordinary storyThe twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time of personal monarchy, when the close friendship or petty feuding between kings and queens could determine the cours ...Show more
Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Winner, 2014 Indie Award for Non-Fiction Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie - the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have m ...Show more
This Mortal Coil: A History of Death by Andrew Doig
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A TIMES AND OBSERVER HIGHLIGHT FOR 2022'An empowering story of human ingenuity' Economist'Full of curious facts' The Times'Gripping and fascinating' Mail on Sunday'The obvious beauty of This Mortal Coil is that in being a history of death, it is also a history of life, and a brilliant, fascinating one a ...Show more
History of Ancient Britain by Neil Oliver
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? In A HISTORY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very beginnings of the story of Britain; on the first people to occupy these islands and their battle for survival. There has been human habitation in Britain, regular ...Show more
The Story of the World in 100 Moments by Neil Oliver
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
We reveal ourselves not through what we display but through what we conceal and discard; a rusty trowel, a crooked needle, the hilt of a sword, these are the objects that furnish our lives. Priceless is not just about obvious treasure, gold and jewels, but also those unexpected, unintended glimpses of t ...Show more
Hanging Ned Kelly: Elijah Upjohn, the hangmen and the underbelly of colonial Australia by Michael Adams
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
When it came time to hang Ned Kelly, the job fell to crap-carrier-turned-quack-doctor-turned-drunken-chicken-thief Elijah Upjohn. Such is life indeed. Hanging Ned Kelly looks at the life and times, crimes and demise of Australia's most famous anti-hero from a new perspective: that of the 'rogue and vaga ...Show more