Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World's Network of Corruption by Patrick Alley
$33.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
*** "Part true crime tale, part investigative procedural, this is the account of the brilliant and necessary superheroes of Global Witness, whose superpower is the truth." - Edward Zwick, Director of Blood DiamondArms trafficking, offshore accounts and luxury property deals. Super-yachts, private jets a ...Show more
On Nationalism by Eric Hobsbawm
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
I remain in the curious position of disliking, distrusting, disapproving and fearing nationalism wherever it exists . . . but recognising its enormous force, which must be harnessed for progress if possible.In the last two decades the uses of the term 'nationalism' has increased steeply with the rising ...Show more
Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis by Stephen P. Kershaw
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
In 2022 it will be 2,500 years since the final defeat of the invasion of Greece by the Persian King Xerxes. This astonishing clash between East and West still has resonances in modern history, and has left us with tales of heroic resistance in the face of seemingly hopeless odds. Kershaw makes use of re ...Show more
Embroidering Her Truth - Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power by Clare Hunter
$33.00 AUD
Category: European
I felt that Mary was there, pulling at my sleeve, willing me to appreciate the artistry, wanting me to understand the dazzle of the material world that shaped her.At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red. Widely known as the colour of strength and passion, it was in fact worn by Mary as the Cathol ...Show more
Hunting Ghislaine by John Sweeney
$33.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess who suffered a tragedy, the death of her father, a war hero, a philanthropist, a good man, in suspicious circumstances. She fled to New York where she made a new life with a brilliant mathematician. Her name is Ghislaine Maxwell and her lover was Jeffrey E ...Show more
The Opera House: The extraordinary story of the building that symbolises Australia the people, the secrets, the scandals and the sheer genius by Peter FitzSimons
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'The sun did not know how beautiful its light was until it was reflected off this building.' - Louis Kahn, US architect If only these walls and this land could talk ... The Sydney Opera House is a breathtaking building, recognised around the world as a symbol of modern Australia. Along with the Taj Ma ...Show more
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
This is a profoundly original and entertaining history of France, from the first century bc to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and thirty years of exploring France on foot, by bicycle and in the library. Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and endi ...Show more
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
The Western world has turned its back on refugees, fuelling one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in history. In 2018, Sally Hayden received a message on Facebook: “Hi sister Sally, we need your help.” It was from an Eritrean man who had been held in a Libyan detention centre for months. Every ...Show more
The Kelly Hunters by Grantlee Kieza
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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
Missing, Presumed Dead: The double murder case that shocked Australia by Mark Tedeschi
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
It was the double murder case that gripped Australia, and former Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC is finally able to share all the shocking details.Dorothy Davis and Kerry Whelan were both happy, healthy, affluent, middle-class women from conservative, loving families.Such women are hardly ever among t ...Show more
Crooked Alleys: Deliverance and Despair in Iran by Soraya Lennie
$30.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
By 2013, Iranians were suffocating, as though the streets had become narrower, the buildings taller, the dirty air thicker. In electing Hassan Rouhani, they chose a new, reformist leader, burying the days when a Holocaust-denying president had pushed Iran to the edge of economic collapse and conflict. B ...Show more