Sheilas: Badass Women of Australian History by Eliza Reilly
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
An entertaining romp through Australian history that celebrates the badass sheroes we were never taught about in school and who deserve to be printed on our money, goddamn it! It's been said that 'well-behaved women seldom make history', but the handful of white boys who wrote our history books convenie ...Show more
Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon by Mark McGurl
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
As the story goes- Jeff Bezos left a lucrative job to start something new in Seattle only after a deeply affecting reading of Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day. But if a novel gave us Amazon.com, what has Amazon meant for the novel? In Everything and Less, acclaimed critic Mark McGurl discovers a dyna ...Show more
A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind by Ann Wolbert Burgess
$30.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
A behind-the-scenes look at the creation and development of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, written by the pioneering forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI studies, profiles, and catches serial killers. Directly beneath the progressive activism and sex positivity of the 1970s, a dark undercu ...Show more
Team of Five - The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump by Kate Andersen Brower
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
USA Today BestsellerFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women--also a New York Times bestseller--comes a poignant, news-making look at the lives of the five former presidents in the wake of their White House years, including the surprising friendships they have forme ...Show more
BROKEN HEARTLANDS: A JOURNEY THROUGH LABOUR'S LOST ENGLAND by Payne
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
Broken Heartlands is an essential and compelling political road-trip through ten constituencies that tell the story of Labour's red wall from Sebastian Payne - an award-winning journalist and Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times. 'Impressive and entertaining' - Sunday Times 'Immensely readable' - O ...Show more
Built on a Lie - The Rise and Fall of Neil Woodford and the Fate of Middle England's Money by Owen Walker
$60.00 AUD
Category: British
'This book should be sold with a bottle of blood-pressure pills. Walker's depiction is meticulous and unsparing' The Times 'Vital financial journalism with heart' Emma Barnett, BBC The definitive account of the Neil Woodford scandal from the award-winning FT journalist who first broke the story. This ...Show more
Britain Alone - The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
A magisterial and profoundly perceptive survey of Britain's post-war role on the global stage, from Suez to Brexit.'Admirably lucid and measured, as well as studded with sharp pen portraits of the key players, Britain Alone gives us the fullest long-run political and diplomatic narrative yet of Britain' ...Show more
London and the Seventeenth Century - The Making of the World's Greatest City by Margarette Lincoln
$51.95 AUD
Category: European
The first comprehensive history of seventeenth-century London, told through the lives of those who experienced it The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I's execution, the Plague, the Great Fire, the Restoration, and then the Glorious Revolution: the seventeenth century was one of the most momentou ...Show more
The Fall of Robespierre - 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris by Colin Jones
$56.95 AUD
Category: European
The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety which had for more than a year directed the Reign of Terror, was plan ...Show more
The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II by Jonathan Haslam
$55.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics Ser.
A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War II The Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew—the roots of the Second World War—and upends our assumptions with a masterful new interpretation. Looking beyond traditional explanations base ...Show more
Norse America - The Story of a Founding Myth by Gordon Campbell
$45.00 AUD
Category: American
The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications about their presence there that have developed in recent centuries. Tracking the saga of the Norse acro ...Show more
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War by Howard W. French
$57.95 AUD
Category: History
In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democ ...Show more