The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans - A Story of Love and War by Catherine Katz
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
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. With victory close at hand, the Yalta confer ...Show more
River Kings: The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads by Catrine Jarman
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
The Sunday Times bestseller'Astonishing and compelling' Bernard Cornwell'Replete with witches, human sacrifice, Greek fire and funeral orgies... one of the most thrilling works of archaeological detective work I have ever read' William Dalrymple, FT Follow bioarchaeologist Cat Jarman - and the cutting- ...Show more
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back. In 1889, thousands of hopeful people raced southward from the Kansas state line and westward from the Arkansas boundary to stake claims ...Show more
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan
$30.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why? With painstaking care, retired FBI agent Vincent Pankoke and a team of indefatigable investigators pored over tens of thousands of pages of documents-some never before seen-and interviewed scores of descendants of people familiar with the Franks. Utiliz ...Show more
The Searchers - The Quest for the Lost of the First World War by Robert Sackville-West
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
'Fascinating ... carefully researched and beautifully written' DAVID DIMBLEBY 'Utterly riveting' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Remarkable' JOHN CAREY, SUNDAY TIMES 'Robert-Sackville West writes tenderly about death and remembrance' GERARD DEGROOT, THE TIMES By the end of the First World War, the whereabouts of ...Show more
Ruin and Renewal - Civilising Europe after the Second World War by Paul Betts
$25.00 AUD
Category: European
A major new history of post-war Europe. In 1945, Europe lay in ruins - its cities and towns destroyed by conflict, its economies crippled, its societies ripped apart by war and violence. In the years that followed, Europeans tried to make sense of what had happened - and to forge a new understanding of ...Show more
The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith
$50.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: Wellcome Collection
A major new history of the Cold War: exploring the conflict through the minds of the people who lived it. More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in o ...Show more
China in One Village: The History of One Town and the Future of theWorld by Liang Hong
$33.00 AUD
Category: Asian
After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province. What she found was an extended family torn apart by the seismic changes in Chinese society, and a village ...Show more
The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy And The Wrecking Of Henry I's Dream by Charles Spencer
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
‘As gripping as any thriller. History doesn't get any better than this' BILL BRYSON 'A brilliant read … Spencer has a real facility for getting these characters to leap fully formed from the page … Game of Thrones but in the real world' ANTHONY HOROWITZ 'The medieval Titanic … Charles Spencer explores ...Show more
Rizzio: Darkland Tales by Denise Mina
$25.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
FROM THE AWARD-WINNING DENISE MINA COMES A RADICAL NEW TAKE ON ONE OF THE DARKEST EPISODES IN SCOTTISH HISTORY - THE BLOODY MURDER OF DAVID RIZZIO.This breathtakingly tense work is a tale of sex, seduction, secrets and lies, one that looks at history through a modern lens and explores the lengths that m ...Show more
Geopolitics for the End Time - From the Pandemic to the Climate Crisis by Bruno Maçães
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
A sharp vision of our changing world order as Covid and climate breakdown usher in a new 'survival of the fittest'. How well have different cultures and societies responded, and could this become a turning point in the flow of history? Before Covid, a new competition was already arising between alternat ...Show more
A Republic of Equals - A Manifesto for a Just Society by Jonathan Rothwell
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
Why political inequality is to blame for economic and social injustice Political equality is the most basic tenet of democracy. Yet in America and other democratic nations, those with political power have special access to markets and public services. A Republic of Equals traces the massive income i ...Show more