Alexandria: The City that Changed the World by Islam Issa
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
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
New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle To Defend the West by David E Sanger
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry against the other two great nuclear powers--Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia--in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of a half century ago. New Cold Wars--the latest from Pulitzer ...Show more
As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West by Guido Alfani
$60.00 AUD
Category: European
How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or misbehaved) and helped (or didn’t help) their communities in times of crisis.The rich have always fascinated, sometimes in problematic ways. Medieval thinkers feared that the super-rich would act 'as gods am ...Show more
Four Shots in the Night by Henry Hemming
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
'A truly page-turning, compulsive and also profoundly moving narrative. Superb.' JAMES HOLLAND ... 'Gripping, urgent, superbly reported and brilliantly written' DAN JONES HOW THE DEATH OF A SPY IN THE IRA LED TO THE BIGGEST MURDER INVESTIGATION IN BRITISH HISTORY. On 26th May 1986, the body of an unde ...Show more
The Shortest History of Italy: A Captivating Journey from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic by Ross King
$28.00 AUD
Category: European
Embark on a captivating journey through 3000 years of Italy's rich history Italian history has always been about resilience and rebirth ... It is a country that for so many centuries has offered up visions of the wonders to which we humans, at our very best, can aspire. Italy was the centre of Europe's ...Show more
An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country by David Finkel
$37.00 AUD
Category: American
An immersive account of a man navigating the startling changes underway in contemporary America, from the Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Award-winning author of The Good Soldiers and Thank You for Your Service. Brent Cummings, an Iraq war veteran, has come home feeling he survived one war only to find him ...Show more
The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain by Matthew Longo
$37.00 AUD
Category: European
An extraordinarily dramatic reconstruction of the greatest border breach in Cold War history In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists did the unthinkable- they entered the forbidden militarised zone of the Iron Curtain - and held a picnic. Word had spread of what was going to happen. On wisps of r ...Show more
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes by Anthony Bale
$45.00 AUD
Category: European
A delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world, from Europe to the Antipodes, seen through the eyes of those who travelled across it From the medieval bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Tra ...Show more
Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before there was any possibility of 'a room of one's own'. In an innovative and engaging narrative of eve ...Show more
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint by Peter Sarris
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
'Magnificent. A vivid and authoritative biography . . . a vibrant portrait of an entire world' Kyle Harper'A stunning tour de force, Sarris brings one of history's most momentous dramas back to life' Walter Scheidel In this groundbreaking new biography of Justinian, Peter Sarris gives us an intimate in ...Show more
The City of the Living by Nicola Lagioia
$40.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
The spellbinding literary true crime story of one of the most vicious crimes in recent Italian history. A journey into the darkest corners of Rome and of the human soul. For fans of Truman Capote and Emmanuel Carrere In March 2016, in an apartment on the outskirts of Rome, two "ordinary" young men bruta ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more