Conquistadores: A New History by Fernando Cervantes
$27.00 AUD
Category: European
NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY 'This book is a terrific read ... I could not put it down' Matthew Restall, Literary Review The 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends a ...Show more
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political
The celebrated CNN journalist and leading global commentator examines how COVID-19 will fundamentally reshape our worldSince the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core three times. 11 September 2001, the financial collapse of 2008 and - most of all - Covid-19. Each was an asymmetric ...Show more
George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch by Andrew Roberts
$65.00 AUD
Category: European
George III, Britain's longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as 'the cruellest tyrant of this age' (Thomas Paine, eighteenth century), 'a sovereign who inflicted more profound and enduring injuries upon this country than any other modern English king' (W.E.H. Lecky, nineteenth century), 'one of ...Show more
Pure Narco by Jesse Fink, Luis Navia
$23.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
How does a young student majoring in Portuguese at Georgetown University in Washington, DC become one of the biggest drug smugglers on Earth? And how does he survive 25 years in the trade - and encounters with some of its most powerful and ruthless figures, from Pablo Escobar to Narcos- Mexico's Alberto ...Show more
The Story of the Country House - A History of Places and People by Clive Aslet
$39.95 AUD
Category: British
The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present
Secdef - The Nearly Impossible Job of Secretary of Defense by Charles A. Stevenson
$36.00 AUD
Category: American
SECDEF offers an expert's insights into one of the most difficult jobs in Washington. Of the twenty-one men who have held the post of secretary of defense since it was created in 1947, only half served more than eighteen months. The first, James Forrestal, committed suicide soon after leaving the Pentag ...Show more
The Man in the Iron Mask - The True Story of Europe's Most Famous Prisoner by Josephine Wilkinson
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
A vivid, dramatic, and eye-opening historical narrative, The Man in the Iron Mask reveals the story behind the most enduring mystery of Louis XIV's reign. The Man in the Iron Mask has all the hallmarks of a thrilling adventure story: a glamorous and all-powerful king, ambitious ministers, a cruel and ...Show more
Princes of the Renaissance by Mary Hollingsworth
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
'Exceptionally sumptuous ... This vivid history brings to life the vices and virtues of the feuding ruling families of Italy' Michael Prodger, The Times, Book of the Week A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons - the prin ...Show more
The Light of Italy - The Life and Times of Federico Da Montefeltre, Duke of Urbino by Jane Stevenson
$60.00 AUD
Category: European
'Painstakingly researched and yet unfailingly readable' Ross King 'An insight into one of Renaissance Italy's most glamorous courts' Catherine Fletcher 'In a narrative matching her book's sumptious illustrations, Jane Stevenson celebrates Urbino as an essential place of pilgrimage for all lovers of Ital ...Show more
Owning the Earth : The Transforming History of Land Ownership by Andro Linklater
$20.00 AUD
Category: History
Barely two centuries ago, most of the world's productive land still belonged either communally to traditional societies or to the higher powers of monarch or church. But that pattern, and the ways of life that went with it, were consigned to history as a result of the most creative - and, at the same ti ...Show more
In the Night of Time by Antonio Munoz Molina
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile borders of Europe, he reflects on months of fratricidal conflict in his embattled ...Show more
The History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago
$23.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Panther Ser.
What happens when the facts of history are replaced by the mysteries of love? When Raimundo Silva, a lowly proofreader for a Lisbon publishing house, inserts a negative into a sentence of a historical text, he alters the whole course of the 1147 Siege of Lisbon. Fearing censure he is met instead with a ...Show more