The Quest for Queen Mary by James Pope-Hennessy; Hugo Vickers
$33.00 AUD
Category: British
'A scary portrait of put-upon servants and potty aristos ... this is arguably the most riotously funny volume published this year'Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'One of the funniest, most eccentric books of the year'Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday When James Pope-Hennessy began his work on Queen Mary's ...Show more
Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard'The second volume of what will surely rank as one of the greatest historical achievements of our age ... The War and Peace of history: a book yo ...Show more
A Short History of Europe - From Ancient Greece and Rome to Churchill and the 21st Century by Simon Jenkins
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
The first short, single-volume history of the continent, from the author of the bestselling A Short History of England Europe has for two millennia been a remarkably successful continent. In this dazzling new history, bestselling author Simon Jenkins tells the story of its evolution from a battlefield o ...Show more
Murder by the Book - A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime by Claire Harman
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain Ser.
One of the Guardian's '50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2018' Early in the morning of 6 May 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, a footman answered the door to a panic-stricken maid from a nearby house. Her elderly master, Lord William Russell, was lying in bed with his throat cut so deeply that the ...Show more
Whiteshift - Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities by Eric Kaufmann
$55.00 AUD
Category: Political
Whiteshift tells the most important political story of the 21st century: how demographic change is transforming Western politics and how to think about the future of white majorities This is the century of whiteshift. As Western societies are becoming increasingly mixed-race, demographic change is tran ...Show more
John Curtin's War Volume II - Triumph and Decline by John Edwards
$50.00 AUD
Category: War
The first volume of John Curtin?s War was recognized as 'a landmark in Australian political biography? (The Australian) and 'remarkable? (AFR). That book ends with the fall of Singapore and a fundamental realignment of Australia?s place in the world- 'The Americans were coming. So were the Japanese.? Th ...Show more
The Dinosaur Artist - Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy by Paige Williams
$33.00 AUD
Category: European
New Yorker writer Paige Williams "does for fossils what Susan Orlean did for orchids" (Book Riot) in this "tremendous" (David Grann) true tale of one Florida man's attempt to sell a dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia--a story "steeped in natural history, human nature, commerce, crime, science, and politics ...Show more
Capitalism in America - A History by Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge
$55.00 AUD
Category: American
Where does innovation come from, and how does it spread through a society? And why do some eras see the fruits of innovation spread more democratically, and others, including our own, see the opposite? In Capitalism in America, Alan Greenspan distils a lifetime of grappling with these questions into a ...Show more
The Discovery of France: Picador Classic by Graham Robb
$23.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Colm TóibínTen years ago, I began to explore the country on which I was supposed to be an authority . . .France is a country famous for its intellectuals, its philosophers and writers, its fashion, food and wine. And yet the notion of 'the French' as one nation is relatively rece ...Show more
The Quest for Queen Mary (H/B) by James Pope-Hennessy; Hugo Vickers
$50.00 AUD
Category: British
'A scary portrait of put-upon servants and potty aristos ... this is arguably the most riotously funny volume published this year'Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'One of the funniest, most eccentric books of the year'Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday When James Pope-Hennessy began his work on Queen Mary's official ...Show more
Has the West Lost It? by Kishore Mahbubani
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
The West's centuries-old status as the center of global wealth and power is coming to an end. As the new powers--China and India from Asia and others from Africa and Latin America--rise to the top of the world's pecking order, how should the West react? Kishore Mahbubani argues passionately and provocat ...Show more
Our Towns - A Journey into the Heart of America by James Fallows; Deborah Fallows
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America in a single-prop airplane, visiting small cities and meeting civic leaders, factory workers, recent immigrants, and young entrepreneurs, seeking to take the pulse and discern the outlook of an America that is unreporte ...Show more