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
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
$37.00 AUD
Category: British
A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all n ...Show more
Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism by Leigh Sales
$37.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Leigh Sales is one of Australia's most accomplished journalists, having anchored the ABC's flagship 7.30 program for twelve years. She has been a foreign correspondent, hosted Lateline and anchored numerous elections for the ABC. In this book, she turns her interviewing skills onto her own profession, ...Show more
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy by Stein Ringen
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture. Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of collapse and restarts, from the Viking Age to the A ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$28.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
Dethroned: The Downfall of India's Princely States by John Zubrzycki
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The dramatic true story of the betrayal of hundreds of Indian princely states by both the departing British and the new Congress government. The dramatic true story of the betrayal of hundreds of Indian princely states by both the departing British and the new Congress government. In July 1947, India’s ...Show more
American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden by Katie Rogers
$60.00 AUD
Category: American
Since the Clinton era, tectonic shifts in media, politics, and pop culture have all redefined expectations of First Ladies, even as the boundaries set upon them have at times remained frustratingly anachronistic. With sharp insights and dozens of firsthand interviews with major players in the Biden, Oba ...Show more