The Joys of Collecting by J. Paul Getty
$19.95 AUD
Category: Historical
Offers a personal account of the author's consuming passion for art collection. This title also offers a portrait of an idiosyncratic and personal passion for art - and how his first serious forays into art collecting in the 1930s would turn into a love that ends with the foundation of one of the world' ...Show more
Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes by Roger E. Backhouse
$32.95 AUD
Category: Historical
The 2008 recession restored Keynes to prominence. This account elaborates the misinformation that led to his repeated resurrection and interment since his death in 1946. Keynes was more open-minded about capitalism than is commonly believed, and his nuanced views offer an alternative to the polarized rh ...Show more
Bernini: His Life and His Rome by Franco Mormando
$52.95 AUD
Category: Historical
Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy. This biography leads us through Bernini's feuds and love affairs, scandals and sins.
The Last Pre-Raphaelite : Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy
$50.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A wonderful evocation of highly celebrated period of art history from one of the most acclaimed biographers of our time. From the prize winning author of William Morris comes a new biography of Edward Burne-Jones, the greatest British artist of the second half of the nineteenth century. The angels on ou ...Show more
Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion by Anne Somerset
$59.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Queen Anne was one of Britain's most remarkable monarchs. With a personal life riven by passion, illness and intrigue -- she presided over some of the most momentous events in British history. Like books by Antonia Fraser or Amanda Foreman and based on years of original research, Queen Anne is historica ...Show more
We all Wore Stars : Memories of Anne Frank from her Classmates by Theo Coster
$23.00 AUD
Category: Historical
In 1941, Theo Coster was a student at the Amsterdam Jewish Lyceum, one in a class of 28 Jewish children that the Nazis had segregated from the rest of the Dutch population. Among Theo's fellow students was a young Anne Frank, whose diary would later become one of the most important documents of the Holo ...Show more
On the Estate: Memoirs of a Russian Lady Before the Revolution by Mariamna Davydoff
$33.95 AUD
Category: Historical
Mariamna Davydoff, the Russian lady, was born in 1871. It was after she fled Russia for France in 1919 that she set down her detailed recollections and painted the accompanying watercolors. This book tells the story of Mariamna.
The Words to Remember it: Memoirs of Child Holocaust Survivors by Caroline Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
In this indescribably moving collection, 32 child survivors of the Holocaust share the stories of their unfathomable experiences of loss, and of their ultimate endurance.
Billy Ruffian by David Cordingly
$10.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The biography of a ship of the line from birth in the Medway in 1782 through the key naval engagements of the Napoleonic era to its death in 1836. This is the story of the Bellerophon, a ship of the line known to her crew as the Billy Ruffian. And like any good biography, it runs from birth (in a small ...Show more
Marlborough : England's Fragile Genius by Richard Holmes
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Bestselling military historian Richard Holmes delivers an expertly written and exhilarating account of the life of John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough and Britain's finest soldier, who rose from genteel poverty to lead his country to glory, cementing its position as a major player on the European st ...Show more
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession by Andrea Wulf
$27.95 AUD
Category: Historical
One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies. But it was not bales of cotton that awaited him, but plants and seeds.Over the next forty years, Bartram would send hun ...Show more