Behind the Throne - Five Centuries of Life in the Royal Household by Adrian Tinniswood
$55.00 AUD
Category: British
Behind the Throneis a history of family life. The families concerned were royal families. But they still had to get up in the morning. They ate and entertained their friends and worried about money. Henry VIII kept tripping over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James I had to cut back ...Show more
A New History of the Irish in Australia by Diane Hall; Elizabeth Malcolm
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
A New History of the Irish in Australia In 1986, Patrick O'Farrell published a landmark book, The Irish in Australia. This was an important volume given that after the English, the Irish were the largest population in Australia between 1788 and 1945, comprising nearly 25 per cent of all non-Indigenous A ...Show more
The Zinoviev Letter - The Conspiracy That Never Dies by Gill Bennett
$50.95 AUD
Category: British
This is the story of one of the most enduring conspiracy theories in British politics, an intrigue that still has resonance nearly a century after it was written: the Zinoviev Letter of 1924. Almost certainly a forgery, no original has ever been traced, and even if genuine it was probably Soviet fake ne ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots: Two Queens, One Future by John Guy
$24.99 AUD
Category: British
Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived a life of incredible drama and turmoil: crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months old, ...Show more
Robert the Bruce - King of the Scots by Michael Penman
$40.00 AUD
Category: British
Robert the Bruce (1274-1329) famously defeated the English at Bannockburn and became the hero king responsible for Scottish independence. In this fascinating new biography of the renowned warrior, Michael Penman focuses on Robert's kingship in the fifteen years that followed his triumphant victory and e ...Show more
Mary Queen Of Scots by Antonia Fraser
$25.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: Women in History Ser.
'Ground-breaking ... One of the greatest international bestsellers of the post-war period' Andrew Roberts, Daily Telegraph 'Reads like an engrossing novel' Sunday Times An infant queen. A teenage widow. Beautiful, flamboyant Mary Queen of Scots had a formidable intellect but her political sense - formed ...Show more
The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty by Tracy Borman
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
'Borman approaches her topic with huge enthusiasm and a keen eye for entertaining...this is a very human story of a remarkable family, full of vignettes that sit long in the mind.' Dan Jones, The Sunday Times 'Tracy Borman's eye for detail is impressive; the book is packed with fascinating courtly minu ...Show more
Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him by Tracy Borman
$33.00 AUD
Category: British
Henry VIII is well known for his tumultuous relationships with women, and he is often defined by his many marriages. But what do we see if we take a different look? When we see Henry through the men in his life, a new perspective on this famous king emerges...Henry's relationships with the men who surro ...Show more
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
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
The King's Speech by Mark Logue; Peter Conradi
$21.99 AUD
Category: British
THE BESTSELLING BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE OSCAR AND BAFTA AWARD-WINNING FILM One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue. Logue wasn't a British aristocrat or even an En ...Show more
Yorkshire A lyrical history of England's greatest county by Richard Morris
$55.00 AUD
Category: British
'A restless, poetic, strange book, and the territory it describes deserves nothing less' Observer 'Meticulously researched ... fascinating' Country Life Yorkshire, it has been said, is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain, plain, coast, downs, fen and heath lie close. By weaving history, f ...Show more