Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical
In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design, helped bring about the ...Show more
A Crime in the Family by Sacha Batthyany
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A memoir of brutality, heroism and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of the Second World War In the spring of 1945, at Rechnitz on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batt ...Show more
The Spy Who Loved Castro: How I Was Recruited by the CIA to Kill Fidel Castro by Marita Lorenz
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Few can say they've seen some of the most significant moments of the twentieth century unravel before their eyes. Marita Lorenz is one of them.Born in Germany at the outbreak of WWII, Marita was incarcerated in a Nazi concentration camp as a child. In 1959, she travelled to Cuba where she met and fell i ...Show more
Augustine: Conversions and Confessions by Robin Lane Fox
$28.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographies Augustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the Confessions, which continues to delight its many admi ...Show more
Livingstone by Tim Jeal
$38.95 AUD
Category: Historical
David Livingstone (1813-1873) is revered as one of history's greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross Africa, and the first to find Victoria Falls and the source of the Congo River. In this exciting new edition, Jeal draws on fresh sources and archival discoveries to provide the ...Show more
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
$30.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Modern Library
One of the greatest biographies of our time by Edmund Morris the author of Dutch: A memoir of Ronald Reagan.
The Mistress of Mayfair: Men, Money and the Marriage of Doris Delevingne by Lyndsy Spence
$49.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The plot could have been inspired by Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies, but unlike Waugh's novel - which parodies the era of the 'Bright Young Things' - The Mistress of Mayfair is a real-life story of scandal, greed, corruption and promiscuity at the heart of 1920s and '30s high society, focusing on the wily, ...Show more
Valiant for Truth : The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondant by Peter Brune; Neil McDonald
$50.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Chester Wilmot (1911-1954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent, broadcaster, journalist and writer. Covering the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobruk and Derna, the heartbreaking disaster of the Greek Campaign, the epic struggle along the famed Kokoda Track, the momentous amp ...Show more
Grand Hotel Abyss by Stuart Jeffries
$39.00 AUD
Category: Historical
In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the philosophers Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Hork ...Show more
TWILIGHT OF LOVE by DESSAIX ROBERT
$28.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Turgenev (1818-1883) was one of Russia's most famous writers, friend of Flaubert, Dostoyevsky and Henry James. Turgenev's private life was, perhaps, as remarkable as his public. For forty years he was passionately devoted to Pauline Viardot, a singer, following her and her husband around Europe. Yet th ...Show more
Eleanor and Hick by Susan Quinn
$50.00 AUD
Category: Historical
"In 1932, as her husband assumed the presidency, Eleanor Roosevelt entered the claustrophobic, duty-bound existence of the First Lady with dread. By that time, she had put her deep disappointment in her marriage behind her and developed an independent life:now threatened by the public role she would be ...Show more
Outlandish Knight by Minoo Dinshaw
$60.00 AUD
Category: Historical
In his enormously long life (he was born in 1903 and died in 2000), Steven Runciman managed not just to be a great historian of the Crusades and Byzantium, but Grand Orator of the Orthodox Church, a member of the Order of Whirling Dervishes, Greek Astronomer Royal and Laird of Eigg. His friendships, cur ...Show more