Napoleon: A Concise Biography by Mr David Bell
$23.95 AUD
Category: Historical
This book provides a concise, lively, up-to-date portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, including his most important battles, while situating him firmly in historical context. David Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility - for both good and ill - that Napoleon repres ...Show more
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate tha ...Show more
Hitler's Valkyrie: The Uncensored Biography of Unity Mitford by David R. L. Litchfield
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Emerging from modern history as a remarkable and much-loved family, the Mitfords have remained largely unrepentant concerning theirs and particularly Unity's enthusiastic support of Hitler, the Nazis, Oswald Mosley and British fascism. However, having initially encouraged and supported Unity's affair wi ...Show more
The Other Mitford Pamela's Story by Diana Alexander
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Pamela Jackson, nee Mitford, is perhaps the least well known of the illustrious Mitford sisters, yet her story is just as captivating, and more revealing. Despite shunning the bright city lights that her sisters so desperately craved, she was very much involved in the activities of her extraordinary fam ...Show more
A Prescribed Life by Tony Atkinson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Tony Atkinson spent his early days suspended in a cage outside the sixth-storey window of his family home in 1920s London. So perhaps he was always destined to see the world differently, and to land in ridiculous, hilarious situations. There was the time he came between Winston Churchill and his bowel m ...Show more
The Wright Brothers: The Dramatic Story-Behind-the-Story by David McCullough
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot. Who were these men and how wa ...Show more
Florence Foster Jenkins by Nicholas Martin
$20.00 AUD
Category: Historical
'People may say that I couldn't sing. But no one can say that I didn't sing.' Despite lacking pitch, rhythm or tone, Florence Foster Jenkins became one of America's best-known sopranos, celebrated for her unique recordings and her sell-out concert at Carnegie Hall. Born in 1868 to wealthy Pennsylvanian ...Show more
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale
$28.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbours, a ...Show more
The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox by Alison Weir
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
'Alison Weir's sound scholarship and storyteller's gift for rich, telling detail constantly engages and enthrals the reader? The TimesThe captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five Tudor reigns.Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Some ...Show more
The Cowshed by Ji Xianlin
$50.00 AUD
Category: Historical
If a Chinese citizen has read one book on the Cultural Revolution, it is likely to be Ji Xianlin's The Cowshed, a candid account of his year of imprisonment on the campus of Peking University, and his later disillusionment with the cult of Mao worship. As the campus spirals into a political frenzy, Ji, ...Show more
The Black Prince of Florence The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro De' Medici by Catherine Fletcher
$55.00 AUD
Category: Historical
"Nothing in sixteenth-century history is more astonishing than the career of Alessandro de' Medici". (Hilary Mantel). In The Black Prince of Florence, a dramatic tale of assassination, spies and betrayal, the first retelling of Alessandro's life in two-hundred years opens a window onto the opulent, cut- ...Show more
The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home by Natalie Livingstone
$28.00 AUD
Category: Historical
This is a Sunday Times bestseller - Five women. One house. One extraordinary history. From its construction in the 1660s to its heyday in the 1960s, Cliveden has played host to a dynasty of remarkable and powerful women. Anna Maria, Elizabeth, Augusta, Harriet, and Nancy - five ladies who, over the cour ...Show more