Elizabeth Macarthur's Letters by Kate Grenville
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Kate Grenville's collection of Elizabeth Macarthur's letters, the inspiration for her bestselling, award-winning novel A Room Made of Leaves. These letters were the starting point for Kate Grenville's bestselling novel A Room Made of Leaves. They inspired the portrait of her imagined Elizabeth Macarthu ...Show more
The Duchess Who Dared: The Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll by Charles Castle
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The extraordinary story behind A Very British Scandal, starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany.
Banks (PB) by Grantlee Kieza
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Lust, science, adventure -- Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery The extraordinary life of one of the world's most famous and notorious adventurers Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trumped b ...Show more
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$27.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader and Russian tsar. Based o ...Show more
Our Man - Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer
$40.00 AUD
Category: Historical
From one of America's greatest non-fiction writers, an epic saga of the rise and fall of American power, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, told through the life of one man. *FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2020* Richard Holbrooke was one of the most legendary and complicated figures in ...Show more
Chanel's Riviera - Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Côte D'Azur, 1930-1944 by Anne de Courcy
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, glamorous life, far removed ...Show more
A Woman of No Importance - The Untold Story of Virginia Hall WW2s Most Dangerous Spy by Sonia Purnell
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
***A New York Times bestseller*** 'Riveting' Mick Herron, New York Times * 'A rousing tale' The Times, Book of the Week * 'Cracking' Telegraph * 'Gripping' Irish Times * 'Brilliant' Evening Standard * 'Excellent' Spectator In September 1941, a young American woman strides up the steps of a hotel in Lyon ...Show more
A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary 1939-1940 by Iris Origo
$23.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A harrowing account of life in Italy in the year leading up to World War II, available in the US for the first time. In 1939 it was not a foregone conclusion that Mussolini would enter World War II on the side of Hitler. In this previously unpublished and only recently discovered diary, Iris Origo, ...Show more
Images and Shadows: Part of a Life by Iris Origo
$28.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Bring her up somewhere where she does not belong...I'd like her to be a little 'foreign' Iris Origo was born in 1902 and spent her youth in the ancestral estate on Long Island and in her grandfather's castle in Ireland. Her father died tragically when she was eight, and she continued her peripatetic lif ...Show more
War In Val D'orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944 by Iris Origo
$27.00 AUD
Category: Historical
War in Val D'Orcia is the elegantly simple chronicle of daily life at La Foce, a manor in a Tuscan no-man's land bracketed by foreign invasion and civil war. Writing with simplicity and grace, Iris Origo describes how she and her husband managed to help refugee children from Genoa and Turin, hide escape ...Show more
Reading Lolita In Tehran by Azar Nafisi
$23.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
We all have dreams--things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true.For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discus ...Show more
Escape from the Ghetto: The Breathtaking Story of the Jewish Boy Who Ran Away from the Nazis by John Carr
$23.00 AUD
Category: Historical
'Trust me, this is a great true story' - Ken Follett'It deserves to be ranked among the great survival stories of the Second World War' - The Jewish Chronicle~~~~~The captivating true story of one boy's flight across Europe to escape the Nazis. A tale of extraordinary courage, incredible adventure, and ...Show more