The Curies by Denis Brian
$60.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Focusing on the lives and relationships behind their magnificent careers, The Curies is the first biography to trace the entire Curie dynasty, from Pierre and Marie's fruitful union and achievements to the lives and accomplishments of their two daughters, Irene and Eve, and son-in-law Frederic Joliot-Cu ...Show more
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A"New York Times"Bestseller, andthe inspiration for the hit Broadway musical"Hamilton"! Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation. In the first full-length biogra ...Show more
Augustus: A Biography by Jochen Bleicken
$70.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Born to a plebeian family in 63 BC, Octavian was a young solder training abroad when he heard news of Julius Caesar's brutal assassination - and discovered that he was the dictator's sole political heir. With the opportunism and instinct for propaganda that were to characterize his rule, Octavian rallie ...Show more
The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding travelled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. It had been her 'soul place' as a child, she said - a holiday home for her and her family, but much more - a sanctuary, a refuge. In the 1930s, she had been forced ...Show more
The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue by Frederick Forsyth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Frederick Forsyth has seen it all. And lived to tell the tale. 'We all make mistakes, but starting the Third World War would have been a rather large one. To this day, I still maintain it was not entirely my fault. But I'm getting ahead of myself. During the course of my life, I've barely escaped the wr ...Show more
The Queen's Speech: An Intimate Portrait of the Queen in Her Own Words by Ingrid Seward
$39.99 AUD
Category: Historical
On 9 September 2015, Queen Elizabeth II will become the longest-serving monarch in British history. During her 63 years on the throne, few have got to know her well, but there is one body of work that sheds real light on her thoughts, personality and the issues that really concern her: the Queen's own s ...Show more
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: VMC
At the age of 18, Beryl Markham, then Clutterbuck, was the first woman in Africa to be granted a racehorse trainer's licence; she was still active as a trainer until her death in 1986. She took up flying in 1931, inventing big game hunting by air, and in September 1936 she made world headlines by becomi ...Show more
Not Me: Memoirs of a German Childhood by Joachim C. Fest
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Few others have determined our understanding of the Third Reich as Joachim Fest. Fierce and intransigent, German born Fest was a relentless interrogator of his nation's modern history. His analysis, The Face of the Third Reich, his biographies of Adolf Hitler and Albert Speer and his descriptions of the ...Show more
Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis by Simon Goodman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
In the bestselling tradition of Monuments Men and The Hare with Amber Eyes comes the passionate account of a man reclaiming his family art collection, stolen by the Nazis in World War II. Simon Goodman's grandparents came from German-Jewish banking dynasties and died in concentration camps. Originally h ...Show more
Mozart: A Life by Paul Johnson
$27.95 AUD
Category: Historical
Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. One of the world's most enduringly popular classical musicians, Mozart had a profound influence on Western music and on his contemporaries such as Beethoven and Haydn. Johnson focuses on the importance of Mo ...Show more
The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home by Natalie Livingstone
$75.00 AUD
Category: Historical
From its dawn in the 1660s to its twilight in the 1960s, Cliveden was an emblem of elite misbehaviour and intrigue. Conceived by the Duke of Buckingham as a retreat for his scandalous affair with Anna-Maria, Countess of Shrewsbury, the house later served as the backdrop for the Profumo Affair, which wou ...Show more
Man Who Saved Smithy: Fighter Pilot, Pioneer Aviator, Hero - the Extraordinary Life of Sir Gordon Taylor Mc, Gc by Rick Searle
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Patrick Gordon 'Bill' Taylor was a pioneer of Australian aviation. As a fighter pilot during the First World War he won the MC. His wartime flying was the start of a life-long career during which he would use aircraft to pioneer air routes across several oceans. Returning to Australia after the war he b ...Show more