The Trial of Socrates by I. F. Stone
$43.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The Athens of Socrates's time has gone down in history as the very place where democracy and freedom of speech were born. Yet this city put Socrates, its most famous philosopher, to death. Presumably this was because it citizens did not like what he was teaching. Yet he had been teaching there all his l ...Show more
Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother? Some have said so. What emerged for me was a brave, original wo ...Show more
The Disinherited: A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal by Robert Sackville-West
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In the small hours of the morning of 3 June 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. It was only when the identity of the couple was revealed in the English press a fortnight later that the full story emerged. The man, Henry Sackville-West, had shot himse ...Show more
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
$40.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a New York Times Bestseller, a landmark biography of George Washington. In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington ...Show more
Wellington: A Journey Through My Family by Jane Wellesley
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$32.99 (9% off)
Category: Historical
Reissued for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo The first Duke of Wellington's victory at Waterloo in 1815 is remembered as one of our nation's greatest triumphs and, two hundred years on, the 'Iron Duke' is still very much a public figure. But here, Jane Wellesley's family memoir paints an ...Show more
High Command: British Military Leadership in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars by Christopher L. Elliott
$60.00 AUD
Category: Historical
From 2001, Britain supported the United States in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 'Victory' in such conflicts is always hard to gauge and domestic political backing for them was never robust. For this, the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were held responsible, and paid the price, but the role p ...Show more
Thomas Cromwell The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant by Tracy Borman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Story of Henry VIII's most faithful servant
'This deeply researched and grippingly written biography brings Cromwell to life and exposes the Henrician court in all its brutal, glittering splendour.' Kate Williams, Independent Thomas Cromwell's life has made gripping reading for millions through Hilary Mantel's bestselling novels Wolf Hall and ...Show more
Spy Who Changed the World Klaus Fuchs and the Secrets of the Nuclear Bomb by Mike Rossiter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The gripping true story of Klaus Fuchs: the spy who sold the nuclear secrets to the Russians When the three leaders of the victorious allies, Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union, met at Potsdam in July 1945, President Truman announced to Stalin that the U.S. had a new and devastating weapo ...Show more
Victoria: A Life by A N Wilson
$55.00 AUD
Category: Historical
"[A] shimmering and rather wonderful biography." --"The Guardian "(UK) When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was a mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two and the matriarch of royal Europe through her children's marriages. To many, Queen Victoria is a rule ...Show more
Queen of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell by Georgina Howell
$20.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, mountaineer and nation builder, Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty, but she turned her back on all that for her passion for the Arab peoples, becoming the architect of the independent kingdom of Iraq and ...Show more
The Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes by Richard Davenport Hines
$39.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the bestselling author of 'An English Affair', a dazzlingly original thematic biography which throws fresh light on the greatest economist of the twentieth century.
Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner
$55.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque--and occasionally so intemperate? John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the o ...Show more