Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
$20.00 AUD
Category: Historical
From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao- The Unknown StoryIn this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese history - brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all ...Show more
Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy by Michael Pembroke
$30.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Australians know Arthur Phillip as the first Governor of the colony of New South Wales. But few know the real story of this mercurial man. Arthur Phillip was a career soldier, a mercenary and a spy for the British Empire long before he captained the First Fleet and founded Sydney. Through meticulous res ...Show more
Stoker Munro: Survivor by David Spiteri
$28.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A simple, moving, vivid and heartbreaking account of one young sailor's eventful war. I heard the cries of scared men yelling they couldn't swim, but they jumped in regardless. I pulled off my new boots, dropped them on the deck and, clutching my tobacco tin, jumped overboard, feet first ...We were a go ...Show more
The Disinherited: A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal by Robert Sackville-West
$40.00 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
A Tale in Two Cities: Fanny Burney and Adele, Comtesse de Boigne by Brian Unwin
$47.95 AUD
Category: Historical
Fanny Burney and Adele, Comtesse de Boigne, were two of the most remarkable female writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: one a famous novelist, the other an aristocrat from one of France's most ancient families. This was the tumultuous era which saw the French Revolution, the Na ...Show more
Effie Gray: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, Ruskin and Millais by Suzanne Fagence Cooper
$20.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The Scottish beauty Effie Gray is the heroine of a great Victorian love story. Married at 19 to John Ruskin, she found herself trapped in an unconsummated union. She would fall in love with her husband's protege, John Everett Millais, and inspire some of his most memorable art, but controversy and trage ...Show more
Napoleon: v. 1: Soldier of Destiny by Michael Broers
$59.99 AUD
Category: Historical
This is the first life of Napoleon, in any language, that makes full use of the new version of his Correspondence compiled by the Fondation Napoleon in Paris to replace the sanitized compilation made under the Second French Empire as a propaganda exercise by his nephew, Napoleon III. All previous lives ...Show more
The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter by Lucinda Hawksley
$52.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumour and gossip than hard facts? When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate, often thwarted b ...Show more
The Literary Churchill : Author, Reader, Actor by Jonathan Rose
$49.95 AUD
Category: Historical
This strikingly original book introduces a Winston Churchill we have not known before. Award-winning author Jonathan Rose explores in tandem Churchill's careers as statesman and author, revealing the profound influence of literature and theatre on Churchill's personal, carefully composed grand story and ...Show more
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
$19.95 AUD
Category: Historical
A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio, Lomax was em ...Show more
Karl Marx : A Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber
$42.95 AUD
Category: Historical
For nearly a century, Karl Marx has been imprisoned by "isms", misinterpreted through the writings of Engels and the totalitarian aspirations of Lenin and Stalin. Challenging this antiquated portrait, Jonathan Sperber demonstrates that Marx had more in common with Robespierre than with twentieth-century ...Show more
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
$30.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, "Mao: The Unknown Story "is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before -- and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him. It is fu ...Show more