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The Secret Life of the Savoy & the D'Oyly Carte Family by Olivia Williams
$33.00 AUD
Category: British
The story of the Savoy's founders, through three generations and a hundred years of luxury In 1889, Victorian impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte opened The Savoy, Britain's first luxury hotel. Allowing the rich to live like royalty, it attracted glamour, scandal and a cast of eccentric characters, with the ...Show more
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944, a thin, and unusually elegant, housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted mother-of-three, attentive wife and friendly neighbour, Sonya Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity. However, rather than pe ...Show more
The Golden Maze: a Biography of Prague (HB) by Richard Fidler
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
ABC broadcaster and bestselling author of Ghost Empire and Saga Land, Richard Fidler is back with a personally curated history of the magical city that is Prague. In 1989, Richard Fidler was living in London as part of the provocative Australian comedy trio The Doug Anthony All Stars when revolution bro ...Show more
The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power by Martyn Rady
$60.00 AUD
Category: European
In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world they built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium. From modest origins, the Habsburgs grew in power to gain control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. Then, in just a few decades, their possessions rapidly ...Show more
The Infiltrators - The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis by Norman Ohler
$40.00 AUD
Category: War
'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' - Antony BeevorSummertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out sailing when he glimpses a woman reclining in the prow of a passing boat. Their eyes meet - and one of history's greatest conspiracies is born.Harro Schulze-Boysen had already shed blood ...Show more
People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia by Grace Karskens
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Award-winning historian Grace Karskens uncovers the everyday lives of ordinary people in the early colony, both Aboriginal and British.
Blood and Oil: Mohammed Bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power by Bradley Hope; Justin Scheck
$33.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
Thirty-five-year-old Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise stunned the world. Political and business leaders such as former Prime Minister Tony Blair and WME Chairman Ari Emmanuel flew out to meet with the Crown Prince and came away convinced that his desire to reform the kingdom was sincere. He spoke passi ...Show more
Play by the Rules: The Short Story of American Leadership by Michael Pembroke
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
In Play by the Rules, acclaimed writer and historian Michael Pembroke offers a fresh take on the USA's vast influence and asks whether it is still a force for good. The United States of America has long claimed to be the leader of the 'free world', however for the last seventy-five years, as it has rout ...Show more
Twilight of Democracy by ANNE APPLEBAUM
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Anne Applebaum is a leading historian of communism and a penetrating investigator of contemporary politics. Here she sets her sights on the big question, one with which she herself has been deeply engaged in both Europe and America: how did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document, written w ...Show more
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe by Judith Herrin
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
'Magisterial - an outstanding book that shines a bright light ON one of the most important, interesting and under-studied cities in European history. A masterpiece.' Peter Frankopan 'A wonderful new history of the Mediterranean from the fifth to eighth centuries through a lens focussed on Ravenna, grace ...Show more
The Year 1000 - When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a groundbreaking work of history showing that bold explorations and daring trade missions connected all of the world's great societies for the first time at the end of the first millennium. In history, myth often abides. It was long assumed that the centuri ...Show more
Witness by Louise Milligan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
From the best-selling author of CARDINAL comes a searing examination of the power imbalance in our legal system - where exposing the truth is never guaranteed and, for victims, justice is often elusive. A masterful and deeply troubling expose, Witness is the culmination of almost five years' work for a ...Show more