Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great by Paul Strathern
$37.00 AUD
Category: History
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and economics. However, all this was achieved against a background of extreme ...Show more
The Shortest History of Italy: A Captivating Journey from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic by Ross King
$28.00 AUD
Category: European
Embark on a captivating journey through 3000 years of Italy's rich history Italian history has always been about resilience and rebirth ... It is a country that for so many centuries has offered up visions of the wonders to which we humans, at our very best, can aspire. Italy was the centre of Europe's ...Show more
An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country by David Finkel
$37.00 AUD
Category: American
An immersive account of a man navigating the startling changes underway in contemporary America, from the Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Award-winning author of The Good Soldiers and Thank You for Your Service. Brent Cummings, an Iraq war veteran, has come home feeling he survived one war only to find him ...Show more
The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain by Matthew Longo
$37.00 AUD
Category: European
An extraordinarily dramatic reconstruction of the greatest border breach in Cold War history In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists did the unthinkable- they entered the forbidden militarised zone of the Iron Curtain - and held a picnic. Word had spread of what was going to happen. On wisps of r ...Show more
Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff
$35.00 AUD
Category: British
This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before there was any possibility of 'a room of one's own'. In an innovative and engaging narrative of eve ...Show more
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint by Peter Sarris
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
'Magnificent. A vivid and authoritative biography . . . a vibrant portrait of an entire world' Kyle Harper'A stunning tour de force, Sarris brings one of history's most momentous dramas back to life' Walter Scheidel In this groundbreaking new biography of Justinian, Peter Sarris gives us an intimate in ...Show more
The City of the Living by Nicola Lagioia
$40.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
The spellbinding literary true crime story of one of the most vicious crimes in recent Italian history. A journey into the darkest corners of Rome and of the human soul. For fans of Truman Capote and Emmanuel Carrere In March 2016, in an apartment on the outskirts of Rome, two "ordinary" young men bruta ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
$37.00 AUD
Category: British
A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all n ...Show more
Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism by Leigh Sales
$37.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Leigh Sales is one of Australia's most accomplished journalists, having anchored the ABC's flagship 7.30 program for twelve years. She has been a foreign correspondent, hosted Lateline and anchored numerous elections for the ABC. In this book, she turns her interviewing skills onto her own profession, ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$28.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
Kings Cross by Louis Nowra
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Louis Nowra burrows beneath the sensationalist Underbelly sex and sin narrative, revealing stories and a cast of characters some household names others little-known - that not even a writer could conjure up. Kings Cross is a no-holds barred place, where backpackers, prostitutes, strippers, chefs, mad me ...Show more