The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time by Richard Fisher
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'A beautifully turned, calmly persuasive but urgent book' IAN MCEWAN'A landmark book that could help to build a much brighter future' DAVID ROBSONA wide-ranging and thought-provoking exploration of the importance of long-term thinking.Humans are unique in our ability to understand time, able to comprehe ...Show more
America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization: A new investigation into the ancient apocalypse by Graham Hancock
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER***'Hancock's books provide a fascinating,alternative version of prehistory. America Before,detailed and wide-ranging, turns what was myth and legend into a new story of the past.' Daily MailWas an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that e ...Show more
Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK by Simon Kuper
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
When the fate of the nation is in your hands, who do you call?
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age by Reid Mitenbuler
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II. Deep in the Arctic wilderness, Peter Freuchen awoke to find himself buried al ...Show more
Warrior: The epic story of Caratacus, warrior Briton and enemy of the Roman Empire by Simon Scarrow
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Warrior Ser.
From the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers The Honour of Rome and The Emperor's Exile comes a brilliant new novel about the dangerous warrior Caratacus - a barbarian who threatened the future of the Empire . . . The Romans invaded Britannia in AD 43 confident of victory. They swept through a divide ...Show more
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History by Tracy Borman
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'(A)sensational book by one of our greatest and best-loved historians... Astoundingly good.' - Alison Weir 'Masterful, captivating, page-turning, this is solid gold history at its best.' - Nicola Tallis '(A) thought-provoking, impeccably researched, and moving account uncovering how Anne's family, intel ...Show more
Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile by Fiona Maddocks
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The moving story of Rachmaninoff's years in exile and the composition of his last great work, against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy.
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
From the massively popular podcaster and New York Times bestselling author comes the story of the Marquis de Lafayette's lifelong quest to protect the principles of democracy, told through the lens of the three revolutions he participated in: the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Revol ...Show more
A History of Scotland by Neil Oliver
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The dramatic story of Scotland - by charismatic television historian, Neil Oliver. Scotland is one of the oldest countries in the world with a vivid and diverse past. Yet the stories and figures that dominate Scottish history - tales of failure, submission, thwarted ambition and tragedy - often badly se ...Show more
Vikings by Neil Oliver
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their blood-thirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their story, which stretches from their Scandinavian origins to America in the west and as far as Baghdad in the east. ...Show more
Why Empires Fall by John Rapley; Peter Heather
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in rapid decline.This is not the first time the global order has witnessed s ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Paul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might among the great powers of the world. Kennedy begins with Europe's dramatic return to the forefront of world domination at the expense of China and the Muslim world and br ...Show more