The Presidents - 250 Years of American Political Leadership by Iain Dale
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
Politics Home: Parliamentarians' Top Books for Christmas 2021 'A must read for political geeks' - Saqib Bhatti There was a huge upsurge of global interest in US politics during the Trump presidency, culminating in the November 2020 election, the victory of the Democrat candidate Joe Biden and the subse ...Show more
Wedded Wife: a feminist history of marriage by Rachael Lennon
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Wedded Wife is a feminist study of the institution of marriage and its history around the globe. In this fascinating and insightful book, feminist curator Rachael Lennon provides an intimate and accessible examination of the history of marriage around the world. Wedded Wife tells a remarkable story of h ...Show more
Van Diemen's Land by James Boyce
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
"With a foreword by Richard Flanagan Winner of the Tasmanian Book Prize 'A brilliant book and a must-read for anyone interested in how land shapes people' —Tim Flannery Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a k ...Show more
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
Edith Hamilton's MYTHOLOGY succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture-the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present. We meet the Greek gods on Olympus ...Show more
How to Survive History by Cody Cassidy
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A humorous and information guide to surviving history's most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to making it off the Titanic alive. A humorous and informative guide to surviving history's most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to making it off the Titanic alive.History is the mo ...Show more
The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal by Peter Watson
$33.99 AUD
Category: History
‘Majestic, ambitious’ Literary Review ____________________________________ We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity and sophistication, and even their insistence that they are exceptional. But how did France become the country it is today, and w ...Show more
Hanging Ned Kelly: Elijah Upjohn, the Hangmen and the Underbelly of Colonial Australia by Michael Adams
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A fresh, unique take on Ned Kelly - a fascinating, entertaining and kaleidoscopic look at the society that shaped him in life and death When it came time to hang Ned Kelly, the job fell to shit-shoveller-turned-quack-doctor-turned-drunken-chicken-thief Elijah Upjohn. Such is life indeed. Hanging Ned Kel ...Show more
Churchill's Confidant (also known as Chruchill and Smuts) by Richard Steyn
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922 by Ryan Gingeras
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of the fall of the Ottoman Empire offers a new way of understanding the twentieth century. The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a religio ...Show more
Blood & Fury by Tessa Gratton and Justina Ireland
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
The sizzling sequel to TikTok sensation Chaos & Flame The thrilling conclusion to the Chaos & Flame YA fantasy duology by New York Times bestselling authors Justina Ireland and Tessa Gratton - featuring ancient magic, a morally grey villain, and a smouldering enemies-to-lovers romance. Adaptin ...Show more
Australian Heist by James Phelps
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Australia's Number 1 True Crime Writer on Australia's Greatest Gold Robbery. On 15 June 1862, a gang of bushrangers held up a gold escort at Eugowra, just east of Forbes, NSW. They escaped with a pile of cash and 77 kilograms of gold, worth about $10 million today. It remains the largest gold robbery in ...Show more
This Dark Business: The Secret War Against Napoleon by Tim Clayton
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
Between two attempts in 1800 and 1804 to assassinate Napoleon Bonaparte, the British government launched a campaign of black propaganda of unprecedented scope and intensity to persuade George III's reluctant subjects to fight the Napoleonic War, a war to the death against one man: the Corsican usurper a ...Show more