Great Australian Scandals and Dust-ups by Eamon Evans
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
From a convict with a taste for human flesh to frozen berries with the taste of hepatitis, and from the Packer family's constant brawling to the time Malcolm Fraser turned up in a hotel lobby, dazed and wearing nothing but a tiny hotel towel. Featuring quirky illustrations and Eamon Evans' signature wi ...Show more
Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture (Film Ed) by Joshua Levine
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF DUNKIRK - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN AND STARRING KENNETH BRANAGH, TOM HARDY AND MARK RYLANCE. In 1940, at the French port of Dunkirk, more than 300,000 trapped Allied troops were dramatically rescue ...Show more
Civil War - The History of England Volume 3 by Peter Ackroyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The History of England
In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II. The St ...Show more
Hoax: a History of Deception: 2,000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies by Ian Tattersall; Peter Névraumont
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
An entertaining collection of the most audacious and underhanded deceptions in the history of mankind, from sacred relics to financial schemes to fake art, music, and identities. World history is littered with tall tales and those who have fallen for them. Ian Tattersall, a curator emeritus at the Ameri ...Show more
Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature by Stuart Kells
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Millions of words of scholarship have been expended on the world's most famous author and his work. And yet a critical part of the puzzle, Shakespeare's library, is a mystery. For four centuries people have searched for it: in mansions, palaces and libraries; in riverbeds, sheep pens and partridge coops ...Show more
The Great Empires of Asia by Jim Masselos; Jonathan Fenby
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Asian empires led the world economically, scientifically and culturally for hundreds of years, and posed a constant challenge to the countries of Europe. How and why did those empires gain such power, and lose it? What legacies did they leave? This major book brings together a team of distinguished his ...Show more
Holden: Our Car 1856-2017 by Will Hagon
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
When Holden announced it would stop building cars in Australia, a four-wheeled heartbeat stopped. After all Holden is our car, an iconic brand whose rise echoed that of our nation. Holden had evolved from a saddle business servicing a frontier nation to a motoring empire building Australian cars for Aus ...Show more
Chopin's Piano: A Path Through the Romantic Century by Paul Kildea
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music
In November 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in the mountains above Palma, where Chopin finished what would eventually be recognised as one of the great and revolutionary works of ...Show more
Archaeology The Whole Story by Nadia Durrani
$50.00 AUD
Category: History
Global in perspective and covering over four million years of history, this accessible volume provides a chronological account of both the development of the human race and the order in which modern societies have made discoveries about their ancient past. Beginning deep in prehistory, it takes in all t ...Show more
Eureka!: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
"The ancient Greeks continue to fascinate us - they gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; established artistic and architectural canons visible to this day on all our high streets; laid ...Show more
The Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe's Ancient Mystery by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
It is time for a new book about bog bodies: the number of known bodies is growing. Lindow Man, the famous Pete Marsh discovered in Cheshire in the 1980s, has been joined by new finds from Ireland and elsewhere. Who were these unfortunate people, and why were they killed? Archaeologists, armed with the l ...Show more
The Beach : An Australian Passion by Robert Drewe
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
From an Indigenous food source to a hedonistic playground, the beach has long been a national obsession. Robert Drewe's lyrical examination of Australian beach culture combines imagery from some of Australia's most celebrated photographers with his personal anecdotes of a favourite boat, a capsicum-stre ...Show more