Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 by Robert Service
$65.00 AUD
Category: War
'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' - Michael Burleigh In Blood on the Snow, Robert Service returns to the subject that has formed the backbone of his long and distinguished career: the Russian Revolution. For Service, the great unanswered questio ...Show more
The Trial of Vladimir Putin by Geoffrey Robertson QC
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
There have been dozens of books about the Russian President since he launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Some have examined the historical aspects of the conflict, others have analysed its military and geopolitical importance. However, none so far have looked purely at the legal c ...Show more
As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West by Guido Alfani
$60.00 AUD
Category: European
How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or misbehaved) and helped (or didn’t help) their communities in times of crisis.The rich have always fascinated, sometimes in problematic ways. Medieval thinkers feared that the super-rich would act 'as gods am ...Show more
This Is Where You Have to Go: A Heartbreaking and Powerful Story of a Mother’s Quest for Connection With Her Lost Son by Lynda Holden
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
150,000 adoptions took place in Australia between 1950 and 1975. It is estimated that one in 15 was forced. Proud Dhunghutti woman, laywer, human rights advocate and former midwife Lynda Holden tells her own heartbreaking story and of her fight for justice. In 1970, Lynda was eighteen, unmarried and p ...Show more
Run for Your Life: The Remarkable True Story of a Family Forced Into Hiding After Leaking Russian Secrets by Sue Williams
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family were forced to flee for their lives from one of the richest, most powerful men in the world. Nick moved to R ...Show more
The Great Housing Hijack: The Hoaxes and Myths Keeping Prices High for Renters and Buyers in Australia by Cameron K. Murray
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The Great Housing Hijack reveals how vested interests pull the strings on the property market in Australia, and offers a solution for genuinely affordable housing for those who need it. Everyone claims to want affordable housing, but no one wants cheap housing. While Australians on regular incomes dre ...Show more
Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels, The Ibis Trilogy, ten years ago, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean, but also by the precious commodity carried in e ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
$55.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
'This brilliant and heartbreaking book is a masterpiece. It reads like a novel, yet is all sadly true. I finished it in tears' - James Rebanks. A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story (Indie Book of the Year 2024) 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
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy by Stein Ringen
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture. Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of collapse and restarts, from the Viking Age to the A ...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