The Story of China: A Portrait of a Civilisation and its People by Michael Wood
$23.00 AUD
Category: Asian
'A learned, wise, wonderfully written single volume history of a civilisation that I knew I should know more about' - Tom Holland ... 'Masterful and engrossing...well-paced, eminently readable and well-timed. A must-read for those who want - and need - to know about the China of yesterday, today and tom ...Show more
The Ambassador - Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940 by Susan Ronald
$59.99 AUD
Category: Political
Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's deeply controversial tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the eve of World War II. On February 18, 1938, Joseph P. Kennedy was sworn in as US Ambassador to the Court of St. James. To say his appointment to the most presti ...Show more
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
$65.00 AUD
Category: Political
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrifi ...Show more
The Pirates of Somalia - Inside Their Hidden World by Jay Bahadur
$31.00 AUD
Category: History
Soon to be a major motion picture The first close-up look at the hidden world of Somali pirates by a young journalist who dared to make his way into their remote havens and spent a year infiltrating their lives. For centuries, stories of pirates have captured imaginations around the world. The r ...Show more
The Transformation of War by Martin L. van Creveld
$60.00 AUD
Category: History
Analyzes who fights wars and why, and examines the inevitability of man's need to "play" at war.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys - The Great Plague of London & the Great Fire of London, 1665-1666 by Samuel Pepys
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
On April 30th, 1665 Samuel Pepys wrote "Great fears of the sickenesse here in the City, it being said that two or three houses are already shut up. God preserve as all!" After these fateful words there ensued the Great Plague of London, followed swiftly by the Great Fire of London. Twenty months later, ...Show more
Don't Call Us Carnies: We are Showies and damn proud of it by Norma Brophy, Wendy Stuart
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
While many Australian teenagers have dreamed of joining a travelling circus, Norma Brophy wanted to run away from it. As a born and bred 'show person', she adored her early years on the road, running wild in town after town with her fellow little 'showies'. But growing up backstage of a famed travelling ...Show more
The Cost of Labour: How we are all trapped by the politics of pregnancy and parenting by Natalie Kon-Yu
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Natalie Kon-yu was nine weeks pregnant when the trembling began. Two weeks later she checked herself into a mental health unit. Rather than a woman with a health concern, the GPs, nurses and psychiatrists saw Natalie as a vessel carrying precious cargo. The loss of agency carried on through her pregnanc ...Show more
The Fairy Tellers by Nicholas Jubber
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Fairy-Tales are not just fairy-tales: they are records of historical phenomena, telling us something about how Western civilisation was formed. In The Fairy Tellers, award-winning travel-writer Nick Jubber explores the secret history of fairy-tales: the people who told them, the landscapes that forged ...Show more
Rage by Bob Woodward
$34.00 AUD
Category: Political
Rage is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of new reporting on the Trump presidency facing a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest. Woodward, the #1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that ...Show more
National Treasures: Saving The Nation's Art in World War II by Caroline Shenton
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
'Geeks triumph over the forces of darkness: nothing could have given me greater pleasure. Combining an exciting story with scrupulous research, Caroline Shenton has done her unlikely heroes proud' - Lucy Worsley As Hitler prepared to invade Poland during the sweltering summer of 1939, men and women from ...Show more
Ten Cities that Led the World: From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity by Paul Strathern
$33.00 AUD
Category: History
Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born and history is made.Through ten unique cities, from the founding of ancient capitals to buzzing modern megacities, Paul Strathern explores how urban ...Show more