The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith
$50.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: Wellcome Collection
A major new history of the Cold War: exploring the conflict through the minds of the people who lived it. More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in o ...Show more
China in One Village: The History of One Town and the Future of theWorld by Liang Hong
$33.00 AUD
Category: Asian
After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province. What she found was an extended family torn apart by the seismic changes in Chinese society, and a village ...Show more
The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy And The Wrecking Of Henry I's Dream by Charles Spencer
$25.00 AUD
Category: British
‘As gripping as any thriller. History doesn't get any better than this' BILL BRYSON 'A brilliant read … Spencer has a real facility for getting these characters to leap fully formed from the page … Game of Thrones but in the real world' ANTHONY HOROWITZ 'The medieval Titanic … Charles Spencer explores ...Show more
Rizzio: Darkland Tales by Denise Mina
$25.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
FROM THE AWARD-WINNING DENISE MINA COMES A RADICAL NEW TAKE ON ONE OF THE DARKEST EPISODES IN SCOTTISH HISTORY - THE BLOODY MURDER OF DAVID RIZZIO.This breathtakingly tense work is a tale of sex, seduction, secrets and lies, one that looks at history through a modern lens and explores the lengths that m ...Show more
Geopolitics for the End Time - From the Pandemic to the Climate Crisis by Bruno Maçães
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
A sharp vision of our changing world order as Covid and climate breakdown usher in a new 'survival of the fittest'. How well have different cultures and societies responded, and could this become a turning point in the flow of history? Before Covid, a new competition was already arising between alternat ...Show more
A Republic of Equals - A Manifesto for a Just Society by Jonathan Rothwell
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
Why political inequality is to blame for economic and social injustice Political equality is the most basic tenet of democracy. Yet in America and other democratic nations, those with political power have special access to markets and public services. A Republic of Equals traces the massive income i ...Show more
Conquering Jerusalem by Stephen Dando-Collins
$33.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND HISTORIAN STEPHEN DANDO-COLLINS PROVIDES UNPARALLELED NEW INSIGHT INTO THE FIRST JEWISH REVOLT Dando-Collins details the conflict from both sides of the 7-year campaign. His examination of the revolt draws upon numerous archaeological and forensic discoveries made in recent yea ...Show more
The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan by David Kilcullen, Greg Mills
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
'These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world,' said Charlie Wilson of America's role in supporting the mujahideen against the Soviet Union. 'And then we fucked up the endgame.' The scandal-prone US Congressman lamented the absence of support for Afghanistan after that war, a vac ...Show more
Mao's Last Revolution by Macfarquhar & Schoe
$51.95 AUD
Category: History
The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the People's Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of communist rule. Before 1966, China was a typical communist state, with a command economy and a powerful party able to keep the population under control. But during the ...Show more
London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City by Tom Chivers
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
'Tom Chivers, with the forensic eye of an investigator, the soul of a poet, is an engaging presence; a guide we would do well to follow.' Iain Sinclair, author of The Last LondonWhat secrets lie beneath a city?Tom Chivers follows hidden pathways, explores lost islands and uncovers the geological mysteri ...Show more
These Great Athenians: Retold Passages for Seldom Heard Voices by Valentine Carter
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Carter's fierce debut gives voice to the mostly forgotten and maligned female characters of Homer's epic The Odyssey. It is a celebratory ode to those who survive within and outside of gender norms. Faithful Penelope waits for her husband's return as she weaves a shroud that foretells her doom, Scyl ...Show more
Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and The Sacrifice by Patrick Bishop
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
A grand tale of heroic failure during the Dieppe raid of 1942, grippingly told by the bestselling author of Bomber BoysOn the warm night of 18 August 1942, a flotilla pushed out into the flat water of the Channel. They were to seize the German-held port of Dieppe, destroy key installations, seize intell ...Show more