The Old Man and the Gun (FTI) And Other Tales of True Crime by David Grann
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Now a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, The Old Man and the Gun is here joined by two other riveting true-crime tales. "The Old Man and the Gun" is the incredible story of a bank robber and prison escape artist who modeled himself after figures like Pretty Boy Floyd and ...Show more
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer
$48.00 AUD
Category: American
A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An awar ...Show more
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, And Madness At The Dawn Of Hollywood by MANN, WILLIAM J.
$30.00 AUD
Category: American
Jonestown: The Power and the Myth of Alan Jones by Chris Masters
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The most eagerly anticipated book of the year - the compelling and probing, Jonestown takes us to the hazardous intersection of populism and politics, reaching deep into a powerful industry and exposing the myth and the magic of a very powerful man.
Dictatorland - The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon
$23.00 AUD
Category: History
One dictator grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-story-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. One austere, incorruptible leader shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces. The Libyan army officer who aut ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots: Two Queens, One Future by John Guy
$24.99 AUD
Category: British
Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived a life of incredible drama and turmoil: crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months old, ...Show more
Black Saturday - That's Not the End of the Story by Peg Fraser
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: History of Australia Ser.
The Victorian bushfires of February 2009 captured the attention of all Australians and made headlines around the world. One hundred and seventy-three people lost their lives, the greatest number from any bushfire event in this nation's history. In the wake of this tragedy much media and public commentar ...Show more
Voyages of Discovery: A Visual Celebration of Ten of the Greatest Natural History Expeditions by Tony Rice
$34.99 AUD
Category: European
Voyages of Discovery is a mesmerising visual record of ten of the world's most significant natural history expeditions. Superb artworks and photographs spanning three centuries document advances and watersheds in the field of natural science. The stories behind these images - of explorers, naturalist ...Show more
The Power of the Powerless by Havel Vaclav
$12.99 AUD
Category: Political
Václav Havel's remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite! Is it a sign of the grocer's unerring ideology? Or a symbol of the l ...Show more
Robert the Bruce - King of the Scots by Michael Penman
$40.00 AUD
Category: British
Robert the Bruce (1274-1329) famously defeated the English at Bannockburn and became the hero king responsible for Scottish independence. In this fascinating new biography of the renowned warrior, Michael Penman focuses on Robert's kingship in the fifteen years that followed his triumphant victory and e ...Show more
America's Greatest Library An Illustrated History of the Library of Congress by John Y. Cole
$60.00 AUD
Category: History
Packed with fascinating facts, compelling images, and little-known nuggets of information, this new go-to illustrated guide to the history of the Library of Congress will appeal to history buffs and general readers alike. It distils over two hundred years of history into an engaging read that makes a Wa ...Show more
Empress - Queen Victoria and India by Miles Taylor
$60.00 AUD
Category: European
An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837 In this engaging and controversial book, Miles Taylor shows how both Victoria and Albert were spellbound by India, and argues that the Queen was humanel ...Show more