Lawrence of Arabia: The definitive 21st-century biography of a 20th-century soldier, adventurer and leader by Ranulph Fiennes
$37.00 AUD
Category: Historical
An enthralling and illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the inspiration for the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia - from "The World's Greatest Living Explorer" Ranulph Fiennes Co-opted by the British military, archaeologist and adventurer Thomas Edward Lawrence became involved in the 1916 Arab Revol ...Show more
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz
$50.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A revelatory biography of the writer-activist who inspired today's movements for racial liberation In the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon's shadow looms larger than ever. He was the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era, and his writings about race, revolution, and the psychology of pow ...Show more
Love in a Time of Hate by Florian Illies; Simon Pare (Translator)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023'1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other concerns. Jean-Paul Sartre waits anxiously in a Parisian café for his first date with no-show Simone de Beauvoir. Marlene Dietrich slips from ...Show more
The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty by Joseph Sassoon
$27.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's pre-eminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East'The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of the nineteenth century, as eminent as traders as the Rothschilds were bankers. This book reveals the secrets be ...Show more
Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57 by Chips Channon
$75.00 AUD
Category: Historical
This third and final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon begins as the Second World War is turning in the Allies' favour. It ends with Chips descending into poor health but still able to turn a pointed phrase about the political events that swirl around him and the great and ...Show more
If Everyone Cared Enough: Her Voice Reclaimed by Margaret Tucker
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE (affectionately known as Aunty Marge) was a significant Aboriginal activist and one of the first Aboriginal women to publish for mainstream audiences. If Everyone Cared (1977) was a landmark publication. In that first edition, her tone and draft content were significantly al ...Show more
Jackie: Public, Private, Secret by J. Randy Taraborrelli
$60.00 AUD
Category: Historical
From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and lovers over a thirty-year period--as well as previously unreleased ...Show more
Astor: The Rise And Fall Of An American Fortune by Anderson Cooper
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story--of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinventi ...Show more
The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain by Tristram Hunt
$55.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A spectacular new biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, by the Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum Josiah Wedgwood, perhaps the greatest English potter who ever lived, epitomized the best of his age. From his kilns and workshops in S ...Show more
Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-43 by Chips Channon
$75.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The second volume of the remarkable, Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Chips Channon. This second volume of the bestselling diaries of Henry 'Chips' Channon takes us from the heady aftermath of the Munich agreement, when the Prime Minister Chips so admired was credited with having averted a general Eu ...Show more
The Man Who Understood Democracy - The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville by Olivier Zunz
$40.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy's greatest champions In 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning democracy. From that moment onward, the French aristocr ...Show more
Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire by Michael Palin
$37.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier - his great-uncle Harry. From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him. T ...Show more