Florence Foster Jenkins by Nicholas Martin
$20.00 AUD
Category: Historical
'People may say that I couldn't sing. But no one can say that I didn't sing.' Despite lacking pitch, rhythm or tone, Florence Foster Jenkins became one of America's best-known sopranos, celebrated for her unique recordings and her sell-out concert at Carnegie Hall. Born in 1868 to wealthy Pennsylvanian ...Show more
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale
$28.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbours, a ...Show more
The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox by Alison Weir
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
'Alison Weir's sound scholarship and storyteller's gift for rich, telling detail constantly engages and enthrals the reader? The TimesThe captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five Tudor reigns.Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Some ...Show more
The Cowshed by Ji Xianlin
$50.00 AUD
Category: Historical
If a Chinese citizen has read one book on the Cultural Revolution, it is likely to be Ji Xianlin's The Cowshed, a candid account of his year of imprisonment on the campus of Peking University, and his later disillusionment with the cult of Mao worship. As the campus spirals into a political frenzy, Ji, ...Show more
The Black Prince of Florence The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro De' Medici by Catherine Fletcher
$55.00 AUD
Category: Historical
"Nothing in sixteenth-century history is more astonishing than the career of Alessandro de' Medici". (Hilary Mantel). In The Black Prince of Florence, a dramatic tale of assassination, spies and betrayal, the first retelling of Alessandro's life in two-hundred years opens a window onto the opulent, cut- ...Show more
The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home by Natalie Livingstone
$28.00 AUD
Category: Historical
This is a Sunday Times bestseller - Five women. One house. One extraordinary history. From its construction in the 1660s to its heyday in the 1960s, Cliveden has played host to a dynasty of remarkable and powerful women. Anna Maria, Elizabeth, Augusta, Harriet, and Nancy - five ladies who, over the cour ...Show more
The Queen and Mrs Thatcher: An Inconvenient Relationship by Dean Palmer
$49.99 AUD
Category: Historical
This is the remarkable story of how the two most powerful women in Britain at the time met and disliked each other on sight. For over a decade they quietly waged a war against each other on both a personal and political stage, disagreeing on key issues including sanctions against South Africa, the Miner ...Show more
The Man Who Knew Too Much by David Leavitt
$23.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The story of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer.To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary programmable calculating machine. But the idea of actually producing a "Turing machine" did not crystallize until he and his brilliant Bl ...Show more
Stone Cold : The Extraordinary Story of Len Opie, Australia's Deadliest Soldier by Andrew Faulkner
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A soldier cast in the image of Anzac, and revered in the post World War II military as a peerless fighter, Len Opie stands alone in the Australian military pantheon. But he was a paradox. A cold-eyed killer who drank nothing stronger than weak tea, he killed people with his bare hands, a sharpened shove ...Show more
Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
To many, Scrabble is just a board game. For others it's an intellectual pilgrimage, a balancing act between language and mathematics. This book charts the history and theory of the game, alongside the authors own rise from living-room player to competitive shark.
Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy by Frank McLynn
$55.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Mongol leader Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known. His empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East, and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power and subdue most of the known world, eclips ...Show more
Charmed Life : The Phenomenal World of Philip Sassoon by Damian Collins
$60.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The story of a fascinating man who connected the great politicians, artists and thinkers at the height of British global power and influence. A famed aesthete and patron, Philip Sassoon's world was one of luxury and classic English elegance with oriental flair. He gathered a social set that would provid ...Show more