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
Catullus' Bedspread -The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet by Daisy Dunn
$39.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Daisy Dunn's immediate narrative rediscovers the life and poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome's first 'modern' poet, a dandy who fell in love with another man's wife and made it known to the world through his timeless verse. Famed for his lyrical, subversive voice, Catullus was Rome's first and fore ...Show more
Queen of Spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spy Master by Paddy Hayes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
From living in a tin-roofed shack north of Dar-es- Salaam to becoming Baroness Park of Monmouth, Daphne Park led a most unusual life - one that consisted of a lifelong love affair with the world of Britain's secret services. In the 1970s she was appointed to SIS's most senior operational rank as one of ...Show more
Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand
$20.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Winner of the Eastern Eye Alchemy Festival Award for LiteratureIn 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, a realm that stretched from the lush Kashmir Valley to the craggy foothills of the Khyber Pass and included the migh ...Show more
Augustine: Conversions and Confessions by Robin Lane Fox
$70.00 AUD
Category: Historical
This book offers a major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographies. Augustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the Confessions, which continues to del ...Show more
Frederick the Great: King of Prussia by Tim Blanning
$70.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, dominated the 18th century in the same way that Napoleon dominated the start of the 19th - a force of nature, a caustic, ruthless, brilliant military commander, a monarch of exceptional energy and talent, and a knowledgeable patron of artists, architects and writers ...Show more
Life of the Party: the Biography of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman by Christopher Ogden
$70.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The unauthorized biography of one of this century's most remarkable and glamorous women - Pamela Harriman, currently US ambassador to France. Perhaps best known for shepherding the Deocratic party through its political exile during the Reagan/Bush era, Pamela Harriman used her third husband Avrell's for ...Show more