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
The Curies by Denis Brian
$60.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Focusing on the lives and relationships behind their magnificent careers, The Curies is the first biography to trace the entire Curie dynasty, from Pierre and Marie's fruitful union and achievements to the lives and accomplishments of their two daughters, Irene and Eve, and son-in-law Frederic Joliot-Cu ...Show more
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A"New York Times"Bestseller, andthe inspiration for the hit Broadway musical"Hamilton"! Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation. In the first full-length biogra ...Show more
Augustus: A Biography by Jochen Bleicken
$70.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Born to a plebeian family in 63 BC, Octavian was a young solder training abroad when he heard news of Julius Caesar's brutal assassination - and discovered that he was the dictator's sole political heir. With the opportunism and instinct for propaganda that were to characterize his rule, Octavian rallie ...Show more
The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding travelled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. It had been her 'soul place' as a child, she said - a holiday home for her and her family, but much more - a sanctuary, a refuge. In the 1930s, she had been forced ...Show more
The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue by Frederick Forsyth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Frederick Forsyth has seen it all. And lived to tell the tale. 'We all make mistakes, but starting the Third World War would have been a rather large one. To this day, I still maintain it was not entirely my fault. But I'm getting ahead of myself. During the course of my life, I've barely escaped the wr ...Show more
The Queen's Speech: An Intimate Portrait of the Queen in Her Own Words by Ingrid Seward
$39.99 AUD
Category: Historical
On 9 September 2015, Queen Elizabeth II will become the longest-serving monarch in British history. During her 63 years on the throne, few have got to know her well, but there is one body of work that sheds real light on her thoughts, personality and the issues that really concern her: the Queen's own s ...Show more
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: VMC
At the age of 18, Beryl Markham, then Clutterbuck, was the first woman in Africa to be granted a racehorse trainer's licence; she was still active as a trainer until her death in 1986. She took up flying in 1931, inventing big game hunting by air, and in September 1936 she made world headlines by becomi ...Show more