Red Earl: The Extraordinary Life of the 15th Earl of Huntington by Selena Hastings
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
In The Red Earl Selina Hastings tells the extraordinary story of her father, Jack Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon. In 1925, Hastings infuriated his ultra-conservative parents by turning his back on centuries of tradition to make a scandalous run-away marriage. With his beautiful Italian wife he then l ...Show more
Sophia : Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand
$30.00 AUD
Category: Historical
In 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 mighty cities of Lahore and Peshawar. It was a territory irresistib ...Show more
Empress Dowager CixiThe Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
$50.00 AUD
Category: Historical
From a coauthor of the best-selling Mao: The Unknown Story, the dramatic, epic biography of the woman who ruled China for fifty years, overcoming centuries of traditions and formalities--and found ways to modernize China, exposing its culture to western political ideas and technology.Empress Dowager Cix ...Show more
The Liar's BallThe Extraordinary Saga of How One Building Broke the World's Toughest Tycoons by Vicky Ward
$37.95 AUD
Category: Historical
Towering and talented, they are rich, powerful, driven dreamers. They are also tortured, vindictive, neurotic. Scathingly successful, these flamboyant real estate tycoons share a voracious desire and joust for a plot of land and its gleaming white fortress, the most expensive office building in America: ...Show more
On Duty with the Queen by Dickie Arbiter
$32.95 AUD
Category: Historical
Dickie Arbiter was the Press Officer for Buckingham Palace for 12 years. Previously a royal correspondent for a tabloid newspaper, Dickie was a poacher turned gamekeeper, moving to the palace in 1988.At the forefront of royal engagements Dickie was privileged to work alongside Princess Diana, Prince Cha ...Show more
Vera Brittain and the First World War: The Story of Testament of Youth by Mark Bostridge
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Vera Brittain and the First World War tells the remarkable story of the author behind Testament of Youth whilst charting the book's ascent to become one of the most loved memoirs of the First World War period. Such interest is set to expand even more in this centenary year of the war's outbreak. In the ...Show more
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin
$59.99 AUD
Category: Historical
This magnificent new biography revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world. In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life. He was about to begin the largest prog ...Show more
Common People: The History of an English Family by Alison Light
$39.99 AUD
Category: Historical
"A remarkable achievement ...should become a classic". (Margaret Drabble). "Beautifully written and exhaustively researched, Alison Light makes her family speak for England". (Jerry White, author of London in the Eighteenth Century). Family history is a massive phenomenon of our times but what are we af ...Show more
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography One of the Best Books of the Year: "The Christian Science MonitorNPRThe Seattle Times St. Louis Post-Dispatch Chicago Tribune" A "New York Times" Notable Book The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War I was, in the words of T. E. ...Show more
Mawson: And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen by Peter FitzSimons
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The story of Australia?s most famous polar explorer and the giants from the heroic age of polar exploration- Scott, Amundsen and Shackleton.Sir Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, remains Australia?s greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, his Australasian Antarctic Expedition le ...Show more
John Quincy Adams: American Visionary by Fred Kaplan
$43.00 AUD
Category: Historical
In this fresh and illuminating biography, Fred Kaplan brings into focus the dramatic life of John Quincy Adams--the little-known and much-misunderstood sixth president of the United States and the first son of John and Abigail Adams--and reveals how Adams' inspiring, progressive vision guided his life a ...Show more
If This is A Woman - Inside Ravensbruck, Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded through giant gates. Whipping and kicking them were scores of German women guards. ...Show more