Murder Without Motive - the Killing of Rebecca Ryle by Martin McKenzie-Murray
$28.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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Encounters: Revealing Stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Objects from the British Museum by British Museum
$59.95 AUD
Category: Australian
This book is published to accompany a groundbreaking exhibition at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, in which rare historic objects collected during encounters between settlers and first peoples are displayed alongside more recent artworks and artefacts made in the communities of origin. Enc ...Show more
High seas and High Teas by Roslyn Russell
$44.99 AUD
Category: Australian
‘The rats I frighten away by throwing books or anything hard at the spot at which they commence their gnawing,’ wrote emigrant Janet Ronald in her journal kept aboard the Invincible in 1857.Packed in cheek by jowl with fellow passengers and crew, life on board the ships transporting convicts and free se ...Show more
The Private Life of Napoléon The Bruno Ledoux Collection by Philippe Garcia
$70.00 AUD
Category: History
A timeless symbol of power and ambition, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) spent decades expanding France's empire, enjoying magnificent success and suffering crushing defeats. Featuring over 400 never-before-seen objects, The Private Life of Napoleon allows a glimpse into the inner world of the French emp ...Show more
Damned Whores and God's Police by Anne Summers
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape had not been named, although they certainly existed, when Damned Whores and God's Police was first published in 1975. That was before the Sex Discrimination Act of 1984 and before large numbers of women became visible in employment, in politics and else ...Show more
Innocent Killer Steven Avery by Michael Griesbach
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
The story of one of America's most notorious wrongful convictions, that of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who spent eighteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit and now the subject of the hit series Making a Murderer. But two years after he was exonerated of that crime and poised to reap millio ...Show more
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp by Ben Rawlence
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery for terrorists'; to the western media, it is a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents, it is their last resort. Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep w ...Show more
Invitation-Only Zone: The Extraordinary Story of North Korea's Abduction Project by Robert Boynton
$33.00 AUD
Category: Asian
During the 1970s and early 80s, dozens - perhaps hundreds - of Japanese civilians were kidnapped by North Korean commandos and forced to live in 'Invitation Only Zones', high-security detention-centres masked as exclusive areas, on the outskirts of Pyongyang. The objective? To brainwash the abductees wi ...Show more
Stalin's Englishman by Andrew Lownie
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A Guardian Book of the Year. The Times Best Biography of the Year. Mail on Sunday Biography of the Year. Daily Mail Biography of Year. 'Andrew Lownie's biography of Guy Burgess, Stalin's Englishman ...shrewd, thorough, revelatory.' William Boyd 'In the sad and funny Stalin's Englishman, [Lownie] manages ...Show more
Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World by Christina Lamb
$24.99 AUD
Category: Middle East
From the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong? 'Farewell Kabul' tells how the West turned success into defeat in the long ...Show more
First Day of the Somme : the Complete Account of Britain's Worst-Ever Military Disaster by Andrew Macdonald
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
The complete account of Britain's worst-ever military disaster. It took several million bullets and roughly an hour to effectively destroy General Sir Douglas Haig's grand plans for the first day of the Somme, 1 July 1916. By day's end, 19,240 British soldiers were dead, crumpled khaki bundles scattered ...Show more
Daffodil - Biography of a Flower by Helen O'Neill
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A beautifully illustrated, visually lush and intriguing book about the world's most popular and most powerful flower. The daffodil is the beautiful first flower of spring, the inspiration of poets, a treasure-trove to scientists and a symbol of everything from unrequited love, rebirth, eternal life and ...Show more