Sister Viv by Grantlee Kieza
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
The inspiring story of the nursing hero who survived a wartime massacre and dedicated her life to saving others - from the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remarkable Mrs Reibey, Hudson Fysh, Lawson and Banjo. Bangka Island, 1942: Australian Army nurse Vivian Bullwinkel was just twenty-s ...Show more
The Journals of Captain Cook by Captain James Cook
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Captain Cook's Journals provide his vivid first-hand account of three extraordinary expeditions. These charted the entire coast of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, and brought back detailed descriptions of Tahiti, Tonga and a host of until then unknown islands in the Pacific. The journals am ...Show more
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses by Aarathi Prasad
$37.99 AUD
Category: History
In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which it has been drawn, Prasad explores the global history, natural history, and future ...Show more
The Hinge of Fate: The Second World War Volume 4 by Winston Churchill
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Second World War Ser.
Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is ...Show more
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all n ...Show more
Icons of Style - Diana: The story of a fashion icon by Glenys Johnson
$17.99 AUD
$29.99 (40% off)
Category: Royals | Series: Icons of Style Ser.
Featuring over 100 photographs of Diana's key looks, this book explores how and why she chose the designers and styles she returned to time and time again, and what we can learn from her iconic wardrobe to cultivate our own style. A style icon, a trendsetter, a princess: Lady Diana epitomised 80s and 90 ...Show more
Rebel Island: The incredible history of Taiwan by Jonathan Clements
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle--and the renewed threat of invasion by China. Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a 'ball of mud', Taiwan has a modern GDP larger than that of Sweden, in a land area smaller tha ...Show more
Witch Hunt - A Traveler's Journey into the Power and Persecution of the Witch by Kristen J. Sollée
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
"A transcendent travelogue that guides readers through the history, places, and people of several of the many witch hunts and how their legacy continues to impact us today." --Pam Grossman, author of Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power Traveling through cities and sites across I ...Show more
A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By ...Show more
The Gathering Storm: The Second World War by Winston S. Churchill
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The Second World War S.
Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is ...Show more
Triumph and Tragedy: The Second World War Volume 6 by Winston S. Churchill, Winston Churchill
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Second World War Ser.
In the final volume of the six-volume series The Second World War, the tide of war has turned in the Allies' favor--and Japan's surrender is imminent. Even so, the Allies find themselves powerless to halt the advance of Russia and lay the groundwork for lasting peace--and Churchill himself is seeing his ...Show more
The Menzies Watershed - Liberalism, Anti-Communism, Continuities 1943-1954 Volume 2 by Zachary Gorman
$50.00 AUD
Category: History
The eleven years that passed between the 1943 and the 1954 elections were arguably some of the most pivotal in Australian history. This was a period of intense political, policy and strategic transition, which saw a popular Labor Government and its state-led vision for post-war reconstruction toppled b ...Show more