The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have ever been told.' - Sebastian Barry. Over the past three decades, Daniel Mendelsohn's essays and reviews h ...Show more
Mythos: The stunningly iIllustrated story by Stephen Fry
$80.00 AUD
Category: History
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld ...Show more
The Two-Headed Whale: Life, Loss, and the Tangled Legacy of Whaling in the Antarctic by Sandy Winterbottom
$36.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: David Suzuki Institute Ser.
"Urgent and moving."--Publishers Weekly ★An elegant blend of "polemic, industrial history, nautical writing, elegy and ecology" (The Scotsman), The Two-Headed Whale charts the tragic history of the post-war whaling industry alongside the author's thrilling memoir of sailing the Antarctic.In 2016, Sandy ...Show more
The Palace Papers: The Sunday Times bestseller by Tina Brown
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
William, Harry, Kate, Meghan, Andrew, Charles, Camilla, Diana … and the Queen. Based on unprecedented sources and research, bestselling author Tina Brown takes readers behind the palace walls to tell the real story of the Windsors over the last twenty years since the death of Diana. Full of powerful rev ...Show more
Queen Victoria after Albert - Her Life and Loves by Ilana D. Miller
$75.00 AUD
Category: History
Few British monarchs have fit the time, the tone or the energy of an era quite the way Queen Victoria mastered her reign.From her ascension to the throne in 1837 to her death in 1901, her monarchy was one of spectacular advances in the British Empire. Political, scientific, and industrial wonders were c ...Show more
Templars: The Knights Who Made Britain by Steve Tibble
$51.95 AUD
Category: History
A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played a profound role in making modern Britain The Knights Templar have an enduring reputation--but not one they would recognize. Originally established in the twelfth century to protect ...Show more
A Monarch in the Making: From Accession to Coronation by Pamela Hartshorne
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
His Majesty King Charles III succeeded to the throne on 8 September 2022, immediately on the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest serving monarch. For most of us, this historic change of reign was the first in living history. But what really happens when one monarch succeeds another?This offic ...Show more
The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family. We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Montefiore takes us on ...Show more
The Race to Save the Romanovs - The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family by Helen Rappaport
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
On the 100th Anniversary of the murder of the Russian Imperial Family, acclaimed historian Helen Rappaport embarks on a quest to uncover the many international plots to save them, why they failed, and who was responsible. The murder of the Romanov family in July 1918 horrified the world and its aftersh ...Show more
Finding Freedom - Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family by Omid Scobie; Carolyn Durand
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
The first, epic and true story of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's life together, finally revealing why they chose to pursue a more independent path and the reasons behind their unprecedented decision to step away from their royal lives, from two top royal reporters who have been behind the scenes since ...Show more
The Story of Work - A New History of Humankind by Jan Lucassen
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day "Beginning in the hunting-and-gathering past, this long view of work shows how little has changed over millennia. Progressing through the rise of cities, wages and markets for labour, it t ...Show more
Treasures of Ukraine: A Nation’s Cultural Heritage by Thames and Hudson; Victoria Burlaka (Contribution by); Andrey Kurkov (Foreword by); Andriy Puchkov (Contribution by); Christian Raffensperger (Contribution by); Diana Klochko (Contribution by); Maksym Yaremenko (Contribution by); Alisa Lozhkina (Contribution by); Myroslava M. Mudrak (Contribution by); Oleksandr Soloviev (Contribution by)
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A celebration of Ukraine's rich cultural heritage, drawing on over 100 of the country's most important works of art and architectural monuments from prehistory to the present.