The Pacific - In the Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill, in which Sam Neill retraces Cook's footsteps, in the 250th anniversary year of Cook's first voyage. Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768 - 250 years ago. These vast waters, ...Show more
The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The Woman Who Scandalised 1920s Society and Became White Mischief's Infamous Seductress by Frances Osborne
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off to Afr ...Show more
The Price of Peace - Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . An "outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes that moves swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit" (The New York Times), illuminating the world of the influential economist and his transformative ideas"A timely, lucid and compelling portrait of a man who ...Show more
Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$26.95 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Classics of Reportage Ser.
In 1964, renowned reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was appointed by the Polish Press Agency as its only foreign correspondent, and for the next ten years he was 'responsible' for fifty countries. He befriended Che Guevara in Bolivia, Salvador Allende in Chile and Patrice Lumumba in the Congo. He reported on ...Show more
Road to Valour: Gino Bartali - Tour De France Legend and World War Two Hero by Aili McConnon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
ROAD TO VALOUR is the inspiring, against-the-odds story of Gino Bartali, the cyclist who made the greatest comeback in Tour de France history and still holds the record for the longest gap between victories. Yet it was his actions during the Second World War, when he secretly aided the Resistance, rathe ...Show more
Taking Flight Lores Bonney's Extraordinary Flying Career by Kristen Alexander
$39.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From her first taste of the air when she joined Bert Hinkler in the cockpit for a joy ride in 1928, Lores Bonney was hooked. With her aviation licence and the support of her husband, she took to the Australian and international skies and braved the challenge of long-distance flying. In 1931 Lores broke ...Show more
Thank You For Your Service by David Finkel
$29.95 AUD
Category: Historical
"Finkel is a vivid and deeply informed writer. His reporting often approaches the level of detail of great journalists like Katherine Boo and Nicholas Lemann, writers who get inside the emotional lives of their subjects without being exploitative. . . . Thank You is an important piece of work." The Glob ...Show more
The Porcelain Thief by Huan Hsu
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: good
In 1938, with the Japanese army approaching from Nanking, Huan Hsu's great-great grandfather, Liu, and his five granddaughters, were forced to flee their hometown on the banks of the Yangtze River. But before they left a hole was dug as deep as a man, and as wide as a bedroom, in which was stowed the fa ...Show more
Napoleon The Great by Andrew Roberts
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Awarded The Prix Du Jury Des Grands Prix De La Fondation Napoleon 2014 From Andrew Roberts, author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Storm of War, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon. Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty ...Show more
Ned Kelly by Peter FitzSimons
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Historians still disagree over virtually every aspect of the eldest Kelly boy?s brushes with the law. Did he or did he not shoot Constable Fitzpatrick at their family home? Was he a lawless thug or a noble Robin Hood, a remorseless killer or a crusader against oppression and discrimination? Was he even ...Show more
Fierce Appetites: My year of untamed thinking - intimate lessons from imaginary lives by Elizabeth Boyle
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
'Like nothing else you will read' Hilary MantelEvery day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty.All three happening together brings a moment of reckoning.Medieval historian Elizabeth Boyle made sense of these events the best way she knew how - by immersing hersel ...Show more
James II: The Last Catholic King by David Womersley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Penguin Monarchs
The short, action-packed reign of James II (1685-88) is generally seen as one of the most catastrophic in British history. James managed, despite having access to tremendous reserves of good will and deference, to so alienate his supporters that he had to flee for his life. And yet, most of that life wa ...Show more