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In the Heart of the Sea: The Incredible True Story That Inspired 'Moby Dick' (Film Tie-In) by Nathaniel Philbrick
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: Adult
The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the nineteenth century - and inspiration for 'Moby-Dick' - reissued to accompany a major motion picture due for release in December 2015, directed by Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker and Cillian Murphy. W ...Show more
Night by Elie Wiesel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity - the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, ...Show more
Pale Rider : The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World by Laura Spinney
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I. In Pale ...Show more
These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie by Christopher Andersen
$46.00 AUD
Category: Historical
"The days dwindle down, to a precious few . . ." --from "September Song," JFK's favorite They were the original power couple-- outlandishly rich, impossibly attractive, and endlessly fascinating. Now, in this rare, behind-the-scenes portrait of the Kenne-dys in their final year together, #1 "New York Ti ...Show more
Jungle Dark by Steve Strevens
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
On 21 July 1969, 3 Platoon, A Company, 6 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment forced their way through the damp Vietnamese jungle on a patrol as part of Operation Mundingburra. With the insects biting and the humidity sapping their strength, the platoon established a safe harbour and listened as the new ...Show more
After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring by Joseph F. Polak
$44.00 AUD
Category: Historical
This memoir is a fascinating portrait of mother and child who miraculously survive two concentration camps, then, after the war, battle demons of the past, societal rejection, disbelief, and invalidation as they struggle to reenter the world of the living. It is the tale of how one newly takes on the wo ...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
The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The Woman Who Scandalised 1920s Society and Became White Mischief's Infamous Seductress by Frances Osborne
$24.99 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
Man Who Saved Smithy: Fighter Pilot, Pioneer Aviator, Hero - the Extraordinary Life of Sir Gordon Taylor Mc, Gc by Rick Searle
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Patrick Gordon 'Bill' Taylor was a pioneer of Australian aviation. As a fighter pilot during the First World War he won the MC. His wartime flying was the start of a life-long career during which he would use aircraft to pioneer air routes across several oceans. Returning to Australia after the war he b ...Show more
The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs by Elaine Sciolino
$36.95 AUD
Category: Historical
Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favourite Parisian street. "I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs", Sciolino explains as she celebrates the area's rich history and vibrant lives. While many cities suffer from the levelling effects of ...Show more
Richard: No. III by Charles Ross
$37.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The Yale English Monarchs Series
Richard III ruled England for a mere twenty-six months, yet few English monarchs remain as compulsively fascinating, and none has been more persistently vilified. In his absorbing and universally praised account, Charles Ross assesses the king within the context of his violent age and explores the criti ...Show more
Henry IV by Chris Given-Wilson
$54.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The English Monarchs Series
Henry IV (1399-1413), the son of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, seized the English throne at the age of thirty-two from his cousin Richard II and held it until his death, aged forty-five, when he was succeeded by his son, Henry V. This comprehensive and nuanced biography restores to his rightful plac ...Show more