Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg
$38.00 AUD
Category: Historical
From one of South Africa’s foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new account of Nelson Mandela’s relationship with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Drawing on never-before-seen material, Steinberg reveals the fractures and stubborn bonds at the heart of a volatile and ground-breaking u ...Show more
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz
$50.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A revelatory biography of the writer-activist who inspired today's movements for racial liberation In the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon's shadow looms larger than ever. He was the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era, and his writings about race, revolution, and the psychology of pow ...Show more
Love in a Time of Hate by Florian Illies; Simon Pare (Translator)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023'1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other concerns. Jean-Paul Sartre waits anxiously in a Parisian café for his first date with no-show Simone de Beauvoir. Marlene Dietrich slips from ...Show more
George VI and Elizabeth by Sally Bedell Smith
$37.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A revelatory account of how King George VI and Queen Elizabeth's loving marriage saved the monarchy during World War II, and how they raised their daughter to become Queen Elizabeth II, based on exclusive access to the Royal Archives From the bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen and Prince Charles ...Show more
Endgame by Omid Scobie
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The new book from bestselling author Omid Scobie shedding light on the Royal Family, with unique insight and exclusive access. On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family, and ...Show more
Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57 by Chips Channon
$75.00 AUD
Category: Historical
This third and final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon begins as the Second World War is turning in the Allies' favour. It ends with Chips descending into poor health but still able to turn a pointed phrase about the political events that swirl around him and the great and ...Show more
If Everyone Cared Enough: Her Voice Reclaimed by Margaret Tucker
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE (affectionately known as Aunty Marge) was a significant Aboriginal activist and one of the first Aboriginal women to publish for mainstream audiences. If Everyone Cared (1977) was a landmark publication. In that first edition, her tone and draft content were significantly al ...Show more
Mirrors of Greatness - Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him by David Reynolds
$38.00 AUD
Category: Historical
'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark on our age' ADAM ZAMOYSKIWinston Churchill followed his own star. He yearned to be 'great', to gain historical immortality. And he did so through deeds and words: his ...Show more
Astor: The Rise And Fall Of An American Fortune by Anderson Cooper
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story--of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvent ...Show more
The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain by Tristram Hunt
$55.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A spectacular new biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, by the Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum Josiah Wedgwood, perhaps the greatest English potter who ever lived, epitomized the best of his age. From his kilns and workshops in S ...Show more
Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-43 by Chips Channon
$75.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The second volume of the remarkable, Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Chips Channon. This second volume of the bestselling diaries of Henry 'Chips' Channon takes us from the heady aftermath of the Munich agreement, when the Prime Minister Chips so admired was credited with having averted a general Eu ...Show more
The Man Who Understood Democracy - The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville by Olivier Zunz
$40.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy's greatest champions In 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning democracy. From that moment onward, the French aristocr ...Show more