A Woman of No Importance - The Untold Story of Virginia Hall WW2s Most Dangerous Spy by Sonia Purnell
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
***A New York Times bestseller*** 'Riveting' Mick Herron, New York Times * 'A rousing tale' The Times, Book of the Week * 'Cracking' Telegraph * 'Gripping' Irish Times * 'Brilliant' Evening Standard * 'Excellent' Spectator In September 1941, a young American woman strides up the steps of a hotel in Lyon ...Show more
A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary 1939-1940 by Iris Origo
$23.00 AUD
Category: Historical
A harrowing account of life in Italy in the year leading up to World War II, available in the US for the first time. In 1939 it was not a foregone conclusion that Mussolini would enter World War II on the side of Hitler. In this previously unpublished and only recently discovered diary, Iris Origo, ...Show more
Images and Shadows: Part of a Life by Iris Origo
$28.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Bring her up somewhere where she does not belong...I'd like her to be a little 'foreign' Iris Origo was born in 1902 and spent her youth in the ancestral estate on Long Island and in her grandfather's castle in Ireland. Her father died tragically when she was eight, and she continued her peripatetic lif ...Show more
War In Val D'orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944 by Iris Origo
$27.00 AUD
Category: Historical
War in Val D'Orcia is the elegantly simple chronicle of daily life at La Foce, a manor in a Tuscan no-man's land bracketed by foreign invasion and civil war. Writing with simplicity and grace, Iris Origo describes how she and her husband managed to help refugee children from Genoa and Turin, hide escape ...Show more
Reading Lolita In Tehran by Azar Nafisi
$23.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
We all have dreams--things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true.For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discus ...Show more
Personal History by Katharine Graham
$27.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Women in History Ser.
As seen in the new movie The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep, here is the captivating, inside story of the woman who piloted the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media. In this bestselling and widely acclaimed memoir, Katha ...Show more
Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38 by Chips Channon
$37.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The Sunday Times bestselling edition of Chips Channon's remarkable diaries 'The greatest British diarist of the 20th century. An astonishing achievement. By turns frivolous and profound.' Ben Macintyre, The Times 'Wickedly entertaining.' Andrew Marr, New Statesman 'An irresistible, saucy read . . . One ...Show more
Stories My Grandmothers Didn't Tell Me by Andra Putnis
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
When she breaks an unspoken family code not to dig too deep into the past, Andra is plunged into the bleak world of the Soviet and Nazi occupations of Latvia in World War II, and secret lives of her grandmothers. As children, we'd sneak into Grandma's bedroom on secret missions. Her cupboard was filled ...Show more
The Diaries of Mr Lucas - Notes from a Lost Gay Life by Hugo Greenhalgh
$40.00 AUD
Category: Historical
An utterly unforgettable account of lost gay history based on a set of real diaries, presented by the highly acclaimed journalist Hugo Greenhalgh
Fallen: George Mallory: The Man, The Myth and the 1924 Everest Tragedy by Mick Conefrey
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
'Mick Conefrey's Falle n is a marvellously researched and written story about the enigma of George Mallory and the fulfilment of his "Because it's there!"' Peter Hillary On 6 June, 1924 George Mallory donned an oxygen set and set off for the summit of Everest with his young partner Andrew Irvine. Two ...Show more
Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
“One of the most detailed, nuanced portraits of Jackie to date.” —The Washington Post An illuminating and “wholly refreshing” (David Maraniss, New York Times bestselling author) biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer an ...Show more
My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Two best friends' lives were about to change for ever, neither would ever be forgotten... 'As a girl I witnessed the world I loved crumble and vanish, destroyed by senseless hatred, and with it, my best friend Anne' When Hannah's family flee from the Nazi to Amsterdam, she soon strikes up a friendship ...Show more