The Traitor of Arnhem by Robert Verkaik
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
Sunday Times Bestselling author of The Traitor of Colditz Robert Verkaik reveals the incredible never-before-told story of the role played by the Cambridge Spies in the British defeat at Arnhem The end of the Second World War is in sight. Following the overwhelming victory on D-Day, Churchill, Rooseve ...Show more
Life & Crimes: True Stories from Australia’s Underbelly by Andrew Rule
$37.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
Journalist and podcaster Andrew Rule brings us eighteen Australian crime stories that have fuelled fears, fired outrage and broken hearts and dreams. Among them are events so infamous that a word or phrase propels us back to a time and place. The disappearance of the Beaumont children from an Adelaide b ...Show more
Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter by Ian Mortimer
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. By contrast we believe progress arose from science a ...Show more
Climate Clangers: The Bad Ideas Blocking Real Action by Jennifer Rayner
$19.95 AUD
Category: In the National Interest | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The climate assertions that only prevent effective action, and what could replace them The impacts of climate change keep getting worse, but the typical framing of the problem and the solutions so far being pursued are seriously insufficient. As a result, the steps we’re taking to build a clean energy e ...Show more
The Trial of Vladimir Putin by Geoffrey Robertson QC
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
There have been dozens of books about the Russian President since he launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Some have examined the historical aspects of the conflict, others have analysed its military and geopolitical importance. However, none so far have looked purely at the legal c ...Show more
A Little History of the Australian Labor Party by Nick Dyrenfurth, Frank Bongiorno
$28.00 AUD
Category: Political
A little book about the big history of one of Australia’s most important institutions The Australian Labor Party is one of the oldest labour parties in the world and the first to form a government. This short, sharp history tells the story of the party’s formation, its successes and failures at winning ...Show more
Jack and Eve - Two Women in Love and at War by Wendy Moore
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
Vera Holme, known as Jack, left a career as a jobbing actress to become Emmeline Pankhurst's chauffeur and mechanic. Evelina Haverfield was a classic beauty, the daughter of a Scottish baron and fourteen years older than Jack. They met in 1908, fell in love, lived together, and became public faces of th ...Show more
A Message from Ukraine by Volodymyr Zelensky
$20.00 AUD
Category: War
The words of a man. The message of a people. Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with his most powerful war speeches, this book recounts Ukraine's war through the words of its president. It is the story of a people valiantly defending themselves from Russian aggression. And it is ...Show more
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
$27.00 AUD
Category: British
"This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all names, dates or ungraspable historical headwinds, but instead show how it's really just a bunch of random stuff that happened with a fe ...Show more
Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power by Erica Benner
$55.00 AUD
Category: Political
A political philosopher explores the elusive promises of popular government around the world 'There's no simple way to measure how strong a democracy is, or how weak.' Democracy is a living, breathing thing and Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about the role ordinary citizens play in keeping i ...Show more
The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East by Christopher Harding
$65.00 AUD
Category: Asian
From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part of outrageous tales of strange beasts and monsters, of silk and spices shipped over vast distances and an uneasy sense of unknowable empires fantastically far away. By the twentieth century much of ...Show more
Ancient Egypt on Five Deben a Day by Donald P. Ryan
$20.00 AUD
Category: History
An essential guide for the discerning time-traveller: take a trip to ancient Egypt at the height of its power and prosperity in the reign of Ramesses II.More reliable than Herodotus and more upbeat than The Book of the Dead, this popular book in Thames & Hudson's successful Time Travel series takes ...Show more