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Through Irish Eyes: A Visual Companion to Angela McCourt's Ireland
$20.00 AUD
A collection of photographs depicting Ireland in the 1930s and 1940s which aims to evoke the times captured in Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes. The book also contains extracts from the...
The Golden Age Of Australian Radio Drama
These were the halycon days, before television. For Australian people radio was a major source of entertainment and information, a link to worlds far beyond their own. This book evokes...
To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and
Between 1870 and 1940, tens of thousands of Australian women were drawn to London, their imperial metropolis and the center of the publishing, art, musical, theatrical, and educational worlds. Even...
The History Of Prahran
In this book, the residents of Prahran, past and present, tell something of their own stories. These are as diverse as Prahran itself. There are tales of wine and roses...
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
This title provides a detailed account of the issues and events which led to the Holocaust, and discusses the historiographical interpretations surrounding that event. The book examines anti-Semitism in Europe...
Where Have You Gone, Starlight Cafe?
Come along as the author searches America's backroads and mom-and-pop establishments, searching for a slice of America's past. Whatever happened to all of those wonderful cafes, diners, and drive-ins from...
Australian Women in Papua New Guinea: Colonial Passages 1920-1960
By the time Australia withdrew from Papua New Guinea in 1975, about 10,000 Australian women had lived there at some stage since 1920. Many came with their husbands who were...
The Tuscan Daughter
Read the brand-new heart-wrenching historical novel from Tessa Harris, The Florence Sisters , now! 'If you're a fan of WWII historical fiction [and] a courageous woman not willing to settle...
The Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938
This is a classic survey of US foreign policy from 1938 to President Clinton's second term, now fully revised.
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark...
From Salisbury to Major
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This history examines the Conservative Party's ability to dominate British politics. It takes as its key themes the party's relationship with mass democracy and its willingness to adapt, often at...
The Silent Snowman: Sir George Tallis, the Man Behind the World's
George Tallis arrived in Melbourne in 1886 as a seventeen-year-old Irish immigrant, and by the mid-1920s was one of the first 'media giants'. The Silent Showman is a biography of...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 '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 the Road
On The Road: The NRMA'S First 75 Years tells the story of how an idea became a great Australian institution. A little over three quarters of a century ago, a...
Solid Bluestone Foundations: And Other Memories of a Melbourne
New edition of a classic memoir with new Introduction, bibliography, biographical index and four new previously unpublished photographs. 'Hughenden', the seaside mansion of Kathleen's grandparents, provided the 'solid bluestone foundations'...
The Art of the "New Yorker": 1925-95
Shows and describes cartoons, covers, spot illustrations, and caricatures from the New Yorker magazine, and shares anecdotes about the artists and editors.
Further Particulars
Continuing from C.H. Rolph's first volume of memoirs: "London particulars", this volume covers the years from the end of World War I to the present day. It describes his 25...
Mr. Wu and Mrs.Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper,
Tells the story, via the letters they wrote to each other, of the relationship between Evelyn Waugh, author of "Brideshead Revisited", and Lady Diana Cooper, actress and hostess. The two...
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943
A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with...
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War
This thrilling Sunday Times bestseller is the first major account of the disastrous years of British indecision and infighting that enabled Hitler's domination of Europe ** Sunday Times Bestseller **...
The Paper Man
An unforgettable and sweeping interwar love story, from the Costa-shortlisted and bestselling Irish author of Life Sentences **A BOOK OF 2023 IN IRISH TIMES, RT GUIDE AND SUNDAY INDEPENDENT** An...
Family Lexicon
'The places, events and people are all real. I have invented nothing.' Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful, Strega Prize winning novel Family Lexicon while living in London in the 1960s....
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at
'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning historian's "immersive" ( New York Times) account of the...
British Naval Supremacy and Anglo-American Antagonisms, 1914-1930
During World War I, Britain's naval supremacy enabled it to impose economic blockades and interdiction of American neutral shipping. The United States responded by building 'a navy second to none',...
Some Liked It Hot
Women have been involved with jazz since its inception, but all too often their achievements were not as well known as those of their male counterparts. Some Liked It Hot...
Emily Noble's Disgrace
'A brilliant, original read' - Daily Mail 'Totally absorbing, this is a story that will keep you gripped' - Janice Hadlow, author of The Other Bennet Sister The case is...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a [...]
'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning historian's "immersive" ( New York Times) account of the...