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Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets
A history of unmarried motherhood through three generations of an Irish family, and the secrets we conceal How far would you go for the missing? When Clair Wills was in...
It Didn't Start With You: How inherited family trauma shapes who we
A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by an acclaimed expert in the field 'Groundbreaking' Tara Brach Depression. Anxiety. Chronic pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts....
Barry: Pocket Images
With over 200 postcards and family snapshots, the author taps a vein of nostalgia for the past of Barry and the surrounding area. This collection is a series of old...
Steam to Diesel in New Jersey
$12.00 AUD
At the end of World War II, the nation's railroads were eager to replace their abundance of war-weary steam locomotives with sleek new diesel engines. From Cape May to Bayonne,...
The Invasion Before Normandy: Secret Battle of Slapton Sands
The first full account of a major disaster deliberately concealed during the Allied preparation for D-Day. Operation Tiger on Slapton Sands was one of the giant military exercises off the...
Unmasked: A History of the Victorian Perioperative Nurses Group: the
The history of the Victorian Perioperative Nurses Group over the first fifty years has demonstrated the Group's commitment to the education of perioperative nurses and the development of the professional...
The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the
*A NEW YORK TIMES PICK FOR TOP 22 NONFICTION BOOKS TO READ THIS FALL!* A Navajo Ranger's chilling and clear-eyed memoir of his investigations into bizarre cases of the paranormal...
Dorset Privies
$10.00 AUD
This book presents a light-hearted look at Dorset's loos of yesteryear with local anecdotes and photographs of those buildings still standing. It is fully illustrated.
London Parks
Join Hunter Davies on a celebratory stroll around London's greatest glories - its parks. We need our parks more than ever before , for our health and spirits, our bodies...
Collins Tracing Your Family History
The definitive handbook for anyone interested in tracing their family's past. Firmly practical in its approach, yet entertaining in its style, this reference guide is the indispensable companion for all...
Ordnance Survey Maps: No. 95: Penzance
$100.00 AUD
This series offers reprints of the first edition of the one-inch Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales, dating from 1805 to 1900. Detail includes villages, hamlets, farms, county boundaries,...
Memory Lane Nantwich
IN 2000, well-known Crewe photographer Gordon Davies spent many hundreds of hours trawling through his extensive picture archive to produce his first book Memory Lane Crewe. He followed this up...
New Mexico: Then & Now
$12.00 AUD
With images of 19th- and 20th-century New Mexico in hand, photographer William Stone set his tripod in the exact same spot as his predecessors to document the change (or lack...
American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in
An acerbic, withering account of the ascent of the Bush family to the pinnacle of the American political and social elite and the implications of the dynasty's hold on power...
The Breweries of Australia: A History
$30.00 AUD
This immaculately presented coffee table tome is the ideal gift for beer lovers and Australian history buffs alike, with summaries of all breweries that have opened and closed since colonisation...
The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the
*A NEW YORK TIMES PICK FOR TOP 22 NONFICTION BOOKS TO READ THIS FALL!* A Navajo Ranger's chilling and clear-eyed memoir of his investigations into bizarre cases of the paranormal...
Once in Broome
In this montage of memoir, art, silk paintings, and photographs, Sally Bin Demin remembers her childhood growing up in Broome during the 1940s and 50s. As one of the 'after...
Early Warner Bros. Studios
$12.00 AUD
Since 1928, Warner Bros. has produced thousands of beloved films and television shows at the studio's magical 110-acre film factory in Burbank. This collection of evocative images concentrates on the...
Alan Turing's Manchester
Manchester is proud of Alan Turing but does it deserve to be? Dr Jonathan Swinton explores the complexity of the city that Alan Turing encountered in 1948. He goes well...
The Great Aussie Road Trip - New Back Roads book from the host of the
A compendium of Heather Ewart's favourite road trips around this great land with tips on where to go, when to go, what to pack and what to see. There's no...
The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family
An extraordinary narrative S Dean Powell, Western Mail 10/03/01
Powsels and Thrums
' I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration ' PHILIP PULLMAN ' One of Britain's greatest writers ' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Alan Garner's world is unbearably beautiful and...
Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians
The Thousand-Mile War, a powerful story of the battles of the United States and Japan on the bitter rim of the North Pacific, has been acclaimed as one of the...
The Pagoda
$12.00 AUD
In 1977, two lesbian couples living in St. Augustine, Florida, found a row of small beach houses for sale next to a house they wanted to turn into a feminist...
The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High
'The queen of food historians' LUCY WORSLEY'Annie Gray leads the pack' JAY RAYNER A colourful history of one of our most loved and ever-changing public spacesThe modern-day cry is that...
Capital Dames
Cokie Roberts, the author of three New York Times bestsellers, including Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty , turns her attention to the Civil War in a riveting exploration of...
The Most Fun We Ever Had: Now a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
APRIL 2024 REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne...
Swan River (PB)
Sis - as David Reynolds' grandmother was always called - was a passionate and headstrong young woman. Having betrayed herself by falling in love too trustingly, she added to her...
Lincoln City Guide
Few cities present as dramatic a profile as Lincoln. From many miles away the cathedral on its ridge makes a thrilling silhouette over the surrounding landscape. Closer to, its mighty...
America's Eden: Newport Landscapes through the Ages
An entirely new, illustrated publication on the landscape, history, and representation of the Newport, Rhode Island through the ages. In 1789, Jedidiah Morse described Newport and its environs as the...
I Don't Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony
A captivating oral history of the iconic music venue the Stone Pony and of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Asbury Park, New Jersey-featuring interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Steve Van...
The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book AwardIn a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave...
Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
The epic story of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora ,...
The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street
'The queen of food historians' LUCY WORSLEY'Annie Gray leads the pack' JAY RAYNER A colourful history of one of our most loved and ever-changing public spacesThe modern-day cry is that...
Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets
A history of unmarried motherhood through three generations of an Irish family, and the secrets we conceal How far would you go for the missing? When Clair Wills was in...
Njal's Saga
New edition of one of the most powerful of the Icelandic prose sagas Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages...
A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went
The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before Decades ago, the historian...
The Birth Of Sydney
The Birth of Sydney tells the story of the founding of one of the world's greatest cities. Tim Flannery's brilliant anthology reveals Sydney's strange and secret life from its unruly...
My Mother's Life: Mom, I Want to Know Everything About You - Give to Your Mother to Fill in with Her Memories and Return to You as a Keepsake: Volume 5
Record your mothers life story in this beautiful keepsake journal with 200 guided exercises and prompts that take her back through each stage of her life and its accompanying adventures....
Finding Your Family Tree: A Beginner's Guide to Researching Your
Finding Your Family Tree is the perfect guide for beginners of all backgrounds entering the world of genealogy, providing techniques for finding and understanding your family history.Genealogy offers you the...