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Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets

Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets

$26.99 AUD$22.94 AUD
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...
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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'THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER- Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London - the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. 'Powerful...
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic

Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
Opens a fascinating new window onto medieval and early modern life - a world where it's possible to meet the devil on the road, control the future through stars, and...
When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most

When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most

$26.99 AUD$22.94 AUD
The explosive expose of the billion-dollar company that has often made our world more unequal, more corrupt and more dangerous. **A TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR...
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany

Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
Baillie Gifford-shortlisted author Harald J hner (Aftermath- Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich) presents a staggering new assessment of the short life of the Weimar Republic between the...
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World

The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World

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The dark, compelling history of a colonial witch-hunt, from the author of Witchfinders In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock...
The World According to Colour: A Cultural History

The World According to Colour: A Cultural History

$26.99 AUD$22.94 AUD
A beguiling, human history of colour by one of art history's most exciting voices The world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as...
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian

The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian

$26.99 AUD$22.94 AUD
'The next Bill Bryson.' New York Times Winner of the Best Narrative Travel Book Award from the British Guild of Travel Writers The Danes are the happiest people in the...
Legendary Dinners: From Grace Kelly to Jackson Pollock

Legendary Dinners: From Grace Kelly to Jackson Pollock

$79.99 AUD$40.00 AUD
This sumptuous blend of recipes with cultural history is a dinner invitation you won't want to pass up. Chances are you weren't invited to the wedding of Grace Kelley and...
The National Trust Research Manual

The National Trust Research Manual

$21.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
This guide to researching Australian history, designed to be easy to follow and informative, shows the beginner how to research and trace the history of houses, public buildings, industrial sites,...
Courage in a Hostile World: The Story of FamilyVoice Australia

Courage in a Hostile World: The Story of FamilyVoice Australia

$30.00 AUD$12.00 AUD
David Phillips' account of the rise and reach of FamilyVoice Australia is a compelling history of a 40 year-long battle for the heart and soul of Australian society. "Courage in...
Between Two Worlds: Commonwealth Government and the Removal of

Between Two Worlds: Commonwealth Government and the Removal of

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Earlier this century, thousands of Aboriginal children of part descent were taken away from their families by the government and placed in institutions. Some were never to return home. Between...
Who's Looking Out for You?

Who's Looking Out for You?

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From the mega-bestselling author of The O'Reilly Factor and The No Spin Zone , a no-holds-barred expose of the people and institutions who are letting Americans down - and what...
Letters to the Midwife: Correspondence with Jennifer Worth, the Author

Letters to the Midwife: Correspondence with Jennifer Worth, the Author

$39.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
When the CALL THE MIDWIFE books became bestsellers, Jennifer Worth was inundated with correspondence. People felt moved to write to her because the books had touched them, and because they...
The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England's Legends, from Spring-heeled

The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England's Legends, from Spring-heeled

$65.00 AUD$60.00 AUD
Stop off at any English village or town or wander through the countryside and you will almost certainly brush up against some deep-rooted local legend - whether it's the pub...
Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

$45.00 AUD$20.00 AUD
'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES ' If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND 'An astonishing tour de...
Survival in Auschwitz

Survival in Auschwitz

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Survival in Auschwitz: If This Is a Man is a book written by the Italian author, Primo Levi. It describes his experiences in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the...
It's Not the Money it's the Land

It's Not the Money it's the Land

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As a result of the 1965 Equal Wages Case, Aboriginal people in Australia's north were forced into unemployment and off their country into refugee camps on the fringes of the...
Tugs and Towing: A Worldwide Survey of the Vessels, Techniques and

Tugs and Towing: A Worldwide Survey of the Vessels, Techniques and

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Tugs and their development over the past 150 years are described in this book and it particularly looks at the past 20 years with emphasis on the use of tugs...
What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An odyssey through 1950s suburbia

What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An odyssey through 1950s suburbia

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Michele Hanson grew up an 'oddball tomboy disappointment' in a Jewish family in Ruislip in the 1950s - a suburban Metroland idyll of neat lawns, bridge parties and Martini socials....
Extraordinary Pools

Extraordinary Pools

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A visual feast of 50 weird, wonderful and architecturally astounding swimming pools from around the world. Swimming pools are no longer simply places to swim, they are versatile sites of...
Writing Black Beauty: Anna Sewell and the Story of Animal Rights

Writing Black Beauty: Anna Sewell and the Story of Animal Rights

$49.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
This is the story of a remarkable woman who wrote a phenomenal book. Born in 1829 to a young Quaker couple, Anna Sewell grew up in poverty in London. She...
Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One

Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One

$26.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
In 1914 the world changed forever. When World War One broke out and a generation of men went off to fight, bestselling author Kate Adie shows how women emerged from...
Out of Love for My Kin: Aristocratic Family Life in the Lands of the

Out of Love for My Kin: Aristocratic Family Life in the Lands of the

$109.00 AUD$50.00 AUD
In Out of Love for My Kin, Amy Livingstone examines the personal dimensions of the lives of aristocrats in the Loire region of France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries....
800 Years of Women's Letters

800 Years of Women's Letters

$32.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
This inspiring and fascinating book is the first truly comprehensive study of women's letters ever published. Organised by subject matter, and covering a wide range of topics from politics, work...
The Dictionary Of Terrible Ideas: The very funny new book from one of

The Dictionary Of Terrible Ideas: The very funny new book from one of

$34.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
A compendium of crapulous concepts from absinthe to zorbing From the tiniest nanoparticle to the vast span of the Large Hadron Collider, humans have invented many remarkable things. But not...
The Crooked Scythe: An Anthology of Oral History

The Crooked Scythe: An Anthology of Oral History

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
George Ewart Evans, who wrote the classic Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay , was one of the pioneers of oral history. This anthology is drawn from his writings...
An Island Out Of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake

An Island Out Of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake

$12.00 AUD
Smith Island is a marshy archipelago in mid-Chesapeake Bay, nine miles from the mainland, home to 150 watermen and their families. This book is a portrait of a people who...
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy

Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy

$35.00 AUD$12.00 AUD
A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning writer and historian On 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at...
Chosen Few HB

Chosen Few HB

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In A Chosen Few, Mark Kurlansky explores the many reasons why Jews have returned to Germany and Poland, and why Jews remain in Europe, how they have managed not only...
Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present

Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present

$45.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
The image of Poland has once again been impressed on European consciousness. Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the modern Polish crisis in this lucid and authoritative description of...
The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the

The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the

$59.99 AUD$30.00 AUD
*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...
Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women

Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women

$38.99 AUD$33.14 AUD
Discover 50 fascinating tales of female pirates, fraudsters, gamblers, bootleggers, serial killers, madams, and outlaws in this illustrated book of lawbreaking and legendary women throughout the ages. Many of us...
The Story of Yoga: From Ancient India to the Modern West

The Story of Yoga: From Ancient India to the Modern West

$29.99 AUD$25.49 AUD
How did a venerable Indian spiritual discipline turn into a 20 billion-a-year mainstay of the wellness industry? What happened along yoga's winding path from the caves and forests of the...
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Two Volumes in One

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Two Volumes in One

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
Two volumes in one! This is a complete, two-volume set of one of the greatest books on 19th century Japanese history and culture. Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write...
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World

The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World

$49.99 AUD$42.49 AUD
The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in...
Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early

Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early

$89.99 AUD$76.49 AUD
A definitive new history of the origins, evolution, and scope of the ancient Greek city-state The Greek polis , or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on...
BSW Box Set

BSW Box Set

$110.00 AUD
Finding My Place: From Cairo to Canberra - the irresistible story of

Finding My Place: From Cairo to Canberra - the irresistible story of

$34.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
From Cairo to Canberra -- the irresistible story of an irrepressible woman 'Anne Aly's ... influence will be felt for years to come ... It sinks in how significant she...
The Tears of Strangers

The Tears of Strangers

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A family memoir charting the political and social changes of Aborigines over the past 40 years. Stan Grant was born in 1963 into the Wiradjuri people -- a tribe of...