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British Theatre Design: The Modern Age

British Theatre Design: The Modern Age

$49.46 AUD$15.00 AUD
This cookbook is for anyone interested in getting fit - intermittently at the gym, running for fun, as a training sportsman or woman, or as a serious marathon runner. These...
Miller's Collecting Books

Miller's Collecting Books

$65.00 AUD$20.00 AUD
Collecting books can be an exciting and surprisingly affordable pastime, but where do you start? This beautifully illustrated guide provides all the information you need, with advice on what to...
Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982

Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982

$26.99 AUD$22.94 AUD
The fascinating story of how Margaret Thatcher, Princess Diana and the SAS changed the world The early 1980s were the most dramatic, colourful and controversial years in our modern history....
Britain and the Greek Colonels: Accommodating the Junta in the Cold

Britain and the Greek Colonels: Accommodating the Junta in the Cold

$240.00 AUD$12.00 AUD
At the apex of international Cold War tension, an alliance of Greek military leaders seized power in Athens. Seven years of violent political repression followed in Greece, yet as Cold...
Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex

Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex

$55.00 AUD$25.00 AUD
The 1590s were black years for England. The queen was old, the succession unclear, and the treasury empty after decades of war. Amid the rising tension, William Shakespeare published a...
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe

Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe

$35.00 AUD$17.50 AUD
A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother. As her reign approached its sixth decade, Queen Victoria's...
Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence

Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence

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The author of the acclaimed Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution presents this dramatic account of the War of 1812, the war that established a young nation as...
The Edwardian Theatre: Essays on Performance and the Stage

The Edwardian Theatre: Essays on Performance and the Stage

$71.95 AUD$30.00 AUD
This 1996 book presents Edwardian entertainment and the Edwardian entertainment industry as parts of a vital, turbulent era whose preoccupations and paranoias echo those of our own day. Responding to...
Liberty's Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British

Liberty's Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British

$12.00 AUD
'More than just a work of first-class scholarship, Liberty's Exile's is a deeply moving masterpiece that fulfil's the historian's most challenging ambition: to revivify past experience.' Niall Fergusson On a...
The Royal Ballet 2016/17

The Royal Ballet 2016/17

$39.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
The Royal Ballet Yearbook series is back, with extra editorial features and exclusive behind-the-scenes content - in addition to the usual selection of beautiful ballet images. Featuring lavish photographs of...
Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick

Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick

$39.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
At the end of the 18th century, Britain fell in love with nature. Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds marked the moment, the first 'field-guide' for ordinary people, illustrated by...
Wellington: Triumphs, Politics and Passions

Wellington: Triumphs, Politics and Passions

$35.00 AUD$10.00 AUD
This new book about the 1st Duke of Wellington provides a novel take on the traditional biography in that it explores the life of this complex man through portraits -...
Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: Finding a Home in the

Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: Finding a Home in the

$39.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
From the grandiose histories of grand state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner pubs, from the rebuilding of capital cities to the provision of the humble...
Sunshine and Laughter: The Story of Morecambe & Wise

Sunshine and Laughter: The Story of Morecambe & Wise

$49.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
The unique story of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise - British television's most iconic double act. 'A warm and sympathetic portrait of two pals who conquered the world simply by...
First VCS

First VCS

$80.00 AUD$12.00 AUD
Officers led and men followed; all were expected to do their duty without thought of reward. Enlisted men rarely penetrated the officer ranks and promotion owed more to money than...
British Theatre And The Red Peril: The Portrayal of Communism

British Theatre And The Red Peril: The Portrayal of Communism

$57.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
This work explores how communism was portrayed in plays in the British theatre between 1917 and 1945, and how at a time when the capitalist system seemed on the verge...
British Theatre in the Great War: A Revaluation

British Theatre in the Great War: A Revaluation

$240.00 AUD$15.00 AUD
British Theatre in the Great War deals with a theatrical phase customarily dismissed by those charting twentieth-century developments. What becomes clear is that assessment by unsuitable literary criteria has masked...
Exit Through the Fireplace: Great Days of the Rep

Exit Through the Fireplace: Great Days of the Rep

$38.95 AUD$15.00 AUD
A nostalgic and humorous evocation of the days of local rep through the memories of those who worked in it. Many of today's best known actors pay tribute to rep...
British Theatre in the 1890s: Essays on Drama and the Stage

British Theatre in the 1890s: Essays on Drama and the Stage

$130.00 AUD$20.00 AUD
The final decade of the nineteenth century was one of the most exciting and productive in the history of the British theatre. In this fascinating collection, twelve leading scholars examine...
Contemporary British Theatre

Contemporary British Theatre

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Contemporary British Theatre surveys the complex and dynamic theatre of the eighties and early nineties reflecting a country that is multicultural, multiethnic and multinational. The contributors - artists, scholars and...
Sniper One: On Scope and Under Siege with a Sniper Team in Iraq

Sniper One: On Scope and Under Siege with a Sniper Team in Iraq

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When Sgt. Dan Mills and the rest of the 1st Battalion, The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment flew into Iraq in April, 2004, they were supposed to be winning hearts...
Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future

Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future

$32.00 AUD$12.00 AUD
At the end of the 18th century Dora Jordan was the greatest comic actress the British theatre had known, adored by the public and high society alike. She became the...
Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises

Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises

$22.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
When you combine the deepest learning and the highest readability with the most plumptious story-telling, the result is A. N. Wilson ... Stephen Fry Known for his journalism, biographies and...
The Silent Day: A Landmark Oral History of D-Day on the Home Front

The Silent Day: A Landmark Oral History of D-Day on the Home Front

$45.00 AUD$12.00 AUD
On 6 June 1944 Britain woke up to a profound silence. Overnight, 160,000 Allied troops had vanished and an eerie emptiness settled over the country. The majority of those men...
Telling the Truth About Jerusalem

Telling the Truth About Jerusalem

$43.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
`[Ann Oakley's] writings are witty and sharp; she is enormously well read, and...very versatile...[she] writes in a straightforward way.' Tribune In this impressive collection of essays and poems, Ann Oakley,...
The Chamber of Maiden Thought: Literary Origins of the Psychoanalytic

The Chamber of Maiden Thought: Literary Origins of the Psychoanalytic

$50.95 AUD$15.00 AUD
Literature is recognized as having significantly influenced the development of modern psychoanalytic thought. In recent years, psychoanalysis has drawn increasingly on the literary and artistic traditions of Western culture, and...
Fabulous

Fabulous

$29.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Not since Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber have old stories been made to feel so electrically new. Not since Wim Winders' Wings of Desire have the numinous and the everyday...
The Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian guide to six

The Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian guide to six

$12.00 AUD
This book is a Christian introduction to Shakespeare for high school students and includes analysis, questions, and reviw for six of Shakespeare's most meaningful (and enjoyable) plays. "Shakespeare was, as...
Invaders: British & American Experience of Seaborne Landings 1939-1945

Invaders: British & American Experience of Seaborne Landings 1939-1945

$57.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
The Second World War was the first in which amphibious landings played a truly significant part in the outcome of a global conflict and in this work, drawing on the...
Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True

Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. 'Sixty special forces against 100,000 - a feat of British arms to take the breath away' Frederick Forsyth. They were branded as cowards and accused...
A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s

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"Superb" NICK COHEN, author of What's Left? "Tremendously entertaining" DOMINIC SANDBROOK, Sunday Times "Like his previous histories of the Seventies and Eighties, A Classless Society is an extraordinarily comprehensive work....
Rejoice! Rejoice!: Britain in the 1980s

Rejoice! Rejoice!: Britain in the 1980s

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
'A masterly mix of shrewd analysis, historical detail and telling quotes... Indispensable' Mail on Sunday 'Among a host of recent books on the 1980s, Turner's stands out as comfortably the...
Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s

Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s

$12.00 AUD
'A masterful work of social history and cultural commentary, told with much wit. It almost makes you feel as if you were there' ROGER LEWIS, Mail on Sunday The 1970s....
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink

One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink

$20.00 AUD
This critical historical exploration shows a portrait of the British Empire at both the peak of its global reach--and the moment it began to topple. September 29, 1923. Once the...
The Last 100 Years (give or take) and All That

The Last 100 Years (give or take) and All That

$45.00 AUD$12.00 AUD
'I squealed laughing at this but now worry that my knowledge of history has been dangerously ruined' Matt Forde A fascinating and hilarious gallop through twentieth-century British history, by comedian...
A History of Modern Britain

A History of Modern Britain

$39.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or...
Miss Read S Country Cooking

Miss Read S Country Cooking

$12.00 AUD
Miss Read, whose real name is Dora Jessie Saint, has been producing these delightful novels of English village life since 1956. This cookbook is illustrated with more than 100 charming...
MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service

MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service

$27.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Published in hardback as THE ART OF BETRAYAL and fully updated for the paperback edition. The British Secret Service has been cloaked in secrecy and shrouded in myth since it...
The Making of Modern Britain

The Making of Modern Britain

$26.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the...
Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged

Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
The Sunday Times bestsellerTHE STORY OF BRITAIN during the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Find out how Britain changed in this entrancing, lively portrait of Britain's Elizabethan Age by...
Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain

Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
A new history of modern Britain that makes sense of its contradictions today Imperial Island shows how empire, its disintegration and its ever-present aftermath have profoundly shaped the British people,...
Royal: The Jubilee Edition

Royal: The Jubilee Edition

$29.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
In 1977, Robert Lacey's bestselling MAJESTY was the first serious biography of Elizabeth II, defining the affection for the Queen that underlay the popular success of the Silver Jubilee. Now,...
In Search of Lost Roses

In Search of Lost Roses

$32.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
This text is the story of these flowers which have persisted for centuries and of the unlikely band of experts who rescued them. Seeking the elusive roses from the East...
The Glory of the English Garden

The Glory of the English Garden

$82.95 AUD$20.00 AUD
Over the centuries the English ability to design and create exquisite gardens has probably been one of England's greatest contributions to art. Yet the depth and variety of this achievement...