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Berlin Finale
Author: Heinz Rein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of...
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
Author: David Abulafia Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1088 A titanic history of the three great oceans - the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Indian - and of...
The Age of Alexander
Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen...
The Birth Of Sydney
Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Birth of Sydney tells the story of the founding of one of the world's greatest cities. Tim Flannery's...
The Great Race: The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia
Author: David Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The thrilling race between Frenchman Nicolas Baudin and Englishman Matthew Flinders to chart the map of Australia. The thrilling...
A History of the Crusades I: The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
Author: Steven Runciman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 An enthralling work of grand historical narrative, Steven Runciman's A History of the Crusades overturned the traditional view of...
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45
Author: Volker Ullrich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The long-awaited second volume of Volker Ullrich's acclaimed biography of the F hrer, taking us through the war years...
The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ' The...
The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true
Author: Richard Dawkins (Oxford University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 "An inspiring introduction to science and a fascinating exploration of the natural world." "Magic takes many forms....
A Pair of Silver Wings
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 ______________ It can take a lifetime to heal the wounds of war 'Brings history to life' Guardian ______________ Edward...
The Gold Rush
Author: David Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 "The fever that forever changed Australia" "The fever that forever changed Australia. David Hill relates the extraordinary people and...
Icons of England
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 England- our favourite things, by well-known names led by Bill Bryson, Michael Palin and Eric Clapton. This celebration of...
The Holocaust: A New History
Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A Sunday Times bestseller -- the first authoritative general account for thirty years This landmark work answers two fundamental...
Normandy '44: D-Day and the Battle for France
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 From established historian James Holland, this is the top ten bestselling and second biggest history book of 2019. 'A...
Berlin: The Downfall 1945: The Number One Bestseller
Author: Antony Beevor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A classic work from the international mega-seller, Antony Beevor, on the terrifying end to the Second World War The...
Ned Kelly
Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 Love him or loathe him, Ned Kelly has been at the heart of Australian culture and identity since he...
The French Revolution and What Went Wrong
Author: Stephen Clarke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution and how it could have been avoided, by Stephen Clarke,...
Europe: The First 100 Million Years
Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Accompanying the release of his new book Life- Selected Writings, this new format of Europe presents one of Tim...
The Explorers: Text Classics
Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest, of a moving...
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
Author: Anita Heiss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, attempts...
A Fortunate Life
Author: A B Facey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A true classic of Australian literature, Facey's simply penned story offers a unique window onto the history of...
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
Author: Norman Ohler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The sensational account of the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich - from Hitler and his entourage...
H is for Hawk
Author: Helen Macdonald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 **WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR****WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION****WINNER OF THE PRIX DU...
The Bush
Author: Don Watson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A milestone work of memoir, travel writing and history, The Bush by Don Watson takes us on a profoundly...
The Dig Tree: Text Classics
Author: Sarah Murgatroyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 376 Introduced by Geoffrey Blainey Wills knew that he was fading fastest. On 26 June, he decided the only honourable...
Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History
Author: Lewis Dartnell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations Read the Sunday...
Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China
Author: John Man Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The untold story of the first nomadic empire and the making of China. 'Man does for the reader that...
The Battle of Long Tan
Author: David W. Cameron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A compelling account of Australia's bloodiest and most significant battle of the Vietnam War, in time for the...
The Coast Watchers: The Men Behind Enemy Lines Who Saved the Pacific
Author: Patrick Lindsay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 " They watched and warned and died that we might live. (Inscription on the Coastwatcher Memorial at Madang, PNG)"...
Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold
Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The dazzling companion volume to the bestselling MYTHOS. There are heroes - and then there are Greek heroes Few...
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Author: Yuval Noah Harari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. **THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**...
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Author: Yuval Noah Harari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history of our species...
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Author: Yuval Noah Harari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The bestselling phenomenon returns with 21 bite-sized lessons to help us understand our troubled times. **THE NUMBER ONE...
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The irresistible book by Bill Bryson which does for the history of the way we live what A Short...
A Short History of London: The Creation of a World Capital
Author: Simon Jenkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Following his bestselling short histories of England and Europe comes the final in the trilogy- LONDON LONDON- a settlement...
The God Delusion: 10th Anniversary Edition
Author: Richard Dawkins (Oxford University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The international bestselling broadside that has taken the world by storm The God Delusion caused a sensation...
Fromelles and Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell
Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 In the Trenches of Hell In the Trenches of Hell On 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in...
The Commonwealth Of Thieves
Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A brilliant recreation of the first four years of white settlement in Australia by Booker Prize-winning author Tom Keneally....
Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World
Author: Michelle Scott Tucker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A groundbreaking portrait of an ordinary English gentlewoman who would go on to become one of Australia's most...
Gallipoli
Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route...
Orwell's England
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 All of Orwell's brilliant writing on England and Englishness collected in a single volume Much of George Orwell's best...
The Mongol Empire: Genghis Khan, his heirs and the founding of modern China
Author: John Man Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The untold story of the world's greatest empire and the creation of modern China Genghis Khan is one of...
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin
Author: Simon Jenkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The first short narrative history of the continent, from the author of the bestselling A Short History of England Europe...
One Summer: America 1927
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Let our favourite writer of narrative non-fiction take you back to a summer when America came of age and...
The Birth Of Melbourne
Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In 1835 John Batman sailed up the Yarra and was astonished by the beauty of the land. It was...
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944: The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller
Author: Antony Beevor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Britain's bestselling historian's #1 bestselling account of the classic WW2 folly Operation Market Garden, the plan in 1944 to...
Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble
Author: Antony Beevor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The No. 1 Bestseller- Hitler's ill-fated final stand, from the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day. From the...
Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The untold story of one of WW2's most extraordinary and significant battles which marked the turning of the tide...