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Our Hard Hitting History & Biography Box is back with a collection of fascinating reads that covers topics from the ancient world to today. The Atomic bomb, Houdini, the Spanish Civil war, and many more.
This Bargain Book Box contains the following 14 books:
1. The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain's Most Notorious Literary 2. Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War By: Aaron Shulman ISBN: 9780062484192
2. Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World By: Tim Whitmarsh ISBN: 9780307958327
3. Unruly Waters: How Rains By: Sunil Amrith ISBN: 9780465097722
4. The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power By: Niall Ferguson ISBN: 9780735222915
5. The Strange Death of Edmund Godfrey: Plots and Politics in Restoration England By: Alan Marshall ISBN: 9780750921008
6. The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb By: Sam Kean ISBN: 9780316381680
7. The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt By: Clay Risen ISBN: 9781501143991
8. The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini By: Joe Posnanski ISBN: 9781501137235
9. Scars Of Independence: America's Violent Birth By: Holger Hoock ISBN: 9780804137287
10. Citizen Cannes: The Man behind the Cannes Film Festival By: Gilles Jacob ISBN: 9780714861906
11. Benjamin Britten: A Life for Music By: Neil Powell ISBN: 9780805097740
12. Playing to the Gods: Sarah Bernhardt By: Peter Rader ISBN: 9781476738376
13. Fascism By: Madeleine Albright ISBN: 9780062802187
14. Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead By: Thornton McCamish ISBN: 9781863958271
We offer Flat Rate Shipping Australia-wide on all orders, no matter how many books you buy. We also offer FREE in-store pickup at any of our Book Grocer stores around Australia.
Currently we do not ship outside Australia. We have a separate website for New Zealand customers which can be found here.
NB. Occasionally we open up a shipping window to allow New Zealand customers to order from the Australian website, and have their order shipped in the next shipping container. Details of our shipping window can be found in our blog.
Shipping Costs
Please see the table below for your shipping rate:
| State | Shipping Cost (Flat rate) |
| VIC, NSW, ACT, SA, TAS and QLD | $10 |
| WA and NT |
$20 |
If you would like to ship items to more than one address, please place separate orders for these items.
Shipping Time
We endeavour to process your item(s) within 24/48 business hours. We use a combination of Australia Post (for smaller orders) and a shipping company to deliver your order. You can expect your items within 4-5 days outside peak (Christmas) season.
For in-store pickup: Our warehouse is Melbourne-based. We deliver customer orders to our stores on a regular but somewhat unpredictable schedule. If you are based in Melbourne your order is likely to arrive at your selected store earlier than if you select an interstate in-store pickup option.
Pickup from our Bourke, Spencer and Northcote stores could take up to 1 week to receive your order.
Pickup from our Newcastle and Majura stores could take up to 2 weeks to receive your order.
Pickup from our Tullamarine Warehouse your order will be ready the next business day.
Your chosen store will get in touch with you by email to let you know your book has arrived.
Wondering about what happened to our previous Free Shipping policy? Our reasons for making this change can be found here.
Change of Mind - Remainder Marks
Generally we do not accept returns due to a change of mind.
Our books are remainders which means that they occasionally have a texta mark at the base of the book. This is one reason our prices are so low. Unfortunately we cannot accept returns for books that are marked in this way.
Change of Mind - Mystery Boxes
We do not generally provide a change-of-mind refund simply because a Mystery Box contains books you are not interested in. Any refunds we may give will be on a discretionary basis and will depend on the box being shipped back to us. You would be required to pay return shipping for your box.
Mystery Box - Important to Read: We do our best to ensure that our Mystery Boxes contain books selected from a wide range of categories. (Aside from specific Mystery Boxes such as YA Mystery, of course). As such, you're almost certainly not going to love all the books. However, they are about $3 each, so can be re-gifted, used for craft, used to bulk out your collection, saved for a hobby you don't yet have... it's up to you!
We will, however, provide you with a refund for any duplicates of the same title in a Mystery (or any) Box. Please send a photograph with your email. The refund is calculated as a proportion of the number of books in the box.
If you are concerned you might not like the books in a Mystery Box, we strongly encourage you to try one of our category boxes instead - which have the full book list published in the description.
Damaged or incorrect orders
If you have received items that are damaged or incorrect please contact us at help@bookgrocer.com.
If your return is accepted, we’ll send you a return shipping label, as well as instructions on how and where to send your package. Items sent back to us without first requesting a return will not be accepted.
Please inspect your order upon reception and contact us immediately if the item is defective, damaged or if you receive the wrong item, so that we can evaluate the issue and make it right.
Exceptions / non-returnable items
Unfortunately, we cannot accept returns on sale items or gift cards.
Refunds
We will notify you once we’ve received and inspected your return, and let you know if the refund was approved or not. If approved, you’ll be automatically refunded on your original payment method. Please remember it can take some time for your bank or credit card company to process and post the refund too.
