History

Sort by:
The God Delusion

The God Delusion

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic,...
What Language Do I Dream In?: My Family's Secret History

What Language Do I Dream In?: My Family's Secret History

$23.99 AUD$19.19 AUD
Author: Elena Lappin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Elena Lappin's life could be described as 'five languages in search of an author'. She now lives in London, but she...
A Brief History of the Atlantic

A Brief History of the Atlantic

$22.99 AUD$18.39 AUD
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In...
Deer Man: Seven Years in the Forest

Deer Man: Seven Years in the Forest

$22.99 AUD$18.39 AUD
Author: Geoffroy Delorme Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The astonishing, true account of one man's quest to immerse himself in nature and live with wild deer for seven years....
I Am Not Your Negro

I Am Not Your Negro

$22.99 AUD$18.39 AUD
Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Baldwin's last, unrealized project comes to life, using his original words to create a radical, powerful and poetic work on race...
Goodbye to All That

Goodbye to All That

$22.99 AUD$18.39 AUD
Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The Western front through the eyes of a survivor 'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made...
Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People

Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People

$22.99 AUD$18.39 AUD
Author: Dan Cruickshank Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 SOHO - ILLICIT, GLAMOROUS, SORDID, LOUCHE, POVERTY-STRICKEN, SQUALID, EXHILARATING. One of Britain's best-loved historians, Dan Cruickshank grants us an intimacy with...
Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant

Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant

$22.99 AUD$18.39 AUD
Author: Michael Vatikiotis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In Lives Between the Lines, Michael Vatikiotis traces the journey of his Greek and Italian forebears from Tuscany, Crete, Hydra and...
A Brief History of the Tudor Age

A Brief History of the Tudor Age

$21.99 AUD$17.59 AUD
Author: Jasper Ridley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 From the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford in 1485, to the death of the great Queen Elizabeth...
Running with the Krays - The Final Truth About The Krays and the Underworld We Lived In

Running with the Krays - The Final Truth About The Krays and the Underworld We Lived In

$22.99 AUD$18.39 AUD
Author: Freddie Foreman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 For over fifty years, Freddie Foreman's name has commanded respect, and occasionally fear, from those who work to uphold the law...
When Giants Walked the Earth: 50 years of Led Zeppelin. The fully revised and updated biography.

When Giants Walked the Earth: 50 years of Led Zeppelin. The fully revised and updated biography.

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: Mick Wall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 Over ten years after WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH, Mick Wall's seminal biography of the band, comes this major and extensively...
Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut

Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: James Hanning Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'James Hanning's book is excellent . . . The fascination of Love & Deception lies in the meticulously detailed account it...
Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History

Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Anna Aslanyan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the...
Erebus:  The Story of a Ship

Erebus: The Story of a Ship

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Michael Palin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 340 In the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time....
On Photography

On Photography

$22.99 AUD$18.39 AUD
Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are...
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 390 From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes the epic, visionary book, now in a revised edition with a new afterword,...
The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood

The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Elias Canetti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'The Tongue Set Free is so beautifully written. It begins with an extraordinary image, Canetti's earliest memory. He comes out of...
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music

Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music

$24.95 AUD$19.96 AUD
Author: Blair Tindall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Blair Tindall has been a professional oboe player for over twenty-five years. In this provocative memoir, she blows the lid off...
I Am What I Am

I Am What I Am

$19.95 AUD$15.96 AUD
Author: John Barrowman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Anything Goes, John's first book, gave you the story so far. I Am What I Am reveals more about the man...
Small Bodies of Water

Small Bodies of Water

$34.99 AUD$27.99 AUD
Author: Nina Mingya Powles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Where is the place your body is anchored?...
When You Lose It: Two voices. One true story. A mother and daughter on the edge. 'A very important subject' - ITV's This Morning

When You Lose It: Two voices. One true story. A mother and daughter on the edge. 'A very important subject' - ITV's This Morning

$35.00 AUD$28.00 AUD
Author: Roxy Longworth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Read this book. Then talk to your sons. It is essential reading' Jamie Theakston 'An extraordinary and important book. Read it...
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery

Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery

$34.99 AUD$27.99 AUD
Author: Alex Renton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it...
And When Did You Last See Your Father?

And When Did You Last See Your Father?

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Blake Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 And when did you last see your father? Was it when they burnt the coffin? Put the lid on it? When...
The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive

The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Philippe Sands, QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'Hypnotic, shocking and unputdownable' JOHN LE CARRE 'Remarkable'...
How to Think Like a Fish: And Other Lessons from a Lifetime in Angling

How to Think Like a Fish: And Other Lessons from a Lifetime in Angling

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Jeremy Wade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Jeremy Wade has caught an unparalleled array of outsize and outlandish fish from challenging locations all over the world - goliath...
Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Julie Andrews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 HOME WORK, the second instalment of Julie Andrews' internationally bestselling memoirs, begins with her arrival in Hollywood to make her screen...
Katherine Howard

Katherine Howard

$29.99 AUD$22.39 AUD
Author: Josephine Wilkinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Katherine Howard was little more than a child when she married Henry VIII, and just 18 when she was beheaded in the...
Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut

Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: James Hanning Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'James Hanning's book is excellent . . . The fascination of Love & Deception lies in the meticulously detailed account it...
The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Jordan Belfort Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL. 'What separates Jordan's story...
Crowdie And Cream And Other Stories: Memoirs of a Hebridean Childhood

Crowdie And Cream And Other Stories: Memoirs of a Hebridean Childhood

$27.99 AUD$22.39 AUD
Author: Finlay J. Macdonald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 Peopled with characters like Great Aunt Rachel, 'built like a Churchill tank and with a personality to match', these are...
Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti

Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti

$42.99 AUD$34.39 AUD
Author: Cosey Fanni Tutti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 In 2018, boundary-breaking visual and sonic artist Cosey Fanni Tutti received a commission to write the soundtrack to a film...
Allegorizings

Allegorizings

$34.99 AUD$27.99 AUD
Author: Jan Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.' Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary...
Earth-Shattering Events: Earthquakes, Nations and Civilization

Earth-Shattering Events: Earthquakes, Nations and Civilization

$40.00 AUD$32.00 AUD
Author: Andrew Robinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From antiquity until the present day, on every continent, human beings have made a Faustian bargain with the risk of periodic...
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance - A New York Times Bestseller

The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance - A New York Times Bestseller

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Judy Batalion Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 One of the most important untold stories of World War II, The Light of Days is a soaring landmark history that...
Vanished Years

Vanished Years

$26.99 AUD$21.59 AUD
Author: Rupert Everett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Rupert Everett's first memoir - RED CARPETS AND OTHER BANANA SKINS - was an international bestseller and an instant classic on...
Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon

Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon

$19.99 AUD$15.99 AUD
Author: Jay Jayamohan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair,...
Lighting the Fuse: Stories from Britain's first female bomb disposal expert

Lighting the Fuse: Stories from Britain's first female bomb disposal expert

$22.99 AUD$18.39 AUD
Author: Lucy Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Imagine standing over a bomb - you need to make a choice. Remember, your life depends on it. In this extraordinary...
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Vanished World of Jewish Rhodes

One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Vanished World of Jewish Rhodes

$42.99 AUD$34.39 AUD
Author: Michael Frank Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Having the last word can be very lonely.' Nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never shared the...
Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir - with an introduction by Emma Gannon

Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir - with an introduction by Emma Gannon

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Julia Cameron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In Floor Sample, the author of the international bestseller The Artist's Way weaves an honest and moving portrayal of her life....
A Short History of the World in 50 Books

A Short History of the World in 50 Books

$27.99 AUD$22.39 AUD
Author: Daniel Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilisation. It is a vessel for sharing stories,...
Love and the Novel: Life After Reading

Love and the Novel: Life After Reading

$36.99 AUD$29.59 AUD
Author: Christina Lupton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'A subversive, brilliant and beautifully written book about love, play and power in fiction and in the well-read life' - Sarah...
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

$59.99 AUD$47.99 AUD
Author: Jack Lowery Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and...
Letters From Brenda: Two suitcases. 75 lost letters. One mother.

Letters From Brenda: Two suitcases. 75 lost letters. One mother.

$45.00 AUD$36.00 AUD
Author: Emma Kennedy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Beautiful . . . insightful, fascinating and moving. It's a lovely LOVELY book' Marian Keyes 'This book made me cry' Sara...
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III

A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III

$39.99 AUD$31.99 AUD
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through...
Let's Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood

Let's Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood

$26.99 AUD$21.59 AUD
Author: Jasper Rees Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Radio Times, Daily Herald and FT Book of the...
Gentleman Jack: The Jack Crawford Story

Gentleman Jack: The Jack Crawford Story

$29.95 AUD$23.96 AUD
Author: Richard Naughton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Jack Crawford was one of Australia's great sporting heroes of the 1930s,along with Donald Bradman, Hubert Opperman and Haydn Bunton- sportsmen...
Memoirs

Memoirs

$99.99 AUD$79.99 AUD
Author: Robert Lowell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Of the twenty chapters that make up these Memoirs, seventeen appear here in print for the first time, unearthed by the...
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

$55.00 AUD$44.00 AUD
Author: Lyndall Gordon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The revealing of T. S. Eliot's hidden muse - Emily Hale, the Hyacinth Girl of the famous The Waste Land poem...