History

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 In the tradition of Atonement and Birdsong, the Durance sisters leave Australia to nurse on the front during WWI...

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)"...

Author: Yuot A Alaak Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 232 This is the true story of Mecak Ajang Alaak, a teacher who led 20,000 of the Lost Boys...

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...

Author: Fiona Foley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 164 A striking and compelling book reclaiming history by a renowned Indigenous visual artist. In this groundbreaking work of Indigenous...

Author: George Adams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A compact and up-to-date photographic guide to Australia's birds from the author of Birdscaping Australian Gardens. This book is...

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**...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Author: Ben MacIntyre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians. On a warm...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander of Macedon transformed a weak kingdom in northern Greece...

Author: Jeremy McInerney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 407 Independent states such as Athens have long been viewed as the most advanced stage of state formation in ancient...

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Author: R. Keith Schoppa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 312 Combining evocative historical description and cogent analysis, Song Full of Tears is a chronicle of nine hundred years...

Author: Kenneth Catania Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In Great Adaptations, Kenneth Catania presents an entertaining and engaging look at some of nature's most remarkable creatures. Telling...

Author: David Badre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 312 A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions-and how this shapes our everyday lives. Why...

Author: Eric H. Cline Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A vivid portrait of the early years of biblical archaeology from the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C.: The...

Author: Laurence Louer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world When Mohammed died in 632...

Author: Leonie Frieda Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable...

Author: John Marincola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology contains all the seminal texts that...

Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'Why is it my fate that everyone who was an enemy of the Republic at the same time declared war...

Author: Adrian Desmond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man...

Author: Tacitus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 This edition also contains a chronology, maps, a genealogy, suggested further reading and notes. A compelling new translation of Tacitus'...

Author: Bernal Diaz del Castillo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes...

Author: Michael Jordan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Trees are an important part of the life of many cities. Whether in avenues or parks they provide shade, a green...

Author: David Olusoga Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 What happened to art in the great Age of Discovery when civilisations encountered each other for the first time? In the...