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A True-Born Englishman: Being The Life Of Henry Fielding
$15.00 AUD
Author: M. P. WillcocksBinding: HardbackPublished: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1947Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.This compelling biography, "A Born English-Man," meticulously chronicles...
The Story Of My Life
$50.00 AUD
Author: Sir Edward ClarkeBinding: HardbackPublished: John Murray, 1918Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Faded and stained cloth. Front hinges slightly crack. Worn and yellowed spine. Bumping on corners.This autobiography...
The Life And Letters Of Sir Edmund Gosse
$25.00 AUD
Author: The Hon. Evan Charteris, K.C.Binding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann Ltd, 1931Condition:Book: Fair, ex-libraryJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Small stamps on prelims, otherwise internally sound. This...
After The Victorians: The World Our Parents Knew
Follow-up to the bestselling The Victorians in which A. N. Wilson tells the story of the 'Decline and Fall' of Britain. When this book begins, in the reign of Edward...
Letters From Everest: Unpublished Letters from Mallorys Life and
An extraordinary treasure trove Andrew Marr A unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains....
French Chateau Style: Inside France's Most Exquisite Private Homes
The doors of centuries-old French chateaux are thrown wide open in this sumptuous photographic cross-country tour. Readers will gain entry to a stunning array of stylish private homes within beautiful...
Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End
Finding Endurance is beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn and a generous and humane reflection on this business of being human. Since the discovery of the wreck of...
The Time of their Lives
In the 1950s and 1960s, Keith Smith interviewed a number of "old timers", people whose living memories then stretched as far back as the 1880s, the gold-rush days and the...
West Wall: The Battle for Hitler's Siegfried Line: The Spellmount
An account of the battle for the Siegfried Line in the final year of World War II, which raged for six, long, bloody months along a front of 350 miles...
Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten
A stunning investigation and indictment of the elements in United States' foreign lobbying industry and the threat they pose to democracy. For years, one group of Americans has worked as...
Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women
'Harpy is a tonic; a tongue-in-cheek manual for dealing with Spanish Inquisition-style questioning about saying pass to procreation and building an enriching life beyond the nuclear family' - VOGUE 'Harpy...
A History of Ocean Liners in 50 Objects
The story of ocean liners brought to life by objects and ephemera, revealing life on board, luxury and magnificence, and peril and disaster. Explore the history of the great ocean...
The Wager
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* 'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction...
Gandhi and Churchill: The Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged
Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. Born five years and seven thousand miles apart, they became embodiments of the nations they led....
Francis de Groot: Irish Fascist Australian Legend
$30.00 AUD
Saturday, 19 March 1932, the day of the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, one of the most significant occasions in the history of the city of Sydney. The public...
The Hitler Bloodline: Uncovering the Fuhrer's Secret Family
Adolf Hitler was one of six children born to his mother, and one of eight born to his father from two of his three marriages. Alois Hitler, ne Schicklgruber, was...
The Bush
Why do we have such a profound attachment to the bush? Perhaps it is because the harsh, mysterious and utterly foreign outback provided the unforgiving crucible that created distinctly Australian...
A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II
'Lovely... delivers the warmest of glows' - Telegraph 'Who wouldn't love this chocolate-box delight of insights and snapshots of The Queen...A treasure chest' - Good Housekeeping A sparkling celebration of...
What Happened to Belen: The Unjust Imprisonment That Sparked a Women's
"There are many women like Belen whose names we don't know, but whose stories are just as important. An uplifting chronicle of one woman's fight for justice."- Kirkus Reviews (starred...
The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House
From the mystique of the glamorous Kennedys to the tumult that surrounded Bill and Hillary Clinton during the president's impeachment to the historic tenure of Barack and Michelle Obama, each...
History of Cities in Maps: The ultimate visual exploration of human
A fascinating cartographic study of urban development, perfect for map and history lovers. The city, a concept nearly as old as history itself, is a paradox of human innovation and...
Influence: Understand it, Use it, Resist it
One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think...
The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians
$12.00 AUD
In 410 AD Rome was overrun by barbarians. But what really happened as the lights of Europe went out and the dark ages began?
The History Gossip: Was Anne of Cleves a Minger? and 365 Other
TikTok sensation Katie Kennedy, aka @TheHistoryGossip, serves up a delicious blend of fascinating, witty and salacious history tea for every day of the year. With infectious wit and historical insight,...
Charles Wheeler - Witness to the Twentieth Century: A Life in News.
Charles Wheeler, the BBC's longest-serving foreign correspondent, was one of Britain's greatest news reporters. For more than four decades, he reported for radio and television from most of the world's...
Forgotten Tragedy: The Sinking of HMT "Rohna"
$80.00 AUD
This book recounts for the first time the tragic loss of more than 1,000 American soldiers in 1943 when their troopship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean.
Our Moon: A Human History
'Superb: as much a feat of imagination as it is a work of globe-trotting scholarship' TELEGRAPH 'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime...
London: Immigrant City
TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH 'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the extent to which the diversity of immigrant origins has...
Songs in Stone: Monuments That Call, Command and Captivate
This notebook is about architecture - the expression of love, faith and life carved in stone. It walks you through the corridors of history in the most engaging and illuminating...
What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?
Since the formation of the state of Israel in 1948, the Nakba (or 'disaster' as the Palestinians call it), there have been many opportunities to move towards peace and equality...
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
'A huge, fizzing omnium-gatherum of a book . . . marvellous' Daily Telegraph 'Witty, wise and elegant . . . a classic of history itself' The Spectator 'Grave and witty,...
Icon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
Lightning never strikes twice, but Steve Jobs has, transforming modern culture first with the Macintosh and more recently with the iPod. He has dazzled and delighted audiences with his Pixar...
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
Mindstorms has two central themes: that children can learn to use computers in a masterful way and that learning to use computers can change the way they learn everything else....
Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer,
The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer 'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times 'A picturesque portrayal of a world that sounds as thoroughly maniacal as it...
Germany Turns Eastwards
Combining intellectual history, biography and the analysis of particular institutions, GERMANY TURNS EASTWARDS shows the relations between the Nazi regime and contemporary scholarly experts on eastern Europe, which eventually put...
The World Since 1945
THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF GLOBAL CHANGE FROM 1945 TO THE PRESENT DAY The world since 1945 has witnessed fundamental changes, notably the increasing influence of the West - particularly the...
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Man Against the Sea (Collins Modern
The worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape. The...
We All Go into the Dark
A captivating, eloquent and nuanced book, We All Go into the Dark is an absolute must-read for true-crime fans across the board. Three women were brutally murdered between early 1968...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark...
Letter To An Unknown Soldier: If you could write a letter to a First
On Platform One of Paddington Station in London, there is a statue of an unknown soldier; he's reading a letter. On the hundredth anniversary of the declaration of war everyone...
Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of
On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, dragging one of Russia's most illustrious institutions into...
The Pagoda
$12.00 AUD
In 1977, two lesbian couples living in St. Augustine, Florida, found a row of small beach houses for sale next to a house they wanted to turn into a feminist...
On the Road
On The Road: The NRMA'S First 75 Years tells the story of how an idea became a great Australian institution. A little over three quarters of a century ago, a...
Imperial Warriors: Britain and the Gurkhas
Gurkhas have been recruited into the British and Indian armies since 1814-15 - the year the East India Company went to war with Nepal. Over nearly 200 years these stocky...
Jane Austen's World: The Life and Times of England's Best Loved Author
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This work provides a comprehensive historical and social examination of the period Jane Austen wrote in - a time when England was developing into a colonial power, while George III...