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Advice, insight and hilarious revelations from the bestselling author of LADY IN WAITING - THE PERFECT GIFT FOR MOTHER'S DAY 'This second volume of memoirs is as fascinating as the...

'A heavenly book, elegant and thoughtful. Get one for yourself and one for the church-crawler in your life!' Lucy Worsley Christianity has been central to the lives of the people...

From the bestselling author of The Long Weekend: a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the English country house after the Second World War, when Swinging London collided with...

The official history of British Vogue, telling the magazine's story and how it has reflected the changing face of Britain from the first issue in 1916 right up to the...

'A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book - told with tremendous pace and excitement' William Boyd 'Rick Stroud writes brilliantly about war ... an astonishing book ... a wonderful story'...

Few know that the president's desk in the Oval Office plays a part in one of the world's most extraordinary sagas; in Resolute , noted historian Martin Sandler brings the...

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A whistle-stop guide to some of history's brilliantly bizarre drinking games, from the notorious to the wisely forgotten. As long as there have been people, there has been drinking -...

A concise history of the Caribbean's long and fascinating history, from pre-contact civilisations to the present day This is a concise history, intended for travellers, but of inestimable value to...

History loves a villain. Across the entire span of human civilisation, certain people and groups have been identified as being responsible for the ills of the world, and have remained...

The book titled Who Killed the Koories?: True, Terrible Story of Australia's Founding by the author Michael Cannon. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The book titled Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity by the author Sarah Pomeroy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

"I was born in a konak (old house), which once was the harem of a pasha," writes Alev Lytle Croutier. "People around me often whispered things about harems; my own...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Joy of Leaving Your Sh*t All Over the Place , this is a hilarious and delightfully packaged celebration of womanhood and...

Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change. In the closing third of the twentieth century, Wales experienced the...

'A fascinating testimony to our nervous hunger to map the hazy, haunted territory at the edges of the rational... engrossing, entertaining and distinctly unsettling' Sarah Waters 'Shiversomely eerie... so impressive...

The uplifting true story of a London children's home dispatched to rural England during the Blitz, the Lady in Waiting who opened up her home, and the matron who changed...

Wry, off-beat and subversive - a Jewish family memoir like no other, from the author of the cult classic novel Submarine Joe Dunthorne's great-grandfather was a family legend: the eccentric...

Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP4098 Twenty-two books of biography, autobiography and memoir — from Paul Hogan and Yehudi Menuhin to Vinnie Jones, Chris Patten and Hunter S....

Secondhand True Crime Bargain Book Box SP3016 Sixteen true crime titles spanning Australian crime, American murder, false imprisonment, serial killers and the hidden world of Bali's drug trade. Strong Australian...

Secondhand Religious Philosophy Bargain Book Box SP4093 An extraordinary collection of academic theology and religious philosophy, centred heavily on Don Cupitt — the Cambridge philosopher-priest who spent decades dismantling traditional...

Secondhand Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4078 A rich, varied mix of cultural writing, memoir and social commentary. Books on race, identity, the body, deafness, ballet, the internet, menopause, photography and...

Secondhand Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4079 A wonderfully broad box of non-fiction — popular science, sharp cultural writing, business, nature, humour and self-help all represented. Hawking on cosmology, Bryson on...

Secondhand History & Military Bargain Book Box SP4076 Twenty books spanning ancient history, WWII, military history, classical civilisation and modern political biography. From the Greeks and Romans to the Dambusters,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn an era defined by industry, empire, and radical transformation, Victorian Visionaries illuminates the extraordinary minds who dared to imagine a different...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of Victorian orthodoxy and radical dissent, Heretics: The London Heretics 1870–1914 chronicles the vibrant intellectual...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in modern history have captivated the world's imagination quite like Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi — a man who, armed with nothing but moral...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore the might of the British Empire swept across the Australian continent, there were...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the sweeping savannahs of the Sahel to the turbulent ports of the Cape, Africa since 1800 presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of economic history and social anthropology, Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodNestled in the heart of Canberra, the Australian War Memorial stands as one of the most significant national monuments in the world, and this official guide...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodAt the crossroads of human behaviour and historical forces, Readings in Economic and Social History presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFrom the ancient Roman frontier settlements along the Danube to the dazzling twilight of the Habsburg Empire, A Brief Survey of Austrian History presents a sweeping...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat if the story of all humanity — its origins, migrations, conflicts, and futures — was written not...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Some moisture damageCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA rare and remarkable window into Depression-era Australian agriculture, the Farm Booklet 1931-32 is a trade...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the turbulent aftermath of the Iranian Revolution, Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul embarked on an extraordinary journey through four non-Arab Muslim nations —...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFew secret societies have captured the imagination of historians, conspiracy theorists, and scholars alike quite like the Freemasons, and Robert...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the dawn of the twentieth century, Britain stood at a crossroads — caught between the dying embers of Victorian...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the Roman conquest to the modern age, The History Today Companion to British History is an authoritative...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the heart of one of history's most formidable reigns stands a woman of startling contradictions — a young girl who ascended the throne at eighteen...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedIn the turbulent decades of the seventeenth century, England tore itself apart in one of the most dramatic and consequential conflicts in its history — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFor the dedicated ship modeller seeking mastery over their craft, Ship Modelling Hints & Tips by Lieutenant Commander J.H. Craine — writing under the pen name...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew figures in Western history cast as long a shadow as Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican-born general whose military genius and relentless ambition reshaped the map of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedThe Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911–1917 presents a electrifying portrait of one of the twentieth century's most formidable literary minds at the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the turbulent heart of early twentieth-century British intellectual life stood one of its most captivating and contradictory figures —...