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Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

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Author: Simon Kuper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and...
A Brief History of Britain 1485-1660: The Tudor and Stuart Dynasties

A Brief History of Britain 1485-1660: The Tudor and Stuart Dynasties

$26.99 AUD$21.59 AUD
Author: Professor Ronald Hutton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Praise for the author:: 'For anyone researching the subject, this is the book you've been waiting for.' Washington Post From...
How to Think Like Churchill

How to Think Like Churchill

$24.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
Author: Daniel Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Remembered for his leadership during the Second World War, Churchill's commitment to 'never surrender', along with his stirring speeches and radio...
The Great British Speeches

The Great British Speeches

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Author: Simon Heffer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 50 speeches from every period of British history from the medieval era to the present and a fascinating dip-in history title...
This Dark Business: The Secret War Against Napoleon

This Dark Business: The Secret War Against Napoleon

$26.99 AUD$21.59 AUD
Author: Tim Clayton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Between two attempts in 1800 and 1804 to assassinate Napoleon Bonaparte, the British government launched a campaign of black propaganda of...
The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown

The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown

$59.99 AUD$47.99 AUD
Author: Katie Nicholl Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire...
This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe

This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe

$49.99 AUD$39.99 AUD
Author: Robert Tombs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 One of Brexit's leading intellectual advocates examines the referendum vote in the context of history Geography comes before history. Islands cannot...
Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades

Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades

$49.99 AUD$25.00 AUD
Author: Caitlin Davies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women. Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been...
Hardcover History Treasure Trove

Hardcover History Treasure Trove

$896.00 AUD$130.00 AUD
Hardcover History Treasure Trove Embark on a captivating journey through time with this meticulously curated collection  hardcover history books. Each volume offers a unique perspective on pivotal moments, influential figures,...
His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill

His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill

$34.99 AUD$27.99 AUD
Author: Christopher Catherwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'A gem. Brief, authoritative and fair in its judgements - an intensely readable introduction to this most complex and fascinating man'...
Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era

Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era

$49.99 AUD$39.99 AUD
Author: Alwyn Turner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David Kynaston 'The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet...
Among You Taking Notes...

Among You Taking Notes...

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Author: Naomi Mitchison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as...
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

$26.99 AUD$21.60 AUD
Author: Lord John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper) 'This...
The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown

The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown

$29.99 AUD$23.99 AUD
Author: Katie Nicholl Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire...
SAS Forged in Hell: From Desert Rats to Dogs of War: The Mavericks who Made the SAS

SAS Forged in Hell: From Desert Rats to Dogs of War: The Mavericks who Made the SAS

$55.00 AUD$20.00 AUD
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A Waterstones Best History Book of 2023 The incredible true story of the SAS' daring mission to liberate Europe In the...
Among You Taking Notes...

Among You Taking Notes...

$26.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Author: Naomi Mitchison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as...
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth

Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth

$55.00 AUD$44.00 AUD
Author: Keiron Pim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The brilliant, mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the European 20th century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was an...
Turkiye: Cycling Through a Country's First Century

Turkiye: Cycling Through a Country's First Century

$59.99 AUD$48.00 AUD
Author: Julian Sayarer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "A deeply thoughtful, gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside" CAROLINE EDEN By...
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy

The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy

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Author: Stein Ringen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises,...
Endgame

Endgame

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Author: Omid Scobie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating...
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

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Jeremy BlackFormat: Paperback, 124mm x 196mm, 200g, 256 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2024The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts...
Hitler's British Isles

Hitler's British Isles

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Author: Duncan Barrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. 'Barrett has...
The English Soul: The Faith of a Nation

The English Soul: The Faith of a Nation

$39.99 AUD$33.99 AUD
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The English Soul portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity as it has developed over the last 1,400 years. As...
Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter

Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter

$36.99 AUD$29.59 AUD
Author: Emma Soames Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'A daily love letter from a brave young woman to her adored father . . . immensely evocative of wartime Britain,...
The Renaissance: All That Matters

The Renaissance: All That Matters

$26.99 AUD$13.00 AUD
Author: Michael Halvorson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Was the Renaissance just a period of extraordinary art and architecture? The Renaissance: All That Matters examines the major developments of...
1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler's Coup

1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler's Coup

$34.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Author: Mark Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The astonishing year when German democracy faced crisis and near destruction. 1923 was one of the most remarkable years of modern...
The House of Orange in Revolution and War: A European History, 1772-1890: 2022

The House of Orange in Revolution and War: A European History, 1772-1890: 2022

$64.99 AUD$30.00 AUD
Author: Jeroen Koch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 440 Three rulers from the House of Orange-Nassau reigned over the Netherlands from 1813 to 1890: King William I from 1813 to...
Berlin

Berlin

$37.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
Author: Joseph Pearson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 Berlin is a party in a graveyard. It is Europe's youth capital, and its guilty war conscience. It is a disputed...
Pessoa: An Experimental Life

Pessoa: An Experimental Life

$85.00 AUD$68.00 AUD
Author: Richard Zenith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1088 A monumental biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers For many thousands of readers Fernando Pessoa's...
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History

A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES...
London: City of Cities

London: City of Cities

$34.99 AUD$17.50 AUD
Author: Phil Baker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 City of cities, the modern world's first great metropolis, London has shaped everything from clothing to youth culture. It has a...
Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment

Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment

$32.99 AUD$26.39 AUD
Author: Benjamin Storey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappy We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet...
The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House

The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House

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Author: Norman Eisen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest...
The Phoenix: St. Paul's Cathedral And The Men Who Made Modern London

The Phoenix: St. Paul's Cathedral And The Men Who Made Modern London

$36.99 AUD$29.59 AUD
Author: Leo Hollis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A tour de force of biography, history, politics, philosophy and experimental science' ECONOMIST The remarkable and inspiring story of how London...
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe

Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe

$55.00 AUD$44.00 AUD
Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of history The modern era saw the emergence of...
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court

The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court

$52.99 AUD$42.39 AUD
Author: Gareth Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500...
O Brother

O Brother

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Author: John Niven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 John Niven's little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes terrifying. In 2010, after years of chaotic struggle...
London Perceived: A Portrait of The City

London Perceived: A Portrait of The City

$22.99 AUD$18.39 AUD
Author: V.S. Pritchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 In unfailingly elegant prose, V. S. Pritchett provides a timeless distillation of the city of London and the London experience. He...
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe

The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe

$59.99 AUD$50.99 AUD
Author: James Belich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age....
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World

The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World

$69.99 AUD$59.49 AUD
Author: Karl Schloegel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 928 An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly...
Rarities of These Lands: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Dutch Republic

Rarities of These Lands: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Dutch Republic

$110.00 AUD$55.00 AUD
Author: Claudia Swan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A vivid account of the exoticism of the Dutch Republic at a critical moment in its cultural and political history. The...
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle

The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle

$32.99 AUD$16.50 AUD
Author: David Edmonds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 *New Statesman, Books of the Year* *FiveBooks, One of Nigel Warburton's Best Philosophy Books of 2020* On June 22, 1936, the...
Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most

Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most

$59.99 AUD$30.00 AUD
Author: Marcel Gauchet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy. Maximilien Robespierre (17581794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory...
Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher

Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher

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Author: John Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 600 Waterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when...
Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative

Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative

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Author: Konrad H. Jarausch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 344 A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union's decline, by a leading historian of modern Europe. Is the European...
A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England

A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England

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Author: Christopher Hilliard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it...
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction

Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction

$79.99 AUD$40.00 AUD
Author: Talia Schaffer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 In Communities of Care, Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in...
Little Book of Paris

Little Book of Paris

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Author: Dominique Foufelle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Why was the Place de la Nation formerly called la Place du Trone? Has the Pantheon always been the resting place...