Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory
$37.99 AUD
Category: History
One of our foremost historical novelists, Philippa Gregory, makes history. We have fallen into the belief that women were absent from great events, and ineffectual in normal times. Through a radical reframing of the conventional eras of our history, Normal Women tells the story of our nation - not ...Show more
The Core of an Onion by Mark Kurlansky
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod and Salt, a delectable look at the cultural, historical, and gastronomical layers of one of the world's most beloved culinary staples--featuring original illustrations and recipes from around the world. As Julia Child once said, "It is hard to imagine ...Show more
Europe: The Enlightening History of a Continent by Jean Baptiste Duroselle
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
A history of the continent uniquely told from a very European viewpointThe first one-volume, complete history of Europe, as told by Europeans themselves, from Homo Erectus to the Celts, to Greek wisdom and Roman grandeur, all of the way to the European phenomenon - the Industrial Revolution.This is the ...Show more
The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II by Ian Buruma
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
In this spellbinding account of three World War Two collaborators, prize-winning historian Ian Buruma examines questions of truth as he investigates their complex and tangled lives.
Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruder ...Show more
Final Verdict: A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-first Century by Tobias Buck
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
It is 17 October 2019, the opening day of a trial in Hamburg's imposing criminal justice building that is historic in more ways than one. Bruno Dey is accused of being an accessory to a crime that took place more than seven decades ago: the murder of at least 5,230 inmates at Stutthof, a Nazi concentrat ...Show more
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
ORIENTALISM is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas to be published since the end of the European empires. For generations now it has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire and with each passing year its influence becomes if anything even greater. Edward Said, the not ...Show more
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
A true masterpiece of narrative history and the definitive story of the revolution that ignited the end of colonialism worldwide A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonisation of the modern world. On a sunny ...Show more
The American Beast: Essays, 2012-2022 by Jill Lepore
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A panoptical vision of modern America, from the brilliant mind of Jill Lepore.The past decade has marked a shift in America's trajectory. Jill Lepore, the acclaimed writer and New Yorker columnist, has been tracing its contested storylines in real time, beginning with the run-up to Donald Trump's electi ...Show more
A City Runs Through Them - Dublin and Its Twenty River Bridges by Fergal Tobin
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
An original and fascinating history of Dublin that tells the story of the city through its bridges. Dublin's twenty bridges cross the tidal section of the River Liffey flowing through its centre; they were built over a span of a thousand years. Each has made a contribution to the city's development ove ...Show more
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
They called him the 'angriest black man in America' ...Celebrated and vilified the world over for his courageous but bitter fight to gain for millions of black men and women the equality and respect denied them by their white neighbours, Malcolm X inspired as many people in the United States as he cause ...Show more
Where Light in Darkness Lies: The Story of the Lighthouse by Veronica Della Dora
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Suspended between sea and sky, battered by the waves and the wind, lighthouses mark the battlelines between the elements. They guard the boundaries between the solid human world and the primordial chaos of the waters; between stability and instability; between the known and the unknown. As such, they ha ...Show more