Bayeux Tapestry by Sylvette LEMAGNEN
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the most important works of art in the world. Even without visiting the tapestry itself in the museum dedicated to it, we are all familiar with at least one illustration drawn from one of the 58 scenes that compose it. Visitors to the tapestry are often surprised by its len ...Show more
The Arabs: A History - Revised and Updated Edition by Eugene Rogan
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Named Best Book of the Year by theFinancial Times, theEconomistand theAtlantic In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on five centuries of Arab sources to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context. In this updated an ...Show more
Queens of the Conquest: England's Medieval Queens by Alison Weir
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: England's Medieval Queens Ser.
Full of passion and betrayal, murder and war, the first volume of an epic new series from bestselling historian Alison Weir, bringing five of England's medieval queens to life.A Daily TelegraphBook of the YearLove, murder, war, betrayalThis is the story of the five extraordinary queens who helped the No ...Show more
Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen by Rory Muir
$51.95 AUD
Category: History
Marriage is at the centre of Jane Austen's novels. The pursuit of husbands and wives, advantageous matches, and, of course, love itself, motivate her characters and continue to fascinate readers today. But what were love and marriage like in reality for ladies and gentlemen in Regency England?
The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Premonitions are impossible. But they come true all the time.You think of a forgotten friend. Out of the blue, they call.But what if you knew that something terrible was going to happen? A sudden flash, the words CHARING CROSS. Four days later, a packed express train comes off the rails outside the stat ...Show more
Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City by Matthew Teller
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Original and illuminating ... what a good book this is' Jonathan Dimbleby'A love letter to the people of the Old City' Jerusalem PostIn Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. Maps divide the walled Old City into four quarters, yet that division doesn't reflect the reality of ...Show more
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe by Matthew Gabriele, David Perry
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come....The Bright Ages is a rare thing--a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy reading."--Slate "Incandescent and ultimat ...Show more
The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal by Peter Watson
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
'Majestic, ambitious . . . [Peter Watson] deserves admiration for the grace and agility with which he interlinks the development of a vigorous cultural identity and the seismic shifts of French national history, continually lurching between triumph and disaster' Literary Review__________________________ ...Show more
The Georgians - The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain by Penelope J. Corfield
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
What did the Georgians think of themselves, and of their exciting, turbulent, and controversial times? The Georgian era (1714-1830) was a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, the world's first industrial revolution, and deep transformations in religious and cultural life. Brita ...Show more
Everest 1922 - The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the Worlds Highest Mountain by Mick Conefrey
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The dramatic and inspiring account of the very first attempt to climb Mount Everest, published to coincide with the centenary of the expedition of 1922.The first attempt on Everest in 1922 by George Leigh Mallory and a British team is an extraordinary story full of controversy, drama, and incident, popu ...Show more
Scotland: The Global History: 1603 to the Present by Murray Pittock
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland's influence in the world and the world's on Scotland, from the Thirty Years' War to the present day Scotland is one of the oldest nations in the world, yet by some it is hardly counted as a nation at all. Neither a colony of England nor a fully equal ...Show more
The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family. We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Montefiore takes us on ...Show more