Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
"Most confrontations, viewed from the wide angle of history, are minor disputes, sparks that quickly die out. But every now and then, someone strikes a match that lights up the whole planet."Henry Every was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular-and wildly in ...Show more
Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court by Simon Thurley
$54.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England. Although the Tudors are the nation's favourite royal dynasty, the story of the Stuarts is much more exciting. ...Show more
Botany Bay and the First Fleet: The Real Story by Alan Frost
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Now in one definitive volume, Botany Bay and the First Fleet is a full, authentic account of the beginnings of modern Australia. In 1787 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1400 people, set out from England for Botany Bay, on the east coast of New South Wales. In deciding on Botany Bay, British aut ...Show more
The Devil's Work: Australia's Jack the Ripper and the serial murders that shocked the world. by Garry Linnell
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
He was a murderer, swindler, bigamist and suspect in the Jack the Ripper killings. Frederick Deeming was also the most hated man in the world. Claiming to be haunted by the ghost of his dead mother, Deeming had spent years roaming the planet under various aliases, preying on the innocent, the gullible a ...Show more
Moonlite: The Tragic Love Story of Captain Moonlite and the Bloody End of the Bushrangers by Garry Linnell
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A gay bushranger with a love of poetry and guns. A grotesque hangman with a passion for flowers and gardening.A broken young man desperate for love and respect. These men - two of them lovers - are about to bring the era ofAustralia's outlaws to a torrid and bloody climax. Moonlite is the true and epic ...Show more
Berlin: The Story of a City by Barney White-Spunner
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Telling the story of its people and its rulers, from its medieval origins up to the present day, Berlin is a fascinating and informative history of an extraordinary city from the author of the international bestseller Partition.Berlin is Europe's most fascinating and exciting city. It is and always has ...Show more
Lawson by Grantlee Kieza
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Henry Lawson captured the heart and soul of Australia and its people with greater clarity and truth than any writer before him. Born on the goldfields in 1867, he became the voice of ordinary Australians, recording the hopes, dreams and struggles of bush battlers and slum dwellers, of fierce independent ...Show more
A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II on her Platinum Jubilee by Joanna Lumley
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
A sparkling celebration of our much-loved Queen Elizabeth II for her Platinum Jubilee including special writings and illuminating insights around key moments in her 70-year reign, introduced and edited by her biggest fan Joanna Lumley. In 2022 Queen Elizabeth II celebrates seventy years as Queen and He ...Show more
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family, the Vanderbilts. When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on hi ...Show more
Nabbing Ned Kelly: The Extraordinary True Story of the Men Who Brought Australia’s Notorious Outlaw to Justice by David Dufty
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
David Dufty goes back to the records to uncover the real story of the police officers who pursued the Kelly Gang. This pacey account of the capture of the Kelly Gang reads like a detective story. He lurched through the smoke, his armour glinting in the moonlight, and started shooting. To the weary men ...Show more
Heritage - A History of How We Conserve Our Past by James Stourton
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
What is heritage? When was it invented? What is its place in the world today? What is its place tomorrow? Heritage is all around us: millions belong to its organisations, tens of thousands volunteer for it, and politicians pay lip service to it. When the Victorians began to employ the term in something ...Show more
The CIA - An Imperial History by Hugh Wilford
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A celebrated British historian of US intelligence explores how the CIA was born in anti-imperialist idealism but swiftly became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas. As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support ...Show more