Poison: a History - An Account of the Deadly Art and Its Most Infamous Practitioners by Jenni Davis
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
Poison: A History is the fascinating story of this dark, deadly, and most secretive of arts, chronicling more than two millennia of famous and infamous poisonings. Book jacket.
Churchill's Shadow: An Astonishing Life and a Dangerous Legacy by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
$38.99 AUD
Category: History
A critical but fair political biography of Churchill that zooms in on crucial moments in his life and career that help us understand the man in his many contradictions.While in A.J.P. Taylor's words, Churchill was 'the saviour of his country', he was also a deeply flawed character, whose personal ambiti ...Show more
The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy And The Wrecking Of Henry I's Dream by Charles Spencer
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
‘As gripping as any thriller. History doesn't get any better than this' BILL BRYSON 'A brilliant read … Spencer has a real facility for getting these characters to leap fully formed from the page … Game of Thrones but in the real world' ANTHONY HOROWITZ 'The medieval Titanic … Charles Spencer explores ...Show more
Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'It's often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory. You cannot understand slavery, or British Empire, without it' Sathnam Sanghera Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 study revealed the connection ...Show more
On Bloody Sunday by Julieann Campbell
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
*****'A momentous chronicle, timely and vital, which highlights that the burden of change rests, as always, upon the shoulders of those who suffered and yet, have nurtured the desire that lessons be learned.' - Michael Mansfield QC, who represented a number of families during the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.' ...Show more
Mudlarking - Lost and Found on the River Thames by Lara Maiklem
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'Enchanting' SUNDAY TIMES ... 'Driven by curiosity, freighted with mystery and tempered by chance, wonders gleam from every page' MELISSA HARRISON ... 'Brilliant. No one has looked at these odd corners since Sherlock Holmes' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ... 'Fascinating. There is nothing that Maiklem does not know ...Show more
The Shortest History of Democracy by John Keane
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In an age of fake news and half-truths, the radical potential of democracy is more important than ever, as this nimble, illuminating history by a celebrated political theorist reveals.From its beginnings in Syria-Mesopotamia - and not Athens - to its role in fomenting revolutionary fervour in France and ...Show more
Rebel Women Who Changed Australia by Susanna De Vries
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Visionaries, pioneers, activists and artists - women who made a difference to Australia An updated and condensed edition of Susanna de Vries' Great Australian Women, this is a celebration of women who broke the mould, crashed through the ceilings, and shaped the nation in the fields of medicine, law, t ...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
Joan of Arc: A History (US HB) by Helen Castor
$12.95 AUD
Category: History
Helen Castor tells afresh the gripping story of the peasant girl from Domremy who hears voices from God, leads the French army to victory, is burned at the stake for heresy, and eventually becomes a saint. But unlike the traditional narrative, a story already shaped by the knowledge of what Joan would b ...Show more
Great British Speeches by Simon Heffer
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
50 speeches from every period of British history from the medieval era to the present and a fascinating dip-in history title that will both inspire readers and give them a greater understanding of British history. The speechmakers are: King Henry V; Queen Elizabeth I; King Charles I; Oliver Cromwell; Ea ...Show more
The Loss of El Dorado - A Colonial History by V S Naipaul
$21.00 AUD
$22.00 (4% off)
Category: History
A passionate and vivid recreation of the history of Trinidad. The Loss of El Dorado exposes the barbaric cruelties of slavery and torture and their consequences on all strata of society - from the idealist to the reactionary - in a moving account which penetrates aspects of a complex society more often ...Show more