Autumn Light: Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells by Pico IYER
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Meditation on impermanence, mortality & grief
For decades now, Pico Iyer has been based for much of the year in Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko, share a two-room apartment. But when his father-in-law dies suddenly, calling him back to Japan earlier than expected, Iyer begins to grapple with the question we all have to live with ...Show more
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin by Simon Jenkins
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A sweeping, illustrated history of Europe--a continent whose imperial ambitions, internal clashes, and existential threats are as vital today as they were during the conquests of Alexander the Great In just a few hundred years, a modest peninsula off the northwest corner of Asia has seen the rise and fa ...Show more
The Regency Revolution: Jane Austen, Napoleon, Lord Byron and the Making of the Modern World by Robert Morrison
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world. The Regency began on 5 February 1811 when the Prince of Wales replaced his violently insane father George III as the sovereign de facto. It ended on 29 Januar ...Show more
On a Wing and a Prayer: The Race that Stopped the World by Diane Websdale-Morrissey
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Race that Stopped the World
In 1934, Melbourne's Lord Mayor announced a London-to-Melbourne air race to celebrate his city's centenary. The audacious plan captured imaginations across the globe: newspapers and magazines everywhere were filled with it; the world's pilots scrambled to get sponsorship; and the organisers scrambled t ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Rise and Fall of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India - A book of beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected ...Show more
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed The World (aka Peacemakers) by Margaret MacMILLAN
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Previously published as Peacemakers Between January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the leaders of the three great powers - Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau. Kings, prime minist ...Show more
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past', George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four. In this glorious work of history, Orlando Figes argues that the maxim is truer for Russia than for any other country in the world. The Story of Russia begins in the firs ...Show more
Letters of Great Women: Extraordinary correspondence from history's remarkable women by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A collection of the most inspiring, illuminating, poignant and compelling correspondence from remarkable women through history. Letters of Great Women is a collection of the most inspiring, illuminating, poignant and compelling correspondence from remarkable women through history. Including 100 letters ...Show more
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great by Alex Rowson
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In brilliant biography, Alex Rowson offers an astonishing new account of Alexander the Great – one of the most important figures of the ancient world, but whose earlier years have until now been a mystery. Alexander the Great conquered land from Macedonia to Egypt to India, known now both for his accomp ...Show more
The Species That Changed Itself: How Prosperity Reshaped Humanity by Edwin Gale
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Other species adapt to their environments; we alone create ours. Over generations, we have remade the world to suit ourselves - using improved knowledge and technology to confront the traditional scourges - and for the most part we enjoy prosperity beyond the dreams of our ancestors. What's more, in cha ...Show more
The First Kingdom : Britain in the Age of Arthur by Max Adams
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
The bestselling author of The King in the Northturns his attention to the obscure era of British history known as 'the age of Arthur'. Somewhere in the shadow time between the departure of the Roman legions in the early fifth century and the arrival in Kent of Augustine's Christian mission at the end of ...Show more
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'Natalie Haynes is the nation's muse' - Adam Rutherford The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories.Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay ...Show more