The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast by Tom; Sand Goalhanger; Holland Podcasts
34.99 AUD
Category: History
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys . . . There's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past from Alexander the Great to Tolkein, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland ...Show more
A History of Britain in Just a Minute by Gyles Brandreth
29.99 AUD
Category: World
The story of us - without hesitation, repetition or deviation.What does Rumpelstiltskin have to do with the princes in the tower? What is so special about the year 1776? How many Harry Potters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?Join national treasure and Just a Minute regular Gyles Brandreth on a hila ...Show more
Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens's London by Lee Jackson
41.95 AUD
Category: History
The intriguing history of Dickens's London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years Tourists have sought out the landmarks, streets, and alleys of Charles Dickens's London ever since the death of the world-renowned author. Late Victorians ...Show more
Australias Most Decorated Woman: The Story of Joice Loch (Blue Ribbons Bitter Bread) by Susanna de Vries
39.99 AUD
Category: Military
Jocie Loch was an extraordinary Australian. She saved countless lives post World War 1 in Poland, Serbia and Greece. During World War 2 she worked under cover for Britain and saved the lives of refugees in Poland and Romania. Jocie Loch was an extraordinary Australian. She saved countless lives post Wor ...Show more
Horseman of the Outback: Their Spurs and Spurmakers by Don John Edward Corcoran
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
This is an extremely well researched work which will be treasured by all horse riders. It is a very thorough account of Australian spurs and the bush blacksmiths like Fred Gutte who designed his on Wave Hill Station, but is is much more that that. If offers a romantic folklore of the horsemaen who used ...Show more
Ten Thousand Campfires by Rex Ellis
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Known as desert wanderer with sense of humour travelling the outback of australia africa and india with loads of stories and yarns to tell.
100 Maritime Stories by David Jones
39.99 AUD
Category: History
To commemorate the 200 years since the exploring and naming of the Brisbane River by John Oxley in 1823, David Jones has compiled 100 maritime stories of Queensland. The book is in seven sections covering the early days, colonial era, shipwrecks, wartime and others.
Fettered FrontierFounding the Moreton Bay Settlement The First Four Years 1822–1826 by Jennifer Harrison
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Historian Jennifer Harrison’s latest book Fettered Frontier, Founding the Moreton Bay Settlement 1822–1826, a companion volume to Shackled: Female Convicts at Moreton Bay 1826 –1839 (2016) investigates the struggle to locate and establish an outpost in remote Moreton Bay. She uses original government co ...Show more
Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson by Ferdinand Mount
49.99 AUD
Category: World
Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it's become a strangely neglected subject. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall.There is a c ...Show more
The Palace by Gareth Russell
52.99 AUD
Category: History
'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts' PHILIPPA GREGORYFor centuries, Hampton Court has been a place of power, scandal and in ...Show more
The Man Next Door: And Other True Stories of War and Peace by Mike Colman
32.95 AUD
Category: Military
This is a classic collection of war stories from one of Australia's finest writers. Ray McMillan was an aircraftman on the Hudson bomber that sunk the 'Awazisan Maru' - an episode captured in Frank Harding's painting that adorns the cover of this book. Years later, author Mike Colman read the war diarie ...Show more
Mythos - The Illustrated Story by Stephen Fry
80.00 AUD
Category: Mythology
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld ...Show more