Summer Reading: History
1788: The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet
$34.95 (Trade paperback / Heinemann )
Never before or since has there been an experiment quite as bold as this. Set against the backdrop of Georgian England with its peculiar mix of elegance, prosperity, progress and squalor, the story of the First Fleet is ... More »
First Australians
$89.99 (Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press )
First Australians is the dramatic story of the collision of two worlds that created contemporary Australia. Told from the perspective of Australia's first people, it vividly brings to life the events that unfolded when t... More »
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
$69.95$59.95 (Hardcover book / Quercus )
From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides, a new Landmark Edition of The Histories by Herodotus, the greatest classical work of history ever written.
Herodotus was a Greek historian living in Ionia du... More »
Churchill And Australia
$55.00 (Hardcover book / Macmillan )
"Australia seemed to bring out the worst in Winston Churchill. Often enough to form a discernible pattern, Australia found itself on the wrong side of the very qualities his strength of will, singleness of purpose, his r... More »
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy In Stalin's Russia
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Little Brown )
A remarkable piece of forgotten history—the story of how thousands of Americans were lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives only to meet a tragic, and until now forgotten, end
The Forsaken start... More »
Lygon Street
$59.95$49.95 (Hardcover book / Murdoch Books )
Lygon Street is in the heart of the inner-city Melbourne suburb of Carlton. It is a street that was responsible for bringing authentic home-style cooking to Australia and introducing the first espresso machine. This abso... More »
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Elizabeth In The Garden: A Story Of Love Rivalry And Spectacular Design
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Faber )
Lord Robert Dudley, Queen Elizabeth I's lover, and Sir William Cecil, her chief political adviser, were the most powerful men in the country. As their rivalry intensified, they competed by creating ever more fabulous gar... More »
Friendly Mission: The Tasmanian Journals And Papers Of George Augustus Robinson 1829-1834
$99.00 (Hardcover book / )
Friendly Mission: the Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson, 1829 – 1834, edited by NJB Plomley, was first published in 1966. This monumental and controversial work continues to be in great demand as ... More »
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Little Brown )
Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the e... More »
The Oxford Companion To Australian Military History
$79.95 (Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr )
This major new edition of the Companion builds on the strength of the previous edition. It provides learned, accessible and up-to-date studies of Australia's varied and colourful military matters - both past and present ... More »
The Sea Of Dangers: Captain Cook And His Rivals
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )
Two ships set out in seach of a missing continent: the St Jean-Baptiste, a French merchant ship commanded by Jean de Surville, and the Endeavour, a small British naval vessel captained by James Cook. In Sea of Dangers, d... More »
Travelling Heroes: The Greeks And Their Myths In The Epic Age of Homer
$59.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )
This remarkable and daringly original book proposes a new way of thinking about the Greeks and their myths in the age of the great Homeric hymns. It combines a lifetime's familiarity with Greek literature and history wit... More »
Turning Points In Australian History
$34.95 (Paperback book / )
‘If only’, ‘what if’ and ‘why didn’t we’ are phrases that often come to mind when we look back to the past. This exciting and stimulating book looks back at turning points and crucial moments in Australian history. Rathe... More »