Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and His Family by Emer O'Sullivan
$49.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Oscar Wilde owed his most outstanding characteristics - his precocious intellectualism, his flamboyance, his hedonism, his recklessness, his pride, his sense of superiority, his liberal sexual values - to his parents. Oscar's mother, Lady Jane Wilde, rose to prominence as a political journalist, advocat ...Show more
Kenneth Clark: the Authorised Biography: Life, Art and Civilisation by James Stourton
$64.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
The life of brilliant polymath Kenneth Clark - director of the National Gallery, author, patron of the arts, social lion, who in 1969, achieved international acclaim as the writer, producer, and presenter of the BBC Television series, Civilisation. The book offers a history of the arts in the twentieth ...Show more
White Butterflies (Updated edition) by Colin Mcphedran
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: General Adult
A new edition of this bestselling Australian classic. After the Japanese invasion of Burma in late 1941, 11-year-old Colin McPhedran was forced to flee his homeland on foot, across the steep Patkoi Mountain Ranges, to safety in India. Over a three-month period, Colin, along with his mother, elder brothe ...Show more
Henry V by Christopher Allmand
$45.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The Yale English Monarchs Series
Thanks in part to Shakespeare, Henry V is one of England's best-known monarchs. The image of the king leading his army against the French, and the great victory at Agincourt, are part of English historical tradition. Yet, though indeed a soldier of exceptional skill, Henry V's reputation needs to be see ...Show more
The Nine Hundred: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam; Caroline Moorehead
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'Books such as this are essential: they remind modern readers of events that should never be forgotten' - Caroline Moorehead On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parent ...Show more
Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus by Stephen Dando-Collins
$45.00 AUD
Category: Historical
May 27, 2015 brings the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir Henry Parkes. After he died, the London Times described him as 'a colonial colossus.' Henry Parkes received little schooling and worked on a rope-walk, breaking stones, as an ivory and bone turner, ironmonger, labourer and on the wharves befo ...Show more
The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Shortly after completing The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and unpremeditated, and there are some who argue that he kiled himself because he was tormented by guilt - guilt that he had survived the horrors of Auschwitz while others, bette ...Show more
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-FictionA New York Times Notable Book of 2015 A painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators - her father, Josef Stalin. Born in the ear ...Show more
Henry II: A Prince Among Princes by Richard Barber
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Penguin Monarchs
Henry II (1154-89) through a series of astonishing dynastic coups became the ruler of an enormous European empire. One of the most dynamic, restless and clever men ever to rule England, he was brought down both by his catastrophic relationship with his archbishop Thomas Becket and his debilitating argum ...Show more
Agent Jack - The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter by Robert Hutton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
For fans of Transcription by Kate Atkinson and books by Ben Macintyre, this is the astonishing full story of the MI5 agent at the heart of Operation Fifth Column, the covert wartime operation to flush out Nazi sympathisers on British soil. June 1940. Britain is Europe's final bastion of freedom - and H ...Show more
Saga Land - The Island of Stories at the Edge of the World (HB) by Richard Fidler; Kari Gislason
$39.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
A new friendship. An unforgettable journey.A beautiful and bloody history. This is Iceland as you've never read it before ... Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author K ri G slason are good friends. They share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland - the true stories of the first Viking families who set ...Show more
Born Survivors by Wendy Holden
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared, and with so many loved ones alr ...Show more