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  • War, Women, and Druids

    Eyewitness Reports and Early Accounts of the Ancient Celts

    by Philip Freeman ...
    The author of Hannibal: Rome’s Greatest Enemy delivers a comprehensive, unbiased portrait of the ancient Celts using Greek and Roman primary sources.“The ancient Celts capture the modern imagination as do few other people of classical times. Naked barbarians charging the Roman legions, Druids performing sacrifices of unspeakable horror, women fighting beside their men and even leading armies—these ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flinders

    The Man Who Mapped Australia

    by Rob Mundle ...
    The fascinating story of the exceptional maritime explorer, Matthew Flinders - the man who put Australia on the map.Shipwrecks, storms, death and danger - Matthew Flinders encountered it all on his courageous quest to circumnavigate and chart the treacherous Terra Australis coastline.From the drama of epic voyages and devastating shipwrecks; his part in the naming of Australia; his cruel ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD $4.99 AUD

  • Unruly

    The Number One Bestseller ‘Horrible Histories for grownups’ The Times

    by David Mitchell ...
    THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA funny book about a serious subject, Unruly is for anyone who has ever wondered how we got here - and who is to blame.'Clever, amusing, gloriously bizarre and razor sharp. Mitchell – a funny man and skilled historian – tells stories that are interesting and fun. Here is Horrible Histories for grownups’ GERARD DEGROOT, THE TIMES'Just fantas... ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

    by Philippa Gregory ...
    A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023‘A lasting work of social history’ THE TIMES‘A genuinely new history of our nation’ DAN JONES‘This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history’ SPECTATORFROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES THE CULMINATION OF HER LIFE’S WORKDid you know that there are more penises ... ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD $17.99 AUD

  • An Honourable Thief

    A must-read historical crime thriller

    by Douglas Skelton ...
    Series Book 1 - A Company of Rogues
    Introducing Jonas Flynt. Gambler. Thief. Killer. Man of honour.Longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize 2023'Fast, furious and with a glint of gallows humour, this is high-octane historical fiction' Daily Mail'Swashbuckling action against a vivid historical backdrop. I loved this book' Ian Rankin‘High adventure meets espionage thriller as Jonas Flynt battles the tide of history and the deadly secrets ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Column of Fire

    by Ken Follett ...
    Series Book 4 - Kingsbridge
    The saga that has enthralled the millions of readers of The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End now continues with Ken Follett's magnificent, gripping A Column of Fire.Christmas 1558, and young Ned Willard returns home to Kingsbridge to find his world has changed.The ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn by religious hatred. Europe is in turmoil as high principles ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • A History of the British Cavalry

    Volume 7: 1816-1919 The Curragh Incident and the Western Front, 1914

    by Lord Anglesey ...
    In the seventh, and second last, volume in t his historical work, Lord Anglesey shows how superior the Br itish cavalry was compared to those of the French and German s. He concentrates on the first five months of the War. ' ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD $7.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Very Private School

    by Charles Spencer ...
    THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Shocking and moving' Guardian'A tour-de-force' Washington PostAt eight years of age, Charles Spencer was sent away to one of England’s most exclusive boarding schools.In this courageous and beautifully written memoir, Spencer offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of the strange secrets of the school, and the culture of cruelty and abuse he w... ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Revolution: The History of England Volume 4

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    Series Book 4 - The History of England
    The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory.In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, and England was - again - at war with France, a war that ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Jungle Man: The Autobiography Of Major P. J. Pretorius C.M.G. D.S.O. and Bar

    by Major P. J. Pretorius ...
    The true story of Major Jan Pretorius, a South African elephant hunter and adventurer, this is a true tale of continuous adventure for a lifetime and considered one of the most extraordinary ever written. Pretorius also gives the first full account of the search for the German cruiser Königsberg which had sunk the Pegasus at Zanzibar and then gone into hiding in the Rufiji delta.“I have never seen ... Read more

    $7.32 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Devil (Leopards of Normandy 1)

    A vivid historical blockbuster of power, intrigue and action

    by David Churchill ...
    **From the co-author of the No.1 bestselling Wilbur Smith novel, WAR CRY**The fate of England hangs in the balance of a fight between brothers...In DEVIL, David Churchill writes with the immediacy of Conn Iggulden, the epic ambition of Bernard Cornwell and the plotting of CJ Sansom. The Leopards of Normandy trilogy tells the story of William the Conqueror in all its wild, intoxicating, unfailingly ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • 1776

    America and Britain at War

    by David McCullough ...
    America's most acclaimed historian presents the intricate story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. 1776 tells two gripping stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate colonies became the United States, and how the British Empire tried to stop them. A story with a cast of amazing characters from George III to George Washington, to soldiers and their families, this ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • Eleanor of Aquitaine

    A Biography

    by Marion Meade ...
    Series series WOMEN IN HISTORY
    A comprehensive account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. The wife of King Louis VII of France and then of King Henry II of England, and mother to Richard Coeur de Lion and King John, she became the key political figure of the twelfth century.Eleanor's long life inspired a number of legends. At twenty-five she set out for the Holy Land as a Crusader, and at seventy-eight she crossed the ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Rose Demon

    A terrifying tale of medieval England

    by Paul Doherty ...
    A haunted, misunderstood outcast... or a murderer?Paul Doherty writes an epic, spine-chilling story of terror, mystery and black magic set in the Middle Ages in his spellbinding novel, The Rose Demon. Perfect for fans of Michael Jecks and Robin Hobb.Matthias Fitzosbert is the illegitimate son of the parish priest of the village of Sutton Courteny. Despite the recent spate of murders, each day he ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Life in a Medieval Castle

    by Joseph Gies, Frances Gies ...
    Series series Medieval Life
    The definitive classic used as a source for Game of Thrones: “The Gieses succeed in making a remote and unfamiliar world accessible.” —Kirkus ReviewsA bestseller by two widely respected historians, Joseph and Frances Gies’s Life in a Medieval Castle remains a timeless work of popular medieval scholarship.Focusing on Chepstow, an English castle on the Welsh border that survived the turbulent Middle ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom

    by Iain Ballantyne ...
    Now a major television documentary (Channel 4, 2021)The epic mission to destroy Hitler’s flagship.‘Bismarck was now loose in the Atlantic … we had to find and sink her.’May, 1941. The most powerful battleship the world has ever seen, the German Navy’s Bismarck, breaks out into the Atlantic to ravage Allied convoys. Together with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, the Bismarck will seek to deliver a .. ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Thief's Justice

    A completely gripping historical mystery

    by Douglas Skelton ...
    Series Book 2 - A Company of Rogues
    London, 1716. Revenge is a dish best served ice-cold…’An immersive, action-packed thriller with intrigue in the air and threats around every corner’ The Herald’Great fun ... the language is colourful and the action never stops’ Laura Shepherd-RobinsonThe city is caught in the vice-like grip of a savage winter. Even the Thames has frozen over. But for Jonas Flynt – thief, gambler, killer – the ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Archaeological History of Britain

    Continuity and Change from Prehistory to the Present

    by Jonathan Eaton ...
    This authoritative and accessible volume presents an archeological of Britain across millennia, from early prehistory to the present.The Archaeological History of Britain takes us from the earliest prehistoric archaeology right up to the contemporary archaeology of the present day through the use of key sites. Historian Jonathan Eaton uses key sites to illustrate each significant time period along ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We Don't Know Ourselves

    A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958

    by Fintan O'Toole ...
    The #1 Irish Times bestsellerWINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards'A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes'Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent' Colm Tóibín, Guardian'With the pace and twists of an enthralling novel' Irish Times'Evocative, moving, funny and furious' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'An enthrallin... ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD

  • Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland

    by Patrick Radden Keefe ...
    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURYSoon to be an FX TV series streaming on DISNEY+'Unquestionably one of the greatest literary achievements of the 21st century' Nick HornbyFrom the author of Empire of Pain – a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating reperc... ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • The Wild Silence

    The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Million-Copy Bestselling Author of The Salt Path

    by Raynor Winn ...
    **Join Raynor and Moth as their journey continues in the incredible and uplifting Sunday Times No. 1 bestsellerFrom the million-copy bestselling author of the phenomenon and 85-week Sunday Times bestseller The Salt Path**'Beautiful, a thrill to read . . . you feel the world is a better place because Raynor and Moth are in it' The Times'Winn's writing transforms her surroundings and her spirits, ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • The Enlightened Economy

    Britain and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850

    by Joel Mokyr ...
    Why did Western countries become so much wealthier than the rest of the world? What explains the huge rise in incomes during the Industrial Revolution - and why did Britain lead the way?In the years between the Glorious Revolution and the Great Exhibition, the British economy was transformed. Joel Mokyr's landmark history offers a wholly new perspective for understanding Britain's extraordinary ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • Scandal at Dolphin Square

    A Notorious History

    by Simon Danczuk, Daniel Smith ...
    'Compelling, authoritative and as readable as the best airport thriller. It fizzes with crime, fame, power and illicit sex.' Jeremy Vine'A timely and important book. It's quite remarkable how one building has played host to such debauchery. If only the walls could talk…' Iain DaleDesigned as a city dwelling for the modern age, Dolphin Square opened in London's Pimlico in 1936. Boasting 1,250 hi ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making Sense of the Troubles

    A History of the Northern Ireland Conflict

    by David McKittrick, David McVea ...
    COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION -- THE ESSENTIAL HISTORY OF THE TROUBLES'Compellingly written and very even-handed. By far the clearest account of what happened in the Northern Ireland conflict and more importantly why it happened' Irish News'Extraordinarily well-balanced, sane, comprehensive and rich in sober understatement' Glasgow Herald__________________________First published two... ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD