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  • A New World Begins

    The History of the French Revolution

    by Jeremy Popkin ...
    From an award-winning historian, a “vivid” (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern worldThe French Revolution’s principles of liberty and equality still shape our ideas of a just society—even if, after more than two hundred years, their meaning is more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD

  • A Life of Picasso Volume IV

    The Minotaur Years: 1933–1943

    Series Book 4 - Life of Picasso
    'A masterpiece' Sunday Times'Magisterial... thrilling' Guardian'Terrifically enjoyable' Daily TelegraphThe beautifully illustrated, long-awaited final volume of John Richardson's magisterial Life of Picasso, drawing on original research from interviews and never-before-seen material in the Picasso family archives.The Minotaur Years opens in 1933 w... ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

  • The Count of Monte Cristo

    In 1815 Edmond Dantès, a young and successful merchant sailor who has just recently been granted the succession of his erstwhile captain Leclère, returns to Marseille to marry his Catalan fiancée Mercédès. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he ... Read more

    $2.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • By Sword and Plow

    France and the Conquest of Algeria

    In 1830, with France's colonial empire in ruins, Charles X ordered his army to invade Ottoman Algiers. Victory did not salvage his regime from revolution, but it began the French conquest of Algeria, which was continued and consolidated by the succeeding July Monarchy. In By Sword and Plow, Jennifer E. Sessions explains why France chose first to conquer Algeria and then to transform it into its ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD

  • The Long Flight Home

    a heart-breaking and uplifting World War 2 love story

    by A.L. Hlad ...
    A heart-breaking and moving story of love and sacrifice, set against the backdrop of the Blitz.Inspired by true events, and perfect for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Dear Mrs Bird***Is love strong enough to survive a war?September 1940.As enemy fighter planes blacken the... ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Twelve Who Ruled

    The Year of Terror in the French Revolution

    by R. R. Palmer ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in revolutionary France. R. R. Palmer's fascinating narrative follows the Committee's deputies individually and collectively, recounting and assessing their ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD

  • The Body in the Castle Well

    Bruno investigates as France's dark past reaches out to claim a new victim

    by Martin Walker ...
    Series Book 12 - The Dordogne Mysteries
    'WILL MAKE READERS LONG FOR LAZY DAYS IN RURAL FRANCE' Irish IndependentA missing art student. An international investigation. A secret that will shatter Bruno's charming village of St Denis.A rich American art student is found dead at the bottom of a well in an ancient hilltop castle. The young woman, Claudia, had been working in the archives of an eminent French art historian, a crippled ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • A Place of Greater Safety

    by Hilary Mantel ...
    An extraordinary work of historical imagination from the double Booker Prize-winning author of the Wolf Hall trilogy, now a major TV series, this is Hilary Mantel’s epic novel of the French Revolution.**Georges-Jacques Danton: zealous, energetic and debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre: small, diligent and terrified of violence. And Camille Desmoulins: a genius of rhetoric, charming and handsome, ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • A Complete Biography of Napoleon Bonaparte

    Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the latter stages of the French Revolution and its associated wars in Europe. He is one of the most fascinating and polarizing figures in history. Fans of French history and military strategy should put this volume on their must-read list. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • France, 1814-1940

    by J.P.T. Bury ...
    This celebrated classic now includes a new introduction by Robert Tombs.The history of nineteenth and early twentieth-century France has often seemed complex and confusing. France, 1814-1940 has a long-established reputation as a clear, accessible and authoritative account of this fascinating period.It describes the characteristics of France's different regimes and their leading personalities and ... Read more

    $83.99 AUD

  • Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles

    The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller‘A fabulous story, superbly told … cannot be bettered’ Max Hastings‘Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.’On the 18th June 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days the French army had beaten the British at Quatre-Bras and the Prussians at Ligny. The ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Celeste

    The Parisian Courtesan Who Became a Countess and Bestselling Writer

    by Roland Perry ...
    Courtesan, countess, bestselling author -- the tempestuous true story of a woman far ahead of her time ...The true story of the Countess Celeste de Chabrillan is a rich and tempestuous tale of an extraordinary woman.Born in the gutters of Paris in 1824, Celeste made her name as a dancer in the Parisian dance halls, where it is said she invented the can-can. Then, as an equestrienne at the Paris ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD

  • Cast Iron

    The red-hot penultimate case of the Enzo series (The Enzo Files Book 6)

    by Peter May ...
    Series Book 6 - The Enzo Files
    THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Enzo MacLeod is one of the most unusual crime solvers I have ever met.' BookBrowse'No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel than Peter May.' New York Journal of BooksA decade-old body expo... ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • D-Day

    The Battle for Normandy: Discover the incredible true story of WW2’s pivotal battle on the 80th anniversary of D-Day

    by Antony Beevor ...
    THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Magnificent, vivid, moving, superb' Max Hastings, Sunday Times______________This is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fearThe Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was awesome and what followed was some of the most cu... ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • A Ship of War

    Charles Hayden Book 3

    Series Book 3 - Charles Hayden
    A Ship of War is a stunning new maritime adventure from Top Ten bestselling author Sean Thomas Russell, following the great success of A Battle Won and Under Enemy Colours. For fans of Bernard Cornwell and Patrick O'Brian, A Ship of War is the third instalment in the electrifying historical series of Charles Hayden and the Themis.'Hayden kept his eye fixed upon the chasing ship...The screech of an ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • The Guns of August

    The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of the First World War

    Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war.War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted to fend it off. It was no use . . .Barbara Tuchman's universally acclaimed, Pulitzer prize-winning account of how the first thirty days of battle determined the course of the First World War is to ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • A Train in Winter

    A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz

    Series series The Resistance Quartet
    A moving and extraordinary book about courage and survival, friendship and endurance – a portrait of ordinary women who faced the horror of the holocaust together.On an icy morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz – the only train, in the four years of German occupation, to take women ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Pardon My French

    How a Grumpy American Fell in Love with France

    by Allen Johnson ...
    To make a friend is a joy. To make a friend in another country is a wonderment-a small miracle. Pardon My French follows the lives of an American couple who have embraced a daunting mission: Not to be spectators in France, but to be absorbed by France.Amidst the minefields of linguistic faux pas, the perplexities of French gestures, the exquisite and often exotic cuisine, and the splendor of ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • Napoleon the Great

    'A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Simply dynamite' Bernard CornwellFrom Andrew Roberts, author of the bestsellers The Storm of War and Churchill: Walking with Destiny, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon.Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • 1215 and All That

    Magna Carta and King John

    by Ed West ...
    Series series Very, Very Short History of England
    1215 is one of the most famous dates in English history, and with good reason, since it marks the signing of the Magna Carta by King John and the English barons, which altered the entire course of English and world history.John Lackland was born to King Henry II and Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitane in December, 1166; he was the youngest of five sons. However, he unexpectedly became the favored heir to ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • The Widow Clicquot

    The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It

    Soon to be a major motion picture starring Haley Bennett, Tom Sturridge, and Sam Riley!"Narrative history that fizzes with life and feeling.” — Benjamin Wallace, New York Times bestselling author of The Billionaire's VinegarThe New York Times bestselling biography of the visionary young woman who built a champagne empire, became a legend, and showed the world how to live with style</strong... ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • The Riviera Set

    'I loved every word' Sarra Manning, Red**'[A] blissful book - it's like basking in the warm Med' Rachel Johnson, Mail on SundayThe Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Château de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Great Swindle

    Prize-winning historical fiction by a master of suspense

    Translated by Frank Wynne ...
    Prix Goncourt-winning masterpiece by the writer who brought you Alex, Irène and Camille**.October 1918: the war on the Western Front is all but over. Desperate for one last chance of promotion, the ambitious Lieutenant Henri d'Aulnay Pradelle sends two scouts over the top, and secretly shoots them in the back to incite his men to heroic action once more.**And so is set in motion a series of ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • The Years

    by Annie Ernaux ...
    Translated by Alison L. Strayer ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyShortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize**Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD