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  • The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, the Real Moriarty

    by Ben Macintyre ...
    The rumbustious true story of the Victorian master thief who was the model for Conan Doyle’s Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes’ arch-rival. From the bestselling author of ‘Operation Mincemeat’ and ‘Agent Zigzag’.Adam Worth was the greatest master criminal of Victorian times. Abjuring violence, setting himself up as a perfectly respectable gentleman, he became the ringleader for the largest criminal ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD $5.99 AUD

  • Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies

    How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

    An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be.The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, unspeakable subject in the history of English ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

  • Unruly

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

    Discover who we are and how we got here in comedian David Mitchell's UNRULY: A History of England's Kings and Queens - a thoughtful, funny exploration of the entitled and enthroned.'JUST FANTASTIC. DELIGHTFULLY CONTRARY AND HILARIOUSLY CANTANKEROUS. VERY, VERY FUNNY' JESSE ARMSTRONG, CREATOR OF SUCCESSION AND PEEP SHOW'CLEVER, AMUSING, GLORIOUSLY BIZARRE AND RAZOR SHARP. MITCHELL - A FUNNY MAN AND ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

  • Look for the Red Umbrella

    OF THE THOUSANDS WHO HEADED TO THE AUSTRALIAN GOLDFIELDS IN THE 1850S TO FIND RICHES, NOT ALL WOULD SEARCH FOR GOLD...With fortunes to be made in trade and business in these booming populations, only those with the courage and fortitude to survive in a ruthless commercial environment would eventually succeed.Look for the Red Umbrella tells the true story of a woman who achieved this and much more, ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD

  • Katherine Swynford

    The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess

    by Alison Weir ...
    **'**Weir combines high drama with high passion while involving us in the domestic life of a most remarkable woman in an equally remarkable book' Scotland on SundayThe first full-length biography of an extraordinary love affair between one of the most important men of English History and a thoroughly modern woman.Katherine Swynford was first the mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, the ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz

    by Erik Larson ...
    THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER‘Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were injecting adrenaline-soaked courage directly into the British people … Larson tells the story of how that feat was accomplished … Fresh, fast and deeply moving.’ New York TimesA STARTLING, GRIPPING PORTRAIT OF WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE ALIVE IN BRITAIN DURING THE BLITZ, AND WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE AROUND ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD

  • Tears of Strangers

    The extraordinary powerful family story that reckons with the legacy of Australia's history from award-winning journalist and author of Talking To My Country

    by Stan Grant ...
    Where do I belong? Who am I? The blood of my fathers links me to a much older place and time. I've walked in the footprints of my ancestors: I've sat by the riverbank at night and imagined them around me. I am all that they have made me.Journalist Stan Grant was born in 1963, a son of the Wiradjuri people. By the early sixties these once proud warriors were scattered onto mission camps and the ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD $14.99 AUD

  • Twenty Years Before the Mast

    In 1838 the able-bodied seaman Charles Erskine joined the exploring expedition of Charles Wilkes who was setting out on a voyage of discovery around the world.From the Pacific to Antarctic to Atlantic, Erskine would travel with this expedition to the furthest corners of the Earth.He would go on to travel to some of the most unexplored regions, meeting men and women who had never seen westerners ... Read more

    $0.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • If This Is A Man/The Truce

    by Primo Levi ...
    Translated by Stuart Woolf ...
    A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't Count'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD

  • The Ticket Collector from Belarus

    An Extraordinary True Story of Britain's Only War Crimes Trial

    **'Brilliantly gripping' Sunday Times; 'Compelling' Daily Mail; 'Heart-rending' Sunday Telegraph; 'Excellent' The Times; 'Engrossing' IndependentThe UK's only war crimes trial took place in 1999 and had its origins in the horrors of the Holocaust, but only now in The Ticket Collector from Belarus? can the full story be told.**The Ticket Collector from Belarus tells the remarkable story of two ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • Valiant Deeds, Undying Memories

    The Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka, Op Pawan

    The 32-month tryst of the Indian Peace Keeping Force with LTTE in Sri Lanka, between July 1987 and March 1990, was the first out-of-country overseas assignment since independence for the Indian Armed Forces under the national banner.For the soldier who laid down his life and limb, all wars are the same. The ‘IPKF syndrome’ has been casting its long melancholy shadow over decision-makers ever since ... Read more

    $1.91 AUD

  • Ellen A Woman Of Spirit

    by Noelene Allen ...
    'Ellen: a woman of spirit' by Noelene Allen is the extraordinary true story of a woman whose life journey is told in this long awaited book with sympathy, compassion and above all honesty. The reader will become immersed in the trials, tragedies and triumphs of this woman. The love of Ellen’s life is taken from her at an early age; she is faced with the task of bringing up her children on her own. ... Read more

    $12.63 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spitfire!: The Experiences of a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot

    by Brian Lane ...
    Lane was the author of Spitfire!, originally published in 1942 under the pseudonym B.J. Ellan. The book is a first hand account of his experiences as a front line Spitfire pilot and is one of only a few contemporaneous autobiographical accounts of the life of a Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Latitude

    The astonishing adventure that shaped the world

    Told for the very first time, this is the true story of the adventure that shaped the world . . .'A thrilling story of courage, survival and science. It's an extraordinary, visceral and vivid read' Geographical Magazine________Three hundred years ago no one knew the true shape of the world.It wasn't a sphere - but did it bulge at the equator or was it pointed at the poles? Until we found out no ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • The Spencer Family

    From the bestselling author Charles Spencer, a brilliant insider’s history of the Spencer family.Travelling centuries through the Spencers’ family and their wide-ranging roles in Britain’s history, Charles moves from the sheep-farmers of the sixteenth century through the Civil War to the 19th century when the third Earl was one of the architects of the 1832 Reform Bill, and up to recent years and ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD

  • Baltimore's Mansion

    I am foreborn of spud runts who fled the famines of Ireland in the 1830s, not a man or woman among them more than five foot two, leaving behind a life of beggarment and setting sail for what since Malory were called the Happy Isles . . .'So begins Baltimore's Mansion, Wayne Johnston's story of his grandfather Charlie, his father Arthur and of the small community of Ferryland on Newfoundland's ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • The Mutiny on the Bounty

    Texts by Captain Bligh, Sir John Farrow, and Rosalind Amelia Young

    The Mutiny of the Bounty is one of the most famous stories in maritime history that has been told in countless books and motion pictures. It describes the arduous voyage of the H.M.S. Bounty, under the harsh rule of the strict Captain Bligh, and the eventual mutiny of much of the crew led by the Mutineer Fletcher Christian. Less well-known is the incredible survival story of how Captain Bligh and ... Read more

    $2.99 AUD

  • Winston Churchill

    A Biography of Historical Icon Winston Churchill

    by Henry Hanson ...
    WINSTON CHURCHILLWinston Churchill was a powerful and inspiring man, who actively pursued challenges and strove to serve his country well. From fighting in World War I, to serving as the Prime Minister during World War II in the fight against Nazi Germany, he did whatever was necessary to achieve victory and keep his people safe.In addition to detailing the time he spent fighting for his country, ... Read more

    $3.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Spanner in the Works

    The extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-girl garage

    by Loretta Smith ...
    From the end of the Great War and into the 1920s, Alice Anderson was considered nothing less than a national treasure. She was a woman of 'rare achievement' who excelled as a motoring entrepreneur and inventor. Young, petite, boyish and full of charm, Alice was the only woman in Australia to successfully pull off an almost impossible feat: without family or husband to back her financially, she ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

    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

    $15.99 AUD

  • Endgame

    by Omid Scobie ...
    The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating investigation into the current state of the British monarchy.An unpopular king, a power-hungry heir to the throne, a queen willing to go to great lengths to preserve her image, and a prince forced to start a new life after being betrayed by his own ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD $14.99 AUD

  • In Order To Live

    A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

    by Yeonmi Park ...
    'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die - from starvation, or disease, or even execution.This book is the ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Monash's Masterpiece

    The battle of Le Hamel and the 93 minutes that changed the world

    The Battle of Le Hamel on 4 July 1918 was an Allied triumph, and strategically very important in the closing stages of WWI. A largely Australian force, commanded by the brilliant Sir John Monash, fought what has been described as the first modern battle - where infantry, tanks, artillery and planes operated together as a coordinated force.Monash planned every detail meticulously, with nothing left ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD

  • The Mysterious Mrs Hood

    A True Victorian Mystery of Scandal, Arson, Murder & Betrayal

    by Kim Donovan ...
    'A gripping story of a cold-blooded murder... This is true crime at its best' Wendy Moore'A true crime thriller that pulls you in, with drama so addictive it should be illegal' Sam ChristerA true Victorian murder mystery...Great Yarmouth, September 1900: A young woman is found dead on the beach, a bootlace tied tightly around her neck. Despite her death attracting national attention in the press, ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD