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  • Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1882–1940)

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    Series series Roosevelt
    “A brilliant full-length portrait of Franklin Roosevelt the politician”—the first in an award-winning two-volume biography (The Christian Science Monitor).Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest serving president in United States history, reshaping the country during the crises of the Great Depression and World War II. But before his ascension to the presidency, FDR laid the groundwork for his ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • War

    by Bob Woodward ...
    Two-time Pulitzer prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars – Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American presidency.War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history.We see President Joe Biden and his top advisers in tense conversations with Russian president ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD $21.99 AUD

  • Science in Medieval Islam

    An Illustrated Introduction

    by Howard R. Turner ...
    A “well-organized and interesting” overview of science in the Muslim world in the seventh through seventeenth centuries, with over 100 illustrations (The Middle East Journal).During the Golden Age of Islam, in the seventh through seventeenth centuries A. D., Muslim philosophers and poets, artists and scientists, princes and laborers created a unique culture that has influenced societies on every ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Happiest Man on Earth

    by Eddie Jaku ...
    WINNER OF THE ABIA BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR 2021Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you.Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed in November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp.Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Kosciuszko

    The incredible life of the man behind the mountain

    by Anthony Sharwood ...
    Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on Australia's highest peak. Tadeusz Kosciuszko: freedom fighter, friend of Thomas Jefferson and champion of liberty on two continents. Bestselling author Anthony Sharwood finds out why he's the hero the world needs right now.Kosciuszko - our iconic highest mountain - is a name ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • The Diggers of Kapyong

    The story of the Aussies who changed the course of the Korean War

    by Tom Gilling ...
    The gripping account of Australia in the Korean War and how 3RAR battalion held back an entire Chinese army division to prevent Seoul being overrun.'In the only war in which Australian soldiers ever faced off against the might of Mao, this is a revealing and spellbinding account of an extraordinary victory.' - Peter FitzSimonsWe charged and we began to get shot down . . . there were so many ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD $4.99 AUD

  • House of Two Pharaohs

    The next instalment in the Ancient Egyptian series for 2025 from bestselling master of adventure, Wilbur Smith

    by Wilbur Smith ...
    THE BRAND-NEW EGYPTIAN SERIES NOVEL FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR, WILBUR SMITH ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

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  • Nexus

    The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller from the author of Sapiens

    by Yuval Noah Harari ...
    The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us together.Books spread our ideas – and our mythologies.The internet promised infinite knowledge.The algorithm learned our secrets – and then turned us against each other.What will AI do?... ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

  • The World From Islam

    by George Negus ...
    The phenomenal bestseller on Islam from one of Australia's most trusted journalists and popular personalities.What is Islam? What is it that Muslims believe, and why? Why do they fight not just wars but jihads - holy wars? How great are the belief chasms between Muslims, Jews and Christians? George Negus has travelled extensively throughout the Middle East and Asia, from his days on Foreign ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD $7.99 AUD

  • Tibetan Peach Pie

    A True Account of an Imaginative Life

    by Tom Robbins ...
    Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins’ legendary memoir—wild tales of his life and times, both at home and around the globe.Tom Robbins’ warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels—including Still Life with Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates—provide an entryway into the frontier of his singular imagination. Madcap but sincere, ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Holocaust by Bullets

    A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews

    by Father Patrick Desbois ...
    Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: The story of how a Catholic priest uncovered the truth behind the murder of more than a million Ukrainian Jews.Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examining all the sites where Jews were exterminated by Nazi mobile units in Ukraine in WWII. Using innovative methodology, interviews, and ballistic evidence, he has determined ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD $1.99 AUD

  • Wavewalker: Breaking Free

    by Suzanne Heywood ...
    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023‘Grippingly vivid and pacey’ THE TIMES‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing’ SIMON WINCHESTER'An astonishing almost day-by-day account of [a] hazardous journey and its legacy’ TELEGRAPH‘This is a story of an epic chil... ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD $3.99 AUD

  • The Rogue Not Taken

    by Sarah MacLean ...
    Series Book 1 - Scandal & Scoundrel
    'Smart, sexy, and always romantic' Julia Quinn, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Bridgerton series'Fabulous' Eloisa James'For a smart, witty and passionate historical romance, I recommend anything by Sarah MacLean' Lisa KleypasThe first in Sarah MacLean's sensational new Scandal & Scoundrels series . . . all the fun and guilty pleasure of celebrity gossip, with ... ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD $4.99 AUD

  • 1066

    A Guide to the Battles and the Campaigns

    by Michael Livingston, Kelly DeVries ...
    An illustrated history and guide to the Battle of Hastings by two leading medieval military historians.The Battle of Hastings, fought on 14 October 1066, changed the course of English history. This most famous moment of the Norman Conquest was recorded in graphic detail in the threads of the Bayeux Tapestry, providing a priceless glimpse into a brutal conflict.In this fresh look at the battle and ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Warrior King

    THE BRAND-NEW COURTNEY SERIES EPIC FOR 2024

    by Wilbur Smith, Tom Harper ...
    The new Courtney Series epicA BATTLE FOR HONOUR AGAINST A POWERFUL NEW ENEMYSouth Africa, 1820When Ann Waite discovers a battered longboat washed ashore in Algoa Bay, she is stunned to find two survivors: a badly scarred sailor and a little boy. As the man walks away into the morning mist alone, refusing to take the child - Harry - with him, Ann is left with no choice but to raise the boy as her ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD $5.99 AUD

  • The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason

    by Douglas Murray ...
    SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER‘The most important book of the year’ Daily MailThe brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world’s foremost political writers‘The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is high time that we revise them in turn…’In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray ... ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD $8.99 AUD

  • Shogun

    Book One of the Asian Saga - The book that inspired the multi-Emmy Award-winning TV show

    by James Clavell ...
    NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES'Clavell never puts a foot wrong . . . Get it, read it, you'll enjoy it mightily' DAILY MIRRORThis is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Both entertaining and incisive, SHOGUN is a stunningly dramatic re-creation of a very different world.Starting with his shipwreck ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler’s Radar

    by Max Hastings ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER'Reads like a thriller… I couldn't put Max Hastings's new book down' DAILY MAIL'Hastings is a master of drama, a writer intimately familiar with the mind of the soldier' THE TIMESOperation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD $4.99 AUD

  • The Fourth Turning

    What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny

    by William Strauss, Neil Howe ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play—now with a new preface by Neil Howe.First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • A Woman of No Importance

    The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy

    by Sonia Purnell ...
    'A METICULOUS HISTORY THAT READS LIKE A THRILLER' BEN MACINTYRE, TEN BEST BOOKS TO READ ABOUT WORLD WAR IIAn astounding story of heroism, spycraft, resistance and personal triumph over shocking adversity.'A rousing tale of derring-do' THE TIMES * 'Riveting' MICK HERRON * 'Superb' IRISH TIMESTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn September ... ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD $4.99 AUD

  • 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 $4.99 AUD

  • The Tattooist of Auschwitz

    Now a major Stan Original series

    by Heather Morris ...
    As the first transport from Slovakia makes its way to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942, Lale Sokolov immediately stands out to the other prisoners for his composed appearance and outwardly assured manner. In the camp, he is looked up to, looked out for and put to work in the privileged position of Tätowierer - tattooist - marking his fellow inmates with their identification numbers, forever. ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD

  • West Like Lightning

    The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express

    by Jim DeFelice ...
    The #1 New York Times–bestselling coauthor of American Sniper details the history of the nineteenth-century express mail service that spanned the American west.On the eve of the Civil War, three American businessmen launched an audacious plan to create a financial empire by transforming communications across the hostile territory between the nation’s two coasts. In the process, they created one of ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kiss the Boys Goodbye

    How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs in Vietnam

    by Monika Jensen-Stevenson, William Stevenson ...
    The classic account of the abandonment of American POWs in Vietnam by the US government.For many Americans, the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan bring back painful memories of one issue in particular: American policy on the rescue of and negotiation for American prisoners. One current American POW of the Taliban, Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, stands as their symbol. Thousands of Vietnam veteran ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD $1.99 AUD