The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World. The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia's under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it. Major religions that rose to dominate Earth's largest con ...Show more
Flinders by Grantlee Kieza
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map In 1810, Matthew Flinders made his final voyage home to his beloved wife, Ann, his body ravaged by the deprivations of years of imprisonment by the French. Four years later, at the age of just 40, he would be dead - a pre ...Show more
Charles Todd’s Magnificent Obsession: The Epic Race to Connect Australia to the World by David Dufty
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The construction of the Overland Telegraph in 1870 is an extraordinary feat of engineering and a wild gamble that nearly went terribly wrong. It was the greatest feat of engineering in nineteenth century Australia, but it very nearly collapsed in the face of monumental obstacles. The year was 1870, and ...Show more
Lebanon Days by Theodore Ell
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A captivating memoir that unravels the emotional struggles of a nation the world has long overlooked. Through the eyes of an outsider, this story takes a deep dive into the intimate details of Lebanon's hardships, providing a profound understanding of its people and their journey. 'An astonishing piec ...Show more
Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'Extraordinary ... a deliciously varied tapestry of detail drawn from across nearly three centuries' Telegraph What was it really like to rule and be ru ...Show more
George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Shaped the Monarchy by Sally Bedell Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A revelatory account of how King George VI and Elizabeth's marriage unexpectedly saved the monarchy. Granted special access by Queen Elizabeth II to her parents' letters and diaries and those of their close friends and family, Sally Bedell Smith brings the love story of this iconic royal couple to life ...Show more
To the City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul by Alexander Christie-Miller
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
This is a meditation on the soul of Istanbul, a paean to its resilience and fortitude. Walk with Alexander Christie-Miller and see the danger, beauty and hope. Caught between two seas and two continents, with a contested past and an imperiled future, Istanbul represents the precipitous moment civilizat ...Show more
A Brief History of Feminism by Patu, Antje Schrupp
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
An engaging illustrated history of feminism from antiquity through third-wave feminism, featuring Sappho, Mary Magdalene, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojourner Truth, Simone de Beauvoir, and many others. The history of feminism? The right to vote, Susan B. Anthony, Gloria Steinem, white pantsuits? Oh, but the ...Show more
Madame Brussels: The Life and Times of Melbourne's Most Notorious Woman by Barbara Minchinton, Philip Bentley
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
Madame Brussels, the most legendary brothel keeper in nineteenth-century Melbourne, is still remembered and celebrated today. But until now, little has been known about Caroline Hodgson, the woman behind the alter ego. Born in Prussia to a working-class family, Caroline arrived in Melbourne in 1871. Le ...Show more
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A Sunday Times, Observer and Waterstones Best Book of 2024 This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures. It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the fact ...Show more
Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism by Sebastian Smee
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
Impressionism--its dramatic depiction of light, its lovely evocation of the transience of everything--remains wildly popular. Crowds flock to exhibitions by its greatest artists--Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro. But as Sebastian Smee show ...Show more
The Missing Thread by Daisy Dunn
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Spanning 3,000 years, from the birth of Minoan Crete to the death of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in Rome, a magisterial new history of the ancient world told, for the very first time, through women. For centuries, men have been writing histories of antiquity filled with warlords, emperors and kings. But ...Show more