Elizabeth II: The Steadfast by Rt. Hon Lord Douglas Hurd
$24.99 AUD
Category: British | Series: Penguin Monarchs
Just as this book is being published, Elizabeth II will become the longest-serving monarch who ever sat on the English or British throne. Yet her personality and influence remain elusive. This book, by a senior politician who has spent significant periods of time in her company, and is also a distinguis ...Show more
Eamon de Valera: A Will to Power by Ronan Fanning
$39.99 AUD
Category: British
Eamon de Valera is the most remarkable man in the history of modern Ireland. Much as Churchill personified British resistance to Hitler and de Gaulle personified the freedom of France, de Valera personified Irish independence. From his emergence in the aftermath of the 1916 rebellion as the republican l ...Show more
Tales from the Dead-House: A Collection of Macabre True Crimes by Richard Whittington-Egan
$42.95 AUD
$45.00 (4% off)
Category: British
Macabre crimes have long fascinated us as people, and our murky past ensures that we have no shortage of tales to chill and entertain in equal measure. From Jack the Ripper to John George Haigh, from Dr Crippen to Dr Shipman, history is riddled with examples of the darkest examples of human nature. In t ...Show more
The Special Relationship: Australia and the Monarchy by David Hill
$22.99 AUD
Category: British
Australia and the British monarchy have always made for an odd couple: the young, rebellious, egalitarian nation wed to the ancient symbol of colonial power. How have the royals come to be as popular now as they ever were? David Hill tells the story of this relationship from the beginning. Many historie ...Show more
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: The Great Democracies: Volume IV by Sir Winston S. Churchill
$32.99 AUD
Category: British | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire tho ...Show more
Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
$26.99 AUD
Category: British
This is a special 75th Anniversary Edition. Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk. Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would ne ...Show more
Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets (#4) by Alison Weir
$32.99 AUD
Category: British | Series: Six Tudor Queens Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
'This six-book series looks likely to become a landmark in historical fiction' The Times Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times bestsellers KATHERINE OF ARAGON: THE TRUE QUEEN, ANNE BOLEYN: A KING'S OBSESSION and JANE SEYMOUR:THE HAUNTED QUEEN, paints a spellbinding portrait of Anna of Kl ...Show more
Queens of the Crusades - Eleanor of Aquitaine and Her Successors 1154-1291 by Alison Weir
$35.00 AUD
Category: British | Series: England's Medieval Queens | Reading Level: near fine
The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens, queens in battle, queens who enlivened England with the romantic culture of southern Europe - these determined ...Show more
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors by Alison Weir
$24.99 AUD
Category: British | Series: England's Medieval Queens Ser.
The next volume in Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of Medieval England - including the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, the subject of Alison's most successful book. The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens ...Show more
The Royal Art of Poison - Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicines and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman
$32.99 AUD
Category: British
The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, the royal families of Western Europe have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns and antidotes tested on condemned priso ...Show more
Elizabeth's Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen's Court by Anna Whitelock
$19.99 AUD
Category: British
Elizabeth I acceded to the throne in 1558, restoring the Protestant faith to England. At the heart of the new queen's court lay Elizabeth's bedchamber, closely guarded by the favoured women who helped her dress, looked after her jewels and shared her bed. Elizabeth's private life was of public, politica ...Show more