Miss Muriel Matters by Robert Wainwright
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The Australian actress who became one of London's most famous suffragists. Discover the most inspiring woman you've never heard of ... In 1909, a young Australian actress made headlines around the world when she took to the sky over London in an airship emblazoned with the slogan 'Votes for Women' and d ...Show more
Thomas Cromwell: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
$69.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever greater offices, such that in the 1530s he was effectively running the ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots: Two Queens, One Future by John Guy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived a life of incredible drama and turmoil: crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months old, ...Show more
Questions I Am Asked about the Holocaust by Hedi Fried; Alice Olsson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer.' Hedi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their home in Eastern Europe and transported them to Auschwitz, where her parents were murdered and she and her sister were forced ...Show more
Einstein's War: How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World by Matthew Stanley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: 4 Science
The birth of a world-changing idea, relativity, and how it was shaped by the social upheaval and bloody horror of the First World War Einstein's ascent to worldwide celebrity was, in large part, not his own doing. It was because of two wars. The first was the Great War, the industrialized slaughter that ...Show more
Renia's Diary: A Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Renia Spiegel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
July 15, 1942, Wednesday Remember this day; remember it well. You will tell generations to come. Since 8 o'clock today we have been shut away in the ghetto. I live here now. The world is separated from me and I'm separated from the world. Renia is a young girl who dreams of becoming a poet. But Renia i ...Show more
The Greatest Escape: A gripping story of wartime courage and adventure by Neil Churches
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy In August 1944 the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took place - 106 Allied prisoners were freed from Maribor camp, in ...Show more
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper
$24.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
The story of a death, a policeman, an island and a country.The Tall Manis the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher Hu ...Show more
Dispatches by Michael Herr
$27.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Kevin Powers A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket. We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do ever ...Show more