Thomas Cromwell The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant by Tracy Borman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Story of Henry VIII's most faithful servant
'This deeply researched and grippingly written biography brings Cromwell to life and exposes the Henrician court in all its brutal, glittering splendour.' Kate Williams, Independent Thomas Cromwell's life has made gripping reading for millions through Hilary Mantel's bestselling novels Wolf Hall and ...Show more
Sophia : Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, a realm that stretched from the lush Kashmir Valley to the craggy foothills of the Khyber Pass and included the mighty cities of Lahore and Peshawar. It was a territory irresistib ...Show more
William III & Mary II: Partners in Revolution by Jonathan Keates
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Penguin Monarchs
William III (1689-1702) & Mary II (1689-94) (Britain's only ever 'joint monarchs') changed the course of the entire country's history, coming to power through a coup (which involved Mary betraying her own father), reestablishing parliament on a new footing and, through commiting Britain to fighting ...Show more
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot. Who were these men and how wa ...Show more
The May Beetles - My First Twenty Years by Baba Schwartz
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Baba Schwartz's story began before the Holocaust could have been imagined. As a spirited girl in a warm and loving Jewish family, she lived a normal life in a small town in eastern Hungary. In "The May Beetles," Baba describes the innocence and excitement of her childhood, remembering her early years wi ...Show more
Valiant for Truth : The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondant by Peter Brune; Neil McDonald
$49.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Chester Wilmot (1911-1954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent, broadcaster, journalist and writer. Covering the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobruk and Derna, the heartbreaking disaster of the Greek Campaign, the epic struggle along the famed Kokoda Track, the momentous amp ...Show more
Victoria: A Life (TV Tie-in) by A. N. Wilson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
This magnificent biography is the primary source material for an upcoming major ITV series of Victoria's life. When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her ...Show more
No Place to Lay One's Head: With a Preface from Patrick Modiano by Francoise Frenkel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A bitter, beautiful and important bookRobert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENTThe French sensation, now in English translation.Fran oise Frenkel was a Jewish woman born in Poland and enamoured of all things literary and French. In 1921 she set up the first French-language bookshop in Berlin, recognising the craving ...Show more
True Story of the Great Escape: A Young Australian POW in the Most Audacious Breakout of WWII by Louise Williams
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Shot down in 1942, young Australian fighter pilot John Williams DFC became a POW in the notorious Stalag Luft III camp in Germany. John had joined the air force shortly before the outbreak of war and, in the larrikin tradition, led his squadron into air combat over the deserts of Libya and Egypt dressed ...Show more
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: good-very good
The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award--winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isa ...Show more
Being Here: The Life of Paula Modhersohn-Becker by Marie Darrieussecq
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Born in Germany in 1876, Paula Modersohn-Becker was the first female artist to paint herself not only naked but pregnant. Being Here is a moving account of the life of this ground-breaking Expressionist painter, by the acclaimed French writer Marie Darrieussecq. As her art evolves, Paula is torn between ...Show more
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014's Unbroken and the upcoming Unbroken: Path to Redemption. In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into run ...Show more