A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess Royal by Babette Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Traces their stories, presenting us with a patchwork image of individual lives that are both rich and varied, and often poignantly tragic. We encounter their despair at being parted from their families, their experience of assigned service in the colony, their marriages, for good or bad, and their oppor ...Show more
The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
As American astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the brave smiles of their wives. Overnight, these women were transformed from shy military spouses to American royalty: having tea with Jackie Kennedy, attending high society galas, and being featured on the co ...Show more
Shadows of the Workhouse (Call the Midwife #2) by Jennifer Worth
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the people she encountered. There's Jane, who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House - she was taken to the workhouse as a baby and was alleged ...Show more
The Bookseller Of Kabul: The International Bestseller - 'An intimate portrait of Afghani people quite unlike any other' SUNDAY TIMES by Asne Seierstad
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically braved persecution to bring books to the people of Kabul has elicited extraordinary praise throughout the world and become a phenomenal international bestseller. The Bookseller of Kabul is s ...Show more
Letter from Paris by Louisa Deasey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The letters, dated 1949, detail a passionate affair between Louisa's father, Denison, and Coralie's grandmother, Michelle, in post-war London. They spark Louisa to find out more about her father, who died when she was six. From the seemingly simple question 'Who was Denison Deasey?' follows a trail of d ...Show more
Letters from the Suitcase: A Wartime Love Story by Rosheen and Cal Finnigan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
THE LETTERS FROM THE SUITCASE reveals the vivid, poignant and hugely detailed wartime correspondence between David and Mary Francis from 1938 to 1943, and a unique love story, sure to appeal to readers of Roald Dahl's LOVE FROM BOY, Sheila Hancock's MISS CARTER's WAR or Helen Simonson's MAJOR PETTIGREW' ...Show more
The Windsor Diaries 1940-45 by Alathea Fitzalan Howard
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
The Windsor Diaries are the never-before-seen diaries of Alathea Fitzalan Howard, who lived alongside the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret at Windsor Castle during the Second World War. Alathea's home life was an unhappy one. Her parents had separated and so during the war she was sent to live wi ...Show more
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World by Laura Spinney
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I. In Pale ...Show more
Scott's Final Expedition by Scott Captain Robert Falcon
$49.95 AUD
Category: Historical
Scott of the Antarctic's amazing diary of the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition in which he perished along with Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans after reaching the South Pole behind Roald Amundsen. Scott's diary has been constantly in print since first publication in 1913 and ha ...Show more
Charles Bean by Ross Coulthart
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
On the eve of the centenary of Gallipoli, Ross Coulthart tells the real story of the iconic Australian war correspondent. CEW Bean's wartime reports and photographs mythologised the Australian soldier and helped spawn the notion that the Anzacs achieved something nation-defining on the shores of Gallipo ...Show more
I Want You To Know We're Still Here - My family, the holocaust and my search for truth by Esther Safran Foer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
A moving and powerful inter-generational memoir about story and memory. Mine is a family of readers and writers. Our house is filled with books. There are contemporary design books on the coffee table in the living room, legal books in my husband's home office, and piles of children's books for when my ...Show more
Elizabeth & Margaret - The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters by Andrew Morton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward VIII decided to abdicate the throne, the dynamic between Elizabeth and Margaret was dramatically altered. Forever more, Margaret would have to curtsey to the sister she called ‘Lillibet’. ...Show more