Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean by Katherine Pangonis
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Katherine Pangonis explores five forgotten cities of the Mediterranean: Syracuse, Antioch, Ravenna, Tyre and Carthage. Each of these of these ancient cities has a claim to have been the centre of the world in its own time. Their fascinating entwined history takes in Alexander the Great, the Byzantine g ...Show more
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all n ...Show more
Viking Women: Life and Lore by Lisa Hannett
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Let's travel in time together, a thousand or so years back, and meet Viking women in their hearth-lit world.How did these medieval viragoes live, love and die? How can we encounter them as flesh-and-blood beings with fears and feelings - not just as names in sagas or runes carved into stone? In this gro ...Show more
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 by Fintan O'Toole
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The #1 Irish Times bestseller. WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards. 'A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes 'Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent' Colm Tóibín, Guardian 'With the pace and twists of an enthralling novel and the edge of a fine sword' Diarmaid Ferriter ...Show more
Whatever Happened to Ned Kelly's Head? by Eamon Evans
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Who stole the priceless Picasso from the NGV? Was Errol Flynn a Nazi spy? Did an Australian kill the infamous Red Baron? If you think Australia's history is straightforward, you're dead wrong. This is a land of the strange, the spooky and the unexplained. From the eerie ball of light that stalked a terr ...Show more
Woman's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi by Sarah Clegg
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The history of a demonic tradition that was stolen from women and then won back again.Demonic temptresses from siren-mermaids to Lilith are well known today, and their mythology focuses around the seductive danger they pose to men. But the root of these figures can be traced back 4,000 years and in thei ...Show more
World War I: The Definitive Visual History by DK
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
The ultimate guide to World War I A uniquely accessible military history of one of the world's most devastating conflicts Now revised and updated, World War I- The Definitive Visual Guide takes you from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the Treaty of Versailles. Experience some of ...Show more