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Elizabeth's Rival by Nicola Tallis
$20.00 AUD
Category: British History
Cousin to Elizabeth I (although it's likely that they were far closer than that) and grandniece to Anne Boleyn, Lettice Knollys was destined to be a prominent figure at court. But her life would be one of dizzying highs and pitiful lows - caught in a love triangle with Robert Dudley and Elizabeth I, ban ...Show more
Baghdad City of Peace, City of Blood--A History in Thirteen Centuries by Justin Marozzi
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
For much of its extraordinary life, Baghdad, known for centuries as the "City of Peace," enjoyed both cultural and commercial preeminence. For five centuries it was the seat of the Abbasid Empire, a marvel of glittering palaces, exquisite parks, magnificent mosques, and Islamic colleges. It was a city b ...Show more
The House of the Dead : Siberian Exile Under the Tsars by Daniel Beer
$20.00 AUD
Category: General
Winner of the Cundill History Prize A visceral, hundred-year history of the vast Russian penal colony. It was known as 'the vast prison without a roof.' From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than one million prisoners and their families ...Show more
The Burning Time - Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant Martyrs of London by Virginia Rounding
$25.00 AUD
Category: British History
Smithfield, settled on the fringes of Roman London, was once a place of revelry. Jesters and crowds flocked for the medieval St Bartholomew's Day celebrations, tournaments were plentiful and it became the location of London's most famous meat market. Yet in Tudor England, Smithfield had another, more si ...Show more
Willoughbyland Englands Lost Colony by Matthew Parker
$15.00 AUD
Category: British History
At the beginning of the 1650s, wrecked by plague and civil war, England was in ruins. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision of paradise called Willoughbyland.When Sir Walter Raleigh set out to South America to find the legendary city of El Dorado, he paved the way for an endless series of adventure ...Show more
Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. Born in England and emigrating to Qu ...Show more
How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain by Ruth Goodman
$25.00 AUD
Category: British History
Historian and popular TV presenter Ruth Goodman offers up a history of offensive language, insulting gestures, insolent behaviour, brawling and scandal in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - with practical tips on just how to horrify the neighbours. 'Ruth is the queen of living history - long may ...Show more
Columbus and The Conquest Of The Impossible by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$15.00 AUD
Category: American | Series: Phoenix Press Ser. | Reading Level: good
A highly readable and controversial portrait of a man driven by religion, influenced by mysticism, and, at best, a primitive navigator who barely knew how to use his ship's instruments. A pre-eminent historian calls into question earlier findings by himself and other scholars. With a new introduction an ...Show more
The Crown: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle and the Years That Defined Elizabeth II, 1956-1977 by Robert Lacey
$22.99 AUD
Category: British History
The fascinating royal and social history that inspired the second and third seasons of The Crown, from the show's historical consultant.
Cities of Gold: Obsession, Quixotic Quests, and Fantastic New World Wealth by Bill Yenne
$20.00 AUD
Category: General
The Exploration for Real and Mythical Treasures in the Americas. For half a millennium, stories of vast treasures El Dorado, Manoa, the Seven Cities of Cibola, the Lost Dutchman Mine have been part of the lore of the Americas. Long before the Europeans set foot in the New World, myths and rumors of fabu ...Show more
Rebel in the Ranks "Why Martin Luther and the Reformation Still Matters" by Brad S. Gregory
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
When Martin Luther published his 95 Theses in October 1517, he had no intention of starting a revolution. But very quickly his criticism of indulgences became a rejection of the papacy and the Catholic Church emphasizing the Bible as the sole authority for Christian faith, radicalizing a continent, fr ...Show more