Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory by Patrick Bishop
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author, comes a heart-stopping countdown narrative recreating the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of the great and most dramatic hinge moments of WW2 From the Sunday Times-bestselling author, comes a heart-stopping countdown narrative recreating the liberation of Pari ...Show more
The Odd Couple: Re-configuring the America-Australia relationship by Allan Behm
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
America matters. Australia matters. They matter to each other. They matter to the world. Their institutional and structural alignments are deep and powerful. Americans believe in themselves. Australians believe in each other. They are mates. They are gregarious. Americans are single-minded and ambitious ...Show more
Madame Brussels: The Life and Times of Melbourne's Most Notorious Woman by Barbara Minchinton, Philip Bentley
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Madame Brussels, the most legendary brothel keeper in nineteenth-century Melbourne, is still remembered and celebrated today. But until now, little has been known about Caroline Hodgson, the woman behind the alter ego. Born in Prussia to a working-class family, Caroline arrived in Melbourne in 1871. Lef ...Show more
Growing Up Indian in Australia by Aarti Betigeri
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
'To be Indian growing up in Australia is to tread the narrow line between here and there, to constantly code-switch and navigate between filling the needs and aspirations of your family, your community - and yourself.' 'Indian-Australian' is not a one-size-fits-all descriptor. Given the depth and richne ...Show more
Alice ™: The biggest untold story in the history of money by Stuart Kells
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
In the 1980s and 90s, amid an explosion in international money flows, a handful of people saw a new financial future and staked claims in it, triggering a battle to control the world's money markets. With phenomenal profits at stake, the conflict would go all the way to the United States Supreme Court, ...Show more
Wed by the Wayside by Alana Valentine
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
The fascinating true story of Wayside Chapel in Kings Cross, Sydney a quiet revolution in Australian history, from a side street of the red-light district. Alana Valentine's mother, Janice, was married by the charismatic and controversial Methodist minister Ted Noffs at the Wayside Chapel in 1969. Not l ...Show more
How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History by Josephine Quinn
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Based on her own sweeping research, an award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing its innovations and traditions to societies from all over the world and making the case that we are, and always have been, a truly global culture. In How the World Ma ...Show more
The New Cold War: How the Contest Between the US and China Will Shape Our Century by Robin Niblett
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
An urgent and essential assessment of the global contest between the US and China, and how looking to history will help us to navigate it, from former Director of Chatham House
Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age by Norman Ohler
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
A brilliant and original investigation into the medical origins of LSD and how the Nazis and the CIA turned it into a weapon, by the author of Blitzed. First used as a drug capable of treating mental illnesses, then as a 'truth serum' by the CIA, Tripped reveals how the fortuitous discovery of LSD in A ...Show more
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women they Destroyed by Maureen Callahan
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kennedy Curse--the family's generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem. The Kennedy name has long been synonymous with wealth, power, glamor, and--above all else--integrity. But this carefully ...Show more
House Of Beckham by Bower, Tom
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
"As one of the world’s most famous and influential couples the Beckhams have attained iconic status. The ultimate power couple, David and Victoria have built a billion-dollar global empire through their carefully curated public image. Fans have been captivated for decades now by the glamorous world they ...Show more
Human?: A Lie That's Been Killing Us Since 1788 by Ziggy Ramo
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
So-called Australia is built upon a lie- that 97% of the population are human, and the others simply 'Indigenous', devoid of the same basic rights. Human? is the story of Ziggy Ramo's experience growing up under the weight of this lie. We've had 235 years of continued destruction in the name of 'civilis ...Show more