My Story (Julia Gillard) by Julia Gillard
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
'I was prime minister for three years and three days.Three years and three days of resilience.Three years and three days of changing the nation.Three years and three days for you to judge.' On Wednesday 23 June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a lea ...Show more
Collins Very First French Dictionary by Collins Dictionaries
$14.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Series: Collins First
An ideal first French dictionary for kids aged 6 and above, designed to introduce French vocabulary to children in a fun, easy and memorable way. This dictionary introduces children to their first 500 French words with colourful illustrations and example sentences to help children remember words and tra ...Show more
Triumph and Demise The broken promise of a Labor generation by Paul Kelly
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Triumph and Demise is the inside account of the hopes, achievements and bitter failures of the Labor Government from 2007 to 2013. Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard came together, defeated John Howard, formed a brilliant partnership and raised the hopes of a nation, yet fell into disagreements, tensions and ...Show more
Australia's Few and the Battle of Britain by Kristen Alexander
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Jack Kennedy (Sydney), Stuart Walch (Hobart), Dick Glyde (Perth), Ken Holland (Sydney), Pat Hughes (Cooma and Sydney), Bill Millington (Adelaide), John Crossman (Newcastle) and Des Sheen (Canberra): eight Australian Spitfire and Hurricane pilots of the Battle of Britain. Only one survived. During the su ...Show more
The Secrets of Italy: People, Places, and Hidden Histories by Corrado Augias
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
There is Michelangelo, but also the mafia. Pavarotti, but also Berlusconi. The debonair Milanese, but also the infamous captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship. This is Italy, admired and reviled, a country that has guarded her secrets and confounded outsiders for centuries. At a time when this Itali ...Show more
Medieval People: Vivid Lives in a Distant Landscape by Michael Prestwich
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
This engrossing and often witty account tells the life stories of some 70 individuals who made the Middle Ages. There are kings and queens, popes and politicians, soldiers and merchants, scholars, authors and visionaries. They range from the important, such as El Cid or Frederick Barbarossa, to the litt ...Show more
Ten Cities That Made an Empire by Tristram Hunt
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a new approach to Britain's imperial past through the cities that epitomised itSince the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and the end days of Empire, Britain's co ...Show more
Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648: Bk. 5: Europe 1500-1650 by Mark Greengrass
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
This latest addition to the landmark Penguin History of Europe series is a compelling, authoritative portrayal of a divided Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Mark Greengrass brilliantly conveys the fundamental changes that led to the collapse of Christendom and established the geographi ...Show more
The First Family Detail: Behind the Scenes with Secret Service Agents by Ronald Kessler
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Since publication of his "New York Times "bestselling book" In the President's Secret Service, "award-winning investigative reporter Ronald Kessler has continued to penetrate the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, breaking the story that Secret Service agents who were to protect Pre ...Show more
See Under the Sea (Usborne Lift-the-Flap Board Book) by Kate Daynes
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Series: Usborne See Inside
Dive down and discover the secrets of the seven seas to reveal the hidden secrets of the briny deep. This book is full of colourful scenes with information on different underwater habitats from coral reefs to arctic ice flows to the dark deeps of the ocean trenches as well as fantastic facts on tsunamis ...Show more
Hundred Days: The End of the Great War by Nick Lloyd
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Nick Lloyd's Hundred Days: The End of the Great War explores the brutal, heroic and extraordinary final days of the First World War. On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in November 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent. The Armistice, which brought the Great War to an end, marked a semina ...Show more