The Voyage Home (Women of Troy #3) by Pat Barker
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
After ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their ships with the spoils of battle. Alongside the treasures looted are the many Trojan women captured by the Greeks - among them the legendary prophetess Cassandra, and her watchful maid, Ritsa. E ...Show more
The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
London, 1944.Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country's only underground library, built over the tracks in the disused Bethnal Green tube station. Down here a secret community thrives: with thousands of bunk beds, a nursery, a ca ...Show more
Girt - The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
$45.99 AUD
Category: History
Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia . . . Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia . . . In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie - the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eure ...Show more
The Silver City by Ion Idriess
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Broken Hill in the early 1900s was a hell on earth. In his 1956 book The Silver City, which draws on his childhood experiences in Broken Hill, he produces some of his most evocative writing to describe it: Flies and dust and isolation, the deadening feeling that no-one else in the world knew or cared wh ...Show more
Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story by Michael Rosen
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
From minding your Ps and Qs to wondering why X should mark the spot, Alphabetical is a book for everyone who loves words and language. Whether it's how letters are arranged on keyboards or Viking runes, textspeak or zip codes, this book will change the way you think about letters for ever. How on Earth ...Show more
Why Weren't We Told? by Henry Reynolds
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Historian Henry Reynolds has found himself being asked these questions by many people, over many years, in all parts of Australia. The acclaimed Why Weren't We Told?is a frank account of his personal journal towards the realisation that he, like generations of Australians, grew up with a distorted and i ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words: Over a million copies sold by Pip Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good-near fine
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
Edenglassie: Longlisted for the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award by Melissa Lucashenko
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with ...Show more
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte
$21.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: 4 Science
66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth. Today a new generation of dinosaur hunters, armed with cutting edge technology, is piecing together the complete story of how the dinosaurs created a hugely successful empire that lasted for around 150 million years.In this hugely ...Show more
What Would Frida Do? - A Guide to Living Boldly by Arianna Davis
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Having doubts about your next step? Ask yourself what artist Frida Kahlo would do in this "beautiful volume . . . sure to inspire" (Boston Globe). NAMED A BEST GIFT BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: Instyle, Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Esquire, Boston Globe, and Redbook Revered as much for her fierce spir ...Show more