A History of Magic, Witchcraft and the Occult by DK
$42.99 AUD
Category: History
Discover the beguiling history of witchcraft, magic, and superstition through the centuries in this stunningly illustrated title. A History of Magic, Witchcraft and the Occult charts the extraordinary narrative of one of the most interesting and often controversial subjects in the world, covering everyt ...Show more
The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities by Violet Moller
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
'An epic treasure hunt into the highways and byways of stored knowledge across faiths and continents.' John Agard, poet and playwrightIn The Map of Knowledge Violet Moller traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity - Euclid, Galen and Ptolemy - through seven c ...Show more
Songspirals: Sharing women's wisdom of Country through songlines by Gay'wu Group of Women, Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, Djawundil Maymuru, Sarah Wright, Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Kate Lloyd
$34.99 AUD
Category: First Nations Voices
Joint winner of the 2020 Prime Minister's Award for Non-Fiction.Shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier's Award for Non-Fiction.2'We want you to come with us on our journey, our journey of songspirals. Songspirals are the essence of people in this land, the essence of every clan. We belong to the lan ...Show more
Midnight in Chernobyl - The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
--THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER-- 'An invaluable contribution to history.' Serhii Plokhy, Evening Standard'Tells the story of the disaster and its gruesome aftermath with thriller-like flair. Midnight in Chernobyl is wonderful and chilling ... written with skill and passion.' Luke Harding, The Observer ...Show more
Banjo by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The remarkable life of Australia's greatest storyteller A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson is rightly recognised as Australia's greatest storyteller and most celebrated poet, the boy from the bush who became the voice of a generation. He gave the nation its unofficial national anthem 'Waltzing Matilda' and treas ...Show more
Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruder ...Show more
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The best true spy story I have ever read."--JOHN LE CARR The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. I ...Show more
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
"A wonderful story... It has all the ingredients of one of Patrick McGrath's icily stylish novels: madness, violence, arcane obsessions, weird learning, ghastly comedy" - John Banville, Literary Review. Two distinguished-looking Victorians, both learned and serious, yet from very different worlds: one a ...Show more
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
$32.99 AUD
Category: First Nations Voices | Series: Growing Up
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile ...Show more
True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
First there was Girt. Now comes . . . True GirtIn this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous indigenous people, Caroline Chi ...Show more
Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Winner, 2014 Indie Award for Non-Fiction 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 Eureka moments that have m ...Show more
A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich
$22.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Little Histories | Reading Level: very good
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, twenty-six-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to imme ...Show more