The House: The Dramatic Story of the Sydney Opera House and the People Who Made It by Helen Pitt
$36.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
The best-loved building in Australia nearly didn't get off the drawing board. When it did, the lives of everyone involved in its construction were utterly changed: some for the better, many for the worse. Helen Pitt tells the stories of the people behind the magnificent white sails of the Sydney Opera H ...Show more
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller by Jeremy Dronfield
$28.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The boy is my greatest joy. We strengthen each other. We are one. Inseparable . . . If only we were free; but daily, hourly, death is before our eyes. In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germa ...Show more
The Restaurant - A History of Eating Out by William Sitwell
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
Tracing its earliest incarnations in the city of Pompeii, where Sitwell is stunned by the sophistication of the dining scene, this is a romp through history as we meet the characters and discover the events that shape the way we eat today. Sitwell, restaurant critic for The Telegraph and famous for his ...Show more
Orcadia - Lande, sea and stone in neolithic Orkney by Mark Edmonds
$24.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Orcadian archipelago is a museum of archaeological wonders. Its largest island, Mainland, is home to some of the oldest and best-preserved Neolithic sites in Europe, the most famous of which are the passage grave of Maeshowe, the megaliths of Stenness, the Ring of Brodgar and the village of Skara Br ...Show more
China in One Village: The History of One Town and the Future of theWorld by Liang Hong
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province. What she found was an extended family torn apart by the seismic changes in Chinese society, and a village ...Show more
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
$44.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
This is a profoundly original and entertaining history of France, from the first century bc to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and thirty years of exploring France on foot, by bicycle and in the library. Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and endi ...Show more
Prisoners of Time: Prussians, Germans and Other Humans by Christopher Clark
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
An intellectual tour de force: the major essays of the esteemed author of international bestseller The SleepwalkersChristopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers has become one of the most influential history books of our century: a remarkable rethinking of the origins of the First World War, which has had a huge ...Show more
Diana - The People's Princess (HB) by Nicholas Kirkwood
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
This updated edition of Diana: The People's Princess is a respectful, sensitive and poignant tribute to this elegant, charming and sympathetic symbol of our times.
The Tale of the Axe - How the Neolithic Revolution Transformed Britain by David Miles
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
Focusing on the British Isles, the author explores a period of huge societal change - the Neolithic, or 'New Stone Age' - through the most iconic artifact of its time: the polished stone axe, using an ancient stone axe-head brought to him by a local quarry worker as a guide to the revolution that change ...Show more
The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London by Erik Larson
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz--an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisisOne of Chicago Tribune's Best Books of the Year So Far ...Show more
Empire of Pain -The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
$39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The highly-anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing. The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions - Harvard; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Oxford; the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the w ...Show more
The Case of the Vanishing Blonde by Mark Bowden
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
From Mark Bowden, a "master of narrative journalism" (New York Times), comes a true-crime collection both deeply chilling and impossible to put down. Six captivating true-crime stories, spanning Mark Bowden's long and illustrious career, cover a variety of crimes complicated by extraordinary circumstanc ...Show more