Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The lost legacy of Highclere Castle by Fiona Carnarvon
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowes's Emmy Award-winning PBS show, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants: Lady Almina, the fifth Countess of Carnarvon. Drawing on a rich store of materials ...Show more
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
A groundbreaking account of accidents, near-misses, extraordinary heroism and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: how do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them? Famed investigative journ ...Show more
Vikings by Neil Oliver
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their blood-thirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their story, which stretches from their Scandinavian origins to America in the west and as far as Baghdad in the east. ...Show more
Letters of Note - Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
$69.99 NZD
Category: Gift Books
Letters of Note is a collection of over one hundred of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name - an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people. From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter, to Q ...Show more
The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians by Janice Hadlow
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
An intensely moving account of George III's doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new history writer. George III came to the throne in 1760 as a man with a mission. He was determined to break with the extraordinarily dysfunctional hom ...Show more
At Home With the Soanes by Palmer Susan
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
The product of many years' research by Susan Palmer, archivist to Sir John Soane's Museum, At Home with the Soanes paints a detailed picture of the social and domestic life at Nos 12 & 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, in the early 19th century - how the buildings were heated, the servants' daily dut ...Show more
Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities by Albertus Seba; Irmgard Müsch
$39.99 NZD
$50.00 (20% off)
Category: History | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Spectacular specimens: Albertus Seba's unrivaled catalog of animals, insects and plants The Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time. Though scientists of his era often collected ...Show more
The Disinherited: A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal by Robert Sackville-West
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
In the small hours of the morning of 3 June 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. It was only when the identity of the couple was revealed in the English press a fortnight later that the full story emerged. The man, Henry Sackville-West, had shot himse ...Show more
The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti_Nazi by Paul Kix
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II--Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur--and his daring ex ...Show more
Man of Iron by Julian Glover
$21.99 NZD
Category: History
The enthralling Sunday Times-bestselling biography of the shepherd boy who changed the world with his revolutionary engineering and whose genius we still benefit from today Thomas Telford's name is familiar; his story less so. Born in 1757 in the Scottish Borders, his father died in his infancy, plungin ...Show more
Absolute Power : How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World by Paul Collins
$44.99 NZD
Category: History
The sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy, its most influential pontiffs, troubling doctrines, and rise in global authorityIn 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French armies. With cardinals scattered across ...Show more
Robert F. Kennedy Ripples of Hope by Kerry Kennedy
$44.99 NZD
Category: History
Kennedy shares personal remembrances of her father and through interviews with politicians, media personalities, celebrities and leaders, explores the influence that he continues to have on the issues at the heart of America's identity.