Mary Queen of Scots: Two Queens, One Future by John Guy
$26.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived a life of incredible drama and turmoil: crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months old, ...Show more
A Field Guide to the English Clergy - A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All Anglican, Some Even Practising by Fergus Butler-Gallie
$26.99 NZD
Category: History
Judge not, lest ye be judged. This timeless wisdom has guided the Anglican Church for hundreds of years, and has fostered a certain tolerance of eccentricity among its members. The Reverend Robert Hawker invented the Harvest Festival, but he also excommunicated a cat for mousing on Sundays. Bishop Lance ...Show more
Patriot or Traitor - The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh by Anna Beer
$36.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
A major historical biography: the dramatic, harrowing and contested story of Sir Walter RaleghVisionary or charlatan? Toy boy or Renaissance man? Sexual predator or devoted family figure? Patriot or traitor? Ralegh biographer Anna Beer sheds light on the contested final days of one of the most famous fi ...Show more
Memento Mori: What the Romans Can Tell Us about Old Age and Death by Peter Jones
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were already dealt with by our ancient ancestors two thousand years ago. Romans inhabited a world where man, k ...Show more
Seven Deadly Sins and One Very Naughty Fruit by Mikey Robins
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
A fascinating, funny and downright bizarre survey of culinary oddities by one of Australia’s most beloved comedians.In this irreverent romp through the history of food via the Seven Deadly Sins, Mikey Robins uncovers the most bizarre food-related stories of all time. From the Ancient Egyptians to the Ro ...Show more
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield
$38.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: 3 Biography
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 Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in.When Gustav ...Show more
Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain by Richard Davenport-Hines
$26.99 NZD
Category: History
What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others betrayed their country and what this cost Britain and its allies. E ...Show more
Princess Margaret : A Life of Contrasts by Christopher Warwick
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
One of the most controversial royal figures of the twentieth century, Princess Margaret was admired as well as vilified for most of her adult life. Described by the designer and hotelier, Anouska Hempel, as "Witty, wicked and wonderful," this charismatic princess not only brought colour and sex appeal i ...Show more
So Here I Am: Speeches by great women to empower and inspire by Anna Russell
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
Discover the inspiring female voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation. The first dedicated collection of speeches by women, So Here I Am brings together empowering orations from throughout history up to the present day. This is a celebration of women speaking up - within pol ...Show more
Long Shot: My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS by Azad Cudi; Alex Perry
$37.99 NZD
Category: History
As Syria imploded in civil war in 2011, Kurdish volunteers in the north rose up to free their homeland from centuries of repression and create a progressive sanctuary that they named Rojava. To the medievalists of ISIS, the emergence of a haven of tolerance and democracy on the frontier of their new cal ...Show more
Anatomy of a Genocide - The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz by Omer Bartov
$30.99 NZD
Category: History
"A substantive contribution to the history of ethnic strife and extreme violence" (The Wall Street Journal) and a cautionary examination of how genocide can take root at the local level--turning neighbors, friends, and family against one another--as seen through the eastern European border town of Bucza ...Show more
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward
$26.99 NZD
Category: History
The most devastating political detective story of the century: the inside account of the two Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate scandal. This is the book that changed America. Published just months before President Nixon's resignation, All the President's Men revealed the full scope of t ...Show more