The Wager by David Grann
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on t ...Show more
Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson by Ferdinand Mount
$54.99 NZD
Category: History
Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it's become a strangely neglected subject. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall.There is a c ...Show more
The Haunting of Borley Rectory - The Story of a Ghost Story by Sean O'Connor
$26.99 NZD
Category: History
Marianne Foyster, Harry Price and the most haunted house in England - the perfect read for Halloween. 'Borley Rectory is perhaps the definition of an old haunt, still exerting an extraordinary grip on the popular imagination... Balanced, surprising and strangely moving' Mark Gatiss In 1928, Eric and Ma ...Show more
In Search of Berlin: The Story of a Reinvented City by John Kampfner
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
No other city has had so many lives, survived so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin. Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It is a place tortured by its past, obses ...Show more
Love; A Curious History by Edward Brooke-Hitching
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
From the author of the critically acclaimed The Phantom Atlas and The Madman’s Library (Sunday Times Literature Book of the Year) comes a magnificent new illustrated work. From prehistoric carvings and ancient Egyptian statues, to medieval spell books and Victorian code-writing, this unique collection ...Show more
Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima by Serhii Plokhy
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
Baillie-Gifford award-winner Serhii Plokhy's illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear disastersIn 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. In the following days, explosions would rip buildings apart, three reactors would go ...Show more
A History of Britain in Just a Minute by Gyles Brandreth
$48.00 NZD
Category: History
The story of us - without hesitation, repetition or deviation. What does Rumpelstiltskin have to do with the princes in the tower? What is so special about the year 1776? How many Harry Potters does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Join national treasure and Just a Minute regular Gyles Brandreth on a hi ...Show more
Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit And Double Measures Of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother by Gareth Russell
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022 This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out. When told that Lady Mountbatten was being buried at sea, the Queen Mother replied cheerfully. ‘Dear old Edwina, she always did like to make a splash!’ During her lifetime, ...Show more
The Palace by Gareth Russell
$59.99 NZD
Category: History
'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts' PHILIPPA GREGORYFor centuries, Hampton Court has been a place of power, scandal and in ...Show more
Wolves of Winter by Dan Jones
$36.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Essex Dogs Trilogy Ser.
For the Dogs, the war has only just begun. Caught up in the siege of Calais, in the midst of a brutal eleven-month blockade of a small port on the French coast, they are no longer blindly walking into the unknown. But the men still have more questions than answers about what faces them and why. What ar ...Show more
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of historyThe modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless conte ...Show more
Queens of the Age of Chivalry by Alison Weir
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
The third volume of Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of medieval England.'Weir's history books are as gripping as novels' The TimesMedieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies - yet, as Alison Weir shows in this group biography, many of the Plantagenet queens of the High Middle Age ...Show more