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The Spy Catchers

David Horner

For the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner tells the real story of Australia’s domestic intelligence organisation …

The Luck of the Irish

Babette Smith

RRP: £12.99

The luck of the Irish was chronic bad luck, as their sad history attests. That’s how it looked for 250 Irish convicts when their ship, the Hive, sank ignominiously off the New South Wales coast in 183 …

Australians Volume 3

Thomas Keneally

Australia emerged from WW1 into a decade of profound change, characterised by a revolution in behaviour amongst the young; by the first great age of consumerism; by the new and increasingly sophistica …

First Footprints

Scott Cane

RRP: £14.99

Some 60,000 years ago, a small group of people landed on Australia’s northern coast. They were the first oceanic mariners and this great southern land was their new home. Gigantic mammals roamed the p …

Victoria

A. N. Wilson

RRP: £14.99

The first comprehensively researched biography of Queen Victoria ever, by one of Britain’s best biographers. This magnificent biography sheds new light on Victoria not just as a queen, but as a woman.

Tales of Two Cities

Jonathan Conlin

RRP: £9.99

Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when they both vied to be the world’s greatest city. Each city has been the foc …

Lawrence in Arabia

Scott Anderson

RRP: £16.99

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 2014New York Times top ten bestseller 2014Amazon.com’s Top Ten History Books of the Year 2014New York Times Book of the Year 2014The Arab Revolt against the Turks i …

The Baby Farmers

Annie Cossins

RRP: £12.99

‘The book’s power stems from its devastating details; Cossins establishes a tone so vivid it’s reminiscent of Dickens.’ Publishers Weekly starred reviewIn October 1892, a one-month-old baby boy was fo …

The Reporter and the Warlords

Craig Collie

RRP: £14.99

Set against the turbulent background of China in the first half of the 20th Century, this reads like a romantic novel; but it’s a true story. The reporter is the intrepid Australian journalist Will Do …

Blood, Class and Empire

Christopher Hitchens

RRP: £12.99

Christopher Hitchens’ iconclastic collection is the perfect companion to US-UK relations by the greatest Anglo-American writer of his generation.Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have be …

Unholy Joy: 50 Years On – A Short History of the Profumo Affair

John Lawton

Named after John Profumo, Secretary of State for War, the Profumo Affair was the biggest British political scandal of 1963. His affair with Christine Keeler, the reputed mistress of an alleged Soviet …

Bang!

Graham Stewart

RRP: £20.00

‘Graham Stewart has done a terrific job. His book brings the decade vividly to life and convincingly places it in perspective… Excellent’ — Toby Young, Mail on SundayBritain in the 1980s was a pola …

The Battle

Alessandro Barbero

RRP: £12.99

A vivid and original reconstruction of the Battle of Waterloo.On the afternoon of 1 March, 1815, a fleet of ships dropped anchor off the southeast coast of France. After ten months in exile on the isl …

Private Journal of a Voyage to Australia

James Bell

On 19 November 1838 James Bell, then aged 21, set out in the sailing vessel the Planter from St Katharine Docks in London to travel to Adelaide, an infant colony half a world away and not yet two year …

A Japanese Mirror

Ian Buruma

RRP: £12.99

In this scintillating book, Ian Buruma peels away the myths that surround Japanese culture. With piercing analysis of cinema, theatre, television, art and legend, he shows the Japanese both ‘as they i …

Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

Stephen R. Platt

RRP: £17.99

In the early 1850s, during the waning years of the Qing dynasty, word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces. The leader of the this movement – who called themselves the Taiping – was H …

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