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Genre: History

Missing in Action

Marianne van Velzen

RRP: £14.99

By the end of World War I, 45,000 Australians had died on the Western Front. Some bodies had been hastily buried mid-battle in massed graves; others were mutilated beyond recognition. Often men were s …

The Animal's Companion

Jacky Colliss Harvey

RRP: £14.99

The earliest evidence of a human and a pet can be traced as far back as 26,000 BC in France where a boy and his ‘canid’ took a walk through a cave. Their foot and paw prints were preserved together on …

The Hidden Horticulturalists

Fiona Davison

In 2012, whilst working at the Royal Horticultural Society’s library, Fiona Davison unearthed a collection of handwritten letters that dated back to 1822. The letters, each carefully set out in neat c …

A Tokyo Romance

Ian Buruma

RRP: £8.99

‘The whole thing sparks astonishingly to life’ ObserverWhen Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo as a young film student in 1975, he found a feverish and surreal metropolis in the midst of an economic boom, wh …

Spearhead

Adam Makos

RRP: £12.99

The New York Times Bestseller’Brilliant… Gripping’ Wall Street JournalFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story of an American tank gunner’s jou …

In A Time Of Monsters

Emma Sky

RRP: £11.99

Returning to the UK in September 2010 after serving in Iraq as the political adviser to the top American general, Emma Sky felt no sense of homecoming. She soon found herself back in the Middle East t …

The Attachment

Ailsa Piper

RRP: £14.99

Dear Ailsa, Sometimes I wonder whether the friendship that has caught us both – a most unlikely friendship I must confess – might find an echo in a far off Irish village somewhere in the wild, windy h …

The Phoenix Years

Madeleine O'Dea

RRP: £16.99

The transformation of modern China told through the eyes of its dissident artists and writers.The Phoenix Years tells the riveting story of China’s rise from economic ruin to global giant in the four …

Emperor of Rome

Robert Fabbri

RRP: £9.99

THE EXPLOSIVELY GRIPPING, 300,000 COPY BESTSELLING ROMAN EPIC SERIES, PERFECT FOR FANS OF GLADIATORRome, AD 68. Vespasian is tasked with the impossible. Should he quell the revolt in Judaea, as Nero t …

Freedom Fighter

Joanna Palani

RRP: £9.99

The gripping story of one woman’s war against ISIS on the frontlines of Syria.Joanna Palani made headlines across the world when her role fighting ISIS in the Syrian conflict was revealed. She is one …

Australia's First Spies

John Fahey

RRP: £16.99

Australia was born with its eyes wide open. Although politicians spoke publicly of loyalty to Britain and the empire, in secret they immediately set about protecting Australia’s interests from the Ger …

The House

Helen Pitt

RRP: £14.99

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 wo …

A Dangerous Method

John Kerr

RRP: £30.00

Now a Major Motion Picture by legendary director David Cronenberg starring Viggo Mortensen, Kiera Knightley and Michael Fassbender.In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be …

It's All a Game

Tristan Donovan

RRP: £10.99

Board games have been with us longer than even the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate us well into the age of smartphones and instant gratification?In It’s All …

Strayapedia

Dominic Knight

RRP: £14.99

Patriotically basted in the goon trough of Australian values, this book is as fundamentally Strayan as bowling your final over underarm, not asking awkward questions about what’s in your meat pie, and …

Top Dog

Jens Lapidus

RRP: £7.99

Now a major Swedish TV series, with plans to bring it to UK audiences.For decades, a secret network in Stockholm has been exploiting young girls, ruthlessly eliminating anyone who threatens to reveal …

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