Charles Ulm
Rick SearleRRP: £16.99
Charles Ulm and Charles Kingsford Smith were the original pioneers of Australian aviation. Together they succeeded in a number of record-breaking flights that made them instant celebrities in Australi …
Genre: History
Crew
Mike ColmanRRP: £14.99
On the evening of 24 February 1944, RAAF Lancaster bomber J for Jig took off from an airfield in Lincolnshire. On board was a crew of seven young men-five Australians, two Scots-whose mission was to b …
Histories of the Unexpected
Sam WillisRRP: £10.99
‘History as you’ve never seen it before.’ Dan Snow’A wonderful, eclectic and entertaining history of everything, full of fascinating, surprising stories.’ Suzannah LipscombDid you know that the histor …
The Jamestown Brides
Jennifer PotterRRP: £10.99
The extraordinary story of the British women who made the perilous journey to Jamestown, Virginia, to become wives for tobacco planters in the New Colony.In 1621, fifty-six English women crossed the A …
The Wanderer
Michael RidpathRRP: £8.99
From the million-copy bestselling author, perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson, Anne Holt, and The Killing.’Michael Ridpath is trouncing the Scandinavians on their home turf. This is international thrill …
Autumn in Venice
Andrea di RobilantRRP: £12.99
National Geographic Traveller’s the best books on European cities, 2019In the autumn of 1948 Hemingway was approaching fifty and hadn’t published a novel in nearly a decade. He travelled for the first …
Great Convict Stories
Graham SealRRP: £14.99
Graham Seal takes us back to Australia’s ignominious beginnings, when a hungry child could be transported to the other side of the globe for the theft of a handkerchief. It was a time when men were fl …
New World, Inc.
John ButmanRRP: £10.99
The thrilling story of the English merchant adventurers who changed the world.In the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small and relatively insignificant kingdom on the periphery of Europe, and it …
A Sacred Storm
Theodore BrunRRP: £8.99
Book II of the Wanderer Chronicles’A masterly debut… If Bernard Cornwall and George RR Martin had a lovechild, it would look like A Mighty Dawn. I devoured it late into the night, and eagerly await …
Code Breakers
Craig CollieRRP: £14.99
At the height of World War II in the Pacific, two secret organisations existed in Australia to break the Japanese military codes. They were peopled by brilliant and idiosyncratic cryptographers with a …
Imperial Twilight
Stephen R. PlattRRP: £14.99
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA Financial Times Book of the YearA Sunday Times Book of the Year ________________________________________’Entertaining and well-paced… Platt’s compelli …
The Weight of a Mustard Seed
Wendell SteavensonRRP: £20.00
This is the account of one family’s struggle to survive the iniquities of Saddam Hussein’s savage dictatorship. A proud man, father and soldier struggles to protect himself, and his family, from tyran …
Courage in the Skies
Jim EamesRRP: £16.99
This is a story of truly heroic deeds during the fall of Singapore, taking munitions and military personnel up and refugees back, of escape and subterfuge as crews prepared for these dangerous operati …
Hired
James BloodworthRRP: £10.99
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________The Times Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019The Times Best Current Affairs and Big Ideas Book of the Year, 2018’A very discomforting bo …
Red Star Over China
Edgar SnowRRP: £14.99
The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorised account of Mao’s life, as well as a history of the famous Long March …
Sufficiency Thinking
Harald BergsteinerRRP: £16.99
Our world is under pressure, with growing inequalities in wealth and access to food and clean water. We depend too heavily on polluting fuels and diminishing natural resources. Traditional cultural pr …
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