Quid Pro Quo

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Did you know that the word ‘prestige’ derives from the Latin word for ‘illusion’? Or that ‘infantry’ stems from a Latin word meaning one who could not speak? In this original and highly entertaining b …

The Convict's Daughter

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One wet autumn evening in 1848, fifteen-year-old Mary Ann Gill stole out of a bedroom window in her father’s Sydney hotel and took a coach to a local racecourse. There she was to elope with James Butl …

1941

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In 1941: Fighting the Shadow War, Marc Wortman thrillingly explores the little-known history of America’s clandestine involvement in World War II before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Prior to that infam …

Paris Undressed

French women seem inherently more confident in their bodies, able to embrace the sensuality of life and love. What’s their secret? Lingerie.Yet, despite an insatiable curiosity for all things French, …

The Memory Code

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In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, identify the stars in the sky and recite the …

The Ambitions of Jane Franklin

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In a period when most ladies sat at home with their embroidery, Jane Franklin achieved fame throughout the western world.Alison Alexander traces the life of this inimitable woman, from her birth in la …

White Trash

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The New York Times BestsellerA ground-breaking history of the class system in America, which challenges popular myths about equality in the land of opportunity.In this landmark book, Nancy Isenberg ar …

Hunter Killer

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We are too close. We know too much, and when it is time to shoot, we can zoom in until the target fills the screen.Drones, or remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), are a mysterious and headline-making tool …

Sheila

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Vivacious, confident and striking, young Australian Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Lord Loughborough, in Egypt during the First World War. Arriving in London as a young married woman, she quic …

The Emperor's Shadow

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After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, he was sent into exile on St Helena, arriving in October 1815. For the six years until his death, he was an ‘eagle in a cage’, reduced from the m …

The Amazing Mrs Livesey

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An attractive young woman from a respectable middle-class family in Manchester, Ethel Livesey had over forty aliases, eight official marriages, four children and five divorces at a time when divorce w …

Call of the Outback

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Long before Robyn Davidson wrote Tracks, the extraordinary Ernestine Hill was renowned for her intrepid travels across Australia’s vast outback.After the birth of her illegitimate son, Ernestine Hill …

England

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Despite a thousand years of glorious history, the people of England know surprisingly little of the facts and fables, people and places and events and emblems that have shaped their country and its he …

Scotland

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A compact cornucopia of fascinating and hilarious revelations about all things Scottish – from monarchs and malts to tartans and Taggart.As the proud possessors of a fiercely independent creative heri …

Stone Cold

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‘If I’d have been a Vietcong you’d be dead.’ Len OpieThrough three wars across thirty years, Len Opie carved a reputation as one of Australia’s greatest infantrymen. A cold-eyed killer who drank nothi …

The Earth is Weeping

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Sunday Times’ Best History Books of 2017Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military HistoryWinner of the 2017 Caroline Bancroft History PrizeShortlisted for the Military History Magazine Book of t …