Charles Bean's Gallipoli
Phillip BradleyCharles Bean and Gallipoli are forever closely bound. Serving as the official Australian war correspondent from the landing to the evacuation, Charles Bean was able to dedicate his days and nights to …
Genre: History
Flight Command
John OddieRRP: £14.99
As a farm boy in western Victoria, John Oddie would watch RAAF jets pass overhead as he ploughed hay fields, wondering what it would be like to fly such a machine. Thirty-five years later – having flo …
Broken Nation
Joan BeaumontRRP: £16.99
The Great War is, for many Australians, the event that defined that nation. The larrikin diggers, trench warfare, and the landing at Gallipoli have become the stuff of the Anzac ‘legend’. But it was a …
The Forgotten General
Jock VennellRRP: £9.99
The Forgotten General highlights the courage, intelligence and determination of an exceptional New Zealander. Major-General Sir Andrew Russell was a distinguished soldier and a dedicated leader of men …
The Luck of the Irish
Babette SmithRRP: £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 …
The Nullarbor Kid
Ray GillelandRRP: £9.99
‘If you had worked with them, if you had driven with them, if you had had a drink with them, if you had helped them when broken down, you would have been proud to be one of them and called them mates. …
Thunder Run
David ZucchinoRRP: £7.99
Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second (‘Tusker’) Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghda …
Australians Volume 3
Thomas KeneallyAustralia 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 …
This Divided Island
Samanth SubramanianRRP: £12.99
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2016In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed, bringing to a bloody end the stu …
First Footprints
Scott CaneRRP: £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 …
Prepared for the Worst
Christopher HitchensRRP: £25.00
‘I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive’ — Christopher HitchensChristopher Hitchens is widely recognized as hav …
Unacknowledged Legislation
Christopher HitchensRRP: £25.00
A celebration of writers and their encounters with politics and public life from one of our greatest critics.Unacknowledged Legislation is a celebration of Percy Shelley’s assertion that ‘poets are th …
Havel
Michael ZantovskyRRP: £20.00
This startling biography explores the remarkable life of an iconic figure of the twentieth century, Václav Havel, author and dissident, who became the first president of the Czech Republic.Vaclav Have …
The Magic Lantern
Timothy Garton AshRRP: £12.99
The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by an author who was witness to some of the most remarkable moments that marked the collapse of Communism in Ea …
The Pyramids
Miroslav VernerRRP: £12.99
How did a people who lived nearly five thousand years ago, who knew neither iron nor bronze and who lacked mastery of elementary rules of calculation, manage to construct enormous stone structures wit …
God and Gold
Walter Russell MeadRRP: £10.99
Economist Books of the Year, 2007 Financial Times Books of the Year, 2007God and Gold is a brilliantly stimulating and provocative look at why, for over 300 years, the Anglo-Saxon powers have dominate …
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