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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARITIME MEDIA AWARDS 2014A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind’s relationship with the sea.An accomplishment …
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‘All I could do was prod the earth with my bayonet and shine the light to see if I could find anything. It doesn’t matter how small the tunnel is you never know what’s around the bend … You don’t kn …
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A hilarious look at the aging baby boomer generation from the author the Spectator labelled ‘what happens when America does Grumpy Old Men’.The Baby Boom – over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and al …
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Alexander the Great rests in Babylon as he decides which should be his next world to conquer. A war elephant, Colossus, disturbs the peace of the camp when he is provoked to a killing rampage. Only on …
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In the Spring of 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since the Second World War to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist, …
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 SPEARS BOOK AWARDS – FAMILY HISTORY CATEGORYEmpty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of nineteenth-century America with a twenty …
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For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of theroad, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives w …
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Christian Wolmar expertly tells the story of the Trans-Siberian railway from its conception and construction under Tsar Alexander III, to the northern extension ordered by Brezhnev and its current suc …
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In this book Steven Parissien examines the impact, development and significance of the automobile over its turbulent and colourful 130-year history. He tells the story of the auto, and of its creators …
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In the tradition of the best writing on human behaviour and moral choices in the face of disaster, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at New Orleans’ Memorial Medical Center duri …
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Stephen Trombley’s A History of Western Thought, outlines the 2,500-year history of European ideas from the philosophers of Classical Antiquity to the thinkers of today.No major representative of any …
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Soraya was a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honour of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, “the Guide,” on a visit he was making the following week. Thi …
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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE GARDEN MEDIA AWARDS, INSPIRATIONAL BOOK OF THE YEAR**The lotus, lily, sunflower, opium poppy, rose, tulip and orchid. Seven flowers: seven stories full of surprise and secrets. W …
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Looking back on a long and active life, Anne Deveson draws on a rich vein of public and private experiences to reflect on what made her the bold social commentator she became. Central among her lifelo …
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The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used to share ideas in every field of human endeavour, and …
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In this companion volume of Thomas Keneally’s widely acclaimed history of the Australian people, the vast range of characters who have formed their national story are brought vividly to life. Immigran …
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