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You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright

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Category: History | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.

For the ten years from 1902, when Australia's suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration. Clare Wright's epic new history tells the story of that victory--and of Australia's role in the subsequent international struggle--thro ...Show more

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Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, The by Clare Wright

$34.99 AUD

Category: History | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.

Winner of the Stella Prize, 2014. The Eureka Stockade. It's one of Australia's foundation legends yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers ...Show more

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Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature by Stuart Kells

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Category: History

From acclaimed author and ardent bibliophile Stuart Kells comes an exploration of the quest to find the personal library of the world's greatest writer Millions of words of scholarship have been expended on the world's most famous author and his work. And yet a critical part of the puzzle, Shakespeare' ...Show more

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One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton

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Category: History | Series: 100 years of dirt

Violence, treachery and cruelty run through the generational veins of Rick Morton?s family. A horrific accident thrusts his mother and siblings into a world impossible for them to navigate, a life of poverty and drug addiction One Hundred Years of Dirtis an unflinching memoir in which the mother is a he ...Show more

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Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 by Simon Schama

$27.99 AUD

Category: History

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND OBSERVER Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of ...Show more

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The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia by Bill Gammage

$39.99 AUD

Category: History

Reveals the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people in presettlement Australia Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park, with extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands, and abundant wildlife. ...Show more

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Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts

$69.99 AUD

Category: History

'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times A magnificently fresh and unexpected biography of Churchill, by one of Britain's most acclaimed historians Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the t ...Show more

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Nelson - The Battle of the Nile by Sam Willis

$19.99 AUD

Category: History | Series: Ladybird Expert Ser.

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Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude That Shaped the Western World by Peter Moore

$34.99 AUD

Category: History

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR' Christopher Hart, Sunday Times An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - an alluring combination of history, adventure and science The Enlightenment was an age of endeavours. Britain was consumed by the impulse for gran ...Show more

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The Football Solution: How Richmond's premiership can save Australia by George Megalogenis

$32.99 AUD

Category: History

A sport unlike any other in the world, football has always been Australia's bellwether. But at a time when politics is increasingly conducted like sports - full of one-eyed tribalism, captain's calls and policy dictated by the Newspoll scoreboard - football is the one institution that's more relevant th ...Show more

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Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain by Charlotte Higgins

$29.99 AUD

Category: History

"Shortlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize, the Thwaites Wainwright Prize and the 2014 Dolman Travel Book Awardhis is a book about the encounter with Roman Britain- about what the idea of Roman Britain has meant to those who came after Britain s 400-year stint as province of Rome from the medieval m ...Show more

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Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy

$22.99 AUD

Category: History

*WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018* 'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' Viv Groskop, Observer On 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand what wa ...Show more

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You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright

$49.99 AUD

Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, The by Clare Wright

$34.99 AUD

Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature by Stuart Kells

$34.99 AUD

One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton

$29.99 AUD

Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 by Simon Schama

$27.99 AUD

The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia by Bill Gammage

$39.99 AUD

Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts

$69.99 AUD

Nelson - The Battle of the Nile by Sam Willis

$19.99 AUD

Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude That Shaped the Western World by Peter Moore

$34.99 AUD

The Football Solution: How Richmond's premiership can save Australia by George Megalogenis

$32.99 AUD

Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain by Charlotte Higgins

$29.99 AUD

Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy

$22.99 AUD

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