History
Looking for Trouble
Virginia Cowles
Format: Hard Cover
This sensational 1941 memoir of life on the frontline of wartime Europe by a trailblazing female war reporter is a dazzling rediscovered classic, introduced by Christina Lamb.
Fabric
Victoria Finlay
A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth - how we make it, use it and what it means to us.
The War of Nerves
Martin Sixsmith
A major new history of the Cold War: exploring the conflict through the minds of the people who lived it.
Voices From the Past
W.B. Marsh
Format: Paperback
366 quotations - one for every day of the (leap) year - each with a fascinating historical story
A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce
Massimo Montanari, translated by Gregory Conti
Format: Hard Cover
From legend to history - the myths surrounding the world's favourite dish, debunked.
Where's Churchill?
Ryan Gearing
Format: Hard Cover
A historical search and find book featuring some of the most famous battles and events of World War Two.
Red Tail Skies
Jim Eames
Format: Paperback
Heroic, hilarious and sometimes just plain weird . . . Jim Eames shares great Qantas stories from World War II to the age of the jumbo and beyond.
1942: the year the war came to Australia
Peter Grose
Format: Paperback
The story of the bombing of Darwin and the Japanese midget sub attack on Sydney Harbour in one volume from the bestselling author of An Awkward Truth and A Very Rude Awakening.
England's Villages
Dr Ben Robinson
Villages have held a sway over our collective imaginations for well over a millennia. But how well do we really know these bastions of Britishness?
