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Amanda Laugesen
Captivating and quirky, Australia in 100 Words takes readers chronologically through Australian history to tell a unique story through language
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Guy de la Bedoyere
A compelling history of the Ptolemies, the decline of Egypt, and the rising power of the Roman Empire
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Clare Wright
In this engaging narrative, Wright follows the story of petitions on bark created by the Yirrkala community in Arnhem Land in 1963, protesting bauxite mining on traditional lands.
Kate Fullagar
The first dual biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history - the colonised and coloniser - and a bold and innovative new portrait of…
William Dalrymple
India was the forgotten heart of the ancient world
Sebastian Smee
The Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic's gripping account of how political turmoil in Paris from 1870-1871 gave rise to Impressionism.
Santilla Chingaipe
The story of Australia’s Black convicts has been all but erased from our history. In this deeply researched and illuminating book, Santilla Chingaipe offers a fresh understanding of this fatal…
Luke Stegemann
The miraculous story of Madrid - how a village became a great world city
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Darren Rix, Craig Cormick
For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook’s arrival, and what blackfellas want everyone to know about the coming of Europeans.
Steve Tibble
A vivid new history of the criminal underworld in the medieval Holy Land
Dan Jones
A brand-new life of England's greatest king from our bestselling medieval historian
Toby Wilkinson
A definitive and thrilling new account of the last great dynasty of ancient Egypt, from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra.
Ross King
The epic story of one of the world's most enduring civilisations and empires.
Alex Christofi
An evocative and lyrical history of Cyprus and the Mediterranean.
Hanno Sauer, Jo Heinrich (trans.)
A grand, sweeping history of the evolution of morality across the entire existence of humankind
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Michael Visontay
One hundred years ago, Gabriel Wells, a New York bookseller, committed a crime against history. He broke up the world's greatest book, the Gutenberg Bible, and sold it off in…
Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook
From the podcast legends who brought you The Rest is History comes The Rest is History Returns. This time Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook bring you an alphabetical miscellany, taking…
Andrea di Robilant
The fascinating story of the Venetian who helped to map the World during the Renaissance, by the author of A Venetian Affair and Autumn in Venice.
