Conquistadores: A New History by Fernando Cervantes
$32.00 NZD
Category: History
NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY 'This book is a terrific read ... I could not put it down' Matthew Restall, Literary Review The 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends a ...Show more
Butler to the World: How Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals by Oliver Bullough
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION ON BRITAIN’S RESPONSE TO THE UKRAINE CRISIS ‘Shockingly timely’ Mail on Sunday ‘A savage analysis of Britain’s soul. As essential as Orwell at his best’ Peter Pomerantsev ‘Horribly brilliant’ James O'Brien How did Britain become the servant of the ...Show more
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
‘Janina Ramirez is a born storyteller, and in Femina she is at the peak of her powers. This is bravura narrative history underpinned by passionate advocacy for the women whom medieval history has too often ignored or overlooked. Femina is essential reading’ - Dan Jones, bestselling author of The Plantag ...Show more
The Private Lives of the Saints: Power, Passion and Politics in Anglo-Saxon England by Janina Ramirez
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
Skulduggery, power struggles and politics. A fascinating re-examination of Anglo-Saxon England told through the secret lives of the saints.From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Femina'Ramirez blasts a powerful spotlight into the so-called Dark Ages' - Dan SnowSkulduggery, power struggles and polit ...Show more
A People's Church: A History of the Church of England by Jeremy Morris
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
A richly detailed history of the Church of England from a top academic and historian who is also a priest.
The Stasi Poetry Circle by Philip Oltermann
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry club: Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society.'A magnificent book . . . at once touching, exquisite, devastating and extraordinary.'PHILIPPE SANDS, author of East West Street and The Ratline'A vivid, funny, and imperturbable po ...Show more
The Shortest History of the Crown by Stephen Bates
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
" Amidst the turbulence and invasions, upheaval and dissent that characterise British history, one thing has remained remarkably stable. Although there are other monarchies, Britain's Crown stands out due to the continuity of its traditions, and its ability to adapt. Of all the world's countries, forty- ...Show more
The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe by Mark Mazower
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
A thrilling history of the revolutionary birth of modern Greece In the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleon's defeat in 1815, there was one cause that came to galvanize countless individuals across Europe and the United States- freedom for Greece. Mark Mazower's wonderful new book recreate ...Show more
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border by Timothy Phillips
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
A landmark journey along the full length of the old Iron Curtain - from the Arctic Circle to Turkey's eastern border - tracing the history of the Cold War and meeting the people who live with its legacy. The Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe, north to south, with the Berlin Wall as its most ...Show more
Whatever Happened to Tradition? - History, Belonging and the Future of the West by Tim Stanley
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are behind us. The central argument of this book is that we can only face the future with hope if we have a proper sense of tradition - political, social and relig ...Show more
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 by Paul Stephenson
$33.00 NZD
Category: History
'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' The TimesLong before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen to take its place as the beating heart of a late antique empire, the glittering Constantinople: New Rome. In thi ...Show more
The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past by Christopher Hadley
$38.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday Telegraph'On nearly every page a random passage takes one's breath away' The Times Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road?For two thousand years, the roads the Romans built have ...Show more