The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
$39.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: very good
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, ...Show more
Eastern Europe!: Everything You Need to Know About the History (and More) of a Region That Shaped Our World and Still Does (2nd Edition) by Tomek E. Jankowski
$49.99 AUD
Category: European
Almost four years after the publication of the first comprehensive popular history of Eastern Europe, Tomek Jankowski returns with a much-needed second edition that, like the first, seeks to demystify Europe's elusive 'other half.' These years have seen the Ukraine War, Putin's resurgent Russia, a migra ...Show more
The Europeans: Three Cosmopolitan Lives and the Making of a European Culture in the 19th Century by Orlando Figes
$59.99 AUD
Category: European
The Europeans is both a highly original, panoramic account of how in the 19th century huge aesthetic, economic, technological and legal changes created, for the first time, a genuinely pan-European culture - and an intimate story of a great singer, Pauline Viardot, a great writer, Ivan Turgenev, and a g ...Show more
The Borgias - Power and Fortune by Paul Strathern
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history, by the author of The Medici. The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. But the story of t ...Show more
The Wonders - Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age by John Woolf
$39.99 AUD
Category: European
'A promising young historian with a taste for the exotic.' Stephen FryThe Wonders is a radical new history of the Victorian age: meet the forgotten and extraordinary freak performers whose talents and disabilities helped define an era.On 23 March, 1844, General Tom Thumb, at 25 inches tall, entered the ...Show more
Colditz: The Full Story by P R Reid
$19.99 AUD
Category: European
In Colditz: The Full Story, Major Pat Reid brings together his extensive research and many dramatic discoveries about the supposedly escape-proof prisoner of war camp. From all walks of life, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French, German and Polish prisoners - as well as those from the British Commonwealth and ...Show more
Map of a Nation : A Biography of the Ordnance Survey by Rachel Hewitt
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
Map of a Nation tells the story of the creation of the Ordnance Survey map - the first complete, accurate, affordable map of the British Isles. The Ordnance Survey is a much beloved British institution, and Map of a Nation is, amazingly, the first popular history to tell the story of the map and the men ...Show more
Sicily: A Short History, from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra by John Julius Norwich
$22.99 AUD
Category: European
'Sicily is the key to everything' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The author of the classic book on Venice turns his sights to Sicily in this beautiful book full of maps and colour photographs. 'I discovered Sicily almost by mistake ...We drove as far as Naples, then put the car on the night ferry to Palermo ...Show more
The Medici by Mary Hollingsworth
$59.99 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: near fine
Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici gained political power in Florence, raising the city to a peak of cultural achievement and becoming its hereditary dukes. Among their number were no fewer than three popes and a powerful and influential ...Show more
Crusaders: An Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands (HB) by Dan Jones
$45.00 AUD
Category: European | Reading Level: near fine
Dan Jones, best-selling chronicler of the Middle Ages, turns his attention to the history of the Crusades - the sequence of religious wars fought between the late eleventh century and late medieval periods, in which armies from European Christian states attempted to wrest the Holy Land from Islamic rule ...Show more
France A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich
$24.99 AUD
Category: European
'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of French history with admirable lightness and urbanity . . . his comic footnotes deserve a review of their own' DAILY TELEGRAPH I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel cross ...Show more
Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$22.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: Granta Editions
Imperium is a classic of reportage and a literary masterwork by one of the great writers and witnesses of the twentieth century. It is the story of an empire: the constellation of states that was submerged under a single identity for most of the century-the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. From the ...Show more