Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation by Declan Kiberd
$20.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Convergences: Inventories of the Present Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Just as Ireland has produced many brilliant writers in the past century, so these writers have produced a new Ireland. In a book unprecedented in its scope and approach, Declan Kiberd offers a vivid account of the personalities and texts, English and Irish alike, that reinvented the country after centur ...Show more
The King's Peace: 1637-1641 by C. V. Wedgwood
$16.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Abbotsford to Zion: The Story of Scottish Place-Names Around the World by Elspeth Wills
$14.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Over the centuries countless Scots have travelled to every conceivable corner of the globe - some to start a new life, others asentrepreneurs, explorers, missionaries, colonial administrators, soldiers and in a multitude of other contexts. This book takes the reader on a journey from the wastes of Antar ...Show more
April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici by Lauro Martines
$10.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family miscarried dramatically in the cathedral of Florence. The younger of the two brothers was killed, but Lorenzo the Magnificent, the brilliant poet and connoisseur escaped. A bloodbath followed in reprisal. All Italy was at once a ...Show more
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna by Adam Zamoyski
$16.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
The dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism to western Europe. In 1920 the new Soviet state was a mess, following a brutal civil war, and the best wa ...Show more
Alliance: The Inside Story of how Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill Won One War and Began Another by Jonathan Fenby
$10.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Throughout the war the 'Big Three' -- Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin -- met in various permutations and locations to thrash out ways to defeat Nazi Germany -- and, just as importantly, to decide the way Europe would look after the war. This was the political rather than military struggle: a battle of w ...Show more
Legacy: A Search For The Origins Of Civilisation by Wood Michael
$16.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
This text explores the ancient cultures, from Mesopotamia, to Egypt, India, China and the Americas, looking at their character and continuing legacy. It addresses questions such as: what is civilization?; did it mean the same to the Chinese, Indians and Greeks?; and what can those values teach us?
Wat Suwannaram
$20.00 NZD
Category: Art | Series: Mural Paintings of Thailand Series | Reading Level: very good
The Discovery of Australia by George Collingridge
$40.00 NZD
Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good
Ready, Steady, Go! The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London by Shawn Levy
$10.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
It's the summer of 1966... The fundamental old ways: chastity, rationality, harmony, sobriety, even democracy: blasted to nothing or crumbling under siege. The city glows. It echoes. It pulses. It bleeds pastel and fuzzy, spicy, paisley and soft. This is how it's always going to be: smashing clothes, br ...Show more
Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World by Giles Milton
$10.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good
Bestselling author of NATHANIEL'S NUTMEG, Giles Milton takes us on another fascinating and extraordinary historical adventure.
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat Volume 3 by Jan Morris
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. With characteristic balance, this masterpiece of narrative history describes the long retreat and final dissoluti ...Show more