A searing and visceral account of how the American West was really won. Told from the point of view of the American Indian, the catalogue of broken promises, treaties and battles is a tragic but essential story. Translated into 17 languages and a bestseller worldwide, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee awakened a new understanding of America’s past. Read More...


Sword of Honour Evelyn Waugh AUD105.00

The Sword of Honour trilogy by Evelyn Waugh is his look at the Second World War. The protagonist is Guy Crouchback, heir of a declining aristocratic English Catholic family. Guy has spent his thirties at the family villa in Italy shunning the world after the failure of his marriage and has decided to return to England at the very beginning of the Second World War, in the belief that the creeping evils of modernity, gradually apparent in the Soviet Union and the Nazi Germany, have become all too clearly displayed as a real and embodied enemy. Read More...


George Bull writes a more personal book, rather more revealing about himself than he thought it would be when he first set out to write it. Including pictures and prints on Venice. Read More...


The plot concerns a World War I veteran employed to uncover a mural in a village church that was thought to exist under coats of whitewash. At the same time another veteran is employed to look for a grave beyond the churchyard walls. There is prevalent religious symbolism throughout the book, mainly dealing with judgement. Read More...


Shakespeare's Life and World Katherine Duncan-Jones AUD50.00

Shakespeare lived in many worlds, so many that no single book can hope to encompass them all. But in particular, he inhabited two worlds of words, between which there yawns an apparently unbridgeable gap. Read More...


Richard Gough's book is the most remarkable local history ever written. Read More...


The First Colonists Richard Hakluyt AUD30.00

Hakluyt's voyages to North America. A modern version, with an introduction by A L Rowse. Read More...


Rasselas Samuel Johnson AUD45.00

Introduction by Gilbert Phelps. Lithographs by Edward Bawden. Rasselas, son of the King of Abyssinia (modern day Ethiopia), leaves his home in company with his sister, Nekayah, and a philosopher, Imlac, to discover the secret of a happy life. Read More...


Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is a book by the historian Simon Schama. It was published in 1989, the bicentenary of the French Revolution, and like many other works in that year, was highly critical of its legacy. Read More...


Set of three books including The morte D'Arthur, Sir Tristram de Lyonesse, and The Tale of King Arthur. Read More...


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