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Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold by Stephen Fry
$37.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whole years. It is a terrible war with casualties on all sides as well as strained relations between ...Show more
The Secret Life of the Savoy & the D'Oyly Carte Family by Olivia Williams
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
The story of the Savoy's founders, through three generations and a hundred years of luxury In 1889, Victorian impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte opened The Savoy, Britain's first luxury hotel. Allowing the rich to live like royalty, it attracted glamour, scandal and a cast of eccentric characters, with the ...Show more
Pandora's Jar - Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
Natalie Haynes is the nation's muse' Adam RutherfordThe Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories.Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay of ...Show more
Stranger in the Shogun's City by Amy Stanley
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo - now known as Tokyo - and a portrait of a great city on the brink of momentous change The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in 1804 in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a l ...Show more
The Good Germans by Catrine Clay
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
After 1933, as the brutal terror regime took hold, most of the two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the Nazis - some 40 million people - tried to keep their heads down and protect their families. They moved to the country, or pretended to support the regime to avoid being denounced by neighbour ...Show more
Milk of Paradise - A History of Opium by Lucy Inglis
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the "Milk of Paradise" for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer of sleep, of pleasurable lethargy, of relief from pain--and hugely addictive. A commodity without rival, it is renewable, easy to extract, transport, a ...Show more
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (PB) by Ben Macintyre
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The best true spy story I have ever read."--JOHN LE CARR The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. I ...Show more
Oh Happy Day by Carmen Callil
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
Carmen Callil explores her roots in a book that is a miracle of research and whose writing is fuelled by righteous anger - a story of Empire, migration and the poverty and injustice of nineteenth-century England In this remarkable book, Carmen Callil discovers the story of her British ancestors, beginn ...Show more
Maiden Voyages - Women and the Golden Age of Transatlantic Travel by Siân Evans
$38.00 NZD
Category: Feminism
A VIVID PORTRAIT OF WOMEN'S LIVES DURING THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL Before convenient air travel, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners and never more so than in the glory days of the interwar years. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women. Some trav ...Show more
The Next Great Migration - The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move by Sonia Shah
$33.00 NZD
Category: History
'Rich with eclectic research and on-the-ground reporting, Shah's book presents us with a dazzlingly original picture of our relentlessly mobile species' NAOMI KLEIN'Fascinating . . . Likely to prove prophetic in the coming months and years' OBSERVER'A dazzling tour through 300 years of scientific histor ...Show more
If Then - How One Data Company Invented the Future by Jill Lepore
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has no past but the scientists of Simu ...Show more
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
$30.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
#1 New York Times Bestseller From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thou ...Show more
