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By: Rachel Cockerell
ISBN: 9781035408924
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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For fans of Philippe Sands and Edmund du Waal, this Jewish family history charts the attempt by 10,000 Eastern Europeans to found a Jewish State in Texas, USA - led by Rachel's great-grandfather.
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By: Harrison Christian
ISBN: 9781761150456
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Ultimo Press
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Full of misadventure and mystery, Men Without Country is a sweeping history of exploration and rebellion in the South Seas told by a direct descendant of Fletcher Christian, the man who led the infamous mutiny on the Bounty
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By: Vaughn Scribner
ISBN: 9781789149388
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 21st October 2024
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated history of mermaids and merman.
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By: Adam Higginbotham
ISBN: 9780552172899
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2019
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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By: Sam Miller
ISBN: 9780349144443
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Humans are the most migratory species of all land mammals. Migrants cuts through the toxic debates about refugees versus economic migrants to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move.
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By: Lucy Inglis
ISBN: 9781447286110
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 16th May 2019
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A compelling and comprehensive history of opium, a drug that has both healed and harmed since civilization began.
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By: Tom Holland
ISBN: 9780349119724
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2009
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* Tom Holland, author of RUBICON and PERSIAN FIRE, gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000
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By: Liz Williams
ISBN: 9781789144710
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 13th September 2021
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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An illuminating, lively history of paganism in the West.
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By: Graeme Henderson
ISBN: 9781760802301
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
Publisher: UWA Publishing
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By: Duncan McNab
ISBN: 9781742610429
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
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In Late 1940 a group of five Australian soldiers set out on a secret mission: one of the second world war's most daring operations. Leading a small force of Ethiopian freedom fighters on an epic trek across the harsh African bush from the Sudan, the small incursion force entered Italian- occupied Ethiopia and began waging a guerilla war.
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By: Art Nomura
ISBN: 9781667849171
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Martin Davidson
ISBN: 9781472146427
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A radical new perspective on the Holocaust that focuses on the mindset of its willing perpetrators, who aimed to make Germany great again and, perhaps more importantly, to make Germany's enemies suffer, rather than on those it persecuted and killed.
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By: Vincent Scully
ISBN: 9780691074429
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Vincent Scully has shaped not only how we view the evolution of architecture in the twentieth century but also the course of that evolution itself. This illustrated volume talks about Scully's incalculable contribution. It selects twenty essays that reveal the Scully's work from the 1950s through the 1990s.
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By: Leigh Neville
ISBN: 9781472815347
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have seen the rise of the sniper in modern warfare. Based on firsthand accounts, this book reveals the true story behind this battlefield specialty.
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By: Roland Perry
ISBN: 9781760526009
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Monash and Chauvel: How Australia's two greatest generals changed the course of world history tells the story of the emergence and dominance of these brilliant Australian soldiers, who commanded the two most effective armies in defeating the Germans and the Turks in the Great War.
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By: Peter FitzSimons
ISBN: 9780733640087
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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By: Gareth Harney
ISBN: 9781847927514
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Paolo Zannoni
ISBN: 9781804542804
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 14th March 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Alison Croggon
ISBN: 9781925713398
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Scribe Publications
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By: Garry Linnell
ISBN: 9780143795780
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)
By: David Price
ISBN: 9781800242302
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 12th October 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The story of one of the most remarkable and feared British aircraft of the Second World War: the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito fighter-bomber.
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By: Eamon Evans
ISBN: 9780733635588
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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The stories behind Australia's many, many strange, inappropriate and downright hilarious place names.
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By: Philippa Harrison
ISBN: 9781838931834
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 14th April 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A history of one of the most beautiful and best-loved corners of England nestling deep within the mountains and valleys of the Lake District.
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By: Saumya Roy
ISBN: 9781788165372
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2022
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A city struggling with the cost of its appetites. A rubbish mountain eighteen stories high. And the people who call it home.
