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100 tales of extraordinary women - the most highly supported original book ever in the history of crowdfunding.

What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history of our species challenges everything we know about being human.

Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going.

A handsome gift edition of one of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from the Second World War: Viktor Frankl's moving account of his experiences in Auschwitz.

Batavia is the greatest story in Australia’s history and history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons.

The new novel by the number one bestselling author.

A milestone work of memoir, travel writing and history, The Bush by Don Watson takes us on a profoundly revelatory and entertaining journey through the Australian landscape and character.

Steven Pinker's riveting, myth-destroying new book reveals how, contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less violent, over millenia and decades. Mark Zuckerberg has made Better Angels of our Nature his next book club pick.

An updated edition of Geoffrey Blainey's bestselling account of human history, A Very Short History of the World, featuring new material on China and global terrorism.

An essential work on the Vietnam War, by the award-winning Geoffrey C. Ward and documentary maker Ken Burns.

A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. Winner of the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize.

In the Trenches of Hell

Love him or loathe him, Ned Kelly has been at the heart of Australian culture and identity since he and his gang were tracked down in bushland by the Victorian police and came out fighting, dressed in bulletproof iron armour made from farmers’ ploughs. History comes to life with Peter FitzSimons

An extraordinary narrative history of the First Fleet, by the bestselling author of The Forgotten Children

The sensational account of the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich - from Hitler and his entourage to ordinary troops.

The compelling account of the Australian troops fighting on the Western front in March and April 1918.

Describing in simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor's perspective, Night is among the most personal, intimate and poignant of all accounts of the Holocaust. A compelling consideration of the darkest side of human nature and the enduring power of hope, it remains one of the most important works of the twentieth century.

Why women need wives, and men need lives

A stupendous history of intelligence and its uses, showing how it has frequently changed the course of history - by the world's leading historian of intelligence.

Australian author Candice Fox has taken the crime-writing world by storm in the last few years and become a #1 bestselling author in the US and UK. Eden is the second novel in her award-winning crime series.

The violent aftermath of the Civil War comes to dramatic life in this sweeping new collection of firsthand writing.

The first accessible biography in 50 years of one of the most dramatic and bloody reigns in history