History

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.

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

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.

A fascinating and dramatic investigation into the events that led to Winston Churchill becoming Prime Minister against the odds

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

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

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

In the Trenches of Hell

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.

'An extraordinarily vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip Ziegler

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.

On Anzac Day 1918, when the town of Villers-Bretonneux falls to the British defenders, it is the Australians who are called on to save the day, the town, and the entire battle.

So begins The Histories, the very first work of history and one of the most dramatic accounts of the ancient world ever written, brought to life again in Tom Holland's gripping new translation.

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

The ultimate visual guide to the events that shaped the world

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

These are the last adult witnesses — in their own words.

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

A new history of counterculture in the UK, from the release of Heartbreak Hotel in 1956 to the passing of the Criminal Justice Act in 1994.