The Proxy Bride

By

Zoe Boccabella

The Proxy Bride from Zoe Boccabella, in a very entertaining style reveals yet another slice of Australian History that may have by-passed many people. Zoe Boccabella begins her story in...
Fiction, History
Tutankhamun: Excavating the Archive

By

The Griffith Institute. Ed: Professor Richard Bruce Parkinson.

Excavating The Archive - Tutankhamun is a magnificent coffee table book which will lure the reader to explore the story of the discovery and contents of the famous tomb of...
History, Non Fiction
The Last Hours in Paris

By

Ruth Druart.

Occupied Paris in the autumn of 1944 is a city overwhelmed by a sense of tension; one of the most beautiful cities in the world is just a ghost of...
Fiction, History
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

By

Jonathan Freedland

Seventeen-year-old Slovakian Jew Walter Rosenberg, arrived in Auschwitz on a cattle truck packed only with those deemed fit enough to work as slaves; they became the inmates of the factory...
Biographies, History, Non Fiction
Jesustown

By

Paul Daley

Patrick Remark is at a turning in his life. His marriage has finally collapsed, his lover is haunting him and the decision to return to Australia, to his birthplace of...
Crime, Fiction, History
The Brightest Star

By

Emma Harcourt

The Brightest Star is a fantastic opportunity to learn about everyday life in Florence in the 1400’s. Emma Harcourt has presented us with an Historical Fiction which is detailed and...
Fiction, History
The Half Life of Valery K

By

Natasha Pulley

What a fantastic read! Natasha Pulley has again produced an unforgettable story in The Half Life of Valery K. Set in Russia before the second world war and moving through...
Fiction, History
Killing John Wayne: The Making of the Conqueror

By

Ryan Uytdewilligen

Killing John Wayne presents a rather stunning image of John Wayne on the cover of the book: he was the man who took the Western Movie to another dimension altogether...
History, Non Fiction
Votes for Women!: The story of Nellie, Rose and Mary

By

Mark Wilson

Having just had the Federal Elections, it’s hard to believe that it’s only been 120 years that women were allowed to vote in this election. Australia was the second country...
History, Non Fiction
THE COAST

By

Eleanor Limprecht

This well researched Historical Fiction, The Coast is set in Sydney, spanning the years from 1905 to 1926. These days we have so many areas of our history filled in,...
Fiction, History
The School That Escaped the Nazis

By

Deborah Cadbury.

Anna Essinger had great foresight in 1933, but never did she imagine that anything as inconceivably barbaric and inhumane could come to pass as Hitler and the Nazi party’s reign...
Biographies, History, Non Fiction
Esther’s Children

By

Caroline Beecham

There are many stories of war heroes in different roles and guises. This Historical Fiction, from Caroline Beecham, Esther’s Children, is about a woman called Esther Simpson. Her part, in...
Fiction, History