The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris

By

Daisy Wood

Powerful, captivating and immensely enjoyable The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris captures the devastation of the war years in Paris, the destruction caused by the German occupation, the tireless and dangerous...
Fiction, History
The Road to Gondwana: In search of the lost supercontinent

By

Bill Morris

This superbly written book, The Road To Gondwana seamlessly covers areas of Science, Ecology and Geography. Bill Morris has a fascination for Gondwana Land and explains the latest scientist research...
History, Non Fiction
Australia’s Secret Army

By

Michael Vietch

In 1922 Eric Feldt reluctantly left the Royal Australian navy (RAN) to go and see the world, in search of the adventure he could not find in the Navy. Little...
History, Non Fiction
Daughter of the Home Front

By

Jennie Jones

Set in Queensland from 1942, this Historical Fiction, Daughter of the Home Front deals with people during the war period. The main character, Emma Hatton, is a smart young woman...
Fiction, History
Darwin Spitfires: The real battle for Australia, Anniversary Edition

By

Anthony Cooper.

Many people have been to Darwin and visited the war museum there. During the Second World War the extent of the bombing of Darwin was kept quiet but now most...
History, Non Fiction
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